365 Message Center Show

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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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. 

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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. 

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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. 

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Now during your Teams meetings, annotate on a live screen. This is an improvement on the freeze-frame screenshot with annotations we had till now. Click through the annotations layer and continue to use the live shared window or desktop. This will be great for support scenarios and collaborative feedback over the top of what is shared. 

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Removal of access to Sections view in Outlook Mobile Feed 

- Introducing Voice One Time Password (OTP) 

- Microsoft Teams Compact Chat List 

- Take advantage of new Viva Engage capabilities for leaders and communicators 

- Click Through Collaborative Annotations Layer in Teams Meetings 

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. 

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If your organization is interested in using Microsoft 365 Copilot, you can start preparing now. We talk about the things you can prepare for, things you should be doing anyway, and things you will have to wait for. 

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- (Updated) Future of the Mail and Calendar apps in Windows with Outlook 

- New Viva Connections Analytics Experience Coming Soon 

- Get Ready for Microsoft 365 Copilot 

- Microsoft Lists User Experience Update 

- Microsoft Teams: New App Sharing Experience 

- Outlook: Full Settings window will be the primary landing page for the Settings gear icon 

- Create a distinct experience in Viva Connections for different audiences in the Microsoft 365 admin center 

 

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If your org has Viva Suite, then Viva Pulse is now available. Send short surveys out to your team to see how they are doing. Teams group chat now lets you share a link to a reply in the chat. Lastly, MFA will stop support for SMS and phone call code authentication. 

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Microsoft Viva: Answers in Viva on Mobile 

- Viva Pulse availability 

- Group chat message copy links are now available! 

- Present a Local File From PowerPoint app to PowerPoint Live in Teams 

- Changes to the Registration campaign feature in Azure AD 

- Topic migration update and enhancements rolling out in Viva Engage 

 

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If you've been out of the loop for a while, there's a new way to work with tasks in Microsoft 365. But don't worry, it still connects to your favourite task management apps, Planner and ToDo. You can get started with in a Teams meeting or chat. Add a Task list Loop component to capture actions. Then manage the tasks assigned to you from ToDo. 
How about those custom backgrounds in Teams? Have you ever wanted to use an animated background? Coming soon, Teams is starting with 3 animated backgrounds to test the waters. 
Soon, you'll be able to access your beautifully crafted Viva Connections homesite from within the Teams mobile app. 

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Tasks in Microsoft Loop Components Will Start Syncing with Planner and To Do - MC572515  

- Animated Backgrounds in Teams Meetings  

- Microsoft Viva Glint service plan availability  

- Microsoft Viva: Quick Access to Homesite on Viva Connections Mobile  

- Microsoft Teams: Attach Cloud Files in Chat and Channel from Teams Mobile 

 

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Clearly, we don't mean using Zoom inside a Teams meeting. But we do mean being able to zoom into shared content with more visible buttons to control zoom levels. We also discuss "nosie suppression" maintenance, and all about campaigns in Viva Engage. 

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Introducing zooming controls while viewing screenshare 

- Relocating Sync Command in OneDrive's My Files view to Settings  

- Answers-focused view in Viva Engage  

- Answers in Viva Information Panel  

- Handwriting Beautification and Ink Straightening for Microsoft Whiteboard  

- Microsoft Stream: Playlist View in SharePoint List Webpart  

- Microsoft OneDrive: PDF Annotation and Interactable Form Fields  

- Planned Maintenance: Nosie suppression in Stream will be down for limited time  

- Microsoft Viva: Campaign Hub, Search for Campaigns and Executive Sponsorship for Campaigns  

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When you share a document from OneDrive, expect to see a simplified user experience with fewer choices to make. The Sharing window will let you enter an email address or group name to share a file with, set if it's view only or edit, add a message. But the significant change is the scope of the sharing has shifted to the bottom of the window and if you want to change it, it is via the Settings cog. Is this simplified or is it minimising important information and choices? 
Viva Connections on mobile will start notifying you when news is published to your followed and frequent sites. .  

Microsoft Teams will work with the new Outlook "Work hours and location" setting and allow you to change it from your online status settings. 
Daniel and Darrell dive deeper in discussion that informs your decision-making and delivery of services to your organisations. 

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Stream Classic webpart retirement and new Stream (on SharePoint) webpart availability 

- OneDrive: Sharing Experiences - Improved external sharing in the sharing control 

- App User Interface update for Microsoft Whiteboard 

- Updates to Viva Connections desktop experience 

- Microsoft Viva Connections News Notifications 

- OneDrive: Simplified Sharing 

- Microsoft Teams: Set your Work Hours and Location  

 

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