Extending SharePoint Enterprise Search with Microsoft Graph Connectors
This article describes the steps to configure Microsoft 365 Copilot connectors to extend SharePoint Enterprise Search with Microsoft Graph.
November 19, 2025
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Farewell Last Exchange Server, Copilot Memory Rolls Out, and Agentic AI Improvements – Practical 365 Podcast S04E44
In this episode of the Practical 365 Podcast, Steve Goodman and Paul Robichaux discuss major Exchange updates – including the fallout from a recent AWS outage, Microsoft’s new tools to finally remove your last on-premises Exchange server, the final patches for Exchange 2016/2019, Copilot’s upcoming memory & personalization upgrade, and more!
November 3, 2025
Practical AI: Using Third-Party AI Notetaking Apps with Teams Meetings
Microsoft 365 Copilot is a great AI notetaking app for Teams meetings, but it's expensive. A range of cheaper options are available from other AI companies. Should Microsoft 365 tenants allow users to install these apps and access what goes on in Teams meetings? It could be a difficult decision.
August 18, 2025
Practical AI: Copilot in Outlook Brings AI to Email Filtering
Prioritize My Inbox is a new AI-powered mail filtering technology available in the new Outlook, OWA, Outlook (classic), and mobile clients. Unlike traditional inbox rules, Copilot's LLMs and access to Graph data makes Prioritize My Inbox much more aware of what a user does and what's important to them. Instructions allow users to tailor how filtering happens, but most is done by the AI.
August 4, 2025
A Microsoft 365 Administrator’s Beginner’s Guide to Copilot Studio
There's a lot to learn about Copilot Studio, especially for hard-pressed Microsoft 365 tenant administrators who already have too much work to do. This article gives administrators the essential details that they should consider as Copilot agents become more interesting to their organization.
June 25, 2025
Microsoft 365 Numbers, Viva Engage Evolution, and Cybersecurity Leadership with Adam Banks: The Practical 365 Podcast S04 E39
In this episode, Steve and Paul dissect Microsoft's latest financial report, explore the evolving landscape of Viva Engage, and discuss the rise of Copilot agents. Plus, former Maersk CTO Adam Banks joins to share insights on cybersecurity leadership and the mindset shifts needed in IT.
May 21, 2025
Free Copilot Chat Lands For All, Exchange Audit Logging Changes & The New Outlook Arrives: The Practical 365 Podcast S4 E34
Join Steve Goodman and Paul Robichaux to discuss Microsoft's latest announcements, including the surprise move to make Copilot Chat free for all Microsoft 365 users, significant changes coming to Exchange Online audit logging, and the new Outlook's arrival via Windows Update. Plus, get their takes on Microsoft's major AI reorganization with the new CoreAI division, and what all these changes mean for IT pros as we start 2025.
January 23, 2025
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 365 Review of 2024
In our 2024 review of Microsoft 365, we consider some of the major technical advances that occured in Microsoft's cloud ecosystem in 2024 together with some upcoming changes that have the potential to affect tenant operations. As always, our choice of what's important and what's not might not match yours, so feel free to comment and voice your opinion.
December 19, 2024
Practical Copilot: Stop Microsoft 365 Chat Accessing the Content of Confidential Documents
You can't prevent Microsoft 365 Chat finding documents based on searches against Microsoft 365 Search and the semantic index. But you can stop Copilot from using the content of sensitive documents in its summaries and generated text. This article explains how the different ways to block Copilot in Microsoft 365 work.
December 3, 2024
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
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