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 did this week bring to the 365 Message Center? Daniel and Darrell now share their 365 Message Center message sorting with a live audience. Join the li...
Oct 29, 2024•28 min•Season 2024Ep. 355
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 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 te...
Oct 21, 2024•28 min•Season 2024Ep. 354
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 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...
Oct 14, 2024•31 min•Season 2024Ep. 353
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 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 wh...
Oct 08, 2024•31 min•Season 2024Ep. 352
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 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...
Sep 30, 2024•29 min•Season 2024Ep. 351
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 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. youtube.com/3...
Sep 23, 2024•29 min•Season 2024Ep. 350
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 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 no...
Sep 16, 2024•31 min•Season 2024Ep. 349
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. 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...
Sep 09, 2024•35 min•Season 2024Ep. 348
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 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 pla...
Sep 02, 2024•29 min•Season 2024Ep. 347
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 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. 👉 Sub...
Aug 26, 2024•35 min•Season 2024Ep. 346
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 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 ...
Aug 19, 2024•29 min•Season 2024Ep. 345
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 l...
Aug 13, 2024•32 min•Season 2024Ep. 344
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...
Aug 05, 2024•32 min•Season 2024Ep. 343
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....
Jul 29, 2024•33 min•Season 2024Ep. 342
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. Contr...
Jul 26, 2024•31 min•Season 2024Ep. 341
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 ...
Jul 16, 2024•31 min•Season 2024Ep. 340
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 t...
Jul 02, 2024•34 min•Season 2024Ep. 339
"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 w...
Jun 24, 2024•32 min•Season 2024Ep. 338
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...
Jun 17, 2024•27 min•Season 2024Ep. 337
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 ...
Jun 10, 2024•37 min•Season 2024Ep. 336
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 SharePo...
Jun 04, 2024•39 min•Season 2024Ep. 335
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 news in the updates. Darrell and Daniel cover: - Introducing Copilot+ PCs - New meeting option to control permissions for admitting participants from ...
May 27, 2024•30 min•Season 2024Ep. 334
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 crafted to create intrigue. Click the link. Darrell and Daniel cover: - Updates to natural language-based search in Microsoft 365 - The Microsoft Copilot Da...
May 24, 2024•39 min•Season 2024Ep. 333
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 some welcome changes and some puzzling changes. Darrell and Daniel cover: - Enhanced capabilities for spotlight in Viva Connections - SharePoint Online ...
May 13, 2024•32 min•Season 2024Ep. 332
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 Daniel cover: - Microsoft 365 admin center - Organizational messages (Preview) - Microsoft SharePoint Advanced Tenant Rename feature - SharePoint New Se...
May 06, 2024•32 min•Season 2024Ep. 331
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 organisation is starting to use Microsoft Copilot, take a look at the new Engage community template for encouraging Copilot conversations and driving adoption. D...
Apr 30, 2024•39 min•Season 2024Ep. 330
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 to upload your own font packages soon, which can be used in a range of places across SharePoint and Viva Connections. Darrell and Daniel cover: - Tea...
Apr 22, 2024•36 min•Season 2024Ep. 329
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 - Microsoft Whiteboard - @mentions in comments - Copilot in Stream to become available for customers using Microsoft 365 Copilot - Microsoft Teams - Explicit...
Apr 08, 2024•35 min•Season 2024Ep. 328
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 Microsoft Outlook for Windows and web - Improvements to working hours and location - Microsoft Clipchamp - Remove pauses and silences in your videos ...
Apr 01, 2024•35 min•Season 2024Ep. 327
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 Intelligent message translation in chats on desktop - OneDrive Media node in OneDrive for web - Teams Pre-pin meeting apps for users - Teams Access Wor...
Mar 25, 2024•33 min•Season 2024Ep. 326
