Tag: Podcast

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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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 341

In this episode I provide the benefits that become available once you add and Azure subscription to your Microsoft environment. From pay as you go options with Copilot and SharePoint all the way through adding more security to your environment, Azure contain a range of features that you should consider. I’ll also bring you up to date with all the latest news from the Microsoft Cloud, so listen along and enjoy.

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Microsoft 365 E5 Security is now available as an add-on to Microsoft 365 Business Premium

Microsoft Technical Takeoff: Windows + Intune

Azure Lighthouse support for MSSP use of Security Copilot Sentinel scenarios in Public Preview

Get the most out of OneNote with these little-known features

Edit your name in Teams meetings

Rethinking remote assistance security in a Zero Trust world

Introducing Exchange Online Tenant Outbound Email Limits

Need to Know podcast–Episode 339

In this episode I try and explain Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and where it fits into the Microsoft 365 environment, which is challenging without visual but hopefully it gives you a better idea. In essence Microsoft 365 Copilot chat is free to all Microsoft 365 users and provides the same AI across just the web but with commercial data protection. You can extend those capabilities by adding metered billing if desired before stepping up to the full paid version of Microsoft 365 Copilot.

I also have Microsoft Cloud news and updates for you as well as part of this episode so tune in.

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Access Copilot anywhere on the canvas in Word for the web

Microsoft Lists forms: What’s New

Diagnose Safe/Blocked Senders Issues in Microsoft 365

Do more with Copilot and agents

Microsoft Copilot help & learning

Securing Identities: 10 recommendations for building a stronger identity security posture

Accelerating the Anomalous Sign-Ins detection with Microsoft Entra ID and Security Copilot

Get visibility into your DeepSeek use with Defender for Cloud Apps

Microsoft Loop, a year in review: greater integration and richer collaboration

Introducing new Surface Copilot+ PCs for Business

Copilot for all: Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat

Need to Know podcast–Episode 338

A change of format for this episode. I recorded an interview with Andrew Bremner and Tim Stephinson around insurance for MSPs which I think provides a lot of value. Been a while since I have done an interview episode, so let me know what you think and whether you want to see more interviews like this? In the meantime, the news in the Microsoft Cloud never stops and I’ll bring you up to date with the latest as well.

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You can listen directly to this episode at:

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Announcing mandatory multifactor authentication for the Microsoft 365 admin center

New Identity Secure Score recommendations in General Availability

Enhancing Security with Entra PIM and Conditional Access Policy using Authentication Context

Windows 11 Security Book

Microsoft Teams, a year in review: AI-powered customization and upgraded presentations

Enabling agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat

SherpaTech

Insurance Health Check

MSP/ IT Professional Insurance Quote and Policy portal

Insurance Checklists

Need to Know podcast–Episode 336

A final episode for 2024. Thanks all for listening in 2024. For this episode I thought I’d wrap up my thoughts on the previous AI episodes experiment as well a let you know how I use Ai currently I also have some resources that I suggest you dig into to give you a better understanding of where all this Ai hype may end up.

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You can listen directly to this episode at:

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Resources

Mustafa Suleyman on the coming wave of AI

The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century’s Greatest Dilemma – Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar

My Goodreads feed

What is Ai anyway?

Free Github Copilot

Create a Microsoft Licensing Agent

Need to Know podcast–Episode 334

Part 2 of trial using AI generated content! This is part two of a two part test with the incorporation of AI generated content. If you missed the first episode check out Episode 333. In this episode I used Wondercraft.ai to generated some of the AI conversation you’ll hear, after my normal intro. I am really interested in your feedback on what you think, good or bad. Watch out for another ‘special Ai test’, coming soon.

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