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SharePoint News in Outlook and Viva Engage Campaigns | Ep 301
Two new communications tools arrived in Microsoft 365. SharePoint news in Outlook publishes your news as attractive emails, showing the full page content. In Viva Engage, Campaigns connect communications and activities with hashtags, landing pages, and measurable goals and promote visual sponsorship by leaders. This week’s episode is longer, but that’s because it’s full of…
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Python in Excel, Teams Premium Trial, Workflows replacing Connectors | Ep 300
It’s our 300th episode. To celebrate we are wearing cake, talking Python in Excel and giving all of your users a free 60 day trial of Teams Premium. OK, the trial is included in Microsoft 365 and we didn’t organize it. But it was nicely timed. This week on the 365 Message Center Show…
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Announcements in Viva Connections | Ep 297
Send short announcement messages to target audiences through the Viva Connections app. This has potential to replace the Company Communicator app in Microsoft Teams. Recent Planner plans and To Do lists will appear in your recent files on Microsoft 365 home page. SharePoint pages are now easier to share using the new Share button. …
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Improved Microsoft Teams channel invites | Ep 296
The new Teams channel invites will restore faith and interest in using channel meetings. Meeting organizers have more control as to whether team members will receive an emailed invite. SharePoint web parts receive a visual refresh. Loop components will open using loop.microsoft.com and within the Loop app if your organization is using it. This…
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View Stream videos inline in Teams. Browse files by meeting in OneDrive | Ep 295
Share a Stream video in Teams chat and channel conversations, and you will be able to preview and play them from within the conversation. OneDrive has a new feed to show up-coming and past meetings and their related files. It has a really interesting way to show files and recordings for recurring meetings too. SharePoint…
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New Outlook reminder update, Teams Cloud Intelliframe, OneDrive browse by people | Ep 294
New Outlook gets a separate window for displaying reminders. Microsoft Teams Cloud Intelliframe frames up people in a meeting room so we can see their faces. Browse OneDrive files by people and see what they have been working on recently that has been shared with you. This week on the 365 Message Center Show…
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Changes to OneDrive UI, and more free LinkedIn courses | Ep 293
OneDrive on the web is changing to bring focus to your content and make it easier to create new files. LinkedIn Learning adds more free courses to Viva Learning basic. Custom list templates will soon included Power Automate flows as part of the template, packaging up a nice reusable app with automation. This week…
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Viva Pulse, Teams group chat links, changes to MFA | Ep 290
If your org has Viva Suite, then Viva Pulse is now available. Send short surveys out to your team to see how they are doing. Teams group chat now lets you share a link to a reply in the chat. Lastly, MFA will stop support for SMS and phone call code authentication. This week…
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Loop components task list syncs with Planner and ToDo | Ep 289
If you’ve been out of the loop for a while, there’s a new way to work with tasks in Microsoft 365. But don’t worry, it still connects to your favourite task management apps, Planner and ToDo. You can get started with in a Teams meeting or chat. Add a Task list Loop component to capture…
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Zoom in Teams meetings | Ep 288
Clearly, we don’t mean using Zoom inside a Teams meeting. But we do mean being able to zoom into shared content with more visible buttons to control zoom levels. We also discuss “nosie suppression” maintenance, and all about campaigns in Viva Engage. This week on the 365 Message Center Show Daniel and Darrell cover:…