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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

What a great way to celebrate 25 years of SharePoint - a makeover. The new look menus and SharePoint home encourage discovery of content, publishing new pages and posts, and building sites, lists and more. Happy Birthday SharePoint. Also on this week's show 0:00 Welcome 1:35 Introducing the new SharePoint experience - MC1240699 11:07 Copilot entry point changes in Word and handoff to Agent in chat - MC1240704 13:22 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Updates to PowerPoint on‑canvas features with Agent mode - MC1243550 18:32 Workspace IP Firewall rules (Public Preview) - MC1238430 23:23 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Turn Copilot Pages into SharePoint News posts - MC1239186 26:20 Targeted file and folder restores in Microsoft 365 Backup - MC1245216 29:15 Upcoming change: disabling Teams meeting recording notification emails - MC1245635

Microsoft Teams is having a "Simply Red" moment and it's leaving some people seeing red. Microsoft are removing the labels from the apps on the app rail. Because 🎵 if you don't know them by now, you will never never never know them.🎵 (Ref: https://youtu.be/zTcu7MCtuTs?si=AYbidLv-ZnCPnG0z&t=15) Also on this week's episode: 0:00 Welcome 1:41 Simplified Teams app bar to create a cleaner and more focused experience - MC1234559 5:20 App names hidden in app bar for a cleaner, more focused experience - MC1226220 9:59 Outlook: retiring “Contact Masking” (hide suggested recipients) - March 31, 2026 - MC1234566 14:52 Microsoft SharePoint: Use SharePoint quick steps to automate common tasks and workflows with new column type - MC1234549 22:01 Microsoft Teams: Upcoming changes to Microsoft Places licensing and feature access - MC1235124 28:47 Microsoft Teams: New controls for quick views in the chat list - MC1234574 32:32 Microsoft Teams on Windows: Annotate content while sharing a single window - MC1234561

Classic Outlook gets more Copilot capabilities. Good idea, given that much of the world still uses Classic Outlook. But this week we also see a modern feature removed from New Outlook. Context IQ and the / are retiring in New Outlook. Interesting move. Will the / be used for something else more Copiloty? 0:00 Welcome 2:25 Secure Boot certificate updates: actions required ahead of June 2026 expiration - MC1230373 5:11 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Prepare for meetings with Copilot in classic Outlook for Windows - MC1228331 8:53 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Scheduling with Copilot in classic Outlook for Windows - MC1228333 12:11 SharePoint Pages: Retirement of Web Search (Bing) image pivot - MC1230452 16:01 Context IQ retirement in the new Outlook and Outlook on the web - MC1230455 19:22 Microsoft Teams: Voice tethering - MC1230459

Agents will soon retrieve data from MCP servers and offer formatting options you can interact with. The Copilot "preview pane" opens Word, Excel, and PowerPoint alongside your M365 Chat results. Viva Engage introduces a way to hide your colleagues messages from your feed. What else landed this week? 0:00 Welcome 1:55 Open Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Files in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat - MC1225199 4:03 Microsoft Teams: Teams Live Events is retiring - MC1226495 8:17 Enhancing Model Context Protocol (MCP) based agents with rich interactive UI widgets support - MC1227627 14:00 Viva Engage: New option to hide a user's messages - MC1226225 21:11 Drawn electronic signatures with eSignature for Microsoft 365 - MC1225195 24:09 Change meeting organizer via PowerShell cmdlet in Exchange Online - MC1227623

We've been able to open M365 Copilot Chat alongside our Office apps. Now you'll be able to stay in a Copilot Chat and open email messages and PDFs from the Chat citations. Stay in Chat and check the sources - in full. 0:00 Welcome 2:04 Microsoft Teams: New Drafts quick view MC1223827 6:16 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Create and view Outlook rules - MC1223821 10:03 Open Outlook emails directly in Copilot chat - MC1223826 12:25 Open PDFs within Copilot - MC1223823 15:26 Microsoft Teams: AI workflows powered by Microsoft 365 Copilot - MC1223822 21:02 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Researcher agent output formats - MC1224569

Microsoft is expanding further on what the free Copilot Chat will cover in Outlook mailboxes. But it will complicate how to describe the difference between free, unlicensed Copilot and licensed M365 Copilot. We also discuss adding watermarks to GenAI created and altered content. Also how the new Agent Mode works in PowerPoint to make changes to your presentations. 0:00 Welcome 2:24 New features coming to Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat for Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint - MC1187671 6:29 Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention - DLP support for Fabric warehouses - MC1219530 9:27 Agent Mode in Microsoft Copilot for PowerPoint for the web - MC1219792 17:01 Brand impersonation protection for Teams Calling - MC1219793 21:49 New policy to add watermarks to content generated or altered by using AI in Microsoft 365 - MC1221451

Have you ever wanted to replace one or two reaction icons in Teams meetings with some fun or seasonal custom reactions? Now you can with Teams Premium. You can leverage the People Skills services to suggest skills for E3 and E5 licensed people. Viva Engage Communities will soon appear in your list of Chats and Channels. What else is worth talking about this week? 0:00 Welcome 3:05 Branded meeting reactions in Teams Premium - MC1217644 7:50 More users will be able to create Loop workspaces - MC1217996 11:48 Retirement of Power BI Q&A - MC1218421 14:30 People Skills: AI skill inferencing expanded to E3/E5 licenses - MC1218711 24:09 Microsoft Teams: Viva Engage communities in Teams - MC1218423

M365 Copilot Chat has been turned off in your org. You'll need to ask IT Admin why. You might be able to convince them to turn it on without much conflict. The IT Admin might need to run a permissions report to check permissions before they turn on Copilot Chat. They might also need to Copilot-Search their calendar for the meeting where they discussed the governance of why Copilot Chat was turned off. This week's mashed-up story was brought to you by our selection of the messages. What story would you tell with these... er... prompts?   0:00 Welcome 1:54 Retirement of featured links on SharePoint Start Page - MC1197131 5:22 Chat visibility in the Microsoft 365 Copilot App - MC1197289 11:31 Calendar Search in M365 Copilot Search - MC1197144 13:46 New permissions report available in SharePoint admin center - MC1197128 18:57 Express voice enrollment in Microsoft Teams - MC1197146 25:31 Microsoft Purview: Role management update - MC1199765

Talk to Copilot and get it's help with triaging your email. Sounds good. You might want to find a quiet corner to try it, or a headset with active noise cancelling. Or Jed's noisy sales call might interrupt the Copilot conversation. Microsoft Planner is retiring some features to make room for some new ones. One in particular is going to finally make comments on tasks more useful. This and more on this week's show 0:00 Welcome 2:18 Microsoft 365 Copilot - Add web links as references in Copilot Notebooks - MC1193414 5:52 Coming Soon - Anthropic models will be available by default in Copilot experiences - MC1193290 12:04 Retirement of several Microsoft Planner features in early 2026 as part of a Planner update - MC1193421 17:05 Microsoft Teams - Find SharePoint agents in Teams chats and Teams Store - MC1193415 23:11 Microsoft 365 Copilot - Email triage with pin, flag, archive, and mark read - MC1193695 31:11 Microsoft 365 - Enrich profile cards with custom properties from third-party systems - MC1193692