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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 Welcome3:08 Microsoft SharePoint: New report on Everyone except external users - MC14501316:14 Microsoft Copilot Word: Document summarization experience moving - MC14541139:52 Microsoft Teams: Configure mandatory participant consent before joining meetings - MC145411415:57 Microsoft 365 Copilot app update: Simpler Copilot access - MC145410822:42 Microsoft 365: T
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 Welcome2:26 Microsoft 365 Copilot: New Copilot Pages will be stored in OneDrive for Business - MC1449182 8:20 Microsoft Teams: Report security concerns in Teams meetings - MC144679413:17 Microsoft Viva Engage: Custom branding for tenant-wide visual identity - MC144768117:39 Microsoft Teams: Enhanced live captions settin
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 Welcome3:03 M365 Copilot Agent now support multiple users - MC14385696:14 Default visibility of additional profile card properties in Microsoft 365 profile cards - MC14385719:00 Microsoft Teams: Meeting Participant Detail audit records will be available in all participating (non-organizer) tenants - MC144177414:45 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Planner capabilities in Cop
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 Welcome2:09 Custom templates in Microsoft Planner MC14132995:49 Viva Engage: New Recent feed in Home MC14133048:50 Notebooks in the M365 Copilot App MC142090115:36 SharePoint button web part: Add custom Copilot in SharePoint prompts or start Power Automate flows MC141980020:37 Microsoft Planner: Task details side pane experience MC142205423:10 Microsoft Viva: GitHub Copilot spend and usage insights in
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 Welcome3:22 Access your brand assets in PowerPoint - MC14055058:23 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Updated service plan behavior for Copilot experiences - MC140549817:08 Microsoft Teams: Recap app consolidates meeting recaps in one place - MC140432222:07 Power Automate - Restore accidentally deleted flows - MC140999325:24 OneDrive for the web: New libraries
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 - MC13925696:24 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Copilot surfaces a summarized answer above your search results - MC139257010:17 Connect Teams meeting to existing Planner Plans - MC139257114:22 Cowork in Frontier: New
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 Welcome2:20 OneDrive: New Shortcuts folder option when adding shortcuts - MC13855859:03 Microsoft Teams: Governance for built-in agents in the Teams admin center - MC138757311:58 Microsoft 365 Backup: Full workload backup for SharePoint, OneDrive, and Exchange - MC138752616:32 Microsoft Planner: Planner Agent chat coming to Frontier - MC138781022:16 Anthropic Claude Fable 5 available in Copilot Cowork (Fro
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 Welcome3:26 SharePoint Pages: Updates to the Toolbox within the Content pane - MC13265077:00 Pay-as-you-go consumption-based meter for your extra SharePoint storage needs - MC133089311:17 Microsoft Teams: Enhanced bookable desk experience with Teams panel based desk devices - MC133088714:47 OneDrive: Retention enforcement for unlicensed OneDrive accounts - MC138111022:56 Microsoft 365 Copilot: I
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 - MC13232648:08 Power BI integration with Microsoft 365 Copilot - MC132326613:17 Save your event as template to reuse event configurations - MC132427917:59 PowerPoint Live adds the ability to reload updated presentations during meetings
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 - MC131719712:13 SharePoint Pages: Heading 1 (H1) option now available in web part title areas - MC131521814:27 Microsoft Copilot Notebooks: Introducing Infographics - MC131719519:21 Update to agen
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 Welcome2:34 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
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 - MC12987144:34 Power Platform - PayGo not required with Self-Service Disaster Recovery (SSDR) - MC12937097:29 Viva Engage Communities and Storylines in Teams – Individual enablement controls
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 - MC12934857:07 OneDrive sync supports up to 1 million items on Windows - MC1294528 10:47 Micr
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 Welcome3:00 Microsoft Teams: Sharing recap access - MC12897247:28 Microsoft Teams: Delete meeting generated content in recap - MC128972515:07 Microsoft Teams: Test microphone and speaker before joining a meet
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 Introduction3:01 Create and edit SharePoint pages with Copilot-powered AI - MC12826838:43 Create charts on pages with AI in SharePoint - MC128256713:11 Message center post structure updates may require admin script changes - MC128230817:51 Modernized Change Management for Microsoft 365 - MC128230629:
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 Introduction2:20 Microsoft Whiteboard content is now viewable in Microsoft Purview eDiscovery - MC12734445:02 Microsoft Teams: Quick access to read items while using unread only mode - MC127455010:59 SharePoint Advanced Management: Delegate management of Restricted Access Control (RAC) to site admins - MC127432314:24 Microsoft Teams: AI meeting recap without transcript to meet compliance policies - MC127
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 Welcome2:46 OneDrive: Files deleted from the cloud will no longer appear in the local Recycle Bin or Trash - MC12698617:10 Microsoft Teams: New experience when users minimize the meeting window - MC126602710:09 Auto Critique and Model Council features in Researcher (Frontier program) - MC126576517:54 Microsoft Teams: Honor Windows “Do not disturb” setting - MC126921521:36 Extending AI in Share
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 Welcome02:39 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Introducing Federated Copilot Connectors - MC125982206:27 Introducing video recap for Microsoft Teams meetings - MC126158813:24 SharePoint Advanced Management: Site admin control for restricted content discovery - MC125982518:35 View and edit M
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 Introduction2:26 New admin control for AI‑generated code previews in Microsoft 365 Copilot Pages - MC12545606:15 Copilot Notebooks: New features coming to Frontier Public - MC125455211:00 Designer tools in Copilot - MC125604015:34 Microsoft 365 Copilot
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 Welcome2:17 Microsoft Outlook: Copilot Chat available in shared and delegate mailboxes - MC12460317:17 Microsoft Agent 365 Generally Available May 1, 2026 - MC124736411:31 Anthropic Claude Sonnet is now available in Microsof
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 show0:00 Welcome1:35 Introducing the new SharePoint experience - MC124069911:07 Copilot entry point changes in Word and handoff to Agent in chat - MC124070413:22 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Updates to PowerPoint on‑canvas features with Agent mode - MC124355018:32 Workspace IP Firewall rules (Public Preview) - MC123843023:23 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Tur
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 Welcome1:41 Simplified Teams app bar to create a cleaner and more focused experience - MC12345595:20 App names hidden in app bar for a cleaner, more focused experience - MC12262209:59 Outlook: retiring “Contact Masking” (hide suggested recipients) - March 31, 2026 - 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 Welcome2:25 Secure Boot certificate updates: actions required ahead of June 2026 expiration - MC12303735:11 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Prepare for meetings with Copilot in classic Outlook for Windows - MC12283318:53 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Scheduling with Copilot in classic Outlook for Windows
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 Welcome1:55 Open Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Files in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat - MC12251994:03 Microsoft Teams: Teams Live Events is retiring - MC12264958:17 Enhancing Model Context Protocol (MCP) based agents with rich interactive UI widgets support - MC122762714:00 Viva Engage: New option
