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Planner is now supported in private and shared channels. This will be ideal for simple projects involving other people in your organisation. There's also another way to recap meetings, with video. Watch the Copilot-selected highlights and decide what parts to of the full meeting you want to take a closer look at.

0:00 Welcome

02:39 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Introducing Federated Copilot Connectors - MC1259822

06:27 Introducing video recap for Microsoft Teams meetings - MC1261588

13:24 SharePoint Advanced Management: Site admin control for restricted content discovery - MC1259825

18:35 View and edit Markdown files in OneDrive and SharePoint - MC1261592

21:03 Planner tab support for Shared and Private Channels in Microsoft Teams - MC1262590

23:59 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Admins will be able to enable third‑party model providers for specific users and groups - MC1263276

It's going to be easier to identify bots joining your meetings with a dedicated section singling them out. SharePoint and OneDrive agents will soon allow a list to be a source for your chats. This week we also chat about two confusing messages that announced the removal of agent capabilities in M365 apps for people without an M365 license.

0:00 Introduction

2:26 New admin control for AI‑generated code previews in Microsoft 365 Copilot Pages - MC1254560

6:15 Copilot Notebooks: New features coming to Frontier Public - MC1254552

11:00 Designer tools in Copilot - MC1256040

15:34 Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat - Updates to Copilot in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote - MC1253858

18:40 Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat - Updates to Copilot in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint - MC1253863

22:12 Lists as a knowledge source for agents in SharePoint and OneDrive - MC1255409

24:53 Whiteboards created in Teams channels will now be stored in SharePoint - MC1253753

27:04 Microsoft Teams: Identify external bots joining your Teams meetings - MC1251206

This week we look at some of the Copilot pieces coming together for Microsoft 365 Copilot Cowork. Claude Sonnet will bridge the gap between coding and natural language task sequencing. Drafting email from a Copilot Chat and sending it, takes us a step closer to Copilot being the UI for AI that might replace the UI for applications altogether. But is that a good thing?

0:00 Welcome

2:17 Microsoft Outlook: Copilot Chat available in shared and delegate mailboxes - MC1246031

7:17 Microsoft Agent 365 Generally Available May 1, 2026 - MC1247364

11:31 Anthropic Claude Sonnet is now available in Microsoft 365 Copilot - MC1247880

16:01 SharePoint: AI citations analytics for documents and pages - MC1247902

23:54 (Updated) Microsoft 365 Copilot: Draft and send Outlook email directly in Copilot Chat - MC1247637

29:37 Sensitivity labels available soon for Viva Engage communities - MC1250283

What a great way to celebrate 25 years of SharePoint - a makeover. The new look menus and SharePoint home encourage discovery of content, publishing new pages and posts, and building sites, lists and more. Happy Birthday SharePoint. Also on this week's show

0:00 Welcome

1:35 Introducing the new SharePoint experience - MC1240699

11:07 Copilot entry point changes in Word and handoff to Agent in chat - MC1240704

13:22 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Updates to PowerPoint on‑canvas features with Agent mode - MC1243550

18:32 Workspace IP Firewall rules (Public Preview) - MC1238430

23:23 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Turn Copilot Pages into SharePoint News posts - MC1239186

26:20 Targeted file and folder restores in Microsoft 365 Backup - MC1245216

29:15 Upcoming change: disabling Teams meeting recording notification emails - MC1245635

Microsoft Teams is having a "Simply Red" moment and it's leaving some people seeing red. Microsoft are removing the labels from the apps on the app rail. Because 🎵 if you don't know them by now, you will never never never know them.🎵 (Ref: https://youtu.be/zTcu7MCtuTs?si=AYbidLv-ZnCPnG0z&t=15)

Also on this week's episode:

0:00 Welcome

1:41 Simplified Teams app bar to create a cleaner and more focused experience - MC1234559

5:20 App names hidden in app bar for a cleaner, more focused experience - MC1226220

9:59 Outlook: retiring “Contact Masking” (hide suggested recipients) - March 31, 2026 - MC1234566

14:52 Microsoft SharePoint: Use SharePoint quick steps to automate common tasks and workflows with new column type - MC1234549

22:01 Microsoft Teams: Upcoming changes to Microsoft Places licensing and feature access - MC1235124

28:47 Microsoft Teams: New controls for quick views in the chat list - MC1234574

32:32 Microsoft Teams on Windows: Annotate content while sharing a single window - MC1234561

Classic Outlook gets more Copilot capabilities. Good idea, given that much of the world still uses Classic Outlook. But this week we also see a modern feature removed from New Outlook. Context IQ and the / are retiring in New Outlook. Interesting move. Will the / be used for something else more Copiloty?

0:00 Welcome

2:25 Secure Boot certificate updates: actions required ahead of June 2026 expiration - MC1230373

5:11 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Prepare for meetings with Copilot in classic Outlook for Windows - MC1228331

8:53 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Scheduling with Copilot in classic Outlook for Windows - MC1228333

12:11 SharePoint Pages: Retirement of Web Search (Bing) image pivot - MC1230452

16:01 Context IQ retirement in the new Outlook and Outlook on the web - MC1230455

19:22 Microsoft Teams: Voice tethering - MC1230459

Agents will soon retrieve data from MCP servers and offer formatting options you can interact with. The Copilot "preview pane" opens Word, Excel, and PowerPoint alongside your M365 Chat results. Viva Engage introduces a way to hide your colleagues messages from your feed. What else landed this week?

0:00 Welcome

1:55 Open Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Files in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat - MC1225199

4:03 Microsoft Teams: Teams Live Events is retiring - MC1226495

8:17 Enhancing Model Context Protocol (MCP) based agents with rich interactive UI widgets support - MC1227627

14:00 Viva Engage: New option to hide a user's messages - MC1226225

21:11 Drawn electronic signatures with eSignature for Microsoft 365 - MC1225195

24:09 Change meeting organizer via PowerShell cmdlet in Exchange Online - MC1227623

We've been able to open M365 Copilot Chat alongside our Office apps. Now you'll be able to stay in a Copilot Chat and open email messages and PDFs from the Chat citations. Stay in Chat and check the sources - in full.

0:00 Welcome

2:04 Microsoft Teams: New Drafts quick view MC1223827

6:16 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Create and view Outlook rules - MC1223821

10:03 Open Outlook emails directly in Copilot chat - MC1223826

12:25 Open PDFs within Copilot - MC1223823

15:26 Microsoft Teams: AI workflows powered by Microsoft 365 Copilot - MC1223822

21:02 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Researcher agent output formats - MC1224569

Microsoft is expanding further on what the free Copilot Chat will cover in Outlook mailboxes. But it will complicate how to describe the difference between free, unlicensed Copilot and licensed M365 Copilot.

We also discuss adding watermarks to GenAI created and altered content. Also how the new Agent Mode works in PowerPoint to make changes to your presentations.

0:00 Welcome

2:24 New features coming to Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat for Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint - MC1187671

6:29 Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention - DLP support for Fabric warehouses - MC1219530

9:27 Agent Mode in Microsoft Copilot for PowerPoint for the web - MC1219792

17:01 Brand impersonation protection for Teams Calling - MC1219793

21:49 New policy to add watermarks to content generated or altered by using AI in Microsoft 365 - MC1221451

Have you ever wanted to replace one or two reaction icons in Teams meetings with some fun or seasonal custom reactions? Now you can with Teams Premium. You can leverage the People Skills services to suggest skills for E3 and E5 licensed people. Viva Engage Communities will soon appear in your list of Chats and Channels. What else is worth talking about this week?

0:00 Welcome

3:05 Branded meeting reactions in Teams Premium - MC1217644

7:50 More users will be able to create Loop workspaces - MC1217996

11:48 Retirement of Power BI Q&A - MC1218421

14:30 People Skills: AI skill inferencing expanded to E3/E5 licenses - MC1218711

24:09 Microsoft Teams: Viva Engage communities in Teams - MC1218423