Compliance licenses at tenant level
Hi, We are a small organization of about 200 employees, and we have following requirements. DLP policies configuration at Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint BYOD security Users should not be able to send files outside the org And so on as we evaluate We already have M365 Business Premium. However, after researching we figured out that M365 Business premium will alone not solve our requirements. May be compliance license will. We want to apply security policies at tenant level in our organization but definitely do not want every user to get licenses as this will be expensive for us and there is no requirement at all for our users. The question is, Is there a way to solve the above scenario?
Hidden Group and Hidden Group Membership
Hi everyone! I have come across a requirement where the client would like to use an excel spreadsheet, a service account and application registration to manage group membership for a confidential group. They would like to create a group from which the members cannot leave, see other team members and cannot see the group itself. Now, I have the concept of the flow with me but for the life of me, I cannot get around to finding/configuring a group that meets the requirement. Have you guys come across this sort of scenario? Group Configuration: Users should not be able to view the group Users should not be able to view members of the group Users should not be able to leave the group Thanks in advance.What happened to Microsoft Support?
The level of support for M365 that we are receiving from "Microsoft branded" support teams keep getting worse and worse (we didn't think that it was possible, but here we are). The classic "we tried calling you but couldn't reach you" is back. You open a support case, sit in front of the phone waiting for the call just to receive an email stating that "we tried but you couldn't be reached". When you reply that you are sitting in front of the phone and you didn't miss any calls, the support engineer will call you back and successfully "reach you". Not replying to emails (including those sent to "Team Managers"), sending email with 2 mins before the end of the engineer's shift so there is only 1 email per day or closing cases with issues still being open is now the norm with MS Support. Support cases that drag on for weeks with no resolution, "can you please change this setting and try again", "we are still reviewing the logs" or my favourite "it's been 2 weeks, is the issue still occurring?" emails are extremely frustrating. The difference in support a company receives is very obvious between a multi-million-dollar support agreement and partner/SMB support. I understand that MS may not want to spend time, money and effort on companies that don't buy support agreements outside of those that come with the product, but if you already offer support then at least make it somewhat useful. The most frustrating part is being stuck with this level of support and having no other options. Most escalation emails to cc'd managers result in "do the needful" emails back to the engineer or go unanswered. The only way to combat this issue is to open multiple identical support cases in hopes that 1 out of the 3 engineers will be able to help you.Office.js preview features release
Office.js for PowerPoint has had a couple of preview features (getImageAsBase64, getSlideAsBase64) in preview now for nearly a year. I've done my best to search for any updates from the office.js on release timeline for these features with no luck. These two API calls are super convenient and enable features in the add-ins for PowerPoint which is near impossible to create using alternative solutions. Anyone out there with any knowledge on when we can expect these beta/preview features to be production ready?
Strange typographical change in Outlook365 -- how to revert?
Hi, Yesterday when I was about to reply to an email sent to me, suddenly the display of email messages in my Outlook365 desktop client became weird. See the attached picture. I don't know why this is, and what kind of "feature" this is, and how to reverse this. Can somebody provide guidance and help me? This problem is seen in the Desktop Outlook365 classic client for Windows (not the "new" Outlook365 client). I don't know the exact version numbers etc; M$ has made it very difficult to find such on the application itself. By the applications listed in the software/add install control panel, I think this is Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise, build 16.0.17928.20216. OS: Windows 11. Just FYI, that problem did NOT appear in the Outlook web client. The same draft would have looked fine. Attachments: Office365-win-desktop-weird.png: The weird appearance of the email text on Window desktop client Office365-web-correct.png: The correct appearance of the same email text on the web clientClipchamp: Elevating work communication with seamless video creation in Copilot
Late 2024 was an exciting time at Microsoft with the launch of Copilot agents and the introduction of the Visual Creator agent during the Wave 2 announcements. Visual Creator helps users bring their creative ideas to life by using natural language prompts to create images, designs, and now, with collaboration from the Microsoft Clipchamp team, video content. It’s not lost on us that in today's technological landscape, people are naturally absorbing and retaining visual information far more effectively than from text alone, although business communication continues to rely on the written word. Language will continue to allow us to unpack ideas with depth and navigate complex subjects - and in an era of prioritized productivity and shorter attention spans, we’re now exploring how we can transform intricate ideas, strategies, or messages into compelling moving visuals and videos. Empowering users with video creation We’ve invested in and developed video creation within Visual Creator to remove common barriers for those in the workplace, like “How do I make a video?” “I don’t have enough time” and “Will it look good?” Our goal is to put the power of video in the hands of our users, making it easy to create content that drives deeper engagement, faster comprehension, and more meaningful connections. At Clipchamp, we're thrilled to be making this new capability available and are committed to guiding and educating users as our technology evolves over the coming months. Video creation, powered by Clipchamp in Visual Creator is currently only available to Commercial users (Entra ID) with a Copilot license. This feature allows users to quickly generate a first video draft with the help of AI, before moving into the Clipchamp editor to utilize a full suite of editing tools. This integration streamlines the creative process and empowers users to produce quality videos more efficiently and creatively. Users can start by either selecting an inspirational prompt or simply asking Visual Creator to "Create a video" about a topic of their choice. Clipchamp's video creation skill will then generate a video script, source high-quality stock footage from internal libraries, add transitions, voice overs, and titles. The result is a draft video project created with Clipchamp, and a preview displayed in Copilot for users to review. If users want to continue editing the draft, the project will then open seamlessly in Clipchamp, launching into the editing timeline to make it easy for users to adjust, tweak and personalize their video, for their specific needs and audience, before exporting. At Clipchamp, our aim is to make video creation accessible and straightforward, especially for those who are new to video. By reducing the initial learning curve, we hope to empower our users to draft compelling videos with ease. For more seasoned video creators, our goal is to streamline the process of generating scripts and selecting stock content, saving precious time. How it works Video creation in the workplace is rapidly growing, with more users engaging in video creation or editing as part of their work. However, many still do so infrequently due to factors like lack of time, budget constraints, or limited know-how. Our video creator capability aims to address these challenges with a simplified creation process to get started. Phase 1: The prompt The process begins when a user decides to create a video and selects or types a prompt to get started. The request is analyzed, and a draft is crafted to ensure the video aligns with the user’s goals—whether it's a how-to guide, an informational piece, or a narrative-driven story. Phase 2: Script generation The script serves as the backbone of the video, outlining the key points and narrative flow. The AI ensures that the script is coherent, engaging, and tailored to the specific prompt requirements. Phase 3: Stock footage selection With the script complete, a combination of AI and semantic search finds the most relevant stock footage in the Clipchamp library. The use of stock media also helps mitigate the risks associated with generative media within organizations. It’s important to note that at this stage, we don’t generate images, music, or video clips during the composition. Phase 4: Composition With the script and high-quality stock footage sourced, the draft video will be assembled complete with music, voiceover, text overlays, and transitions. Currently, this first draft can’t be iterated on within the chat experience, and a video can’t yet be based on grounding data or the ability to use a user’s existing content. Phase 5: Preview Once the drafted video is ready, users can preview the finished video, all within the chat experience. From here, users can either generate another drafted video or select the ‘open in Clipchamp’ button. All videos are automatically saved to the user’s OneDrive (in a Videos/Clipchamp folder), allowing Clipchamp to load the video directly into the editor for further enhancements. Phase 6: Personalize, Export and Share Videos opened within Clipchamp can then be edited further by the users. Customizing content, music, voiceovers, and text to suit their audience or needs. Once exported, videos follow the same seamless sharing, viewing, analytics, searching, and commenting experience as documents, presentations, and spreadsheets within Microsoft 365 apps. Who’s using video creation today? Whilst this function is still being developed, Clipchamp has been collaborating with global organizations, as well as internal teams at Microsoft, to test, iterate, and learn. We've been observing how organizations and individuals are leveraging video for work today and how video creation can amplify dynamic and engaging content. We’ve focused on identifying, supporting, and amplifying key use cases for 'How-to' and 'Informational' videos, including: Product teams using video to communicate product iterations, UX walkthroughs, and roadmap updates in a more engaging way. HR, Learning & Development, and sales enablement teams creating videos to scale employee onboarding, training, and education on internal processes and product knowledge. Project teams leveraging video to share internal updates, team achievements, and valuable insights with others effectively. Current limitations. The feature is only available after you activate the Visual Creator agent from within the Microsoft 365 Copilot sidebar. While we can help users kickstart their video creation experience with our extensive library of over 15 million videos, images, and audio assets, we do not yet support grounding data or generating videos with a user's existing content. Additionally, users won't be able to request further refinements or edits to the drafted video within the chat. A revised version of the drafted video can be generated, but it will provide a new draft rather than an iteration of the original. We do not yet generate new images, music, or video clips during the composition process, but this is another exciting capability we are exploring for the future. At this stage, creating a video with Copilot focuses on leveraging pre-existing assets to help users craft videos. Video creation is a capability that is switched on by default. So, if an enterprise has Clipchamp turned off, then users will see the preview of the drafted video but won’t be able to open the project to work on it or edit further. We are actively exploring these features for potential inclusion in future releases as we continue to gather more insights. Providing feedback: In addition to existing support and feedback mechanisms, users can provide quick feedback by clicking the thumbs-up or thumbs-down icon below their video. Clicking these icons will open the feedback dialog and allow users to enter comments and (optionally) include a screenshot or prompt information. We are committed to making video creation and consumption more accessible and straightforward in the workplace, and we are excited about the progress we are making in this area for our users.Clipchamp’s brand kit: simplifying consistent video creation for organizations
Empowering our users to tell stories worth sharing lies at the heart of what we do at Clipchamp, and in a world increasingly focused on enterprise narratives, it’s become clear that these stories are often needed to help communicate the ethos of a brand. That’s why we’re excited to share more about our refreshed brand kit feature, designed to improve organizational branding capabilities within our video editor. With this update you now can organize a comprehensive collection of video elements—like logos, colors, and fonts—into a brand kit, for your teams and organizations to apply to any video. Whether it's an internal team meeting recording or a ‘how-to' video showcasing new product features, users and organizations can easily ensure that their brand identity is represented correctly, every time. Our brand kit empowers admins and brand managers to collate approved assets and share brand kits across global teams, ensuring that visual standards are consistent across the board, and across the world. GIF of Microsoft Clipchamp Brand kit and the branded elements it supports This ability to ensure that assets are uniform means that consistent content is now achievable at scale, helping to bolster the clarity of messaging for large enterprises, while leveraging a familiar and easy-to-use interface that doesn’t require extensive video editing experience. The flexibility and ease of uploading branding elements to your brand kit means that you can ensure not only the clarity of the message, but also its aesthetic and creative presentation with images, music, graphics and more. By the end of March 2025, brand managers and admins will be able to leverage template generation as well, allowing their teams to create foundational branded projects that can be easily replicated, modified, and reused. Brand consistency across your organization Organizations in today’s digital-first world understand the critical importance of consistent messaging and visuals in maintaining a cohesive brand narrative, for both internal and external communications. With Clipchamp's brand kit feature, ensuring uniformity of content is now easier than ever. "Knowing that all our content is aligned with our brand guidelines - whether it's the logo, fonts, colors, or even the music - gives us total confidence in the product. It saves time and helps every team member, no matter their design skills, to produce professional, on-brand videos." Paul Burke, Head of Global Brand at Amadeus. Once set up, your brand kit integrates directly into Clipchamp, appearing by default for all users in your organization. This eliminates the need for manual uploads or version control headaches. To get started, here are the steps below. If you want a deeper dive into creating and sharing brand kits across your organization, check out more details here 1. Select an existing SharePoint site or create a new site to host the brand kits This can be any type of site, such as a communication site, a team site that's connected to a Microsoft 365 Group, or a modern team site that isn't connected to a Microsoft 365 Group. Then, add the people you want to be able to upload files as members or owners of the site or Microsoft 365 Group. 2. Use PowerShell to designate the document library as org asset type BrandKitLibrary Ensure you have SharePoint PowerShell client versions >= 24830.12754 or download the most recent. Run the cmdlets in a PowerShell terminal. Connect-SPOService -Url https://yourorg-admin.sharepoint.com/ -Credential admin@yourorg.onmicrosoft.com (The parameter -Url points to the admin site.) Configure the new Document Library as Org Asset Type: BrandKitLibrary Add-SPOOrgAssetsLibrary -OrgAssetType BrandKitLibrary -LibraryUrl https://yourorg.sharepoint.com/sites/BrandGuide/brandkit In the above example "BrandGuide" is the SharePoint site and "brandkit" is the document library name. 3. Create a brand kit and add media within Clipchamp Select the 'Brand kit' section in the left side panel and select 'Create brand kit'. Choose the folder you designated as a BrandKitLibrary in the previous step. You may wish to share the brand kit to collaborate with colleagues on populating assets. To share the brand kit while preparing it, select "Share brand kit". Provide recipients with the link and ensure they have edit access. Sharing consistent assets across different locations ensures that every video being shared looks on-brand and reinforces brand recognition, no matter where it’s seen. Plus, we’ve made sharing brand kits simple by using familiar OneDrive patterns. That way, users don’t have to interact with unfamiliar technologies—just seamless access to everything you need, so you can stay focused on creating professional, polished content. Add a wide range of your media assets A screenshot of a video editing project in Clipchamp, with the brand kit panel open The brand kit feature in Clipchamp allows for a broad range of assets to be uploaded, ensuring that users can express their brand narrative through a variety of media. Clipchamp supports an array of branding elements, including logos, colors, fonts, images videos, graphics, music, and sound effects. A screenshot of a video editing project in Clipchamp, with the brand kit panel open. The cursor hovers over the 'Add colors' section, while logos, fonts, and images are also displayed There is a strong case for adding branded elements to enterprise content: it helps to easily generate a strong brand identity, while building trust with your audience, and maintaining a professional lens on content production. Clipchamp also allows users to upload multiple branding options, so you can add your primary and secondary color palettes, or light and dark design schemes. Feedback We are so excited to bring users some new additions to brand kit and would love to hear feedback around the organizational sharing experiences. Please head to this link to share with us your insights or feedback, so we can continue to create the best possible experiences for our users.
MS Loop Task Reminders
Hi All, We would like to setup Microsoft Loop so that reminders are sent to people assigned tasks in loop one or two days, etc....before task due date. Either by syncing to Planner * which does not happen* automatically despite some online sources. Or though Power Automate... Any Ideas?Is there a way to hide Microsoft 365 Copilot?
Hello, We are not quite ready to roll out Microsoft 365 Copilot to our end users. Is there a way to hide the Microsoft 365 Copilot icon from the M365 Home page - specifically the 9 dot icon? We still need to roll out the security labels in our organization.
Teams Client, Guest User access, Separate Tenant
Hey Team, I am trying to figure out what i am missing here. This is what we have. 2x Tenants with Enterprise E3 licenses Some user accounts are sync'd between the 2 tenants, not all users We have added a guest user, and we need his account to be able to access our Tenants teams. When he goes to the Teams Web Client, he sees his org and ours. However in the teams fat client, he is not able to switch from his home tenant (tenant.com) to our tenant (tenant-business.com). My question is how do i get our tenant to show up in his teams client? I tried having him login using his #EXT# guest account, but it requires a password. Thanks, Robert
