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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 Copilot - MC1323266 13:17 Save your event as template to reuse event configurations - MC1324279 17:59 PowerPoint Live adds the ability to reload updated presentations during meetings - MC1324281 20:48 Microsoft 365 Copilot app: Simplified, chat-centered experience - MC1325422 28:06 (Updated) New entry points for "Create pages with AI in SharePoint" - MC1324284

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 SharePoint Pages: Heading 1 (H1) option now available in web part title areas - MC1315218 14:27 Microsoft Copilot Notebooks: Introducing Infographics - MC1317195 19:21 Update to agents in SharePoint: Simpler launch experience and new site AI settings - MC1315219 25:17 Microsoft Teams: In‑meeting toggle to turn Meeting AI on or off - MC1319216

Brian McGough, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft, gives a behind-the-scenes look at how change communications work across the Microsoft 365 ecosystem and what's coming next.• How Message Center has grown from 50 posts a month to over 225, and the operational complexity behind keeping hundreds of live posts up to date• The targeting system behind Message Center, from licensing-based filtering to tenant-specific notifications across multiple clouds including GCC, GCC High, and DoD• Microsoft's modernised approach to change management, introducing frontier, standard, and deferred release options that give admins more control over when changes reach their users• The new MCP servers for Message Center and Roadmap data, and how they unlock conversational, tenant-grounded insights• Why customer feedback on Message Center posts genuinely drives change, including stopping feature rollouts and reversing retirementsThanks to Landis, this episode's sponsor, for their continued support of Empowering.Cloud

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 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 presentation" skill in Copilot - MC1309735 17:08 Power Automate - Restore accidentally deleted flows - MC1310368 20:33 SharePoint Online: Storage quota enforcement updated to align with license limits - MC1310684 24:31 Authoritative Sites for SharePoint in Microsoft Copilot - MC1310687

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 Platform - PayGo not required with Self-Service Disaster Recovery (SSDR) - MC1293709 7:29 Viva Engage Communities and Storylines in Teams – Individual enablement controls - MC1302904 13:17 Microsoft Purview: Data Security Investigations – Introducing optical character recognition (OCR) support - MC1301831 17:13 SharePoint News web part: New Filmstrip layout and multi-site news support - MC1303716

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 - MC1293485 7:07 OneDrive sync supports up to 1 million items on Windows - MC1294528 10:47 Microsoft Teams: Retirement of Together mode - MC1296478 12:47 Microsoft 365 Copilot will use private community and event content as grounding sources - MC1296480 18:06 Microsoft 365 Copilot (Premium): Teams meetings as a reference in Copilot Notebooks - MC1296488 24:03 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Legal Agent for Word - MC1296877

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: Sharing recap access - MC1289724 7:28 Microsoft Teams: Delete meeting generated content in recap - MC1289725 15:07 Microsoft Teams: Test microphone and speaker before joining a meeting - MC1288530 19:41 Microsoft Teams: Meeting organizers can automatically start transcription without recording - MC1283816 23:55 Microsoft Outlook: Copilot account switcher in the Outlook side pane - MC1290822

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: Delegate management of Restricted Access Control (RAC) to site admins - MC1274323 14:24 Microsoft Teams: AI meeting recap without transcript to meet compliance policies - MC1275312

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 SharePoint - MC1282567 13:11 Message center post structure updates may require admin script changes - MC1282308 17:51 Modernized Change Management for Microsoft 365 - MC1282306 29:24 Copilot entry point changes in Excel - MC1282571

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 Critique and Model Council features in Researcher (Frontier program) - MC1265765 17:54 Microsoft Teams: Honor Windows “Do not disturb” setting - MC1269215 21:36 Extending AI in SharePoint using custom skills - MC1269209 27:58 Microsoft Teams: New chat sections for muted and meeting chats - MC1269864

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 video recap for Microsoft Teams meetings - MC1261588 13:24 SharePoint Advanced Management: Site admin control for restricted content discovery - MC1259825 18:35 View and edit Markdown files in OneDrive and SharePoint - MC1261592 21:03 Planner tab support for Shared and Private Channels in Microsoft Teams - MC1262590 23:59 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Admins will be able to enable third‑party model providers for specific users and groups - MC1263276

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 Copilot Pages - MC1254560 6:15 Copilot Notebooks: New features coming to Frontier Public - MC1254552 11:00 Designer tools in Copilot - MC1256040 15:34 Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat - Updates to Copilot in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote - MC1253858 18:40 Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat - Updates to Copilot in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint - MC1253863 22:12 Lists as a knowledge source for agents in SharePoint and OneDrive - MC1255409 24:53 Whiteboards created in Teams channels will now be stored in SharePoint - MC1253753 27:04 Microsoft Teams: Identify external bots joining your Teams meetings - MC1251206

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 in shared and delegate mailboxes - MC1246031 7:17 Microsoft Agent 365 Generally Available May 1, 2026 - MC1247364 11:31 Anthropic Claude Sonnet is now available in Microsoft 365 Copilot - MC1247880 16:01 SharePoint: AI citations analytics for documents and pages - MC1247902 23:54 (Updated) Microsoft 365 Copilot: Draft and send Outlook email directly in Copilot Chat - MC1247637 29:37 Sensitivity labels available soon for Viva Engage communities - MC1250283

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 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Updates to PowerPoint on‑canvas features with Agent mode - MC1243550 18:32 Workspace IP Firewall rules (Public Preview) - MC1238430 23:23 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Turn Copilot Pages into SharePoint News posts - MC1239186 26:20 Targeted file and folder restores in Microsoft 365 Backup - MC1245216 29:15 Upcoming change: disabling Teams meeting recording notification emails - MC1245635

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

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 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Prepare for meetings with Copilot in classic Outlook for Windows - MC1228331 8:53 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Scheduling with Copilot in classic Outlook for Windows - MC1228333 12:11 SharePoint Pages: Retirement of Web Search (Bing) image pivot - MC1230452 16:01 Context IQ retirement in the new Outlook and Outlook on the web - MC1230455 19:22 Microsoft Teams: Voice tethering - MC1230459

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 Live Events is retiring - MC1226495 8:17 Enhancing Model Context Protocol (MCP) based agents with rich interactive UI widgets support - MC1227627 14:00 Viva Engage: New option to hide a user's messages - MC1226225 21:11 Drawn electronic signatures with eSignature for Microsoft 365 - MC1225195 24:09 Change meeting organizer via PowerShell cmdlet in Exchange Online - MC1227623

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 Open PDFs within Copilot - MC1223823 15:26 Microsoft Teams: AI workflows powered by Microsoft 365 Copilot - MC1223822 21:02 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Researcher agent output formats - MC1224569

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 Copilot Chat for Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint - MC1187671 6:29 Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention - DLP support for Fabric warehouses - MC1219530 9:27 Agent Mode in Microsoft Copilot for PowerPoint for the web - MC1219792 17:01 Brand impersonation protection for Teams Calling - MC1219793 21:49 New policy to add watermarks to content generated or altered by using AI in Microsoft 365 - MC1221451

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 - MC1217644 7:50 More users will be able to create Loop workspaces - MC1217996 11:48 Retirement of Power BI Q&A - MC1218421 14:30 People Skills: AI skill inferencing expanded to E3/E5 licenses - MC1218711 24:09 Microsoft Teams: Viva Engage communities in Teams - MC1218423

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 was brought to you by our selection of the messages. What story would you tell with these... er... prompts?   0:00 Welcome 1:54 Retirement of featured links on SharePoint Start Page - MC1197131 5:22 Chat visibility in the Microsoft 365 Copilot App - MC1197289 11:31 Calendar Search in M365 Copilot Search - MC1197144 13:46 New permissions report available in SharePoint admin center - MC1197128 18:57 Express voice enrollment in Microsoft Teams - MC1197146 25:31 Microsoft Purview: Role management update - MC1199765

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 2:18 Microsoft 365 Copilot - Add web links as references in Copilot Notebooks - MC1193414 5:52 Coming Soon - Anthropic models will be available by default in Copilot experiences - MC1193290 12:04 Retirement of several Microsoft Planner features in early 2026 as part of a Planner update - MC1193421 17:05 Microsoft Teams - Find SharePoint agents in Teams chats and Teams Store - MC1193415 23:11 Microsoft 365 Copilot - Email triage with pin, flag, archive, and mark read - MC1193695 31:11 Microsoft 365 - Enrich profile cards with custom properties from third-party systems - MC1193692

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 preview for channels, mentions, and reactions notifications - MC1191916 6:33 Microsoft Planner: Support for Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) content sensitivity labels - MC1191916 9:43 Microsoft 365 Copilot: GPT-5 Mode selector adds Auto, Instant, and Thinking modes - MC1192003 16:04 Interpreter agent in Teams calls - MC1191612 22:39 Microsoft 365 Copilot: RSVP to meetings directly in Copilot chat - MC1191612

Sounds dramatic. But we're just sticking with the error code episode number theme till we can't make any further stories from them. Copilot Chat can schedule meetings and offers a new entry point in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. We'll also see a new Learning agent that surfaces training content and offers role playing lessons from LinkedIn Learning. 0:00 Welcome 2:16 Organizational Messages now support Action Segments for Microsoft 365 Copilot - MC1189666 4:44 Organizational Messages to support email delivery - MC1189665 7:30 Schedule meetings directly in Copilot Chat - MC1189914 12:48 Updated UI for Copilot Chat entry point in Word, Excel and PowerPoint apps - MC1189000 16:19 Learning agent in Frontier - MC1187676

You managed to find the episode. Now search for where Copilot App Skills are re-moving in Excel. Find out how Copilot can reschedule meetings for you if you get double-booked. Find a way for Researcher and Analyst agents to connect to other agents and use them - sub-contracting!   0:00 Welcome 1:57 App Skills in Excel will be retired - MC1184407 4:31 Agent mode in Excel generally available soon (formerly part of the Frontier program) - MC1184408 7:19 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Configure connected agents for Researcher and other agents - MC1184654 14:28 Copilot can now automatically reschedule 1:1 meetings and personal events based on your preferences - MC1184999 22:25 Decoupling admin controls for agents on/off from Researcher and Analyst - MC1185442 26:07 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Steer your presentation length, tone, style, and images when creating with Copilot - MC1185911 30:35 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Purview Information Protection | Classifier Simulation Mode (Health Monitoring) - MC1185445

The SharePoint document library toolbars are changing and you will want to prepare your org for where buttons have moved and how it works now. Teams adds searching for images, but it's not what you think. And Windows 11 and Copilot are getting back together, with integration means Copilot is even more helpful on your desktop. But when are these features coming to Windows 11 for businesses and enterprises? 0:00 Welcome 2:06 Introducing Image Search in Microsoft Teams - MC1174858 7:55 Microsoft Copilot Studio: Copy an agent from the lite experience into the full experience - MC1176363 11:10 Updated SharePoint document library user experience - MC1179157 19:59 GPT-5 becomes the default Copilot model - MC1176368 23:45 Power Automate - Information about 'Retry with AI vision' functionality in Power Automate for desktop - MC1177141 26:50 How Windows 11 and AI are transforming the future of work - MC1177767

Some said it could never be done. But we have reached that day. Copilot floating buttons are arriving in OneDrive. Teams is offering an audio-only recording for meetings, and Copilot in Outlook will suggest you add an agenda -- Intelligently. Oh and Daniel and Darrell made 400 episodes! 0:00 Welcome 1:41 Audio-only recording now available in Microsoft Teams - MC1173926 7:57 Microsoft OneDrive: floating Copilot button simplifies Copilot discovery - MC1173929 13:13 Copilot in Outlook: Intelligent agenda suggestions for calendar events - MC1171854 17:31 Microsoft 365 Copilot app: AI video generation now available in Create - MC1171840 24:36 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Edit in Outlook from Copilot Chat - MC1173196

Access your organisational images library to get approved images for your presentations. Use Search to find settings in Teams. And where did Copilot go in Microsoft Loop, and did anyone notice it leave? 0:00 Welcome 3:14 Microsoft Viva Copilot Analytics launches new agent dashboard - MC1166852 7:16 Microsoft Teams: Emojis in section names - MC1166877 12:04 Microsoft Teams: Search in Settings - MC1167604 15:08 Microsoft Loop: Copilot experience upgrade - MC1169068 18:54 Dynamics 365 Customer Insights - Journeys - Create event portals with event registration details using Power Pages - MC1168096 25:15 Microsoft PowerPoint: Find and add company approved images with Organization Images - MC1169573

Ask Copilot Chat about Teams channel content. Specify the channel with a /. Ask about a refreshing new round of Microsoft 365 icons. Did your team discuss those in a channel some time this week? Ask about the files that were shared from Elmo's OneDrive. Now that he left the company, did they get reassigned to his manager, Bert? It's a colourful episode this week. 0:00 Welcome 3:20 Microsoft Copilot Studio: Agent ownership reassignment - MC1162291 7:17 (Updated) Microsoft Teams: Trust Indicators – a new way of representing users outside your organization - MC1162276 15:29 Microsoft 365: Visual refresh of app icons - MC1163778 18:55 OneDrive: Simplified file transfer for departing employees - MC1164381 26:00 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Teams channels available in Context IQ prompts - MC1165054

Hey Copilot. Remember how I like my day planned out to leave gaps for focus time? Remember that I like my summaries concise? Do you remember that I always, always want citations? Copilot memory is getting an update. OneNote is getting sensitivity labels. And people on the receiving end of a forwarded Teams message are getting a reference link. So much getting. What are you giving in return? 0:00 Welcome 5:41 Retiring Power BI “Visualize the List” and “Visualize the Library” Features in SharePoint Online - MC1156359 11:00 Microsoft Teams: New link in forwarded messages improves context and traceability - MC1157710 13:57 Microsoft OneNote | Sensitivity labels now available on desktop, web, iOS, Android, and Mac - MC1157712 18:12 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Updates to memory and personalization - MC1158329 24:03 Microsoft Outlook: New third-party enriched properties available for customizing profile cards - MC1158902 30:57 Microsoft 365 Copilot Researcher and Microsoft Copilot Studio: Expanding model choice - MC1158765

This episode we discuss a huge update to managing content on SharePoint site, powered by Knowledge Agent. Yes, Copilot will start to do more than help us find the words to put on a page. It will also help us organise our document libraries with metadata and use it when we ask Copilot questions. Teams Channels Agent will create summaries of conversations, file activity and even task assignments in Planner, and publish the summary as a Loop in the channel. Then ask the agent questions about the project. What other practical updates are in store for M365 Copilot? 0:00 Welcome 3:28 Introducing Knowledge Agent (preview): AI-powered content optimization for SharePoint and Copilot - MC1155312 14:19 Microsoft Teams: Channel Agent - MC1155329 23:49 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Use Copilot with OneDrive files in File Explorer and Activity Center MC1155433 27:08 Microsoft 365 admin center: Prepurchase capacity packs for Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat - MC1155434 31:57 Viva Engage: Agents in Viva Engage communities Public Preview - MC1155311

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 1,000 files per agent for SharePoint and OneDrive uploads - MC1150623 11:36 Teams Admin Center: Control External Access by Domain for Specific Users and Groups - MC1150123 14:45 Office Transcription Quota Increase for Copilot-Licensed Users - MC1150669 19:17 Action Required – Configure Browser Policy to Preserve OneDrive and SharePoint Web Performance and Offline Capability - MC1150662

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 automatically  - Rewrite with Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat coming soon to Edge for Business users  - Manage agent permissions directly in Microsoft Admin Center (MAC)  - Library experience in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app  - Microsoft Teams: AI workflows powered by Microsoft 365 Copilot  - Microsoft Teams: Collaborative Notes in Chats   Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.   Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at:  Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor  Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn     

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. 0:00 Welcome 4:17 Microsoft 365 Copilot: New Researcher agent output controls - MC1143277 11:50 Microsoft Teams: Choose to hide inactive channels - MC1141958 15:11 Windows Backup for Organizations is now available - MC1142494 18:24 Microsoft Viva Engage: Smarter delivery of Community Announcement notifications - MC1143276 24:39 (Updated) AI actions coming to SharePoint document libraries - MC1141949 27:12 Microsoft Viva: AI-generated audio briefings for SharePoint news in Viva Connections - MC1143997

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: Smarter delivery of Community Announcement notifications  - (Updated) AI actions coming to SharePoint document libraries - Microsoft Viva: AI-generated audio briefings for SharePoint news in Viva Connections     Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.   Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at:  Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor  Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn   

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. 0:00 Welcome 3:19 Outlook Mobile : Copilot Chat overlay coming to iOS and Android - MC1138239 6:32 Restrict new file creation in Office desktop apps to Cloud Locations - MC1137593 11:30 Collaborate with Microsoft Loop Pages in Teams Channels - MC1138796 15:30 Build SharePoint automations with Workflows—now aligned with the Teams experience - MC1138798 24:21 Microsoft Teams: New organizer controls for in-meeting management - MC1139490 27:08 SharePoint Pages: Sections with AI - MC1139492 33:30 Microsoft Teams Copilot without transcription becomes default for meetings - conversation history now persists - MC1139493

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 controls - Meeting Search in MS Teams Desktop - Gen AI capabilities in the Create module of Microsoft 365 Copilot app coming to all Copilot Chat users - Microsoft Teams: Private channels increased limits and transition to group compliance  - Streamlined file preview experience in Microsoft 365 Copilot app for iOS    Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.   Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at:  Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor  Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn   

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 : Copilot Chat overlay coming to iOS and Android - Restrict new file creation in Office desktop apps to Cloud Locations - Collaborate with Microsoft Loop Pages in Teams Channels - Build SharePoint automations with Workflows—now aligned with the Teams experience - Microsoft Teams: New organizer controls for in-meeting management - SharePoint Pages: Sections with AI - Microsoft Teams Copilot without transcription becomes default for meetings - conversation history now persists     Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.   Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at:  Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor  Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn   

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. 0:00 Welcome 3:50 Emoji Reactions Workflows in Microsoft Teams - MC1133511 13:00 [Copilot Extensibility] Admins can manage ownerless Copilot agents with new lifecycle controls - MC1134170 15:38 Meeting Search in MS Teams Desktop - MC1134180 19:01 Gen AI capabilities in the Create module of Microsoft 365 Copilot app coming to all Copilot Chat users - MC1136035 22:58 Microsoft Teams: Private channels increased limits and transition to group compliance - MC1134737 30:40 Streamlined file preview experience in Microsoft 365 Copilot app for iOS - MC1136042

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 Agent Link WebPart – GPT-5—OpenAI's latest generative-AI system—is now available in Microsoft 365 Copilot – New Event Scheduling User Experience for Outlook and Teams    Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.   Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at:  Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor  Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn   

It's a longer show this week. But that's why we have chapters. 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. Skip to the parts that interest you, or watch the whole lot. We're just glad you joined the ride this week. 0:00 Welcome 3:04 Outlook: Create and save email templates in the new Outlook for Windows - MC1129129 6:43 Remove toggle for Calendar in Teams - MC1129730 10:25 Microsoft 365 Copilot | View recent activity in Word with Dynamic Document Snapshot - MC1130391 18:47 SharePoint Agent: New Agent Link WebPart - MC1131063 22:48 GPT-5—OpenAI's latest generative-AI system—is now available in Microsoft 365 Copilot - MC1130809 30:50 New Event Scheduling User Experience for Outlook and Teams - MC1129717

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?  – Support for different modes for desks  – Viva Amplify: Distribute SharePoint news posts across channels – New Tools feature coming to the Microsoft Copilot Chat prompt box – Microsoft Outlook: Copilot chat now available to summarize emails for more users – Microsoft 365 Copilot: Enhanced presentation creation quality – Microsoft Outlook for Windows: Add attachments while offline   Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.   Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at:  Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor  Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn   

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 Daniel and Darrell discuss?  – Updates to SharePoint video sharing  – New Outlook for Windows and Web: Outlook Newsletters – General Availability begins for Targeted Release  – Microsoft Viva – New support for branded themes and typography in Viva Amplify  – Microsoft 365 Copilot | PowerPoint now supports enterprise image libraries via SharePoint OAL or Templafy  – Introducing the New Workflows Experience in Microsoft Teams  Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.   Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at:  Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor  Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn   

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 taste of the value — depending on capacity consumed by licensed customers.  What else will Daniel and Darrell discuss?  - Microsoft 365 Copilot | Chat now supports new file types in search grounding  - Microsoft Teams: Meeting Join Bar  - Updates to custom scripting in sites and Classic Publishing site creation  - Microsoft OneDrive for Business | Updated order of Shortcut and Sync commands  - Standard and Priority access to Copilot capabilities  - Microsoft Copilot in Teams: Visual Insight for intelligent recap        Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.   Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at:  Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor  Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn   

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 Microsoft 365 Copilot licensed users  - Self-nomination as a community expert in Viva Engage communities  - Improved backup and restore experience for Microsoft Authenticator on iOS  - Microsoft 365 Copilot | Viva Engage discussion posts added to grounding sources  - Pin AppBar from Hamburger context menu  - Outlook: Report junk + block or unsubscribe in one same action       Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.   Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at:  Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor  Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn   

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 (Microsoft 365): Add topic(s) through Copilot to your existing presentation  - Microsoft Viva Engage: Introducing segmentation for personalized experiences (preview)  - Expanded Copilot in Viva Engage updates  - Dialogs/Task Module Support Now Generally Available in Microsoft Copilot Agents      Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.   Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at:  Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor  Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn   

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  - Researcher in Copilot Notebooks  - Microsoft Teams: Users can save chats and channel messages for later  - Microsoft Teams: Facilitator agent notes in chats (Preview)  - Microsoft Copilot: Access SharePoint agents in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app  - Meeting Search in MS Teams Desktop     Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.   Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at:  Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor  Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn   

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 enhancements    Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.   Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at:  Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor  Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn   

This week Dr Jemar Tisby is joined by Dr Dwight Radcliff to discuss his experience as Academic Dean for the William E. Pannell Center for Black Church Studies and Assistant Professor of Mission, Theology, and Culture at Fuller Seminary Houston. Dwight A. Radcliff Jr. joined the faculty of Fuller as assistant professor of mission, theology, and culture in 2019, and was named at the same time as director of the William E. Pannell Center for Black Church Studies. In 2020, he was named as academic dean for the Pannell Center. Prior to coming to Fuller, Dr. Radcliff taught at Vanguard University, Azusa Pacific University, and the Southern California School of Ministry. While completing his MDiv in Fuller's School of Theology, Radcliff was recognized with several awards and scholarships, including the prestigious Parish Pulpit Fellowship graduation prize and the Hooper/Keefe Preaching Award. He earned his PhD in Fuller's School of Intercultural Studies; in that time he received both a Pannell Fellowship and a King Fellowship. He completed post-master's studies at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas and the University of Oxford. His dissertation is entitled “The Message: A Hip Hop Hermeneutic as a Missiological Model,” and portions of his doctoral research have already been published in a peer-reviewed article in The Journal of Hip Hop Studies and presented in multiple professional, ministry, educational, and popular contexts. Radcliff lectures in seminaries, universities, and conferences on topics ranging from urban church planting, culture, theology, preaching, social justice, millennials, and evangelism. His teaching and preaching has taken him across the US and abroad to places including Brazil and London. He also previously served as a deputy and chaplain with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, during which time he received recognition and commendations from city, county, state, and federal officials. Radcliff has over 20 years experience in pastoral ministry, and currently serves as senior pastor of The Message Center in Gardena, California, where he leads with his wife, DeShun Jones-Radcliff, who serves as the church's director of administration. He and his wife have two daughters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices