Your IT team owns governance. So they own Copilot adoption too, right? That assumption is quietly killing your AI rollout. Most organizations hand Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption to the same team managing DLP policies, sensitivity labels, and compliance controls. It feels logical — they know the tenant, they know the tools. But governance and enablement…
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…
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…
One IT department expected to find 50 agents in their tenant. They found over 500. Welcome to agent sprawl — the SharePoint site sprawl story, just faster, more autonomous, and with a billing model nobody fully understands yet. In Episode 27 of Guardians of M365 Governance, Christian Buckley and I sat down with Timothy Boettcher…
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…
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…