AI Assets (Preview) in Microsoft Defender
𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐨𝐟𝐭 𝐃𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫’𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐀𝐈 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐬 (𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰) 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐈 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲. Security teams can now: 👉 Discover…
Sensitivity Lables for Microsoft Entra Security Groups
Security groups have always been one of the most critical pieces of access control in Microsoft Entra. They control access to Azure…
Update User Attributes in Lifecycle Workflows (Preview) for Microsoft Entra
Employee lifecycle doesn’t stop at onboarding and offboarding. Employees get promoted, switch departments, relocate, and take on new…
Microsoft Scout Autopilot Agent: A New Era of AI-Powered Work
We’ve spent the last year learning how to work with AI assistants. Microsoft Scout suggests the next phase may be letting AI work…
Purview DLP External User Blocking in SharePoint and OneDrive
DLP is finally getting a capability many admins have been waiting for. This is really a much-needed enhancement to DLP for SharePoint Online…
Teams PowerShell WAM Becomes the Default Authentication Broker
Microsoft Teams PowerShell Is Switching to WAM Authentication by Default Starting in late June 2026 with version 7.8.1, Connect-MicrosoftTeams…
Convert PDF to Markdown to Reduce AI Token Usage
Stop uploading raw PDFs to Claude and other AI tools. The PDF itself is probably costing more tokens than the actual conversation. Every page…
Microsoft Teams Guest Invitation Emails Will Now Come From the Inviter
𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐨𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫’𝐬 𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬! Surprisingly, that’s not how Microsoft Teams guest…
Conditional Access Now Applies to WHfB Registration
𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. ❌ It didn’t. If you have Conditional Access…
Microsoft 365 Usage Analytics Power BI Template App Retiring
Many Microsoft 365 admins use the Microsoft 365 Usage Analytics Power BI template app to track adoption, usage trends, collaboration activity,…
Microsoft Defender Expands ZAP Protection to Deleted Items
Microsoft is strengthening post-delivery email protection in Microsoft Defender for Office 365 by expanding Zero-hour Auto Purge (ZAP)…
Outlook Inbox Rules Now Support External Email Tag
𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐨𝐟𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐎𝐮𝐭𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐈𝐧𝐛𝐨𝐱 𝐑𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐭𝐚𝐠. Users will soon be able to create Inbox Rules based…