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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.
Out of the box, SharePoint generates Anyone links with edit rights. Here is the staged path to safer sharing defaults, with the exact guest and Gmail user flows that generate tickets.
Copilot Studio agents and Team Copilot headline May 2024, alongside mandatory MFA for Azure, external authentication methods in Entra, macOS Platform SSO, and a twelve-feature Teams batch.
Personal-device access does not have to be negotiated client by client. Define three BYOD support tiers once, then deploy the matching Conditional Access, MAM, and DLP stack everywhere.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
