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Microsoft Teams is having a "Simply Red" moment and it's leaving some people seeing red. Microsoft are removing the labels from the apps on the app rail. Because 🎵 if you don't know them by now, you will never never never know them.🎵 (Ref: https://youtu.be/zTcu7MCtuTs?si=AYbidLv-ZnCPnG0z&t=15)

Also on this week's episode:

0:00 Welcome

1:41 Simplified Teams app bar to create a cleaner and more focused experience - MC1234559

5:20 App names hidden in app bar for a cleaner, more focused experience - MC1226220

9:59 Outlook: retiring “Contact Masking” (hide suggested recipients) - March 31, 2026 - MC1234566

14:52 Microsoft SharePoint: Use SharePoint quick steps to automate common tasks and workflows with new column type - MC1234549

22:01 Microsoft Teams: Upcoming changes to Microsoft Places licensing and feature access - MC1235124

28:47 Microsoft Teams: New controls for quick views in the chat list - MC1234574

32:32 Microsoft Teams on Windows: Annotate content while sharing a single window - MC1234561

Classic Outlook gets more Copilot capabilities. Good idea, given that much of the world still uses Classic Outlook. But this week we also see a modern feature removed from New Outlook. Context IQ and the / are retiring in New Outlook. Interesting move. Will the / be used for something else more Copiloty?

0:00 Welcome

2:25 Secure Boot certificate updates: actions required ahead of June 2026 expiration - MC1230373

5:11 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Prepare for meetings with Copilot in classic Outlook for Windows - MC1228331

8:53 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Scheduling with Copilot in classic Outlook for Windows - MC1228333

12:11 SharePoint Pages: Retirement of Web Search (Bing) image pivot - MC1230452

16:01 Context IQ retirement in the new Outlook and Outlook on the web - MC1230455

19:22 Microsoft Teams: Voice tethering - MC1230459

Agents will soon retrieve data from MCP servers and offer formatting options you can interact with. The Copilot "preview pane" opens Word, Excel, and PowerPoint alongside your M365 Chat results. Viva Engage introduces a way to hide your colleagues messages from your feed. What else landed this week?

0:00 Welcome

1:55 Open Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Files in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat - MC1225199

4:03 Microsoft Teams: Teams Live Events is retiring - MC1226495

8:17 Enhancing Model Context Protocol (MCP) based agents with rich interactive UI widgets support - MC1227627

14:00 Viva Engage: New option to hide a user's messages - MC1226225

21:11 Drawn electronic signatures with eSignature for Microsoft 365 - MC1225195

24:09 Change meeting organizer via PowerShell cmdlet in Exchange Online - MC1227623

We've been able to open M365 Copilot Chat alongside our Office apps. Now you'll be able to stay in a Copilot Chat and open email messages and PDFs from the Chat citations. Stay in Chat and check the sources - in full.

0:00 Welcome

2:04 Microsoft Teams: New Drafts quick view MC1223827

6:16 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Create and view Outlook rules - MC1223821

10:03 Open Outlook emails directly in Copilot chat - MC1223826

12:25 Open PDFs within Copilot - MC1223823

15:26 Microsoft Teams: AI workflows powered by Microsoft 365 Copilot - MC1223822

21:02 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Researcher agent output formats - MC1224569

Microsoft is expanding further on what the free Copilot Chat will cover in Outlook mailboxes. But it will complicate how to describe the difference between free, unlicensed Copilot and licensed M365 Copilot.

We also discuss adding watermarks to GenAI created and altered content. Also how the new Agent Mode works in PowerPoint to make changes to your presentations.

0:00 Welcome

2:24 New features coming to Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat for Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint - MC1187671

6:29 Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention - DLP support for Fabric warehouses - MC1219530

9:27 Agent Mode in Microsoft Copilot for PowerPoint for the web - MC1219792

17:01 Brand impersonation protection for Teams Calling - MC1219793

21:49 New policy to add watermarks to content generated or altered by using AI in Microsoft 365 - MC1221451