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Copilot plugins and PowerPoint branding pane | Ep 442

Bundle all you need together to plug in services for Copilot. Find out about temporary branding pane referral for PowerPoint. Get control of third-party agents in your tenant. This episode is all about power and control. 0:00 Welcome 2:08 Microsoft Copilot: Introducing the Microsoft plugin registry for Microsoft Copilot experiences - MC1484008 6:17 Connected Platforms - Agent 365 extends observability to third-party agents - MC1480873 10:52 Microsoft SharePoint: Retirement of SharePoint Page Agent (Frontier) - MC1481325 15:22 Microsoft PowerPoint: Brand Guidelines and Style removed from new Brand Kit creation - MC1483859 17:04 Microsoft PowerPoint: Temporary removal of the Brand pane - MC1483886

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Microsoft Copilot Super-App and more | Ep 441

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 Message title and number 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 Microsoft 365 - MC1479277 17:13 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Updates to the Researcher experience - MC1476269 24:14 Spell check before sending emails in new Outlook - MC1479509 27:16 SharePoint: HTML pages - MC1479517 33:01 Microsoft Planner: Meeting-created plans will expire after 180 days of inactivity - MC1479508

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FOLLOW-UP Teams chats. Restrict Copilot’s creativity in PowerPoint. | Ep 440

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 - MC1473153 20:11 Outlook: Change the organizer of meetings - MC1472028 29:18 Microsoft 365 Copilot in PowerPoint: Guide Presentation Creation with Notes Steering and Strict Brand Adherence - MC1470415 34:28 Brand Skill support now available in PPT Copilot [Desktop] - MC1473166

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FINALLY! Engaging comments on SharePoint pages | 365 Message Center Show Ep 439

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 Form in Workflows MC1466757 20:18 Frontier [Skills] 'Explain this presentation' built in skill in PPT Copilot (Web) MC1466327 23:51 Cross-post SharePoint News to Engage MC1466762

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Copilot apps to become one and the same | Episode 437

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: The Next Generation of File & Folder Sharing - MC1454378 30:00 Microsoft OneNote: Retirement of Loop components in OneNote for the web - MC1454385

Microsoft 365 Copilot Pages find a better home - 365MCS Ep 436

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 identity - MC1447681 17:39 Microsoft Teams: Enhanced live captions settings and right-side panel view - MC1447682 21:37 SharePoint Pages: Flexible Section Authoring Improvements - MC1446804 27:40 Microsoft Teams: Multilingual meeting recaps support personalized recap translation - MC1446799

The 365 Message Center Show - What’s New | Ep 435

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 Copilot: Planner capabilities in Copilot chat - MC1443523 17:46 Microsoft Whiteboard: Retirement of legacy whiteboards and transition to OneDrive-backed whiteboards - MC1441775

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The 365 Message Center Show - What’s New | Ep 434

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The 365 Message Center Show - What’s New | Ep 433

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 MC1422054 23:10 Microsoft Viva: GitHub Copilot spend and usage insights in Copilot Analytics MC1420991 26:50 OpenAI models will soon be available as a subprocessor in Microsoft 365 Copilot MC1422074

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The 365 Message Center Show - What’s New | Ep 432

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 25:24 OneDrive for the web: New libraries browsing experience - MC1403407 28:48 Microsoft Teams: Facilitator proactively detects and resolves knowledge gaps in meetings MC1409304

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The 365 Message Center Show - What’s New | Ep 431

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 in Frontier: New Value + Usage-based Billing - MC1393468 21:39 Outlook for iOS and Android: Send Availability feature to be retired - MC1393802 24:57 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Publish organization prompts to Copilot Chat - MC1396361

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The 365 Message Center Show - What’s New | Ep 430

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 Claude Fable 5 available in Copilot Cowork (Frontier) - MC1387806 28:01 Microsoft Teams: Granular channel notification settings - MC1388719

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The 365 Message Center Show - What’s New | Ep 429

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 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Introducing Microsoft Scout, an always-on personal agent - MC1332811

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The 365 Message Center Show - What’s New | Ep 428

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 Live adds the ability to reload updated presentations during meetings - MC1324281 20:48 Microsoft 365 Copilot app: Simplified, chat-centered experience - MC1325422 28:06 (Updated) New entry points for "Create pages with AI in SharePoint" - MC1324284

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The 365 Message Center Show - What’s new? | Ep 427

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 Microsoft Copilot Notebooks: Introducing Infographics - MC1317195 19:21 Update to agents in SharePoint: Simpler launch experience and new site AI settings - MC1315219 25:17 Microsoft Teams: In‑meeting toggle to turn Meeting AI on or off - MC1319216

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The 365 Message Center Show - What’s new? | Ep 426

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 - MC1309731 12:00 PowerPoint for Windows desktop: "Review this presentation" skill in Copilot - MC1309735 17:08 Power Automate - Restore accidentally deleted flows - MC1310368 20:33 SharePoint Online: Storage quota enforcement updated to align with license limits - MC1310684 24:31 Authoritative Sites for SharePoint in Microsoft Copilot - MC1310687

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The 365 Message Center Show - What’s new Ep 425

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 Storylines in Teams – Individual enablement controls - MC1302904 13:17 Microsoft Purview: Data Security Investigations – Introducing optical character recognition (OCR) support - MC1301831 17:13 SharePoint News web part: New Filmstrip layout and multi-site news support - MC1303716

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The 365 Message Center Show - What’s new? | Ep 424

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 up to 1 million items on Windows - MC1294528 10:47 Microsoft Teams: Retirement of Together mode - MC1296478 12:47 Microsoft 365 Copilot will use private community and event content as grounding sources - MC1296480 18:06 Microsoft 365 Copilot (Premium): Teams meetings as a reference in Copilot Notebooks - MC1296488 24:03 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Legal Agent for Word - MC1296877

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The 365 Message Center Show - What’s new? | Ep 423

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 generated content in recap - MC1289725 15:07 Microsoft Teams: Test microphone and speaker before joining a meeting - MC1288530 19:41 Microsoft Teams: Meeting organizers can automatically start transcription without recording - MC1283816 23:55 Microsoft Outlook: Copilot account switcher in the Outlook side pane - MC1290822

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The 365 Message Center Show - What’s new? | Ep 422

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 - MC1282308 17:51 Modernized Change Management for Microsoft 365 - MC1282306 29:24 Copilot entry point changes in Excel - MC1282571

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