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 agent fleet is growing faster than your ability to govern it. That’s the blunt truth behind Microsoft’s July 2026 update to Agent 365, which adds five capabilities: unified partner risk signals, tighter oversight of usage-based AI spend, organization-wide adoption reporting, expanded cross-platform agent discovery, and centralized multi-tenant management. If you’re running Copilot Studio agents…
An Agent 365 Autopilot is an AI agent with its own identity inside your Microsoft 365 tenant — its own mailbox, calendar, and spot on the org chart. Unlike a regular Copilot agent published to Teams, an Autopilot acts on its own behalf, not on behalf of a signed-in user. That single distinction changes how…
In Episode 29 of Guardians of M365 Governance, Christian Buckley, Joy Apple, and I went off-script. No guest, just a laundry list of the governance topics keeping us up at night. The thread that tied it all together: as Agent 365 matures and shadow AI spreads, the most important governance control isn’t a setting. It’s…
So. There we were. Tuesday evening, coffee number four, headphones on, watching Microsoft host another Ask Me Anything on Agent 365. And before you ask: yes, I took notes. Yes, far too many. And yes, I’m now turning them into the kind of blog post I would have wanted to read myself before sitting through…
Microsoft Agent 365 launched on May 1, 2026 with bold promises around agent governance, security, and observability. And many of those promises are real. But if you’re an IT or security leader evaluating Agent 365 for your organization, there’s a side of the story that rarely makes it into the marketing slide deck: the limitations….
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…
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…
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,…