This week on the Microsoft 365 Message Center... 

- Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat: Now Easily Accessible from the Teams Chat List 

- Researcher on M365 Copilot Prompt Box 

- Microsoft 365 Copilot: Visual Creator Agent will no longer be pre-installed 

- Microsoft Teams: Presenters can promote attendees to the green room 

- Microsoft SharePoint: Header and Footer enhancements   

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 

Pull together a quick meeting invite from an email thread with Copilot from your mobile. Then start preparing for your next meeting using Copilot in Outlook mobile. All this mobile, on-the-go meeting organising and prep must mean we now barely have time to organise and prepare. It's a good thing Copilot can help. 

- Create a meeting from an email thread with Copilot 

- (Updated) Prepare for your on-the-go meeting with Copilot 

- Microsoft Viva Insights: New prompt categories in the Microsoft Copilot Dashboard 

- Microsoft 365 Copilot: Admins can upload custom dictionaries for Microsoft Teams meeting transcripts 

- Text Prediction turned off by default in Outlook  

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 

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We have often wanted to reply to a reply in Teams channel conversations. Wish granted! But calling them threads when posts are already threaded? And what does following a thread mean? Also, Copilot Agents will be called into a call or meeting and attendees will be able to interact with them. 

- Microsoft 365: Retiring and modernizing the Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel for Windows desktop apps 

- Microsoft Teams: Interactive agents for meetings and calls 

- Microsoft Lists: Mobile apps for iOS and Android will retire 

- Microsoft Teams: Inclusive meeting enhancements for sign language users 

- Microsoft Teams: New threaded conversation layout option for channels  

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 

Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn 

Listen to your meeting as an audio overview. Summarise email attachments before opening them to read. In the right hands, these will be useful tools. But how will you know the summaries pick up all the important details? Listen or watch this episode to learn more about these Message Center messages. 

- Power Automate - Fix save errors in your cloud or agent flow with Copilot 

- Teams Meeting Audio Overview  

- SharePoint Alerts retirement 

- Microsoft Outlook: Summarize email attachments with Copilot 

- Microsoft 365 admin center: Onboard SharePoint agents as a Pay-as-you-go scenario 

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 

Listen to your meeting as an audio overview. Summarise email attachments before opening them to read. In the right hands, these will be useful tools. But how will you know the summaries pick up all the important details? Listen or watch this episode to learn more about these Message Center messages. 

- Power Automate - Fix save errors in your cloud or agent flow with Copilot 

- Teams Meeting Audio Overview  

- SharePoint Alerts retirement 

- Microsoft Outlook: Summarize email attachments with Copilot 

- Microsoft 365 admin center: Onboard SharePoint agents as a Pay-as-you-go scenario 

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 episode is giving notes of templates and orange peel. Yes, this episode has three messages that involve templates in three different M365 experiences. SharePoint page templates page gets revamped. PowerPoint offers Copilot as a slide deck template. Teams will let you create your own meeting templates. 

- Microsoft Edge: New location for Edge profile in the toolbar 

- Microsoft Teams: Send messages to attendees in the meeting lobby with Lobby chat 

- Modern SharePoint: New Template gallery and 50+ out-of-the-box page templates 

- Microsoft Teams Premium: New personal meeting templates 

- Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows: Create a presentation with Microsoft Copilot from the PowerPoint Backstage view 

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 

If you haven't heard by now, Copilot agents are going to be a big thing in Microsoft 365. Without the right admin tools, they are the next service to sprawl and get out of control. The Admin Center will soon have a new page and reports to show what agents are being used, where, and who added them. Also, with Classic / New switch for Outlook will let you choose to open in Classic, while keeping New open. 

- Microsoft 365 Copilot: Image Generation Usage Limit for Users without a Copilot License 

- Microsoft 365 admin center: Copilot extensibility - Agents and connectors 

- Microsoft Outlook: Updated behavior for switching back from new Outlook to classic Outlook for Windows 

- Live captions copying disabled for Teams 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 

Oooh. So that's why Microsoft renamed Microsoft 365 to Microsoft 365 Copilot. It was the app all along. Wave 2 announcements reveal that the home page, the starting point for using Microsoft 365 on the web is going all in with Copilot-centric experiences. Not only Chat, but also Create, a new Search experience, Notebooks for collecting and focusing chat outcomes, and much much more. 

- Expanding reference capabilities with Microsoft 365 Copilot in Word 

- Out-of-the-box Agents in Microsoft 365 

- View your organization's prompts in the redesigned Copilot Prompt Gallery app soon 

- Microsoft Dataverse – Add Dataverse as enterprise knowledge in Copilot Studio 

- Microsoft 365 Copilot app: Updates for licensed Microsoft 365 Copilot users (Wave 2 Spring release) 

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 

Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn 

To keep you in your flow, M365 Copilot Pages will now open in the M365 Copilot App home, rather than opening in Loop. Keep curating and conversing with Copilot. Also, Teams town hall meetings that have been created using a Teams Premium license will enjoy a much lower latency between the production and audience experience. 

- Microsoft Viva Connections: New Engage card in Connections dashboard 

- Removing Microsoft 365 Copilot Actions from Targeted Release 

- Microsoft Purview | Retiring Classic Content Search, Classic eDiscovery (Standard) Cases, Export PowerShell Parameters 

- Microsoft 365 Copilot: Create a PowerPoint slide from a file or prompt 

- Microsoft Teams Premium: Ultra-low latency (ULL) attendee experience for town halls 

- Microsoft Teams: town hall organizers, co-organizers, presenters can join the event to preview as attendee 

- Pages created in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat will open in Microsoft 365 Copilot app 

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 

Don't forget to add a meeting room to your meeting. But if you do and one or more attendees are in the office with you, look out for a timely room recommendation. And if your organization uses Viva Pulse to survey how you are doing, use Copilot to summaries and provide insights from those pulses 

- Microsoft Teams: Room Recommender 

- Microsoft Viva Connections cards in SharePoint agents 

- Ability to Stop Copilot while it is generating a response 

- Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat: Simplifying the default pinning configuration 

- Microsoft PowerPoint: Reference a PDF file when creating a presentation with Microsoft 365 Copilot (preview) 

- Microsoft Viva Pulse: Generate a summary for Pulse reports using Microsoft 365 Copilot 

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