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.
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…
Last week Microsoft released something small. Most admins will miss it. It’s a new API: the Microsoft 365 Copilot Cost Management API. It lives in Microsoft Graph, under /beta. Sounds boring. It’s not. For the first time, you can control Copilot Credits with code. Not only with clicks in an admin portal. Let me explain…
Deadline: Restricted SharePoint Search retires on January 31, 2027. Its settings are not migrated automatically to Restricted Content Discovery (RCD), so content you restricted today may become discoverable again. Check your tenant now (MC1395311). Copilot didn’t create your SharePoint chaos. It just finds it faster. An HR spreadsheet shared with “Everyone except external users” in…
Logitech launched the Logitech Rally Bar 2 and the Rally System 2 Pro on October 8, 2026. The Rally Bar 2 is an all-in-one video bar for medium to large rooms and ships now for $4,299 / €4,299. The Rally System 2 Pro is a modular system for big, multi-purpose spaces and ships in summer…
Headset Tuesday: two EPOS models, one question, no pretzels. Dear readers, today it’s about headsets. I know. Very sexy. But think about how much of your working week you spend with a thing on your ears. More than with your spouse, definitely more than with your plants. So let’s give it a bit of attention….
A customer was convinced they had a couple of hundred agents in their Microsoft 365 tenant. When they looked, there were 3,000. This story from Joy Apple’s live demo of Orchestry‘s new agents dashboard in our video show “Guardians of M365 Gvernance” with Christian Buckley sums up the state of AI governance in 2026: you…
Im vorigen Jahr habe ich mich mit Florian Sandmann-Reetz beim M365 Summit in Mainz unterhalten – und aus diesem Gespräch ist jetzt Episode 65 von “Sandmann sendet” geworden. Ich hoffe, es wird für Euch genauso interessant wie für mich während des Interviews. Vom Soziologiestudium zum KI-gestützten Zettelkasten 1994 habe ich mich im Soziologiestudium erstmals mit…
Counting logins and prompts tells you nothing about whether Microsoft 365 Copilot is actually creating business value. That was the central message from Lisa Vanderlip, Managing Principal at WyseMinds, in Episode 31 of Guardians of M365 Governance, hosted by Joy Apple, Ragnar Heil, and Christian Buckley. The Trap of Usage Metrics Most organizations still measure…
Rolling out Microsoft 365 Copilot? Learn why unstructured data classification is the step most companies skip—and why it backfires.