Episodes

4 days ago
4 days ago
When you share a document from OneDrive, expect to see a simplified user experience with fewer choices to make. The Sharing window will let you enter an email address or group name to share a file with, set if it's view only or edit, add a message. But the significant change is the scope of the sharing has shifted to the bottom of the window and if you want to change it, it is via the Settings cog. Is this simplified or is it minimising important information and choices?
Viva Connections on mobile will start notifying you when news is published to your followed and frequent sites. .
Microsoft Teams will work with the new Outlook "Work hours and location" setting and allow you to change it from your online status settings.
Daniel and Darrell dive deeper in discussion that informs your decision-making and delivery of services to your organisations.
Darrell and Daniel cover:
- Stream Classic webpart retirement and new Stream (on SharePoint) webpart availability
- OneDrive: Sharing Experiences - Improved external sharing in the sharing control
- App User Interface update for Microsoft Whiteboard
- Updates to Viva Connections desktop experience
- Microsoft Viva Connections News Notifications
- OneDrive: Simplified Sharing
- Microsoft Teams: Set your Work Hours and Location
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 May 22, 2023
Monday May 22, 2023
Configure multiple home sites to serve up a different home page and Viva Connections dashboard for different audiences. It has been a while coming. We first talked about it in episode 242. Daniel Glenn and Darrell Webster tell us more about it and its limitations.
Teams Collaborative Stageview will allow Teams to open content in a separate window and conversation alongside it in a sidebar. Apps will need to be developed to take advantage of this new form factor that emphasizes collaboration over conversation.
Darrell and Daniel cover:
- Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance empowers end users to report inappropriate messages in Microsoft Teams
- Microsoft Teams: Collaborative Stageview
- Microsoft To Do: Apple Watch app for To Do iOS
- Teams Personal Tabs in Outlook for iOS
- Create a distinct experience in Viva Connections for different audiences in the Microsoft 365 admin center
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Monday May 15, 2023
Monday May 15, 2023
Let your team members know when you intend to work remotely or in the office. Outlook's new Work Hours and Location feature uses your Outlook work hours settings and your calendar. Set the days and hours you work, and whether you will work remotely or from home. If you need to change it during the week, adjust it in your calendar at the top of a day where All Day events are displayed. Copilot's Semantic Index was announced as the mapping technology powering Copilot's relevant and actionable responses. But it will also enhance enterprise search results for E3 and E5 customers. OneDrive sharing links become easier to manage with a new user interface that filters based on people, groups and what they can access. You can simply search for a person, see how they can access the file, and adjust the links as required.
Darrell and Daniel cover:
- Microsoft Syntex Image Tagger
- SharePoint Syntex Per User License End of Sale Notice
- Microsoft Teams: Together Mode Usability Improvements in Teams Meetings
- Announcing the Semantic Index for Copilot
- OneDrive: Sharing Experiences - Refreshed Manage Access
- Outlook on the web - Work Hours and Location
- A new experience to search within chat and channels.
Sponsor: ESPC https://365mcs.com/ESPC
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Monday May 08, 2023
Monday May 08, 2023
Start conversations and read new and updated posts at the top of a Teams channel. Pop them out to focus on the discussion. See channel information and pinned posts on a new channel sidebar. The new Microsoft Teams channel experience will improve they way you engage with conversations.
Darrell and Daniel cover:
- Loop Component in Outlook Mobile
- cloud.microsoft domain for new Microsoft 365 apps
- Microsoft Teams: New Channels Experience
- Viva Connections Dashboard Customization
- Microsoft Teams: Install apps based on user activity with Auto install approved apps (AAA)
- Viva Engage iOS and Android apps: Navigation Updates
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 May 01, 2023
Message reminders in Outlook Mobile, Topics in Teams - #283
Monday May 01, 2023
Monday May 01, 2023
Did you remember to reply to this email? This one. The one at the top of your Inbox. No? You're welcome. Outlook mobile will soon remind you to reply to messages that appear to need a reply. Also Topics will get it's own app soon in Teams. This will be handy for the topics you contribute knowledge to, or if you are a Knowledge Manager.
Darrell and Daniel cover:
- Reminder: Uploading content to Stream (Classic) to be blocked
- Graph Connector Content Results Experience Switches to Results Inline in All Vertical
- Viva Topics app in Teams
- Microsoft Syntex: Prebuilt model for contracts
- Message Reminders in Outlook for iOS and Android
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Optical character recognition in Information Protection and Data Loss Prevention
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 Apr 24, 2023
SharePoint 2013 workflow retirement & Teams MaaR(?) - #282
Monday Apr 24, 2023
Monday Apr 24, 2023
A good number of organizations still use SharePoint 2013 workflows. So you're going to need some forward planning for retirement. But you should be able to benefit from Teams MaaR almost immediately. What is Teams MaaR you ask? Watch the episode to find out.
Darrell and Daniel cover:
- SharePoint 2013 workflow retirement
- Microsoft Teams: Mark All As Read for Activity Feed
- Your Microsoft 365 services will automatically display your Power BI content by end of June
- Intelligent Meeting Recap in Microsoft 365 Feed
- Introducing Microsoft Whiteboard App in Teams
- Microsoft Viva: Mobile SharePoint site navigation
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 Apr 24, 2023
Teams spatial audio, Outlook video messaging - #281
Monday Apr 24, 2023
Monday Apr 24, 2023
When someone speaks in a meeting, imagine being able to hear which direction it came from. Microsoft Teams introduces spatial audio for small meetings. Would that inspire you to record a short video message and send it via Outlook? Maybe soon.
Darrell and Daniel cover:
- Microsoft Teams: Spatial audio in Teams meetings
- Video Messaging in Outlook Mobile
- Microsoft 365 admin center: Viva Goals Usage Report
- In-product announcements for the Yammer website rebrand to Viva Engage
- Microsoft Teams: Information Barrier not supported in the Teams View Only experience
- Applied Filters in Microsoft Lists
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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Friday Apr 14, 2023
Collaborative meeting notes and intelligent recaps - #280
Friday Apr 14, 2023
Friday Apr 14, 2023
We had the full spectrum of Teams meeting notes enhancements this week. Collaborative meeting notes can be added before and during a meeting. Meeting recap will include the agenda, notes, and follow-up tasks. If you have Teams Premium, the Intelligent recap is coming very soon. It feels like there's something in this for everyone's meeting. Well, almost. Let's talk about that too.
Daniel and Darrell cover:
- Microsoft Teams for Mobile: Chat Details Update
- Collaborative Meeting Notes
- Meeting Recap Enhancements
- Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Meeting Recap (Premium)
- Microsoft 365 admin center: Teams apps Usage Tracking Soon Available within Usage reports
- Power Platform admin center – Automatic deletion of inactive developer environments
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 Apr 03, 2023
Offline meetings in Teams? Say what? - #279
Monday Apr 03, 2023
Monday Apr 03, 2023
It isn't what you think. No, it's not offline meetings in Microsoft Teams. It's the ability to schedule offline meetings in Teams. You know. Appointments that don't need a Teams meeting. But we give 10 points to the click-bait message title in the Message Center this week
Daniel and Darrell cover:
- Offline meetings in Microsoft Teams
- Pin workspaces is now available
- Microsoft Viva: Display connected topics on people profile cards, now available WW
- Improvements to @mentioning behavior on Viva Engage
- Microsoft Teams: Speaker View in Teams Meetings
- SharePoint: Create Pages and News from the SharePoint app bar
- Teams Video Clip Auto-Generated Captions
- Microsoft Viva: SharePoint content on Office.com and Edge New Tab Page Feed show related Viva Topics
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 Mar 27, 2023
New Microsoft Teams 2.0 - #278
Monday Mar 27, 2023
Monday Mar 27, 2023
Are you ready for 2x performance, new layouts, seamless tenant switching, Microsoft 365 Copilot integration and more? Microsoft Teams has been re-engineered, adapting to the changing way we work. Let's talk about that.
Daniel and Darrell cover:
- Preview the new Microsoft Teams Windows client
- Now in public preview: Avatars for Microsoft Teams
- SharePoint: Improving the Page Authoring Experience
- Task publishing: Teams activity feed items for all team members/owners when an urgent task is published to their team
- Microsoft Excel: Get
- Microsoft Authenticator Lite in Outlook
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://www.youtube.com/modernworkmentor