PublicIn Product

12 months + 12 months 30 – 90 days T-0

T-0 days (First Release)

T-14 days (standard release)

No surprises Organization readiness

Notify admins about client status: OS, browser, and Office version incompatibility

Notifications through direct to customer messages

In-service, Get Started content

Online training videos for Office users

Office blogs for additional information

• Sign-in page branding and cloud user

self-service password reset (SSPR)

• Multi-Factor Authentication

• Mobile Device Management

• Support Windows Mobile, iOS & Android

• Selective Wipe

• Device pin lock

• Jailbreak detection

Sign-in page and Access Panel company branding allows any Office 365 tenant administrator to customize their sign-in page. The customized sign-in page is shown after a user enters their sign-in name (UPN) or if the WHR parameter is passed to the Sign-In URL.

Cloud user self-service password reset allows any Office 365 user with the cloud identity model to reset their password in case they forget it.

Multi-Factor AuthenticationPhone call

SMS message

Mobile app

LicensingIncluded in all Office 365 SKUs

Prior to Jan 2014 this was available

for Admin accounts only

FuturesSeamless multi-factor

authentication is planned in the

next 12 months for Office client

applications

*For representative purposes only.

Copyright© 2013 Microsoft CorporationNDA Disclosure Only

Built-in content sources,

which will grow over

time. Includes built-in

Bing intelligence and

OneNote (announced

3/3/15).

Built-in design assistant

takes the hassle out of

formatting your content

A Sway is a polished,

interactive, web-based

canvas of your ideas,

which looks great on

any screen

Announced at IGNITE May 2015

• Sway is rolling out to eligible Office 365 business/education customers in First Release later in May

• Sway will support more languages this quarter (Q2 CY 2015)

Key Office 365 relevant feature adds since October 2014

• Web: Interactive charts/graphs, Focus Points, easy document embeds and content imports, coauthoring, copy a Sway,

more sharing options, more interactive photo options, Bing Image Search, Suggested searches, 3rd party embeds.

• Sway for iPhone: single-sign on with other Office for iPhone apps, image cropping and Office Lens integration, local

video, Offline support. Available in 46 countries.

Reimagine the way your ideas come to life.

Create and share something new. Use Sway to easily

create and share a polished, interactive, web-based canvas of

your ideas with family, friends, teachers, and coworkers. Sway

makes sure your creation looks great on any screen.

Add your content easily. Save time and stop switching

between different apps to pull together your content. Sway is

seamlessly integrated with OneDrive, your devices, social

networks, and the web so you can drag and drop your content

right onto your canvas. Sway even suggests relevant searches

you can perform, based on your existing content.

Effortless design. Sway’s built-in design engine takes the

hassle out of formatting your various pieces of content by

integrating them into a cohesive layout. From there, you can

easily adjust the design to create a look and feel that reflects

your unique style.

Brand new app for the Office portfolio.

Rolling out to Office 365 First Release in May

Get more info and sign in at Sway.com.

More details on the Office blogs.

UPDATED

Catch up on all missed system

events with a single place, i.e.

system alerts like

• password expiration

• new emails

• calendar reminders

• and group likes

Will be available across apps in

the Office 365 web experience

To access the new notification

pane simply click on the top right

notification icon

UPDATED

With this feature, a user can

share a whole folder with an

external party through

OneDrive for Business.

NEW

Document Conversations

Office Delve (Codename Oslo)

Office Graph

Video for Office 365

Office 365 Video update

About Me update and new page authoring tool

Office 365 Groups

Yammer External Messaging

Storage & file upload improvements for Sites and OneDrive

for Business

Recommend OneDrive for Business for Large Attachments

Save Attachments in OWA directly to OneDrive for Business

Unlimited storage for OneDrive for Office 365 subscribers

Upload files up to 10GB in size to

both Sites' document libraries,

OneDrive for Business and Office

365 Video.

More default storage for pooled

storage [1TB + (0.5GB * # of E/A/G

users)]; applies to SharePoint Online

& Office 365 Video.

Upload files ≤10GB

More pooled storage for

SharePoint Online and

Office 365 Video

NEW

Recommend OneDrive for

Business when the file you are

trying to send is above your

organization’s message size limit.

Warn you when you try to attach

a file that is fairly large and

suggest that you share with

OneDrive for Business.

This also ensures that your

recipient will receive it, no matter

how large the file is.

NEW

Save attachments you’ve received

in email directly to your OneDrive

for Business folder.

Save individual files or all files into

an “Email Attachments” folder.

Once they are stored in OneDrive

you can move them to another

folder, or send them in email as a

cloud attachment.

NEW

Skype for Business

De-clutter your Inbox

De-Clutter everyone’s inbox

For our business customers

• We’ve combined the familiar

experience and user love of Skype

with the enterprise security,

compliance and control from Lync

• talk, to share, to collaborate

• the next version of Lync will

become Skype for Business

• with a new client experience, new

server release and updates to the

service in Office 365.

• More on the Office blogs:

Introducing Skype for Business

UPDATED

De-clutter you inbox – keep you

focus on important work

Less-important email messages are

shown in a separate folder so they

don’t clutter your inbox

Reduces interruptions and keeps

important email from being buried

Feedback loop lets you train the

system to understand which email

messages are low priority

NO UPDATES

Clutter is on by default for all

inboxes in the service

Clutter saves users 82 minutes per

month

Improved user notifications from

Clutter

Alerts when emails are moved to

Clutter for the first time

Weekly summary notification of all

Clutter activity

NEW

Administration

Security

Compliance

Infrastructure

Control over Sent Items with shared mailboxes

Workload-specific Admin Roles

Managing Office Mobile Apps with Intune (1) & (2)

Simplified SharePoint Online Storage Management

Skype for Business Online Admin Center

Custom Tiles

Organization support card

Purchase & Subscription Experience Refresh

Sync block for non-domain joined PCs

Office 365 ProPlus user activation management

Clutter Admin Controls

Office 365 Setup Wizard

Updated Office 365 Admin Center

Service Communications API

Proactive notification of Outlook version

Inline Service Health Notification when opening a Service

Request

Emails can be sent as the shared

mailbox itself or on behalf of it by

members

Retain a copy sent from the shared

mailbox in the Sent Items folder of

the shared mailbox. A copy also

resides in the Sent Items folder of

the personal mailbox.

Administrators have control over

this feature

NEW

Workload-specific admin roles

for Exchange, SharePoint and

Skype for Business provides

organizations with greater

security and increased flexibility

on how admins access their data.

In addition, organizations will

have the option to assign admins

with multiple admin roles

providing greater flexibility in

assigning admin permissions.

UPDATED

The custom tile feature will

provide the capability for an

Office 365 tenant admin to

quickly create an app tile

from any public website,

intranet or team site and push

it to the my apps page of all

users within their tenant.

Users will then be able to add

this app to their app launcher

for quick access to a top site

for their organization.

NEW

Organization admins will have

the opportunity set custom

support contact information

including email, website,

phone number and a line of

text that will be visible to

users within the new help

pane in the Office 365 web

experience.

NEW

This feature prevents users from

syncing down corporate data to

non-domain joined devices. IT

admins can run a PowerShell

cmdlet to set the whitelist with

domain GUIDs; after which only

PCs that are joined to a domain

set in the whitelist will be able to

sync data down to their PC.

End User Experience for PC for users initially attempting to sync

End User Experience for PC for users who are already syncing

NEW

Allows admins to manage

Office 365 ProPlus Desktop

activations

Managed through the Office

365 Admin Center

Admins sees device* and can

help to deactivate

*Device names will be masked (e.g. CoXXXter01)

NO UPDATES

This feature will proactively

notify admins when their users

are connecting using an out of

date Outlook client.

An email will be sent to admins

that provides the symptoms of

degraded user experience when

using out of date client and

guidance on how to get the

current Outlook client.

NEW

This feature notifies an admin of

any service incidents when

opening an SR to help provide

context around the health of the

service.

NEW

New Office 365 regions

Increased EXO mail size limits

ExpressRoute for Office 365

Providing Office 365 hosting in more countries where Exchange Online mailbox content and SharePoint site content is stored at rest in Datacenters in that region.

• New Japan Region: shipped Dec 2014• New Australia Region (also servicing New

Zealand and Fiji): shipped March 2015• Europe Region Expansion: Finland and

Austria.• New India Region: targeted CY2015

Microsoft will move customer tenants in the service area to the new Office 365 region. Details about the move program are at http://aka.ms/move

1 million+ servers • 100+ Datacenters in over 40 countries • 1,500 network agreements and 50 Internet connections

Existing regions: North America, United States Government, Brazil, Europe, Asia Pacific, and China

UPDATED

Exchange Online Message

size limits will be increased to

150 MB size

• Increased limits

• Set limits for individual

users or group of users

Change maximum message size for

individual mailboxes

Set default max message

sizes for new mailboxes

Bulk edit multiple mailboxes (selected)

NO UPDATES

Public announcement: http://aka.ms/o365er

CustomerDatacenter

Customer Site 1

Customer Site 2

Public internet

Microsoft Datacenter

Internet Co-lo

Alternate connection

Office 365 Services onExpressRoute

Office 365 Services RequireInternet

Azure services

MPLS VPN

WAN

NO UPDATES

Exchange Online Protection keeps getting better

Exchange Online Advanced Threat Protection

Exchange Online Protection Update

Service Health Communication Improvements:

Red Alert SHD Automatic Posting

Removal of RC4 cipher support

Exchange Online Advanced Threat Protection

All FOPE customers migrated to EOP

Multiple features released in last 12

months

Key upcoming features around

• Enhanced Bulk Spam ProtectionShipped December 2014

• Detailed reporting and message

trackingStarted rolling out March 2015 - Global

availability by mid-May2015

• Quarantine Bulk ReleaseShipped March 2015

UPDATED

• Safe links

• Safe Attachments

• URL Tracking

More information on the

Office blogs:

UPDATED