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... nevermind. Different messages where visible in the Microsoft 365 Message Center in the last weeks. MC1269223 (on April 4) suggests that Flex Routing is being enabled by default for EU tenants. On the other, MC1269219 (released on April 7) states it is

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 analytical possibilities, it also raises important questions about data residency, compliance, and how you, as admin, can keep a grip on where your data is being processed. In this post, I’ll dive into what this means for your organization, why EU-b

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 (EDP), the boundaries for Copilot are aligned with the same standards we’ve trusted for years in Exchange and SharePoint. In this post, I’ll break down what these boundaries mean for EU organizations and how Copilot handles your data just like

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 challenge for Microsoft 365 Copilot. If the data wasn't in the Microsoft Graph (SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams), Copilot simply didn't know it existed. But things are changing fast. Microsoft has officially released Copilot Connectors for these th

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 keep track of all those used AI in your company? Where are possible data leaks? And are your users using unmanaged "shadow" AI tools (okay, I just mean ChatGPT)? Microsoft just dropped a solution to these questions: the Security Dashboard for AI