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5 days ago
5 days ago
Listen 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 Alerts retirement
- Microsoft Outlook: Summarize email attachments with Copilot
- Microsoft 365 admin center: Onboard SharePoint agents as a Pay-as-you-go scenario
Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.
Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at:
Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor
Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn
Tuesday May 13, 2025
Tuesday May 13, 2025
This 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
- Microsoft Teams: Send messages to attendees in the meeting lobby with Lobby chat
- Modern SharePoint: New Template gallery and 50+ out-of-the-box page templates
- Microsoft Teams Premium: New personal meeting templates
- Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows: Create a presentation with Microsoft Copilot from the PowerPoint Backstage view
Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.
Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at:
Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor
Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn
Wednesday May 07, 2025
Wednesday May 07, 2025
If 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
- Microsoft 365 admin center: Copilot extensibility - Agents and connectors
- Microsoft Outlook: Updated behavior for switching back from new Outlook to classic Outlook for Windows
- Live captions copying disabled for Teams meetings
Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.
Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at:
Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor
Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn
Monday Apr 28, 2025
Monday Apr 28, 2025
Oooh. 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 Gallery app soon
- Microsoft Dataverse – Add Dataverse as enterprise knowledge in Copilot Studio
- Microsoft 365 Copilot app: Updates for licensed Microsoft 365 Copilot users (Wave 2 Spring release)
Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.
Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at:
Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor
Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn
Thursday Apr 24, 2025
Thursday Apr 24, 2025
To 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 PowerPoint slide from a file or prompt
- Microsoft Teams Premium: Ultra-low latency (ULL) attendee experience for town halls
- Microsoft Teams: town hall organizers, co-organizers, presenters can join the event to preview as attendee
- Pages created in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat will open in Microsoft 365 Copilot app
Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.
Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at:
Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor
Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn
Monday Apr 07, 2025
Monday Apr 07, 2025
Don'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
- Microsoft PowerPoint: Reference a PDF file when creating a presentation with Microsoft 365 Copilot (preview)
- Microsoft Viva Pulse: Generate a summary for Pulse reports using Microsoft 365 Copilot
Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.
Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at:
Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor
Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn
Wednesday Apr 02, 2025
Wednesday Apr 02, 2025
Go 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 Copilot
- Microsoft SharePoint Online: Manage SharePoint pages using the left navigation pane
- Prevent/Fix - Microsoft Purview: HR Connector new sample power shell script
Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.
Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at:
Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor
Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn
Monday Mar 24, 2025
Monday Mar 24, 2025
Have 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: Simplified Notes pane in meetings
- Microsoft Copilot Studio - Create automated copilots triggered by events
- Resize Teams window and slots
- OneDrive: Ask questions about images using Copilot
Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.
Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at:
Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor
Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn
Monday Mar 17, 2025
Monday Mar 17, 2025
Another 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
- Microsoft Designer will be part of Microsoft 365 Copilot
- Microsoft Purview: New Personalization settings
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Recapping changes in Loop over extended periods
Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.
Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at:
Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor
Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn
Monday Mar 10, 2025
Monday Mar 10, 2025
Prepare 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 SharePoint: Use SharePoint quick steps to automate common tasks and workflows
- Microsoft PowerPoint: Stay on-brand when creating a presentation with Microsoft 365 Copilot
- New Exchange Online Tenant Outbound Email Limits
- Clipchamp introduces AI-powered video creation with Clipchamp Copilot for work
Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.
Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at:
Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor
Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn