
M365 Roundup, March 2024: Copilot for Security Gets a Launch Date
Copilot for Security goes GA April 1 with pay-as-you-go pricing, NCE subscriptions become transferable mid-term, Restricted SharePoint Search arrives, and Teams ships voice isolation.
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Copilot for Security goes GA April 1 with pay-as-you-go pricing, NCE subscriptions become transferable mid-term, Restricted SharePoint Search arrives, and Teams ships voice isolation.

A working checklist for the new Outlook: signatures and Bookings, schedule sends and recalls, sweep rules, the security toggles users should know, and the Microsoft 365 integrations built in.

The unified Planner app replaces Tasks in Teams, Azure Information Protection Plan 1 ends sale, Intune adds macOS setup and Autopilot controls, and Copilot reaches SharePoint, OneDrive, and mobile.

Lighthouse now flags which customers are ready to buy Microsoft 365 Copilot. Here is how to size the revenue, time the pitch to NCE renewals, and open with an AI readiness assessment.

Microsoft 365 Copilot costs $360 per user upfront. At a $70k salary, the investment breaks even at 54 minutes saved per month, and two hours saved returns over 100 percent ROI.

A license-by-license matrix of the native security and compliance features that protect Microsoft 365 Copilot data, plus the add-ons that get Business plans most of the way to E5.

Copilot for Microsoft 365 hits GA through CSP with seat minimums removed, Lighthouse gains Copilot sales tools, Intune trims audit log retention to one year, and Teams ships nine features.

Teams Premium and Microsoft 365 Copilot both include AI meeting recaps, then diverge fast. Here is what each license covers, what only Copilot does, and how the billing terms differ.

Copilot for Microsoft 365 surfaces whatever a user can already touch, including the access nobody remembers granting. Here is the nine-step governance audit to run before you sell or deploy it.

Teams ships channel archiving and a meeting-chat leak control, Intune previews a rebuilt Devices experience, and Microsoft sets the new commerce migration timeline for GCC, education, and nonprofit.

Microsoft-managed Conditional Access policies land in tenants automatically, Entra ID preps device-bound passkeys, Ignite floods Teams with Copilot, and Intune unveils two paid add-on capabilities.

When you widen an app registration's Graph permissions under GDAP, every customer relationship needs the matching role. Here is the architecture and script that updates them all at once.

PIM extends just-in-time access to groups with Conditional Access enforcement, Graph activity logging enters preview, Windows Server 2012 R2 hits end of support, and Teams stacks up eight features.

Microsoft 365 Copilot lands November 1 for enterprise, Town halls replace Teams Live Events, Conditional Access templates hit GA, and hybrid password resets finally clear user risk in Entra ID.
Build an Entra ID app registration, mint a refresh token, and call any Microsoft Graph API from a script with no human at the keyboard. Every step, every screenshot, two reusable scripts.

The NIST CSF 2.0 draft expands the framework to every organization. Here is what changed and a full enablement guide mapping Microsoft 365 security controls, licensing, and scripts to the framework.

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.