Another PowerPoint feature is being positioned within Microsoft 365 Copilot, with the suggestion of more to come. Design suggestions will still be available for everyone, but it may be getting smarter for M365 Copilot subscribers. Microsoft Loop makes it easier to tell your workspace members about changes to the page you have been working on. The Copilot Pay-as-you-go feature gets its own place for administration within the M365 Admin Center.  - New Microsoft Outlook for Windows: Bulk import of .eml files  - Introduction of Copilot Pay-as-you-go Feature in M365 Admin Center  - M ..read more

Prepare for another change to how you use Microsoft Teams. The Files tab in Channels will change how it displays files, showing different views and filters. It appears to be aligning with Teams Chat's Shared tab. Also, SharePoint introduces Quick Steps to perform common automation and workflows. Join us in the comments with your thoughts and reactions to the changes announced in this week's Message Center.  - Microsoft OneDrive: New naming convention for folder shortcuts  - Microsoft Teams: In channels, the "Shared" tab (formerly the "Files" tab) will have new capabilities  - Mi ..read more

Ready for a new AI-powered prioritisation tool that you can teach what's important to you? Not Focused Inbox, no. Kinda like Mail Rules, yeah.  It's a more practical, guided way to focus on email that's important to you. Even more important than your Focused Inbox.  - Microsoft 365 Copilot: Chat sessions will have titles generated by large language models (LLM)  - Microsoft 365 Copilot: Sessions grouped by time frame  - New Microsoft 365 Copilot release notes page  - Microsoft Teams: Record video clips in channels  - Microsoft Skype interoperability with Microsoft ..read more

To make sure you can measure your Microsoft 365 Copilot usage, Viva Insights will be included in the Copilot license. This enables analytics to be used alongside organizational data and other work analytics, telling more stories about the impacts on productivity.  If that's worth writing home about, you might start a new organizational newsletter using the Newsletters feature in New Outlook. Create, subscribe and manage co-authored newsletters that support comments and leverage SharePoint Embedded.  - Microsoft Teams: Distinguish invites among Attendee, Presenter, and Co-organizer em ..read more

This latest update to Microsoft Lists is starting to look more like Microsoft Forms. Copilot in Teams provides a way for you to quickly summarize an attachment in a chat. Teams chat becomes easier to monitor for meeting presenters with one screen. There was a plethora of messages this week. These were our picks.  - Microsoft Teams: Post and reply as "Organizer" in Q&A  - Microsoft Outlook for iOS: Open the previous email with email auto-advance  - Copilot Studio – Agent Builder in Copilot Chat  - Microsoft Copilot: File summary in Microsoft Teams chat  - SharePoint ..read more

The second most common phrase said on a Teams meeting is "Can you hear me now." Do you know the most common phrase? "You're muted." Well Microsoft Teams will soon introduce a new way to indicate that your mic is working. If the meeting can hear you, then you will be included in the meeting transcript and recording, and Copilot can answer questions about what you said. Do you know what else in will be able to answer questions about? "Can you see my screen? OK good." We are intrested to learn what Copilot will analyse from content shared on screen in a meeting. What kind of questions will it be ..read more

Get help from Copilot to create a video using stock footage. Edit the video in Clipchamp and mix with your own video clips. We also celebrate the 365 Message Center Show community on this 365th episode with some words from our frequent listeners and watchers. Thank you so much for continuing to see our show as a source of updates and a place to share your knowledge and opinions too.    - Why do you watch 365MCS - Microsoft 365 Copilot | New custom engine agents   - Microsoft 365 Business Chat | Use Continue to Outlook to set up a meeting in Microsoft Outlook   - Microsoft T ..read more

Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat has launched again. Now with Pay As You Go options clarified. This weeks' message points us to admin controls for setting up PAYG, controlling access to Agents, setting up billing and limits, and more. Learn about the 4 types of prompts, messages sent to Copilot Chat, and how much they will cost. Also on this week's show:   - Microsoft 365 Copilot | Select Microsoft Graph Connectors when writing prompts in BizChat   - Large Events | End Session for Attendees and Return Presenters to Green Room   - Microsoft Viva Engage | New recommended comments f ..read more

We can confirm now that Microsoft will make Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat available to use for organisational accounts without an M365 Copilot license.  It will use a Pay As You Go model, just like Syntex. But the details are not complete. How much is it? Is it the whole M365 Copilot experience? How do we limit access to it? Why has this message been updated already? Actually, at the time of writing this video description... where is the message?    We talk about this and more in our first show of the year:   - Microsoft Purview | New secure workflow to bypass legal holds and ..read more

The story continues to develop about accessing Microsoft 365 Copilot and making it available to all users with an Entra ID. Copilot Agents will be available to use within Teams group chats, whether you are licensed with M365 Copilot or not. While the message doesn't say so, we think it is another use of metered (pay as you go) access to Copilot, which was detailed around the announcements for accessing SharePoint's Copilot Agents.    We talk about this and more in our first show of the year:   - Teams Meeting recap can be shared as a link   - New Outlook - Manage email in P ..read more