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Will Grok Be Available in Microsoft Copilot in the EU?
Microsoft is bringing Grok to Copilot, but the preview excludes the EU, EFTA and UK. Here is what the SpaceXAI subprocessor change means for IT.
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Copilot
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You Can Now Build Apps with Copilot Cowork and Copilot Studio
Have an idea for an internal app? Explore app building in Copilot Cowork and Copilot Studio, with a practical starter prompt and the checks IT should make first.
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Microsoft's Responsible AI Report: What You Still Need to Govern Yourself
Microsoft's 2026 Responsible AI Transparency Report explains its own governance work. Customers still need owners, approved use cases, evaluation and monitoring.
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Your Markdown Runbooks Can Now Work in Copilot Notebooks
Copilot Notebooks can now use Markdown, plain-text and rich-text references. That makes technical runbooks and logs much easier to bring into a focused workspace.
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Copilot Domain Exclusion: What Changed and What Admins Should Check
Domain Exclusion gives admins more control over web grounding, but its rollout changed. Here is the difference between the control and disabling web search entirely.
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Copilot Adoption Is More Than Assigned Licenses: A Practical 30-Day Scorecard
License counts tell you that Copilot was deployed. A small scorecard can tell you whether people are using it for work that actually improved.
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Which SharePoint Sites Are Your AI Agents Accessing?
Agent Access Insights adds another way to find SharePoint and OneDrive locations worth reviewing. The useful part is what you do after seeing the heatmap.
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Claude Opus 5 in Microsoft 365 Copilot: Why You Might Not See It Yet
Claude Opus 5 is available in Microsoft 365 Copilot, but model availability still depends on the experience and tenant configuration.
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Copilot Vision at Work: Check Screen and Camera Sharing Before Rollout
Copilot Vision can work with what users show on screen or camera. That makes the rollout conversation as much about user guidance as the feature itself.
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Give Your Users Better Starting Points: Publish Organization Prompts in Copilot
Good prompts should not live in one person's notes. Organization prompts give users a curated starting point, but they still need ownership and maintenance.
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How to Keep External Emails Out of Copilot Answers with Microsoft Purview
Purview adds a control for external email in Copilot grounding. Learn what it blocks, what it leaves alone and how to test the business impact.
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Stop Repeating Yourself in Excel: Turn Your Copilot Instructions into Skills
Use an Excel skill to describe a repeatable reporting task once. Here is a starter example, a validation routine and the availability detail to check.
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Copilot Cowork Is Generally Available: Check Access and Costs Before You Enable It
Cowork moves from answering questions to completing multi-step tasks. Before you roll it out, separate the license, usage costs and security controls.
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A First Look at the New Copilot Studio: What to Check Before Building Your Next Agent
Copilot Studio has a new building experience. Here is how I would evaluate it with a small IT request workflow before moving a production agent.
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Your AI Agents Need Governance Too: What Agent 365 Changes for IT
An agent needs more than a useful prompt. The Build announcements make ownership, access and lifecycle management an important next step for IT.
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Flex Routing for Microsoft 365 Copilot: Check your Tenant Settings Today
Last two weeks I was on vacation and I already read a lot about the Flex Routing Microsoft is enabling/disabling forced. While I was away, two distinct messages hit the Microsoft 365 Message Center that have caused a bit of a......
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How to enable & manage Claude AI in Microsoft 365
Microsoft is bringing more model choices to the Microsoft 365 & Copilot. One of the most recent additions is the integration of Claude (Anthropic) models as part of the Microsoft 365 ecosystem.While this opens up new creative and...
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Microsoft 365 Copilot & The EU Data Boundary explained
As a Microsoft 365 engineer myself working in the Netherlands, I regularly get the question: "Is our data actually safe with Copilot?" The good news is that Microsoft has been very clear about this. With the Enterprise Data Protection...
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Will Copilot be Removed? What changes in the April Update
If you’ve been using Copilot Chat within Word, Excel, or PowerPoint without a paid license, this might be a surprise for you. Microsoft announced a upcoming change in how Copilot Chat is integrated into the Office suite for free...
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How to Connect Microsoft 365 Copilot to Google Drive, Dropbox, and Amazon
Data doesn’t live in just one place. While many of us work in Microsoft 365, business information is often scattered across other platforms like Google Drive, Dropbox, or stored in Amazon S3 buckets.Until recently, this was a bit of a...
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A First Look at the New Security Dashboard for AI
If you’ve been following my blog, you know I’m a big fan of Microsoft 365 Copilot and AI in particular. But as an IT professional, you also know that with all this possibilities, comes a whole new set of security headaches. How do you...
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This is the new Copilot Excel Hack you need to know!
If you're a fan of Excel and always looking for smart ways to save time, this one’s for you. Microsoft is testing a powerful new function that might just change the way we use Copilot in Excel. Start using =COPILOT function directly in...
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How to join the Microsoft Copilot Frontier Program
Have you heard of the Microsoft Copilot Frontier Program and wondered how to join or what benefits it brings to your organization? You're not alone. Many IT professionals and Microsoft 365 admins are looking for ways to explore new...
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Deze Copilot in Excel Cheatsheet heb je nodig - Nederlands
We weten allemaal dat je veel kunt doen met Excel. Voeg Microsoft 365 Copilot toe en ineens word je een expert in Excel zonder elke formule uit je hoofd te kennen. Ik heb een Copilot in Excel-cheatsheet voor je gemaakt.Searching for the...
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Your ultimate Copilot in Excel cheatsheet
We all know you can do a lot with Excel, add Microsoft 365 Copilot and suddenly you're becoming an expert in Excel without knowing every formula. I created a Copilot in Excel cheatsheet for you. I wrote this cheatsheet in Dutch too, see...
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Microsoft Security Copilot: Coming to Microsoft 365 E5
Big news for E5 customers! Microsoft has officially announced that Security Copilot will be included in Microsoft 365 E5 licenses starting later this year. This is a major step forward in making AI-driven security agents accessible to...
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Copilot for Business: A Game-Changing license is coming!
Great news for smaller organizations looking to unlock the power of AI in Microsoft 365: Microsoft has officially announced the Microsoft 365 Copilot license for MIcrosoft 365 Business customers, especially for small and medium...
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Why SharePoint Advanced Management is Key for Microsoft 365 Copilot
Are you rolling out Microsoft 365 Copilot? A question often raised is if your environment is ready to implement Microsoft 365 Copilot. The truth is, Copilot is only as good as the data it can access. What do I mean? You've stored in...
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Microsoft Launches new AI & Copilot Beta Exams!
If you have a few goals left for 2025, level up your Microsoft 365 certificates! Microsoft just announced new beta exams. These three exams have launched, each focusing on the fast-growing world of Copilot, AI governance, and...
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How to block Copilot from reading files in Your Organization with Microsoft Purview
Microsoft Copilot is powerful. But as more organizations embrace AI, it's crucial to ensure that Copilot doesn’t access files it shouldn’t. If you’ve already set up sensitivity labels in your organization using Microsoft Purview, you’re...
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Discover oversharing with DSPM for AI with Data Assessments
With the rise of all the AI tools online, from Copilot to ChatGPT, it's becoming harder to track where sensitive data ends up. While blocking access might sound like the safest route, most organizations know that’s not workable for the...
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Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI: Easy and Effective Data Protection
These days, you can’t escape AI. While AI offers many opportunities for businesses, it also raises plenty of questions. For instance, how can you manage the usage of ChatGPT, Copilot or Gemini by employees? And how do you ensure that...
