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.
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Worth Reading – Why Enabling File Attachments in Teams Chats with External Users Matters
I know many of you who work in regulated industries or deal with security risks may not want to hear this, but it makes sense to allow users to share files back and forth in Teams chat with external parties.
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Worth Reading – Teams in Microsoft 365 is back for good (but it’s your choice)
Apparently, instead of purchasing M365 licenses and then additional Teams licenses, your M365 licenses will come in with or without Teams flavors.
Forgive me for picturing your MS partner with a headset asking, “Do you want Teams with that?”
That seems to be how we’ll be ordering our licensing in the future, though.
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Worth Reading – Skilling snack: Get started with Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat
If you’re rolling out Copilot at work and looking for ways to teach people about using it, this might also be a good place to start.
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Worth Reading – Beyond Chat: The Hidden Dominoes When You Create a Microsoft Team
Everything about Teams—security, retention, eDiscovery, privacy, and so on— starts with understanding the data involved. To understand the data involved, you need to be familiar with all the details of this chain reaction. You’re not protecting and investigating data in a Teams channel; you’re dealing with data in Exchange, SharePoint, and potentially in various other locations, depending on the apps used in the channel.
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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.
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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:
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Worth Reading – Introducing new security and compliance add-ons for Microsoft 365 Business Premium
There is more detail in the announcement above, but the bottom line is this. You can get Defender and a range of e5 Purview tools for an additional $15 USD per month per user. With Business Premium costing $22 per month per user when paid annually, that’s a significant savings over a full E5 license if you have fewer than 300 users.
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Planner | SharePoint | Teams
There are a lot of people who blame Teams for their own issues
Teams channels can be confusing when you don’t have a plan in place for organizing them. Teams chats can get noisy when you don’t define the purpose of each group chat. Planner can be lacking when people don’t assign tasks properly. Loop and OneNote can become absolute chaos when there isn’t a process for note-taking and storage. As Mirko points out, SharePoint can become a junk drawer when things don’t have a defined location that everyone agrees upon.
That’s not a technology problem. That’s a human problem.
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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.
