Would you be interested in getting together over a Teams channel to discuss M365, eDiscovery, and other related topics with other subscribers? Perhaps even schedule some chats on occasion? (Paid subscribers, I’ve got some ideas just for you as well.) If you are interested, sign up here. If there’s enough interest, we will definitely get this going in the next few weeks.)
The slop problem is the kind of PR problem that kills industries. It’s the Ford Pinto’s exploding gas tank, New Coke, and the iTunes U2 album fiasco all rolled into one. People see all the hype about AI, then experience entire websites and tens of thousands of social media accounts spewing content no one wants, generated by AI.
That’s a perception problem that won’t go away because you want customers to stop talking about it. You have to build a tool that doesn’t create this problem.
This might not seem like a big deal, but it is. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to create a separate Team for a small group because they want a Private Channel, but they also want to use Planner in it, or some other app that wasn’t supported in Private Channels.
One of the tools he mentions is the Audit log, and I agree. It can be difficult in SharePoint and OneDrive to determine who saw a document and who didn’t, because there are often so many changes being made at once. It’s easy to get lost in an avalanche of versions and permissions that leave doubt as to whether something was even shared with a user during the time in question.
That’s where the audit log comes in. However, just because events are logged doesn’t mean they will still be there months from now. If you’re in a highly litigious industry, the retention and preservation of audit log data might be something worth considering.
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.
This is also coming with a price increase effective in July 2026:
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…
Just a little light conversation about eDiscovery, Microsoft 365, Copilot, etc., before you head out to your holiday weekend.
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.
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.
