A weekly review of the Microsoft 365 Message Center, with Daniel Glenn, Darrell Webster, and special guests. 365MCS.com #365MCS
Episodes
Tuesday Aug 13, 2024
Tuesday Aug 13, 2024
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
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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Monday Aug 05, 2024
Monday Aug 05, 2024
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
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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Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor
Monday Jul 29, 2024
Monday Jul 29, 2024
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.
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 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
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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Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn
Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor
Friday Jul 26, 2024
Friday Jul 26, 2024
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..
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 - 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
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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Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn
Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor
Tuesday Jul 16, 2024
Tuesday Jul 16, 2024
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
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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Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn
Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor
Monday Jul 01, 2024
Monday Jul 01, 2024
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
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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Check out Daniel and Darrell's own YouTube channels at:
Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn
Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor
Monday Jun 24, 2024
Monday Jun 24, 2024
"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
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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Check out Daniel and Darrell's own YouTube channels at:
Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn
Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor
Monday Jun 17, 2024
Monday Jun 17, 2024
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
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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Check out Daniel and Darrell's own YouTube channels at:
Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn
Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor
Monday Jun 10, 2024
Monday Jun 10, 2024
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)
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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Check out Daniel and Darrell's own YouTube channels at:
Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn
Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor
Tuesday Jun 04, 2024
Tuesday Jun 04, 2024
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
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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Check out Daniel and Darrell's own YouTube channels at:
Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn
Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor