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Microsoft Features: Microsoft Purview Information Protection Estimated Read Times: 6 minutes In my previous two blogs, I wrote about How Purview Sensitivity Labels Help Protect Your Data and How to…

Title: MS eDiscovery in Focus - Episode 1: Introduction & New UI/UX RevealDescription: Welcome to the very first episode of MS eDiscovery in Focus! 🎉In this...

TL;DRUse Copilot chat in Loop to learn who made what changes and when. Due late January to late February 2025. DetailsIf you collaborate on a busy loop page, you can now ask Copilot chat to help you get caught up with changes. Microsoft suggests the following prompts to get you started: What changes did [name] make to

TL;DRNewsletters in new Outlook for Windows and Outlook for the web will allow you to create, distribute, and track internal email newsletters. Due early August to early September 2025. DetailsIf you use new Outlook for Windows or Outlook for the Web you will soon be able to create “professional and engaging email newsletters with a

As a Senior Data Security Technical Specialist at Microsoft, I have the privilege of working closely with strategic manufacturing customers, including both C-Level Executives and highly technical staff. My role involves presenting a compelling vision of how Microsoft 365 Purview as a platform can ad

Why You Want to Circle August 1, 2025 on your calendar

Why Teams governance is crucial for security, compliance, & efficiency, & how a structured approach prevents risks & optimizes collaboration.

IntroductionMicrosoft Purview is a comprehensive data governance and compliance solution that helps organisations manage sensitive data across various platforms. As the data stored within Microsoft Purview is highly sensitive, it’s important that only authorised individuals have access to it. Simply having the Compliance Admin, or even the Global Admin role may not be sufficient for accessing highly confidential data. To ensure that only the right people can access certain data, Role-Based Acces

TL;DRMicrosoft Copilot will soon be able to answer questions based on content shared onscreen during a Teams meeting. Due mid-March to early April 2025. DetailsMicrosoft: “Copilot will be able to understand slides, documents, spreadsheets, and websites, or anything else shared onscreen. Users will be able to ask simple recall questions, such as “Show me the

  We are excited to announce that Copilot is now available on OneNote web and OneNote in Teams for our commercial customers, a powerful feature...

We'll not only discuss how Recycle Bin works in SharePoint Embedded but also provide best practices to maximize its benefits.

Microsoft Features: Microsoft Purview Information Protection Estimated Read Time: 5 minutes In my previous blog, I provided an overview of the features of Purview Sensitivity Labels that help prote…

Microsoft’s Loop app provides shared workspaces where you and your team can collaborate, and also powerful integrations with Microsoft 365 apps. Here’s how to use it.

A special thank you note to for contributing to the content of this blog. In today's digital landscape, efficient data retention management is a critical...

TL;DRSharePoint updated document libraries are getting performance, grid view and other experience improvements. Due mid-February to late March 2025. DetailsAs this message centre post is already compact, for the amount of information it provides, I have copied the main body of it below with just a few tweaks for readability: After this rollout, users can

Read how Microsoft Purview can secure and govern generative AI quickly, with minimal user impact, deployment resources, and change management.

Your users are creating embedded containers, and probably don't know.

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.

This is a guide to Microsoft Purview products and features which talks about all the solutions that go under the Microsoft Purview umbrella.

With Copilot, you can bypass a ChatGPT Plus subscription and access OpenAI's o1 model for free.

Fewer hallucinations and better responses.

Learn how to add everyone to a SharePoint site in Microsoft 365, including communication and team sites, with step-by-step instructions.

The right to disconnect is gaining momentum. See what it is and what you can do to enforce it in Microsoft 365

Microsoft has revealed the rollout schedule for its new Microsft 365 Copilot Chat on Teams and Outlook.

Discover the future of productivity with our latest video on Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat! This innovative AI assistant is designed to streamline your workflow...

MC985482 - We will be adding a new in-product message to display the recording owner's information. This feature is especially important to our users when the

to add a metered or consumption billing to Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat is provided in this video. You’ll see s step by step process of what you need to do to allow agents built with Copilot St…

This article dives into the SharePoint Online Recycle Bin with 9 essential facts. If you are an end-user, a site owner, or an administrator, this is for you.

Microsoft Copilot 365 marks the end of an iconic brand.

With the announcement of Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, you now have greater flexibility in the ways you can deploy Microsoft 365 Copilot and agents in your organization to accelerate your AI transformation. Moving forward, every organization will have a mix of Copilot Chat and Microsoft 365 Copilot —our best-in-class offering—to drive AI transformation at scale.  Copilot Chat (formerly Microsoft Copilot with enterprise data protection) offers users in your organization who are logged in with Microsoft Entra free, secure AI powered by GPT4.o, grounded in web data, and protected by Microsoft’s commitments to safeguard your enterprise data. Copilot Chat is available at no additional licensing cost for all Entra account users with a Microsoft 365 subscription. With Copilot Chat, you can now also empower people in your organization to discover, use, and create agents. Agents can be enabled and managed by you, as an IT administrator, and are billed to your organization on a metered usage basis.  Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat offers:   Free, secure AI chat powered by GPT-4o  Pay-as-you-go agents grounded in shared tenant data, accessible right in chat  IT controls for data governance and management of agents, including enterprise data protection.  When you deploy Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, Microsoft respects your organization’s existing policies and control settings. Agents that access your organization’s shared tenant data are turned off by default. Admins need to set up or use an existing Copilot Studio subscription to enable these agents. Once enabled, they will be billed based on metered consumption. Agent availability will be based on your existing store settings for Teams and Microsoft 365 apps.    View and share our 60 second video to quickly understand these changes to our Copilot experiences To get started  Pin Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat - Copilot can be pinned within the new Microsoft 365 Copilot app (formerly the Microsoft 365 app), Microsoft Teams, and Outlook. Pinning Copilot Chat is a key step to encouraging people in your organization to use Copilot Chat and agents by conveniently accessing it in these apps.  Set up and manage required agent configurations in the Power Platform admin center  Manage access to Copilot Studio  Assign Copilot Studio User License to users in Microsoft 365 admin center, or  Set permissions for Copilot Studio authors using Security groups in Power Platform admin center  Create a pay-as-you-go billing plan. Create a Copilot Studio billing plan in the Power Platform admin center  For details on Copilot Chat and agent setup requirements, access the IT Setup and Controls Guide below.  Copilot Chat and agent starter kit  To support these exciting announcements, we have updated the Copilot Success Kit and Copilot Success Kit for small and medium-sized businesses, which now includes a new agent starter kit with guidance and easy ways for your organization to get started with Copilot Chat and agentic functionality. You can find the latest assets and resources here to start your journey: aka.ms/Copilot/ChatAgentStarterKit  The Copilot Chat and Agent Starter Kit has a comprehensive set of guidance for both IT and end-users.  Agent overview guide  aka.ms/Copilot/AgentOverviewGuide   Learn how to quickly unlock the value of Copilot through agents. See the easiest ways to get started across Copilot Chat, SharePoint, and Copilot Studio with lots of examples and templates that will help you quickly build and use your first agents.  IT Set up and Controls Guide  aka.ms/Copilot/ITControlsGuide   Get the latest on IT set up and controls guidance for Copilot Chat and agents. Manage access to Copilot Chat for your users and set up required data governance controls. Then set up access to agents including licensing and billing plans. Learn how to monitor and manage consumption.  Latest Agent Blogs  Catch up on the latest announcement from Satya Nadella and Jared Spataro announcing Copilot Chat here: https://aka.ms/Copilot_Chat  Understand how pricing for M365 Copilot Chat will work and what new capabilities we are announcing in Copilot Studio, to support it here: aka.ms/mcscopilotchat  Copilot Chat and agents user resources  Share the Copilot Chat user training deck with users at your organization to introduce Copilot Chat and guide them on how to use it effectively: aka.ms/CopilotChatUserDeck. For dedicated guidance on using and creating agents, share the Agents in Copilot Chat handout: aka.ms/AgentUserHandout.  Copilot Chat scenarios   We have launched new Copilot Chat (free) and agent (consumption) scenarios to the Scenario Library, with easy steps for each of your functional teams to get started.  Join us for our upcoming Microsoft 365 Copilot Tech Community Live event!  Save the Date and join us Tuesday, January 28 at 8:00 AM Pacific for two Ask Microsoft Anything (AMA) sessions where you can dive deep into the world of Microsoft 365 Copilot.  Session 1: Follow the Prompt: How data flows through Microsoft 365 Copilot Explore data processing, protection, and orchestration, plus insights on Graph Connectors and agents.  Session 2: Prepare your data for Copilot: Essential tools and techniques Learn how to address oversharing, integrate SharePoint Advanced Management, and utilize Microsoft Purview for secure data handling to ensure your data is ready for Copilot deployment.  For more information and registration: aka.ms/M365CopilotTCL