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Copilot for Microsoft 365: Datacenter Investments, Customer Spend, and Black Hat Exploits

Tony Redmond — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Market analysts question if companies like Microsoft will ever generate a return on their AI investment. That hasn't stopped Microsoft spending $19 billion in FY24 Q4, so they must be hopeful. Meanwhile, at Black Hat USA 2024, a presentation exploring some vulnerabilities in Copilot should make all Microsoft 365 tenants with Copilot consider how to secure their organization better.

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Places, Outlook Classic, and Teams Rooms Upgrades: The Practical 365 Podcast S4 E23

Steve Goodman — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Microsoft Places preview, Outlook Classic rebrand, and AI upgrades for Teams Rooms highlight this week's Practical 365 podcast. We discuss the potential impact of Places in the hybrid work landscape, the implications of Outlook's renaming, and how AI-powered speaker recognition is enhancing Teams meetings. Plus, we cover key Microsoft 365 roadmap items, including automatic work location settings in Teams and new Copilot features coming later this year.

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Securing Microsoft 365 Data from Unauthorized Generative AI Applications

Karin Skapski — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000

With the rise of generative AI comes an increased risk of organizational data leakage. This article explores recommendations to secure Microsoft 365 data from unauthorized generative AI applications.

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Block Copilot Access to Individual Office Documents

Tony Redmond — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000

A new sensitivity label setting blocks access to content services for Office applications. In effect, this stops any feature that depends on the ability to send content to Microsoft for processing, including Copilot for Microsoft 365, DLP, text prediction, and so on. It's a precise item-level block that protects sensitive documents from being consumed and used by Copilot in the text that it generates.

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Copilot in SharePoint, Recall is Recalled, plus Karin Skapski Talks Automation: The Practical 365 Podcast S4 E21

Steve Goodman — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 19:13:31 +0000

On this week's show, Steve and Paul are joined by Microsoft's Karin Skapski to discuss automation, Copilot, TEC, and much more.

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Microsoft 365 Archive Could Help SharePoint Online Cope with Digital Debris

Tony Redmond — Mon, 20 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Microsoft 365 Archive is a solution to move SharePoint Online sites from hot to cold (less expensive) storage. It works well, and it comes with an added benefit in that archived sites are inaccessible to Copilot. In other words, you can make sure that Copilot doesn't process old and obsolete material by archiving sites that contain this type of content. Seems like a no-brainer.

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Restricted SharePoint Search is The Legacy of Previous Microsoft Collaboration Strategies

Tony Redmond — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Microsoft has been forced to introduce restricted SharePoint search to allow customers to deploy Copilot for Microsoft 365 projects without worrying that Copilot will find and reuse information from across the entire tenant. It's a sad legacy of previous Microsoft collaboration strategies, notably the decision to allow users to create groups without hindrance.

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Copilot gets more Data Controls, and MVP Jon Jarvis joins to Discuss: Should you Manage all Your Devices with Intune?: The Practical 365 Podcast S4 E15

Steve Goodman — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 17:11:06 +0000

On Season 4, Episode 15 it's a trio of MVPs, as Steve and Paul are joined by UK MVP Jon Jarvis to discuss Intune & the criticality of making sure you onboard devices. And a show wouldn't be complete with an mention of AI! We discuss a new feature that helps you restrict what Copilot can search and use from your SharePoint sites.

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Securing Copilot for Microsoft 365

Karin Skapski — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 11:00:00 +0000

This article examines how Copilot for Microsoft 365 handles protected content, including how it interacts with Microsoft Purview sensitivity labels. Hopefully, this information will help administrators to configure information protection controls and understand their impact in relation to Copilot for Microsoft 365.

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Microsoft Drops Copilot Restrictions

Tony Redmond — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 23:37:42 +0000

In a January 15 announcement, Microsoft says that they have removed the previous restrictions that applied to purchases of Copilot for Microsoft 365 licenses. Office 365 E3 and E5 tenants can now buy and deploy Copilot and the requirement to buy a minimum of 300 licenses is gone. Suddenly, 2024 has become much more interesting from an AI perspective for many Office 365 tenants.

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