A weekly review of the Microsoft 365 Message Center, with Daniel Glenn, Darrell Webster, and special guests. 365MCS.com #365MCS
Episodes
Monday Sep 18, 2023
Monday Sep 18, 2023
Get ready for a new way to bring task management into Microsoft Loop. Planner components are arriving at the end of September 2023. Also, Collaborative notes are coming to Teams mobile, to access notes before, during and after a Teams meeting.
Darrell and Daniel cover:
- Generate unique join links for external presenters so they can easily join events
- Collaborative notes on Teams mobile
- Releasing the Planner Loop component
- Teams Calendar- Near real-time sync calendar sync with Outlook Calendar
- Microsoft Teams-Emojis, GIFs and Stickers Unified in One Picker
- Microsoft Viva-Hero Image for Viva Connections Mobile
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Monday Sep 11, 2023
Monday Sep 11, 2023
Two new communications tools arrived in Microsoft 365. SharePoint news in Outlook publishes your news as attractive emails, showing the full page content. In Viva Engage, Campaigns connect communications and activities with hashtags, landing pages, and measurable goals and promote visual sponsorship by leaders.
This week's episode is longer, but that's because it's full of demos! It's about time we had a good 'show and tell'.
Darrell and Daniel cover:
- SharePoint News in Outlook
- Microsoft Syntex rule to set content type based on filename
- Restricted Access Control for SharePoint and OneDrive Sites
- Avatars Hardware Requirements and Service Plan Update
- New Campaign Features in Viva Engage
- Microsoft Viva Answers in Viva - AI Topic Suggestions
- Microsoft Viva Verified Topics Badges
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Monday Aug 28, 2023
Monday Aug 28, 2023
It's our 300th episode. To celebrate we are wearing cake, talking Python in Excel and giving all of your users a free 60 day trial of Teams Premium. OK, the trial is included in Microsoft 365 and we didn't organize it. But it was nicely timed.
Darrell and Daniel cover:
- Web links from Microsoft Teams chats to open in Microsoft Edge Teams chat will open side-by-side with link
- Preview: Python in Excel
- Inking Support Coming to the New Outlook
- Workflows replacing Connectors within Microsoft Teams channels menu
- Teams Premium Trial
- OneDrive and SharePoint: Colored Folders
- Outlook: Disallow Reactions on Specific Emails
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Monday Aug 21, 2023
Monday Aug 21, 2023
Internal comms people are going to love this update. Post a Viva Engage message on behalf of your leadership by setting a schedule. This means you can time the Engage post to coincide with the scheduled publishing of your SharePoint news post. Fantastic that we finally get this functionality.
Darrell and Daniel cover:
- Draft and Scheduled Posts with POBO (Posts on Behalf of) in Viva Engage - MC667672
- Viva Goals: Export OKRs to PowerPoint - MC668254
- SharePoint: Microsoft Lists – Create a List From CSV and Export to CSV - MC668787
- Microsoft Default for Tag Management to include Team Members - MC668258
- Reuse Files in Word to be retired - MC668802
- Loop on be default - MC668811
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Monday Aug 14, 2023
Monday Aug 14, 2023
What if we told you that Viva Amplify is coming to Viva Suite and Employee Communications & Connections subscribers in September? Would you be excited to plan your first communications campaign with it? What if we said Amplify can also be used by anyone who would like to send communications across multiple channels in your organization? Would you be open to sharing it? Daniel and Darrell discuss this and how the new Stream web part will be used to present videos stored in SharePoint and OneDrive.
Darrell and Daniel cover:
- Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals: Admin Option to Enable/Disable sharing to Microsoft Teams in Viva Goals
- Walkie Talkie AutoConnect Feature Update
- New Stream (on SharePoint) web part release
- Backfill Viva Amplify
- Announcing Microsoft Search Answer Analytics
- Optimized Multifactor Authentication text message delivery through WhatsApp
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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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Monday Aug 07, 2023
Monday Aug 07, 2023
Send short announcement messages to target audiences through the Viva Connections app. This has potential to replace the Company Communicator app in Microsoft Teams. Recent Planner plans and To Do lists will appear in your recent files on Microsoft 365 home page. SharePoint pages are now easier to share using the new Share button.
Darrell and Daniel cover:
- Twitter web part retirement
- See your Recent Microsoft Planner plans and Microsoft To Do Lists on Microsoft 365 Homepage
- Refiners Available in Outlook Web
- SharePoint: Page Sharing Feature
- Viva Pulse Admin Experience
- Announcements in Viva Connections
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Monday Jul 31, 2023
Monday Jul 31, 2023
The new Teams channel invites will restore faith and interest in using channel meetings. Meeting organizers have more control as to whether team members will receive an emailed invite. SharePoint web parts receive a visual refresh. Loop components will open using loop.microsoft.com and within the Loop app if your organization is using it.
Darrell and Daniel cover:
- SharePoint Platform: Visual Refresh
- Channel meeting invitation | Allow organizer to send a channel meeting invite to everyone in team
- Updated Experience for Office Document Conflict Resolution in OneDrive Sync
- Deploy new Microsoft Teams with Microsoft 365 apps
- Join third-party meetings from Teams
- Loop component links will now open on Loop.microsoft.com
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Monday Jul 24, 2023
Monday Jul 24, 2023
Share a Stream video in Teams chat and channel conversations, and you will be able to preview and play them from within the conversation. OneDrive has a new feed to show up-coming and past meetings and their related files. It has a really interesting way to show files and recordings for recurring meetings too. SharePoint site creation show's more about the site template you're about to pick.
Darrell and Daniel cover:
- Viva Suite app: Viva Pulse – Enabling Notifications
- Microsoft Teams: Stream Preview and Playback in Teams Chat and Channels
- Microsoft Teams: 1000 Channels per Team
- Browse files by Meetings in OneDrive
- SharePoint: New site creation experience
- OneDrive: Recommended Files
- Forms PowerPoint Add-on to Enable Live Survey Experience
This week's episode is sponsored by CloudAlly, SaaS data protection platform and cloud backup for Microsoft 365. Visit https://cloudally.com for a 14-day trial.
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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Check out Daniel and Darrell's own YouTube channels at:
Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn
Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor
Monday Jul 17, 2023
Monday Jul 17, 2023
New Outlook gets a separate window for displaying reminders. Microsoft Teams Cloud Intelliframe frames up people in a meeting room so we can see their faces. Browse OneDrive files by people and see what they have been working on recently that has been shared with you.
Darrell and Daniel cover:
- Browse files by People in OneDrive
- Automatic Transcription for Video Uploads to SharePoint Online, Yammer, and Office.com
- Azure AD is becoming Microsoft Entra ID
- Manage File Access in Microsoft Search in Bing, Office.com, SharePoint, and Feed
- Introducing the Reminders Window in the New Outlook for Windows Preview
- Cloud IntelliFrame: A New Way to See People in Teams Rooms
This week's episode is sponsored by CloudAlly, SaaS data protection platform and cloud backup for Microsoft 365. Visit https://cloudally.com for a 14-day trial.
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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Check out Daniel and Darrell's own YouTube channels at:
Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn
Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor
Monday Jul 10, 2023
Monday Jul 10, 2023
OneDrive on the web is changing to bring focus to your content and make it easier to create new files. LinkedIn Learning adds more free courses to Viva Learning basic. Custom list templates will soon included Power Automate flows as part of the template, packaging up a nice reusable app with automation.
Darrell and Daniel cover:
- OneDrive: Color, font, and navigation changes in OneDrive for Web
- OneDrive Sync Account Detection
- Key Document Updates as a Highlight in the Profile Card
- Twitter web part display in SharePoint
- Update to the Free LinkedIn Courses Available in Viva Learning
- Custom list templates can now include Power Automate flows
This week's episode is sponsored by CloudAlly, SaaS data protection platform and cloud backup for Microsoft 365. Visit https://cloudally.com for a 14-day trial.
Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.
Follow us! Twitter - Facebook - LinkedIn
Check out Daniel and Darrell's own YouTube channels at:
Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn
Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor