365 Message Center Show #365MCS

Prepare for another change to how you use Microsoft Teams. The Files tab in Channels will change how it displays files, showing different views and filters. It appears to be aligning with Teams Chat's Shared tab. Also, SharePoint introduces Quick Steps to perform common automation and workflows. Join us in the comments with your thoughts and reactions to the changes announced in this week's Message Center. 

- Microsoft OneDrive: New naming convention for folder shortcuts 

- Microsoft Teams: In channels, the "Shared" tab (formerly the "Files" tab) will have new capabilities 

- Microsoft SharePoint: Use SharePoint quick steps to automate common tasks and workflows 

- Microsoft PowerPoint: Stay on-brand when creating a presentation with Microsoft 365 Copilot 

- New Exchange Online Tenant Outbound Email Limits 

- Clipchamp introduces AI-powered video creation with Clipchamp Copilot for work 

Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.  

Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at: 

Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor 

Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn 

 

Ready for a new AI-powered prioritisation tool that you can teach what's important to you? Not Focused Inbox, no. Kinda like Mail Rules, yeah. 
It's a more practical, guided way to focus on email that's important to you. Even more important than your Focused Inbox. 

- Microsoft 365 Copilot: Chat sessions will have titles generated by large language models (LLM) 

- Microsoft 365 Copilot: Sessions grouped by time frame 

- New Microsoft 365 Copilot release notes page 

- Microsoft Teams: Record video clips in channels 

- Microsoft Skype interoperability with Microsoft Teams will retire 

- Microsoft Outlook: Prioritize my Inbox by Microsoft 365 Copilot 

- Power Automate - Use certificate-based authentication in desktop flow connections 

Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.  

Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at: 

Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor 

Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn 

 

To make sure you can measure your Microsoft 365 Copilot usage, Viva Insights will be included in the Copilot license. This enables analytics to be used alongside organizational data and other work analytics, telling more stories about the impacts on productivity. 
If that's worth writing home about, you might start a new organizational newsletter using the Newsletters feature in New Outlook. Create, subscribe and manage co-authored newsletters that support comments and leverage SharePoint Embedded. 

- Microsoft Teams: Distinguish invites among Attendee, Presenter, and Co-organizer emails 

- Microsoft Viva Insights will be included in Microsoft 365 Copilot subscriptions 

- Microsoft Teams: Ratings and reviews for apps within outlook.com and office.com 

- Microsoft Teams: Updates to the Teams system tray icon and menu 

- New Outlook for Windows and Web: Outlook Newsletters 

Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.  

Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at: 

Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor 

Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn 

 

This latest update to Microsoft Lists is starting to look more like Microsoft Forms. Copilot in Teams provides a way for you to quickly summarize an attachment in a chat. Teams chat becomes easier to monitor for meeting presenters with one screen. There was a plethora of messages this week. These were our picks. 

- Microsoft Teams: Post and reply as "Organizer" in Q&A 

- Microsoft Outlook for iOS: Open the previous email with email auto-advance 

- Copilot Studio – Agent Builder in Copilot Chat 

- Microsoft Copilot: File summary in Microsoft Teams chat 

- SharePoint Online: Updates to Microsoft Lists forms 

- Microsoft Teams: Access chats while sharing a screen 

Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.  

Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at: 

Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor 

Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn 

 

The second most common phrase said on a Teams meeting is "Can you hear me now." Do you know the most common phrase? "You're muted." Well Microsoft Teams will soon introduce a new way to indicate that your mic is working. If the meeting can hear you, then you will be included in the meeting transcript and recording, and Copilot can answer questions about what you said. Do you know what else in will be able to answer questions about? "Can you see my screen? OK good." We are intrested to learn what Copilot will analyse from content shared on screen in a meeting. What kind of questions will it be able to answer? 
Daniel and Darrell discuss this week...  

- Microsoft Viva Connections: New user-created cards  

- Microsoft Teams: Policy to disable in-product messages relating to periodic What's New and Conferences updates  

- Microsoft SharePoint: Updated document libraries  

- Microsoft Teams: New microphone volume indicator for users  

- Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management | Retention based on “last accessed” for OneDrive and SharePoint files  

- Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Copilot can analyze content shared onscreen in a meeting  

Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.  

Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at: 

Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor 

Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn 

 

Get help from Copilot to create a video using stock footage. Edit the video in Clipchamp and mix with your own video clips. We also celebrate the 365 Message Center Show community on this 365th episode with some words from our frequent listeners and watchers. Thank you so much for continuing to see our show as a source of updates and a place to share your knowledge and opinions too.   

- Why do you watch 365MCS

- Microsoft 365 Copilot | New custom engine agents  

- Microsoft 365 Business Chat | Use Continue to Outlook to set up a meeting in Microsoft Outlook  

- Microsoft Teams | More predictable recording experience with Who keeps recording  

- Microsoft Copilot Dashboard | New usage intensity and retention insights  

- Video creation in Copilot Visual Creator powered by Clipchamp  
 

Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.  

Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at: 

Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor 

Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn 

 

Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat has launched again. Now with Pay As You Go options clarified. This weeks' message points us to admin controls for setting up PAYG, controlling access to Agents, setting up billing and limits, and more. Learn about the 4 types of prompts, messages sent to Copilot Chat, and how much they will cost. Also on this week's show:  

- Microsoft 365 Copilot | Select Microsoft Graph Connectors when writing prompts in BizChat  

- Large Events | End Session for Attendees and Return Presenters to Green Room  

- Microsoft Viva Engage | New recommended comments feature  

- Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat rolling out, IT admin resources available  

- Viva Engage: Verified Answers  

- Microsoft Outlook name change: "Outlook (new)" on Windows will change to "Outlook"  

Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.  

 

Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at: 

Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor 

Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn 

 

We can confirm now that Microsoft will make Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat available to use for organisational accounts without an M365 Copilot license.  It will use a Pay As You Go model, just like Syntex. But the details are not complete. How much is it? Is it the whole M365 Copilot experience? How do we limit access to it? Why has this message been updated already? Actually, at the time of writing this video description... where is the message?   

We talk about this and more in our first show of the year:  

- Microsoft Purview | New secure workflow to bypass legal holds and retention policies  

- Add a Loop workspace tab to standard Teams channels  

- Microsoft 365 Copilot | Select Microsoft SharePoint sites when writing prompts  

- Microsoft 365 Copilot | Select SharePoint and OneDrive folders when writing prompts  

- SharePoint Pages Flexible Sections  

- Updated Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat | Set up "Pay-as-you-go billing" in Microsoft 365 admin center  

- Microsoft Teams | Edit your display name in meetings  

Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.  

 

Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at: 

Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor 

Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn 

 

The story continues to develop about accessing Microsoft 365 Copilot and making it available to all users with an Entra ID. Copilot Agents will be available to use within Teams group chats, whether you are licensed with M365 Copilot or not. While the message doesn't say so, we think it is another use of metered (pay as you go) access to Copilot, which was detailed around the announcements for accessing SharePoint's Copilot Agents.   

We talk about this and more in our first show of the year:  

- Teams Meeting recap can be shared as a link  

- New Outlook - Manage email in PST files  

- New Outlook - Move email between mailbox and PST file  

- Microsoft Copilot in the Microsoft 365 admin centers  

- Using Copilot agents in Teams group chats  

- Viva Engage - New features for Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption community  

Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.  

 

Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at: 

Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor 

Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn 

 

What a way to finish the year. Prepare your people to think of Microsoft 365 now as Microsoft 365 Copilot. Your entry point to the productivity platform starts with Chat. BizChat. Copilot Agents. 
Daniel and Darrell try to catch up with 3 weeks of messages and perhaps one of the most significant changes that tries to reframe how we think about Microsoft 365 productivity.   

Daniel and Darrell now share their 365 Message Center message sorting with a live audience. Join the live stream and the chat. Contribute to the show and tell us which messages are important to you and why. 👉 Subscribe to the YouTube channel to be notified or plan to join us. youtube.com/365MCS  

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Important Update -Viva Goals Retirement Announcement  

- Outlook - Prepare for your meeting with Microsoft 365 Copilot  

- Microsoft 365 file sensitivity labels in Copilot responses availability update  

- Viva Engage - Designated experts in Communities  

- Microsoft Search in Bing Deprecation  

- New Pay-as-you-go billing model for Agents in SharePoint  

- Image input support in Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft Copilot  

- Important updates to Microsoft Copilot and the Microsoft 365 app  

- UI Changes to the Microsoft 365 app  

- New deployments of Microsoft 365 desktop client apps to include new Outlook  

Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.  

 

Check out Daniel and Darrell's own YouTube channels at: 

Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn 

Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor