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Analyzing Copilot’s Zero-Day, M365 Local & Copilot Agents: Practical 365 Podcast S4 E41

Analyzing Copilot’s Zero-Day, M365 Local & Copilot Agents: Practical 365 Podcast S4 E41

In this Episode of the Practical 365 podcast, Steve and Paul deep dive into the Microsoft 365 Copilot exploit, "Echo Leak," discussing its implications for AI safeguards and the future of agentic AI. The conversation then shifts to a recent global outage affecting Google and Cloudflare, highlighting the challenges of maintaining hyperscale services. We also examine Microsoft's new initiative to offer containerized M365 instances in Europe, addressing concerns over data sovereignty. Finally, they discuss the latest advancements in Copilot agents, emphasizing the importance of understanding AI reasoning.

July 14, 2025
Will Copilot Agents Run Amok in Microsoft 365 Tenants? 7 Comments

Will Copilot Agents Run Amok in Microsoft 365 Tenants?

Everyone's very excited about the potential goodness of Copilot agents, but how Microsoft 365 tenants will manage potentially thousands of agents in the future is something that isn't clear. Some administrative capabilities are in the Microsoft 365 admin center, but are these sufficient? We don't think so, and this article explains why and what we'd do about the problem.

February 3, 2025
Practical Graph: Finding and Removing Underused Microsoft 365 Copilot Licenses from User Accounts 8 Comments

Practical Graph: Finding and Removing Underused Microsoft 365 Copilot Licenses from User Accounts

Microsoft 365 Copilot licensing costs a lot of money. At $360 annually, it's important to make sure that everyone with a license makes full use of Copilot to become more productive and efficient. Usage data is available in the Graph, and some PowerShell can reveal who's using Copilot and who's not. With that data, you can decide whether to remove licenses for reassignment to other users.

January 29, 2025
Practical Copilot: Creating a Declarative Agent 7 Comments

Practical Copilot: Creating a Declarative Agent

Microsoft is all in for Copilot at present and agents are a big part of the story. Multiple ways exist to create a declarative agent for use with Copilot in BizChat and Teams. This article reviews how to create an agent with the Teams Toolkit, Copilot Studio, and Microsoft 365 Copilot - and if any usage data are created for custom agents.

January 21, 2025
Practical Copilot: Figuring Out What People Do with Microsoft 365 Copilot 9 Comments

Practical Copilot: Figuring Out What People Do with Microsoft 365 Copilot

Microsoft has a new allInteractionHistory Graph API in beta. The API returns details of user interactions with Microsoft 365 Copilot apps, like Copilot in Word and Copilot in Outlook at a much more detailed level than what is available in the usage report API. Despite the current flaws in the API, having access to detailed information about how people use technology is incredibly valuable.

December 10, 2024
Practical Graph: Analyzing Microsoft 365 Copilot Interactions Using Compliance Records

Practical Graph: Analyzing Microsoft 365 Copilot Interactions Using Compliance Records

Every time Microsoft 365 Copilot interacts with a user, the Microsoft 365 substrate captures the Copilot interaction as a compliance record in the user's mailbox. By fetching and analyzing the compliance records, we can understand how the user interacts with Copilot. This article discusses how to retrieve and analyze the records with the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK.

November 4, 2024
Agents are the Most Interesting Initiative in Copilot Wave 2

Agents are the Most Interesting Initiative in Copilot Wave 2

Microsoft's big launch of Copilot Wave 2 featured many new capabilities, like a super-duper focused Inbox for Outlook (one that works this time), Python in Excel, and a profusion of agents for SharePoint Online. The idea behind agents is pretty good and should be valuable, even if IT might have some dark thoughts about how agents might allow people to access information that they shouldn't (this won't happen).

September 19, 2024