The 365 Message Center Show - What’s new? | Ep 421

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

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

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

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