Copilot agents are quietly accessing your SharePoint sites right now. Do you know which ones — and what they’re reading? Microsoft recently introduced the Agent Access Insights Report as part of SharePoint Advanced Management. It shows every declarative agent interacting with your SharePoint and OneDrive content: how often, on which sites, and under what governance…
Catalog management is the new kid on the SharePoint Advanced Management (SAM) block, roll out started in December 2025. It groups your sites into clusters so you can apply governance, access policies, and Copilot grounding to whole “categories” instead of clicking through thousands of sites. Sounds great. But it also raises many questions. Here are…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…