Agents will soon retrieve data from MCP servers and offer formatting options you can interact with. The Copilot "preview pane" opens Word, Excel, and PowerPoint alongside your M365 Chat results. Viva Engage introduces a way to hide your colleagues messages from your feed. What else landed this week?

0:00 Welcome

1:55 Open Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Files in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat - MC1225199

4:03 Microsoft Teams: Teams Live Events is retiring - MC1226495

8:17 Enhancing Model Context Protocol (MCP) based agents with rich interactive UI widgets support - MC1227627

14:00 Viva Engage: New option to hide a user's messages - MC1226225

21:11 Drawn electronic signatures with eSignature for Microsoft 365 - MC1225195

24:09 Change meeting organizer via PowerShell cmdlet in Exchange Online - MC1227623

We've been able to open M365 Copilot Chat alongside our Office apps. Now you'll be able to stay in a Copilot Chat and open email messages and PDFs from the Chat citations. Stay in Chat and check the sources - in full.

0:00 Welcome

2:04 Microsoft Teams: New Drafts quick view MC1223827

6:16 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Create and view Outlook rules - MC1223821

10:03 Open Outlook emails directly in Copilot chat - MC1223826

12:25 Open PDFs within Copilot - MC1223823

15:26 Microsoft Teams: AI workflows powered by Microsoft 365 Copilot - MC1223822

21:02 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Researcher agent output formats - MC1224569

Microsoft is expanding further on what the free Copilot Chat will cover in Outlook mailboxes. But it will complicate how to describe the difference between free, unlicensed Copilot and licensed M365 Copilot.

We also discuss adding watermarks to GenAI created and altered content. Also how the new Agent Mode works in PowerPoint to make changes to your presentations.

0:00 Welcome

2:24 New features coming to Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat for Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint - MC1187671

6:29 Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention - DLP support for Fabric warehouses - MC1219530

9:27 Agent Mode in Microsoft Copilot for PowerPoint for the web - MC1219792

17:01 Brand impersonation protection for Teams Calling - MC1219793

21:49 New policy to add watermarks to content generated or altered by using AI in Microsoft 365 - MC1221451

Have you ever wanted to replace one or two reaction icons in Teams meetings with some fun or seasonal custom reactions? Now you can with Teams Premium. You can leverage the People Skills services to suggest skills for E3 and E5 licensed people. Viva Engage Communities will soon appear in your list of Chats and Channels. What else is worth talking about this week?

0:00 Welcome

3:05 Branded meeting reactions in Teams Premium - MC1217644

7:50 More users will be able to create Loop workspaces - MC1217996

11:48 Retirement of Power BI Q&A - MC1218421

14:30 People Skills: AI skill inferencing expanded to E3/E5 licenses - MC1218711

24:09 Microsoft Teams: Viva Engage communities in Teams - MC1218423

M365 Copilot Chat has been turned off in your org. You'll need to ask IT Admin why. You might be able to convince them to turn it on without much conflict.

The IT Admin might need to run a permissions report to check permissions before they turn on Copilot Chat. They might also need to Copilot-Search their calendar for the meeting where they discussed the governance of why Copilot Chat was turned off.

This week's mashed-up story was brought to you by our selection of the messages. What story would you tell with these... er... prompts?

0:00 Welcome

1:54 Retirement of featured links on SharePoint Start Page - MC1197131

5:22 Chat visibility in the Microsoft 365 Copilot App - MC1197289

11:31 Calendar Search in M365 Copilot Search - MC1197144

13:46 New permissions report available in SharePoint admin center - MC1197128

18:57 Express voice enrollment in Microsoft Teams - MC1197146

25:31 Microsoft Purview: Role management update - MC1199765

Talk to Copilot and get it's help with triaging your email. Sounds good. You might want to find a quiet corner to try it, or a headset with active noise cancelling. Or Jed's noisy sales call might interrupt the Copilot conversation.

Microsoft Planner is retiring some features to make room for some new ones. One in particular is going to finally make comments on tasks more useful. This and more on this week's show

0:00 Welcome

2:18 Microsoft 365 Copilot - Add web links as references in Copilot Notebooks - MC1193414

5:52 Coming Soon - Anthropic models will be available by default in Copilot experiences - MC1193290

12:04 Retirement of several Microsoft Planner features in early 2026 as part of a Planner update - MC1193421

17:05 Microsoft Teams - Find SharePoint agents in Teams chats and Teams Store - MC1193415

23:11 Microsoft 365 Copilot - Email triage with pin, flag, archive, and mark read - MC1193695

31:11 Microsoft 365 - Enrich profile cards with custom properties from third-party systems - MC1193692

GPT5 automatically decides how long it should think about your request. But you can change it's...err.. mind? You'll also be able to get Copilot to list the meetings you haven't RSVP'd to and quickly respond from the Copilot chat. But take care that you have all the info for making your decision. You might want to ask Copilot for some more info about the meetings. Or just look at them in Outlook.

0:00 Welcome

2:29 Message preview for channels, mentions, and reactions notifications - MC1191916

6:33 Microsoft Planner: Support for Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) content sensitivity labels - MC1191342

9:43 Microsoft 365 Copilot: GPT-5 Mode selector adds Auto, Instant, and Thinking modes - MC1192003

16:04 Interpreter agent in Teams calls - MC1191612

22:39 Microsoft 365 Copilot: RSVP to meetings directly in Copilot chat - MC1192258

Sounds dramatic. But we're just sticking with the error code episode number theme till we can't make any further stories from them.

Copilot Chat can schedule meetings and offers a new entry point in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. We'll also see a new Learning agent that surfaces training content and offers role playing lessons from LinkedIn Learning.

0:00 Welcome

2:16 Organizational Messages now support Action Segments for Microsoft 365 Copilot - MC1189666

4:44 Organizational Messages to support email delivery - MC1189665

7:30 Schedule meetings directly in Copilot Chat - MC1189914

12:48 Updated UI for Copilot Chat entry point in Word, Excel and PowerPoint apps - MC1189000

16:19 Learning agent in Frontier - MC1187676

You managed to find the episode. Now search for where Copilot App Skills are re-moving in Excel. Find out how Copilot can reschedule meetings for you if you get double-booked. Find a way for Researcher and Analyst agents to connect to other agents and use them - sub-contracting!

0:00 Welcome

1:57 App Skills in Excel will be retired - MC1184407

4:31 Agent mode in Excel generally available soon (formerly part of the Frontier program) - MC1184408

7:19 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Configure connected agents for Researcher and other agents - MC1184654

14:28 Copilot can now automatically reschedule 1:1 meetings and personal events based on your preferences - MC1184999

22:25 Decoupling admin controls for agents on/off from Researcher and Analyst - MC1185442

26:07 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Steer your presentation length, tone, style, and images when creating with Copilot - MC1185911

30:35 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Purview Information Protection | Classifier Simulation Mode (Health Monitoring) - MC1185445

In this 403 Forbidden episode we go to the polls, check our FAQs, and rate our calls. This episode is full of variety, seeing an old Microsoft Garage feature completely absorbed into Outlook, FAQs that help to keep themselves updated and correct, and a new way to rate our calls.

0:00 Welcome

2:44 Native polls integrated into New Outlook calendar compose form - MC1182003

8:40 SharePoint FAQ web part: AI-powered updates for easier content management and seamless import - MC1182704

12:23 Microsoft Teams: Chat with anyone with an email address - MC1182004

17:13 Microsoft Viva Engage: Flexible targeting of Storyline Announcements - MC1183013

24:57 Microsoft Copilot Notebooks: Overview page with Copilot-powered summaries and insights - MC1182698

29:28 Rate my call feedback experience update in Microsoft Teams - MC1183608