When agents stop being tools and start being colleagues In this blog post, I’ll show you what happens when you stop treating AI as a chatbot and start hiring it. I sat down with @MichaelGannotti, Principal AI Solution Engineer at @Microsoft from North Carolina, and what he described isn’t a prototype – it’s a small…
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 365 Copilot just got a new thinking partner — and most users are briefing it the wrong way. You already use Copilot Researcher for deep research tasks. But since Microsoft added Anthropic’s Claude models — including Claude Opus — to the Researcher experience, the rules of engagement have changed. Not because the model is…
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…
Most organizations think they’re protected because they back up their data. They’re not. Here’s the uncomfortable truth: your emails, files, and SharePoint data might be recoverable — but if a cyber criminal walks into your Microsoft 365 tenant tonight and starts changing configurations, you have almost no way to detect it, roll it back, or…
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Multi‑agent orchestration in Copilot Studio and Microsoft Foundry launched at Build 2025, but only one platform is truly production‑ready for 5–10‑agent systems if you architect carefully around its hard limits.
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….
However, for organizations in the European Union, a critical question immediately arises: Can EU customers safely use the new Anthropic Claude integration in Microsoft 365 Copilot, and is it compliant with the GDPR and the EU Data Boundary?