365 Message Center Show

Get your SharePoint News read to you in an audio overview. Output response to your Copilot Researcher results in an old favourite format. And Engage Community Announcements get smarter at delivering to your most frequently used channels. 
- Microsoft 365 Copilot: New Researcher agent output controls

- Microsoft Teams: Choose to hide inactive channels

- Windows Backup for Organizations is now available

- Microsoft Viva Engage: Smarter delivery of Community Announcement notifications 

- (Updated) AI actions coming to SharePoint document libraries

- Microsoft Viva: AI-generated audio briefings for SharePoint news in Viva Connections    

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 packed with great updates. Loop pages can now be added to Teams channels as a tab. This is a simpler way to use Loop as a team without creating a whole workspace. Creating SharePoint workflows will now follow the same experience as when you create them in Teams. And soon you will be able to create SharePoint sections on pages with help from Copilot. 
What else will Daniel and Darrell discuss? 
– Outlook Mobile : Copilot Chat overlay coming to iOS and Android

- Restrict new file creation in Office desktop apps to Cloud Locations

- Collaborate with Microsoft Loop Pages in Teams Channels

- Build SharePoint automations with Workflows—now aligned with the Teams experience

- Microsoft Teams: New organizer controls for in-meeting management

- SharePoint Pages: Sections with AI

- Microsoft Teams Copilot without transcription becomes default for meetings - conversation history now persists    

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 

React to a message and trigger a workflow. That might be fun if you want to dedicate a certain emoji for 'volunteering' for a task. In other news, some Gen-AI features of the M365 Copilot app Create module will be made available to unlicensed users. 
What else will Daniel and Darrell discuss? 
– Emoji Reactions Workflows in Microsoft Teams 

- [Copilot Extensibility] Admins can manage ownerless Copilot agents with new lifecycle controls

- Meeting Search in MS Teams Desktop

- Gen AI capabilities in the Create module of Microsoft 365 Copilot app coming to all Copilot Chat users

- Microsoft Teams: Private channels increased limits and transition to group compliance 

- Streamlined file preview experience in Microsoft 365 Copilot app for iOS   

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 

GPT-5 is a significant arrival for M365 Copilot. So are email templates in new Outlook. We also want to prepare you for come changes to scheduling events and meetings. 
What else will Daniel and Darrell discuss? 
– Outlook: Create and save email templates in the new Outlook for Windows

– Remove toggle for Calendar in Teams

– Microsoft 365 Copilot | View recent activity in Word with Dynamic Document Snapshot

– SharePoint Agent: New Agent Link WebPart

– GPT-5—OpenAI’s latest generative-AI system—is now available in Microsoft 365 Copilot

– New Event Scheduling User Experience for Outlook and Teams   

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 

The M365 Copilot Chat box is adding a tools button to make it easier to add and use a range of tools from Chat. Copilot-summarized emails are coming to Outlook for people without an M365 Copilot license. And soon orgs using Viva Amplify will be able to send any SharePoint news posts from their sites via Amplify channels — no need to create the content from an Amplify campaign team. 
What else will Daniel and Darrell discuss? 
– Support for different modes for desks 

– Viva Amplify: Distribute SharePoint news posts across channels

– New Tools feature coming to the Microsoft Copilot Chat prompt box

– Microsoft Outlook: Copilot chat now available to summarize emails for more users

– Microsoft 365 Copilot: Enhanced presentation creation quality

– Microsoft Outlook for Windows: Add attachments while offline  

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 

M365 Copilot in PowerPoint will be able to access the SharePoint Org Assets Library. When you write prompts to create a slide deck, you set Copilot to use the library for images in your slides. But it is going to take some work to add metadata to the images so it can be used by Copilot. Also, Outlook Newsletters are coming soon to New Outlook. This week we learn how to control who can create them and read them. 
What else will Daniel and Darrell discuss? 
– Updates to SharePoint video sharing 

– New Outlook for Windows and Web: Outlook Newsletters – General Availability begins for Targeted Release 

– Microsoft Viva – New support for branded themes and typography in Viva Amplify 

– Microsoft 365 Copilot | PowerPoint now supports enterprise image libraries via SharePoint OAL or Templafy 

– Introducing the New Workflows Experience in Microsoft Teams 

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 

M365 Copilot Chat will use new file types like MP4s, CAD, and ZIP, to ground its responses. We wonder how it will find discussions in videos without first creating a transcript for every video. 
Teams meetings will show a new join experience that helps you manage when you have accepted or responded tentatively to multiple meetings. 
And Copilot will make a little more available to unlicensed M365 Copilot users, so they can get a taste of the value — depending on capacity consumed by licensed customers. 
What else will Daniel and Darrell discuss? 
- Microsoft 365 Copilot | Chat now supports new file types in search grounding 

- Microsoft Teams: Meeting Join Bar 

- Updates to custom scripting in sites and Classic Publishing site creation 

- Microsoft OneDrive for Business | Updated order of Shortcut and Sync commands 

- Standard and Priority access to Copilot capabilities 

- Microsoft Copilot in Teams: Visual Insight for intelligent recap       

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 

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.  

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

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