Microsoft 365 Announcements

Microsoft Office 2010 for Windows and Office 2016 for Mac End of Support

May 13, 2020

As of October 13, 2020, Office 2016 for Mac and Office 2010 for Windows will reach their end of support. After that date, Microsoft will no longer provide technical support, …

Microsoft Stream people timeline retirement

May 5, 2020

In response to low feature usage during a time of unprecedented growth in Microsoft Stream, Microsoft is retiring the people timeline feature in Microsoft Stream. They will begin feature retirement …

Chat with co-editor feature being retired on Word, Excel and PowerPoint

The ability to initiate a Chat directly with a co-editor of a Word, Excel, PowerPoint document will be retired by Microsoft over several weeks beginning mid-April (across web, Windows and …

SharePoint designer feature deprecation impacting custom form creation

Microsoft has identified an issue affecting SharePoint Designer functionality for creating custom Forms within SharePoint Online. After careful examination, Microsoft has determined that there is no known fix for this issue …

OneDrive for Business activity column is being retired

May 1, 2020

Microsoft is retiring the Activity column in OneDrive and Shared Libraries. The feature, in its current state, is not providing the intended value and experience. When the feature is removed, …

Update to Microsoft Teams document behaviour

April 5, 2020

To best support the Microsoft 365 Education customers worldwide and accommodate new growth and demand during these unprecedented times, Microsoft is making a temporary adjustment to Office document behavior within …

Major update to OneNote, SharePoint and Stream

March 30, 2020

As a part of Microsoft’s commitment to customers and cloud services continuity during these unprecedented times, Microsoft is making temporary adjustments to select capabilities within Microsoft 365. Microsoft has previously …

EASI launches new Office 365 website and welcomes the Digital Workplace team

February 25, 2020

Enterprise Applications and Solutions Integration (EASI) is pleased to announce that the Digital Workplace team has launched new online spaces for the University of Toronto’s (U of T) cloud-based Office 365 …