Unlock Anthropic AI in Microsoft Copilot: Step-by-Step Setup & Crucial Warnings!

In this video, I walk you through how to enable Anthropic’s powerful AI models—like Claude—inside Microsoft Copilot. I’ll show you exactly where to find the settings, how to activate new AI providers, and what features you unlock in Researcher and Copilot Studio. Plus, I share an important compliance warning you need to know before turning this on, so you can make informed decisions for your organization. If you want to supercharge your Copilot experience and stay ahead with the latest AI integrations, this guide is for you!

Video link = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxa9OrI6VJs

September 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/202509.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.

Get a copy of my Comparing AI Services Report

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I’ve bundled up all my research into different AI services and had Copilot Research generate a report which you can now request via email by filling in this form:

https://forms.office.com/r/tGK2GZPLc1

The report covers my findings from a recent series of blog posts I wrote that culminated with:

https://blog.ciaops.com/2025/09/12/comparing-ai-services-an-objective-analysis/

but the downloadable report brings all The articles nicely together with some additional insights.

CIA Brief 20250921

SharePoint Showcase highlights: Get the most out of SharePoint agents –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft365insiderblog/sharepoint-showcase-highlights-get…

New collaborative agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot –

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

Power up project management in Teams with the Project Manager Agent –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/plannerblog/power-up-project-management-in-teams-with-the-…

Introducing Knowledge Agent in SharePoint –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/spblog/introducing-knowledge-agent-in-sharepoint/4454154

AI and Microsoft Teams: A New Era of Collaboration –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoftteamsblog/ai-and-microsoft-teams-a-new-era-of-col…

Microsoft 365 Insider Round-Up: September 2025 –

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/microsoft-365-insider-round-up-september-2025-microsoft-365-insider-…

Microsoft 365 Copilot: Enabling human-agent teams –

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2025/09/18/microsoft-365-copilot-enabling-human-…

Addressing multi-tenant management challenges for MSPs with Microsoft Intune and partner innovations –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoftintuneblog/addressing-multi-tenant-management-cha…

Copilot-powered file previews coming to Microsoft 365 Copilot app for iOS –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/Microsoft365InsiderBlog/copilot-powered-file-previews-comi…

Introducing the new Network Security Hub in Azure –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azurenetworksecurityblog/introducing-the-new-network-secur…

Defending against evolving identity attack techniques –

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/05/29/defending-against-evolving-identity-attack…

Microsoft seizes 338 websites to disrupt rapidly growing ‘RaccoonO365’ phishing service –

https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2025/09/16/microsoft-seizes-338-websites-to-disrupt-rapid…

Datacenters: The secret to connectivity –

https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/innovation/datacenters-the-secret-to-connectivity/

Face the future today by moving your application to cloud native –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoftintuneblog/face-the-future-today-by-moving-your-a…

Copilot Chat comes to the Microsoft 365 apps –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft365copilotblog/copilot-chat-comes-to-the-microsof…

Get ready now: One month until Office 2016/2019 end of support –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/officeeos/get-ready-now-one-month-until-office-20162019-en…

After hours

How Google Makes Billions Off You—And How To Opt Out –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtoRk6QS3i4

Editorial

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Robert.Agent has been upgraded

I have now upgraded Robert.Agent to use GPT5 deep reasoning as you can see above.

All you need to do is send an email to robert.agent@ciaops365.com with your M365 question in the BODY of the email and you should get a reply to that question in a few minutes. Remember, deep reasoning models take longer to products results.

It is also important to note with Robert.Agent:

1. Each email is treated as a separate conversation. Robert.Agent has no ‘memory’ of any previous email you may have sent. Thus, treat each email you send as a single unique response or session.

2. Robert.Agent has normal Exchange Online security protection. This means, if the email you send looks like spam (i.e. no subject, signature, bad grammar and spelling, etc) then you won’t get a response.

Try the upgraded Robert.Agent out and let me know what you think.

Improved Windows Defender script

Recently, Microsoft updated Visual Studio code and Github Copilot to include the ability to auto detect which AI is best model to use when coding:

I therefore thought I’d take it for a spin and elected to use it to improve the script:

https://github.com/directorcia/Office365/blob/master/win10-def-get.ps1

which you now see the results for yourself. The script require escalation to local administrator to gather the information it needs.

Tests include:

– Attack Surface Reduction Rules

– Defender Settings

– Scanning Settings

– Latest Signature / Engine Versions

– Platform Security

and more. You will find the documentation at:

https://github.com/directorcia/Office365/wiki/Windows-Security-Audit-Script

which was also generated thanks to Github Copilot.

Let me know what you think and if you feel anything should be added.

CIA Brief 20250914

Intune AI Agent: Instant Threat Defense, Invisible Protection –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft-security-blog/intune-ai-agent-instant-threat-def…

Microsoft Sentinel’s AI-driven UEBA ushers in the next era of behavioral analytics –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoftsentinelblog/microsoft-sentinel%E2%80%99s-ai-driv…

Zero Trust for Software Development Companies: what “good” looks like in practice –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/marketplace-blog/zero-trust-for-software-development-compa…

Azure mandatory multifactor authentication: Phase 2 starting in October 2025 –

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-mandatory-multifactor-authentication-phase-2-starting-…

Protect Copilot Studio AI Agents in Real Time with Microsoft Defender –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoftthreatprotectionblog/protect-copilot-studio-ai-ag…

After hours

“Focusing is about saying no”- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8eP99neOVs

Editorial

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Watch out for the next CIA Brief next week

Comparing AI services–an objective analysis?

If you have been following my articles about comparing AI services, you’d know that, through some ‘rule of thumb’ reasoning I was able to determine the following ranking of Ai services:

1. Deepseek

2. M365 Copilot

3. Copilot Researcher

4. Gemini

5. Copilot Studio

6. ChatGPT deep research

7. ChatGPT

The problem is that I used the same AI services to potentially evaluate the results that they in fact generated. Could that result in bias? Unsure, but I’d suggest probably, if you look at the results.

What I therefore decided to do was have the original articles evaluated by two AI services that were not on my original list, Claude and Grok. Here’s the result of jus these two:

AI Service	Claude	Grok	Total
M365 Copilot	7	4	11
Gemini	3	7	10
Copilot Studio	5	5	10
Deepseek	6	2	8
Copilot Researcher	2	6	8
ChatGPT Deep Research	4	3	7
ChatGPT	1	1	2

If I now incorporate these results in the overall results I get the following:

AI Service	Researcher	Gemini	ChatGPT	Claude	Grok	Total
M365 Copilot	7	3	4	7	4	25
Deepseek	5	4	7	6	2	24
Gemini	4	7	2	3	7	23
Copilot Studio	2	5	5	5	5	22
Copilot Researcher	6	6	1	2	6	21
ChatGPT Deep Research	3	2	3	4	3	15
ChatGPT	1	1	6	1	1	10

That changes the ranking slightly to:

1. M365 Copilot

2. Deepseek

3. Gemini

4. Copilot Studio

5. Copilot Researcher

6. ChatGPT deep research

7. ChatGPT

with the average score being 20, which most services exceed. ChatGPT still lags, even after this! Interesting, huh?

I think my original conclusion remains valid – most AI services, except for ChatGPT, seem to produce very similar quality on average when prompted in the same way.