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Explore the new Communicator app in Microsoft Teams to send targeted announcements and track acknowledgment status.

Microsoft’s Copilot Pages split-screen interface puts a chat window on the left and a document canvas on the right, so you can easily switch between prompting the AI and making direct edits.

Welcome to the August 2026 edition of What's New in Microsoft Copilot!  

A skill extends the capabilities of an AI model. Skills provide Copilot in PowerPoint with information to complete repeatable tasks. With Copilot in PowerPoint, you can choose from skills available on the Copilot pane or create your own custom skills.

Three layers that work like a good team and slides to show it Data Loss Prevention (DLP) is not new, many use it daily without ever even knowing it, but with...

I'm all for AI when it genuinely helps, but Microsoft's latest branding move feels like another case of forcing AI into places where it simply doesn't belong.

The more I speak with SMBs about Copilot, the more I think the price objection is often a cover story.Yes, cost matters. It always does in a small business. A few extra licences can feel very real …

Like most people who have spent years working in data, governance and technology, I am occasionally asked a surprisingly difficult question....

Reading this article will help you understand how AI-assisted contributions change project governance, and how the same ideas can be applied to Microsoft 365 collaboration, SharePoint content, Teams workflows, and Copilot adoption.

Learn how Prompt Injection Protection in Microsoft Defender detects and blocks prompt injection emails before they reach user inboxes.

Microsoft is nearly ready to release its update for Planner, bringing several UI changes that could make the service more useful.

Anthropic’s Mythos has flagged bugs faster than Microsoft can fix them. Documents reviewed by ProPublica reveal the tech giant's “mad dash” behind the scenes to patch holes before hackers can find and exploit them.

Discover more about the new Exchange Online PowerShell cmdlet that lets admins change meeting organizer without recreating meetings.

The new Recap app puts all your AI summaries and transcripts in one place, but is it enough to cut down on meeting fatigue?

Secure Microsoft 365 - https://course.bearded365guy.comMy Conditional Access Baseline: https://cabaseline.bearded365guy.com/Microsoft's AI naming is a mess. ...

Microsoft Purview provides a robust framework for data governance, classification, labeling, and risk assessment to secure these interactions while enabling safe innovation.

Hotel Wi-Fi hack targeting Microsoft 365 accounts has turned captive portal gateways at hotels and conference centers in the US, India, and Saudi Arabia into credential-theft infrastructure; DNS poisoning redirects business travelers to fake login pages with no phishing email required, and MFA is

Information is constantly created, but only a small proportion of it survives beyond the work that created it.  Emails are answered, documen...

At InfoComm, Microsoft has confirmed that you will soon be able to invoke Facilitator by voice in Teams Rooms, speak naturally to the room to join a meeting or ask for help, and it answers out loud. This is the beginning of ambient AI in meeting spaces - something Microsoft has been signalling for months. This is a feature Cisco Webex Rooms have had for a while so great to see this come to native Teams Rooms too.

Organizations rarely have to justify why they kept data. They are much more often challenged on what they can do with it once they've kept i...

Reading this article will give you a clear understanding of how tenant storage worked before SharePoint Embedded, the impact of new tools like Loop, Designer, and Copilot Agents, why storage still matters for admins, and practical ways to keep things under control without the usual headaches.

Not all corporate risk shows up quietly in the structured data footprint and s ometimes, it manifests in how people talk to each other. It l...

The DLP move to quarantine action is available for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business files. If blocked, DLP replaces the quarantined file with a file.

If you’re working with Microsoft Purview and think “confidence = accuracy”… we need to talk. Because that assumption is not just wrong – it’s actively dangerous for your data protection strategy.

One of the questions I get asked most often about Microsoft 365 Copilot Notebooks is deceptively simple: when I upload a document into a notebook, where does it actually live? It’s a fair que…

Organizations need confidence that the right people and tools are participating in their discussions. That's why we're introducing a new Teams admin policy...

One of the biggest mistakes I continue to see with Microsoft 365 Copilot is treating the licence purchase as the project.It’s not.The licence is the easy part. The hard part is making sure th…

How to quickly navigate Audit, Sign-In, Activity, and Diagnostic logs to solve tenant issues without losing your mind.

Copilot Cowork is now generally available worldwide, bringing secure, AI-powered automation for complex enterprise tasks in Microsoft 365.