The Microsoft Office app is becoming the Microsoft 365 app
TL;DR:On 12th October 2022 Microsoft announced that the Office app for web (office.com), Windows, iOS, and Android will be rebranded to become the Microsoft...
Payments in Microsoft Teams
Details:The Payments app in Microsoft Teams will allow you to get paid by customers for appointments, classes, or events hosted on Teams. The Payments...
Microsoft Outlook: Reactions to Email Messages
Microsoft continue to breathe new life into emails with this super-fast way to respond to an email without generating another email.
TL;DR:With reactions in Outlook,...
What is Microsoft Teams Premium?
What is it?Microsoft Teams Premium is a paid tier of Teams announced around the 12th of October 2022 at the time of the Microsoft...
Private drafts for SharePoint pages and news
Do you ever need to create a SharePoint page that no-one can see, not even other editors, until you are ready to publish? Maybe...
How is Super Simple 365 doing? October 2022 update.
Thank you to everyone who has subscribed to this blog, YouTube channel and podcast. And to those who follow me on Twitter and LinkedIn.
As...
All about Microsoft Teams channel meetings
What are channel meetings?
A regular Teams or Outlook meeting is created and owned by someone, it surfaces in their calendar, and they invite people...
What’s new in Microsoft 365 and Teams? 17th – 30th September...
Welcome to our seventeenth roundup of Microsoft 365 and Teams updates for 2022; hand-picked highlights from the admin centre and Microsoft 365 Roadmap, all delivered in...
Microsoft Teams calendar Scheduling Form pop-out
Do you ever find yourself creating a meeting in teams, but having to leave your meeting scheduling window to check a detail or confirm...
Microsoft Teams: Start a Teams Chat with Distribution Groups, Mail-Enabled Security...
Microsoft: “Organizations rely on Distribution Lists (DLs) as a tool to create groups of users that mirror organizational knowledge and workflows. Bringing this awareness...
New ‘Unread only’ toggle in the Microsoft Teams activity feed
Details:A new Unread only toggle will help you to quickly view all the unread activities in your activity feed:
Remember you can currently go the...
Use Loop components in Microsoft Outlook emails
Emails are written by a sender and read by a recipient(s); it has been that way for decades. Will this change make emails ‘live’...
Collaborate in Microsoft Teams meetings with Excel Live
TL;DR:With “Excel Live”, you can easily find and share an Excel workbook with meeting participants with just a few clicks. It seamlessly turns the...
What’s new in Microsoft 365 and Teams? 4th – 17th September...
Welcome to our sixteenth roundup of Microsoft 365 and Teams updates for 2022; hand-picked highlights from the admin centre and Microsoft 365 Roadmap. Here’s what we...
Rich text and images in Planner task notes
I first shared this update in late 2021, after going quiet for a while this great update is finally rolling out.
TL;DR:Microsoft are adding support...
Meeting Effectiveness Surveys and Effective Meeting Plans in the Teams Viva...
TL;DR:Surveys and shared plans are being introduced for users with a Viva Insights subscription. Meeting effectiveness surveys enable meeting organisers to view aggregated feedback...
SharePoint: Medium People Card soon to be available as part of...
The SharePoint People webpart will soon include a Medium People Card option. This allows authors to input a 50-character description accompanying each person's thumbnail...
Expanded reactions in Microsoft Teams
It’s back! I first shared this update in late 2021 and it was due January 2022…but it sort of fell off the radar for...
New features available in Microsoft Whiteboard – August 2022
Have you seen the latest updates to the Microsoft Whiteboard? These updates are fully rolled out as of August 2022:
Open existing whiteboards in Teams...
Outlook on the web – Update locations to message compose options
TL;DR:Outlook on the web is updating where some message-compose options are located. These changes include the formatting bar and the ‘send’ and ‘discard’ buttons....
What’s new in Microsoft 365 and Copilot? January 2025
Welcome to our first roundup of 2025. We look at what was announced, released and delayed across Microsoft 365 and Copilot in January.
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