365 Message Center Show

Access to Teams meetings becomes easier and more secure with meeting ID's and passcodes. Teams Chat with self will let you leave a note for yourself using Chat. You'll also be able to start a Loop on your own and prepare it before sending it. What else to we have lined up this week?    

In this week's show:    

- We're improving search usage reports with Microsoft Search      - Microsoft Feed on the Outlook Mobile S...

Large organizations with divisions and segmentation will soon be able to use Viva Connections with multiple home sites. This will include multiple dashboards and resource tabs to make management and segmentation easier.   

In this week's show:    

- Capture voice recordings with live speech-to-text in Office Mobile on iOS and Android     - Support multiple home sites and multilingual Dashboards in Microsoft Viva Connections    ...

During a screenshare in a Teams meeting, annotate on the shared content with your team members. Whiteboard tools will be available to add ink, sticky notes, collaborative cursors.    

In this week's show:    

- Change to deletion of whiteboards behavior     - Release of the preview for the new Outlook for Windows     - Configure the existing Stream tile in Microsoft 365 app launcher to go to the new Stream app on Office.com    ...

How do you start a conversation with the owners of a Microsoft Team? Open up the team details and find the owners in the list. Start a new conversation and mention each of their names, hoping that one of them will respond soon? Not anymore. There's an easier way coming.     

In this week's show:    

- Message center posts will include monthly active users specific to the Power BI, Automate, and PowerApps service updates    ...

Microsoft have swiftly provided a way for organizations to prevent a purported leaked build of a One Outlook client for Windows from syncing with work mailboxes. Daniel and I discuss this and more.   

In this week's show:    

- Site template history panel - MC371265     - New Admin PowerShell control for Loop components - MC371268     - Customer Lockbox for Microsoft Power Platform is now available for Public Preview! - MC37305...

It's a call-back episode where we look back to find changes that have been delivered in April. We demo and discuss some of the more exciting features that arrived and discuss the messages that announced them.   

In this week's show:    

- Questions & Answers in Yammer - Upvoting Answers     - Presenter modes move and resize options     - Forms: Split sending and sharing entry point     - Announcing account switching for...

Live Loop collaboration is about to expand into Outlook Mail. The portable canvas for work will be able to be embedded and shared in email to reach even more people for contribution. What benefits does this add over and above Loops in Teams chat? Be sure that Daniel and Darrell have some opinions on the subject.    

In this week's show:    

- OneDrive iOS: New information architecture     - Forms: Enable templates for commercia...

Let Teams fix your lighting and smooth out your appearance with a soft focus filter and AI powered lighting correction. Will this be enough to convince more people to turn on their webcams in Teams meetings?     

In this week's show:    

- Upgrading v1 Power BI workspaces     - Soft focus and Adjust brightness in Teams video meetings     - Microsoft Lists Calendar: Unscheduled Pane     - Microsoft Stream: View and edit video/au...

Have you used Presenter mode in Microsoft Teams? Presenters can arrange their shared content and video feed in engaging new ways. But the video and content was in fixed positions for each scene. Now you will have the option to resize and move your video feed and content.    

In this week's show:    

- Presenter modes move and resize options     - Loop components in Teams Chat     - Text Predictions for Teams Mobile on Android  ...

You will want to prepare your people for a Power Apps tidy up. Our headline message discusses how Power Apps, Dynamics 365 apps, and Azure AD integrated apps may be removed from the app launcher, to help app exploration and discovery.

In this week's show:

- Adding a restore option to the Manage Tags Tab     - Important information about your Microsoft 365 Office App launcher and All Apps experiences     - Create DocuSign reques...

Build low-code, mobile-friendly apps from Microsoft Lists right within Teams. Add a published app as a tab in a Teams channel and share with the rest of the team.    

In this week's show:

- Create and manage Power Apps from Microsoft Lists within Microsoft Teams     - Every Meeting Online (EMO) by Default - Support for third-party online meeting providers     - Pin shared libraries to Quick Access     - Microsoft Teams: Casti...

Browse the Microsoft Teams store and find workflows to automate repetitive tasks in Teams. Some workflows run automatically without further interaction. Others can be triggered manually from the Teams messaging area.    

In this week's show:

- Temporary Whiteboard collaboration for external and shared device accounts    - Workflows in Teams app store for messaging    - Announcing account switching for Microsoft 365 web apps...

OneDrive is your Files Explorer in the M365 Cloud. Now you can find your Teams files together with SharePoint libraries in a new category called "Your Teams". Coming to a browser near you.   

In this week's show:

- Viva Topics: Use Syntex taxonomy to generate topics     - Site owners can manage requests for third-party apps on their sites (SharePoint Online)     - Admin Pinning for Message Extensions     - Microsoft V...

Incoming! Shared channels for Microsoft Teams are arriving in the Teams public preview program. They will reduce tenant switching between orgs with Azure B2B relationships. But will also reduce team switching internally, allowing a channel to be brought into a team. Yammer's QnA makes it easier to find helpful answers by supporting upvoting to prioritize answers the community finds useful.      

Also on this week's show:  ...

Skip a week of the 365MCS and look at all the messages waiting. Daniel and Darrell are going to try to smash through our picks and bring you up to date. Or maybe you could bring us up to date. Either way, catch this episode for an admin-heavy series of messages. Even some about the Message Center itself.        

Also on this week's show:    

- Forms distribution and email notification feature     - (Updated) Updating default ...

Make chats easier to find by pinning a reply to the top of the chat. Draw attention to instructions, a quote, or a Loop. Compact chat is available now, with more text and less white space. Stream videos stored in OneDrive and SharePoint get comments.       

Also on this week's show:    

- Pin a chat message    - Microsoft Stream: Comment on a video or audio file in SharePoint and OneDrive    - Forms: Allow up to 5 million R...

Search is so important in an organization. When content and conversations are dispersed through different tools, good search saves time. Organizations can now create filters for Microsoft Search to focus results on important types of information and documents.        

Also on this week's show:    

- Simultaneous screenshare and video on Safari web browser     - Microsoft Teams: Enriching the App detailed page with more descri...

This week Daniel and Darrell discuss the new shared Focus plan in Viva Insights. Managers and team leaders can create a plan and invite members to coordinate their focus time to focus together. It reduces scheduling team meetings over member's focus time and builds mutual productivity norms.        

Also on this week's show:    

- Files On-Demand refresh for macOS     - Revamped user profile page in Yammer     - Updated c...

Welcome back and to our first episode of 2022. Daniel and Darrell are ready to start a new year, helping you plan for change, preventing or fix issues and staying informed of updates. Microsoft Teams and connected SharePoint sites will soon be deployed using a combined template. Design team templates for recurring collaboration purposes and have both the team and the site deployed to suit the shape and size of your teamwork. Also, ...