M365 News for August 2026
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Worth Reading – Microsoft Defender Revelation Poses Troubling Questions
If we can’t trust Microsoft’s own tools to work, people will look for other tools. The advantage of being the built-in tool disappears when we can’t trust it.
OpenAI as Copilot Subprocessor
That seems significant. As someone who works in the legal industry, this is concerning. Some of our clients will not look kindly on us using any third-party tool that can’t provide SOC reports, and I know anyone working with the federal government is looking at that first bullet point about FedRAMP and wondering if they should make sure this isn’t enabled in their environment.
Worth Reading – Find Unused Microsoft 365 Copilot Licenses
Whether someone getting only AI meeting recaps is worth the cost, of course, is for your organization to decide. I suppose the same could be said for someone who only uses it to write one email a week, or for other limited-use scenarios. It’s important to bring this reporting to the table when having these discussions, though. So, it might be worth keeping this tip around:
Once Upon a Time One Retention Policy Applied to Teams and Copilot Chats
The key was, if you had originally set it for both, and hadn’t gone back and changed it, the policy was still being enforced on both. It would, however, require you to split it across two different policies if you made a change to that policy but if you hadn’t, you were fine.
That’s about to change:
M365 News for May 2026
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M365 News for February 2026
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