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Iron Contributor

Sep 18, 2017

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New App Launcher and privacy

THe new app launcher looks great, but has anyone thought about the following scenario. You are presenting to an audience or working with a group of people or IT tech support. You go into office 3...

compliance

office 365

security

Katie Kivett
Sep 22, 2017
Thanks all for the feedback and discussion. If there are documents that you do not want to show in your recent documents section in the new Office 365 app launcher, you can go to www.office.com and use the "remove from list" action on a document that is in your Recent online documents, and it will also remove the document from the app launcher document section, as the services are integrated.

We also released a blog article today that includes a more in-depth video on the new experiences of www.office.com and the Office 365 app launcher that you may be interested in:

https://blogs.office.com/en-us/2017/09/22/new-office-365-app-launcher-and-office-com-help-you-be-more-productive-on-the-web/

Geoffrey Bronner

Iron Contributor

Dec 11, 2017

Currently I am running a job search and there are internal candidates which is considered confidential information. Their application materials include last name and first initial in the file names.

So when I did a class on Office 365 last week did I use my own account? No I did not.

Katie Kivett

Microsoft

Feb 18, 2018

Did the ability to remove these documents, with confidential information in the file name, from your MRU in Office.com not workaround the issue for you?

Geoffrey Bronner
Iron Contributor
Feb 20, 2018
The ability to pin and remove is good, yes. It requires intentional action which won't always happen. I find I tend to use that just to get a file I no longer care about to go away and stop taking up space in the menu.
- Bill Blais
  Iron Contributor
  Feb 20, 2018
  Katie Kivett - I agree with Geoffrey Bronner, relying on manual removal is not the way to go. Again, I have to ask why this is seen as such a necessary feature? Even pushing it off the initial view, a la the 'All Apps' link sliding out the full list, would answer this problem (and presumably be a relatively easy add). Less initial clutter is so much more helpful to our users in the real world.
  - Katie Kivett
    Microsoft
    Feb 27, 2018
    The goal is to better enable navigation throughout the O365 web suite via recent documents to help users get to work more efficiently. The new app launcher is going to be fully rolled out to 100% production in the next few weeks. We will continue to monitor feedback, usage and telemetry to determine the right next steps. Thank you for the open conversation and continued feedback on the new experience.