A weekly review of the Microsoft 365 Message Center, with Daniel Glenn, Darrell Webster, and special guests. 365MCS.com #365MCS
Episodes
Monday Aug 14, 2023
Monday Aug 14, 2023
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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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 07, 2023
Monday Aug 07, 2023
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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Monday Jul 31, 2023
Monday Jul 31, 2023
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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Monday Jul 24, 2023
Monday Jul 24, 2023
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
This week's episode is sponsored by CloudAlly, SaaS data protection platform and cloud backup for Microsoft 365. Visit https://cloudally.com for a 14-day trial.
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 17, 2023
Monday Jul 17, 2023
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
This week's episode is sponsored by CloudAlly, SaaS data protection platform and cloud backup for Microsoft 365. Visit https://cloudally.com for a 14-day trial.
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 Jul 10, 2023
Monday Jul 10, 2023
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
This week's episode is sponsored by CloudAlly, SaaS data protection platform and cloud backup for Microsoft 365. Visit https://cloudally.com for a 14-day trial.
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 Jul 04, 2023
Tuesday Jul 04, 2023
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
This week's episode is sponsored by CloudAlly, SaaS data protection platform and cloud backup for Microsoft 365. Visit https://cloudally.com for a 14-day trial.
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 26, 2023
Monday Jun 26, 2023
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
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 Jun 19, 2023
Monday Jun 19, 2023
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
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 Jun 12, 2023
Monday Jun 12, 2023
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
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