Your employees are already building autonomous AI agents – just not inside your tenant. Trying to solve Shadow AI with blanket bans only pushes users toward uncontrolled tools. In Episode 28 of Guardians of M365 Governance, I sat down with Christian Buckley, Joy Apple, and MVP Ben Stegink to discuss how to actually make the…
SharePoint governance reports end up as CSV exports in the download folder – and there they gather dust. This raw data from SharePoint Advanced Management (SAM) contains exactly the answers that IT admins and compliance officers are looking for every day: Which sites are critical? Where does someone from outside have access? What needs to…
Microsoft Agent 365 is going Generally Available on May 1, 2026 — and the questions from customers are piling up fast – Agent 365 is available standalone or as part of the new M365 E7 License Plan. Whether you attended the recent product team AMA, caught the E7 announcement, or are simply trying to figure…
If you’ve ever wished for an “undo button” for your Microsoft 365 tenant configuration, you’re not alone. Microsoft 365 has no native capability to export, back up, or restore tenant configurations — and that’s a problem, since a single misconfiguration can lock your entire organization out or create security vulnerabilities. CoreView Configuration Manager’s Sync feature changes…
Microsoft has introduced Microsoft Agent 365 as its unified control plane for managing AI agents across enterprise environments, working in tandem with Microsoft Purview to deliver comprehensive data security and compliance protections. Introducing Agent 365 represents Microsoft’s strategic response to governing generative AI at scale—Agent 365 provides AI agent management capabilities, including identity, lifecycle management,…
In Episode 24 of the Guardians of M365 Governance monthly webcast, Joy Apple and Christian Buckley welcomed guest Jason Amgar, CTO and co-owner of AIMPACT Consulting, and a Microsoft Copilot Governance & Adoption Expert. And honestly? It was one of those conversations where you realize we’re all living through the same IT nightmare-turned-opportunity. You know…
All Content Left Behind In Episode 22 of the Guardians of M365 Governance monthly webcast, Ragnar Heil (@ragnarh), Joy Apple (@JoyOfSharePoint), and I welcome guest Sue Hanley—renowned information architect and Microsoft MVP—to explore the evolution of Information Architecture (IA) in the Microsoft ecosystem and how it’s being reshaped by AI and Copilot. And what did…
Episode 23 of the Guardians of M365 Governance had Joy back from an epic trip across Greece, Egypt, Cyprus, and Turkey (Kusadasi stole her heart, apparently), and we welcomed Jay Leask to the show. Jay’s a Principal Solution Engineer Hub – yes, “hub” is actually in his title – at Microsoft’s Washington DC Innovation Hub….
The latest episode of the “Copilot Studio Administration, Security, and Governance Series” dives deep into the nitty-gritty of tenant and environment-level configurations. It’s the kind of stuff that helps organizations move from “Wait, who deployed what?” to “We’ve got this under control.” And honestly, it’s worth your time.
The primary focus of this video is on operations and retention through a lens of governance and security in Microsoft 365.