Microsoft 365 Search get's a Copilot response when you use natural language to search for something. Microsoft Teams notifications become more compact. Viva Engage will now support segmentation so communities can be separate within the same tenant. What else will Daniel and Darrell discuss this week? - Microsoft 365 Copilot Search General Availability - Microsoft Teams: Compact notification size for users - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Add topic(s) through Copilot to your existing presenta...
Jul 07, 2025•38 min•Season 2025Ep. 385
This week the 365 Message Center Show brings some lively discussion about timers in Teams meetings and anyone being able to start them to remind the speaker to finish up. We will also, once again, be able to save chats and channel posts, bookmarking them to get back to later. Also, SharePoint Copilot Agents will be accessible in M365 Copilot Chat to continue the conversation. - Microsoft Teams: Countdown timer for Teams Meetings - Researcher in Copilot Notebooks - Microsoft Teams: Users can save...
Jun 30, 2025•34 min•Season 2025Ep. 384
This week on the Microsoft 365 Message Center... - Microsoft 365 Copilot: Extending Copilot Chat to Microsoft 365 apps - Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat: Now Easily Accessible from the Teams Chat List - Researcher on M365 Copilot Prompt Box - Microsoft 365 Copilot: Visual Creator Agent will no longer be pre-installed - Microsoft Teams: Presenters can promote attendees to the green room - Microsoft SharePoint: Header and Footer enhancements Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they co...
Jun 23, 2025•30 min•Season 2025Ep. 383
Pull together a quick meeting invite from an email thread with Copilot from your mobile. Then start preparing for your next meeting using Copilot in Outlook mobile. All this mobile, on-the-go meeting organising and prep must mean we now barely have time to organise and prepare. It's a good thing Copilot can help. - Microsoft Viva Goals: New Data export feature - Create a meeting from an email thread with Copilot - (Updated) Prepare for your on-the-go meeting with Copilot - Microsoft Viva Insight...
Jun 18, 2025•33 min•Season 2025Ep. 382
We have often wanted to reply to a reply in Teams channel conversations. Wish granted! But calling them threads when posts are already threaded? And what does following a thread mean? Also, Copilot Agents will be called into a call or meeting and attendees will be able to interact with them. This and more, for sure. - Meeting Details Experience for Windows 10 will be removed in OneNote - Microsoft 365: Retiring and modernizing the Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel for Windows desktop apps - Microso...
Jun 09, 2025•39 min•Season 2025Ep. 381
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 Meetin...
Jun 02, 2025•29 min•Season 2025Ep. 380
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 Meetin...
May 20, 2025•39 min•Season 2025Ep. 379
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 ...
May 13, 2025•36 min•Season 2025Ep. 378
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 Usag...
May 07, 2025•34 min•Season 2025Ep. 377
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 ...
Apr 28, 2025•37 min•Season 2025Ep. 376
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 Co...
Apr 24, 2025•29 min•Season 2025Ep. 375
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 defau...
Apr 07, 2025•33 min•Season 2025Ep. 374
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 M...
Apr 02, 2025•30 min•Season 2025Ep. 373
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 s...
Mar 24, 2025•33 min•Season 2025Ep. 372
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 ....
Mar 17, 2025•23 min•Season 2025Ep. 371
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 cha...
Mar 10, 2025•42 min•Season 2025Ep. 370
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 models (LLM) - Microsoft 365 Copilot: Sessions grouped by time frame - New Microsoft 365 Copilot release notes page - Microsoft Teams: Record video cli...
Mar 06, 2025•29 min•Season 2025Ep. 369
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 using the Newsletters feature in New Outlook. Create, subscribe and manage co-authored newsletters that support comments and leverage SharePoint Embedde...
Feb 24, 2025•35 min•Season 2025Ep. 368
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 "Organizer" in Q&A - Microsoft Outlook for iOS: Open the previous email with email auto-advance - Copilot Studio – Agent Builder in Copilot Chat ...
Feb 18, 2025•31 min•Season 2025Ep. 367
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 about what you said. Do you know what else in will be able to answer questions about? "Can you see my screen? OK good." We are intrested to learn what...
Feb 10, 2025•41 min•Season 2025Ep. 366
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 share your knowledge and opinions too. - Why do you watch 365MCS - Microsoft 365 Copilot | New custom engine agents - Microsoft 365 Business Chat | Use C...
Feb 10, 2025•38 min•Season 2025Ep. 365
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: - Microsoft 365 Copilot | Select Microsoft Graph Connectors when writing prompts in BizChat - Large Events | End Session for Attendees and Return Pre...
Jan 21, 2025•40 min•Season 2025Ep. 364
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 updated already? Actually, at the time of writing this video description... where is the message? We talk about this and more in our first show of the ...
Jan 14, 2025•36 min•Season 2025Ep. 363
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, which was detailed around the announcements for accessing SharePoint's Copilot Agents. We talk about this and more in our first show of the year: - Team...
Jan 06, 2025•36 min•Season 2025Ep. 362
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 Microsoft 365 productivity. Daniel and Darrell now share their 365 Message Center message sorting with a live audience. Join the live stream and the chat. ...
Dec 27, 2024•46 min•Season 2024Ep. 361
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 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 pl...
Dec 25, 2024•39 min•Season 2024Ep. 360
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 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 i...
Nov 26, 2024•43 min•Season 2024Ep. 359
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 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 joi...
Nov 24, 2024•33 min•Season 2024Ep. 358
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. 👉 Subscr...
Nov 13, 2024•31 min•Season 2024Ep. 357
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 an...
Nov 04, 2024•31 min•Season 2024Ep. 356
