365 Message Center Show #365MCS

365 Message Center Show #365MCS

A weekly review of the Microsoft 365 Message Center, with Daniel Glenn, Darrell Webster, and special guests. 365MCS.com #365MCS

Episodes

October 19, 2026 • 26 mins

Unlock the power of Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat with skills! In this episode, we dive into how to enhance your productivity by creating repeatable instructions and utilizing skills in your conversations. Planner Agent now generates status reports using the details from your tasks in a plan. What else is worth discussing this week in the messages?

00:00 Welcome

3:35 Skills in Copilot Chat - MC1493223

10:08 Action may be required...

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Show Copilot what you want your skill to do. Record the steps in Copilot for PowerPoint. Then save a reusable skill. Also, private tasks will be stored in the private Planner plan. What does this mean for Microsoft To Do?

0:00 Welcome

2:07 Updated My Task experience in Planner - MC1488844

5:14 Private tasks now stored in your private plan in Planner - MC1488845

9:09 Microsoft Create: Improved sharing controls for Brand Kits -...

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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 - M...

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September 28, 2026 • 36 mins

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 OneDr...

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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 reminder...

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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 SharePo...

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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 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 Team...

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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.

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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 con...

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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 Team...

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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 pro...

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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

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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 Copilo...

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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 SharePoin...

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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 d...

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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 Copilo...

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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 SharePoi...

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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 pos...

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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

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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 Copilo...

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