365 Message Center Show

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 Copilot in Word 

- Out-of-the-box Agents in Microsoft 365 

- View your organization's prompts in the redesigned Copilot Prompt Gallery app soon 

- Microsoft Dataverse – Add Dataverse as enterprise knowledge in Copilot Studio 

- Microsoft 365 Copilot app: Updates for licensed Microsoft 365 Copilot users (Wave 2 Spring release) 

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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 Content Search, Classic eDiscovery (Standard) Cases, Export PowerShell Parameters 

- Microsoft 365 Copilot: Create a PowerPoint slide from a file or prompt 

- Microsoft Teams Premium: Ultra-low latency (ULL) attendee experience for town halls 

- Microsoft Teams: town hall organizers, co-organizers, presenters can join the event to preview as attendee 

- Pages created in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat will open in Microsoft 365 Copilot app 

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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 default pinning configuration 

- Microsoft PowerPoint: Reference a PDF file when creating a presentation with Microsoft 365 Copilot (preview) 

- Microsoft Viva Pulse: Generate a summary for Pulse reports using Microsoft 365 Copilot 

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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 Microsoft Graph Connectors Now Available for Microsoft 365 Copilot 

- Microsoft SharePoint Online: Manage SharePoint pages using the left navigation pane 

- Prevent/Fix - Microsoft Purview: HR Connector new sample power shell script

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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 search support for in-app Searches  

- Microsoft Teams: Simplified Notes pane in meetings  

- Microsoft Copilot Studio - Create automated copilots triggered by events  

- Resize Teams window and slots  

- OneDrive: Ask questions about images using Copilot  

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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 .eml files 

- Introduction of Copilot Pay-as-you-go Feature in M365 Admin Center 

- Microsoft Designer will be part of Microsoft 365 Copilot 

- Microsoft Purview: New Personalization settings 

- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Recapping changes in Loop over extended periods 

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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 channels, the "Shared" tab (formerly the "Files" tab) will have new capabilities 

- Microsoft SharePoint: Use SharePoint quick steps to automate common tasks and workflows 

- Microsoft PowerPoint: Stay on-brand when creating a presentation with Microsoft 365 Copilot 

- New Exchange Online Tenant Outbound Email Limits 

- Clipchamp introduces AI-powered video creation with Clipchamp Copilot for work 

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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 clips in channels 

- Microsoft Skype interoperability with Microsoft Teams will retire 

- Microsoft Outlook: Prioritize my Inbox by Microsoft 365 Copilot 

- Power Automate - Use certificate-based authentication in desktop flow connections 

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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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 Embedded. 

- Microsoft Teams: Distinguish invites among Attendee, Presenter, and Co-organizer emails 

- Microsoft Viva Insights will be included in Microsoft 365 Copilot subscriptions 

- Microsoft Teams: Ratings and reviews for apps within outlook.com and office.com 

- Microsoft Teams: Updates to the Teams system tray icon and menu 

- New Outlook for Windows and Web: Outlook Newsletters 

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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 

- Microsoft Copilot: File summary in Microsoft Teams chat 

- SharePoint Online: Updates to Microsoft Lists forms 

- Microsoft Teams: Access chats while sharing a screen 

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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