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.
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.
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.
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).
On the show this week, Rich and Steve are joined by Distinguished Engineer & AI Security Evangelist, Mike Wilson to discuss Microsoft's focus on AI, AI Security, the new Microsoft Planner, and more!
Just over two weeks ago at Ignite 2023, Microsoft confirmed features that made the cut for Microsoft 365 Copilot, and what features are coming further down the line. With full access to the GA version of Microsoft 365 Copilot, Steve Goodman takes a look at how well it works in the real world, and how it interacts with data in your Microsoft 365 tenant.
On the show this week, we talk about Microsoft Ignite 2023, US Government's new AI rules, and we're joined by special guest and cybersecurity expert, Alex Crowther.
On the show this week, Steve Goodman and Paul Robichaux discuss Storm-0558, TEC 2023, new Azure costs, Copilot news, and more!
This week we are joined on the show by Microsoft MVP and Practical 365 Editor, Tony Redmond. On this episode, Steve Picks Tony's brain on Copilot, On-premises, and his upcoming TEC session.
Microsoft 365 Copilot is only available for 4 Microsoft 365 SKUs. There's no technical reason why this is so. Instead, Microsoft is using Copilot as a selling point to convince customers to upgrade to Microsoft 365 E5 (preferably). All's fair in love and business, and this is just an example of product management for maximized profit.
AI is everywhere now, especially within the Microsoft 365 landscape. Therefore, it is time to start thinking about your strategy for implementing this into your organization. In this article, Mark Rackley dives into preparing and getting started with AI in Microsoft 365.
Microsoft 365 Copilot costs $30/user/month. At that price level, you don't want to assign Copilot licenses to all and sundry in your tenant. That's a recipe for dramatic overspending. In this article, we consider how to select people to receive Copilot licenses on the basis of real need rather than want.
