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Mike McBride on M365
Mike McBride on M365
I spend a lot of time in M365 and I share what I learn
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    Copilot

    Anthropic now a Microsoft Subprocessor

    ByMike McBride December 8, 2025December 8, 2025 Reading Time: 2 minutes

    This is a pretty significant change for many of us who had been concerned about vetting data protection agreements with Anthropic before allowing user access to the Claude option in Coiplot Chat, and who’ve also watched new agents for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint rollout, but not to our tenants with Anthropic model access disabled. 

    Read More Anthropic now a Microsoft SubprocessorContinue

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    Licensing

    Worth Reading – Advancing Microsoft 365: New capabilities and pricing update

    ByMike McBride December 5, 2025December 6, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

    This is also coming with a price increase effective in July 2026:

    Read More Worth Reading – Advancing Microsoft 365: New capabilities and pricing updateContinue

  • Red sign with white letters reading "Recording"
    Teams

    Is Your Teams Meeting Being Recorded? I’d Assume It Is

    ByMike McBride December 2, 2025 Reading Time: 2 minutes

    A few months ago, I wrote about people using AI Notetakers in Teams meetings. I’ve spoken several times about the privacy implications of recording Teams meetings, using Copilot, and related practices. One thing I’ve been encouraging people to understand is that, even if you host the meeting and turn off all AI, recording, and transcription…

    Read More Is Your Teams Meeting Being Recorded? I’d Assume It IsContinue

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    Copilot | eDiscovery | Personal News | Purview

    Chatting about Purview, eDiscovery, Copilot and more with Tom O’Connor

    ByMike McBride November 25, 2025November 25, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

    Just a little light conversation about eDiscovery, Microsoft 365, Copilot, etc., before you head out to your holiday weekend.

    Read More Chatting about Purview, eDiscovery, Copilot and more with Tom O’ConnorContinue

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    SharePoint | Teams

    Worth Reading – Best Microsoft Teams Governance Strategies: Complete Guide

    ByMike McBride November 20, 2025November 20, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

    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.

    Read More Worth Reading – Best Microsoft Teams Governance Strategies: Complete GuideContinue

  • Photo of a red firehose rolled up and waiting to be used.
    Copilot

    So much news from Ignite 2025

    ByMike McBride November 18, 2025November 18, 2025 Reading Time: 7 minutes

    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.

    Read More So much news from Ignite 2025Continue

  • Sign with the icon and text for Wifi
    Teams

    When a new feature sounds scary, but isn’t anything worth worrying about

    ByMike McBride November 3, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

    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.

    Read More When a new feature sounds scary, but isn’t anything worth worrying aboutContinue

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    Teams

    Worth Reading – New Audio-Only Recording Option for Teams Meetings

    ByMike McBride October 20, 2025October 20, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

    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.

    Read More Worth Reading – New Audio-Only Recording Option for Teams MeetingsContinue

  • Keyboard with black keys, with one key highlighted in blue light that says "AI"
    Copilot | SharePoint

    Worth Reading – Enabling Knowledge Agents in SharePoint: Pain control

    ByMike McBride October 16, 2025October 15, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

    I will admit, as interesting as SharePoint knowledge agents are, enabling them wasn’t very simple for a PowerShell novice like myself. 

    Read More Worth Reading – Enabling Knowledge Agents in SharePoint: Pain controlContinue

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    Purview

    Worth Reading – Purview Retention Controls on OneDrive Auto-generated Folders

    ByMike McBride October 6, 2025October 5, 2025 Reading Time: 2 minutes

    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?

    Read More Worth Reading – Purview Retention Controls on OneDrive Auto-generated FoldersContinue

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