365 Message Center Show

There 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 join us. youtube.com/365MCS  

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Microsoft Teams - Easily insert hyperlinks in messages 

- Microsoft 365 app - Auto release and check-in for Microsoft Places 

- Toggle to new Outlook 

- New Outlook - Pin the Favorites section 

- New Outlook - People Hub improvements 

- Viva Engage - Unregistered users in an external network will not receive community emails 

- All installed agents can now be accessed via one location in Copilot 

Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.  

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Save 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. youtube.com/365MCS  

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- M365 Copilot - Save prompts in Business Chat (BizChat) and Microsoft Copilot Lab  

- M365 Copilot - Share a Business Chat (BizChat) prompt with a co-worker  

- Viva Engage - Top questions in your communities  

- (Updated) Microsoft Teams - The new streamlined Chat and Channels experience  

- Viva Engage - New features for Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption community  

- Retirement of the SharePoint SendEmail API  

- Microsoft Loop - Sensitivity labels at the container level  

Special episode on the new Chats and Channels experience in Teams. https://youtu.be/fhfrvhVhhAY  

Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.  

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Ground 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 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:  

- New Outlook - Add Microsoft accounts with non-Microsoft email addresses  

- Copilot inference and evaluation  

- Copilot agents in SharePoint rolling to Targeted Release  

- Teams and Outlook - Name pronunciation on the profile card  

- Teams - Users can take control during screensharing on the web  

- Microsoft Viva Engage: Community settings for Community Resources and Files tab  

Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.  

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Page 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 to join us. youtube.com/365MCS  

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Manage web searches in Copilot separately from optional connected experiences with new policy  

- Brand impersonation protection for Teams Chat  

- General Availability of Agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot  

- Microsoft Copilot in Edge will support page summarization and user prompt suggestions  

- Add approvals to any document library in SharePoint  

- Teams new policy for voice and face enrollment will default to "On" (configure now)  

Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.  

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Scheduling 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/365MCS  

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Preview new Graph connectors for Microsoft 365 Copilot  

- New Outlook for Windows: Auto-reading emails with Microsoft Windows Narrator  

- Microsoft 365 Feed feature will retire starting November 1 2024  

- Microsoft Teams: Meeting organizers can turn off copying of captions, transcript and recap  

- Syntex optical character recognition (OCR) will support PDF files with images  

- Microsoft Teams New calendar experience  

- SharePoint Design Ideas is now available  

Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.  

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Microsoft 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 channel to be notified or plan to join us. youtube.com/365MCS  

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Power Automate – Create a flow on a file in Teams feature  

- Outlook - Replace quick compose pop-up with inline appointment creation in new Outlook for Windows and web  

- Delve retires December 16, 2024  

- Microsoft Places will be generally available in Q4 CY24  

- New Outlook for web and Windows -Organize and reorder folders  

- Microsoft Word - Researcher feature will retire starting late December 2024  

- Product transitions to the cloud.microsoft domain – September 2024  

Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.  

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Let 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  

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Teams - Add location to your presence signal 

- Outlook - Drag emails into the Calendar icon in the app bar to create an event 

- Teams - New features to improve user app adoption 

- Engage - Subscribe to notifications for followed topics  

- Microsoft OneNote for Windows 10 retires October 14, 2025 (switch your users) 

- Teams - Menu bar icon for Mac devices 

Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.  

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Collaborate 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 centralized "Create new" button  

- Copilot pages available and enabled in your tenant  

- SharePoint and Teams - Update on new Microsoft Lists rollout  

- Teams users will exclusively control their voice and face data exports  

- Changes coming to the Copilot experience for Windows  

- New Microsoft Copilot Compose experience in Outlook  

Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.  

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Microsoft 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:  

- Teams Chat Image viewing improvements  

- The new Microsoft Planner for the web  

- New unified view of all your teams and channels  

- OneDrive New prompt to confirm deletion of shared items and updated prompt for local mass item deletions  

- Block a user for your organization in Teams Chat  

- SharePoint enhancements to Text web part  

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If 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 folder in Windows File Explorer  

- Microsoft 365 Copilot updated Readiness section of the Usage report showing suggested candidates  

- New Groups experience default update in Outlook on the web and new Outlook for windows  

- Set sensitivity labels for Teams town halls and webinar  

- Teams admin center - Deploy frontline teams with flexible membership  

- PowerPoint QuickStarter feature retires starting October 2024  

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The 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.  

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Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Microsoft Purview AI Hub prompts and responses  

- CAPTCHA Verification for Anonymous Meeting Participants  

- Manage your organization's brand in the new Brand center  

- Create themes for SharePoint and Viva Connections in brand center  

- Introducing custom fonts for Viva Connections Desktop  

- Teams copy/paste of messages does not include timestamp and message author name  

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Viva 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.  

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Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Backfilling Microsoft Graph Connector Entitlement to 50M items  

- Viva Amplify - Reports displaying count and percentage  

- Unlock success with our New Campaign Goals Feature - Set, Track, Achieve!  

- Microsoft Viva Engage - Mute user for network  

- Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 - Automatic summary of documents on file-open in Word  

- Outlook - Copy meeting attendee responses to clipboard  

- Viva Stream Playlist card on Viva Connections Dashboard  

- Copilot for Microsoft 365 - Installed extensions will be auto-enabled to run and will support action workflows  

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Get 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 notified or plan to join us.  

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Outlook for iOS and Android - New setting to auto-advance to the next message  

- Schedule with Copilot from an Email  

- Teams Improvements to the Manage what attendees see feature  

- Take action - Enable multifactor authentication for your tenant before 15 October 2024  

- Quick Links Card on Viva Connections Dashboard  

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Set 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 messages are important to you and why. 👉 Subscribe to the YouTube channel to be notified or plan to join us.  

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- SharePoint News template updates 

- Teams Notification in Activity feed and banner when intelligent meeting recap is ready  

- Compose in the Microsoft Edge sidebar is being retired  

- Copilot in the Microsoft Edge mobile application is being retired for Entra ID users  

- Microsoft 365 admin center - New self-service purchase and trial settings  

- Teams Meeting participants can choose a breakout room from a list  

- Viva Updates to Connections on the web  

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Now 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 Microsoft 365 - Apply suggestions for Coaching by Copilot in Microsoft Outlook  

- Rewrite in Microsoft Edge  

- Teams - Videos in town halls will display without cropping - MC841009 

- Copilot for Microsoft 365 - Direct connection to Microsoft SharePoint organization asset libraries  

- Teams - Voting and archiving questions in Teams Q  

- SharePoint - Feed for Viva Connections web part and Video news link retires starting September 1, 2024  

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OneDrives 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.  

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Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Microsoft Copilot in Teams will use the meeting chat as a data source  

- Power Automate – Use undo and redo while you build cloud flows in the designer announcement  

- Teams - Download town hall and webinar Q&As to CSV  

- Outlook - Contact deduplication  

- Word, Excel, PowerPoint Protect sensitive files with dynamic watermarking  

- OneDrive - Update for unlicensed accounts  

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Copilot 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..  

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Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Outlook - Simplified mobile app sign in  

- CrowdStrike issue impacting Windows endpoints causing an error message on a blue screen  

- Copilot for Microsoft 365

- New Scheduled prompts feature  

- Microsoft Forms now supports live data sync to Microsoft Excel with more functionality  

- New Microsoft Outlook for Windows is GA on August 1, 2024  

- Teams - Ability to rename General channel  

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Stuck 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 reactions

- SharePoint Authoring assistance from Copilot

- Teams Policy to disable some in-product messages

- SharePoint New page range setting for prebuilt and structured models in Microsoft Syntex

- OneDrive Change to shared folder experience

- The new Microsoft Purview Portal enters GA

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Your 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. 👉 Subscribe to the YouTube channel to be notified or plan to join us.

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Web links in new Outlook for Windows to open side-by-side with email  

- SharePoint New content pane for Pages and News  

- Teams Message result suggestions when typing to search  

- Teams Detecting and hiding inactive channels  

- Clipchamp Brand kit feature is rolling out with extended elements to Microsoft subscriptions  

- Teams Tenant Federation setting to control external access with trial-only tenants  

- Microsoft 365 apps Improved resharing experience  

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"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 be notified or plan to join us.

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Change in attachment links in Viva Engage messages to SharePoint location for eDiscovery  

- SharePoint News connector in Teams retires July 22, 2024  

- Collaborate on SharePoint Pages and News with coauthoring  

- Turn notifications on or off for a post in a channel  

- Retiring Stream (Classic) Tab on Teams Chat and Channel  

- Users will now be notified when their admin unblocks a requested Teams app  

- Use Microsoft Purview to prevent some connected experiences that analyze content  

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Use 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: Delegate access to Microsoft Copilot Dashboard  

- Teams Chat Files will be renamed to Shared and get new features  

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Catch 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 compose  

- Outlook - Improved suggested times for meetings  

- Microsoft 365 apps - Set expiration available for all links when sharing  

- SharePoint Online - Enhancements to Text web part (Part 1)  

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Get 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 consumed for Stream videos  

- Viva Connections news notifications on desktop and web  

- Stream Interactivity analytics  

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Now 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 manage access to meeting transcripts, recordings, Al-generated recap, and Copilot  

- Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 experiences available in classic Outlook for Windows  

- Evolving Copilot in Windows for your workforce  

- Notification suppression for hidden channels  

- Suppressing notifications from muted chats  

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We 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 join a shared channel with a channel link in Teams  

- Auto-create Microsoft Loop workspaces to share Teams meeting content  

- Microsoft Viva Connections now available on the web  

- Manage Do Not Disturb presence status when screen sharing in Teams meetings  

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Welcome 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 News  

- Changes in Sways Video/Audio upload for new content  

- Draggable Teams Presenter Toolbar when screensharing  

- New Teams onboarding to teams and channels  

- New Teams file image previews in messages  

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New 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 Preview opt-in  

- Graph-grounded chat with Microsoft Copilot in Outlook  

- Archive feature for inactive sites on SharePoint  

- Teams Mobile - Copilot for Teams will soon be available after eligible meetings end  

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Following 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 meetings with Follow  

- Microsoft Teams (work or school) application on Windows will be renamed to Microsoft Teams  

- Upcoming changes to tenant settings for Power Bl Copilot features  

- Introducing slash commands in the compose box  

- New adoption Engage community for Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365  

- Annotate PDFs with text boxes in OneDrive  

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Get 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  

- Manage your organization's brand in the new brand center preview  

- Viva Connections - Manage your organization's brand in the new brand center preview  

- Introducing custom fonts for SharePoint preview  

- Introducing custom fonts for SharePoint and Viva Connections Desktop preview  

- New video page templates for Stream and SharePoint  

- Loop components in Microsoft OneNote  

- Meeting recordings are now saved in organizer's Microsoft OneDrive  

- Save meeting content with collaborative annotations as a Microsoft Whiteboard  

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Get 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 - Playlist support for Stream web part in Microsoft SharePoint  

- Product transitions to the cloud. microsoft domain - March 2024  

- Microsoft Teams - New Meet now experience in group chats  

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Configure 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  

- Copilot in Microsoft Teams - Send popover message to users about Copilot  

- Premium Viva Engage - New Copilot and AI Summarization  

- SharePoint Online - New heading level options for web parts  

- Announcing the retirement of legacy Power BI Apps (pre-audiences)  

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A 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-dot menu on shared file  

- Teams Mobile New citations for Copilot in Teams responses in meetings and calls  

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This 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  

- Viva Engage Navigation enhancements  

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New 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 - Multi-instance app customization support for Teams apps  

- Microsoft SharePoint Online - New section backgrounds in Pages and News  

- Microsoft Viva Connections - Dark mode support on Microsoft Teams  

- Microsoft Search - New Content source filters in All vertical  

- Microsoft SharePoint Online - New feedback button  

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Teams 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 and Reply by Email in Viva Engage (Yammer)  

- New Teams rollout schedule for Commercial and EDU customers  

- Viva Topics To Be Retired  

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Optimizing 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 organizers and presenters in Town Hall  

- Microsoft SharePoint - Manage SharePoint Embedded containers through the SharePoint admin center  

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Viva 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 Copilot user interface (UI) rolling out  

- Microsoft Forms now supports live data sync to Excel - Preview  

- Viva Insights - Changes to Suggested Tasks  

- Viva Engage New Articles feature  

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Teams 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 Word, Excel, and PowerPoint attachments directly in desktop apps in the new Microsoft Outlook for Windows 

- Hide General Channels 

- Conferences we are attending 

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We 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 form Teams meeting option updates for webinars and townhalls  

- Reordering registration form questions for webinars  

- Introducing the ability to duplicate an existing town hall  

- Introducing the ability to duplicate an existing webinar  

- OneDrive for Business opens in Outlook on the web  

- Mute On Air available in the new Microsoft Teams on Windows  

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The 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 - Tags will be supported in Private Channels  

- Tags in Shared Channels for Microsoft Teams  

- Microsoft Teams - Private and shared channels links  

- Microsoft Outlook - New Sync Feature  

- Microsoft Teams - Allow meeting participants to create Collaborative notes  

- Microsoft Teams - Chat/Channel Copilot will Preserve Side Pane Preferences  

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Scheduling 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 Real Time Calendar Notifications in Teams 

- Join meetings and make calls via Teams Mobile on Android Auto 

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Making 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 flyout and settings in Teams meetings  

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Finishing 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  

- Retiring Delve Web  

- Microsoft Stream: View and Edit mode toggle  

- Microsoft Teams: Discover Feed in Channels  

- Promote channel creation  

- Simplified team creation  

- Simpler and quicker creation of teams and channels  

- New experiences for video and images in Viva Engage are coming to you in 2024  

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Tidy 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 Planner in Teams feature)  

- Contact Unification across Outlook and Teams  

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Using 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 

- Tags management settings now include option to exclude / include guests 

- Community Campaigns in Viva Engage 

- SharePoint Add-In retirement in Microsoft 365 

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Start 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 videos can now be watched inline in Outlook  

- Profile Card in Teams Mobile  

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Microsoft 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 new Teams on web for Edge and Chrome  

- Copilot coming to Windows 10  

- Organizational Data in Microsoft 365  

- Additional Teams Meeting Templates Added to Outlook Teams Add-In  

- Together mode and content share layout improvement  

- Microsoft Teams: Meeting chat invitations from unmanaged users  

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Raise 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  

- FindTime add-in is being removed and replaced with Scheduling Poll as a native feature  

- Microsoft Teams Who bot to be retired  

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We discuss two hot topics this week that didn't feature in the Message Center - Availability of Microsoft 365 Copilot, and the unannounced renaming of home pages in SharePoint templates. Microsoft 365 live is full of surprises. 

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Microsoft 365 Copilot General Availability

- Microsoft Teams- Files App Updating to OneDrive App Experience in Teams  

- Microsoft Stream- Collaborative notes in Teams meeting recordings  

- Classic Teams Users Will be Automatically Updated to New Teams After March 31, 2024  

- New Gallery in Teams Meetings  

- SharePoint- Out-of-the-box document library templates  

- Offline mode in OneDrive for Web  

- SharePoint template homepages page name  

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Forward your chats to other chats, meetings and channel conversations. Just like you can forward email, you will be able to share a message with someone outside of the original chat. But this new power comes with responsibilities. Daniel and Darrell discuss this and more. 

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Microsoft Teams: Automatically view up to 9 videos (3x3) in Teams meetings in Chrome and Edge  

- Bing Chat sidebar experience in Edge renamed to Copilot in Edge with updated icon  

- Microsoft Teams Forward Messages in Teams Chats  

- Release of Preserve Declined Meetings in November  

- Video inline playback on Highlighted content web part  

- Private Team Discovery  

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The Viva Connections landing page is starting to look more like a ready-to-go intranet home page. News in a carousel. Announcements as banner along the top. Dashboard. But there are significant changes to how Resources work. Listen to learn more. 

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Viva Engage admin center toggle to disable private messages within a network  

- Microsoft Viva: Refreshed Landing Experience for Viva Connections Desktop  

- Whiteboard: "Specific people” Share Link Fallback  

- People Search Card in Viva Connections  

- Microsoft Search: Video Search in Bing, Office.com, and SharePoint  

- Changes to workspace retention settings in Fabric and Power BI  

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New Teams still has a few features to catch up on compared with Classic Teams. Announcement backgrounds will be back soon with a zingy twist. We will be able to use Microsoft Designer to create them and customize further. This might be the first integration we've seen between Designer and another Microsoft 365 app. 

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Loop components in Channels and Loop Embed Mode in Teams  

- Create new Loop Components in Microsoft Whiteboard  

- Viva Connections: Apply brand colors across all Connections endpoints using themes  

- Announcing Viva Home: The Home for the Viva Suite on the Web  

- Expand and Collapse Folders in Outlook Mobile  

- Feature Update: Notifications for at-mentions in Mail and Documents in Outlook Mobile  

- Set Out-of-Office from Teams Mobile Application  

- Microsoft Viva: Inline on Demand Feedback on Topic Cards Available  

- Saved items availability in New Teams  

- Custom Backgrounds for Announcement Posts in Channels  

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New Teams is now Generally Available, including most of the features on the list to be at parity with Classic Teams. What do Daniel and Darrell think about it? What will your organization do?  

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Announcing the general availability of the new Microsoft Teams app for Windows and Mac  

- Microsoft Viva: Create Up To 50 Distinct Experiences in Viva Connections  

- Dictation Support Coming to the New Outlook  

- Business Connectivity Services (BCS) retirement  

- Require Background Blur (Teams Premium)  

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Immersive Microsoft Mesh is almost here. So close we can almost touch it. Is it going to revolutionize meetings? Will it live up to the promise of greater interaction with attendees? Daniel and Darrell discuss the related messages this week and how Mesh might land with organizations as Public Preview looms.  

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Loop workspaces will start counting towards tenant storage quotas  

- Introducing Left Navigation Customization on Microsoft365.com  

- Files Hub retiring from the new Outlook for Windows  

- Banner message to appear for Stream (Classic) users on migrated videos  

- Microsoft Teams Live Event Retirement  

- Introducing Microsoft Teams Town hall  

- Personal Plans in Planner  

- Immersive spaces available soon for Public Preview  

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Microsoft announced their consolidation of the Copilots and its part to play in serving up assistance direct to you in Windows 11. If your organization is an M365 subscriber and Windows is part of your subscription, you may have seen a Copilot message in the Message Center too.  

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Viva Connections "Top News" Card Updated to Include More News Source Options  

- Ratings and Reviews for Apps on Teams now Available  

- Expanding our AI capabilities to meet the everyday needs of people and business  

- Simplifying Meeting Join Experiences on Teams Mobile  

- Self-service trial experience available for Microsoft Purview  

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Get ready for a new way to bring task management into Microsoft Loop. Planner components are arriving at the end of September 2023. Also, Collaborative notes are coming to Teams mobile, to access notes before, during and after a Teams meeting.  

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Generate unique join links for external presenters so they can easily join events  

- Collaborative notes on Teams mobile  

- Releasing the Planner Loop component  

- Teams Calendar- Near real-time sync calendar sync with Outlook Calendar  

- Microsoft Teams-Emojis, GIFs and Stickers Unified in One Picker  

- Microsoft Viva-Hero Image for Viva Connections Mobile  

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Two new communications tools arrived in Microsoft 365. SharePoint news in Outlook publishes your news as attractive emails, showing the full page content. In Viva Engage, Campaigns connect communications and activities with hashtags, landing pages, and measurable goals and promote visual sponsorship by leaders.
This week's episode is longer, but that's because it's full of demos! It's about time we had a good 'show and tell'.  

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- SharePoint News in Outlook  

- Microsoft Syntex rule to set content type based on filename  

- Restricted Access Control for SharePoint and OneDrive Sites  

- Avatars Hardware Requirements and Service Plan Update  

- New Campaign Features in Viva Engage  

- Microsoft Viva Answers in Viva - AI Topic Suggestions  

- Microsoft Viva Verified Topics Badges  

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It's our 300th episode. To celebrate we are wearing cake, talking Python in Excel and giving all of your users a free 60 day trial of Teams Premium. OK, the trial is included in Microsoft 365 and we didn't organize it. But it was nicely timed. 

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Web links from Microsoft Teams chats to open in Microsoft Edge Teams chat will open side-by-side with link  

- Preview: Python in Excel  

- Inking Support Coming to the New Outlook  

- Workflows replacing Connectors within Microsoft Teams channels menu  

- Teams Premium Trial  

- OneDrive and SharePoint: Colored Folders  

- Outlook: Disallow Reactions on Specific Emails  

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Internal comms people are going to love this update. Post a Viva Engage message on behalf of your leadership by setting a schedule. This means you can time the Engage post to coincide with the scheduled publishing of your SharePoint news post. Fantastic that we finally get this functionality. 

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Draft and Scheduled Posts with POBO (Posts on Behalf of) in Viva Engage - MC667672  

- Viva Goals: Export OKRs to PowerPoint - MC668254  

- SharePoint: Microsoft Lists – Create a List From CSV and Export to CSV - MC668787  

- Microsoft Default for Tag Management to include Team Members - MC668258  

- Reuse Files in Word to be retired - MC668802  

- Loop on be default - MC668811  

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What if we told you that Viva Amplify is coming to Viva Suite and Employee Communications & Connections subscribers in September? Would you be excited to plan your first communications campaign with it? What if we said Amplify can also be used by anyone who would like to send communications across multiple channels in your organization? Would you be open to sharing it? Daniel and Darrell discuss this and how the new Stream web part will be used to present videos stored in SharePoint and OneDrive. 

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals: Admin Option to Enable/Disable sharing to Microsoft Teams in Viva Goals 

- Walkie Talkie AutoConnect Feature Update 

- New Stream (on SharePoint) web part release 

- Backfill Viva Amplify 

- Announcing Microsoft Search Answer Analytics 

- Optimized Multifactor Authentication text message delivery through WhatsApp 

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Send short announcement messages to target audiences through the Viva Connections app. This has potential to replace the Company Communicator app in Microsoft Teams. Recent Planner plans and To Do lists will appear in your recent files on Microsoft 365 home page. SharePoint pages are now easier to share using the new Share button. 

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Twitter web part retirement 

- See your Recent Microsoft Planner plans and Microsoft To Do Lists on Microsoft 365 Homepage 

- Refiners Available in Outlook Web 

- SharePoint: Page Sharing Feature 

- Viva Pulse Admin Experience  

- Announcements in Viva Connections  

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The new Teams channel invites will restore faith and interest in using channel meetings. Meeting organizers have more control as to whether team members will receive an emailed invite. SharePoint web parts receive a visual refresh. Loop components will open using loop.microsoft.com and within the Loop app if your organization is using it. 

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- SharePoint Platform: Visual Refresh 

- Channel meeting invitation | Allow organizer to send a channel meeting invite to everyone in team  

- Updated Experience for Office Document Conflict Resolution in OneDrive Sync 

- Deploy new Microsoft Teams with Microsoft 365 apps 

- Join third-party meetings from Teams 

- Loop component links will now open on Loop.microsoft.com 

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Share a Stream video in Teams chat and channel conversations, and you will be able to preview and play them from within the conversation. OneDrive has a new feed to show up-coming and past meetings and their related files. It has a really interesting way to show files and recordings for recurring meetings too. SharePoint site creation show's more about the site template you're about to pick. 

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Viva Suite app: Viva Pulse – Enabling Notifications 

- Microsoft Teams: Stream Preview and Playback in Teams Chat and Channels 

- Microsoft Teams: 1000 Channels per Team 

- Browse files by Meetings in OneDrive 

- SharePoint: New site creation experience 

- OneDrive: Recommended Files 

- Forms PowerPoint Add-on to Enable Live Survey Experience 

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New Outlook gets a separate window for displaying reminders. Microsoft Teams Cloud Intelliframe frames up people in a meeting room so we can see their faces. Browse OneDrive files by people and see what they have been working on recently that has been shared with you. 

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Browse files by People in OneDrive 

- Automatic Transcription for Video Uploads to SharePoint Online, Yammer, and Office.com 

- Azure AD is becoming Microsoft Entra ID 

- Manage File Access in Microsoft Search in Bing, Office.com, SharePoint, and Feed 

- Introducing the Reminders Window in the New Outlook for Windows Preview 

- Cloud IntelliFrame: A New Way to See People in Teams Rooms 

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OneDrive on the web is changing to bring focus to your content and make it easier to create new files. LinkedIn Learning adds more free courses to Viva Learning basic. Custom list templates will soon included Power Automate flows as part of the template, packaging up a nice reusable app with automation. 

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- OneDrive: Color, font, and navigation changes in OneDrive for Web 

- OneDrive Sync Account Detection 

- Key Document Updates as a Highlight in the Profile Card 

- Twitter web part display in SharePoint 

- Update to the Free LinkedIn Courses Available in Viva Learning 

- Custom list templates can now include Power Automate flows 

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Now during your Teams meetings, annotate on a live screen. This is an improvement on the freeze-frame screenshot with annotations we had till now. Click through the annotations layer and continue to use the live shared window or desktop. This will be great for support scenarios and collaborative feedback over the top of what is shared. 

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Removal of access to Sections view in Outlook Mobile Feed 

- Introducing Voice One Time Password (OTP) 

- Microsoft Teams Compact Chat List 

- Take advantage of new Viva Engage capabilities for leaders and communicators 

- Click Through Collaborative Annotations Layer in Teams Meetings 

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If your organization is interested in using Microsoft 365 Copilot, you can start preparing now. We talk about the things you can prepare for, things you should be doing anyway, and things you will have to wait for. 

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- (Updated) Future of the Mail and Calendar apps in Windows with Outlook 

- New Viva Connections Analytics Experience Coming Soon 

- Get Ready for Microsoft 365 Copilot 

- Microsoft Lists User Experience Update 

- Microsoft Teams: New App Sharing Experience 

- Outlook: Full Settings window will be the primary landing page for the Settings gear icon 

- Create a distinct experience in Viva Connections for different audiences in the Microsoft 365 admin center 

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If your org has Viva Suite, then Viva Pulse is now available. Send short surveys out to your team to see how they are doing. Teams group chat now lets you share a link to a reply in the chat. Lastly, MFA will stop support for SMS and phone call code authentication. 

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Microsoft Viva: Answers in Viva on Mobile 

- Viva Pulse availability 

- Group chat message copy links are now available! 

- Present a Local File From PowerPoint app to PowerPoint Live in Teams 

- Changes to the Registration campaign feature in Azure AD 

- Topic migration update and enhancements rolling out in Viva Engage 

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If you've been out of the loop for a while, there's a new way to work with tasks in Microsoft 365. But don't worry, it still connects to your favourite task management apps, Planner and ToDo. You can get started with in a Teams meeting or chat. Add a Task list Loop component to capture actions. Then manage the tasks assigned to you from ToDo. 
How about those custom backgrounds in Teams? Have you ever wanted to use an animated background? Coming soon, Teams is starting with 3 animated backgrounds to test the waters. 
Soon, you'll be able to access your beautifully crafted Viva Connections homesite from within the Teams mobile app. 

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Tasks in Microsoft Loop Components Will Start Syncing with Planner and To Do - MC572515  

- Animated Backgrounds in Teams Meetings  

- Microsoft Viva Glint service plan availability  

- Microsoft Viva: Quick Access to Homesite on Viva Connections Mobile  

- Microsoft Teams: Attach Cloud Files in Chat and Channel from Teams Mobile 

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Clearly, we don't mean using Zoom inside a Teams meeting. But we do mean being able to zoom into shared content with more visible buttons to control zoom levels. We also discuss "nosie suppression" maintenance, and all about campaigns in Viva Engage. 

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Introducing zooming controls while viewing screenshare 

- Relocating Sync Command in OneDrive's My Files view to Settings  

- Answers-focused view in Viva Engage  

- Answers in Viva Information Panel  

- Handwriting Beautification and Ink Straightening for Microsoft Whiteboard  

- Microsoft Stream: Playlist View in SharePoint List Webpart  

- Microsoft OneDrive: PDF Annotation and Interactable Form Fields  

- Planned Maintenance: Nosie suppression in Stream will be down for limited time  

- Microsoft Viva: Campaign Hub, Search for Campaigns and Executive Sponsorship for Campaigns  

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When you share a document from OneDrive, expect to see a simplified user experience with fewer choices to make. The Sharing window will let you enter an email address or group name to share a file with, set if it's view only or edit, add a message. But the significant change is the scope of the sharing has shifted to the bottom of the window and if you want to change it, it is via the Settings cog. Is this simplified or is it minimising important information and choices? 
Viva Connections on mobile will start notifying you when news is published to your followed and frequent sites. .  

Microsoft Teams will work with the new Outlook "Work hours and location" setting and allow you to change it from your online status settings. 
Daniel and Darrell dive deeper in discussion that informs your decision-making and delivery of services to your organisations. 

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Stream Classic webpart retirement and new Stream (on SharePoint) webpart availability 

- OneDrive: Sharing Experiences - Improved external sharing in the sharing control 

- App User Interface update for Microsoft Whiteboard 

- Updates to Viva Connections desktop experience 

- Microsoft Viva Connections News Notifications 

- OneDrive: Simplified Sharing 

- Microsoft Teams: Set your Work Hours and Location  

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Configure multiple home sites to serve up a different home page and Viva Connections dashboard for different audiences. It has been a while coming. We first talked about it in episode 242. Daniel Glenn and Darrell Webster tell us more about it and its limitations.
Teams Collaborative Stageview will allow Teams to open content in a separate window and conversation alongside it in a sidebar. Apps will need to be developed to take advantage of this new form factor that emphasizes collaboration over conversation.  

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance empowers end users to report inappropriate messages in Microsoft Teams  

- Microsoft Teams: Collaborative Stageview  

- Microsoft To Do: Apple Watch app for To Do iOS  

- Teams Personal Tabs in Outlook for iOS  

- Create a distinct experience in Viva Connections for different audiences in the Microsoft 365 admin center  

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Let your team members know when you intend to work remotely or in the office. Outlook's new Work Hours and Location feature uses your Outlook work hours settings and your calendar. Set the days and hours you work, and whether you will work remotely or from home. If you need to change it during the week, adjust it in your calendar at the top of a day where All Day events are displayed. Copilot's Semantic Index was announced as the mapping technology powering Copilot's relevant and actionable responses. But it will also enhance enterprise search results for E3 and E5 customers. OneDrive sharing links become easier to manage with a new user interface that filters based on people, groups and what they can access. You can simply search for a person, see how they can access the file, and adjust the links as required.  

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Microsoft Syntex Image Tagger  

- SharePoint Syntex Per User License End of Sale Notice  

- Microsoft Teams: Together Mode Usability Improvements in Teams Meetings  

- Announcing the Semantic Index for Copilot  

- OneDrive: Sharing Experiences - Refreshed Manage Access  

- Outlook on the web - Work Hours and Location  

- A new experience to search within chat and channels.  

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Start conversations and read new and updated posts at the top of a Teams channel. Pop them out to focus on the discussion. See channel information and pinned posts on a new channel sidebar. The new Microsoft Teams channel experience will improve they way you engage with conversations. 

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Loop Component in Outlook Mobile  

- cloud.microsoft domain for new Microsoft 365 apps  

- Microsoft Teams: New Channels Experience  

- Viva Connections Dashboard Customization  

- Microsoft Teams: Install apps based on user activity with Auto install approved apps (AAA)  

- Viva Engage iOS and Android apps: Navigation Updates  

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Did you remember to reply to this email? This one. The one at the top of your Inbox. No? You're welcome. Outlook mobile will soon remind you to reply to messages that appear to need a reply. Also Topics will get it's own app soon in Teams. This will be handy for the topics you contribute knowledge to, or if you are a Knowledge Manager. 

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Reminder: Uploading content to Stream (Classic) to be blocked  

- Graph Connector Content Results Experience Switches to Results Inline in All Vertical  

- Viva Topics app in Teams  

- Microsoft Syntex: Prebuilt model for contracts  

- Message Reminders in Outlook for iOS and Android  

- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Optical character recognition in Information Protection and Data Loss Prevention  

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A good number of organizations still use SharePoint 2013 workflows. So you're going to need some forward planning for retirement. But you should be able to benefit from Teams MaaR almost immediately. What is Teams MaaR you ask? Watch the episode to find out. 

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- SharePoint 2013 workflow retirement 

- Microsoft Teams: Mark All As Read for Activity Feed 

- Your Microsoft 365 services will automatically display your Power BI content by end of June 

- Intelligent Meeting Recap in Microsoft 365 Feed 

- Introducing Microsoft Whiteboard App in Teams 

- Microsoft Viva: Mobile SharePoint site navigation 

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When someone speaks in a meeting, imagine being able to hear which direction it came from. Microsoft Teams introduces spatial audio for small meetings. Would that inspire you to record a short video message and send it via Outlook? Maybe soon.

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Microsoft Teams: Spatial audio in Teams meetings

- Video Messaging in Outlook Mobile

- Microsoft 365 admin center: Viva Goals Usage Report

- In-product announcements for the Yammer website rebrand to Viva Engage

- Microsoft Teams: Information Barrier not supported in the Teams View Only experience

- Applied Filters in Microsoft Lists

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We had the full spectrum of Teams meeting notes enhancements this week. Collaborative meeting notes can be added before and during a meeting. Meeting recap will include the agenda, notes, and follow-up tasks. If you have Teams Premium, the Intelligent recap is coming very soon. It feels like there's something in this for everyone's meeting. Well, almost. Let's talk about that too.    

Daniel and Darrell cover:    

- Microsoft Teams for Mobile: Chat Details Update     

- Collaborative Meeting Notes     

- Meeting Recap Enhancements     

- Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Meeting Recap (Premium)    

- Microsoft 365 admin center: Teams apps Usage Tracking Soon Available within Usage reports     

- Power Platform admin center – Automatic deletion of inactive developer environments     

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It isn't what you think. No, it's not offline meetings in Microsoft Teams. It's the ability to schedule offline meetings in Teams. You know. Appointments that don't need a Teams meeting. But we give 10 points to the click-bait message title in the Message Center this week   

Daniel and Darrell cover:    

- Offline meetings in Microsoft Teams     

- Pin workspaces is now available     

- Microsoft Viva: Display connected topics on people profile cards, now available WW     

- Improvements to @mentioning behavior on Viva Engage     

- Microsoft Teams: Speaker View in Teams Meetings     

- SharePoint: Create Pages and News from the SharePoint app bar     

- Teams Video Clip Auto-Generated Captions     

- Microsoft Viva: SharePoint content on Office.com and Edge New Tab Page Feed show related Viva Topics     

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Are you ready for 2x performance, new layouts, seamless tenant switching, Microsoft 365 Copilot integration and more? Microsoft Teams has been re-engineered, adapting to the changing way we work. Let's talk about that.   

Daniel and Darrell cover:    
- Preview the new Microsoft Teams Windows client     
- Now in public preview: Avatars for Microsoft Teams     
- SharePoint: Improving the Page Authoring Experience     
- Task publishing: Teams activity feed items for all team members/owners when an urgent task is published to their team     
- Microsoft Excel: Get     
- Microsoft Authenticator Lite in Outlook                

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