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Microsoft announced their consolidation of the Copilots and its part to play in serving up assistance direct to you in Windows 11. If your organization is an M365 subscriber and Windows is part of your subscription, you may have seen a Copilot message in the Message Center too.  
Darrell and Daniel cover:  
- Viva Connections "Top News" Card Updated to Include More News Source Options  
- Ratings and Reviews for Apps on Teams now Available  
- Expanding our AI capabilities to meet the everyday needs of people and business  
- Simplifying Meeting Join Experiences on Teams Mobile  
- Self-service trial experience available for Microsoft Purview  
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Get ready for a new way to bring task management into Microsoft Loop. Planner components are arriving at the end of September 2023. Also, Collaborative notes are coming to Teams mobile, to access notes before, during and after a Teams meeting.  
Darrell and Daniel cover:  
- Generate unique join links for external presenters so they can easily join events  
- Collaborative notes on Teams mobile  
- Releasing the Planner Loop component  
- Teams Calendar- Near real-time sync calendar sync with Outlook Calendar  
- Microsoft Teams-Emojis, GIFs and Stickers Unified in One Picker  
- Microsoft Viva-Hero Image for Viva Connections Mobile  
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Two new communications tools arrived in Microsoft 365. SharePoint news in Outlook publishes your news as attractive emails, showing the full page content. In Viva Engage, Campaigns connect communications and activities with hashtags, landing pages, and measurable goals and promote visual sponsorship by leaders.This week's episode is longer, but that's because it's full of demos! It's about time we had a good 'show and tell'.  
Darrell and Daniel cover:  
- SharePoint News in Outlook  
- Microsoft Syntex rule to set content type based on filename  
- Restricted Access Control for SharePoint and OneDrive Sites  
- Avatars Hardware Requirements and Service Plan Update  
- New Campaign Features in Viva Engage  
- Microsoft Viva Answers in Viva - AI Topic Suggestions  
- Microsoft Viva Verified Topics Badges  
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It's our 300th episode. To celebrate we are wearing cake, talking Python in Excel and giving all of your users a free 60 day trial of Teams Premium. OK, the trial is included in Microsoft 365 and we didn't organize it. But it was nicely timed. 
Darrell and Daniel cover:  
- Web links from Microsoft Teams chats to open in Microsoft Edge Teams chat will open side-by-side with link  
- Preview: Python in Excel  
- Inking Support Coming to the New Outlook  
- Workflows replacing Connectors within Microsoft Teams channels menu  
- Teams Premium Trial  
- OneDrive and SharePoint: Colored Folders  
- Outlook: Disallow Reactions on Specific Emails  
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Internal comms people are going to love this update. Post a Viva Engage message on behalf of your leadership by setting a schedule. This means you can time the Engage post to coincide with the scheduled publishing of your SharePoint news post. Fantastic that we finally get this functionality. 
Darrell and Daniel cover:  
- Draft and Scheduled Posts with POBO (Posts on Behalf of) in Viva Engage - MC667672  
- Viva Goals: Export OKRs to PowerPoint - MC668254  
- SharePoint: Microsoft Lists – Create a List From CSV and Export to CSV - MC668787  
- Microsoft Default for Tag Management to include Team Members - MC668258  
- Reuse Files in Word to be retired - MC668802  
- Loop on be default - MC668811  
 
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What if we told you that Viva Amplify is coming to Viva Suite and Employee Communications & Connections subscribers in September? Would you be excited to plan your first communications campaign with it? What if we said Amplify can also be used by anyone who would like to send communications across multiple channels in your organization? Would you be open to sharing it? Daniel and Darrell discuss this and how the new Stream web part will be used to present videos stored in SharePoint and OneDrive. 
Darrell and Daniel cover:  
- Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals: Admin Option to Enable/Disable sharing to Microsoft Teams in Viva Goals 
- Walkie Talkie AutoConnect Feature Update 
- New Stream (on SharePoint) web part release 
- Backfill Viva Amplify 
- Announcing Microsoft Search Answer Analytics 
- Optimized Multifactor Authentication text message delivery through WhatsApp 
This week's sponsor - European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conferencehttps://www.sharepointeurope.com
Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.  
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Check out Daniel and Darrell's own YouTube channels at: 
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