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Microsoft Defender & Security

Case management now supports multiple tenants – Enhances multi-tenant visibility in Microsoft Defender.
Best Practices for Investigating Phishing Incidents – Guidance for handling phishing in Defender for Office 365.

Microsoft 365 & Copilot

Copilot Notebooks in OneNote – Now available for enterprise users on Windows.
Microsoft 365 Insider Round-Up: June 2025 – Monthly feature and update digest.
Copilot Release Notes – June 4 – Latest improvements and fixes.
New FAQ web part in SharePoint – Copilot-powered FAQ integration.
Copilot vulnerability report – Security concerns around AI agent hacking.

AI & Innovation

New methods boost LLM reasoning – Research on improving model reasoning.
Empowering AI skills in teams – Microsoft’s initiative to boost AI adoption.

Identity & Access

Getting started with Microsoft Entra Suite – Overview of Entra capabilities.
Understanding and Mitigating Golden SAML Attacks – Security guidance for identity compromise.

Governance & Policy

Microsoft to block third-party app access – Policy change on app consent.
Microsoft 365 Local – Sovereign cloud solutions for Europe.

Thought Leadership

Breaking down the infinite workday – Microsoft WorkLab’s insights on work-life balance.

Need to Know podcast–Episode 347

In this episode I take a look at some of the latest announcements from Microsoft Build as well as recent changes to the Microsoft 365 home page. As expected Build gave us lots of new and enhanced capabilities coming to services like Copilot Studio and provide a raft of enhanced ways to better use AI across tenant information. There are still plenty of security updates to be across so listen along for all the details.

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Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot Tuning

Build 2025 Book of news

Microsoft Build

Multi-agent orchestration, maker controls, and more: Microsoft Copilot Studio announcements at Microsoft Build 2025

The Microsoft 365 Copilot app: Built for the new way of working

What’s new in Microsoft 365 Copilot | May 2025

Automating Phishing Email Triage with Microsoft Security Copilot

Defending against evolving identity attack techniques

What’s new in Microsoft Intune: May 2025

Monitoring & Assessing Risk with Microsoft Entra ID Protection

Discover how automatic attack disruption protects critical assets while ensuring business continuity

Access chats while sharing your screen in Teams meetings

New Russia-affiliated actor Void Blizzard targets critical sectors for espionage

Need to Know podcast–Episode 346

In this episode I have a chat about the E5 security add on for Microsoft 365 Business premium and what additions it provides for security. Microsoft Build is also this week so we expect plenty of news and update there. Stay tuned for that but for now listen along get up to date with the Microsoft Cloud.

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Microsoft 365 Business Premium and Office 365 E1 grant discontinuation

Simple, Smart, and Secure: The next step in sharing files in Microsoft 365

Introducing all-new Surface Copilot+ PCs: The Surface Pro, 12-inch and Surface Laptop, 13-inch

Copilot on Windows: “Hey, Copilot!” begins rolling out to Windows Insiders

Start, Fresh — Redesigning the Windows Start menu for you

SharePoint in the Era of AI: Spring 2025 Updates

Empowering multi-agent apps with the open Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol

Managing and migrating Macs with Microsoft Intune

Getting Started with the New Purview eDiscovery (E3)

Transitioning to Microsoft Planner and retiring Microsoft Project for the web

OneDrive: Personalized Intelligence. Seamless Collaboration. Always On

Microsoft 365 E5 versus Business Premium with E5 Security Add-on: A Comparative Analysis for Small Businesses

Need to Know podcast–Episode 345

Join me for the latest news an updates from the Microsoft Cloud just on eve of Microsoft Build. Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2 is upon u and I provide some thoughts and information on what to expect as well as some thoughts around why data is the important thing to consider with AI rather than which model might currently be better. Listen along and let me know your thoughts.

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Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2 Spring updates

Microsoft 365 Copilot: Built for the era of human–agent collaboration

2025 release wave 1 brings hundreds of updates to Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform

What’s new in Copilot Studio: April 2025

Researcher agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot

Analyst agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot

What’s new in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app – April 2025

Announcing Public Preview of DLP for M365 Copilot in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

Explore practical best practices to secure your data with Microsoft Purview

Project Manager in Planner Demo

What’s new in Microsoft Intune: April 2025

Introducing ActorInfoString: A New Era of Audit Log Accuracy in Exchange Online

Advanced deployment guide for Conditional Access Policy templates

Need to Know podcast–Episode 344

Join me to hear about the latest news and update from the Microsoft cloud as well as a deep dive into SharePoint agents. Plenty of AI news is again coming your way in this episode as Copilot spreads its wings and continues to grow across the stack. List in for more details.

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https://ciaops.podbean.com/e/episode-344-sharepoint-agents/

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Widespread Microsoft Entra lockouts tied to new security feature rollout

FYAI: How agents will transform business and daily work

Announcing new computer use in Microsoft Copilot Studio for UI automation

Introducing agent flows: Transforming automation with AI-first workflows

Five things for IT administrators to know about SharePoint agent management

How to deploy Microsoft Purview DSPM for AI to secure your AI apps

Transforming security with Microsoft Security Exposure Management initiatives

Microsoft Purview: New data security controls for the browser & network

Step-by-Step Guide : How to enable QR code authentication for Microsoft Entra ID (Preview)

ActiveX disabled by default in Microsoft 365

Achieve greater security with Intune and Microsoft 365

Troubleshooting Windows Feature updates in Microsoft Intune

Azure Files: More performance, more control, more value for your file data

Feature deep dive: Using PDFs in OneDrive and our journey thus far

Need to Know podcast–Episode 343

Celebrate the 50 year anniversary of Microsoft. Like them or not you have to admire what they have been able to achieve and opportunities they have provided my business with their products and services. Unsurprisingly, AI was also part of that celebration with a raft of updates worth noting. Purview is big! If you haven’t yet dived in then maybe it’s time you did. Lots of things to learn in this episode.

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50 Years of Microsoft | Our future is you

MS turn 50

Satya Nadella recreates Microsoft’s first product

Microsoft 50th anniversary + Copilot event

Cheers to 50 years

The origin story of Microsoft

Source code – Bill Gates

Your AI Companion

Introducing Copilot Search in Bing

Create pages with Copilot in SharePoint

Security

Strengthen data security posture in the era of AI with Microsoft Purview

Microsoft Purview – Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) for AI

Multi-workspace for Multi-tenant is now in Public Preview in Microsoft’s Unified SecOps Platform

Threat actors leverage tax season to deploy tax-themed phishing campaigns

Why Windows Autopatch is the smart update solution

New innovations in Microsoft Purview for protected, AI-ready data

New innovations in Microsoft Entra to strengthen AI security and identity protection

Building layered protection: New Microsoft Purview data security controls for the browser & network

Windows 365

Maximize productivity and ROI with Windows 365: New innovations now generally available

Vibe coding

Introducing GitHub Copilot agent mode (preview)

Need to Know podcast–Episode 342

Join me for this episode with all the latest news and update from Microsoft as well as my take on the importance of logging as a security basic that many overlook. Plenty of security news in this episode especially around the latest exploits of MSHTA.EXE that you should be prepared for. Listen for all the information.

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you can listen directly to this episode at:

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