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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Continuing limits on onmicrosoft.com domains and an offer for you!
So, I have this new domain. It is also tied to an M365 tenant. After my 30-day trial period is up, I’ll have to decide whether I want to pay for the domain. I likely will, but those decisions would be a whole lot easier if we could get more paid subscribers. So, here’s the deal. For September, I will offer a 20% discount on new annual subscriptions. If you’ve ever been on the fence about subscribing for the whole year, now is as good a time as any!
Also, if your team would like a subscription, you can get 40% off a group (3 or more) annual subscription.
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.
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.
Hold Reports reappear in the new Purview eDiscovery interface
The roadmap item still shows the rollout of hold reports scheduled for November, but imagine my surprise on Friday when I saw a new “Dashboard” section in the left-hand menu, which included a link to Hold Reports:
Worth Reading – Moving sales, service, and finance to the Frontier with Microsoft 365 Copilot
I want to be charitable and say that this doesn’t reek slightly of desperation, but is instead a strategic decision, possibly to be followed by a price increase next year. Or even that they are trying to lessen the confusion around the different versions of Copilot.
Then I counted the number of “Try Copilot Chat Now!” buttons on that page and immediately realized how desperate they are to get people to use Copilot.
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?
