About this episode

The episode discusses new features in Microsoft 365, including updates to Copilot, Teams, and Viva Engage.

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 Welcome1:55 Open Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Files in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat - MC12251994:03 Microsoft Teams: Teams Live Events is retiring - MC12264958:17 Enhancing Model Context Protocol (MCP) based agents with rich interactive UI widgets support - MC122762714:00 Viva Engage: New option to hide a user's messages - MC122622521:11 Drawn electronic signatures with eSignature for Microsoft 365 - MC1225195 24:09 Change meeting organizer via PowerShell cmdlet in Exchange Online - MC1227623

Topics covered

• Microsoft 365
• Copilot
• Viva Engage
• Microsoft Teams
• Model Context Protocol

Keywords

• data retrieval
• interactive UI
• eSignature
• PowerShell cmdlet

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