M365 Changelog: SharePoint News in Outlook

MC671563 – With the new integration of SharePoint News into Outlook, news authors can preview and send full news posts as emails to their reader’s inbox. To help authors get started, Microsoft is also adding six templates in Outlook and SharePoint. Finally, with our unified page analytics, authors will be able to see their total page reads across outlook and SharePoint as one number.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124803

When this will happen:

Targeted Release: Rollout will begin in late August 2023 and is expected to be complete by early September 2023.

Standard Release. Rollout will begin in mid-September 2023 and is expected to be complete by late September 2023.

How this will affect your organization:

To create a News post for email:

  • Select a “Made for email” template from the news template picker.
  • When you are ready to publish, you can post your news and send it directly to email in one step.

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Sending a page as an email will not change existing site permissions and will not give your recipients access to the original page if they don’t already have it. 

What you need to do to prepare:

You do not need to do anything to prepare for this update. You may want to let your users know about this improvement.