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 Connecti…

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 …

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…

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 so…

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 C…

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 reacti…

Ready for a new AI-powered prioritisation tool that you can teach what's important to you? Not Focused Inbox, no. Kinda like Mail Rules, yeah. It's a more practical, guided way to focus on email that's important to you. Even more important than your Focused Inbox. - Microsoft 365 Copilot: Chat sessions will have titles generated by large language m…

To make sure you can measure your Microsoft 365 Copilot usage, Viva Insights will be included in the Copilot license. This enables analytics to be used alongside organizational data and other work analytics, telling more stories about the impacts on productivity. If that's worth writing home about, you might start a new organizational newsletter us…

This latest update to Microsoft Lists is starting to look more like Microsoft Forms. Copilot in Teams provides a way for you to quickly summarize an attachment in a chat. Teams chat becomes easier to monitor for meeting presenters with one screen. There was a plethora of messages this week. These were our picks. - Microsoft Teams: Post and reply as…

The second most common phrase said on a Teams meeting is "Can you hear me now." Do you know the most common phrase? "You're muted." Well Microsoft Teams will soon introduce a new way to indicate that your mic is working. If the meeting can hear you, then you will be included in the meeting transcript and recording, and Copilot can answer questions …

Get help from Copilot to create a video using stock footage. Edit the video in Clipchamp and mix with your own video clips. We also celebrate the 365 Message Center Show community on this 365th episode with some words from our frequent listeners and watchers. Thank you so much for continuing to see our show as a source of updates and a place to sha…

Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat has launched again. Now with Pay As You Go options clarified. This weeks' message points us to admin controls for setting up PAYG, controlling access to Agents, setting up billing and limits, and more. Learn about the 4 types of prompts, messages sent to Copilot Chat, and how much they will cost. Also on this week's show:…

We can confirm now that Microsoft will make Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat available to use for organisational accounts without an M365 Copilot license. It will use a Pay As You Go model, just like Syntex. But the details are not complete. How much is it? Is it the whole M365 Copilot experience? How do we limit access to it? Why has this message been u…

The story continues to develop about accessing Microsoft 365 Copilot and making it available to all users with an Entra ID. Copilot Agents will be available to use within Teams group chats, whether you are licensed with M365 Copilot or not. While the message doesn't say so, we think it is another use of metered (pay as you go) access to Copilot, wh…

What a way to finish the year. Prepare your people to think of Microsoft 365 now as Microsoft 365 Copilot. Your entry point to the productivity platform starts with Chat. BizChat. Copilot Agents. Daniel and Darrell try to catch up with 3 weeks of messages and perhaps one of the most significant changes that tries to reframe how we think about Micro…

Everyone can benefit from using SharePoint Agents, during a new promotion. Find out about the 10,000 queries a month. Outlook notifications will roll up into batches, much like threads. What else arrived in the Message Center this week? Daniel and Darrell now share their 365 Message Center message sorting with a live audience. Join the live stream …

Switch on a Copilot meeting facilitator in and have it take notes with you, live. Get help with creating pages using templated Copilot prompts, page templates, and your own files. Daniel and Darrell both tried out the Teams Avatar creation process with photos. What other messages made the cut for the show this week? Daniel and Darrell now share the…

Use Question posts and their answers in Viva Engage as a Copilot source. Microsoft Loop will connect new workspaces to existing Microsoft 365 Groups. There were a lot of messages we cut from the list this week. Enjoy our picks. Daniel and Darrell now share their 365 Message Center message sorting with a live audience. Join the live stream and the c…

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 sort…

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 Cen…

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 …

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…

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 Cent…

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 Dar…

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 au…

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 …

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 …

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. …

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. Daniel and Darrell now share their 365 Message Center message sorting with a live audience. Join the live stream a…

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. Daniel and Darrell now share their 365 Message Center message s…

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 th…

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 her…

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 th…

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 wee…

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…

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 sh…

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 pa…

"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…

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: …

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 featur…

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 …

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 …

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 crafte…

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 so…

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 Da…

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 organisatio…

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…

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 - Micro…

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…

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 I…