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Mike McBride on M365
Mike McBride on M365
I spend a lot of time in M365 and I share what I learn
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    Teams

    Zoom Changing how AI Note-takers Can Be Used – Will Microsoft Follow?

    ByMike McBride February 1, 2026February 1, 2026 Reading Time: 2 minutes

    The first paragraph makes it obvious that you can’t be an unnamed guest in a Zoom meeting and invite your AI to take notes. That makes sense.

    The second adds a requirement: you must also attend the meeting. No more sending your AI to take notes for you while you spend your time elsewhere.

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    Teams

    The New Teams Calendar is Coming – Complete with a bug with Loop agendas

    ByMike McBride January 25, 2026January 24, 2026 Reading Time: 3 minutes

    My best advice for recurring meetings is to skip creating an agenda in Loop. It simply doesn’t work unless you want a single agenda, and you never change it before the meeting.

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    Support

    Worth Reading – Nobody knows how large software products work

    ByMike McBride January 24, 2026 Reading Time: 2 minutes

    That’s not an excuse for the way M365 works, or doesn’t work, on any given day. Rather, it’s an expectation that things will go sideways, and documentation won’t always be accurate, so it becomes incumbent on all of us to do what we can to stay informed and connected to experts. Microsoft is too big to offer simple support; every question or issue comes with ten or more implications across the platform. That will be a multiple-day question that someone has to research, even as we question why it takes so long to investigate their own product. 

    But the answer to that question is simple. It’s too large to be knowable. 

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    Teams

    Worth Reading – How to Prevent Microsoft Teams Sprawl

    ByMike McBride January 22, 2026January 24, 2026 Reading Time: 1 minute

    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.

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    eDiscovery

    Worth Reading – Carvana and the New Hyperlink Fight: “Contemporaneous” Isn’t Automatic—It’s Earned

    ByMike McBride January 21, 2026 Reading Time: 2 minutes

    As someone responding to an eDiscovery request, the flip side of that statement is, of course, true. Kelly goes into some detail, but for my M365 folks: if you’re going to argue that the version of the document when shared is too difficult to collect, you will need to show your work. That will need to include a whole lot more than saying you don’t know how to do it, or that it’s difficult.

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    eDiscovery | Teams

    Any interest in chatting about M365 and eDiscovery?

    ByMike McBride January 16, 2026 Reading Time: 1 minute

    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.)

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    Copilot

    Worth Reading – Microsoft’s Satya Nadella wants you to stop calling AI “slop” in 2026

    ByMike McBride January 6, 2026 Reading Time: 2 minutes

    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. 

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    Teams

    Worth Reading – Enhanced App Support in Microsoft Teams Private Channels

    ByMike McBride December 23, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

    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. 

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    eDiscovery

    eDiscovery and Audit Logs

    ByMike McBride December 14, 2025 Reading Time: 2 minutes

    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.

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    Copilot

    Anthropic now a Microsoft Subprocessor

    ByMike McBride December 8, 2025December 8, 2025 Reading Time: 2 minutes

    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. 

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