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Start a new chat with people from your organisation, without leaving Outlook. This will be useful when catching up on email and then starting a Chat conversation with the sender of the email.
A slower week for messages. But still worth taking a look at the small changes announcement in the MC this week. 

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Quick Conflict Peek when you RSVP on Calendar Event Detail page  

- Remove Activity Feed Item in New Teams  

- Teams chat embedded in Outlook Web (Enterprise)  

- Stream videos can now be watched inline in Outlook  

- Profile Card in Teams Mobile  

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Microsoft is extending the reach of Copilot experiences to the Windows 10 desktop. There are still tens of thousands of computers running Windows 10. Microsoft Copilot (formerly known as Bing Chat) will be available as a chat / search experience. Surely this will include the new switch to turn on Copilot to use with your work data (formerly Bing Chat Enterprise). 

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Collaborative Notes in Channel Meetings  

- Name changes of Project for web  

- Name changes Tasks by Planner and To Do  

- Announcing the general availability of new Teams on web for Edge and Chrome  

- Copilot coming to Windows 10  

- Organizational Data in Microsoft 365  

- Additional Teams Meeting Templates Added to Outlook Teams Add-In  

- Together mode and content share layout improvement  

- Microsoft Teams: Meeting chat invitations from unmanaged users  

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Raise engagement in your Microsoft Stream videos using surveys, polls and quizzes. Add a hyperlink and text to direct to supporting resources and related links. This opens up a number of possibilities for webinar recordings, communications, awareness, and training videos. 

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Microsoft Stream: Add a survey, poll, or quiz to a video at specific times  

- Microsoft Stream: Add a hyperlink or text callout to a video at specific times  

- Co-organizer experience updates in Teams Webinars and Townhalls  

- Virtual Events – Green Room License  

- FindTime add-in is being removed and replaced with Scheduling Poll as a native feature  

- Microsoft Teams Who bot to be retired  

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We discuss two hot topics this week that didn't feature in the Message Center - Availability of Microsoft 365 Copilot, and the unannounced renaming of home pages in SharePoint templates. Microsoft 365 live is full of surprises. 

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Microsoft 365 Copilot General Availability

- Microsoft Teams- Files App Updating to OneDrive App Experience in Teams  

- Microsoft Stream- Collaborative notes in Teams meeting recordings  

- Classic Teams Users Will be Automatically Updated to New Teams After March 31, 2024  

- New Gallery in Teams Meetings  

- SharePoint- Out-of-the-box document library templates  

- Offline mode in OneDrive for Web  

- SharePoint template homepages page name  

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Forward your chats to other chats, meetings and channel conversations. Just like you can forward email, you will be able to share a message with someone outside of the original chat. But this new power comes with responsibilities. Daniel and Darrell discuss this and more. 

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Microsoft Teams: Automatically view up to 9 videos (3x3) in Teams meetings in Chrome and Edge  

- Bing Chat sidebar experience in Edge renamed to Copilot in Edge with updated icon  

- Microsoft Teams Forward Messages in Teams Chats  

- Release of Preserve Declined Meetings in November  

- Video inline playback on Highlighted content web part  

- Private Team Discovery  

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The Viva Connections landing page is starting to look more like a ready-to-go intranet home page. News in a carousel. Announcements as banner along the top. Dashboard. But there are significant changes to how Resources work. Listen to learn more. 

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Viva Engage admin center toggle to disable private messages within a network  

- Microsoft Viva: Refreshed Landing Experience for Viva Connections Desktop  

- Whiteboard: "Specific people” Share Link Fallback  

- People Search Card in Viva Connections  

- Microsoft Search: Video Search in Bing, Office.com, and SharePoint  

- Changes to workspace retention settings in Fabric and Power BI  

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New Teams still has a few features to catch up on compared with Classic Teams. Announcement backgrounds will be back soon with a zingy twist. We will be able to use Microsoft Designer to create them and customize further. This might be the first integration we've seen between Designer and another Microsoft 365 app. 

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Loop components in Channels and Loop Embed Mode in Teams  

- Create new Loop Components in Microsoft Whiteboard  

- Viva Connections: Apply brand colors across all Connections endpoints using themes  

- Announcing Viva Home: The Home for the Viva Suite on the Web  

- Expand and Collapse Folders in Outlook Mobile  

- Feature Update: Notifications for at-mentions in Mail and Documents in Outlook Mobile  

- Set Out-of-Office from Teams Mobile Application  

- Microsoft Viva: Inline on Demand Feedback on Topic Cards Available  

- Saved items availability in New Teams  

- Custom Backgrounds for Announcement Posts in Channels  

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New Teams is now Generally Available, including most of the features on the list to be at parity with Classic Teams. What do Daniel and Darrell think about it? What will your organization do?  

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Announcing the general availability of the new Microsoft Teams app for Windows and Mac  

- Microsoft Viva: Create Up To 50 Distinct Experiences in Viva Connections  

- Dictation Support Coming to the New Outlook  

- Business Connectivity Services (BCS) retirement  

- Require Background Blur (Teams Premium)  

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Immersive Microsoft Mesh is almost here. So close we can almost touch it. Is it going to revolutionize meetings? Will it live up to the promise of greater interaction with attendees? Daniel and Darrell discuss the related messages this week and how Mesh might land with organizations as Public Preview looms.  

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Loop workspaces will start counting towards tenant storage quotas  

- Introducing Left Navigation Customization on Microsoft365.com  

- Files Hub retiring from the new Outlook for Windows  

- Banner message to appear for Stream (Classic) users on migrated videos  

- Microsoft Teams Live Event Retirement  

- Introducing Microsoft Teams Town hall  

- Personal Plans in Planner  

- Immersive spaces available soon for Public Preview  

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Microsoft announced their consolidation of the Copilots and its part to play in serving up assistance direct to you in Windows 11. If your organization is an M365 subscriber and Windows is part of your subscription, you may have seen a Copilot message in the Message Center too.  

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Viva Connections "Top News" Card Updated to Include More News Source Options  

- Ratings and Reviews for Apps on Teams now Available  

- Expanding our AI capabilities to meet the everyday needs of people and business  

- Simplifying Meeting Join Experiences on Teams Mobile  

- Self-service trial experience available for Microsoft Purview  

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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