365 Message Center Show #365MCS

The 365 Message Center Show - What’s new? | Ep 410

19 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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...

409 Conflict - 365 Message Center Show

22 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 conf...

The 365 Message Center Show - What’s new? | Ep 408

15 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 noi...

The 365 Message Center Show - What’s new? | Ep 407

07 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

GPT5 automatically decides how long it should think about your request. But you can change it's...err.. mind? You'll also be able to get Copilot to li...

406 - Unacceptable Message Center Show Response

01 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sounds dramatic. But we're just sticking with the error code episode number theme till we can't make any further stories from them. Copilot Chat can...

404 - Message Center Show episode not found

17 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

You managed to find the episode. Now search for where Copilot App Skills are re-moving in Excel. Find out how Copilot can reschedule meetings for you ...

Meeting Polls. FAQ checkers. Rating calls | Ep 403

10 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this 403 Forbidden episode we go to the polls, check our FAQs, and rate our calls. This episode is full of variety, seeing an old Microsoft Garage ...

Let Me COPILOT That For You | Ep 402

05 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We think we will call M365 Copilot's Researcher Agent feature the "LMCTFY". Ask Copilot to perform some research. Choose "Computer Use" mode and let C...

What’s new in the Microsoft 365 Message Center? | Ep 401

27 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The SharePoint document library toolbars are changing and you will want to prepare your org for where buttons have moved and how it works now. Teams...

Floating Copilot button and the M365 Message Center | Episode 400

21 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Some said it could never be done. But we have reached that day. Copilot floating buttons are arriving in OneDrive. Teams is offering an audio-only rec...

Point taken in the Microsoft 365 Message Center Show | Ep 399

13 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Access your organisational images library to get approved images for your presentations. Use Search to find settings in Teams. And where did Copilot g...

What’s new in the Microsoft 365 Message Center? | Episode 398

06 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ask Copilot Chat about Teams channel content. Specify the channel with a /. Ask about a refreshing new round of Microsoft 365 icons. Did your team d...

What’s new in the Microsoft 365 Message Center? | Episode 397

29 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Hey Copilot. Remember how I like my day planned out to leave gaps for focus time? Remember that I like my summaries concise? Do you remember that I al...

What’s new in the Microsoft 365 Message Center? | Episode 396

22 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This episode we discuss a huge update to managing content on SharePoint site, powered by Knowledge Agent. Yes, Copilot will start to do more than help...

What’s new in the Microsoft 365 Message Center? | Episode 395

15 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's short and snappy episode, Copilot Studio gets an increase in the number of files an agent can use in SharePoint and OneDrive. Office Tr...

What’s new in the Microsoft 365 Message Center? | Episode 394

11 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Learn how Microsoft will make it easier for people to get up and running with their current settings when they shift to New Outlook. Copilot Pages and...

What's new in the Microsoft 365 Message Center? | Ep 393

31 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Get your SharePoint News read to you in an audio overview. Output response to your Copilot Researcher results in an old favourite format. And Engage C...

What’s new in the Microsoft 365 Message Center? Episode 393

31 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Get your SharePoint News read to you in an audio overview. Output response to your Copilot Researcher results in an old favourite format. And Engage C...

What's new in the Microsoft 365 Message Center? | Ep 392

25 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is packed with great updates. Loop pages can now be added to Teams channels as a tab. This is a simpler way to use Loop as a team without...

What's new in the Microsoft 365 Message Center? | Ep 391

25 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

React to a message and trigger a workflow. That might be fun if you want to dedicate a certain emoji for 'volunteering' for a task. In other news, som...

What’s new in the Microsoft 365 Message Center? Episode 392

25 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is packed with great updates. Loop pages can now be added to Teams channels as a tab. This is a simpler way to use Loop as a team without...

What’s new in the Microsoft 365 Message Center? Episode 391

18 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

React to a message and trigger a workflow. That might be fun if you want to dedicate a certain emoji for 'volunteering' for a task. In other news, som...

What's new in the Microsoft 365 Message Center? | Ep 390

12 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

GPT-5 is a significant arrival for M365 Copilot. So are email templates in new Outlook. We also want to prepare you for come changes to scheduling eve...

What’s new in the Microsoft 365 Message Center? Episode 390

11 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It's a longer show this week. But that's why we have chapters. GPT-5 is a significant arrival for M365 Copilot. So are email templates in new Outlook....

What's new in the Microsoft 365 Message Center? | Ep 389

05 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The M365 Copilot Chat box is adding a tools button to make it easier to add and use a range of tools from Chat. Copilot-summarized emails are coming t...

What's new in the Microsoft 365 Message Center? | Ep 388

28 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

M365 Copilot in PowerPoint will be able to access the SharePoint Org Assets Library. When you write prompts to create a slide deck, you set Copilot to...

What's new in the Microsoft 365 Message Center? | Ep 387

23 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

M365 Copilot Chat will use new file types like MP4s, CAD, and ZIP, to ground its responses. We wonder how it will find discussions in videos without f...

What's new in the Microsoft 365 Message Center? | Ep 386

14 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Researcher agent is coming to Microsoft Word for M365 Copilot licensed users. This feels like the right place for it to be used, bringing research...

What's new in the Microsoft 365 Message Center? | Ep 385

07 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Microsoft 365 Search get's a Copilot response when you use natural language to search for something. Microsoft Teams notifications become more compact...

What's new in the Microsoft 365 Message Center? | Ep 384

30 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week the 365 Message Center Show brings some lively discussion about timers in Teams meetings and anyone being able to start them to remind the s...

What's new in the Microsoft 365 Message Center? | Ep 383

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the Microsoft 365 Message Center...  - Microsoft 365 Copilot: Extending Copilot Chat to Microsoft 365 apps  - Microsoft 365 Copilot Cha...

Fast meeting invites and prep with Copilot on mobile | Ep 382

18 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pull together a quick meeting invite from an email thread with Copilot from your mobile. Then start preparing for your next meeting using Copilot in O...

Teams Threaded replies. Interactive Copilot Agents in calls | Ep 381

09 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We have often wanted to reply to a reply in Teams channel conversations. Wish granted! But calling them threads when posts are already threaded? And w...

Teams Work location set automatically. Review Copilot agent activity | Ep 380

02 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Listen to your meeting as an audio overview. Summarise email attachments before opening them to read. In the right hands, these will be useful tools. ...

Use Copilot to podcast your meetings and summarise attachments | Ep 379

20 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Listen to your meeting as an audio overview. Summarise email attachments before opening them to read. In the right hands, these will be useful tools. ...

Templates for SharePoint, PowerPoint, and Teams. | Ep 378

13 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is giving notes of templates and orange peel. Yes, this episode has three messages that involve templates in three different M365 experie...

Get visibility of Copilot agents in M365 | Ep 377

07 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If you haven't heard by now, Copilot agents are going to be a big thing in Microsoft 365. Without the right admin tools, they are the next service to ...

Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2 big reveal | 376

28 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Oooh. So that's why Microsoft renamed Microsoft 365 to Microsoft 365 Copilot. It was the app all along. Wave 2 announcements reveal that the home page...

Changes to Copilot Pages. Teams town hall ultra-low latency | Ep 375

24 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

To keep you in your flow, M365 Copilot Pages will now open in the M365 Copilot App home, rather than opening in Loop. Keep curating and conversing wit...

Microsoft Teams Room Recommender. Copilot summarizes Pulses | Ep 374

07 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Don't forget to add a meeting room to your meeting. But if you do and one or more attendees are in the office with you, look out for a timely room rec...

M365 Copilot Researcher and Analyst Agents. New SharePoint page home. | 373

02 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Go deeper to get the info you really want with new Research and Analyst agents in M365 Copilot. Kick off multi-step research, reason over results and ...

Manage what attendees see. Copilot answers questions about messages | Ep 372

24 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Have more control over how we bring people and content onto the Teams meeting stage. It should make it easier to have side by side views of speakers o...

Designer in Microsoft 365 Copilot. Hey Loop. What's changed? | Episode 371

17 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Another PowerPoint feature is being positioned within Microsoft 365 Copilot, with the suggestion of more to come. Design suggestions will still be ava...

Teams Channel Files become Shared. SharePoint Quick Steps | Ep 370

10 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 fi...

Prioritise my Inbox with Copilot in Outlook | Ep 369

06 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

New internal newsletters with New Outlook. Viva Insights included with M365 Copilot | Ep 368

24 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 use...

Microsoft Lists be getting all formal | Ep 367

18 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 a...

Be heard. Share content in meetings. M365 Copilot to analyse both | 366

10 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 Tea...

Create videos with Copilot and Clipchamp | Ep 365

10 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

M365 Copilot Chat Pay As You Go Details released | Ep 364

21 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 u...

Microsoft 365 Copilot Pay As You Go | Ep 363

14 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We can confirm now that Microsoft will make Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat available to use for organisational accounts without an M365 Copilot license.  ...

Unlicensed access to Copilot Agents in Teams group chats | Ep 362

06 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ava...

Microsoft 365 is Microsoft 365 Copilot - #361

27 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What a way to finish the year. Prepare your people to think of Microsoft 365 now as Microsoft 365 Copilot. Your entry point to the productivity platfo...

Promo for SharePoint Agents. Outlook notification improvements - #360

25 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Everyone can benefit from using SharePoint Agents, during a new promotion. Find out about the 10,000 queries a month. Outlook notifications will roll ...

Teams meeting facilitator. M365 Copilot assistance creating pages in SharePoint - #359

26 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Switch on a Copilot meeting facilitator in and have it take notes with you, live. Get help with creating pages using templated Copilot prompts, page t...

Viva Engage as a Copilot source. Loop and M365 Groups - #358

24 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Use Question posts and their answers in Viva Engage as a Copilot source. Microsoft Loop will connect new workspaces to existing Microsoft 365 Groups. ...

Shifty Copilot Agents. New Outlook on by default - #357

13 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There were a few things that puzzled Daniel and Darrell this week. What are pinned Favorites in New Outlook? Why would New Outlook be turned on by def...

Save and share Copilot prompts. Streamlined Teams chat and channels - #356

04 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Save your favorite prompts, whether they are suggested, or you created them, into Copilot Labs library. Share them with your teammates using M365 Copi...

Copilot agents in SharePoint. Name pronunciation on profile cards - #355

29 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ground your Copilot conversation using an agent targeted to a SharePoint document library. It will be easier to make sure the library's files are a re...

Approvals in any library. Summarisations on any page in Edge - #354

21 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Page summarisation returns to Microsoft Copilot in Edge after getting a few security issues sorted. Approvals will be able to be added to any document...

New Teams Calendar. SharePoint Design Ideas - #353

14 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Scheduling meetings is becoming a more consistent experience across Teams and New Outlook. The new Teams Calendar will inherit Outlook on the Web capa...

Finding your place soon with Microsoft Places - #352

08 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Microsoft Places will be Generally Available soon. In this episode we talk about it being available as a core experience across most M365 / O365 subsc...

Which office are you working in today? Add it to Teams presence - #351

30 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Let your teammates know you are working in the office and which building you're in. Drag one of their emails onto your calendar to schedule a meeting ...

Copilot, Copilot, Copilot - #350

23 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Collaborate with team members on Copilot content. Compose messages in Outlook with a larger Copilot prompt editor and more suggested prompts. But what...

New Planner for the web. OneDrive deletion of shared files - #349

16 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Microsoft Planner for the Web catches up with the Planner app in Teams. But some features will be late and some, lost. OneDrive warns about deletion o...

Suggested Copilot candidates. Frontline flexible team membership - #348

09 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If you have been active in Microsoft Teams meetings, chats, Outlook emails and Microsoft Office documents over the past 30 days, you might be suggeste...

SharePoint Brand Center is here! - #347

02 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Brand Center is out of Preview. Get started with them creation and uploading custom fonts. Then protect your meetings from uninvited AI notetakers...

Amplify goal setting. Copilot Auto-summarise in Word - #346

26 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Viva Amplify had a lot to share this week. Improvements to metrics, in service of improved campaign goal setting. Copilot in Word is going to auto-sum...

Connections Quick links, Copilot scheduled meetings - #345

19 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Get help from Copilot in Outlook to write your meeting invite summary an agenda, based on the conversation thread in email. Viva Connections has relea...

Choose your own adventure and Teams breakout room - #344

13 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ac...

Copilot connecting directly to SharePoint Org Asset Library - #343

05 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Now we're talking! Ask M365 Copilot for images. Get org assets as suggestions. Leverage your approved images via Copilot.  Vote on questions in Teams...

Unlicensed OneDrives will cost you - #342

29 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

OneDrives that have had their license removed for over 90 days will soon have their storage moved to Microsoft 365 Archive. Daniel is trying to figure...

CrowdStrike fix, Scheduled Copilot prompts, New Outlook GA - #341

26 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Copilot in M365 will soon support scheduling of prompts to automate your daily LLM-powered help. CrowdStrike caused disruption and damage and the Micr...

Copilot helping create SharePoint content - #340

16 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Stuck for words? I was while writing the description for this episode. Copilot to the rescue in SharePoint. Now create and rewrite page content with h...

Microsoft Teams hidden inactive channels. Clipchamp Brand kit - #339

02 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Your Microsoft Teams channel list will tidy itself up soon, so you can focus on what's currently important to you. But will this impact how teams comm...

SharePoint coauthored pages. Silence channel posts - #338

24 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Are you done editing the page? Well, can you check it in before you go on leave? I don't want you to lose your changes." Does this sound familiar? It...

Shaped images in SharePoint. Copilot time-based responses - #337

17 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Use new shaped-cropping with your SharePoint images to make eye-catching pages. Copilot improves the amount of time it can go back for time-based prom...

M365 Copilot Catchup, Recalled Recall, SharePoint text supercharge - #336

10 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Catch up with Microsoft 365 Copilot and clever cards that prompt YOU with updates you should know about. Recall in Copilot+ PCs gets "recalled"... mor...

Custom emoji, Notify when available - #335

04 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Get ready to customize your conversations by uploading custom emoji and animations. This fun way to inject personality into your posts also paves the ...

Copilot+ PCs and more messages during Microsoft Build - #334

27 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Now we'll be able to recall what we were doing all week when we fill in our timesheets at the end of the week. Ask Copilot questions about our activit...

Disturb my Do-not-Disturb and remove natural language search - #333

24 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 giv...

Welcome. We suggest you follow this channel.. in Teams - #332

13 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 m...

SharePoint improved version history. Ground-chat in Copilot for Outlook - #331

06 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

New options for automatically managing file version history will assist with storage. Copilot for Outlook gets a side-car panel for prompts that are g...

Follow meetings. Slash commands. Engaging Copilot adoption. - #330

30 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Following a meeting is a great new alternative to a tentative response. Let the organiser know you won't be able to attend but you are definitely inte...

SharePoint Brand Center and Custom fonts - #329

22 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 wi...

Copilot in Stream. Ringless Group Chat calls - #328

08 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Get meeting insights from recordings of meetings you didn't attend, but they were shared with you via Stream. Or maybe you didn't join that Group Chat...

Pop up messages to drive adoption of Teams and Copilot - #327

01 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Configure organizational messages from the Adoption Score admin center that prompt usage of Microsoft Teams features. Also coming to Microsoft 365 Cop...

Did we just get M365 Copilot without knowing it? - #326

25 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A strangely targeted message this week told us about a new Copilot in Teams feature coming to Teams mobile. See citations in a Copilot-powered meeting...

At Microsoft in Redmond - Loop, Teams, OneDrive, Viva Engage and Connections - #325

18 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This special episode was recorded with Daniel and Darrell together at the Microsoft MVP Summit, at Microsoft HQ in Redmond. Guest Sharing is finally c...

SharePoint section backgrounds images and new feedback options - #324

11 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

New decorative possibilities using SharePoint Online with background images in sections. This will be a welcome addition, though will first arrive wit...

Microsoft Teams meeting recap artifacts shared automatically - #323

04 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Teams meeting recaps will be shared into the meeting chat after the meeting ends. Teams premium will see a few more artifacts to help them recap the m...

Get Answers from Microsoft Search. Your Answers - #322

19 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Optimizing search takes effort and planning. But what if you could refine your organization's knowledge through simple Q&A and find it in search r...

Create articles in Viva Engage. Microsoft Copilot UI updates - #321

12 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Viva Engage is getting a new type of post for organizations that subscribe to Viva Employee Communications and Communities, or the Viva Suite. The Art...

Auto Tag Membership & Hide your channels - #320

05 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Teams Tags. Strong on targeting conversations. Weak on management. Especially in teams with changing roles and high membership turnover. Introducing A...

Custom SharePoint news email templates - #319

29 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We felt this headline was worth jazz-hands. (In truth, I forgot to edit and remove it from the beginning). Set up the email page templates for your Sh...

Changes to Website tab in Teams create big impact - #318

22 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Website tab in Teams channels is changing to reduce support for displaying sites within the Teams app. The community feedback suggests this will i...

What time is it where you are? - #317

15 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Scheduling meetings in Teams with team members from different time zones is going to get a whole lot easier. Now the time will show in the Scheduling ...

Teams meetings simplified audio and video settings - #316

09 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Making adjustments to your audio and video settings during Teams meetings just got simpler. New flyout menus keep you in your meeting while letting yo...

Discovery feed in Teams. Copilot in Viva Engage - #315

18 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Finishing this year's season of the 365 Message Center Show, we discuss the new discovery feed in Teams. Will it save us time and bring all messages t...

Archive Teams channels - #314

11 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Tidy up those busy teams that have lots of channels no longer in use. This is one step better than simply hiding them or expecting team members to hid...