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Choose your own adventure and Teams breakout room | Ep 344
Set up breakout rooms for your Teams meetings and let your attendees choose which room to join. This opens up lots of possibilities for small group activities. Teams meeting Intelligent Recaps will notify you when they are ready to review the AI notes. Copilot features are being retired in Edge on desktop and mobile. But…
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Custom emoji, Notify when available | Ep 335
Get ready to customize your conversations by uploading custom emoji and animations. This fun way to inject personality into your posts also paves the way for some promotional inspiration. We also welcome back the ability to ask Teams to be notified when someone becomes available. It’s a useful feature, but Daniel shares how it might…
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Disturb my Do-not-Disturb and remove natural language search | Ep 333
We have a perplexing couple of messages this week that appear to disable useful functionality in Teams and Microsoft 365. But that is countered by giving Copilot Insights and introducing a way to share meeting notes, files and other artifacts automatically for recurring Teams meetings. You want to know more. Come on. That teaser was…
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Welcome. We suggest you follow this channel.. in Teams | Ep 332
Welcome to the team. We hope you enjoy your collaborative stay. Take a look at these channels. We suggest you follow them. But that’s up to you. You might want to visit SharePoint and see our new no-banner option. A delightful look for the minimalist or the creative who wants more control over the look…
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SharePoint Brand Center and Custom fonts | Ep 329
Get ready for the new Brand Center and helpful tools to standardize your SharePoint sites and content you create in Microsoft 365. The Brand Center will begin rolling out capabilities, starting with custom font packages that match your internal brands. As with all new things in M365, the first release is limited in capability. But…
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Loop, Teams, OneDrive, Viva Engage and Connections | Ep 325
This special episode was recorded with Daniel and Darrell together at the Microsoft MVP Summit, at Microsoft HQ in Redmond. Guest Sharing is finally coming to Microsoft Loop. Teams improves attaching files to posts and OneDrive for the web provides templates to start your office files. This week on the 365 Message Center Show…
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SharePoint section background images and new feedback options | Ep 324
New decorative possibilities using SharePoint Online with background images in sections. This will be a welcome addition, though will first arrive with a curated selection of gradients and images. Custom images come later. Perhaps you can use the new Feedback option in SharePoint Online to… give great feedback. This week on the 365 Message…
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Refreshed Viva Connections home, People Search dashboard card | 307
The Viva Connections landing page is starting to look more like a ready-to-go intranet home page. News in a carousel. Announcements as banner along the top. Dashboard. But there are significant changes to how Resources work. Watch to learn more. This week on the 365 Message Center Show Daniel and Darrell cover: – Viva…
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Microsoft Designer will make Teams announcements pop | Episode 306
New Teams still has a few features to catch up on compared with Classic Teams. Announcement backgrounds will be back soon with a zingy twist. We will be able to use Microsoft Designer to create them and customize further. This might be the first integration we’ve seen between Designer and another Microsoft 365 app. …
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Will you switch to New Teams and other 365 messages | Episode 305
New Teams is now Generally Available, including most of the features on the list to be at parity with Classic Teams. What do Daniel and Darrell think about it? What will your organization do? This week on the 365 Message Center Show Daniel and Darrell cover: – Announcing the general availability of the new…