Within the last week or so, I started seeing a new Copilot feature in New Outlook/Outlook on the web. It’s a clickable link at the top of your Focused inbox to get a Morning Briefing. Here’s how that works and what it looks like…
Starting a new Microsoft Teams chat in a breakout window
Microsoft Teams has been adding the ability to pull out chats and conversations into separate windows to make it easier to multi-task. A recent change makes it even easier to pull out a chat into a separate window at the very start of a new chat. Here’s how that works…
Microsoft 365 Pulse Roadmap webcast – Episode 297
Episode 297 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.
Retirement Notice of Learning Coach Agent in M365 Copilot
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…
One Minute Office Magic 