Oct 18, 2016
Outlook on the Web (formerly Outlook Web App) – has been greatly updated and optimised for tablets and smartphones, as well as desktop PC’s. Supports all recent versions of Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Apple’s Safari as well as Internet Explorer 11 and Microsoft Edge browsers. Platform support includes both IOS and Android 4.2 or later. Other new features include:
- Search enhancements – an improved search functionality including search suggestions and context-aware filters that include date ranges, related senders etc.
- LinkedIn – the ability to add contacts from their LinkedIn account.
- Link Preview – enables users to paste links into their messages, with Outlook on the Web automatically generating a preview into the contents of the link, including video previews.
- Pins and Flags – Pins allows you to keep your essential emails at the top of the inbox and are now folder specific, and Flags allows marking emails for later follow up. Inbox filters and the new Task module accessible from the App launcher, allows you to find and manage flagged items.
- A new Action Pane includes existing items such as New, Reply All and Delete, and new actions such as Archive, Sweep and Undo.
- Email improvements include a new single line view of the inbox, an optimised reading pane, archiving, emoji’s and the ability to undo mailbox actions such as delete and move.
- Calendar improvements include a new look and features such as email reminders for calendar events, ability to propose a new time in meeting invitations, improved searching and birthday reminders.
- In conjunction with SharePoint 2016, Outlook on the Web users can now link to, share, save and upload documents on OneDrive for Business instead of attaching files to their messages, allowing collaboration on those files in the same manner as Office 365. Users can also now view or edit Word, Excel or PowerPoint files in Outlook on the Web provided their organisation has a separate server running Office Online Server. See Install Office Online Server in an Exchange 2016 organisation.
- And of course 13 new themes with graphics designs!
Further information can be found here: New features coming to Outlook on the web.
For more information, take a look at New Horizons' Exchange Server Training courses.
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