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CIAOPS Need to Know Microsoft 365 Webinar – June

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Join me for the free monthly CIAOPS Need to Know webinar. Along with all the Microsoft Cloud news we’ll be taking a look at Viva Engage.

Shortly after registering you should receive an automated email from Microsoft Teams confirming your registration, including all the event details as well as a calendar invite.

You can register for the regular monthly webinar here:

June Webinar Registrations

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The details are:

CIAOPS Need to Know Webinar – June 2024
Friday 28th of June 2024
11.00am – 12.00am Sydney Time

All sessions are recorded and posted to the CIAOPS Academy.

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Need to Know podcast–Episode 320

I’ve now had a chance to play with Copilot for Security and can recommend it but to ensure that costs don’t spiral out of control for SMB, it needs to used in an ad hoc manner. Listen along for my thoughts and a walk through of resources available for you. Also news of updates of Exchange email threshold limits being changed as well as improvements for Microsoft Mesh, Loop and more. Listen in for the latest updates.

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Microsoft Build 2024 book of news

Build presentation keynote

New agent capabilities in Microsoft Copilot unlock business value

Introducing Team Copilot

Microsoft Copilot Studio: Building copilots with agent capabilities

New Windows 11 security features are designed for hybrid work

Introducing Copilot+ PCs

You’re wrong about Windows Recall — How Microsoft keeps your data safe on Copilot+ PCs

Microsoft Edge for Business: Revolutionizing your business with AI, security and productivity

Demystifying Microsoft Entra ID, Tenants and Azure Subscriptions

Windows deployment with the next generation of Windows Autopilot

Summary of podcast episode straight from Copilot for Microsoft 365:

Key Topics:

Microsoft Build 2024: Robert highlighted the new AI features and capabilities announced at the developer conference, such as Copilot Studio, Teams Copilot, and GPT-4O. 2:23
Windows 11 security updates: Robert explained some of the new security features in Windows 11, such as Smart App Control, Vulnerability Driver Protection, and Credential Guard. 9:39
Copilot Plus PCs: Robert shared his thoughts on the new PC form factor with an NPU and Windows Recall, and asked for feedback from anyone who has bought or considered buying one. 13:38
Edge browser: Robert recommended using Edge for better security and productivity, and pointed out some of the AI features in the browser. 15:56
Azure tenants and subscriptions: Robert suggested reading a blog post that clarifies the concepts of Azure tenants, Entra ID, and subscriptions. 16:41
Windows Autopilot: Robert mentioned the benefits of using Windows Autopilot for hands-off deployment of Windows devices, and shared a link to an article that details the new features in the next generation of Autopilot. 17:28

May Microsoft 365 Webinar resources

The slides from this month’s webinar are available at:

https://github.com/directorcia/general/blob/master/Presentations/Need%20to%20Know%20Webinars/202405.pdf

If you are not a CIAOPS patron you want to view or download a full copy of the video from the session you can do so here:

http://www.ciaopsacademy.com.au/p/need-to-know-webinars

Watch out for next month’s webinar

Meeting recap from Copilot

Key Topics:

Microsoft 365 and AI updates: Robert shared some news and videos from the recent Build conference and the Open AI demo, highlighting the new features and capabilities of Copilot, GPT-4, and AI agents. 4:58
Microsoft Bookings demo: Robert showed how to create and customize booking pages, services, staff, and customers, and how to integrate Bookings with Outlook, Teams, and Power Automate. 17:29
Questions and feedback: David asked about the Outlook add-in for scheduling polls and the future of AI in Bookings. Robert suggested using Bookings instead of the add-in and expected more AI integration in the future. 42:05

Defender for Cloud App connectors

An important piece of the security puzzle is to ensure everything that you have access to is enabled and configured fully. If you have any version of Defender for Cloud Apps you should verify that the signals from Microsoft 365 are feeding into Defender for Cloud Apps.

To verify or enable this connection fully navigate to:

http://security.microsoft.com

Open the Settings option from the menu on the left. From the options that appear on the right select Cloud Apps as shown above.

Then under the Connected Apps heading select App connectors as shown above. Ensure that connectors for Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure appear. If they don’t you can use the Connect an app option on the menu.

To verify the Microsoft 365 app is fully enabled locate the ellipse (three dots) on the right hand side of this connector and select it as shown above.

From the menu that appears select Edit Settings.

Ensure all the settings available to you are enabled as shown. Select the Connect to Office 365 button at the bottom of the dialog to save your settings and continue.

There is no addition cost to enabling these options and when you do you are able to monitor, audit and capture the logs for:

– Azure AD Users and Groups

– Azure AD Management events

– Azure AD Sign-in events

– Azure AD Apps

– Office 365 Activities

– Office 365 files

all thanks to Defender for Cloud apps.

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Automatic attack disruption in Microsoft Defender XDR –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv1jTgBgs6Y

Introducing Team Copilot –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k2T5sfGIP4

Missing devices in Windows Update for Business reports? –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/missing-devices-in-windows-update-for-business-reports/ba-p/4150561

Microsoft Security Exposure Management Graph: unveiling the power –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/security-compliance-and-identity/microsoft-security-exposure-management-graph-unveiling-the-power/ba-p/4148546

Accelerating business transformation with industry AI and copilots –

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/industry/blog/retail/2024/05/23/accelerating-business-transformation-with-industry-ai-and-copilots/

Cyber Signals: Inside the growing risk of gift card fraud –

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/05/23/cyber-signals-inside-the-growing-risk-of-gift-card-fraud/

Cyber Signals: Inside the growing risk of gift card fraud –

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/05/23/cyber-signals-inside-the-growing-risk-of-gift-card-fraud/

Increased security visibility through new Standard Logs in Microsoft Purview Audit –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/security-compliance-and-identity/increased-security-visibility-through-new-standard-logs-in/ba-p/4144454

Copilot for Microsoft 365 | Enhance your productivity –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWXbd2fKTu8

Copilot for Microsoft 365 | Your AI assistant for work –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqcOAvYveIc

Windows deployment with the next generation of Windows Autopilot –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-intune-blog/windows-deployment-with-the-next-generation-of-windows-autopilot/ba-p/4148169

Microsoft Copilot Studio: Building copilots with agent capabilities –

https://microsoftcopilotstudio.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-copilot-studio-building-copilots-with-agent-capabilities/

Revolutionize the way you work with automation and AI –

https://powerautomate.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/revolutionize-the-way-you-work-with-automation-and-ai/

New ways of development with copilots and Microsoft Power Platform –

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/blog/2024/05/21/new-ways-of-development-with-copilots-and-microsoft-power-platform/

Evolving Copilot in Windows for your workforce –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/evolving-copilot-in-windows-for-your-workforce/ba-p/4141999

Power Apps is making it easier for developers to build with Microsoft Copilot and each other –

https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-apps-is-making-it-easier-for-developers-to-build-with-microsoft-copilot-and-each-other/

Secure and Govern Your Custom-Built AI Apps with Microsoft Purview –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/security-compliance-and-identity/secure-and-govern-your-custom-built-ai-apps-with-microsoft/ba-p/4146187

Accelerate cloud security risk remediation with Microsoft Copilot for Security –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-defender-for-cloud/accelerate-cloud-security-risk-remediation-with-microsoft/ba-p/4143161

New agent capabilities in Microsoft Copilot unlock business value –

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2024/05/21/new-agent-capabilities-in-microsoft-copilot-unlock-business-value/

New Windows 11 security features are designed for hybrid work –

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2022/09/20/new-windows-11-security-features-are-designed-for-hybrid-work/

New Windows 11 features strengthen security to address evolving cyberthreat landscape –

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/05/20/new-windows-11-features-strengthen-security-to-address-evolving-cyberthreat-landscape/

Introducing Copilot+ PCs –

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/05/20/introducing-copilot-pcs/

Play videos in Outlook with Microsoft Stream –

https://insider.microsoft365.com/en-us/blog/play-videos-in-outlook-with-microsoft-stream

Top features of Microsoft Teams –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akvBvcNr3Uo

Meet the new Microsoft Surface Pro –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg1ZxdBFEYg

Microsoft Surface Copilot + PC Event: Everything Revealed in 13 Minutes –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHQgf3DNAr8

After hours

The puzzle of motivation – Dan Pink – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrkrvAUbU9Y

Editorial

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Microsoft Entra Private Access for on-prem users –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-entra-blog/microsoft-entra-private-access-for-on-prem-users/ba-p/3905450

How to stay in sync and on track with Microsoft Loop and Copilot –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8fBA9d_lZk

Threat actors misusing Quick Assist in social engineering attacks leading to ransomware –

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/05/15/threat-actors-misusing-quick-assist-in-social-engineering-attacks-leading-to-ransomware/

The rise of the AI power user | AI at work with Microsoft’s Jared Spataro –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWrAAzGi-2w

Email Protection Basics in Microsoft 365 Part Five: Mastering Overrides –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-defender-for-office/email-protection-basics-in-microsoft-365-part-five-mastering/ba-p/4139035

Introducing GPT-4o –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQacCB9tDaw

Introducing GPT-4o: OpenAI’s new flagship multimodal model now in preview on Azure –

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-gpt-4o-openais-new-flagship-multimodal-model-now-in-preview-on-azure/

Microsoft Places | AI brings new life to flexible work –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOEpDXkjofE

Microsoft Entra delivers increased transparency –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-entra-blog/microsoft-entra-delivers-increased-transparency/ba-p/3796388

Microsoft Teams DLP Playbook –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/security-compliance-and-identity/microsoft-teams-dlp-playbook/ba-p/4137462

10 (more) AI terms everyone should know –

https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/ai/10-more-ai-terms-everyone-should-know/

After hours

Project Astra: our Vision of the Future of AI assistance:–

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXVvvRhiGjI

Editorial

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Watch out for the next CIA Brief next week.

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Building securely: Microsoft Build 2024 – https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/security-compliance-and-identity/building-securely-microsoft-build-2024/ba-p/4134981

RSA news: What’s new in Defender XDR? –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-defender-xdr-blog/rsa-news-what-s-new-in-defender-xdr/ba-p/4127538

Respond to trending threats and adopt zero-trust with Exposure Management –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/security-compliance-and-identity/respond-to-trending-threats-and-adopt-zero-trust-with-exposure/ba-p/4130133

Introducing tamper protection for exclusions –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-defender-for-endpoint/introducing-tamper-protection-for-exclusions/ba-p/3713761

More improvements to ink annotations on PDF printouts and images in OneNote –

https://insider.microsoft365.com/en-us/blog/more-improvements-to-ink-annotations-on-pdf-printouts-and-images-in-onenote

3 ways AI will impact meetings of the future | AI at work with Microsoft’s Jared Spataro –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycliGcDmvV4

Enhanced Security: Microsoft Sentinel, Defender XDR & Generative AI Unite in One Platform –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riQ4kSKrq8Y

Microsoft’s latest Copilot AI boost wants to turn everyone into a prompt writing expert — and it even wants to chat with you now –

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/microsoft-s-latest-copilot-ai-boost-wants-to-turn-everyone-into-a-prompt-writing-expert-and-it-even-wants-to-chat-with-you-now/ar-BB1m67zh

Teams enhancements to the Presenter window while screensharing –

https://insider.microsoft365.com/en-us/blog/teams-enhancements-to-the-presenter-window-while-screensharing

Trello Integration with Microsoft Loop –

https://insider.microsoft365.com/en-us/blog/trello-integration-with-loop

GitHub integration with Microsoft Loop –

https://insider.microsoft365.com/en-us/blog/github-integration-with-loop

Bringing generative AI to Azure network security with new Microsoft Copilot integrations –

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/bringing-generative-ai-to-azure-network-security-with-new-microsoft-copilot-integrations/

AI at Work Is Here. Now Comes the Hard Part –

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/worklab/work-trend-index/ai-at-work-is-here-now-comes-the-hard-part/

Enhanced Response Action Experience from Threat Explorer –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-defender-for-office/enhanced-response-action-experience-from-threat-explorer/ba-p/4130448

Welcome to the new Outlook –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjHne32NkzU

Focus on outcomes with Microsoft Intune –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14sIIvPPHws

Empower multiple teams and prioritize investigations with Insider Risk Management –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/security-compliance-and-identity/empower-multiple-teams-and-prioritize-investigations-with/ba-p/4127558

Protect your data and recover from insider data sabotage –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/security-compliance-and-identity/protect-your-data-and-recover-from-insider-data-sabotage/ba-p/4130841

Secure your data to confidently take advantage of Generative AI with Microsoft Purview –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/security-compliance-and-identity/secure-your-data-to-confidently-take-advantage-of-generative-ai/ba-p/4127335

New capabilities to help you secure your AI transformation –

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/05/06/new-capabilities-to-help-you-secure-your-ai-transformation/

7 takeaways from a year of building generative AI responsibly and at scale –

https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/ai/7-takeaways-from-a-year-of-building-generative-ai-responsibly-and-at-scale/

After hours

Vice News Cyberwar playlist – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggGmxDq2HBA&list=PLw613M86o5o6w8lVktIWR0gGdOs6rLVXD

Editorial

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