365 Message Center Show #365MCS

Apply new scenario-based templates to new and existing SharePoint sites. Templates contain pre-populated content and web parts to improve consistency of sites and time-to-collaborate.    

In this episode:    

- SharePoint site templates    
- Customized backgrounds in Microsoft Teams meeting video coming to mobile devices    
- Microsoft Search: Earn Microsoft Rewards when using a work or school account    
- Outlook for iOS - More actions available in New Message and New Event press and hold menus    
- Microsoft Teams: introducing organization-wide backgrounds (preview)    

📢 Quick mentions - short updates and reminders to prepare for major updates    
- Opt-in to the new Teams live events multi-window producer experience    
- Allowing anonymous presenters in Teams Live Events    
- New options for attachments in Outlook on the web    
- Organization logos in Outlook for iOS and Android    

📞 Call back - Discuss one or two updates that we've covered in older episode, which are arriving in tenants.    
- Introducing a SharePoint app bar that features global navigation    

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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Persistent breakout rooms for recurring Microsoft Teams meetings. Set timers for breakouts to call everyone back to the main meeting. These updates are welcome news for educators and workshop facilitators alike.    

In this episode:    

- New breakout room functionality coming to Microsoft Teams    
- New PowerPoint Live Presentation option with desktop and window sharing    
- Yammer: Essential Announcements    
- Quick Create – Easily Create Power BI Reports from Lists    
- PowerPoint Live: Present to Teams from PowerPoint Web App    
- Teams: Join a meeting with digital meeting ID    

📢 Quick mentions - short updates and reminders to prepare for major updates    
- Zip file partial downloads no longer available    
- Teams for your personal life banners    
- Outlook on the Web: New calendar board view    

📞 Call back - Discuss one or two updates that we've covered in older episode, which are arriving in tenants.    
- Improved Person columns in Microsoft Lists    

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Focus your audience on up to 7 people using the new Multiple Spotlights update in Teams meetings. Panel discussions for meetings and webinars will be easier to run using meetings.    

In this episode:    
- Microsoft Lists: new Integrate drop-down menu, powered by SharePoint    
- Update on UserVoice sites    
- Expanding access to My Day from Outlook on the web to Office.com    
- Microsoft Teams: Call Merge    
- Microsoft Teams to allow only organization participants to bypass the meeting lobby    
- Create and use approval templates in the Teams Approvals app    
- We are supporting third party electronic signatures in the Teams Approvals app    
- Multiple Spotlights coming to Teams meetings    
- Microsoft Forms: Correct Answer choice in Teams Meeting Forms Polls      

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There's more to setting up Microsoft Viva Connections than you might realize. Set your Home site. Configure the Global navigation. Prepare to create an app package for Teams, once the PowerShell script is released on March 31.     
Are you ready?      

In this episode:     
- Viva Connections for Microsoft Teams desktop clients     
-> Step by step guide to set up Viva Connections in Teams desktop: https://go.365mcs.com/vw1     
- Prevent attendees from sharing video feed in Microsoft Teams Meetings     
- Forms: New features in Teams polls in meetings     
- Adding Quick Permissions to the OneDrive/SharePoint Share Control     

📢 Quick mentions - short updates and reminders to prepare for major updates     
- Focus mode for modern SharePoint pages     
- (Updated) Microsoft Teams Revised In-meeting Share Experience / (Updated) Microsoft Teams: Dynamic View     
- Customizable website tabs in Teams Templates     

📞 Call back - Discuss one or two updates that we've covered in older episode, which are arriving in tenants.      
- SharePoint web part toolbox updates     

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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New analytics for SharePoint pages and news reveal helpful insights. Learn more about how your organization views your pages. Update your content to improve engagement.   

In this episode:      

- Immersive Reader is coming to SharePoint pages and news posts    
- SharePoint Events web part will display event images    
- Announcing general availability of guest support in Yammer (native mode)    
- Microsoft Teams: AI-assisted poll creation for Teams meeting presenters    
- SharePoint Page Analytics    

📢 Quick mentions - short updates and reminders to prepare for major updates    
- Microsoft Teams: Mobile optimized network data usage    
- Improved Person columns in Microsoft Lists    

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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Injecting some variety into your Teams meetings, Dynamic View will use your stage and gallery to display people and content in a more engaging way. It appears to be the new default view for meetings, but you can still show Together Mode, pin and spotlight people, and more options to come.    

In this episode:    
- Microsoft Teams: Dynamic View     
- "All" List Update on Office.com    
- Announcing Conglomerate branding for global admins    
- New personal wellbeing insights coming to Insights app in Teams    

    
📢 Quick mentions - short updates and reminders to prepare for major updates    
- Microsoft Forms: update in sharing with collaborators and recipients    
- Microsoft Authenticator code matching for MFA notifications    
- Retiring Delve mobile for iOS and Android    
- Outlook Mobile - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)    
- Exchange Online - Tag for external email messages received    
- New service: Data-at-rest encryption for Microsoft 365    

📞 Call back - Discuss one or two updates that we've covered in older episode, which are arriving in tenants.     
- Add up to 25 task labels and colors in Planner and Tasks in Teams    

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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How often do you join a Teams meeting with your video turned off? Sometimes there's a good reason to do so. A recent change means that the meeting stage will only show attendees with their video turned on. Even when you are an active speaker, you will only appear on the bar below the stage. How will this affect meetings going forward?    

In this episode:    
- Add up to 25 task labels and colors in Planner and Tasks in Teams    
- New Video only Meeting stage experience    
- Microsoft Forms - Increased form limits    

📢 Quick mentions - short updates and reminders to prepare for major updates(Updated) Microsoft Teams introduces meeting recap in the calendar event details tab (DELAYED)    
- OneDrive for Business announce 250GB upload capability    
- First delete dialog alert for OneDrive files    

📞 Call back - Discuss one or two updates that we've covered in older episode, which are arriving in tenants.     
- (Updated) Add Microsoft Teams to your SharePoint team site    

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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Find your way around your SharePoint Online intranet from any site in SharePoint. The SharePoint app bar makes global navigation, sites, news and recent files easy to reach. We discuss the different navigation options and what this might mean for the current Microsoft 365 app launcher.    

In this episode:    

- Introducing a SharePoint app bar that features global navigation    

- Outlook on the web: update in how users access Mail, Calendar, People, and To Do    

- Allowing anonymous presenters in Teams Live Events    

- Teams meetings to support view-only attendees    

📢 Quick mentions - short updates and reminders to prepare for major updates    

- Introducing a change in access behavior for public groups in Microsoft Forms    

- OneDrive iOS Files App Integration Temporarily Entering Read Only mode    

- New file sharing experience in Microsoft Teams    

- Text Predictions in Word for Windows    

📞 Call back - Discuss one or two updates that we've covered in older episode, which are arriving in tenants.     
- Meeting recordings saved to OneDrive rather than Stream     

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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The news initially caused a kerfuffle as the community made assumptions about a poorly written MC message announcing a new Microsoft Teams service plan. Were organization's going to need to buy different license for a pro version of Microsoft Teams?    

In this episode:    
- Microsoft Teams: Share to Teams from Outlook    
- Adding taxonomy columns for modern SharePoint library views    
- 1:1 Call recording policy introduction    
- Announcing a new service plan, Teams Pro    
- Align the experience for creating a team from different Teams interfaces    
- Outlook - Reactions and new notification experience    

📢 Quick mentions - short updates and reminders to prepare for major updates    
- New lists will have versioning enabled by default    
- Performance Improvements in Excel for the Web    
- SharePoint to support lightbox for images    
- Introducing Microsoft Viva Topics    
- Dictation in Word and Outlook just got better    

📞 Call back - Discuss one or twos updates that we've covered in older episode, which are arriving in tenants.    
- Meeting Reactions in Teams    

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After last week's announcement of Microsoft Viva, some of us were enthusiastic. Some of us were underwhelmed. Most of us had more questions. In this show, Daniel and Darrell discuss some of their first reactions after seeing the Microsoft Viva launch event, amidst the messages from this week.    

In this episode:    
- Get a Meet now meeting link in Teams    
- Reminder: Insights app in Microsoft Teams will be available starting February 2021    
- NEW DETAILS: Microsoft Edge Legacy support to end on March 9, 2021    
- Introducing a registration page for Microsoft Teams meetings    

📢 Quick mentions - short updates and reminders to prepare for major updates    
- Microsoft Office app optimized for iPad    
- Change coming to your Power Automate Service    

📞 Call back - Discuss one or twos updates that we've covered in older episode, which are arriving in tenants.    
- Service reminder: Skype for Business Online retires in 6 months    

- Microsoft Viva: Our first impressions      

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:    
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Darrell - https://www.youtube.com/modernworkplacescenarios