Chatting about Purview, eDiscovery, Copilot and more with Tom O’Connor
Just a little light conversation about eDiscovery, Microsoft 365, Copilot, etc., before you head out to your holiday weekend.
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Worth Reading – Best Microsoft Teams Governance Strategies: Complete Guide
Regardless of the details of your Teams governance strategy, you want to have one. Leaving it up to users to provision and manage their own Teams is madness.
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So much news from Ignite 2025
I’ve only had time to watch the keynote today, and I’m already overwhelmed by the number of announced changes coming to M365 – almost all of which involve AI of some sort.
If you want to see the firehose, you can check out the Book of News.
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When a new feature sounds scary, but isn’t anything worth worrying about
If you don’t realize that your employer’s IT folks already have a dozen different ways to tell whether you’re logged in to the office wifi or not, you’re kidding yourselves. We didn’t need Teams to start ratting out employees.
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Worth Reading – New Audio-Only Recording Option for Teams Meetings
If you’re meeting involves a screenshare or some kind of visual presentation, then video recordings make sense. That’s not every meeting, though. I can’t imagine many things being as boring as watching people talk in a meeting after the fact.
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Worth Reading – Enabling Knowledge Agents in SharePoint: Pain control
I will admit, as interesting as SharePoint knowledge agents are, enabling them wasn’t very simple for a PowerShell novice like myself.
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Worth Reading – Purview Retention Controls on OneDrive Auto-generated Folders
OneDrive retention presents several challenges due to the variety of items that reside there by default. Share a file in a Teams chat and collaborate on it? It’s in OneDrive. Upload a file for Copilot to summarize, which will be copied to OneDrive. Meeting recordings and notes? OneDrive. Items from your local desktop and documents folders? Likely synced to OneDrive.
Use OneNote to store notes that you want to keep as a historical record? Yeah, OneDrive.
How do you establish a single policy to cover the retention of all these different scenarios?
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Who asked for this?
As I’ve said many times, Microsoft has invested too much money in AI to let users opt out of using it, even if it does ruin everything Microsoft has been known for.
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Worth Reading – Why Enabling File Attachments in Teams Chats with External Users Matters
I know many of you who work in regulated industries or deal with security risks may not want to hear this, but it makes sense to allow users to share files back and forth in Teams chat with external parties.
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Worth Reading – Teams in Microsoft 365 is back for good (but it’s your choice)
Apparently, instead of purchasing M365 licenses and then additional Teams licenses, your M365 licenses will come in with or without Teams flavors.
Forgive me for picturing your MS partner with a headset asking, “Do you want Teams with that?”
That seems to be how we’ll be ordering our licensing in the future, though.
