
M365 Roundup, August 2023: GDAP Deadlines, Protected Actions, Python in Excel
September 25 ends DAP for new customers, Conditional Access protected actions hit GA, Python lands in Excel, and the legacy Exchange Online client ID heads for retirement.

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September 25 ends DAP for new customers, Conditional Access protected actions hit GA, Python lands in Excel, and the legacy Exchange Online client ID heads for retirement.

Inspire month: Microsoft 365 Copilot lands at $30 per user, Azure AD becomes Entra ID, Bing Chat Enterprise opens in preview, and M365 Backup and Archive debut.

The new Outlook will replace Windows Mail and Calendar by end of 2024, Intune picks up driver update management and MAM for Edge on Windows, and Teams ships seven quality-of-life features.

Microsoft Build 2023 unveils Fabric and Windows Copilot, Teams rebuilds the channels experience, Yammer becomes Viva Engage, and a CSP audio conferencing promo quietly expires.

Microsoft Teams holds chats, meetings, and files for the whole company. These eight CIS-mapped settings control who gets in, what apps run, and where data can leak.

Scheduling a single meeting by email eats 8 to 10 minutes. Microsoft 365 includes two free fixes: Bookings with Me for one-on-ones and Scheduling Polls for groups.

GDAP removes the pre-consent that delegated vendor integrations rely on. Here is the split of work: the prerequisites the MSP configures and the consent workflow the vendor has to build.

GDAP removes the pre-consent that made partner app registrations just work. Here is the full repair path: service account, app registration, GDAP roles, and the consent API, with scripts.

Intelligent Meeting Recap reaches Teams Premium, Teams DLP becomes E5-only on May 30, Intune's Endpoint Privilege Management and Apple SSO plug-in hit GA, and Defender changes DMARC handling.

Azure OpenAI lets you run a private ChatGPT over your own business documents, with citations, for roughly $132 a month in our April 2023 estimate. Here is what we found testing it, and the MSP angle.

Microsoft announces Microsoft 365 Copilot, DAP-to-GDAP transitions start May 22 with eight limited roles, Authenticator Lite auto-enables May 26, and the faster Teams client enters preview.

CISA's SCuBA project gives you a checklist. A real hardening program needs CIS mapping, licensing notes, setup steps, user-impact warnings, and scripts for every control across all six M365 workloads.