365 Message Center Show #365MCS

A change to Microsoft 365 so big that Microsoft dropped the 365 and changed to Microsoft Copilot, in more places that one. The super-app is was announced, combining Chat, Cowork, Code, and Autopilot. Daniel and Darrell still managed to find some significant updates that didn't involve Copilot this week. HTML support in SharePoint and changes to Planner meeting plans.

0:00 Welcome

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2:49 Microsoft OneDrive: New pay-as-you-go storage billing option - MC1477185

7:25 Microsoft Copilot: New ways to work across Microsoft Copilot and...

Today's the day. Teams get's follow-up flags. Remind yourself to look at a chat message or post. Also, hand over the organiser role of meetings in Outlook. Lastly, give strict guidance for Copilot to follow when creating brand-aligned slide decks.

0:00 Welcome

2:28 M365 Copilot: Tell Copilot what you need directly from the Copilot button in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint - MC1470885

5:48 Microsoft Teams: Personal message reminders for chat and channels - MC1470887

10:27 Microsoft Teams: New centralized experience for organizing important resources in chats and channels...

Viva Engage will soon be able to power the comments on SharePoint pages. Silence Teams notifications temporarily with a new option. Create interactive slides using a new Copilot skill. What else is arriving soon?

0:00 Welcome

2:35 Create interactive slides in PowerPoint with Copilot skill (Windows and Mac) - MC1461152

5:28 Upcoming changes to classic publishing sites, classic user-created pages and custom scripting in SharePoint Online - MC1464926

13:14 Microsoft Teams: Users can temporarily pause all notifications - MC1465768

17:07 Microsoft Teams: Collect information with List...

Surprise! Did you see this coming? The Microsoft 365 Copilot logo drops mug-shot booking board. The Microsoft Copilots, personal and business, coming together to be one and the same app. Simplified. New flat logo. But what's next?

0:00 Welcome

3:08 Microsoft SharePoint: New report on Everyone except external users - MC1450131

6:14 Microsoft Copilot Word: Document summarization experience moving - MC1454113

9:52 Microsoft Teams: Configure mandatory participant consent before joining meetings - MC1454114

15:57 Microsoft 365 Copilot app update: Simpler Copilot access - MC1454108

22:42 Microsoft 365...

When you save responses from a Copilot Chat, the Copilot Pages were stored in a personal Microsoft Loop Workspace. Now they will be created in your OneDrive where they are easier to manage alongside your other files.

Watch the episode to see what else we covered this week.

0:00 Welcome

2:26 Microsoft 365 Copilot: New Copilot Pages will be stored in OneDrive for Business - MC1449182

8:20 Microsoft Teams: Report security concerns in Teams meetings - MC1446794

13:17 Microsoft Viva Engage: Custom branding for tenant-wide visual...

If you have been using Microsoft Whiteboard for years, make sure you open the app now to start migrating older boards you might want to keep. Planner capabilities come to M365 Copilot Chat too. Ask about your tasks and projects.

0:00 Welcome

3:03 M365 Copilot Agent now support multiple users - MC1438569

6:14 Default visibility of additional profile card properties in Microsoft 365 profile cards - MC1438571

9:00 Microsoft Teams: Meeting Participant Detail audit records will be available in all participating (non-organizer) tenants - MC1441774

14:45 Microsoft 365...

Create custom templates for your team in Planner. Copilot Notebooks play hide and seek for a little while. OpenAI models will be available as a subprocessor. What else is in store this week?

0:00 Welcome

2:09 Custom templates in Microsoft Planner MC1413299

5:49 Viva Engage: New Recent feed in Home MC1413304

8:50 Notebooks in the M365 Copilot App MC1420901

15:36 SharePoint button web part: Add custom Copilot in SharePoint prompts or start Power Automate flows MC1419800

20:37 Microsoft Planner: Task details side pane experience...

30 days have September, April, June, and November... OK. With that out of the way, July begins with a better way to restore accidentally deleted flows, a new document library browsing experience, and Facilitator answering questions in the chat.

0:00 Welcome

3:22 Access your brand assets in PowerPoint - MC1405505

8:23 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Updated service plan behavior for Copilot experiences - MC1405498

17:08 Microsoft Teams: Recap app consolidates meeting recaps in one place - MC1404322

22:07 Power Automate - Restore accidentally deleted flows - MC1409993

Daniel's on vacation, so Darrell delivers a demo-heavy 365 Message Center Show episode to distract you. Tasks from Teams meeting notes can soon be connected to existing Planner plans. Copilot Cowork introduces cost in it's usage-based billing. And you can publish your prompts to the organisation.

0:00 Welcome - without Daniel

2:19 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Outlook emails in Copilot Notebooks - MC1392569

6:24 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Copilot surfaces a summarized answer above your search results - MC1392570

10:17 Connect Teams meeting to existing Planner Plans - MC1392571

14:22 Cowork...

A new way to organise your OneDrive shortcuts as you create them. An agent that helps you plan with natural language. And the new Anthropic model, Claude Fable 5... yeah, about that...!?

0:00 Welcome

2:20 OneDrive: New Shortcuts folder option when adding shortcuts - MC1385585

9:03 Microsoft Teams: Governance for built-in agents in the Teams admin center - MC1387573

11:58 Microsoft 365 Backup: Full workload backup for SharePoint, OneDrive, and Exchange - MC1387526

16:32 Microsoft Planner: Planner Agent chat coming to Frontier - MC1387810

22:16 Anthropic...

Use enhanced Teams panels to book desks. Be aware that OneDrive retention will be enforced soon for unlicensed OneDrive accouts. Lastly, Microsoft Scout, powered by Open Claw, enters the AI scene.

0:00 Welcome

3:26 SharePoint Pages: Updates to the Toolbox within the Content pane - MC1326507

7:00 Pay-as-you-go consumption-based meter for your extra SharePoint storage needs - MC1330893

11:17 Microsoft Teams: Enhanced bookable desk experience with Teams panel based desk devices - MC1330887

14:47 OneDrive: Retention enforcement for unlicensed OneDrive accounts - MC1381110

22:56...

We'll tell you what's new, again. Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat. That's right. Simplified. Faster. More under the more menu. Less colour.

Save your Teams Events as templates and get a glimpse of the new Events app. Take a look at the Planner Agent from Copilot, now GA. This and more...

0:00 Introduction

2:39 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Planner agent general availability - MC1323264

8:08 Power BI integration with Microsoft 365 Copilot - MC1323266

13:17 Save your event as template to reuse event configurations - MC1324279

17:59 PowerPoint...

Take a look at the changes in Teams meetings. Buttons be moving. While in a meeting, less used buttons will be shifted under the ...More menu. But you can bring them out again and pin them! SharePoint agents get tidied up too with an update to how they are listed and linked.

0:00 Welcome

2:49 (Updated) Microsoft Teams: A refreshed in-meeting experience with simpler controls and a smarter share panel - MC1317197

12:13 SharePoint Pages: Heading 1 (H1) option now available in web part title areas - MC1315218

14:27...

You can teach a new dog new tricks to help the old dog. Copilot picks up some new skills to help good old PowerPoint. SharePoint Online storage quotas will be enforced in regards to OneDrives that are over the limit. And establish certain SharePoint sites as authoritative sources for Copilot Search results.

0:00 Welcome

2:34 Updates to SharePoint home sites - MC1304293

5:21 HTML formatting now supported for Message center posts synced to Planner - MC1307883

8:20 PowerPoint for Windows desktop: “Visualize this slide” skill in Copilot - MC13...

Film strips, a new-old way to view your aggregated list of news articles across your SharePoint sites. It auto advances. It shows the template thumbnail from all the articles you didn't update. But what can't the new Film strip format do? Find out and watch the episode. Oh and see what else we cover this week.

2:31 Power Platform – Backup retention of Production environments is changing from 28 to 7 days - MC1298714

4:34 Power Platform - PayGo not required with Self-Service Disaster Recovery (SSDR) - MC1293709

7:29 Viva Engage Communities and St...

Get help reviewing contracts using a new Legal Agent for Microsoft Word. Sync up to 1 million files with OneDrive. But consult your IT Support to learn if this is right for you. Finally, Outlook gets some action with M365 Copilot. I mean, can take action... via instructions, productive ones.

0:00 Welcome

2:41 Exchange Online: Retirement of legacy TLS versions for POP and IMAP connections - MC1293480

4:35 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Use Copilot in Outlook to manage your inbox - available in Frontier Public - MC1293485

7:07 OneDrive sync supports...

Test your mic and speakers as you join the meeting. It won't prevent the awkwardness when Teams automatically mutes you as the 6th person to join the meeting. But it will help you run a quick test as you join.

There's also a new Teams meeting option to auto start a transcription. Set it before a meeting so you can get the benefit AI Notes and asking Copilot questions of your meeting.

0:00 Welcome

3:00 Microsoft Teams: Sharing recap access - MC1289724

7:28 Microsoft Teams: Delete meeting...

While we have some interesting updates for SharePoint and using Copilot in Excel, we are most excited about how AI can help us keep up with messages in the M365 Message Center. Imagine being able to start a chat and ask about messages that impact you and how it might impact your organisation.

0:00 Introduction

3:01 Create and edit SharePoint pages with Copilot-powered AI - MC1282683

8:43 Create charts on pages with AI in SharePoint - MC1282567

13:11 Message center post structure updates may require admin script changes...

Just a short episode to share some easier ways of managing views in Teams Chat and Channel sections, Teams meeting recaps without transcripts, and Microsoft Whiteboard content in Purview.

0:00 Introduction

2:20 Microsoft Whiteboard content is now viewable in Microsoft Purview eDiscovery - MC1273444

5:02 Microsoft Teams: Quick access to read items while using unread only mode - MC1274550

10:59 SharePoint Advanced Management: Delegate management of Restricted Access Control (RAC) to site admins - MC1274323

14:24 Microsoft Teams: AI meeting recap without transcript to meet compliance...

Teams learns to read the sign and honour Windows Do Not Disturb. SharePoint learns a new skill in providing skills to AI. Claude and OpenAI models critique each other to get better research results.

0:00 Welcome

2:46 OneDrive: Files deleted from the cloud will no longer appear in the local Recycle Bin or Trash - MC1269861

7:10 Microsoft Teams: New experience when users minimize the meeting window - MC1266027

10:09 Auto Critique and Model Council features in Researcher (Frontier program) - MC1265765

17:54 Microsoft Teams: Honor...

Planner is now supported in private and shared channels. This will be ideal for simple projects involving other people in your organisation. There's also another way to recap meetings, with video. Watch the Copilot-selected highlights and decide what parts to of the full meeting you want to take a closer look at.

0:00 Welcome

02:39 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Introducing Federated Copilot Connectors - MC1259822

06:27 Introducing video recap for Microsoft Teams meetings - MC1261588

13:24 SharePoint Advanced Management: Site admin control for restricted content discovery - MC1259825

It's going to be easier to identify bots joining your meetings with a dedicated section singling them out. SharePoint and OneDrive agents will soon allow a list to be a source for your chats. This week we also chat about two confusing messages that announced the removal of agent capabilities in M365 apps for people without an M365 license.

0:00 Introduction

2:26 New admin control for AI‑generated code previews in Microsoft 365 Copilot Pages - MC1254560

6:15 Copilot Notebooks: New features coming to Frontier Public - MC1254552

11:00 De...

This week we look at some of the Copilot pieces coming together for Microsoft 365 Copilot Cowork. Claude Sonnet will bridge the gap between coding and natural language task sequencing. Drafting email from a Copilot Chat and sending it, takes us a step closer to Copilot being the UI for AI that might replace the UI for applications altogether. But is that a good thing?

0:00 Welcome

2:17 Microsoft Outlook: Copilot Chat available in shared and delegate mailboxes - MC1246031

7:17 Microsoft Agent 365 Generally Available May 1, 2026 - MC1247364

11:31...

What a great way to celebrate 25 years of SharePoint - a makeover. The new look menus and SharePoint home encourage discovery of content, publishing new pages and posts, and building sites, lists and more. Happy Birthday SharePoint. Also on this week's show

0:00 Welcome

1:35 Introducing the new SharePoint experience - MC1240699

11:07 Copilot entry point changes in Word and handoff to Agent in chat - MC1240704

13:22 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Updates to PowerPoint on‑canvas features with Agent mode - MC1243550

18:32 Workspace IP...

Microsoft Teams is having a "Simply Red" moment and it's leaving some people seeing red. Microsoft are removing the labels from the apps on the app rail. Because 🎵 if you don't know them by now, you will never never never know them.🎵 (Ref: https://youtu.be/zTcu7MCtuTs?si=AYbidLv-ZnCPnG0z&t=15)

Also on this week's episode:

0:00 Welcome

1:41 Simplified Teams app bar to create a cleaner and more focused experience - MC1234559

5:20 App names hidden in app bar for a cleaner, more focused experience - MC12...

Classic Outlook gets more Copilot capabilities. Good idea, given that much of the world still uses Classic Outlook. But this week we also see a modern feature removed from New Outlook. Context IQ and the / are retiring in New Outlook. Interesting move. Will the / be used for something else more Copiloty?

0:00 Welcome

2:25 Secure Boot certificate updates: actions required ahead of June 2026 expiration - MC1230373

5:11 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Prepare for meetings with Copilot in classic Outlook for Windows - MC1228331

8:53 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Scheduling with Copilot in...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 (M...

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...

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 n...

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...

We think we will call M365 Copilot's Researcher Agent feature the "LMCTFY". Ask Copilot to perform some research. Choose "Computer Use" mode and let Copilot control a virtual computer to carry out your research.

If you don't want people to be reminded to check the AI results for accuracy, this disclaimer will be removed. But you will have the opportunity to turn it back on and customise a link to provide your own guidance about AI results.

0:00 Welcome

2:38 Microsoft Copilot Studio – Add and configure tool groups to ag...

The SharePoint document library toolbars are changing and you will want to prepare your org for where buttons have moved and how it works now.

Teams adds searching for images, but it's not what you think. And Windows 11 and Copilot are getting back together, with integration means Copilot is even more helpful on your desktop. But when are these features coming to Windows 11 for businesses and enterprises?

0:00 Welcome

2:06 Introducing Image Search in Microsoft Teams - MC1174858

7:55 Microsoft Copilot Studio: Copy an agent from the...

Some said it could never be done. But we have reached that day. Copilot floating buttons are arriving in OneDrive. Teams is offering an audio-only recording for meetings, and Copilot in Outlook will suggest you add an agenda -- Intelligently.

Oh and Daniel and Darrell made 400 episodes!

0:00 Welcome

1:41 Audio-only recording now available in Microsoft Teams - MC1173926

7:57 Microsoft OneDrive: floating Copilot button simplifies Copilot discovery - MC1173929

13:13 Copilot in Outlook: Intelligent agenda suggestions for calendar events - MC1171854

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