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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.
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.
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.
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.
A device lifecycle walkthrough of 16 Intune security controls: enrollment restrictions, compliance enforcement, encryption, patching, app protection, and offboarding, with licensing and setup steps.
Teams Premium launches with GPT-3.5 features at $7 intro pricing, the Microsoft Intune Suite and Plan 2 get a March 1 GA date, Exchange tightens quarantine permissions, and GDAP dates firm up.
Manual app packaging means downloading installers, building IntuneWin files, and redoing it all per update and per tenant. Here are the package managers, Intune features, and tools that end the loop.
Desired state configuration turns M365 baselines from physical checklists into monitored, enforceable standards. We review Microsoft 365 DSC and take an honest look at Simeon Cloud's friendlier take.
