365 Message Center Show #365MCS

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...

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 Copil...

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: Sharin...

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 Shar...

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:...

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 Criti...

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 v...

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...

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...

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 Microsof...

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 - MC12345...

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 Microsof...

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 L...

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 Ope...

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 Copilo...

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 - M...

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 ...

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 ...

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 previe...