A weekly review of the Microsoft 365 Message Center, with Daniel Glenn, Darrell Webster, and special guests. 365MCS.com #365MCS
Episodes
Tuesday Jan 09, 2024
Tuesday Jan 09, 2024
Making adjustments to your audio and video settings during Teams meetings just got simpler. New flyout menus keep you in your meeting while letting you select your devices and tuning your settings. Present your best-self while staying in your meeting.
Darrell and Daniel cover:
- Microsoft Teams: Join Teams work meetings from Microsoft Teams (free) and vice versa
- Microsoft Teams: Integrate Chat notification with Meeting RSVP status
- Updates to adding topics to posts in Viva Engage
- Viva Engage: Answers in Communities
- Audio and video flyout and settings in Teams meetings
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 Dec 18, 2023
Monday Dec 18, 2023
Finishing this year's season of the 365 Message Center Show, we discuss the new discovery feed in Teams. Will it save us time and bring all messages together or help us find new conversations of interest? Also, Copilot is coming to Viva Engage to help craft posts. Will they be more authentic and engaging with the help of AI?
Daniel and Darrell will be back next year after a 2 week break. Thank you for another year of fantastic support. Have a safe and enjoyable holiday season.
Darrell and Daniel cover:
- Copilot in Viva Engage
- Retiring Delve Web
- Microsoft Stream: View and Edit mode toggle
- Microsoft Teams: Discover Feed in Channels
- Promote channel creation
- Simplified team creation
- Simpler and quicker creation of teams and channels
- New experiences for video and images in Viva Engage are coming to you in 2024
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 Dec 11, 2023
Monday Dec 11, 2023
Tidy up those busy teams that have lots of channels no longer in use. This is one step better than simply hiding them or expecting team members to hide channels in their own personal Teams and channels list.
Darrell and Daniel cover:
- Microsoft Teams: Archive channels
- Outlook: Choose how many days of emails sync to your iOS or Android device for offline usage
- Action Required - Changes to Get & Transform Data (aka Power Query) features in Excel
- Tasks in my area or department (a mobile Planner in Teams feature)
- Contact Unification across Outlook and 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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Wednesday Dec 06, 2023
Wednesday Dec 06, 2023
Using specific people links, share a Microsoft Whiteboard after a meeting and continue the collaboration. Use Community Campaigns to bring communication together using a hashtag and its own landing page.
Also in this episode, Daniel asks Microsoft for more pictures on their messages and Darrell draws one on his whiteboard to meet the need for now.
Darrell and Daniel cover:
- Introducing monthly Search newsletter for Search administrators
- Microsoft Whiteboard: External Guest Sharing via Specific People Share Link
- Specific People Link (PSL) Support for Collaborative Notes
- Tags management settings now include option to exclude / include guests
- Community Campaigns in Viva Engage
- SharePoint Add-In retirement in Microsoft 365
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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Tuesday Nov 28, 2023
Tuesday Nov 28, 2023
Start a new chat with people from your organisation, without leaving Outlook. This will be useful when catching up on email and then starting a Chat conversation with the sender of the email.
A slower week for messages. But still worth taking a look at the small changes announcement in the MC this week.
Darrell and Daniel cover:
- Quick Conflict Peek when you RSVP on Calendar Event Detail page
- Remove Activity Feed Item in New Teams
- Teams chat embedded in Outlook Web (Enterprise)
- Stream videos can now be watched inline in Outlook
- Profile Card in Teams Mobile
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Tuesday Nov 21, 2023
Tuesday Nov 21, 2023
Microsoft is extending the reach of Copilot experiences to the Windows 10 desktop. There are still tens of thousands of computers running Windows 10. Microsoft Copilot (formerly known as Bing Chat) will be available as a chat / search experience. Surely this will include the new switch to turn on Copilot to use with your work data (formerly Bing Chat Enterprise).
Darrell and Daniel cover:
- Collaborative Notes in Channel Meetings
- Name changes of Project for web
- Name changes Tasks by Planner and To Do
- Announcing the general availability of new Teams on web for Edge and Chrome
- Copilot coming to Windows 10
- Organizational Data in Microsoft 365
- Additional Teams Meeting Templates Added to Outlook Teams Add-In
- Together mode and content share layout improvement
- Microsoft Teams: Meeting chat invitations from unmanaged users
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Monday Nov 13, 2023
Monday Nov 13, 2023
Raise engagement in your Microsoft Stream videos using surveys, polls and quizzes. Add a hyperlink and text to direct to supporting resources and related links. This opens up a number of possibilities for webinar recordings, communications, awareness, and training videos.
Darrell and Daniel cover:
- Microsoft Stream: Add a survey, poll, or quiz to a video at specific times
- Microsoft Stream: Add a hyperlink or text callout to a video at specific times
- Co-organizer experience updates in Teams Webinars and Townhalls
- Virtual Events – Green Room License
- FindTime add-in is being removed and replaced with Scheduling Poll as a native feature
- Microsoft Teams Who bot to be retired
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Monday Nov 06, 2023
Monday Nov 06, 2023
We discuss two hot topics this week that didn't feature in the Message Center - Availability of Microsoft 365 Copilot, and the unannounced renaming of home pages in SharePoint templates. Microsoft 365 live is full of surprises.
Darrell and Daniel cover:
- Microsoft 365 Copilot General Availability
- Microsoft Teams- Files App Updating to OneDrive App Experience in Teams
- Microsoft Stream- Collaborative notes in Teams meeting recordings
- Classic Teams Users Will be Automatically Updated to New Teams After March 31, 2024
- New Gallery in Teams Meetings
- SharePoint- Out-of-the-box document library templates
- Offline mode in OneDrive for Web
- SharePoint template homepages page name
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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Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor
Monday Oct 30, 2023
Monday Oct 30, 2023
Forward your chats to other chats, meetings and channel conversations. Just like you can forward email, you will be able to share a message with someone outside of the original chat. But this new power comes with responsibilities. Daniel and Darrell discuss this and more.
Darrell and Daniel cover:
- Microsoft Teams: Automatically view up to 9 videos (3x3) in Teams meetings in Chrome and Edge
- Bing Chat sidebar experience in Edge renamed to Copilot in Edge with updated icon
- Microsoft Teams Forward Messages in Teams Chats
- Release of Preserve Declined Meetings in November
- Video inline playback on Highlighted content web part
- Private Team Discovery
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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Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor
Monday Oct 23, 2023
Monday Oct 23, 2023
The Viva Connections landing page is starting to look more like a ready-to-go intranet home page. News in a carousel. Announcements as banner along the top. Dashboard. But there are significant changes to how Resources work. Listen to learn more.
Darrell and Daniel cover:
- Viva Engage admin center toggle to disable private messages within a network
- Microsoft Viva: Refreshed Landing Experience for Viva Connections Desktop
- Whiteboard: "Specific people” Share Link Fallback
- People Search Card in Viva Connections
- Microsoft Search: Video Search in Bing, Office.com, and SharePoint
- Changes to workspace retention settings in Fabric and Power BI
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