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Episodes
Monday Oct 03, 2022
Monday Oct 03, 2022
Pop-out's are the latest trend in multi-tasking productivity for Teams. Now you can schedule a meeting in Teams, pop out the scheduling window, and read other Teams content to help you create the invite.
In this week's show:
- Microsoft Stream: Upload and Manage Files in the Stream Web App
- FindTime add-in is moving to a native feature called Scheduling Poll
- Microsoft Teams: Teams Calendar Now Includes Scheduling Form Pop-Outs
- Consolidating OneNote apps on Windows
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Tuesday Sep 27, 2022
Tuesday Sep 27, 2022
Live Office applications in Microsoft Teams meetings are the next level for shared experiences and collaboration. Excel Live keeps everyone on the same sheet as you meet and discuss your data. Daniel and Darrell talk about what Excel Live brings to the meeting stage in this episode.
In this week's show:
- Meeting Category Trends and Details in the Viva Insights App in Teams and Meeting Category Insights Card in Digest Email
- Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning cards are available for the Viva Connections Dashboard
- Stream migration tool public preview and general availability
- Collaborate in Teams meetings with Excel Live
- Highlights from the Microsoft Viva digital event on Sept 22.
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Monday Sep 19, 2022
Monday Sep 19, 2022
Start a plan with your team to improve your meetings and survey the occasional meeting to determine their effectiveness. There's more to this new capability than you would think. Hear Daniel and Darrell deep dive into this update and more this week.
In this week's show:
- Meeting effectiveness surveys and plans coming in the Microsoft Viva Insights app in Teams
- Quality Score Columns in Manage Topics
- Major Update to Stream Mobile App
- Quick Access Teams and SharePoint Document Libraries in win32 backstage
A call-back this week:
- (Updated) Loop components in Outlook Mail Preview
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Monday Sep 12, 2022
Monday Sep 12, 2022
Soon you will be able to leave video messages for teammates in Teams Chat. Record a video up to a minute long to send more than a voicemail. It's a vidmail.
In this week's show:
- Microsoft 365 admin center: New format for service health notification emails
- Automatically view up to 49 videos (7x7) in Teams meeting
- Video Clips in Teams Chat
- Schedule Send for Teams Chat
- New features available in Microsoft Whiteboard
- Expanded reactions in Teams
- SharePoint: Medium People Card Now Available as Part of the People Web Part
- Add, update, or delete images in Microsoft Lists via Power Apps
- Announcing Public Preview of Storyline for Yammer and Microsoft Viva Engage
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Monday Aug 29, 2022
Monday Aug 29, 2022
Productivity Score has become Adoption Score in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. Measuring adoption of M365 services, this name change is more fitting for the Admin Center feature. Does it offer anything new and more than a name change? Watch the episode to find out.
In this week's show:
- Live Translated Captions in Meetings and Calls
- Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Introducing Adoption Score
- Upcoming changes as we prepare for transition from Stream (classic) to Stream (on SharePoint)
- Microsoft Viva: Recurring Time Booking for Breaks, Learning, and Message Catch Up in Viva Insights
- Custom Download Location for Files in Teams
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Monday Aug 22, 2022
Monday Aug 22, 2022
Oct 1 is fast approaching. Microsoft's Greg Taylor joins us to emphasize the importance of making changes to prepare for deprecation of Basic Auth in Exchange Online.
In this week's show:
- Convert Word/Pdf form or quiz to Microsoft Forms
- Microsoft Teams Meeting Auto-Transcription
- Improvements to SharePoint pages authoring – New and updated web parts
- Updates coming to Daily Briefing Emails
- Announcement of automatic deletion of inactive Microsoft Dataverse for Teams environments
SharePoint: Configure Navigation Links to Open in a New Tab
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Tuesday Aug 09, 2022
Tuesday Aug 09, 2022
Plan ahead and assign meeting attendees to breakout rooms to support interactive Teams meetings in channels. Now you can put the combination of people together that you want in your breakouts, to optimise for meeting activities.
In this week's show:
- Pre-assign Channel members to Breakout Rooms
- Microsoft Teams: Start a Teams Chat with Distribution Groups, Mail-Enabled Security Groups, and O365 Groups
- Microsoft Viva: Recommendations to Send Praise in Viva Insights
- SharePoint: New Site Templates for Team Sites
- New 'Activity' Column in OneDrive 'My Files' list view
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Saturday Aug 06, 2022
Saturday Aug 06, 2022
Change your admin dashboard in the Teams Admin Center to provide support for customization of the widgets in the dashboard.
In this week's show:
- Customizable dashboard in Teams admin center
- Forms: Distribute your forms by using Teams as a new channel
- Microsoft Ignite - how will you attend?
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Monday Jul 25, 2022
Monday Jul 25, 2022
Viva Engage joins Microsoft's Employee Engagement suite, adding community and connection. Dan Holme, a Product Lead with Viva Engage, joins us to answer questions about the product, how it aligns with other Viva products and what is happening with Yammer.
In this week's show:
- Viva Engage, replacing Yammer Communities app for Teams
- Storyline available for public preview in Yammer and Microsoft Viva Engage
- OneDrive/SharePoint: Review mode for Word documents
- Assign Seats in Together Mode
- Microsoft Viva: Meeting Category Insights Coming to the Viva Insights App in Teams
- Microsoft Viva Insights App in Teams: UI Updates, Insights Web App Updates, and End-User Opt Out
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Monday Jul 18, 2022
Monday Jul 18, 2022
Arrange your meeting content and people to suit the way you work. Pop shared content out to its own window. Move it to a second monitor and move the video gallery below your webcam. Great for viewing large, shared desktops and detailed content.
In this week's show:
- Pop Out Shared Content into a Separate Window
- Configuration Change: Disabling auto provisioning of Wiki with new channel creation
- Microsoft Teams: External Access Chat Invitation Flow for Managed Organizations
- Microsoft Teams and Forms: Ranking Poll
- Microsoft Teams: Usability Improvements to In-Meeting Notifications
- Recent Changes to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint integration in Teams
- Record a New Video on the Stream Start Page in Office Web
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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