On the Microsoft Copilot side, there’s a bit of a switch involving the Learning Coach agent. It’s going to be replaced with the Learning agent. Here’s the Microsoft announcement…
Microsoft OneNote: Retirement of Loop components in OneNote for the web
It seems like never a week goes by without Microsoft announcing that some feature is getting retired or deprecated. This week, it’s the use of Loop components in OneNote for the web. Here’s the announcement by Microsoft. The main takeaway is that you won’t lose any data, however…
Microsoft 365 Pulse Roadmap webcast – Episode 296
Episode 296 of the Microsoft 365 Pulse Roadmap webcast is now out on YouTube. Join Tamara Bredemus and Thomas Duff as we cover this week’s updates.
Microsoft Teams: New controls for quick views in the chat list
Microsoft made a change to the Quick Views area for chats. By default, those quick view categories only show up if there’s an unread item that qualifies for one of the categories. If something like @Mentions has no unread items, it doesn’t show up. However, you do have the option to change that on each of the chat quick views. Here’s how you do that…
Microsoft Teams: Quick access to read items while using unread only mode
In Microsoft Teams, you can choose to filter your chats and channels to only show unread items. However, that makes it difficult to see or get to other channels that do not have unread items. Now you can use a special icon to see chats and channels with read items so you can quickly navigate to them. Here’s how that works…
Opening files in the client application in SharePoint Online document libraries
This is a classic tip that I had someone ask me about this last week. They wanted to be able to have files in their SharePoint site open in client applications instead of the browser. I was able to show them how to make a change to the Document Library settings to make that happen. Here’s how that works…
The standalone Microsoft Whiteboard app hits end-of support on September 14th, 2026
Microsoft has announced some changes for its Whiteboard product. The most important one pertains to the Microsoft Whiteboard standalone application. Here’s what’s happening…
Microsoft 365 Pulse Roadmap webcast – Episode 295
Episode 295 of the Microsoft 365 Pulse Roadmap webcast is now out on YouTube. Join Tamara Bredemus, Jennifer Mason, and Thomas Duff as we cover this week’s updates.
Easily create a .ics file from an Outlook calendar entry
I just found a new option this morning in the Outlook calendar (for New Outlook and Outlook on the web) that makes it SO easy to create a .ics file for a calendar entry. If you don’t know, a .ics file is a link to add a calendar entry to your own Outlook calendar. The .ics file has been around forever, but creating one can be cumbersome. Now it’s a simple right-click option. Here’s how it works…
One Minute Office Magic 