O365 Weekly Digest - 06/03/2019

Every week I'll be posting a quick summary of O365 updates included in the admin weekly digest email that you can sign up for via the admin Message Center: https://admin.microsoft.com/AdminPortal/Home#/MessageCenter - these emails include items posted to the message center over the last week and come out every Monday.

This week there was actually no email so instead I will just review the Message Center messages in this weeks rundown of the changes in a pretty light week.

Updates are coming to Inside Look for .docx files (Roadmap ID: 49423)

Search box changes in the Modern Experience. Specifically the search box is moving to the header across all applications (Roadmap ID: 34273)

When rolled out it will look like

And will bring you to the Modern Search Page

Updates are coming to the SharePoint Admin center including bulk editing of site details and new experiences for BCS, Term Store, and the User Profile (Roadmap ID: 32864)

Office for Android is retiring support for Android 4.x and 5.x on June 30th. For reference Android 5.0 was released in 2014

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