This week on the 365 Message Center Show When scheduling a meeting using the Teams app, you'll be able to invite Office 365 groups and distribution lists. Also on the show: – Cyber Security awareness kit for end user training – New update channel for tenants to receive updates to Microsoft 365 services – AutoClaim Policy for products containing Microsoft Teams – Cortana briefing email – Invite a group or distribution list to a Teams meeting – Teams support in the SharePoint Migration Tool – SharePoint: New hyperlink and date and time editors, improved editing for list and document libraries – Office.com home page layout and navigation change – Microsoft…
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Pop-out 3-by-3 meeting window in Microsoft Teams #144 – 365 Message Center Show
This week on the 365 Message Center Show Who likes pop-out windows to multi-task? Can I ask you to raise your hand to show you agree? It opens up a few more possibilities for presenters and attendees alike. With more faces showing in the audience, this update-cluster is going to make an impact. Also on the show: – New layout for SharePoint site footer – Microsoft 365 Records Management is now GA – Records Management: Proof of disposal for records – Teams meeting policy update to manage access to past meetings – SharePoint home sites – Microsoft Authenticator – Fullscreen account pages for Android – Schedule pages and news posts…
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Send Live reactions during PowerPoint Live Presentations #143 – 365 Message Center Show
This week on the 365 Message Center Show I hope PowerPoint Live Presentations arrive in time for some of the #M365May presenters to use. It's arriving in targeted release tenants now. I'm keen to allow attendees to follow the slides on their own device with captions and send real-time reactions, much like in Facebook Live streams. Also on the show: – Planner integration for Message Center – Intune role management coming to Microsoft 365 admin center – New Yammer public preview plus additional administration controls and enhancements – Planner app renamed in Teams to Tasks – Spam notifications and alerts in shared mailboxes – Outlook introduces Incident Notification for IT…
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Subscribe to an Internet Calendar in Outlook
Subscribe to a Calendar in Outlook To stay informed with the happenings of your community group or sport club, you can subscribe to an internet calendar in Outlook. This will allow you to keep up with the schedule, but also any changes that happen to the calendar. Simply importing calendar entries will not accomplish the task. Don't Import Your Calendar Importing a calendar via an .ics file, for example, will most certainly give you the meetings in your calendar. However, if the creator of the calendar makes changes to the meetings in the calendar, you will not receive the updates. Outlook Makes Subscribing Easy Outlook provides a easy method of…
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Publish Outlook Calendar to the Internet
Why Publish an Outlook Calendar to the Internet? Before asking how to publish an Outlook calendar to the internet, we should know why one would want to. Many civic, sports, and community groups need a way to keep their members informed of events. Groups can invite their members to meetings to accomplish that task, but that requires keeping track of every email address needed for invites. Pull, Not Push Instead of using a push method – sending invites to members – groups can enable a ‘pull' method. Publish a calendar on the internet and have members subscribe to it. This allows for the refreshing of calendar entries and those changes…
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SharePoint stock images - with Vlad Catrinescu special guest #142 – 365 Message Center Show
This week on the 365 Message Center Show *Stay tuned to the end for a special interview with Vlad Catrinescu (Twitter), Author & Microsoft MVP, concerning the new Power Platform Data Loss Prevention features.* Resource mentioned during interview: Power Apps Center of Excellence We all have our go-to sources for stock images. But soon, you won't need to leave SharePoint to find stock images to brighten up your modern pages. Also on the show: – Yammer app for Microsoft Teams – Third party online meeting providers in Outlook for Android – Continuous Access Evaluation (CAE) – New and updated usage reports in Microsoft 365 admin center – Prepare for update to the new…
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3 by 3 video layout in Microsoft Teams Meetings #141 – 365 Message Center Show
This week on the 365 Message Center Show The meeting layout in Microsoft Teams will soon show 3 by 3, or 9 active participants. It will alter the number based on your available bandwidth to maintain high quality audio and video experience. But now you can keep an eye on more of your team mates and audience. Also on the show: – Updates to Outlook for iOS and Android – Teams enhanced meeting and admin controls, and security enhancements – Update to Office 365 ProPlus – Rich-text editor for text fields with SharePoint lists – Updated Yammer Conversations web part for SharePoint – Native mode alignment tool for Yammer –…
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Modern experience for managed metadata services #140 – 365 Message Center Show
This week on the 365 Message Center Show The SharePoint Online managed metadata services finally gets a modern SharePoint makeover. Term store manager, content type gallery and tagging / filtering options are all in line for modernization. Also on the show: – Basic Auth and Exchange Online update – Microsoft Teams: Raise your virtual hand in Teams meetings – Microsoft Forms eDiscovery export format change – End-user spam notifications missing phish mails – Streamlining the recipient experience for links shared with specific people – Content query web part performance banner – New service plan, common data service, added to enable future Office features Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a…
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Microsoft Teams background effects arriving mid April #139 – 365 Message Center Show
This week on the 365 Message Center Show Only the most anticipated feature while we all work from home… change our backgrounds in Microsoft Teams so we don't look like we're working from home! Also on the show: – Sharing behavior for non-Office resources – Secure by default: Junking domains that fail authentication – Outlook on the web, new editor capabilities (Microsoft Editor) – Licensing and enforcement deadline extensions for Dynamics 365, Power Automate, and Power Apps – SharePoint and OneDrive command bar reorganized for Power Automate features – SharePoint Spaces Preview: It's actually arriving! – Yammer uses your Office profile (and steps up consistent exp). – Yammer All Company feed…
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Microsoft 365 temporary feature adjustments #138 – 365 Message Center Show
This week on the 365 Message Center Show To reduce load on Microsoft 365 services as the World works from home, some features are reducing functionality, sync frequencies reducing and meeting recordings render in lower resolution. It's only a temporary move. Microsoft were planning to increase capacity, but not as suddenly as has occurred in recent weeks. Keep safe. Stay home. Flatten the curve. Also on the show: – Syncing files used by local computer in OneDrive – Structural navigation caching in SharePoint – Update for Office 365 ProPlus – New authentication method for OneDrive on MacOS – Kaizala API usage limited to only org-mapped groups – Microsoft Teams increases…
