A weekly review of the Microsoft 365 Message Center, with Daniel Glenn, Darrell Webster, and special guests. 365MCS.com #365MCS
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5 days ago
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.
Darrell and Daniel cover:
- Colored folders in the OneDrive folder in Windows File Explorer
- Microsoft 365 Copilot updated Readiness section of the Usage report showing suggested candidates
- New Groups experience default update in Outlook on the web and new Outlook for windows
- Set sensitivity labels for Teams town halls and webinar
- Teams admin center - Deploy frontline teams with flexible membership
- PowerPoint QuickStarter feature retires starting October 2024
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 Sep 02, 2024
Monday Sep 02, 2024
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 plan to join us.
Darrell and Daniel cover:
- Microsoft Purview AI Hub prompts and responses
- CAPTCHA Verification for Anonymous Meeting Participants
- Manage your organization's brand in the new Brand center
- Create themes for SharePoint and Viva Connections in brand center
- Introducing custom fonts for Viva Connections Desktop
- Teams copy/paste of messages does not include timestamp and message author name
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 Aug 26, 2024
Monday Aug 26, 2024
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. 👉 Subscribe to the YouTube channel to be notified or plan to join us.
Darrell and Daniel cover:
- Backfilling Microsoft Graph Connector Entitlement to 50M items
- Viva Amplify - Reports displaying count and percentage
- Unlock success with our New Campaign Goals Feature - Set, Track, Achieve!
- Microsoft Viva Engage - Mute user for network
- Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 - Automatic summary of documents on file-open in Word
- Outlook - Copy meeting attendee responses to clipboard
- Viva Stream Playlist card on Viva Connections Dashboard
- Copilot for Microsoft 365 - Installed extensions will be auto-enabled to run and will support action workflows
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 Aug 19, 2024
Monday Aug 19, 2024
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 important to you and why. 👉 Subscribe to the YouTube channel to be notified or plan to join us.
Darrell and Daniel cover:
- Outlook for iOS and Android - New setting to auto-advance to the next message
- Schedule with Copilot from an Email
- Teams Improvements to the Manage what attendees see feature
- Take action - Enable multifactor authentication for your tenant before 15 October 2024
- Quick Links Card on Viva Connections Dashboard
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
Tuesday Aug 13, 2024
Tuesday Aug 13, 2024
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 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 cover:
- SharePoint News template updates
- Teams Notification in Activity feed and banner when intelligent meeting recap is ready
- Compose in the Microsoft Edge sidebar is being retired
- Copilot in the Microsoft Edge mobile application is being retired for Entra ID users
- Microsoft 365 admin center - New self-service purchase and trial settings
- Teams Meeting participants can choose a breakout room from a list
- Viva Updates to Connections on the web
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 Aug 05, 2024
Monday Aug 05, 2024
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 Daniel cover:
- Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 - Apply suggestions for Coaching by Copilot in Microsoft Outlook
- Rewrite in Microsoft Edge
- Teams - Videos in town halls will display without cropping - MC841009
- Copilot for Microsoft 365 - Direct connection to Microsoft SharePoint organization asset libraries
- Teams - Voting and archiving questions in Teams Q
- SharePoint - Feed for Viva Connections web part and Video news link retires starting September 1, 2024
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 Jul 29, 2024
Monday Jul 29, 2024
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. 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 cover:
- Microsoft Copilot in Teams will use the meeting chat as a data source
- Power Automate – Use undo and redo while you build cloud flows in the designer announcement
- Teams - Download town hall and webinar Q&As to CSV
- Outlook - Contact deduplication
- Word, Excel, PowerPoint Protect sensitive files with dynamic watermarking
- OneDrive - Update for unlicensed accounts
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
Friday Jul 26, 2024
Friday Jul 26, 2024
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. 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 cover:
- Outlook - Simplified mobile app sign in
- CrowdStrike issue impacting Windows endpoints causing an error message on a blue screen
- Copilot for Microsoft 365 - New Scheduled prompts feature
- Microsoft Forms now supports live data sync to Microsoft Excel with more functionality
- New Microsoft Outlook for Windows is GA on August 1, 2024
- Teams - Ability to rename General channel
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 16, 2024
Tuesday Jul 16, 2024
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 cover:
- Teams - New skin tone settings and reactions
- SharePoint Authoring assistance from Copilot
- Teams Policy to disable some in-product messages
- SharePoint New page range setting for prebuilt and structured models in Microsoft Syntex
- OneDrive Change to shared folder experience
- The new Microsoft Purview Portal enters GA
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 01, 2024
Monday Jul 01, 2024
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 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 cover:
- Web links in new Outlook for Windows to open side-by-side with email
- SharePoint New content pane for Pages and News
- Teams Message result suggestions when typing to search
- Teams Detecting and hiding inactive channels
- Clipchamp Brand kit feature is rolling out with extended elements to Microsoft subscriptions
- Teams Tenant Federation setting to control external access with trial-only tenants
- Microsoft 365 apps Improved resharing experience
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