365 Message Center Show

The Researcher agent is coming to Microsoft Word for M365 Copilot licensed users. This feels like the right place for it to be used, bringing research prompt outputs into a highly capable documentation app. 
If you are a subject matter expert and you want to be recognised as one in a Viva Engage community, now you will be able to request to be one. 
This and more on this week's episode. 
- Researcher is available in Word for Microsoft 365 Copilot licensed users 

- Self-nomination as a community expert in Viva Engage communities 

- Improved backup and restore experience for Microsoft Authenticator on iOS 

- Microsoft 365 Copilot | Viva Engage discussion posts added to grounding sources 

- Pin AppBar from Hamburger context menu 

- Outlook: Report junk + block or unsubscribe in one same action      

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 

Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn 

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 presentation 

- Microsoft Viva Engage: Introducing segmentation for personalized experiences (preview) 

- Expanded Copilot in Viva Engage updates 

- Dialogs/Task Module Support Now Generally Available in Microsoft Copilot Agents     

Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.  

Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at: 

Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor 

Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn 

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 chats and channel messages for later 

- Microsoft Teams: Facilitator agent notes in chats (Preview) 

- Microsoft Copilot: Access SharePoint agents in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app 

- Meeting Search in MS Teams Desktop    

Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.  

Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at: 

Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor 

Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn 

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 cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.  

Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at: 

Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor 

Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn 

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 Insights: New prompt categories in the Microsoft Copilot Dashboard 

- Microsoft 365 Copilot: Admins can upload custom dictionaries for Microsoft Teams meeting transcripts 

- Text Prediction turned off by default in Outlook  

Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.  

Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at: 

Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor 

Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn 

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 

- Microsoft Teams: Interactive agents for meetings and calls 

- Microsoft Lists: Mobile apps for iOS and Android will retire 

- Microsoft Teams: Inclusive meeting enhancements for sign language users 

- Microsoft Teams: New threaded conversation layout option for channels  

Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.  

Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at: 

Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor 

Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn 

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 Meeting Audio Overview  

- SharePoint Alerts retirement 

- Microsoft Outlook: Summarize email attachments with Copilot 

- Microsoft 365 admin center: Onboard SharePoint agents as a Pay-as-you-go scenario 

Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.  

Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at: 

Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor 

Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn 

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 Meeting Audio Overview  

- SharePoint Alerts retirement 

- Microsoft Outlook: Summarize email attachments with Copilot 

- Microsoft 365 admin center: Onboard SharePoint agents as a Pay-as-you-go scenario 

Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.  

Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at: 

Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor 

Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn 

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 

- Microsoft Edge: New location for Edge profile in the toolbar 

- Microsoft Teams: Send messages to attendees in the meeting lobby with Lobby chat 

- Modern SharePoint: New Template gallery and 50+ out-of-the-box page templates 

- Microsoft Teams Premium: New personal meeting templates 

- Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows: Create a presentation with Microsoft Copilot from the PowerPoint Backstage view 

Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.  

Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at: 

Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor 

Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn 

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 Usage Limit for Users without a Copilot License 

- Microsoft 365 admin center: Copilot extensibility - Agents and connectors 

- Microsoft Outlook: Updated behavior for switching back from new Outlook to classic Outlook for Windows 

- Live captions copying disabled for Teams meetings 

Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.  

Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at: 

Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor 

Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn