Copilot plugins and PowerPoint branding pane | Ep 442

This week, we explore changes in Copilot, including prompts to try different experiences, the arrival of Projects and Workspaces, and Copilot Search for SharePoint and OneDrive. 0:00 Welcome 2:29 Microsoft Copilot app: Updates to Home and navigation - MC1535647 10:39 Activity in other accounts and orgs panel improvements - MC1532248 14:05 Changes to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint agents in Microsoft Copilot - MC1536062 16:22 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Suggestions to continue in another Copilot experience - MC1536065 22:43 Limits in Copilot Chat - MC1536163 26:37 Microsoft SharePoint Online and OneDrive for the web: Updated search experience with Copilot Search - MC1540513

Today we'll be looking at two presenters and teams can share their desktops. Side-by-side! And you can also engage with your community. Ha, see what I did there in Copilot. You'll also enjoy the refreshed look and feel of SharePoint lists. 0:00 Welcome 2:00 Microsoft 365 admin center: Manage authoritative sources for Microsoft 365 Copilot Search - MC1526676 8:08 Microsoft Teams: Two presenters can share their screens or windows simultaneously in meetings - MC1528014 13:09 Engage plugin for Copilot Cowork and Autopilot: General availability - MC1530609 17:49 Frontier expands to include public previews in Microsoft Teams, new Outlook for Windows, OneDrive, and SharePoint - MC1529472 19:56 SharePoint Lists: Refreshed user experience - MC1530610 23:23 Office in Copilot brings the full power of Office into the Microsoft Copilot app - MC1530611

This week on the 365 Message Center Show, we’re catching up on the latest changes across Microsoft 365. We’ll look at updates to agents in SharePoint and OneDrive, and improvements to the Brand Kit creation experience. We’ll also discuss how Microsoft is bringing new insights into agents, including what you’ll be able to see even without an Agent 365 license. If you’re responsible for Microsoft 365, adoption, change management, or just want to keep up with what’s changing, join us as we break down the updates and what they could mean for you. 0:00 Welcome 3:01 Upcoming changes to Agents in SharePoint and OneDrive - MC1511052 8:03 New Outlook for Windows: All Accounts view brings email into a single inbox view - MC1519843 9:41 Microsoft Agent 365: Expanded access to Microsoft agent usage and activity insights in Microsoft 365 admin center - MC1506727 14:24 Projects in Copilot - MC1519856 18:44 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Critique and Council preview experiences will retire - MC1515927 23:34 Microsoft 365 apps: Updated Brand Kit management experience - MC1519846

Unlock the power of Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat with skills! In this episode, we dive into how to enhance your productivity by creating repeatable instructions and utilizing skills in your conversations. Planner Agent now generates status reports using the details from your tasks in a plan. What else is worth discussing this week in the messages? 00:00 Welcome 3:35 Skills in Copilot Chat - MC1493223 10:08 Action may be required - Review who can create agents in Microsoft Entra - MC1506733 13:24 Outlook: Reply With a Template in Rules - MC1505607 15:51 Microsoft Planner: AI-generated status reports in Planner Agent - MC1506735 21:19 Microsoft Teams: Video sharing from OneDrive in Teams events - MC1506734

Show Copilot what you want your skill to do. Record the steps in Copilot for PowerPoint. Then save a reusable skill. Also, private tasks will be stored in the private Planner plan. What does this mean for Microsoft To Do? 0:00 Welcome 2:07 Updated My Task experience in Planner - MC1488844 5:14 Private tasks now stored in your private plan in Planner - MC1488845 9:09 Microsoft Create: Improved sharing controls for Brand Kits - MC1489926 12:32 Microsoft Brand Kit: Duplicate an existing Brand Kit - MC1489928 13:59 Microsoft 365: Targeted Release retirement - MC1490899 20:42 Record A Skill Capability in PowerPoint Copilot - MC1490903

Bundle all you need together to plug in services for Copilot. Find out about temporary branding pane referral for PowerPoint. Get control of third-party agents in your tenant. This episode is all about power and control. 0:00 Welcome 2:08 Microsoft Copilot: Introducing the Microsoft plugin registry for Microsoft Copilot experiences - MC1484008 6:17 Connected Platforms - Agent 365 extends observability to third-party agents - MC1480873 10:52 Microsoft SharePoint: Retirement of SharePoint Page Agent (Frontier) - MC1481325 15:22 Microsoft PowerPoint: Brand Guidelines and Style removed from new Brand Kit creation - MC1483859 17:04 Microsoft PowerPoint: Temporary removal of the Brand pane - MC1483886

A change to Microsoft 365 so big that Microsoft dropped the 365 and changed to Microsoft Copilot, in more places that one. The super-app is was announced, combining Chat, Cowork, Code, and Autopilot. Daniel and Darrell still managed to find some significant updates that didn't involve Copilot this week. HTML support in SharePoint and changes to Planner meeting plans. 0:00 Welcome Message title and number 2:49 Microsoft OneDrive: New pay-as-you-go storage billing option - MC1477185 7:25 Microsoft Copilot: New ways to work across Microsoft Copilot and Microsoft 365 - MC1479277 17:13 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Updates to the Researcher experience - MC1476269 24:14 Spell check before sending emails in new Outlook - MC1479509 27:16 SharePoint: HTML pages - MC1479517 33:01 Microsoft Planner: Meeting-created plans will expire after 180 days of inactivity - MC1479508

Today's the day. Teams get's follow-up flags. Remind yourself to look at a chat message or post. Also, hand over the organiser role of meetings in Outlook. Lastly, give strict guidance for Copilot to follow when creating brand-aligned slide decks. 0:00 Welcome 2:28 M365 Copilot: Tell Copilot what you need directly from the Copilot button in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint - MC1470885 5:48 Microsoft Teams: Personal message reminders for chat and channels - MC1470887 10:27 Microsoft Teams: New centralized experience for organizing important resources in chats and channels - MC1473153 20:11 Outlook: Change the organizer of meetings - MC1472028 29:18 Microsoft 365 Copilot in PowerPoint: Guide Presentation Creation with Notes Steering and Strict Brand Adherence - MC1470415 34:28 Brand Skill support now available in PPT Copilot [Desktop] - MC1473166

Viva Engage will soon be able to power the comments on SharePoint pages. Silence Teams notifications temporarily with a new option. Create interactive slides using a new Copilot skill. What else is arriving soon? 0:00 Welcome 2:35 Create interactive slides in PowerPoint with Copilot skill (Windows and Mac) - MC1461152 5:28 Upcoming changes to classic publishing sites, classic user-created pages and custom scripting in SharePoint Online - MC1464926 13:14 Microsoft Teams: Users can temporarily pause all notifications - MC1465768 17:07 Microsoft Teams: Collect information with List Form in Workflows MC1466757 20:18 Frontier [Skills] 'Explain this presentation' built in skill in PPT Copilot (Web) MC1466327 23:51 Cross-post SharePoint News to Engage MC1466762

Surprise! Did you see this coming? The Microsoft 365 Copilot logo drops mug-shot booking board. The Microsoft Copilots, personal and business, coming together to be one and the same app. Simplified. New flat logo. But what's next? 0:00 Welcome 3:08 Microsoft SharePoint: New report on Everyone except external users - MC1450131 6:14 Microsoft Copilot Word: Document summarization experience moving - MC1454113 9:52 Microsoft Teams: Configure mandatory participant consent before joining meetings - MC1454114 15:57 Microsoft 365 Copilot app update: Simpler Copilot access - MC1454108 22:42 Microsoft 365: The Next Generation of File & Folder Sharing - MC1454378 30:00 Microsoft OneNote: Retirement of Loop components in OneNote for the web - MC1454385