M365 News for August 2026
This post will be updated throughout the month as new items are added to the tag.
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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.
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M365 News for July 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.
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Worth Reading – Help on the line: How a Microsoft Teams support call led to compromise
Microsoft has made efforts to make it clearer when a call is from outside the tenant, and I think that helps. Still, it might now be a good idea to review the proper procedures with your users, and for larger organizations where users may not recognize the support team, an identity verification step might also be worth considering.
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Worth Reading – Microsoft Copilot Email and Teams Summarization Vulnerability Enables Phishing Attacks
If you can get Copilot to drop a link into the auto-summary, it would be less suspicious than an email sent from outside with a link. That’s probably true. After all, if you trust your AI Summarization tool to summarize the email instead of reading it, why wouldn’t you trust any links it included?
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M365 News for February 2026
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M365 News for January 2026
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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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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.
