365 Message Center Show

Your Microsoft Teams channel list will tidy itself up soon, so you can focus on what's currently important to you. But will this impact how teams communicate with each other when the General channel can be auto-hidden? Clipchamp introduces brand kits to provide the video creators in your organisation with common brand elements like fonts, colour palettes, sound effects and more.  

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.

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Web links in new Outlook for Windows to open side-by-side with email  

- SharePoint New content pane for Pages and News  

- Teams Message result suggestions when typing to search  

- Teams Detecting and hiding inactive channels  

- Clipchamp Brand kit feature is rolling out with extended elements to Microsoft subscriptions  

- Teams Tenant Federation setting to control external access with trial-only tenants  

- Microsoft 365 apps Improved resharing experience  

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"Are you done editing the page? Well, can you check it in before you go on leave? I don't want you to lose your changes." Does this sound familiar? It might soon be a distant memory.

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.

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Change in attachment links in Viva Engage messages to SharePoint location for eDiscovery  

- SharePoint News connector in Teams retires July 22, 2024  

- Collaborate on SharePoint Pages and News with coauthoring  

- Turn notifications on or off for a post in a channel  

- Retiring Stream (Classic) Tab on Teams Chat and Channel  

- Users will now be notified when their admin unblocks a requested Teams app  

- Use Microsoft Purview to prevent some connected experiences that analyze content  

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Use new shaped-cropping with your SharePoint images to make eye-catching pages. Copilot improves the amount of time it can go back for time-based prompts.  

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- (Updated) Microsoft SharePoint Online: Apply shapes to images  

- Microsoft Teams: View attachments to invitations created in Microsoft Outlook  

- New Microsoft Outlook: New Search filters  

- Microsoft Copilot in Microsoft Teams: Improved time-based responses in chat and channels  

- Microsoft Copilot: Optimized File Link Support in Microsoft Teams Chat and Channels  

- Microsoft Viva Insights: Delegate access to Microsoft Copilot Dashboard  

- Teams Chat Files will be renamed to Shared and get new features  

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Catch up with Microsoft 365 Copilot and clever cards that prompt YOU with updates you should know about. Recall in Copilot+ PCs gets "recalled"... more like changed to opt in, among other things. Lastly, SharePoint text goes large.  

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Copilot in Microsoft 365 and Teams - The new Catch up feature  

- Viva Engage - A new feature to manage users in Viva Engage (View-only mode)  

- Update on the Recall Preview Feature for Copilot+ PCs  

- New Outlook for Windows - Offline support for mail actions and compose  

- Outlook - Improved suggested times for meetings  

- Microsoft 365 apps - Set expiration available for all links when sharing  

- SharePoint Online - Enhancements to Text web part (Part 1)  

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Get ready to customize your conversations by uploading custom emoji and animations. This fun way to inject personality into your posts also paves the way for some promotional inspiration. We also welcome back the ability to ask Teams to be notified when someone becomes available. It's a useful feature, but Daniel shares how it might be misused and distracting.  

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Custom emojis and reactions  

- The "Notify when available" feature live new Teams app  

- A new Start in SharePoint Online  

- Less storage space consumed for Stream videos  

- Viva Connections news notifications on desktop and web  

- Stream Interactivity analytics  

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Now we'll be able to recall what we were doing all week when we fill in our timesheets at the end of the week. Ask Copilot questions about our activity. But we can't ignore the cynicism expressed by the public, in spite of the potential benefits. 

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Introducing Copilot+ PCs 

- New meeting option to control permissions for admitting participants from lobby  

- Organizers can manage access to meeting transcripts, recordings, Al-generated recap, and Copilot  

- Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 experiences available in classic Outlook for Windows  

- Evolving Copilot in Windows for your workforce  

- Notification suppression for hidden channels  

- Suppressing notifications from muted chats  

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We have a perplexing couple of messages this week that appear to disable useful functionality in Teams and Microsoft 365. But that is countered by giving Copilot Insights and introducing a way to share meeting notes, files and other artifacts automatically for recurring Teams meetings. You want to know more. Come on. That teaser was cleverly crafted to create intrigue. Click the link.

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Updates to natural language-based search in Microsoft 365  

- The Microsoft Copilot Dashboard in Viva Insights will become available with Copilot for Microsoft 365  

- Ask to join a shared channel with a channel link in Teams  

- Auto-create Microsoft Loop workspaces to share Teams meeting content  

- Microsoft Viva Connections now available on the web  

- Manage Do Not Disturb presence status when screen sharing in Teams meetings  

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Welcome to the team. We hope you enjoy your collaborative stay. Take a look at these channels. We suggest you follow them. But that's up to you.

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Enhanced capabilities for spotlight in Viva Connections  

- SharePoint Online - New Banner web part in Pages and News  

- Changes in Sways Video/Audio upload for new content  

- Draggable Teams Presenter Toolbar when screensharing  

- New Teams onboarding to teams and channels  

- New Teams file image previews in messages  

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New options for automatically managing file version history will assist with storage. Copilot for Outlook gets a side-car panel for prompts that are grounded in your mailbox. Archive your SharePoint sites into the new Microsoft 365 Archive service. What else has landed this week in the 365 Message Center? Watch the show and find out.

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Microsoft 365 admin center - Organizational messages (Preview)  

- Microsoft SharePoint Advanced Tenant Rename feature  

- SharePoint New Section Level Content Align on pages  

- Document libraries - Improved Version history controls I Preview opt-in  

- Graph-grounded chat with Microsoft Copilot in Outlook  

- Archive feature for inactive sites on SharePoint  

- Teams Mobile - Copilot for Teams will soon be available after eligible meetings end  

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Following a meeting is a great new alternative to a tentative response. Let the organiser know you won't be able to attend but you are definitely interested in the meeting recording and outcomes. Slash commands are coming soon to Teams Chats and Channel posts. Let Teams know what you want to do while you type a message or reply. 

Darrell and Daniel cover:  

- Outlook and Teams - Respond to meetings with Follow  

- Microsoft Teams (work or school) application on Windows will be renamed to Microsoft Teams  

- Upcoming changes to tenant settings for Power Bl Copilot features  

- Introducing slash commands in the compose box  

- New adoption Engage community for Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365  

- Annotate PDFs with text boxes in OneDrive  

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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