M365 News for July 2026
This post will be updated throughout the month as new items are added to the tag.
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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You may read that and think that means your employer can see every prompt you enter in Copilot. To some extent, that is true; in the same way, they can see every email message or Teams chat you type with your work account. It is a work account after all. The key piece missing from that simple statement is that it’s not easy to do, and, by design, there are usually very few people who can collect and review that data. Usually, the effort required to do that isn’t worth it. So, if it has happened to you, it’s likely because someone or something has raised a suspicion that warranted an investigation. Most users never reach this level of scrutiny.
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.
There are some solid ideas in the article below, the first ones should be obvious: limit who can create Teams and have an approval process. Without that, you may as well start a pool to guess how many “test” Teams will be created in the first few months.