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Will Grok Be Available in Microsoft Copilot in the EU?
Microsoft is bringing Grok to Copilot, but the preview excludes the EU, EFTA and UK. Here is what the SpaceXAI subprocessor change means for IT.
Security
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You Can Now Build Apps with Copilot Cowork and Copilot Studio
Have an idea for an internal app? Explore app building in Copilot Cowork and Copilot Studio, with a practical starter prompt and the checks IT should make first.
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Microsoft's Responsible AI Report: What You Still Need to Govern Yourself
Microsoft's 2026 Responsible AI Transparency Report explains its own governance work. Customers still need owners, approved use cases, evaluation and monitoring.
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Purview Can Auto-Label More Files: What the 500,000-a-Day Limit Means
Purview auto-labeling can now process up to 500,000 SharePoint and OneDrive files per day. That increases scale, not the quality of a badly designed policy.
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Entra Tenant Governance Is Here: Stop Losing Track of Your Microsoft 365 Tenants
Tenant Governance gives organizations a central way to discover and govern related Entra tenants. Start by finding what exists before enforcing a baseline.
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Copilot Domain Exclusion: What Changed and What Admins Should Check
Domain Exclusion gives admins more control over web grounding, but its rollout changed. Here is the difference between the control and disabling web search entirely.
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Which SharePoint Sites Are Your AI Agents Accessing?
Agent Access Insights adds another way to find SharePoint and OneDrive locations worth reviewing. The useful part is what you do after seeing the heatmap.
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Claude Opus 5 in Microsoft 365 Copilot: Why You Might Not See It Yet
Claude Opus 5 is available in Microsoft 365 Copilot, but model availability still depends on the experience and tenant configuration.
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Copilot Vision at Work: Check Screen and Camera Sharing Before Rollout
Copilot Vision can work with what users show on screen or camera. That makes the rollout conversation as much about user guidance as the feature itself.
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How to Keep External Emails Out of Copilot Answers with Microsoft Purview
Purview adds a control for external email in Copilot grounding. Learn what it blocks, what it leaves alone and how to test the business impact.
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Copilot Cowork Is Generally Available: Check Access and Costs Before You Enable It
Cowork moves from answering questions to completing multi-step tasks. Before you roll it out, separate the license, usage costs and security controls.
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Your AI Agents Need Governance Too: What Agent 365 Changes for IT
An agent needs more than a useful prompt. The Build announcements make ownership, access and lifecycle management an important next step for IT.
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Flex Routing for Microsoft 365 Copilot: Check your Tenant Settings Today
Last two weeks I was on vacation and I already read a lot about the Flex Routing Microsoft is enabling/disabling forced. While I was away, two distinct messages hit the Microsoft 365 Message Center that have caused a bit of a......
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How to enable & manage Claude AI in Microsoft 365
Microsoft is bringing more model choices to the Microsoft 365 & Copilot. One of the most recent additions is the integration of Claude (Anthropic) models as part of the Microsoft 365 ecosystem.While this opens up new creative and...
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Microsoft 365 Copilot & The EU Data Boundary explained
As a Microsoft 365 engineer myself working in the Netherlands, I regularly get the question: "Is our data actually safe with Copilot?" The good news is that Microsoft has been very clear about this. With the Enterprise Data Protection...
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How to Connect Microsoft 365 Copilot to Google Drive, Dropbox, and Amazon
Data doesn’t live in just one place. While many of us work in Microsoft 365, business information is often scattered across other platforms like Google Drive, Dropbox, or stored in Amazon S3 buckets.Until recently, this was a bit of a...
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A First Look at the New Security Dashboard for AI
If you’ve been following my blog, you know I’m a big fan of Microsoft 365 Copilot and AI in particular. But as an IT professional, you also know that with all this possibilities, comes a whole new set of security headaches. How do you...
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Microsoft Security Copilot: Coming to Microsoft 365 E5
Big news for E5 customers! Microsoft has officially announced that Security Copilot will be included in Microsoft 365 E5 licenses starting later this year. This is a major step forward in making AI-driven security agents accessible to...
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Getting Started with the Microsoft Zero Trust Workshop
Zero Trust. You’ve probably heard the term a lot in security conversations. But what does it mean in practice and how do you assess if your organization is on the right track? If you’re anything like me, you don’t want vague marketing...
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Getting Started with NIS2 Compliance in Compliance Manager: A Complete Guide - Part 2
In my previous blog, I guided you through the initial steps of setting up Compliance Manager and using the NIS2 in Compliance Manager. We covered key points as setting up the NIS2 regulation in an assessment in Microsoft Compliance...
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Getting Started with NIS2 Compliance in Compliance Manager: A Complete Guide - Part 1
Ever wanted to know how your organization is doing with something like the NIS2 implementation? Stop signing up for special courses, reading through massive books, or printing out checklists! Microsoft Purview has Compliance Manager,...
