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Welcome to the General UserVoice forum. This is your place to suggest ideas on how to improve features in Office 365 that don’t fit into any of the other forums listed here.
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Enable the content enrichment web service callout
Many customers add custom metadata to Office documents. The content enrichment web service was a perfect way to accomplish this. Please enable this functionality for cloud hybrid search.
321 votes -
rename One Drive and sharepoint URL
Currently when we share files through One Drive and SharePoint, a file URL forms automatically, and we cannot rename the URL.
I suggest that URL forms based on our custom domain instead initial domain, so it looks much more professional to those who we wish to share the files to.
313 votes -
Visio for Office 365 for Mac
Since Office 365 is supposed to be device independent, it would be great if Visio/Visio Pro would have a mac version that is available through Office 365.
309 votes -
Ability to change the proofing language for all users
The proofing language for Word Online etc. is set to English US by default, and whilst you can change this on a single document, it automatically defaults back to English US for every new document created.
I've spoken to Microsoft, who confirmed this is by design, and cannot currently be changed at a global/admin level.
310 votes -
Fix Excel Online Print Paper Selection Defaulting to A4
When printing from Excel online (in either IE or Chrome) the paper type is defaulting to A4 instead of Letter.
301 votes -
We need a "Is this feature deployed to my tenant yet?" tool
People in the world, both admins and users, are constantly asking whether new features Microsoft has announced as on the way or rolling out are deployed to their tenant yet. This often results in a lot of confusion and probably support cases and questions into Microsoft asking these types of questions.
We could solve this by building some sort of "Is this feature deployed to my tenant yet?" tool. This tool would very simply authenticate the person checking via Azure Active Directory, and then return a simple result for the feature you are checking on. Results could be:
- Yes
- Targeted…
298 votes -
enable filters for Sharepoint Recycle bin
Enable filters for the Recycle Bin view which allow selection of date range and user. This would greatly help in recovery of large amounts of inadvertently deleted data which a particular user has done (such as by "cleaning up" local folders which were actually synced.
296 votes -
add @mention function in comments in all online office documents
In Google docs etc, you can add a comment (just like office 365) but you can @mention. We use it a lot for collaboration and we are trying to migrate to Office 365. This missing feature, while not a show stopper, is causing some groups real pain.
296 votes -
Make .dotx, .xltx, .potx templates work on Sharepoint
When you open a template (.dotx, .xltx, .potx) stored in Sharepoint library, it doesn't open a new document based on the the template like it does on a file share, but opens the template itself.
Please make it work like on file share, and open new document.292 votes -
Preference to turn off notifications to alternate email address
We need a feature to be able to turn off certain notifications to our alternate email address in Office 365.
As Office 365 administrators, we are require an alternate email address that is not part of your Office 365 tenant. In most cases that would be your personal email address that is not provided by your work. This makes sense for password resets if administrators forget their password to log into the tenant.
Along with password resets, we also receive Office 365 statements, changes to tenant subscriptions and other notifications. These should have an option to turn off since all…
282 votes -
Notification settings for Planner
When creating a task, notifications should go only to the owner and assignee by default. You can change it to:
Entire group
Assignee only
Assignee & Owner280 votesPlease note that Planner has its own UserVoice site that its team monitors for feature requests. You can find it here: http://planner.uservoice.com/
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add/Embed YouTube videos to Microsoft Streams
We as an organisation think Microsoft Streams could be used as a training ground for our staff on office 365 applications, we would like to have the ability to add YouTube videos that we approve as good training material. There is some great training material on YouTube to be able to highlight the good ones in Microsoft Steams would be fantastic.
279 votes -
Enhance the OneDrive Sync Client to support authenticated proxies.
Enterprise environments commonly use outbound proxies that require the outbound traffic to provide authentication credentials. When an application generates the traffic, the application needs to be able to response to the proxy request for credentials. Today, the sync client does not respond to request for credentials and the outbound traffic is blocked.
277 votes -
Add teamchanneluser to empty teamchannel
It is not possible to add a user to a empty teamchannel, so the channel is lost if you delete the owner. Why its not possible as ADMIN to setup a new owner? Without this possibility datalost is incoming....
268 votes -
Read Receipts in Teams
Allow tracking of whether the members of your team have viewed a message that you have posted in Teams, similar to Facebook Messenger/WhatsApp.
268 votes -
allow enterprises to automatically configure OneDrive for Business upon first time login
Currently, OneDrive for business can be automated to a point where adminstrators can launch OneDrive Setup but the user still has to key in their email address to set it up. This makes it harder to ensure folder redirection for every user works. If we could allow the first time setup to be automated, Orgaisations can ask users to restart their workstation once to confirm folder redirection will take place.
267 votes -
OneDrive for Business on Linux
OneDrive for Business on Linux
No OneDrive for Business on Linux aka Dropbox exists. This is a showstopper for many.263 votes -
1 central location for corporate templates (Word, PowerPoint, Excel etc.)
1 central location for your corporate templates such as Word, PowerPoint, Excel etc. These templates can/may be maintained by a department like MarCom (Marketing and Communications).
When you are in an Office Group for example and click [New] at your library, you should have an option "Corporate". This option then should give you 'Which Corporate Template would you like to use?' giving the templates that MarCom provided.
262 votes -
Enable Visio 2013 and Project 2013 in Office 2016
Enable use of Visio and Project with 365 and Office 2016. Office 2016 deletes Project and Visio even though we've paid for the software. There is no easy way to roll back either. This should be a no brainer.
259 votes -
Create "Comment Only" permissions level
I would love to be able to assign only one person edit permissions to a document, while giving a larger audience, the ability to view and add comments.
260 votes
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