On 9 November 2026, Microsoft announced that Copilot connector write actions are generally available in Copilot Chat and Cowork—following a rollout that started in early October 2026 (MC1476316), with Office app support coming soon. Where a publisher exposes the tools, Copilot can create, update, and delete data in connected apps, with launch scenarios covering tools…
Imagine you are the new CFO of a fast-food chain. To keep up with your inbox, you ask Copilot Cowork to summarize the top ten newsletters from your private Gmail account every morning. It saves time, and nobody in IT ever hears about it. At AltSecCON 2026, a red-team speaker from Altered Security showed how…
Microsoft 365 Copilot Business used to be a flat price per user. New purchases now come with usage-based billing switched on, so a variable cost sits next to the license fee, and your Copilot spending policy decides how high it can go. With 100 users and the default of 4,000 credits each (about $40), the…
Restricted Content Discovery (RCD) hides SharePoint sites from search and Microsoft 365 Copilot. A Copilot Studio agent still found the file, because discovery is not access control.
A book about restraint Most books on AI agents promise autonomy. This one is about boundaries, and that is where it is strongest. Hugo Herrera is a solutions architect with more than 15 years on Dynamics 365, Power Platform and Azure, and the author of Packt’s Power Platform Solutions Architect’s Handbook. His thesis, stated in…
Some comparisons refuse to produce a winner. This is one of them. Both headphones have eight microphones, both stream aptX Lossless, both cost roughly 400 euros. And yet they behave like two guests at the same party. One is already doing the dishes. The other is holding court by the fireplace. Honestly, both are welcome….
Crown, Flip, Freedom. It’s 4:30 p.m., call number six of the day. My ears are glowing like two little radiators, and somewhere in the back of my head a voice whispers: “Just one more meeting.” Anyone who spends their days in Teams knows the feeling. Over-ear headsets turn your head into a sauna. In-ears turn…
An LLM gateway controls requests to your models. An AI gateway also covers MCP tools, agents and data. The CData LLM Gateway governs what your models know and see. Azure AI Gateway governs the traffic path: identity, private networking and shared controls. Most enterprises end up needing both.
Join us on October 28th for Ep.33 of the Guardians of M365 Governance (#GoM365gov) as Ragnar, Joy & Christian discuss the latest news around autonomous AI, the rise of bots, and new tools for reporting, like Agent 365.
Your AI agent can read your data, call your tools and send emails. Your safety net? A polite sentence in the prompt. That is not a control. That is a wish. I’m a 10-time Microsoft MVP. I have spent 26+ years in enterprise IT, from Tridion and FAST Search to SharePoint and Copilot. I have…