365 Message Center Show #365MCS

In this week's short and snappy episode, Copilot Studio gets an increase in the number of files an agent can use in SharePoint and OneDrive. Office Transcriptions can be left to run all day and still not use up your quota of minutes. Lastly, admins should check that they have enabled a setting in Chromium browsers to continue to provide offline capabilities in OneDrive.

0:00 Welcome

5:35 Microsoft Copilot Studio - Use up to 1,...

Learn how Microsoft will make it easier for people to get up and running with their current settings when they shift to New Outlook.

Copilot Pages and Copilot generated images will be found in a new 'Library' launched from the Microsoft 365 Copilot app.

Lastly, Teams chats and group chats get a Notes tab. But it's not what you think.

- Microsoft Outlook: Set up classic Outlook accounts and settings in new Outlook for Windows automa...

Get your SharePoint News read to you in an audio overview. Output response to your Copilot Researcher results in an old favourite format. And Engage Community Announcements get smarter at delivering to your most frequently used channels.  - Microsoft 365 Copilot: New Researcher agent output controls

- Microsoft Teams: Choose to hide inactive channels

- Windows Backup for Organizations is now available

- Microsoft Viva Engage: Sm...

This episode is packed with great updates. Loop pages can now be added to Teams channels as a tab. This is a simpler way to use Loop as a team without creating a whole workspace. Creating SharePoint workflows will now follow the same experience as when you create them in Teams. And soon you will be able to create SharePoint sections on pages with help from Copilot.  What else will Daniel and Darrell discuss?  – Outlook Mobile : Cop...

React to a message and trigger a workflow. That might be fun if you want to dedicate a certain emoji for 'volunteering' for a task. In other news, some Gen-AI features of the M365 Copilot app Create module will be made available to unlicensed users.  What else will Daniel and Darrell discuss?  – Emoji Reactions Workflows in Microsoft Teams 

- [Copilot Extensibility] Admins can manage ownerless Copilot agents with new lifecycle cont...

GPT-5 is a significant arrival for M365 Copilot. So are email templates in new Outlook. We also want to prepare you for come changes to scheduling events and meetings.  What else will Daniel and Darrell discuss?  – Outlook: Create and save email templates in the new Outlook for Windows

– Remove toggle for Calendar in Teams

– Microsoft 365 Copilot | View recent activity in Word with Dynamic Document Snapshot

– SharePoint Agent: New ...

The M365 Copilot Chat box is adding a tools button to make it easier to add and use a range of tools from Chat. Copilot-summarized emails are coming to Outlook for people without an M365 Copilot license. And soon orgs using Viva Amplify will be able to send any SharePoint news posts from their sites via Amplify channels — no need to create the content from an Amplify campaign team.  What else will Daniel and Darrell discuss?  – Sup...

M365 Copilot in PowerPoint will be able to access the SharePoint Org Assets Library. When you write prompts to create a slide deck, you set Copilot to use the library for images in your slides. But it is going to take some work to add metadata to the images so it can be used by Copilot. Also, Outlook Newsletters are coming soon to New Outlook. This week we learn how to control who can create them and read them.  What else will Dani...

M365 Copilot Chat will use new file types like MP4s, CAD, and ZIP, to ground its responses. We wonder how it will find discussions in videos without first creating a transcript for every video.  Teams meetings will show a new join experience that helps you manage when you have accepted or responded tentatively to multiple meetings.  And Copilot will make a little more available to unlicensed M365 Copilot users, so they can get a ta...

The Researcher agent is coming to Microsoft Word for M365 Copilot licensed users. This feels like the right place for it to be used, bringing research prompt outputs into a highly capable documentation app.  If you are a subject matter expert and you want to be recognised as one in a Viva Engage community, now you will be able to request to be one.  This and more on this week's episode.  - Researcher is available in Word for Micros...

Microsoft 365 Search get's a Copilot response when you use natural language to search for something. Microsoft Teams notifications become more compact. Viva Engage will now support segmentation so communities can be separate within the same tenant.  What else will Daniel and Darrell discuss this week?  - Microsoft 365 Copilot Search General Availability 

- Microsoft Teams: Compact notification size for users 

- Microsoft Copilot (M...

This week the 365 Message Center Show brings some lively discussion about timers in Teams meetings and anyone being able to start them to remind the speaker to finish up. We will also, once again, be able to save chats and channel posts, bookmarking them to get back to later. Also, SharePoint Copilot Agents will be accessible in M365 Copilot Chat to continue the conversation.  - Microsoft Teams: Countdown timer for Teams Meetings 

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This week on the Microsoft 365 Message Center...  - Microsoft 365 Copilot: Extending Copilot Chat to Microsoft 365 apps 

- 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 enh...

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.  - Microsoft Viva Goals: New Data export feature 

- Create a meeting from an email thread with Copilot 

- (Updated) Prep...

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.  This and more, for sure.  - Meeting Details Experience for Windows 10 will be removed in OneNote 

- Microsoft 365: Retiring and modernizing t...

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.  - Microsoft Edge for Business: New PDF viewer powered by Adobe engine now available for testing in Edge Beta 

- Power Automate - Fix ...

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.  - Microsoft Edge for Business: New PDF viewer powered by Adobe engine now available for testing in Edge Beta 

- Power Automate - Fix ...

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.  Thanks for joining us. Let us know what your picks were for the week.  - Microsoft Project for the web and Project in Teams wi...

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.  - Dynamics and Business App...