This week on the 365 Message Center Show Create a Yammer live event and produce it from within Microsoft Teams. This simplifies producing live events, for orgs that don't yet have the capability to use an external app or device. Up to 10 presenters can join the Teams meeting where the live stream is produced. Also in this week's show: – Microsoft 365 admin center defaulting to new experience – Microsoft 365 usage reports adds administrator roles – New service health status: “False Positive” – Live Events in Yammer produced from your device – Improved sign-in experience for Microsoft Teams – New reports for Office 365 Advanced Thread Protection –…
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Updating classic SharePoint team site home pages to the modern template #130 – 365 Message Center Show
This week on the 365 Message Center Show *Stay tuned to the end for a special interview with Joanne Klein (Twitter), Owner of NexNovus Consulting, Office 365 consultant, & Microsoft MVP, concerning legal holds in Microsoft Teams private channels and the new Advanced eDiscovery tools in Microsoft 365* Classic SharePoint team site home pages that have not been customized are soon to be upgraded to the modern template. Organisations with customized classic home pages are left untouched, giving time to update custom web parts and designs. This is an update to gradually shift orgs towards modern sites, giving end-users new capabilities such as easier posting of news. Also in this week's show:…
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SharePoint Page Difference Visualization
As announced during Microsoft Ignite and new to SharePoint Online: view modern page differences in past versions with SharePoint page difference visualization. This functionality will enable page authors to find changes made and reverse them if needed. Check out my video below demonstrating the functionality and then read the details below! Also, you can view on YouTube Manage Versions Versioning and having a version history has been a staple for SharePoint for a long time. However, with this update we are able to get even more detail into what has actually been updated. Using the old (classic) way of viewing version history, there is no way to know what has…
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Enhanced scheduling experience in Teams #128 – 365 Message Center Show
This week on the 365 Message Center Show *Stay tuned to the end for a special interview with Susan Hanley, SharePoint consultant & Microsoft MVP, concerning default SharePoint sharing links that can now default to people with existing access* You can find Sue on Twitter, her blog, and on Computer World. Meetings are a core experience in Microsoft Teams. In the early days of the release of Teams, scheduling a meeting was a simple but limited experience. Today, the meeting scheduling form in Teams is just about at parity with the Outlook on the web scheduling form. This release gives more options for the meeting organizer. Search from the location…
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Email notifications for comments & @mentions in Office #125 – 365 Message Center Show
On episode 125 of The 365 Message Center Show, we'll discuss all 14 new updates in the Microsoft 365 Message Center. – Office 365 Video to Microsoft Stream migration – retirement date and timelines – New features coming to the Office 365 app launcher and Office.com – Outlook on the web, new mobile browser experience – FindTime, updating back-end service – Outlook on the web – Files view – Office 2016 for Mac end of mainstream support – Teams meeting policies update – Custom search results pages for SharePoint sites – Image resizing in the modern SharePoint experience – SharePoint page difference visualization – Global reader experience in new SharePoint…
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Updated SharePoint start page experience #123 – 365 Message Center Show
This week, we're live from SharePoint Fest Chicago #SPFestChi. The SharePoint start page will be tidied up, organizing featured and suggested sites into tabs. This makes room for more featured links, your recent documents and saved for later pages. Does this make the SharePoint start page more functional? Daniel and Darrell discuss this and more this week: – Handling repeated phishers in #Microsoft Forms – Meeting chat notifications in #MicrosoftTeams – Retirement of #SharePoint classic and #Delve blogs – Add participants to Teams meeting chat – File upload for Forms – Commercial Cloud Trial updates for Microsoft Teams Join Daniel and Darrell as they cover the latest messages in the #Microsoft365 Message…
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SharePoint list Modern settings #122 – 365 Message Center Show
Enable and disable column totals in the modern user list experience. Create a document view for list data featuring column formatting. Daniel and Darrell discuss this and more this week: – Windows Server 2008/R2 and 2012/R2 end of support for Office 365 Pro Plus. – Power BI planned maintenance December 14th – SharePoint list Modern Settings – Office 365 Message Encryption (OME) updates to enhance email authenticity – SharePoint team sites ‘Next steps' panel We also respond to a discussion on Twitter about #MSIgnite feedback. “We don't want to hear the opinions of others” and want to hear Microsoft tell them what to do in MSIgnite sessions. https://twitter.com/_achu/status/1200593596409425922?s=20 Join Daniel…
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Multiple SharePoint admin center updates #121 – 365 Message Center Show
Replace your root site. Permissions panel improvements and more. It has been a busy week for SharePoint. Daniel and Darrell discuss this and more this week: Teams new Chat button location Search coming into Outlook for Windows Microsoft Teams for Linux Turning off Self-service purchase of Power Platform Suggested replies in Outlook for iOS Multiple updates to SharePoint admin center Service Health Dashboard email notifications Delve Blogs being removed by Microsoft To find all your Delve Blogs in your organization, check out the instructions from Drew Madelung: https://drewmadelung.com/find-and-report-on-existing-delve-blogs/ Join Darrell Webster as he covers the latest messages in the #Microsoft365 Message Center. Select a podcast app below to open…
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Microsoft Teams tagging, but not as you’d expect #120 – 365 Message Center Show
*Stay tuned to the end for a special interview with DC Padur, Sr. Program Manager at Microsoft, concerning SharePoint Home Sites rolling out soon!* Tagging. But not as you'd expect it to be. Microsoft Teams is introducing a way to group members of a team using tags. Use the tags to mention all members of a tag. This is an improvement on @mentioning channels. Daniel and Darrell discuss this and more this week: – Power Apps integration with document libraries – Tags in Microsoft Teams – End user profile / account management experience – Retiring SharePoint Classic popularity reports – Block org data on Outlook mobile notifications – Sensitivity labels…
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Microsoft Ignite 2019 Edition #118 – 365 Message Center Show
The Microsoft 365 Message Center is an essential source for learning of coming changes to Microsoft 365 products and services. Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell (as a Service) Webster live from Microsoft Ignite as they comment on the weeks announcements. They are joined by Mike Ziock from the team at Microsoft responsible for Microsoft 365 Roadmap and Message Center. Mike tells us what's changed and what's in store for the Message Center and Service Health Dashboard. – Request Files command in OneDrive now rolling out – Presenter and attendee roles in Microsoft Teams meetings – Microsoft Teams – Native Federation for 1:1 Chats – Expand/Collapse button in SharePoint lists – Audience targeting in SharePoint…
