M365 Roundup
M365 Roundup, July 2025: Token Protection Comes to P1
Token protection reaches Entra ID P1, Defender gains mail-bombing detection, the Conditional Access Optimization Agent hits GA, and Intune ships LAPS for macOS.
Nick Ross
M365 Roundup
The monthly what’s-new digest: every Microsoft 365 change that matters to MSPs, in one place, every month.
M365 Roundup
M365 Roundup, June 2025: Secure Defaults Tighten, Teams Finally Gets Threads
Microsoft blocks legacy browser auth and requires admin consent by default, Safe Attachments loses Monitor mode, passkey profiles go per-group, and Teams channels learn to thread.
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M365 Roundup
M365 Roundup, May 2025: Nonprofit Grants End, Copilot Learns Your Business
Microsoft kills the nonprofit Business Premium and E1 grants, raises the bar for CSP indirect resellers, and ships Copilot Tuning. May 2025's M365 changes, sorted by who has to act.
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M365 Roundup
M365 Roundup, April 2025: Teams Premium Starts Watching Screen Shares
Teams Premium flags sensitive content during screen sharing, Purview meters GenAI data security as pay-as-you-go, and Copilot lands across PowerPoint, Forms, and calls.
Nick Ross
M365 Roundup
M365 Roundup, March 2025: Exchange Starts Counting Your Outbound Email
Exchange Online enforces tenant-wide outbound email limits, E5 Security arrives as a Business Premium add-on, and the Report Message add-in enters maintenance mode.
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M365 RoundupIdentity & Access
M365 Roundup, February 2025: Microsoft Writes Your Conditional Access Now
Microsoft-managed Conditional Access policies start auto-enforcing after 45 days, Skype interop in Teams dies May 1, and Hotpatch hits preview. The February 2025 changes, sorted by deadline.
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M365 RoundupEmail & Collaboration Security
M365 Roundup, January 2025: Copilot Goes Freemium
Copilot Chat arrives free for Entra users, Teams flips transcription on by default for new tenants, and small businesses get live chat. The January 2025 M365 changes, sorted by what to check first.
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M365 RoundupEmail & Collaboration Security
M365 Roundup, December 2024: New Outlook Goes Opt-Out
New Outlook migration turns opt-out for SMBs in January 2025, monthly billing on annual terms gets a 5% markup, Viva Goals gets a retirement date, and Teams ships ten quality-of-life features.
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M365 RoundupEmail & Collaboration Security
M365 Roundup, October 2024: Copilot Agents Go GA
Copilot agents reach general availability, Teams adds impersonation warnings for external chat, a new calendar lands in January, and Office 2016/2019 get one year of support left.
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M365 RoundupAI Readiness
M365 Roundup, September 2024: Copilot Wave 2 and an Admin MFA Deadline
Copilot Wave 2 ships Pages, Python in Excel, and SharePoint agents; Microsoft starts enforcing MFA for admin portals on October 15, 2024; Teams and Intune stack up quality-of-life updates.
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M365 RoundupEmail & Collaboration Security
M365 Roundup, August 2024: Copilot Gets Guardrails
Copilot picks up enterprise data protection and usage APIs, Autopatch and WUfB-DS merge into one service, Entra ships AiTM detection and FIDO2 provisioning, and Teams adds CAPTCHA for anonymous joins.
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M365 RoundupIdentity & Access
M365 Roundup, July 2024: The Entra Suite Arrives and Microsoft Starts Turning On MFA For You
July 2024 ships the new Microsoft Entra Suite, auto-enables Microsoft-managed MFA Conditional Access policies, archives unlicensed OneDrive accounts after 90 days, and adds dynamic watermarking and scheduled Copilot prompts.
Nick Ross