
Stop Approving Vendors Over Email: A Power Automate Flow That Does the Paperwork
A Power Automate flow that takes vendor requests from a Microsoft Form, routes approvals through Teams, logs the software inventory, and opens the IT ticket.
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A Power Automate flow that takes vendor requests from a Microsoft Form, routes approvals through Teams, logs the software inventory, and opens the IT ticket.

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.

A hands-on video walkthrough of building two working AI agents in Microsoft Copilot Studio: a loan analyzer that decides and emails applicants, and a Teams-based app access evaluator for IT.

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.

A 5% increase on annual NCE plans paid monthly, Teams Phone going up, Copilot gaining monthly billing and a free chat tier, plus stackable promos. What to lock in before April 1, 2025.

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.

By default, anyone with a Microsoft 365 tenant can open a Teams chat with your users. Here is the attack that exploits it and the four controls that break the kill chain.

Ignite 2024 set the Teams roadmap for 2025: speech-to-speech interpretation in nine languages, email-verified external attendees, bot-blocking CAPTCHA, and a merged chat and channels experience.

Ignite 2024 buried real news under Copilot branding. The 20 announcements that matter, grouped: agents, Copilot+ PCs, Windows 365, Windows resiliency and security, Edge, and Lighthouse.

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.

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.

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.