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365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCS404 - Message Center Show episode not foundYou managed to find the episode. Now search for where Copilot App Skills are re-moving in Excel. Find out how Copilot can reschedule meetings for you if you get double-booked. Find a way for Researcher and Analyst agents to connect to other agents and use them - sub-contracting!   0:00 Welcome 1:57 App Skills in Excel will be retired - MC1184407 4:31 Agent mode in Excel generally available soon (formerly part of the Frontier program) - MC1184408 7:19 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Configure connected agents for Researcher and other agents - MC1184654 14:28 Copilot can n...
2025-11-1734 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSMeeting Polls. FAQ checkers. Rating calls | Ep 403In this 403 Forbidden episode we go to the polls, check our FAQs, and rate our calls. This episode is full of variety, seeing an old Microsoft Garage feature completely absorbed into Outlook, FAQs that help to keep themselves updated and correct, and a new way to rate our calls. 0:00 Welcome 2:44 Native polls integrated into New Outlook calendar compose form - MC1182003 8:40 SharePoint FAQ web part: AI-powered updates for easier content management and seamless import - MC1182704 12:23 Microsoft Teams: Chat with anyone with an email...
2025-11-1035 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSLet Me COPILOT That For You | Ep 402We think we will call M365 Copilot's Researcher Agent feature the "LMCTFY". Ask Copilot to perform some research. Choose "Computer Use" mode and let Copilot control a virtual computer to carry out your research. If you don't want people to be reminded to check the AI results for accuracy, this disclaimer will be removed. But you will have the opportunity to turn it back on and customise a link to provide your own guidance about AI results. 0:00 Welcome 2:38 Microsoft Copilot Studio – Add and configure tool groups to ag...
2025-11-0537 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSWhat’s new in the Microsoft 365 Message Center? | Ep 401The SharePoint document library toolbars are changing and you will want to prepare your org for where buttons have moved and how it works now. Teams adds searching for images, but it's not what you think. And Windows 11 and Copilot are getting back together, with integration means Copilot is even more helpful on your desktop. But when are these features coming to Windows 11 for businesses and enterprises? 0:00 Welcome 2:06 Introducing Image Search in Microsoft Teams - MC1174858 7:55 Microsoft Copilot Studio: Copy an agent from the...
2025-10-2734 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSFloating Copilot button and the M365 Message Center | Episode 400Some said it could never be done. But we have reached that day. Copilot floating buttons are arriving in OneDrive. Teams is offering an audio-only recording for meetings, and Copilot in Outlook will suggest you add an agenda -- Intelligently. Oh and Daniel and Darrell made 400 episodes! 0:00 Welcome 1:41 Audio-only recording now available in Microsoft Teams - MC1173926 7:57 Microsoft OneDrive: floating Copilot button simplifies Copilot discovery - MC1173929 13:13 Copilot in Outlook: Intelligent agenda suggestions for calendar events - MC1171854 17:31...
2025-10-2131 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSPoint taken in the Microsoft 365 Message Center Show | Ep 399Access your organisational images library to get approved images for your presentations. Use Search to find settings in Teams. And where did Copilot go in Microsoft Loop, and did anyone notice it leave? 0:00 Welcome 3:14 Microsoft Viva Copilot Analytics launches new agent dashboard - MC1166852 7:16 Microsoft Teams: Emojis in section names - MC1166877 12:04 Microsoft Teams: Search in Settings - MC1167604 15:08 Microsoft Loop: Copilot experience upgrade - MC1169068 18:54 Dynamics 365 Customer Insights - Journeys - Create event portals with event registration...
2025-10-1332 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSWhat’s new in the Microsoft 365 Message Center? | Episode 398Ask Copilot Chat about Teams channel content. Specify the channel with a /. Ask about a refreshing new round of Microsoft 365 icons. Did your team discuss those in a channel some time this week? Ask about the files that were shared from Elmo's OneDrive. Now that he left the company, did they get reassigned to his manager, Bert? It's a colourful episode this week. 0:00 Welcome 3:20 Microsoft Copilot Studio: Agent ownership reassignment - MC1162291 7:17 (Updated) Microsoft Teams: Trust Indicators – a ne...
2025-10-0631 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSWhat’s new in the Microsoft 365 Message Center? | Episode 397Hey Copilot. Remember how I like my day planned out to leave gaps for focus time? Remember that I like my summaries concise? Do you remember that I always, always want citations? Copilot memory is getting an update. OneNote is getting sensitivity labels. And people on the receiving end of a forwarded Teams message are getting a reference link. So much getting. What are you giving in return? 0:00 Welcome 5:41 Retiring Power BI “Visualize the List” and “Visualize the Library” Features in SharePoint Online - MC115635...
2025-09-2941 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSWhat’s new in the Microsoft 365 Message Center? | Episode 396This episode we discuss a huge update to managing content on SharePoint site, powered by Knowledge Agent. Yes, Copilot will start to do more than help us find the words to put on a page. It will also help us organise our document libraries with metadata and use it when we ask Copilot questions. Teams Channels Agent will create summaries of conversations, file activity and even task assignments in Planner, and publish the summary as a Loop in the channel. Then ask the agent questions about the project. What other practical updates are...
2025-09-2237 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSWhat’s new in the Microsoft 365 Message Center? | Episode 395In this week's short and snappy episode, Copilot Studio gets an increase in the number of files an agent can use in SharePoint and OneDrive. Office Transcriptions can be left to run all day and still not use up your quota of minutes. Lastly, admins should check that they have enabled a setting in Chromium browsers to continue to provide offline capabilities in OneDrive. 0:00 Welcome 5:35 Microsoft Copilot Studio - Use up to 1,000 files per agent for SharePoint and OneDrive uploads - MC1150623 11:36 Teams Admin Center: Control External...
2025-09-1525 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSWhat’s new in the Microsoft 365 Message Center? | Episode 394Learn how Microsoft will make it easier for people to get up and running with their current settings when they shift to New Outlook. Copilot Pages and Copilot generated images will be found in a new 'Library' launched from the Microsoft 365 Copilot app. Lastly, Teams chats and group chats get a Notes tab. But it's not what you think. - Microsoft Outlook: Set up classic Outlook accounts and settings in new Outlook for Windows automatically  - Rewrite with Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat coming soon to Edge for Business users  - Ma...
2025-09-1135 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSWhat's new in the Microsoft 365 Message Center? | Ep 393Get your SharePoint News read to you in an audio overview. Output response to your Copilot Researcher results in an old favourite format. And Engage Community Announcements get smarter at delivering to your most frequently used channels.  - Microsoft 365 Copilot: New Researcher agent output controls - Microsoft Teams: Choose to hide inactive channels - Windows Backup for Organizations is now available - Microsoft Viva Engage: Smarter delivery of Community Announcement notifications  - (Updated) AI actions coming to SharePoint document libraries - Microsoft Viva: AI-generated audio briefings for SharePoint ne...
2025-08-3133 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSWhat’s new in the Microsoft 365 Message Center? Episode 393Get your SharePoint News read to you in an audio overview. Output response to your Copilot Researcher results in an old favourite format. And Engage Community Announcements get smarter at delivering to your most frequently used channels. 0:00 Welcome 4:17 Microsoft 365 Copilot: New Researcher agent output controls - MC1143277 11:50 Microsoft Teams: Choose to hide inactive channels - MC1141958 15:11 Windows Backup for Organizations is now available - MC1142494 18:24 Microsoft Viva Engage: Smarter delivery of Community Announcement notifications - MC1143276 24:39 (Updated) AI...
2025-08-3133 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSWhat's new in the Microsoft 365 Message Center? | Ep 392This episode is packed with great updates. Loop pages can now be added to Teams channels as a tab. This is a simpler way to use Loop as a team without creating a whole workspace. Creating SharePoint workflows will now follow the same experience as when you create them in Teams. And soon you will be able to create SharePoint sections on pages with help from Copilot.  What else will Daniel and Darrell discuss?  – Outlook Mobile : Copilot Chat overlay coming to iOS and Android - Restrict new file creation in Office desktop apps to Cloud Loca...
2025-08-2538 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSWhat's new in the Microsoft 365 Message Center? | Ep 391React to a message and trigger a workflow. That might be fun if you want to dedicate a certain emoji for 'volunteering' for a task. In other news, some Gen-AI features of the M365 Copilot app Create module will be made available to unlicensed users.  What else will Daniel and Darrell discuss?  – Emoji Reactions Workflows in Microsoft Teams  - [Copilot Extensibility] Admins can manage ownerless Copilot agents with new lifecycle controls - Meeting Search in MS Teams Desktop - Gen AI capabilities in the Create module of Microsoft 365 Copilot app coming to al...
2025-08-2537 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSWhat’s new in the Microsoft 365 Message Center? Episode 392This episode is packed with great updates. Loop pages can now be added to Teams channels as a tab. This is a simpler way to use Loop as a team without creating a whole workspace. Creating SharePoint workflows will now follow the same experience as when you create them in Teams. And soon you will be able to create SharePoint sections on pages with help from Copilot. 0:00 Welcome 3:19 Outlook Mobile : Copilot Chat overlay coming to iOS and Android - MC1138239 6:32 Restrict new file creation in Office desktop...
2025-08-2538 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSWhat’s new in the Microsoft 365 Message Center? Episode 391React to a message and trigger a workflow. That might be fun if you want to dedicate a certain emoji for 'volunteering' for a task. In other news, some Gen-AI features of the M365 Copilot app Create module will be made available to unlicensed users. 0:00 Welcome 3:50 Emoji Reactions Workflows in Microsoft Teams - MC1133511 13:00 [Copilot Extensibility] Admins can manage ownerless Copilot agents with new lifecycle controls - MC1134170 15:38 Meeting Search in MS Teams Desktop - MC1134180 19:01 Gen AI capabilities in the...
2025-08-1837 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSWhat's new in the Microsoft 365 Message Center? | Ep 390GPT-5 is a significant arrival for M365 Copilot. So are email templates in new Outlook. We also want to prepare you for come changes to scheduling events and meetings.  What else will Daniel and Darrell discuss?  – Outlook: Create and save email templates in the new Outlook for Windows – Remove toggle for Calendar in Teams – Microsoft 365 Copilot | View recent activity in Word with Dynamic Document Snapshot – SharePoint Agent: New Agent Link WebPart – GPT-5—OpenAI’s latest generative-AI system—is now available in Microsoft 365 Copilot – New Event Scheduling User Experience for Outlo...
2025-08-1239 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSWhat’s new in the Microsoft 365 Message Center? Episode 390It's a longer show this week. But that's why we have chapters. GPT-5 is a significant arrival for M365 Copilot. So are email templates in new Outlook. We also want to prepare you for come changes to scheduling events and meetings. Skip to the parts that interest you, or watch the whole lot. We're just glad you joined the ride this week. 0:00 Welcome 3:04 Outlook: Create and save email templates in the new Outlook for Windows - MC1129129 6:43 Remove toggle for Calendar in Teams...
2025-08-1135 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSWhat's new in the Microsoft 365 Message Center? | Ep 389The M365 Copilot Chat box is adding a tools button to make it easier to add and use a range of tools from Chat. Copilot-summarized emails are coming to Outlook for people without an M365 Copilot license. And soon orgs using Viva Amplify will be able to send any SharePoint news posts from their sites via Amplify channels — no need to create the content from an Amplify campaign team.  What else will Daniel and Darrell discuss?  – Support for different modes for desks  – Viva Amplify: Distribute SharePoint news posts across channels – New Tools feature coming to t...
2025-08-0534 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSWhat's new in the Microsoft 365 Message Center? | Ep 388M365 Copilot in PowerPoint will be able to access the SharePoint Org Assets Library. When you write prompts to create a slide deck, you set Copilot to use the library for images in your slides. But it is going to take some work to add metadata to the images so it can be used by Copilot. Also, Outlook Newsletters are coming soon to New Outlook. This week we learn how to control who can create them and read them.  What else will Daniel and Darrell discuss?  – Updates to SharePoint video sharing  – New Outlook for Windows and Web...
2025-07-2835 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSWhat's new in the Microsoft 365 Message Center? | Ep 387M365 Copilot Chat will use new file types like MP4s, CAD, and ZIP, to ground its responses. We wonder how it will find discussions in videos without first creating a transcript for every video.  Teams meetings will show a new join experience that helps you manage when you have accepted or responded tentatively to multiple meetings.  And Copilot will make a little more available to unlicensed M365 Copilot users, so they can get a taste of the value — depending on capacity consumed by licensed customers.  What else will Daniel and Darrell discuss?  - Microsoft 365 Copilo...
2025-07-2334 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSWhat's new in the Microsoft 365 Message Center? | Ep 386The Researcher agent is coming to Microsoft Word for M365 Copilot licensed users. This feels like the right place for it to be used, bringing research prompt outputs into a highly capable documentation app.  If you are a subject matter expert and you want to be recognised as one in a Viva Engage community, now you will be able to request to be one.  This and more on this week's episode.  - Researcher is available in Word for Microsoft 365 Copilot licensed users  - Self-nomination as a community expert in Viva Engage communities  - Imp...
2025-07-1427 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSWhat's new in the Microsoft 365 Message Center? | Ep 385Microsoft 365 Search get's a Copilot response when you use natural language to search for something. Microsoft Teams notifications become more compact. Viva Engage will now support segmentation so communities can be separate within the same tenant.  What else will Daniel and Darrell discuss this week?  - Microsoft 365 Copilot Search General Availability  - Microsoft Teams: Compact notification size for users  - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Add topic(s) through Copilot to your existing presentation  - Microsoft Viva Engage: Introducing segmentation for personalized experiences (preview)  - Expanded Copilot in Viva Engage updates  ...
2025-07-0738 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSWhat's new in the Microsoft 365 Message Center? | Ep 384This week the 365 Message Center Show brings some lively discussion about timers in Teams meetings and anyone being able to start them to remind the speaker to finish up. We will also, once again, be able to save chats and channel posts, bookmarking them to get back to later. Also, SharePoint Copilot Agents will be accessible in M365 Copilot Chat to continue the conversation.  - Microsoft Teams: Countdown timer for Teams Meetings  - Researcher in Copilot Notebooks  - Microsoft Teams: Users can save chats and channel messages for later  - Microsoft Teams: Faci...
2025-06-3033 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSWhat's new in the Microsoft 365 Message Center? | Ep 383This week on the Microsoft 365 Message Center...  - Microsoft 365 Copilot: Extending Copilot Chat to Microsoft 365 apps  - Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat: Now Easily Accessible from the Teams Chat List  - Researcher on M365 Copilot Prompt Box  - Microsoft 365 Copilot: Visual Creator Agent will no longer be pre-installed  - Microsoft Teams: Presenters can promote attendees to the green room  - Microsoft SharePoint: Header and Footer enhancements    Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.   Check out...
2025-06-2330 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSFast meeting invites and prep with Copilot on mobile | Ep 382Pull together a quick meeting invite from an email thread with Copilot from your mobile. Then start preparing for your next meeting using Copilot in Outlook mobile. All this mobile, on-the-go meeting organising and prep must mean we now barely have time to organise and prepare. It's a good thing Copilot can help.  - Microsoft Viva Goals: New Data export feature  - Create a meeting from an email thread with Copilot  - (Updated) Prepare for your on-the-go meeting with Copilot  - Microsoft Viva Insights: New prompt categories in the Microsoft Copilot Dashboard 
2025-06-1833 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSTeams Threaded replies. Interactive Copilot Agents in calls | Ep 381We have often wanted to reply to a reply in Teams channel conversations. Wish granted! But calling them threads when posts are already threaded? And what does following a thread mean? Also, Copilot Agents will be called into a call or meeting and attendees will be able to interact with them.  This and more, for sure.  - Meeting Details Experience for Windows 10 will be removed in OneNote  - Microsoft 365: Retiring and modernizing the Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel for Windows desktop apps  - Microsoft Teams: Interactive agents for meetings and calls  - Microsoft Lists...
2025-06-0938 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSTeams Work location set automatically. Review Copilot agent activity | Ep 380Listen to your meeting as an audio overview. Summarise email attachments before opening them to read. In the right hands, these will be useful tools. But how will you know the summaries pick up all the important details? Listen or watch this episode to learn more about these Message Center messages.  - Microsoft Edge for Business: New PDF viewer powered by Adobe engine now available for testing in Edge Beta  - Power Automate - Fix save errors in your cloud or agent flow with Copilot  - Teams Meeting Audio Overview   - SharePoint Aler...
2025-06-0228 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSUse Copilot to podcast your meetings and summarise attachments | Ep 379Listen to your meeting as an audio overview. Summarise email attachments before opening them to read. In the right hands, these will be useful tools. But how will you know the summaries pick up all the important details? Listen or watch this episode to learn more about these Message Center messages.  - Microsoft Edge for Business: New PDF viewer powered by Adobe engine now available for testing in Edge Beta  - Power Automate - Fix save errors in your cloud or agent flow with Copilot  - Teams Meeting Audio Overview   - SharePoint Aler...
2025-05-2038 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSTemplates for SharePoint, PowerPoint, and Teams. | Ep 378This episode is giving notes of templates and orange peel. Yes, this episode has three messages that involve templates in three different M365 experiences. SharePoint page templates page gets revamped. PowerPoint offers Copilot as a slide deck template. Teams will let you create your own meeting templates.  Thanks for joining us. Let us know what your picks were for the week.  - Microsoft Project for the web and Project in Teams will retire and redirect to Planner for the web and Planner in Teams  - Microsoft Edge: New location for Edge profile in the toolbar 
2025-05-1335 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSGet visibility of Copilot agents in M365 | Ep 377If you haven't heard by now, Copilot agents are going to be a big thing in Microsoft 365. Without the right admin tools, they are the next service to sprawl and get out of control. The Admin Center will soon have a new page and reports to show what agents are being used, where, and who added them. Also, with Classic / New switch for Outlook will let you choose to open in Classic, while keeping New open.  - Dynamics and Business Apps Wave 1 commentary - Microsoft 365 Copilot: Image Generation Usage Limit for Users without a Copilot License ...
2025-05-0834 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSMicrosoft 365 Copilot Wave 2 big reveal | 376Oooh. So that's why Microsoft renamed Microsoft 365 to Microsoft 365 Copilot. It was the app all along. Wave 2 announcements reveal that the home page, the starting point for using Microsoft 365 on the web is going all in with Copilot-centric experiences. Not only Chat, but also Create, a new Search experience, Notebooks for collecting and focusing chat outcomes, and much much more.  - Microsoft SharePoint Online eSignature for Microsoft Word  - Expanding reference capabilities with Microsoft 365 Copilot in Word  - Out-of-the-box Agents in Microsoft 365  - View your organization's prompts in the redesigned Copilot Prompt Gall...
2025-04-2836 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSChanges to Copilot Pages. Teams town hall ultra-low latency | Ep 375To keep you in your flow, M365 Copilot Pages will now open in the M365 Copilot App home, rather than opening in Loop. Keep curating and conversing with Copilot. Also, Teams town hall meetings that have been created using a Teams Premium license will enjoy a much lower latency between the production and audience experience.  - Microsoft Viva Connections: New Engage card in Connections dashboard  - Removing Microsoft 365 Copilot Actions from Targeted Release  - Microsoft Purview | Retiring Classic Content Search, Classic eDiscovery (Standard) Cases, Export PowerShell Parameters  - Microsoft 365 Copilot: Create a Po...
2025-04-2429 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSMicrosoft Teams Room Recommender. Copilot summarizes Pulses | Ep 374Don't forget to add a meeting room to your meeting. But if you do and one or more attendees are in the office with you, look out for a timely room recommendation. And if your organization uses Viva Pulse to survey how you are doing, use Copilot to summaries and provide insights from those pulses  - Microsoft Teams: Room Recommender  - Microsoft Viva Connections cards in SharePoint agents  - Ability to Stop Copilot while it is generating a response  - Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat: Simplifying the default pinning configuration  - Micro...
2025-04-0732 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSM365 Copilot Researcher and Analyst Agents. New SharePoint page home. | 373Go deeper to get the info you really want with new Research and Analyst agents in M365 Copilot. Kick off multi-step research, reason over results and connect to third-party data. And SharePoint get's a new page at m365.cloud.microsoft to create and manage pages you have authored across the sites you contribute to. What else has this week got for us?  - Interpreter agent in Teams meetings (Copilot)  - Introducing the Windows roadmap  - Microsoft 365 Copilot: New Researcher and Analyst agents  - New Microsoft Graph Connectors Now Available for Microsoft 365 Copi...
2025-04-0230 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSManage what attendees see. Copilot answers questions about messages | Ep 372Have more control over how we bring people and content onto the Teams meeting stage. It should make it easier to have side by side views of speakers or switching content on and off. Also, OneDrive will soon see images and understand them, answering questions about them. Find out too if there is some groundwork being laid for Copilot Actions, due soon.  - Microsoft Teams: Control when shared content is visible to attendees in "Manage what attendees see"  - Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning - Semantic search support for in-app Searches   - Microsoft Teams: Sim...
2025-03-2433 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSDesigner in Microsoft 365 Copilot. Hey Loop. What's changed? | Episode 371Another PowerPoint feature is being positioned within Microsoft 365 Copilot, with the suggestion of more to come. Design suggestions will still be available for everyone, but it may be getting smarter for M365 Copilot subscribers. Microsoft Loop makes it easier to tell your workspace members about changes to the page you have been working on. The Copilot Pay-as-you-go feature gets its own place for administration within the M365 Admin Center.  - New Microsoft Outlook for Windows: Bulk import of .eml files  - Introduction of Copilot Pay-as-you-go Feature in M365 Admin Center  - Mic...
2025-03-1722 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSTeams Channel Files become Shared. SharePoint Quick Steps | Ep 370Prepare for another change to how you use Microsoft Teams. The Files tab in Channels will change how it displays files, showing different views and filters. It appears to be aligning with Teams Chat's Shared tab. Also, SharePoint introduces Quick Steps to perform common automation and workflows. Join us in the comments with your thoughts and reactions to the changes announced in this week's Message Center.  - Microsoft OneDrive: New naming convention for folder shortcuts  - Microsoft Teams: In channels, the "Shared" tab (formerly the "Files" tab) will have new capabilities  - Microsoft Sha...
2025-03-1041 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSPrioritise my Inbox with Copilot in Outlook | Ep 369Ready for a new AI-powered prioritisation tool that you can teach what's important to you? Not Focused Inbox, no. Kinda like Mail Rules, yeah.  It's a more practical, guided way to focus on email that's important to you. Even more important than your Focused Inbox.  - Microsoft 365 Copilot: Chat sessions will have titles generated by large language models (LLM)  - Microsoft 365 Copilot: Sessions grouped by time frame  - New Microsoft 365 Copilot release notes page  - Microsoft Teams: Record video clips in channels  - Microsoft Skype interoperability with Microsoft Teams...
2025-03-0629 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSNew internal newsletters with New Outlook. Viva Insights included with M365 Copilot | Ep 368To make sure you can measure your Microsoft 365 Copilot usage, Viva Insights will be included in the Copilot license. This enables analytics to be used alongside organizational data and other work analytics, telling more stories about the impacts on productivity.  If that's worth writing home about, you might start a new organizational newsletter using the Newsletters feature in New Outlook. Create, subscribe and manage co-authored newsletters that support comments and leverage SharePoint Embedded.  - Microsoft Teams: Distinguish invites among Attendee, Presenter, and Co-organizer emails  - Microsoft Viva Insights will be included in Microsoft 365 Copilot sub...
2025-02-2434 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSMicrosoft Lists be getting all formal | Ep 367This latest update to Microsoft Lists is starting to look more like Microsoft Forms. Copilot in Teams provides a way for you to quickly summarize an attachment in a chat. Teams chat becomes easier to monitor for meeting presenters with one screen. There was a plethora of messages this week. These were our picks.  - Microsoft Teams: Post and reply as "Organizer" in Q&A  - Microsoft Outlook for iOS: Open the previous email with email auto-advance  - Copilot Studio – Agent Builder in Copilot Chat  - Microsoft Copilot: File summary in Micros...
2025-02-1831 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSBe heard. Share content in meetings. M365 Copilot to analyse both | 366The second most common phrase said on a Teams meeting is "Can you hear me now." Do you know the most common phrase? "You're muted." Well Microsoft Teams will soon introduce a new way to indicate that your mic is working. If the meeting can hear you, then you will be included in the meeting transcript and recording, and Copilot can answer questions about what you said. Do you know what else in will be able to answer questions about? "Can you see my screen? OK good." We are intrested to learn what Copilot will analyse from content shared...
2025-02-1041 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSCreate videos with Copilot and Clipchamp | Ep 365Get help from Copilot to create a video using stock footage. Edit the video in Clipchamp and mix with your own video clips. We also celebrate the 365 Message Center Show community on this 365th episode with some words from our frequent listeners and watchers. Thank you so much for continuing to see our show as a source of updates and a place to share your knowledge and opinions too.    - Why do you watch 365MCS - Microsoft 365 Copilot | New custom engine agents   - Microsoft 365 Business Chat | Use Continue to Outlook to set up a m...
2025-02-1037 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSM365 Copilot Chat Pay As You Go Details released | Ep 364Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat has launched again. Now with Pay As You Go options clarified. This weeks' message points us to admin controls for setting up PAYG, controlling access to Agents, setting up billing and limits, and more. Learn about the 4 types of prompts, messages sent to Copilot Chat, and how much they will cost. Also on this week's show:   - Microsoft 365 Copilot | Select Microsoft Graph Connectors when writing prompts in BizChat   - Large Events | End Session for Attendees and Return Presenters to Green Room   - Microsoft Viva Engage | New recommended comments feature   - Mi...
2025-01-2139 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSMicrosoft 365 Copilot Pay As You Go | Ep 363We can confirm now that Microsoft will make Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat available to use for organisational accounts without an M365 Copilot license.  It will use a Pay As You Go model, just like Syntex. But the details are not complete. How much is it? Is it the whole M365 Copilot experience? How do we limit access to it? Why has this message been updated already? Actually, at the time of writing this video description... where is the message?    We talk about this and more in our first show of the year:   - Microsoft Purview | New secu...
2025-01-1435 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSUnlicensed access to Copilot Agents in Teams group chats | Ep 362The story continues to develop about accessing Microsoft 365 Copilot and making it available to all users with an Entra ID. Copilot Agents will be available to use within Teams group chats, whether you are licensed with M365 Copilot or not. While the message doesn't say so, we think it is another use of metered (pay as you go) access to Copilot, which was detailed around the announcements for accessing SharePoint's Copilot Agents.    We talk about this and more in our first show of the year:   - Teams Meeting recap can be shared as a link  
2025-01-0635 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSMicrosoft 365 is Microsoft 365 Copilot - #361What a way to finish the year. Prepare your people to think of Microsoft 365 now as Microsoft 365 Copilot. Your entry point to the productivity platform starts with Chat. BizChat. Copilot Agents.  Daniel and Darrell try to catch up with 3 weeks of messages and perhaps one of the most significant changes that tries to reframe how we think about Microsoft 365 productivity.    Daniel and Darrell now share their 365 Message Center message sorting with a live audience. Join the live stream and the chat. Contribute to the show and tell us which messages are important to you and why. 👉 Subscr...
2024-12-2746 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSPromo for SharePoint Agents. Outlook notification improvements - #360Everyone can benefit from using SharePoint Agents, during a new promotion. Find out about the 10,000 queries a month. Outlook notifications will roll up into batches, much like threads. What else arrived in the Message Center this week?   Daniel and Darrell now share their 365 Message Center message sorting with a live audience. Join the live stream and the chat. Contribute to the show and tell us which messages are important to you and why. 👉 Subscribe to the YouTube channel to be notified or plan to join us. youtube.com/365MCS   Darrell and Daniel cover:   - Viva E...
2024-12-2539 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSTeams meeting facilitator. M365 Copilot assistance creating pages in SharePoint - #359Switch on a Copilot meeting facilitator in and have it take notes with you, live. Get help with creating pages using templated Copilot prompts, page templates, and your own files. Daniel and Darrell both tried out the Teams Avatar creation process with photos. What other messages made the cut for the show this week?   Daniel and Darrell now share their 365 Message Center message sorting with a live audience. Join the live stream and the chat. Contribute to the show and tell us which messages are important to you and why. 👉 Subscribe to the YouTube channel to be notif...
2024-11-2643 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSViva Engage as a Copilot source. Loop and M365 Groups - #358Use Question posts and their answers in Viva Engage as a Copilot source. Microsoft Loop will connect new workspaces to existing Microsoft 365 Groups. There were a lot of messages we cut from the list this week. Enjoy our picks.   Daniel and Darrell now share their 365 Message Center message sorting with a live audience. Join the live stream and the chat. Contribute to the show and tell us which messages are important to you and why. 👉 Subscribe to the YouTube channel to be notified or plan to join us. youtube.com/365MCS   Darrell and Daniel cover:   ...
2024-11-2432 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSShifty Copilot Agents. New Outlook on by default - #357There were a few things that puzzled Daniel and Darrell this week. What are pinned Favorites in New Outlook? Why would New Outlook be turned on by default? What does 'erstwhile' mean and why is this word being used in a Message Center message? Watch this week's episode and find out.   Daniel and Darrell now share their 365 Message Center message sorting with a live audience. Join the live stream and the chat. Contribute to the show and tell us which messages are important to you and why. 👉 Subscribe to the YouTube channel to be notified or plan to jo...
2024-11-1330 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSSave and share Copilot prompts. Streamlined Teams chat and channels - #356Save your favorite prompts, whether they are suggested, or you created them, into Copilot Labs library. Share them with your teammates using M365 Copilot at work. Daniel and Darrell also mention the new Teams chats and channels combined experience and decide the topic needs its own special episode.   Daniel and Darrell now share their 365 Message Center message sorting with a live audience. Join the live stream and the chat. Contribute to the show and tell us which messages are important to you and why. 👉 Subscribe to the YouTube channel to be notified or plan to join us. youtu...
2024-11-0430 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSCopilot agents in SharePoint. Name pronunciation on profile cards - #355Ground your Copilot conversation using an agent targeted to a SharePoint document library. It will be easier to make sure the library's files are a reliable and secure source of information for Copilot. While you are at it, take the time to record pronunciation of your name on your profile card, so team members know how to say your name. What else did this week bring to the 365 Message Center?   Daniel and Darrell now share their 365 Message Center message sorting with a live audience. Join the live stream and the chat. Contribute to the show and tell us...
2024-10-2927 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSApprovals in any library. Summarisations on any page in Edge - #354Page summarisation returns to Microsoft Copilot in Edge after getting a few security issues sorted. Approvals will be able to be added to any document library and managed by the Approvals app in Teams. Agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot are now Generally Available. Another action-packed episode, gearing up for announcements at Microsoft Ignite.   Daniel and Darrell now share their 365 Message Center message sorting with a live audience. Join the live stream and the chat. Contribute to the show and tell us which messages are important to you and why. 👉 Subscribe to the YouTube channel to be notified or plan...
2024-10-2128 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSNew Teams Calendar. SharePoint Design Ideas - #353Scheduling meetings is becoming a more consistent experience across Teams and New Outlook. The new Teams Calendar will inherit Outlook on the Web capabilities. And SharePoint Design Ideas is available now, beginning with text, banner and image web parts in sections. What else does this week bring?   Daniel and Darrell now share their 365 Message Center message sorting with a live audience. Join the live stream and the chat. Contribute to the show and tell us which messages are important to you and why. 👉 Subscribe to the YouTube channel to be notified or plan to join us. youtube.com/3...
2024-10-1430 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSFinding your place soon with Microsoft Places - #352Microsoft Places will be Generally Available soon. In this episode we talk about it being available as a core experience across most M365 / O365 subscriptions. There's also a couple of updates to New Outlook to edge closer to the Classic Outlook experience. We say goodbye to Delve and hello to a couple of new cloud.microsoft domains.   Daniel and Darrell now share their 365 Message Center message sorting with a live audience. Join the live stream and the chat. Contribute to the show and tell us which messages are important to you and why. 👉 Subscribe to the YouTube chann...
2024-10-0831 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSWhich office are you working in today? Add it to Teams presence - #351Let your teammates know you are working in the office and which building you're in. Drag one of their emails onto your calendar to schedule a meeting to catch up in-person. If you have followed any topics of interest on Engage, check your notifications for updates.   Daniel and Darrell now share their 365 Message Center message sorting with a live audience. Join the live stream and the chat. Contribute to the show and tell us which messages are important to you and why. 👉 Subscribe to the YouTube channel to be notified or plan to join us. youtube.com/365MCS  ...
2024-09-3029 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSCopilot, Copilot, Copilot - #350Collaborate with team members on Copilot content. Compose messages in Outlook with a larger Copilot prompt editor and more suggested prompts. But what's this? Something Copiloty is being removed from Windows?   Daniel and Darrell now share their 365 Message Center message sorting with a live audience. Join the live stream and the chat. Contribute to the show and tell us which messages are important to you and why. 👉 Subscribe to the YouTube channel to be notified or plan to join us. youtube.com/365MCS   Darrell and Daniel cover:   - Create new Engage content with the new...
2024-09-2328 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSNew Planner for the web. OneDrive deletion of shared files - #349Microsoft Planner for the Web catches up with the Planner app in Teams. But some features will be late and some, lost. OneDrive warns about deletion of shared files. Teams now lets admins block a user from chatting with anyone in your organisation.   Daniel and Darrell now share their 365 Message Center message sorting with a live audience. Join the live stream and the chat. Contribute to the show and tell us which messages are important to you and why. 👉 Subscribe to the YouTube channel to be notified or plan to join us.   Darrell and Daniel cover...
2024-09-1631 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSSuggested Copilot candidates. Frontline flexible team membership - #348If you have been active in Microsoft Teams meetings, chats, Outlook emails and Microsoft Office documents over the past 30 days, you might be suggested as a candidate for Microsoft 365 Copilot 😆. Do you meet that criteria?   Daniel and Darrell now share their 365 Message Center message sorting with a live audience. Join the live stream and the chat. Contribute to the show and tell us which messages are important to you and why. 👉 Subscribe to the YouTube channel to be notified or plan to join us.   Darrell and Daniel cover:   - Colored folders in the OneDrive f...
2024-09-0935 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSSharePoint Brand Center is here! - #347The Brand Center is out of Preview. Get started with them creation and uploading custom fonts. Then protect your meetings from uninvited AI notetakers with CAPTCHA. Lastly, copy and paste reference to a Teams chat without the metadata.   Daniel and Darrell now share their 365 Message Center message sorting with a live audience. Join the live stream and the chat. Contribute to the show and tell us which messages are important to you and why. 👉 Subscribe to the YouTube channel to be notified or plan to join us.   Darrell and Daniel cover:   - Microsoft Purvie...
2024-09-0228 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSAmplify goal setting. Copilot Auto-summarise in Word - #346Viva Amplify had a lot to share this week. Improvements to metrics, in service of improved campaign goal setting. Copilot in Word is going to auto-summarise your documents each time you open them. Microsoft Graph Connector increases it's indexed item limit to 50 million external items.   Daniel and Darrell now share their 365 Message Center message sorting with a live audience. Join the live stream and the chat. Contribute to the show and tell us which messages are important to you and why. 👉 Subscribe to the YouTube channel to be notified or plan to join us.   Darrell and D...
2024-08-2634 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSConnections Quick links, Copilot scheduled meetings - #345Get help from Copilot in Outlook to write your meeting invite summary an agenda, based on the conversation thread in email. Viva Connections has released a new dashboard card to provide up to 20 Quick links. MFA is going to be enabled for admin accounts in Entra, Azure and Intune admin portals.  Let's talk about that.   Daniel and Darrell now share their 365 Message Center message sorting with a live audience. Join the live stream and the chat. Contribute to the show and tell us which messages are important to you and why. 👉 Subscribe to the YouTube channel to be...
2024-08-1929 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSChoose your own adventure and Teams breakout room - #344Set up breakout rooms for your Teams meetings and let your attendees choose which room to join. This opens up lots of possibilities for small group activities. Teams meeting Intelligent Recaps will notify you when they are ready to review the AI notes. Copilot features are being retired in Edge on desktop and mobile. But didn't Copilot just get here? Check out this weeks message, picked by you.   Daniel and Darrell now share their 365 Message Center message sorting with a live audience. Join the live stream and the chat. Contribute to the show and tell us which m...
2024-08-1331 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSCopilot connecting directly to SharePoint Org Asset Library - #343Now we're talking! Ask M365 Copilot for images. Get org assets as suggestions. Leverage your approved images via Copilot.  Vote on questions in Teams Q&A, and Viva Connections feed web part is to be retired.   Daniel and Darrell now share their 365 Message Center message sorting with a live audience. Join the live stream and the chat. Contribute to the show and tell us which messages are important to you and why. 👉 Subscribe to the YouTube channel to be notified or plan to join us.  Darrell and Daniel cover:   - Microsoft Copilot for Micr...
2024-08-0531 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSUnlicensed OneDrives will cost you - #342OneDrives that have had their license removed for over 90 days will soon have their storage moved to Microsoft 365 Archive. Daniel is trying to figure out how much this is all going to cost. Also, Undo and redo while you build cloud flows in the designer. Plus Copilot in Teams will use meeting chat as a source. That's the kinda mix we have this week. Let's talk about it.   Daniel and Darrell now share their 365 Message Center message sorting with a live audience. Join the live stream and the chat. Contribute to the show and tell us which m...
2024-07-2933 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSCrowdStrike fix, Scheduled Copilot prompts, New Outlook GA - #341Copilot in M365 will soon support scheduling of prompts to automate your daily LLM-powered help. CrowdStrike caused disruption and damage and the Microsoft 365 Message Center published a message with the fix to increase awareness. Lastly, New Outlook for Windows will soon become Generally Available. What a week! Hear Daniel and Darrell review their top 6 messages..   Daniel and Darrell now share their 365 Message Center message sorting with a live audience. Join the live stream and the chat. Contribute to the show and tell us which messages are important to you and why. 👉 Subscribe to the YouTube channel to be n...
2024-07-2630 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSCopilot helping create SharePoint content - #340Stuck for words? I was while writing the description for this episode. Copilot to the rescue in SharePoint. Now create and rewrite page content with help from your favorite artificial sweetener in M365.   Daniel and Darrell now share their 365 Message Center message sorting with a live audience. Join the live stream and the chat. Contribute to the show and tell us which messages are important to you and why. 👉 Subscribe to the YouTube channel to be notified or plan to join us. Darrell and Daniel cover:   - Teams - New skin tone settings and r...
2024-07-1630 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSMicrosoft Teams hidden inactive channels. Clipchamp Brand kit - #339Your Microsoft Teams channel list will tidy itself up soon, so you can focus on what's currently important to you. But will this impact how teams communicate with each other when the General channel can be auto-hidden? Clipchamp introduces brand kits to provide the video creators in your organisation with common brand elements like fonts, colour palettes, sound effects and more.   Daniel and Darrell now share their 365 Message Center message sorting with a live audience. Join the live stream and the chat. Contribute to the show and tell us which messages are important to you and why. 👉 Subs...
2024-07-0233 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSSharePoint coauthored pages. Silence channel posts - #338"Are you done editing the page? Well, can you check it in before you go on leave? I don't want you to lose your changes." Does this sound familiar? It might soon be a distant memory. Are you also looking forward to silencing those noisy, busy Teams channel posts? Glad to see this feature return.   Daniel and Darrell now share their 365 Message Center message sorting with a live audience. Join the live stream and the chat. Contribute to the show and tell us which messages are important to you and why. 👉 Subscribe to the YouTube channel to b...
2024-06-2432 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSShaped images in SharePoint. Copilot time-based responses - #337Use new shaped-cropping with your SharePoint images to make eye-catching pages. Copilot improves the amount of time it can go back for time-based prompts.   Darrell and Daniel cover:   - (Updated) Microsoft SharePoint Online: Apply shapes to images   - Microsoft Teams: View attachments to invitations created in Microsoft Outlook   - New Microsoft Outlook: New Search filters   - Microsoft Copilot in Microsoft Teams: Improved time-based responses in chat and channels   - Microsoft Copilot: Optimized File Link Support in Microsoft Teams Chat and Channels   - Microsoft Viva Insights: Delegat...
2024-06-1726 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSM365 Copilot Catchup, Recalled Recall, SharePoint text supercharge - #336Catch up with Microsoft 365 Copilot and clever cards that prompt YOU with updates you should know about. Recall in Copilot+ PCs gets "recalled"... more like changed to opt in, among other things. Lastly, SharePoint text goes large.   Darrell and Daniel cover:   - Copilot in Microsoft 365 and Teams - The new Catch up feature   - Viva Engage - A new feature to manage users in Viva Engage (View-only mode)   - Update on the Recall Preview Feature for Copilot+ PCs   - New Outlook for Windows - Offline support for mail actions and c...
2024-06-1037 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSCustom emoji, Notify when available - #335Get ready to customize your conversations by uploading custom emoji and animations. This fun way to inject personality into your posts also paves the way for some promotional inspiration. We also welcome back the ability to ask Teams to be notified when someone becomes available. It's a useful feature, but Daniel shares how it might be misused and distracting.   Darrell and Daniel cover:   - Custom emojis and reactions   - The "Notify when available" feature live new Teams app   - A new Start in SharePoint Online   - Less storage space consum...
2024-06-0439 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSCopilot+ PCs and more messages during Microsoft Build - #334Now we'll be able to recall what we were doing all week when we fill in our timesheets at the end of the week. Ask Copilot questions about our activity. But we can't ignore the cynicism expressed by the public, in spite of the potential benefits.  Copilot features a few times in our messages this week. Hear how the M365 Message Center reflected the news in the updates. Darrell and Daniel cover:   - Introducing Copilot+ PCs  - New meeting option to control permissions for admitting participants from lobby   - Organizers can...
2024-05-2730 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSDisturb my Do-not-Disturb and remove natural language search - #333We have a perplexing couple of messages this week that appear to disable useful functionality in Teams and Microsoft 365. But that is countered by giving Copilot Insights and introducing a way to share meeting notes, files and other artifacts automatically for recurring Teams meetings. You want to know more. Come on. That teaser was cleverly crafted to create intrigue. Click the link. Darrell and Daniel cover:   - Updates to natural language-based search in Microsoft 365   - The Microsoft Copilot Dashboard in Viva Insights will become available with Copilot for Microsoft 365   - Ask to...
2024-05-2439 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSWelcome. We suggest you follow this channel.. in Teams - #332Welcome to the team. We hope you enjoy your collaborative stay. Take a look at these channels. We suggest you follow them. But that's up to you. You might want to visit SharePoint and see our new no-banner option. A delightful look for the minimalist or the creative who wants more control over the look of their titles. This week's messages bring some welcome changes and some puzzling changes. Darrell and Daniel cover:   - Enhanced capabilities for spotlight in Viva Connections   - SharePoint Online - New Banner web part in Pages and Ne...
2024-05-1331 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSSharePoint improved version history. Ground-chat in Copilot for Outlook - #331New options for automatically managing file version history will assist with storage. Copilot for Outlook gets a side-car panel for prompts that are grounded in your mailbox. Archive your SharePoint sites into the new Microsoft 365 Archive service. What else has landed this week in the 365 Message Center? Watch the show and find out. Darrell and Daniel cover:   - Microsoft 365 admin center - Organizational messages (Preview)   - Microsoft SharePoint Advanced Tenant Rename feature   - SharePoint New Section Level Content Align on pages   - Document libraries - Improved Version history controls I Pr...
2024-05-0631 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSFollow meetings. Slash commands. Engaging Copilot adoption. - #330Following a meeting is a great new alternative to a tentative response. Let the organiser know you won't be able to attend but you are definitely interested in the meeting recording and outcomes. Slash commands are coming soon to Teams Chats and Channel posts. Let Teams know what you want to do while you type a message or reply.  If your organisation is starting to use Microsoft Copilot, take a look at the new Engage community template for encouraging Copilot conversations and driving adoption. Darrell and Daniel cover:   - Outlook and Teams - Respond to...
2024-04-3038 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSSharePoint Brand Center and Custom fonts - #329Get ready for the new Brand Center and helpful tools to standardize your SharePoint sites and content you create in Microsoft 365. The Brand Center will begin rolling out capabilities, starting with custom font packages that match your internal brands. As with all new things in M365, the first release is limited in capability. But expect to be able to upload your own font packages soon, which can be used in a range of places across SharePoint and Viva Connections.    Darrell and Daniel cover:   - Teams Apps now supported in group chats with external users   ...
2024-04-2235 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSCopilot in Stream. Ringless Group Chat calls - #328Get meeting insights from recordings of meetings you didn't attend, but they were shared with you via Stream. Or maybe you didn't join that Group Chat call because you didn't hear it. We have an interesting combo of messages to discuss this week.    Darrell and Daniel cover:   - Microsoft Teams - Presenter window enhancements while screensharing   - Microsoft Whiteboard - @mentions in comments   - Copilot in Stream to become available for customers using Microsoft 365 Copilot   - Microsoft Teams - Explicit transcription consent to transcribe meetings   - Microsoft Stream...
2024-04-0834 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSPop up messages to drive adoption of Teams and Copilot - #327Configure organizational messages from the Adoption Score admin center that prompt usage of Microsoft Teams features. Also coming to Microsoft 365 Copilot, configure organizational messages from the M365 Usage Analytics report page. This week brings a few messages for Copilot update. What else arrived this past week?   Darrell and Daniel cover:   - New Microsoft Outlook for Windows and web - Improvements to working hours and location   - Microsoft Clipchamp - Remove pauses and silences in your videos   - Microsoft 365 admin center - Drive Microsoft Teams adoption with organizational messages   - Copi...
2024-04-0134 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSDid we just get M365 Copilot without knowing it? - #326A strangely targeted message this week told us about a new Copilot in Teams feature coming to Teams mobile. See citations in a Copilot-powered meeting recap, from mobile! Trouble is, Daniel and I don't have M365 Copilot. Stick around till the end to learn more.   Darrell and Daniel cover:   - Teams Meeting details displayed on pre-join screen   - Teams Intelligent message translation in chats on desktop   - OneDrive Media node in OneDrive for web   - Teams Pre-pin meeting apps for users   - Teams Access Workflows from the three-d...
2024-03-2533 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSAt Microsoft in Redmond - Loop, Teams, OneDrive, Viva Engage and Connections - #325This special episode was recorded with Daniel and Darrell together at the Microsoft MVP Summit, at Microsoft HQ in Redmond. Guest Sharing is finally coming to Microsoft Loop. Teams improves attaching files to posts and OneDrive for the web provides templates to start your office files.   Darrell and Daniel cover:   - Microsoft Loop Guest Sharing   - OneDrive for the web - Create with templates   - Microsoft SharePoint eSignature in Teams approvals   - Microsoft Teams - Attach files more quickly to posts   - Viva Connections app for tablets   ...
2024-03-1825 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSSharePoint section backgrounds images and new feedback options - #324New decorative possibilities using SharePoint Online with background images in sections. This will be a welcome addition, though will first arrive with a curated selection of gradients and images. Custom images come later. Perhaps you can use the new Feedback option in SharePoint Online to... give great feedback.   Darrell and Daniel cover:   - Microsoft Teams - Meeting Options categorization   - Microsoft Teams - View, download, and delete Microsoft OneDrive for Business transcript files   - New Microsoft Outlook for Windows - Copy email as attachment is coming   - Microsoft Teams - Mult...
2024-03-1141 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSMicrosoft Teams meeting recap artifacts shared automatically - #323Teams meeting recaps will be shared into the meeting chat after the meeting ends. Teams premium will see a few more artifacts to help them recap the meeting. Daniel and Darrell get into the minutiae of the messages this week.   Darrell and Daniel cover:   - Microsoft Teams - Access work, school, and personal accounts in a single desktop app   - Remove Custom Script setting in OneDrive and SharePoint web   - Microsoft Teams - Meeting recap and meeting artifacts automatically shared in chat after meeting   - Retirement of Post by Email...
2024-03-0432 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSGet Answers from Microsoft Search. Your Answers - #322Optimizing search takes effort and planning. But what if you could refine your organization's knowledge through simple Q&A and find it in search results?   Darrell and Daniel cover:   - Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026   - Microsoft Teams - Updated labels for external participants in meetings   - Microsoft Lists - New forms experience   - Message center experience updates   - Answers in Viva content in Microsoft Search   - Optimize for Video setting for screensharing   - Microsoft Teams - Chat for organizer...
2024-02-1936 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSCreate articles in Viva Engage. Microsoft Copilot UI updates - #321Viva Engage is getting a new type of post for organizations that subscribe to Viva Employee Communications and Communities, or the Viva Suite. The Article post type lets you create long form articles with media, much like a SharePoint news post. Also, Microsoft Copilot is getting some UI improvements that make it cleaner, easier to read and identify that you're signed in.   Darrell and Daniel cover:   - Create custom document library templates   - Viva Engage question post update   - Grid view for tasks in Microsoft To Do   - Updated Copil...
2024-02-1240 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSAuto Tag Membership & Hide your channels - #320Teams Tags. Strong on targeting conversations. Weak on management. Especially in teams with changing roles and high membership turnover. Introducing Auto Tag Membership. Powered by the same tech that gives us Dynamic group membership. Join us as we read the fine print and click through the levels of pages to find the detail.   Darrell and Daniel cover:   - Automatic tags (@mentions) by department and job title  - Users can now choose to switch to the new Groups experience in Outlook on the web  - Content Camera on New Teams  - Open...
2024-02-0530 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSCustom SharePoint news email templates - #319We felt this headline was worth jazz-hands. (In truth, I forgot to edit and remove it from the beginning). Set up the email page templates for your SharePoint news that suits your needs. Set a default and show them first to SharePoint news authors. We also cover OneDrive inside Outlook, and duplication of townhall and webinar event details.   Darrell and Daniel cover:   - Microsoft SharePoint news for email now supports custom template tab settings and wider posts   - Updated Lists in Team Sites, Lists progressive web app (PWA), and Teams   - In...
2024-01-2934 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSChanges to Website tab in Teams create big impact - #318The Website tab in Teams channels is changing to reduce support for displaying sites within the Teams app. The community feedback suggests this will impact a number of ways that organizations work. It has been a way to bring useful sites into "the hub for teamwork." Now, some of those sites will have to just launch in a separate browser.   Darrell and Daniel cover:   - Changes to the Website tab in the new Teams client   - Microsoft Viva Engage - New feature to limit moving of conversations across communities   - Microsoft Teams...
2024-01-2234 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSWhat time is it where you are? - #317Scheduling meetings in Teams with team members from different time zones is going to get a whole lot easier. Now the time will show in the Scheduling Assistant view. Oh, and the Share window for sharing files changed... again. Things are always changing in M365. It has kept us busy for years.   Darrell and Daniel cover:   - Classic Teams users to be updated to new Teams after March 31 2024  - Invite people you choose in the Share control in Microsoft 365 apps  - Microsoft Teams: Meeting participants time zone  - Now get Re...
2024-01-1535 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSTeams meetings simplified audio and video settings - #316Making adjustments to your audio and video settings during Teams meetings just got simpler. New flyout menus keep you in your meeting while letting you select your devices and tuning your settings. Present your best-self while staying in your meeting.   Darrell and Daniel cover:   - Microsoft Teams: Join Teams work meetings from Microsoft Teams (free) and vice versa   - Microsoft Teams: Integrate Chat notification with Meeting RSVP status   - Updates to adding topics to posts in Viva Engage   - Viva Engage: Answers in Communities   - Audio and video f...
2024-01-0934 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSDiscovery feed in Teams. Copilot in Viva Engage - #315Finishing this year's season of the 365 Message Center Show, we discuss the new discovery feed in Teams. Will it save us time and bring all messages together or help us find new conversations of interest? Also, Copilot is coming to Viva Engage to help craft posts. Will they be more authentic and engaging with the help of AI? Daniel and Darrell will be back next year after a 2 week break. Thank you for another year of fantastic support. Have a safe and enjoyable holiday season.  Darrell and Daniel cover:   - Copilot in Viva Engage   ...
2023-12-1839 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSArchive Teams channels - #314Tidy up those busy teams that have lots of channels no longer in use. This is one step better than simply hiding them or expecting team members to hide channels in their own personal Teams and channels list.  Darrell and Daniel cover:   - Microsoft Teams: Archive channels   - Outlook: Choose how many days of emails sync to your iOS or Android device for offline usage   - Action Required - Changes to Get & Transform Data (aka Power Query) features in Excel   - Tasks in my area or department (a mobile Plann...
2023-12-1126 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSShare Whiteboards with guests. Campaigns in Engage - #313Using specific people links, share a Microsoft Whiteboard after a meeting and continue the collaboration. Use Community Campaigns to bring communication together using a hashtag and its own landing page. Also in this episode, Daniel asks Microsoft for more pictures on their messages and Darrell draws one on his whiteboard to meet the need for now.  Darrell and Daniel cover:   - Introducing monthly Search newsletter for Search administrators  - Microsoft Whiteboard: External Guest Sharing via Specific People Share Link  - Specific People Link (PSL) Support for Collaborative Notes  - Tag...
2023-12-0635 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSTeams Chat embedded in Outlook - #312Start a new chat with people from your organisation, without leaving Outlook. This will be useful when catching up on email and then starting a Chat conversation with the sender of the email. A slower week for messages. But still worth taking a look at the small changes announcement in the MC this week.  Darrell and Daniel cover:   - Quick Conflict Peek when you RSVP on Calendar Event Detail page   - Remove Activity Feed Item in New Teams   - Teams chat embedded in Outlook Web (Enterprise)   - Stream video...
2023-11-2823 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSCopilot is coming to Windows 10 - #311Microsoft is extending the reach of Copilot experiences to the Windows 10 desktop. There are still tens of thousands of computers running Windows 10. Microsoft Copilot (formerly known as Bing Chat) will be available as a chat / search experience. Surely this will include the new switch to turn on Copilot to use with your work data (formerly Bing Chat Enterprise).  Darrell and Daniel cover:   - Collaborative Notes in Channel Meetings   - Name changes of Project for web   - Name changes Tasks by Planner and To Do   - Announcing the general availability of ne...
2023-11-2142 min365 Message Center Show #365MCS
365 Message Center Show #365MCSMicrosoft Stream interactive features - #310Raise engagement in your Microsoft Stream videos using surveys, polls and quizzes. Add a hyperlink and text to direct to supporting resources and related links. This opens up a number of possibilities for webinar recordings, communications, awareness, and training videos.  Darrell and Daniel cover:   - Microsoft Stream: Add a survey, poll, or quiz to a video at specific times   - Microsoft Stream: Add a hyperlink or text callout to a video at specific times   - Co-organizer experience updates in Teams Webinars and Townhalls   - Virtual Events – Green Room License   ...
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