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  • New home experience for Viva Connections desktop - 365 Message Center Show #259

    New home experience for Viva Connections desktop

    If your organization is using Viva Connections in Teams a new home experience will be arriving soon. The new landing page will show dashboard cards, news and communities feed, resources menu and frequent sites. If your org subscribes to other Viva apps, you can navigate to them from this new home experience. The question is, what happens to your existing home site? Find out on this episode.

  • Microsoft Teams Premium and other goodies - 365 Message Center Show #258

    Microsoft Teams Premium and other goodies

    Daniel and Darrell take a look at the Message Center after all the Microsoft 365 announcements at Ignite. Microsoft Teams Premium was announced and is set to shift some existing features into the new Premium plan. Microsoft Office is becoming Microsoft 365, the mobile app AND the collection of Online apps will be accessed from microsoft365.com.

  • Survey Teams meeting effectiveness with Viva Insights - 365 Message Center Show #254

    Survey Teams meeting effectiveness with Viva Insights

    Start a plan with your team to improve your meetings and survey the occasional meeting to determine their effectiveness. There's more to this new capability than you would think. Hear Daniel and Darrell deep dive into this update and more this week.

  • Introducing Adoption Score - 365 Message Center Show #252

    Introducing Adoption Score

    Productivity Score has become Adoption Score in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. Measuring adoption of M365 services, this name change is more fitting for the Admin Center feature. Does it offer anything new and more than a name change? Watch the episode to find out.

  • Pre-assign Channel members to Breakout Rooms - 365 Message Center Show #250

    Pre-assign Channel members to Breakout Rooms

    Plan ahead and assign meeting attendees to breakout rooms to support interactive Teams meetings in channels. Now you can put the combination of people together that you want in your breakouts, to optimize for meeting activities.

  • Changes: Arrived and Delivered in April '22 - 365 Message Center Show #238

    Changes: Arrived and Delivered in April 2022

    It's a call-back episode where we look back to find changes that have been delivered in April. We demo and discuss some of the more exciting features that arrived and discuss the messages that announced them. - Questions & Answers in Yammer - Upvoting Answers - Presenter modes move and resize options - Forms: Split sending and sharing entry point - Announcing account switching for Microsoft 365 web apps - Upgrading v1 Power BI workspaces - Microsoft Viva Insights: Enroll in Focus plan from the Insights app in Teams

  • Resize and move content in Presenter mode - 365 Message Center Show #235

    Resize and move content in Presenter mode

    Have you used Presenter mode in Microsoft Teams? Presenters can arrange their shared content and video feed in engaging new ways. But the video and content was in fixed positions for each scene. Now you will have the option to resize and move your video feed and content.

  • OneDrive: Navigate your Teams files - 365 Message Center Show #231

    OneDrive: Navigate your Teams files

    OneDrive is your Files Explorer in the M365 Cloud. Now you can find your Teams files together with SharePoint libraries in a new category called "Your Teams". Coming to a browser near you.

  • Connected Teams and SharePoint templates, Edit Stream captions - 365 Message Center Show #225

    Connected Teams and SharePoint templates, Edit Stream captions

    Welcome back and to our first episode of 2022. Daniel and Darrell are ready to start a new year, helping you plan for change, preventing or fix issues and staying informed of updates. Microsoft Teams and connected SharePoint sites will soon be deployed using a combined template. Design team templates for recurring collaboration purposes and have both the team and the site deployed to suit the shape and size of your teamwork. Also, Stream videos in SharePoint and OneDrive will have their captions and transcriptions become editable. Fix up the mistakes and communicate the captions correctly with important video content.