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Use enhanced Teams panels to book desks. Be aware that OneDrive retention will be enforced soon for unlicensed OneDrive accouts. Lastly, Microsoft Scout, powered by Open Claw, enters the AI scene. 0:00 Welcome 3:26 SharePoint Pages: Updates to the Toolbox within the Content pane - MC1326507 7:00 Pay-as-you-go consumption-based meter for your extra SharePoint storage needs - MC1330893 11:17 Microsoft Teams: Enhanced bookable desk experience with Teams panel based desk devices - MC1330887 14:47 OneDrive: Retention enforcement for unlicensed OneDrive accounts - MC1381110 22:56 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Introducing Microsoft Scout, an always-on personal agent - MC1332811
News and Updates: Trump Signs AI Executive Order: President Trump signed an order requiring AI companies to give the government 30-day advance access to powerful models before release, a scaled-back version of a shelved 90-day proposal. Anthropic Mythos Expansion: Alongside the executive order, Anthropic received White House approval to expand access to its Mythos model from 50 to roughly 150 companies across 15+ countries, including healthcare, power, and water sectors. What is OpenClaw: OpenClaw is a free, open-source autonomous AI agent that runs locally on your computer, executing tasks through messaging apps like WhatsApp and Telegram with persistent memory and customizable skills — but carries serious security risks for non-technical users. Microsoft Scout: Built on OpenClaw, Microsoft Scout is the company's first true AI personal assistant, integrating with Outlook, Teams, and OneDrive to proactively manage calendars, emails, and daily tasks for enterprise employees. Google Gemini Spark: Google's new agentic AI tool Gemini Spark — a 24/7 background agent running on Gemini Flash 3.5 — is now available to AI Ultra subscribers at $100/month, with integrations including Canva, OpenTable, and Instacart. AI Costs Spiral: Corporate AI spending is careening out of control, with one unnamed company accidentally spending $500 million on Claude in a single month, Uber burning through its full 2026 AI budget in four months, and Microsoft pulling back Claude Code licenses enterprise-wide.
Join Stephen Rice and Arvind Mishra for a fun look at what's new with OneDrive on Mac! In this episode of Sync Up, they chat with Jack Nichols, Partner Software Architect for OneDrive, about how the team is making OneDrive feel more native, reliable, and polished for Mac users. From a refreshed Activity Center and updated settings experience, to the new Native Sync Engine and future support for syncing up to 1 million files, this episode is all about making OneDrive on Mac faster, smoother, and easier to trust in the background. You'll also hear how OneDrive is improving performance, battery life, Spotlight search, and overall sync reliability while continuing to listen closely to feedback from the Mac community.
Recorded live at PSConfEU 2026, Andrew sits down with returning guest Miriam Wiesner, Senior Security Researcher at Microsoft, for a wide-ranging conversation on PowerShell security, cookie-based attacks, and the evolving threat landscape. Miriam walks through her two conference talks — one on Microsoft Teams session cookie hijacking (a follow-up to her 2025 Entra ID cookie talk, complete with Cookie Monster branding and actual handcuffs), and a joint session with Stéphane van Gulick on using Microsoft Defender's Live Response feature for incident investigation. The conversation also covers the current state of PowerShell security, why sophisticated attackers are moving away from PowerShell, and why defenders who haven't enabled script block logging and AMSI are leaving easy wins on the table. On top of the technical deep dive, Miriam and Andrew get into the human side of the conference community — nerves before presenting, imposter syndrome, and why showing up is already half the battle. Key Takeaways: Cookie-based identity attacks are an active and growing threat. Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive share session cookies, meaning a single cookie theft can give an attacker broad access across your organization's collaboration tools — no re-authentication required. Sophisticated threat actors are moving away from PowerShell specifically because its security features work. Script block logging, AMSI, and Constrained Language Mode make PowerShell activity highly visible and detectable. If your org hasn't enabled these, you're handing attackers an easy path. Visibility beats prevention. You can't prevent what you can't see. Detection through proper logging is not a consolation prize — it's a core security strategy, and Microsoft Defender's Live Response feature gives teams a powerful way to investigate isolated endpoints without needing RDP or PowerShell remoting enabled. Guest Bio: Miriam Wiesner is a Senior Security Research Program Manager at Microsoft with over 15 years of experience in IT security, penetration testing, and security automation. She works on research behind Microsoft Defender and Sentinel and is the creator of widely used open source PowerShell security tools EventList and JEAnalyzer. Miriam is a sought-after speaker at major security and PowerShell conferences including Black Hat, PSConfEU, and MITRE ATT&CK Workshops. She's also the author of "PowerShell Automation and Scripting for Cybersecurity," published by Packt. Her conference speaker career started at PSConfEU 2018 and she's been a fixture of the community ever since. Resource Links Miriam's 2025 Cookies talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xDcq0pPNPs Book – PowerShell Automation and Scripting for Cybersecurity (Packt): https://www.amazon.com/PowerShell-Automation-Scripting-Cybersecurity-Hacking/dp/1800566379 Miriam on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/miriamwiesner Miriam on X/Twitter: https://x.com/MiriamXyra Miriam's GitHub (EventList, JEAnalyzer, and more): https://github.com/miriamxyra Miriam's Website: https://miriamxyra.com Connect with Andrew: https://andrewpla.tech/links The PowerShell Podcast on YouTube: https://youtu.be/zxJOqcEwgWE
Witamy w 383 odcinku Shufflecast! Tym razem rozmawiamy naprawdę dużo o produktach Microsoft. Dawno tego tematu nie było. Właściwie ten odcinek jest dużo bardziej 'giereczkowy' niż np smartfonowy. A dokładnie w odcinku: 0:59 - Wstępniak: Paralives, Samsung usuwa synchronizację z OneDrive, AI, dodatek do Wiedźmina 3, SONY wraca do eksluzywności gier. 23:34 – polecajki / niepolecajki: Historia z Yellowstone, Berlin, Dama z gronostajem, Star Wars: Mandalorian & Grogu 38:36 – Microsoft poprawia Windows 11, wraca najważniejsza funkcja 43:25 - Nowa Era PC od nVidia? 50:39 - Przygody Sławka z GamePass Zachęcamy do zostawienia subskrypcji na YouTube, obserwowania podcastu na Twitterze i Facebooku, a także naszych prywatnych profili: Sławek & Damian.
Hey friends! Backups are not as cool as pentesting, but boy do they matter when things go sideways. This week I'm sharing how a Proxmox backup disk space meltdown led me to a completely overhauled — and honestly pretty bulletproof — backup setup for both home and work. Claude played a big role in helping me sort it all out. Here's what we get into: The backup history tour — I've been through CrashPlan, Dropbox, Backblaze (which saved my bacon after my house fire in 2019!), and a mystery one that may or may not have had "Panda" in the name. These days I'm settled on ARQ for personal backups — dead simple, backs up to just about everything (Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, even their own ARQ Cloud for ~$80/year), and all data is encrypted at rest. Not a sponsor, but they should be. The 3-2-1 rule — I actually asked Siri mid-episode, and she initially thought it was a grounding/anxiety technique. (Valid, I guess?) The real answer: three copies, two different media, one offline. I've got a local copy plus OneDrive, Google Drive, and Dropbox — so I think I'm covered. The work side: Proxmox + PBS — My "data center" is a beefy Hetzner Proxmox box with about a dozen VMs. I had Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) set up on a secondary Hetzner box, happily cranking away… until it ran out of disk space and started yelling at me every night. Claude to the rescue — I spun up a Claude project, fed it terminal output and retention configs, and it gave me a straight-up honest assessment: either gut your retention policy (risky) or get more disk. It then walked me through Hetzner's auctions page — which I didn't even know existed — to find a storage-heavy, low-horsepower box. Ended up with two mirrored 8TB drives plus a 14TB drive for around $40/month. Not cheap, but totally worth it as a business expense. The new setup — PBS is now on its own dedicated Hetzner box. VMs from both my data center and my home NUC Proxmox box back up there nightly. Claude also suggested using that 14TB drive as an SFTP target for ARQ, giving me yet another redundant copy of all my personal data. It'll take a few weeks to fully sync, but I'm running some flavor of the 4-3-2-1 rule now (I made that up). Proxmox forever — Someone wrote in asking if I'd go back to ESXi now that Broadcom brought back the free version. Hard no. I've fallen in love with Proxmox and I'm not going back. 7MinSec wiki scripts repo — Head over to 7MinSec.wiki and click the Scripts button to find a new GitHub repo where I'm publishing pentesting scripts. First one up: a push-button Exegol installer. More to come — and I'll probably tease new scripts first over at 7MinSec.club on TuesdayTOOLSday! Have a backup horror story — or a setup you're proud of? Hit us up! And if you need assessments, pentesting, training, or other security goodness, find us at 7MinSec.com.
The boys have a whisky-infused talk about AI use cases, share fun stories and have 4 different English whiskies throughout the episode.
Praca z danymi nieodzownie wiąże się z ich przekazywaniem. Nieumiejętny sposób dzielenia się raportami może spowodować sporo komplikacji. Jeden załącznik w mailu, trzy kopie na pulpicie, dwie wersje w Teamsach i pytanie: która wersja jest aktualna? W tym odcinku pokażę Ci, kiedy warto trzymać pliki na komputerze, a kiedy przenieść je do chmury. Nazywam się Michał Kowalczyk i witam Cię w Excellent Work Podcast.W tym odcinku dowiesz się:
Une nouvelle menace plane sur vos environnements de travail. Et c'est le FBI qui tire la sonnette d'alarme concernant un outil redoutable capable de pirater les comptes Microsoft 365, et ce, même si vous utilisez la double authentification.Concrètement, de quoi parle-t-on ?Vendu sur Telegram pour 250 € / moisDepuis le mois d'avril dernier, une plateforme nommée Kali365 fait des ravages dans les entreprises européennes. C'est un service vendu sur Telegram pour seulement deux cent cinquante dollars par mois. Et à ce prix dérisoire, n'importe quel cybercriminel achète une solution clé en main pour lancer des campagnes de hameçonnage ultra perfectionnées.Et en ce moment, des centaines de comptes sont compromis chaque jour.Concrètement, les pirates ciblent en priorité les profils professionnels liés à la paie et à la comptabilité. En clair, le pirate peut accéder librement aux boîtes de réception, aux fichiers partagés sur OneDrive et aux conversations confidentielles sur Teams de votre direction financière.Kali365 contourne la double authentificationMais attention, la véritable rupture technologique de cette attaque réside dans sa méthode. Jusqu'ici, on pensait que la fameuse double authentification (MFA), c'est à dire le fait de valider sa connexion avec un code sur son téléphone, était une barrière infranchissable.Et bien Kali365 contourne complètement cet obstacle. L'outil capture ce que l'on appelle le token de session.Pour ce faire, les pirates vous envoient un mail très crédible avec un lien vers une vraie page Microsoft. Vous entrez votre code de sécurité en pensant bien faire. Et c'est ce geste précis qui leur livre le laissez-passer.Le premier rempart reste l'humainAlors, comment protéger efficacement vos infrastructures face à cette nouvelle technique de piratage ?Le premier rempart reste l'humain. Il faut marteler un réflexe vital à tous vos collaborateurs. Si vous recevez un code de vérification Microsoft sans avoir initié de connexion, ne cliquez surtout pas et signalez le message.De plus, il faut exiger la vérification systématique de l'adresse internet. Elle doit impérativement commencer par login point microsoftonline point com.Le FBI recommande aussi vivement de déployer des politiques d'accès conditionnelles.Ce dispositif vérifie l'appareil utilisé, croise la localisation géographique et analyse le comportement de connexion avant d'accorder l'accès.C'est aujourd'hui la seule parade technique véritablement robuste contre le vol de session.Le ZD Tech est sur toutes les plateformes de podcast ! Abonnez-vous !Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.
Jon Westfall and I were joined by frequent guest panelists Frank McPherson, and Sven Johannsen to discuss the announcements from the recent "Gemini I/O" and Android shows. I kicked off the episode with a real-world tech success story: the Google app on my Pixel devices provided a magnitude and epicenter alert for a 6.0 earthquake in Hawaii that occurred 200 miles away. I felt a relatively mild rumble but thought it was a feral pig bumping the side of my home. Much of our hardware discussion focused on the Google Book, a premium AI-first device running the "Aluminium" (Android-based) OS. We speculated that Google is positioning this to compete with the high-demand MacBook Neo, which is currently so popular that rumors suggest Apple may release a spec-bumped "Neo 2" to address chip shortages and stay ahead of the competition. On the software and AI front, we looked ahead to Android 17 and its new "Rambler" feature for Gboard, which uses AI to filter out "ums" and "ahs" from voice transcriptions. I shared my experience with Gemini Pro's voice cloning, which was "scary good" at mimicking my voice with minimal training, while Frank voiced skepticism about Wear OS 7 replacing tiles with widgets, fearing it's a step backward for round-screen usability. The episode also served as a warning about the dangers of auto-updates; Jon shared how a Ubiquiti router update broke his HomeKit setup—requiring an SSH command to fix—and I recounted a corrupt OneDrive for Mac update that forced me to roll back to its previous version using Time Machine. We wrapped up with a demonstration from Sven, who demonstrated his new Pixel Fold 10's unique feature in Google Meet that allows for a split-view using the front and back cameras simultaneously. This "double-vision" mode allows a caller to show their face while also providing a high-resolution view of their surroundings, which we agreed would be a game-changer for remote tech support or traveling. d there is still plenty of innovation happening in the Android ecosystem.
Im Fokus stehen aktuelle Updates aus Microsoft Teams, Outlook, SharePoint und OneDrive, die den Arbeitsalltag spürbar erleichtern und effizienter gestalten.
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management Demystified
Roland and J-M go solo to pull back the curtain on something that's been years in the making: BPM OS, a purpose-built, local-first tool stack designed to help small, talented process and architecture teams stand up a real BPM practice — without the vendor dependency, IT overhead, or 12-month procurement nightmare.In this episode of the podcast we talk about: Most BPM programs fail not because of bad content, but because organizations treat it as a pure IT exercise — buy a platform, check the box, and wonder why nothing sticks.The three pillars every BPM capability needs are content, governance, and adoption — yet most organizations only address the first one.Knowledge rented from consultants or SaaS vendors disappears the moment you stop paying; BPM OS is built on the principle that you own it outright, forever.BPM OS targets three groups: small internal teams doing more with less, consulting organizations that want baked-in methodology for client delivery, and vendors looking to bundle a white-labeled practice layer with their platforms.Groundwork is the brainstorming and planning app — dump ideas onto a canvas, sort them into zones, and shift into structured planning mode with priorities and rough timelines.Playbook is a lightweight wiki for capturing structured knowledge, course profiles, stakeholder analyses, and methodology documentation — with templates so you never start from a blank page.Atlas generates visual subway maps of your learning curriculum or capability landscape, complete with time-sensitive station states, deprecation indicators, and links back to Playbook pages.Outline lets you define the detailed content structure of a course or deliverable in a hierarchical, mind-map-style view — moving from “What do we need to teach?” to "Exactly what are the chapters and items?”Course Flow is a Kanban-based project management tool for developing and iterating on courses, complete with a built-in feedback form, an inbox for triage, and a status dashboard across all active projects.Cadence is a personal (and optionally team) task planner organized by day and category — with recurring daily items, carry-forward of incomplete tasks, and a simple velocity metric to spot overload before it becomes a crisis.The entire stack runs on Node.js, saves files as Markdown and JSON (no database required), plays nicely with Google Drive or OneDrive for backup, and optionally connects to GitHub or GitLab for full version history.Apps interoperate through lightweight linking and import/export — cards from Groundwork flow into Atlas, tasks from CourseFlow export into Cadence, and every Playbook page carries a permanent link that works anywhere in the stack.Find out more and download your free personal copy of Cadence at whatsyourbaseline.com/bpm-os—and check the episode show notes for a PDF overview of all six apps.Reach out by emailing hello@whatsyourbaseline.com or subscribe to our newsletter and articles on Substack at whatsyourbaseline.substack.com.
In der heutigen Solo‑Folge von 365 Checkpoint nehme ich dich mit durch die wichtigsten Agent‑Updates aus April & Mai: Copilot Agents/Agent Builder, Copilot Studio, Agent 365 und Microsoft Foundry. Wir schauen auf neue Workflows, Modellwahl, MCP‑Server (inkl. Lifecycle‑Risiken) und warum Agent 365 zwar Governance stärkt, aber deine Plattform‑Basics nicht ersetzt. Highlights: Agent Builder: Model Switch, neues UI & Scheduled Prompts Copilot Studio: Multi‑Agent Orchestration, Child Agents & Agent‑to‑Agent MCP‑Server: End‑of‑Life, Work IQ Tools & Best Practices fürs Tracking Agent 365: Registry, Agent Identities, Conditional Access, Shadow‑AI & Policies Foundry: Agent Service, Hosted Agents (Scale‑to‑Zero) & Evaluations (GA) Kapitelübersicht 00:00 – Warum gerade „alles Agents“ ist 01:18 – Agent Builder: Model Switch, UI, Scheduled Prompts 04:09 – Copilot Studio: Early Release/US‑Environments & Überblick 05:04 – Multi‑Agent Orchestration: Child Agents & Agent‑to‑Agent 06:22 – MCP-Server: Warum jetzt Bewegung reinkommt 07:26 – Lifecycle-Fallen: SharePoint List MCP & Nachfolger 10:00 – Work IQ MCPs: Kalender, Mail, OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams, Word 11:32 – Modelle in Copilot Studio: GPT, Claude & Experimental/Preview 14:11 – Agent 365: Zweck, Grenzen & „Regenschirm“-Gedanke 18:23 – Agent 365 Features: Registry, Identities, CA, Purview/Compliance 20:13 – Shadow‑AI Dashboard & Blocken via Intune 21:04 – Agent Management Rules & Owner/Lifecycle Policies 22:02 – Lizenzierung: E7, $15 Standalone & Sponsor‑Konzept 25:23 – Foundry: Agent Service, neue Modelle & Hostingregionen 29:01 – Hosted Agents, Voice/Realtime & Scale‑to‑Zero 30:00 – Evaluations: Coherence, Relevance, Groundedness, Safety 31:49 – Prompt Flow Deprecation & Migration 32:11 – Fazit & was du jetzt konkret ausprobieren solltest
This is the Microsoft Excel guide and tutorial for beginners. If you're new to and getting started with Excel or coming from another app, in this video we teach the basics of Excel, the user interface, core concepts, and how to work with basic data. We'll show you how to build a full Excel workbook from scratch using natural language prompts with Copilot. Format cells, write formulas, and analyze a year of data. Generate sample data, calculate totals, apply conditional formatting, and pin down outliers across columns and rows, all from your browser at excel.new. Share the workbook by name, group, or email and co-author with teammates across web, desktop, and phone. Every edit syncs to OneDrive in real time. Jeremy Chapman, Microsoft 365 Director, shares how to go from blank workbook to analyzed, shared spreadsheet in one sitting. If you have a work or school accounts, Copilot Chat is available at no additional cost if you have Microsoft 365 A1/A3/A5, Business Basic/Standard/Premium, E3/E5, F1/F3, G3/G5, and Office 365 A1/A1 Plus/A3/A5, E1/E1 Plus/E3/E5, F3, G1/G3/G5. If you have a personal Microsoft account, Copilot is available with Microsoft 365 Personal, Family, or Premium in Microsoft 365. For Family and multi-user accounts, only the subscription owner can use Copilot in the desktop apps. ► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - Excel Essentials 00:57 - Start from a blank workbook 02:11 - Core terms and concepts 04:25 - Generate Sample Data with Copilot 06:16 - How to work with the numbers 09:35 - Copilot Writes Your SUM Formulas 09:57 - Conditional Formatting from a Prompt 10:40 - Outlier Analysis with Reasoning 11:36 - Real-Time Co-Authoring in OneDrive 12:22 - Wrap up ► Link References Check it out at https://microsoft.com/excel ► Unfamiliar with Microsoft Mechanics? As Microsoft's official video series for IT, you can watch and share valuable content and demos of current and upcoming tech from the people who build it at Microsoft. • Subscribe to our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MicrosoftMechanicsSeries • Talk with other IT Pros, join us on the Microsoft Tech Community: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-mechanics-blog/bg-p/MicrosoftMechanicsBlog • Watch or listen from anywhere, subscribe to our podcast: https://microsoftmechanics.libsyn.com/podcast ► Keep getting this insider knowledge, join us on social: • Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MSFTMechanics • Share knowledge on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/microsoft-mechanics/ • Enjoy us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/msftmechanics/ • Loosen up with us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@msftmechanics
Inside the Souls of an Autonomous AI Crew | OpenClaw & Hermes with Michael Gannotti (Microsoft)What happens when AI stops being a tool and starts being a colleague?In this episode, I sit down with Michael Gannotti, Principal AI Solution Engineer at Microsoft, to explore SMFWorks – his autonomous multi-agent "company" of 14 AI colleagues built on OpenClaw and Hermes. We talk about agents that dream, hold their own 6 AM staff meetings, design their own avatars, email each other, and evolve a true sense of identity through Markdown-based "souls."If you're into agentic AI, multi-agent orchestration, or just want to see where this is all heading – this one is for you.⚠️ Recorded before Microsoft Build 2026 – no NDA content. Register free: https://build.microsoft.com━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━⏱️ TIMESTAMPS━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━00:00 Intro – Why OpenClaw hit Mike "like a ton of bricks"02:00 Meet the SMFWorks crew – Aiona, Pamela, Gabriel, Morgan, Rafael & co.06:00 Human in the loop – when does Mike intervene?09:00 Avatars, HeyGen & Hyperframer – when agents design themselves14:00 The elephant in the room: Are we seeing consciousness?17:00 Memory, persistence & state management20:00 soul.md, identity.md, state.md, emotion.md – the second brain stack23:00 OpenClaw vs. Hermes – when to use what24:30 Model recommendations: Ollama, DeepSeek, Kimi K2, Opus 4.7, GPT 5.527:00 Hardware: HP ZGX AI Station vs. Mac mini fleets28:00 OneDrive & SharePoint now support Markdown!29:00 Final recommendations – just get started30:45 smfworks.com & how to follow Mike━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Ground every Microsoft 365 Copilot response in your real work data. Pull context from SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, email, and meetings — all through Work IQ. Draft Word documents that carry your existing sensitivity labels, and resolve calendar conflicts in Outlook. Run multi-step Copilot Cowork workflows that generate files, schedule meetings, and send status updates from a single prompt. Extend the same knowledge layer to ServiceNow, CRMs, and other non-Microsoft systems with API and MCP Server connectors in the Microsoft 365 admin center, or build your own agents in code against the Work IQ API. Jeremy Chapman, Microsoft 365 Director, shares how data, context, and skills & tools combine into a single grounding layer for Copilot and your custom agents. ► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - Work IQ Knowledge Layer 01:32 - Copilot Chat experiences 02:16 - Work IQ in your apps 03:03 - Auto-Applied Sensitivity Labels 04:20 - Copilot Cowork Agentic Workflow 06:11 - Admin Center Connectors 07:21 - Work IQ API for Developers 08:50 - Wrap up ► Link References Check out the latest updates at https://aka.ms/WorkIQ ► Unfamiliar with Microsoft Mechanics? As Microsoft's official video series for IT, you can watch and share valuable content and demos of current and upcoming tech from the people who build it at Microsoft. • Subscribe to our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MicrosoftMechanicsSeries • Talk with other IT Pros, join us on the Microsoft Tech Community: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-mechanics-blog/bg-p/MicrosoftMechanicsBlog • Watch or listen from anywhere, subscribe to our podcast: https://microsoftmechanics.libsyn.com/podcast ► Keep getting this insider knowledge, join us on social: • Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MSFTMechanics • Share knowledge on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/microsoft-mechanics/ • Enjoy us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/msftmechanics/ • Loosen up with us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@msftmechanics
Join Stephen Rice and Arvind Mishra for a fun look at what's new with photos in OneDrive! In this episode of Sync Up, they chat with Kalpana Berman, Niket Jain, and Shailesh Karri about how OneDrive is helping people find, enjoy, clean up, and get creative with their favorite memories. From smarter Moments and easier photo cleanup, to a new desktop photos app and AI-powered Restyle features, this episode is all about making your photos feel easier to manage and more fun to rediscover. You'll also hear how OneDrive is using AI behind the scenes to make photo search, editing, and storytelling feel more natural while keeping you in control of your originals.
Get help reviewing contracts using a new Legal Agent for Microsoft Word. Sync up to 1 million files with OneDrive. But consult your IT Support to learn if this is right for you. Finally, Outlook gets some action with M365 Copilot. I mean, can take action... via instructions, productive ones. 0:00 Welcome 2:41 Exchange Online: Retirement of legacy TLS versions for POP and IMAP connections - MC1293480 4:35 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Use Copilot in Outlook to manage your inbox - available in Frontier Public - MC1293485 7:07 OneDrive sync supports up to 1 million items on Windows - MC1294528 10:47 Microsoft Teams: Retirement of Together mode - MC1296478 12:47 Microsoft 365 Copilot will use private community and event content as grounding sources - MC1296480 18:06 Microsoft 365 Copilot (Premium): Teams meetings as a reference in Copilot Notebooks - MC1296488 24:03 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Legal Agent for Word - MC1296877
Most organizations think they're protected. They're not. Microsoft Defender sounds solid on paper — but in the real world, it's letting phishing, malware, and business email compromise walk right through the door. In this episode of The Audit, the crew pulls back the curtain on one of the most exploited attack surfaces in any organization: email. Co-hosts Joshua Schmidt, Eric Brown, and Nick Mellem are joined by IT Audit Labs' own Cameron Birkland — fresh off three first-place CTF wins in Vegas — for a live walkthrough of Check Point Harmony Email, a tool that plugs directly into your Microsoft 365 environment and shows you exactly what your current setup is missing.
Garett Medlin just got the official title for the job he was already doing: AI Practice Lead at P3. He's also the person responsible for Rob trying Cowork in the first place, despite Rob's very reasonable question: "Why the hell would I want Cowork if I already have Claude Code?" Then Rob accidentally proved Garett right. He made an offhand comment about needing a better way to track feedback on book graphics. Nothing dramatic. Just the kind of annoying little process problem everyone complains about and nobody fixes. Two days later, there was a Slack bot reminding him to review images, a web app with approve buttons, surrounding context from the manuscript, and a clean way to send feedback without creating a Slack archaeology project. Built by a non developer. In Cowork. Which makes Microsoft's Copilot Cowork story… awkward. Garett came with the field report. Yes, it can make PowerPoints. Yes, it talks to OneDrive. No, it doesn't have memory. No, it doesn't have custom instructions. No, it doesn't have projects. The section where those capabilities are supposed to live is called "Acquired Skills," and it currently says they will appear here. Which is a choice. At the same time, companies are getting top down mandates to spend $20 million a year on AI with absolutely no idea what they're supposed to spend it on. IT gets handed the problem, Copilot gets treated like the answer, and somebody nearby is always trying to sell a very expensive fear of the tools that already work. This episode is really about that gap. Between what's shipping and what's still "coming soon." Between the people waiting for enterprise permission and the people already building useful things on a Tuesday afternoon. Turns out, the scariest part of AI might be realizing the non developers got there first.
I reflect on the significance of the day before diving into the week's major developments, including the arrival of the Microsoft AI Tour in Sydney. The episode covers both partner and public events, with a focus on enterprise-level AI advancements and networking opportunities. The podcast features a comprehensive weekly news roundup: The general availability of Copilot Agent capabilities in Microsoft 365 apps. New data security tools for AI in Microsoft Purview. Innovations in identity resilience and backup with Microsoft Entra. Microsoft's $25 billion investment in Australian AI infrastructure and training. Practical security playbooks for tenant protection and device analytics. Updates on decluttering promotional mail with Microsoft Defender. Guidance on preventing oversharing in Copilot, deploying Defender, and enforcing data security with Purview. I also share my workflow for automating podcast production using Copilot Cowork, including narration scripts and link management. I discuss experimenting with AI-driven voice narration and invites listener feedback on pacing and voice options. The episode concludes with reflections on the Microsoft AI Tour's enterprise focus, the importance of networking, and the challenges SMBs face in accessing relevant content. Listeners are encouraged to reach out with questions or feedback and to stay tuned for upcoming events like Microsoft Build and Ignite. Resources CIAOPS Need to Know podcast - CIAOPS - Need to Know podcasts | CIAOPS X - https://www.twitter.com/directorcia director@ciaops.com CIAOPS Blog - CIAOPS – Information about SharePoint, Microsoft 365, Azure, Mobility and Productivity from the Computer Information Agency Join my Teams shared channel - Join my Teams Shared Channel – CIAOPS CIAOPS Merch store - CIAOPS Become a CIAOPS Patron - CIAOPS Patron CIAOPS Brief - CIA Brief – CIAOPS CIAOPS Labs - CIAOPS Labs – The Special Activities Division of the CIAOPS Support CIAOPS - Support CIAOPS Get your M365 questions answered via email Please fill out this form A special thanks to the CIAOPS Patron community for making this podcast possible. You can find the benefits of a subscription to the community and become a member at https://www.ciaopspatron.com Microsoft 365 Insider Round-Up — April 2026 Declutter and Defend: Reducing Promotional Mail Noise with Microsoft Defender Prevent Oversharing in Microsoft 365 Copilot Microsoft Defender Deployment Tool From Oversharing to Enforcement: A Practical Guide to AI Data Security with Microsoft Purview Investing in Australia's AI Future Copilot's Agentic Capabilities in Word, Excel and PowerPoint Are Generally Available Predictive Shielding: Just-in-Time Tamper Protection Threat Hunting Agent in Advanced Hunting Bringing Transparency to AI-Generated Content with Watermarks in Microsoft 365 Microsoft 365 Copilot Readiness and Resiliency with SharePoint and Microsoft 365 Backup Introducing the Microsoft Sentinel Training Lab A Practical Look at Device Analytics and Risk Signals with Microsoft Intune Innovations in OneDrive for Collaboration, Intelligence and Control Strengthening Identity Resilience: A Deep Dive Into Microsoft Entra Backup and Recovery Detection Strategies for Cloud Identities Against Infiltrating IT Workers (Jasper Sleet) Safeguarding Sensitive Data in Microsoft 365 Copilot Interactions: DLP for Microsoft 365 Copilot Detecting Plain-Text Password Exposure Using Custom Regex in Microsoft Purview Cross-Tenant Helpdesk Impersonation to Data Exfiltration: A Human-Operated Intrusion Playbook
Welcome to Episode 426 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast.Ben and Scott are back together this week to talk through Microsoft 365 Copilot Cowork, including how it compares to Claude Cowork and where each one makes sense. The two products share a name but work pretty differently. Claude Cowork runs locally on your desktop and can access files on your machine, supports MCP server connections while M365 Copilot Cowork runs in the cloud, requires files to be in OneDrive, and does not support MCP connectors yet. On the flip side, the Microsoft version runs scheduled tasks without needing your machine to be on, has native access to all your M365 data through Graph, and fits inside your existing compliance and security controls through Purview, which matters a lot for regulated organizations. Your support makes this show possible! Please consider becoming a premium member for access to live shows and more. Check out our membership options. Show Notes Quentin Amaudry – As everyone knows, Cowork is coming within Copilot and it is extremely promising Copilot Cowork vs Claude Cowork: Same AI, Different Worlds Copilot Cowork: A new way of getting work done Cowork overview (Frontier) About the sponsors TrustedTech is a leading Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) specializing in Microsoft Cloud services, Microsoft perpetual licensing, and Microsoft Support Services for medium and enterprise-sized businesses. Our robust team of in-house, U.S-based Microsoft architects and engineers are certified in all 6/6 Microsoft Solutions Partner Designations in the Microsoft Cloud Partner Program. M365 Licensing Consultation M365 Tenant Assessment Copilot Readiness Assessment Your migration and governance solution for Microsoft 365. ShareGate helps your teams simplify tenant migrations, get Copilot-ready, and take control of Microsoft 365 governance. Nasuni is a leading unstructured data platform for enterprises where file data is mission-critical for both people and AI. We power the operational file layer where work happens — helping organizations manage, protect, and activate data so teams can work smarter, reduce costs, and operate securely without limits. Visit nasuni.com to learn more. Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!
AI is democratizing the making of things, from bespoke/custom apps to websites, designs of all kinds, and everything else you might imagine. It's a new world, and it's time to create. Plus, Helium is a new Chromium-based web browser that's completely open source, lightweight, secure, and private. There's a native version for Windows 11 on Arm, too. Also, Firefox 150 arrives with over 270 security fixes! Windows 11 Reports of a Recall security vulnerability are, once again, bogus, Microsoft says New builds on all channels, still on the old system Xbox Mode is now available in all channels Release Preview shows us the May Patch Tuesday updates: Xbox Mode, File Explorer improvements, Haptic improvements, Drop Tray renaming, Agents on the Taskbar Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x - Snapdragon X2 Elite, 14-inch display impressions Lenovo IdeaPad 5x - Snapdragon X2 Plus, 15.3-inch display impressions Microsoft 365, Surface, more OneDrive now supports Markdown natively New Surface PCs with Intel chips coming soon Microsoft is making changes to its Rewards program AI GitHub Copilot moves to token-based billing in a sign of the true cost of AI Claude Design democratizes visual design on the heels of Claude Opus 4.7 OpenAI Codex moves into productivity OpenAI releases ChatGPT Images 2.0 Chrome AI Mode gets a big update Mozilla announces Thunderbolt, sovereign AI for businesses Google brings vibe coding to Android apps with Android CLI Xbox and gaming Microsoft drops Xbox Game Pass prices (!), but also drops Call of Duty from Day One Plus, Xbox teases a Game Pass Discord perk More Game Pass titles for April: Kiln, Vampire Crawlers, more Xbox April Update is here with that Quick Resume feature we all want There's an ID@Xbox event on April 23 to highlight indie games Xbox is selling Forza Horizon 6 limited edition controller and headsets Starfield is coming to the Nintendo Switch 2 A Call of Duty movie will finally arrive in 2028 Try out the Modern Warfare remake on Game Pass, it's a reminder of COD's gritty past PS5 Digital is down to its $399 launch price temporarily Tips and picks Tip of the week: Just make it App pick of the week: Helium RunAs Radio this week: The Life and Death of Microsoft Deployment Toolkit with Michael Niehaus Brown liquor pick of the week: Ned Australian Whisky Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to Windows Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: webroot.com/twit threatlocker.com/twit
AI is democratizing the making of things, from bespoke/custom apps to websites, designs of all kinds, and everything else you might imagine. It's a new world, and it's time to create. Plus, Helium is a new Chromium-based web browser that's completely open source, lightweight, secure, and private. There's a native version for Windows 11 on Arm, too. Also, Firefox 150 arrives with over 270 security fixes! Windows 11 Reports of a Recall security vulnerability are, once again, bogus, Microsoft says New builds on all channels, still on the old system Xbox Mode is now available in all channels Release Preview shows us the May Patch Tuesday updates: Xbox Mode, File Explorer improvements, Haptic improvements, Drop Tray renaming, Agents on the Taskbar Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x - Snapdragon X2 Elite, 14-inch display impressions Lenovo IdeaPad 5x - Snapdragon X2 Plus, 15.3-inch display impressions Microsoft 365, Surface, more OneDrive now supports Markdown natively New Surface PCs with Intel chips coming soon Microsoft is making changes to its Rewards program AI GitHub Copilot moves to token-based billing in a sign of the true cost of AI Claude Design democratizes visual design on the heels of Claude Opus 4.7 OpenAI Codex moves into productivity OpenAI releases ChatGPT Images 2.0 Chrome AI Mode gets a big update Mozilla announces Thunderbolt, sovereign AI for businesses Google brings vibe coding to Android apps with Android CLI Xbox and gaming Microsoft drops Xbox Game Pass prices (!), but also drops Call of Duty from Day One Plus, Xbox teases a Game Pass Discord perk More Game Pass titles for April: Kiln, Vampire Crawlers, more Xbox April Update is here with that Quick Resume feature we all want There's an ID@Xbox event on April 23 to highlight indie games Xbox is selling Forza Horizon 6 limited edition controller and headsets Starfield is coming to the Nintendo Switch 2 A Call of Duty movie will finally arrive in 2028 Try out the Modern Warfare remake on Game Pass, it's a reminder of COD's gritty past PS5 Digital is down to its $399 launch price temporarily Tips and picks Tip of the week: Just make it App pick of the week: Helium RunAs Radio this week: The Life and Death of Microsoft Deployment Toolkit with Michael Niehaus Brown liquor pick of the week: Ned Australian Whisky Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to Windows Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: webroot.com/twit threatlocker.com/twit
AI is democratizing the making of things, from bespoke/custom apps to websites, designs of all kinds, and everything else you might imagine. It's a new world, and it's time to create. Plus, Helium is a new Chromium-based web browser that's completely open source, lightweight, secure, and private. There's a native version for Windows 11 on Arm, too. Also, Firefox 150 arrives with over 270 security fixes! Windows 11 Reports of a Recall security vulnerability are, once again, bogus, Microsoft says New builds on all channels, still on the old system Xbox Mode is now available in all channels Release Preview shows us the May Patch Tuesday updates: Xbox Mode, File Explorer improvements, Haptic improvements, Drop Tray renaming, Agents on the Taskbar Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x - Snapdragon X2 Elite, 14-inch display impressions Lenovo IdeaPad 5x - Snapdragon X2 Plus, 15.3-inch display impressions Microsoft 365, Surface, more OneDrive now supports Markdown natively New Surface PCs with Intel chips coming soon Microsoft is making changes to its Rewards program AI GitHub Copilot moves to token-based billing in a sign of the true cost of AI Claude Design democratizes visual design on the heels of Claude Opus 4.7 OpenAI Codex moves into productivity OpenAI releases ChatGPT Images 2.0 Chrome AI Mode gets a big update Mozilla announces Thunderbolt, sovereign AI for businesses Google brings vibe coding to Android apps with Android CLI Xbox and gaming Microsoft drops Xbox Game Pass prices (!), but also drops Call of Duty from Day One Plus, Xbox teases a Game Pass Discord perk More Game Pass titles for April: Kiln, Vampire Crawlers, more Xbox April Update is here with that Quick Resume feature we all want There's an ID@Xbox event on April 23 to highlight indie games Xbox is selling Forza Horizon 6 limited edition controller and headsets Starfield is coming to the Nintendo Switch 2 A Call of Duty movie will finally arrive in 2028 Try out the Modern Warfare remake on Game Pass, it's a reminder of COD's gritty past PS5 Digital is down to its $399 launch price temporarily Tips and picks Tip of the week: Just make it App pick of the week: Helium RunAs Radio this week: The Life and Death of Microsoft Deployment Toolkit with Michael Niehaus Brown liquor pick of the week: Ned Australian Whisky Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to Windows Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: webroot.com/twit threatlocker.com/twit
AI is democratizing the making of things, from bespoke/custom apps to websites, designs of all kinds, and everything else you might imagine. It's a new world, and it's time to create. Plus, Helium is a new Chromium-based web browser that's completely open source, lightweight, secure, and private. There's a native version for Windows 11 on Arm, too. Also, Firefox 150 arrives with over 270 security fixes! Windows 11 Reports of a Recall security vulnerability are, once again, bogus, Microsoft says New builds on all channels, still on the old system Xbox Mode is now available in all channels Release Preview shows us the May Patch Tuesday updates: Xbox Mode, File Explorer improvements, Haptic improvements, Drop Tray renaming, Agents on the Taskbar Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x - Snapdragon X2 Elite, 14-inch display impressions Lenovo IdeaPad 5x - Snapdragon X2 Plus, 15.3-inch display impressions Microsoft 365, Surface, more OneDrive now supports Markdown natively New Surface PCs with Intel chips coming soon Microsoft is making changes to its Rewards program AI GitHub Copilot moves to token-based billing in a sign of the true cost of AI Claude Design democratizes visual design on the heels of Claude Opus 4.7 OpenAI Codex moves into productivity OpenAI releases ChatGPT Images 2.0 Chrome AI Mode gets a big update Mozilla announces Thunderbolt, sovereign AI for businesses Google brings vibe coding to Android apps with Android CLI Xbox and gaming Microsoft drops Xbox Game Pass prices (!), but also drops Call of Duty from Day One Plus, Xbox teases a Game Pass Discord perk More Game Pass titles for April: Kiln, Vampire Crawlers, more Xbox April Update is here with that Quick Resume feature we all want There's an ID@Xbox event on April 23 to highlight indie games Xbox is selling Forza Horizon 6 limited edition controller and headsets Starfield is coming to the Nintendo Switch 2 A Call of Duty movie will finally arrive in 2028 Try out the Modern Warfare remake on Game Pass, it's a reminder of COD's gritty past PS5 Digital is down to its $399 launch price temporarily Tips and picks Tip of the week: Just make it App pick of the week: Helium RunAs Radio this week: The Life and Death of Microsoft Deployment Toolkit with Michael Niehaus Brown liquor pick of the week: Ned Australian Whisky Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to Windows Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: webroot.com/twit threatlocker.com/twit
AI is democratizing the making of things, from bespoke/custom apps to websites, designs of all kinds, and everything else you might imagine. It's a new world, and it's time to create. Plus, Helium is a new Chromium-based web browser that's completely open source, lightweight, secure, and private. There's a native version for Windows 11 on Arm, too. Also, Firefox 150 arrives with over 270 security fixes! Windows 11 Reports of a Recall security vulnerability are, once again, bogus, Microsoft says New builds on all channels, still on the old system Xbox Mode is now available in all channels Release Preview shows us the May Patch Tuesday updates: Xbox Mode, File Explorer improvements, Haptic improvements, Drop Tray renaming, Agents on the Taskbar Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x - Snapdragon X2 Elite, 14-inch display impressions Lenovo IdeaPad 5x - Snapdragon X2 Plus, 15.3-inch display impressions Microsoft 365, Surface, more OneDrive now supports Markdown natively New Surface PCs with Intel chips coming soon Microsoft is making changes to its Rewards program AI GitHub Copilot moves to token-based billing in a sign of the true cost of AI Claude Design democratizes visual design on the heels of Claude Opus 4.7 OpenAI Codex moves into productivity OpenAI releases ChatGPT Images 2.0 Chrome AI Mode gets a big update Mozilla announces Thunderbolt, sovereign AI for businesses Google brings vibe coding to Android apps with Android CLI Xbox and gaming Microsoft drops Xbox Game Pass prices (!), but also drops Call of Duty from Day One Plus, Xbox teases a Game Pass Discord perk More Game Pass titles for April: Kiln, Vampire Crawlers, more Xbox April Update is here with that Quick Resume feature we all want There's an ID@Xbox event on April 23 to highlight indie games Xbox is selling Forza Horizon 6 limited edition controller and headsets Starfield is coming to the Nintendo Switch 2 A Call of Duty movie will finally arrive in 2028 Try out the Modern Warfare remake on Game Pass, it's a reminder of COD's gritty past PS5 Digital is down to its $399 launch price temporarily Tips and picks Tip of the week: Just make it App pick of the week: Helium RunAs Radio this week: The Life and Death of Microsoft Deployment Toolkit with Michael Niehaus Brown liquor pick of the week: Ned Australian Whisky Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to Windows Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: webroot.com/twit threatlocker.com/twit
AI is democratizing the making of things, from bespoke/custom apps to websites, designs of all kinds, and everything else you might imagine. It's a new world, and it's time to create. Plus, Helium is a new Chromium-based web browser that's completely open source, lightweight, secure, and private. There's a native version for Windows 11 on Arm, too. Also, Firefox 150 arrives with over 270 security fixes! Windows 11 Reports of a Recall security vulnerability are, once again, bogus, Microsoft says New builds on all channels, still on the old system Xbox Mode is now available in all channels Release Preview shows us the May Patch Tuesday updates: Xbox Mode, File Explorer improvements, Haptic improvements, Drop Tray renaming, Agents on the Taskbar Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x - Snapdragon X2 Elite, 14-inch display impressions Lenovo IdeaPad 5x - Snapdragon X2 Plus, 15.3-inch display impressions Microsoft 365, Surface, more OneDrive now supports Markdown natively New Surface PCs with Intel chips coming soon Microsoft is making changes to its Rewards program AI GitHub Copilot moves to token-based billing in a sign of the true cost of AI Claude Design democratizes visual design on the heels of Claude Opus 4.7 OpenAI Codex moves into productivity OpenAI releases ChatGPT Images 2.0 Chrome AI Mode gets a big update Mozilla announces Thunderbolt, sovereign AI for businesses Google brings vibe coding to Android apps with Android CLI Xbox and gaming Microsoft drops Xbox Game Pass prices (!), but also drops Call of Duty from Day One Plus, Xbox teases a Game Pass Discord perk More Game Pass titles for April: Kiln, Vampire Crawlers, more Xbox April Update is here with that Quick Resume feature we all want There's an ID@Xbox event on April 23 to highlight indie games Xbox is selling Forza Horizon 6 limited edition controller and headsets Starfield is coming to the Nintendo Switch 2 A Call of Duty movie will finally arrive in 2028 Try out the Modern Warfare remake on Game Pass, it's a reminder of COD's gritty past PS5 Digital is down to its $399 launch price temporarily Tips and picks Tip of the week: Just make it App pick of the week: Helium RunAs Radio this week: The Life and Death of Microsoft Deployment Toolkit with Michael Niehaus Brown liquor pick of the week: Ned Australian Whisky Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to Windows Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: webroot.com/twit threatlocker.com/twit
Marijn came back from MVP Summit in Seattle, but can't say anything, because NDA! The topic changes in what AI can do for you, and why people are the secret ingredient for AI success! They end with an American whisky "Straight Triticale Distillarium".
News and Updates: Kalshi Prediction Markets: Kalshi is a federally regulated exchange where users trade "yes/no" contracts on real-world events like elections and interest rates, recently valued at $22B. A federal court ruled Kalshi's sports bets are "swaps," giving the federal government exclusive jurisdiction and preventing states like New Jersey from banning them. Copilot "Entertainment" Clause: Microsoft faced backlash over terms calling Copilot "for entertainment purposes only." Officials claim this is legacy language and will be updated to reflect professional use. Microsoft's 2027 Goal: Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman announced a plan to build "state-of-the-art" frontier models by 2027 to reduce reliance on external partners like OpenAI. Claude 365 Integration: Anthropic released a Microsoft 365 connector for all Claude users, allowing the AI read-only access to Outlook, Teams, and OneDrive for better context. Data Center Bottlenecks: Nearly half of U.S. data centers planned for 2026 face delays or cancellation due to power grid shortages and a lack of critical electrical components.
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 14, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): DaVinci Resolve – PhotoOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47760529&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:55): Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe othersOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47762864&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:20): A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47760764&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:45): Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet ArchiveOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47765604&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:10): I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying programOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47768813&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:36): Claude Code RoutinesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47768133&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:01): Stop FlockOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47772012&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:26): jj – the CLI for JujutsuOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47763759&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:51): Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchableOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47769796&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:17): Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting timesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47768195&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai
Welcome to Episode 425 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this audio and video episode recorded live at Microsoft headquarters during the MVP Summit, Ben welcomes a return guest, Joy Apple, to the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast and discuss her 20-year career in the Microsoft collaboration space, from financial services to SharePoint training, consulting, and her current role at Orchestry Software. Joy explains Orchestry as a Microsoft 365 governance automation layer covering templated provisioning for SharePoint and Teams, archiving policies (including Microsoft 365 Archive), guest management, and OneDrive governance. They emphasize that AI and Copilot amplify existing information architecture, permissions, and data hygiene issues, making governance more critical. They describe the MVP Summit as a “family reunion” where MVPs attend sessions and reconnect with peers. Joy and Ben also spend some time describing paths becoming an MVP and how much they just enjoy the community around the Microsoft 365 ecosystem and connecting with people both at MVP Summit as well as various conferences throughout the year. About Joy Apple Joy is a Microsoft MVP and Director of Success and Enablement at Orchestry. With years of experience as an information technologist, I'm dedicated to helping organizations implement technology with a purpose-driven, “human-first” approach, ensuring tools like Microsoft 365 empower people to do their best work. Teaching and knowledge-sharing are at the heart of what I do. Whether it's through volunteering in the Microsoft Community, speaking at events, or writing as the “Joy of SharePoint,” I'm passionate about helping others unlock their potential with modern workplace solutions. Im also a cohost of the Guardians of M365 Governance podcast, where I explore the challenges and rewards of governance, and a columnist for She is Tulsa, a quarterly magazine celebrating impactful stories from my local community. Outside of work, you'll often find me enjoying live music or discovering new spots in Tulsa, Oklahoma, combining my love of connection and creativity wherever I go. Show Notes See the recording from the Microsoft Studios! Joy Apple on LinkedIn The Microsoft 365 Maturity Model – Governance, Risk, and Compliance Competency The Microsoft MVP Communities About the MVP Program Overview of Microsoft 365 Archive Guests in the Microsoft 365 admin center Mitigate Oversharing to Govern Microsoft 365 Copilot and Agents Orchestry About the sponsors TrustedTech is a leading Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) specializing in Microsoft Cloud services, Microsoft perpetual licensing, and Microsoft Support Services for medium and enterprise-sized businesses. Our robust team of in-house, U.S-based Microsoft architects and engineers are certified in all 6/6 Microsoft Solutions Partner Designations in the Microsoft Cloud Partner Program. M365 Licensing Consultation M365 Tenant Assessment Copilot Readiness Assessment Your migration and governance solution for Microsoft 365 ShareGate helps your teams simplify tenant migrations, get Copilot-ready, and take control of Microsoft 365 governance. Our Microsoft 365 experts and Microsoft Azure experts focus on the Microsoft cloud, so you can focus on what you do best! Learn more how we can help you!
On Hands-On Tech, Mikah answers a listener's question about the best way to keep two office computers perfectly in sync so he can leave his laptop at home while traveling. Send in your questions for Mikah to answer during the show! hot@twit.tv Host: Mikah Sargent Download or subscribe to Hands-On Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-tech Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord. Sponsor: NetSuite.com/hot
On Hands-On Tech, Mikah answers a listener's question about the best way to keep two office computers perfectly in sync so he can leave his laptop at home while traveling. Send in your questions for Mikah to answer during the show! hot@twit.tv Host: Mikah Sargent Download or subscribe to Hands-On Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-tech Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord. Sponsor: NetSuite.com/hot
On Hands-On Tech, Mikah answers a listener's question about the best way to keep two office computers perfectly in sync so he can leave his laptop at home while traveling. Send in your questions for Mikah to answer during the show! hot@twit.tv Host: Mikah Sargent Download or subscribe to Hands-On Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-tech Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord. Sponsor: NetSuite.com/hot
On Hands-On Tech, Mikah answers a listener's question about the best way to keep two office computers perfectly in sync so he can leave his laptop at home while traveling. Send in your questions for Mikah to answer during the show! hot@twit.tv Host: Mikah Sargent Download or subscribe to Hands-On Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-tech Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord. Sponsor: NetSuite.com/hot
On Hands-On Tech, Mikah answers a listener's question about the best way to keep two office computers perfectly in sync so he can leave his laptop at home while traveling. Send in your questions for Mikah to answer during the show! hot@twit.tv Host: Mikah Sargent Download or subscribe to Hands-On Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-tech Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord. Sponsor: NetSuite.com/hot
On Hands-On Tech, Mikah answers a listener's question about the best way to keep two office computers perfectly in sync so he can leave his laptop at home while traveling. Send in your questions for Mikah to answer during the show! hot@twit.tv Host: Mikah Sargent Download or subscribe to Hands-On Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-tech Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord. Sponsor: NetSuite.com/hot
On Hands-On Tech, Mikah answers a listener's question about the best way to keep two office computers perfectly in sync so he can leave his laptop at home while traveling. Send in your questions for Mikah to answer during the show! hot@twit.tv Host: Mikah Sargent Download or subscribe to Hands-On Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-tech Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord. Sponsor: NetSuite.com/hot
Planner is now supported in private and shared channels. This will be ideal for simple projects involving other people in your organisation. There's also another way to recap meetings, with video. Watch the Copilot-selected highlights and decide what parts to of the full meeting you want to take a closer look at. 0:00 Welcome 02:39 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Introducing Federated Copilot Connectors - MC1259822 06:27 Introducing video recap for Microsoft Teams meetings - MC1261588 13:24 SharePoint Advanced Management: Site admin control for restricted content discovery - MC1259825 18:35 View and edit Markdown files in OneDrive and SharePoint - MC1261592 21:03 Planner tab support for Shared and Private Channels in Microsoft Teams - MC1262590 23:59 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Admins will be able to enable third‑party model providers for specific users and groups - MC1263276
In 2015, Satya Nadella said that he wanted users to love Windows. But Microsoft has only enshittified Windows more aggressively since then. Paul wrote a book. And now Microsoft says it's changed, baby, and it's serious this time. Here's what was said ... and what was not said.A Timeline Early signs of positive change: Rust in the Windows kernel, numerous new security features in Windows 11 - "two sides" of Windows, the engineering side and the "let's push AI at all costs/UX" side - more recently, Baseline Security Mode and User Transparency and Consent announcement Last September, Pavan Davuluri took over Windows and reorganized the business immediately, bringing Server/Core back in-house In December, Paul saw the first signs of positive changes in OneDrive, while not perfect, a major step back from the enshittification there. It took a few months to understand exactly what changed. In January, there are over one billion Windows 11 users. Davuluri first mentions a push for quality in 2026 - "pain points" In February, Nadella announced leadership changes that included people directly in charge of security and engineering quality Now, Microsoft has announced that it will address (some of) the complaints about Windows 11, and this includes performance and reliability improvements across the board Microsoft said it will Let you move the Taskbar to other screen edges, finally Improve File Explorer performance Make changes to how users to skip Windows Updates (vaguely) Make improvements to Widgets (but what about the quality problem?) Remove unnecessary Copilot entry points Make the Windows Insider Program more transparent More relevant recommendations in Start - ?? Reduce resource usage across the board, give more resources to what you're doing (good for gaming, especially) Reduce interaction latency - WInUI3 Reduce search latency throughout - also context menus and navigation (which is WinUI3, I guess) Make improvements to Windows Subsystem for Linux OS, drive, and in-box app reliability improvements Windows Hello improvements - Wonders if this is tied to the complaint about speed here What Microsoft didn't discuss Of the several items in the Windows 11 Enshittification Checklist, only one was addressed by Davuluri's post, Windows Update chaos, and then only partially. Not mentioned: Forced telemetry, bundled crapware, forced Microsoft account sign-ins, forced Microsoft Edge usage and configuration harassment, hardware requirements (less relevant today), OneDrive behaviors (partially addressed already). Recall is rare in that it's opt-in, but most of the AI and unwanted features are opt-out or worse Controlled Feature Releases are not controlled, but they do suck Microsoft has monthly Security Updates that include new features. Security and Feature updates should be separate and have different pausing rules Microsoft is not removing Copilot from Windows, nor is it doing less AI; it is just removing Copilot icons from most places and trying to be more thoughtful about how it deploys AI in Windows 11 The Windows Insider Program makes 0 sense right now, and this was only partially addressed; it's not clear what's changing yet Davuluri says that WinUI3 UIs are the solution to many performance problems, but just using an old Mor These show notes have been truncated due to length. For the full show notes, visit https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly/episodes/976 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell
In 2015, Satya Nadella said that he wanted users to love Windows. But Microsoft has only enshittified Windows more aggressively since then. Paul wrote a book. And now Microsoft says it's changed, baby, and it's serious this time. Here's what was said ... and what was not said.A Timeline Early signs of positive change: Rust in the Windows kernel, numerous new security features in Windows 11 - "two sides" of Windows, the engineering side and the "let's push AI at all costs/UX" side - more recently, Baseline Security Mode and User Transparency and Consent announcement Last September, Pavan Davuluri took over Windows and reorganized the business immediately, bringing Server/Core back in-house In December, Paul saw the first signs of positive changes in OneDrive, while not perfect, a major step back from the enshittification there. It took a few months to understand exactly what changed. In January, there are over one billion Windows 11 users. Davuluri first mentions a push for quality in 2026 - "pain points" In February, Nadella announced leadership changes that included people directly in charge of security and engineering quality Now, Microsoft has announced that it will address (some of) the complaints about Windows 11, and this includes performance and reliability improvements across the board Microsoft said it will Let you move the Taskbar to other screen edges, finally Improve File Explorer performance Make changes to how users to skip Windows Updates (vaguely) Make improvements to Widgets (but what about the quality problem?) Remove unnecessary Copilot entry points Make the Windows Insider Program more transparent More relevant recommendations in Start - ?? Reduce resource usage across the board, give more resources to what you're doing (good for gaming, especially) Reduce interaction latency - WInUI3 Reduce search latency throughout - also context menus and navigation (which is WinUI3, I guess) Make improvements to Windows Subsystem for Linux OS, drive, and in-box app reliability improvements Windows Hello improvements - Wonders if this is tied to the complaint about speed here What Microsoft didn't discuss Of the several items in the Windows 11 Enshittification Checklist, only one was addressed by Davuluri's post, Windows Update chaos, and then only partially. Not mentioned: Forced telemetry, bundled crapware, forced Microsoft account sign-ins, forced Microsoft Edge usage and configuration harassment, hardware requirements (less relevant today), OneDrive behaviors (partially addressed already). Recall is rare in that it's opt-in, but most of the AI and unwanted features are opt-out or worse Controlled Feature Releases are not controlled, but they do suck Microsoft has monthly Security Updates that include new features. Security and Feature updates should be separate and have different pausing rules Microsoft is not removing Copilot from Windows, nor is it doing less AI; it is just removing Copilot icons from most places and trying to be more thoughtful about how it deploys AI in Windows 11 The Windows Insider Program makes 0 sense right now, and this was only partially addressed; it's not clear what's changing yet Davuluri says that WinUI3 UIs are the solution to many performance problems, but just using an old Mor These show notes have been truncated due to length. For the full show notes, visit https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly/episodes/976 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell
In 2015, Satya Nadella said that he wanted users to love Windows. But Microsoft has only enshittified Windows more aggressively since then. Paul wrote a book. And now Microsoft says it's changed, baby, and it's serious this time. Here's what was said ... and what was not said.A Timeline Early signs of positive change: Rust in the Windows kernel, numerous new security features in Windows 11 - "two sides" of Windows, the engineering side and the "let's push AI at all costs/UX" side - more recently, Baseline Security Mode and User Transparency and Consent announcement Last September, Pavan Davuluri took over Windows and reorganized the business immediately, bringing Server/Core back in-house In December, Paul saw the first signs of positive changes in OneDrive, while not perfect, a major step back from the enshittification there. It took a few months to understand exactly what changed. In January, there are over one billion Windows 11 users. Davuluri first mentions a push for quality in 2026 - "pain points" In February, Nadella announced leadership changes that included people directly in charge of security and engineering quality Now, Microsoft has announced that it will address (some of) the complaints about Windows 11, and this includes performance and reliability improvements across the board Microsoft said it will Let you move the Taskbar to other screen edges, finally Improve File Explorer performance Make changes to how users to skip Windows Updates (vaguely) Make improvements to Widgets (but what about the quality problem?) Remove unnecessary Copilot entry points Make the Windows Insider Program more transparent More relevant recommendations in Start - ?? Reduce resource usage across the board, give more resources to what you're doing (good for gaming, especially) Reduce interaction latency - WInUI3 Reduce search latency throughout - also context menus and navigation (which is WinUI3, I guess) Make improvements to Windows Subsystem for Linux OS, drive, and in-box app reliability improvements Windows Hello improvements - Wonders if this is tied to the complaint about speed here What Microsoft didn't discuss Of the several items in the Windows 11 Enshittification Checklist, only one was addressed by Davuluri's post, Windows Update chaos, and then only partially. Not mentioned: Forced telemetry, bundled crapware, forced Microsoft account sign-ins, forced Microsoft Edge usage and configuration harassment, hardware requirements (less relevant today), OneDrive behaviors (partially addressed already). Recall is rare in that it's opt-in, but most of the AI and unwanted features are opt-out or worse Controlled Feature Releases are not controlled, but they do suck Microsoft has monthly Security Updates that include new features. Security and Feature updates should be separate and have different pausing rules Microsoft is not removing Copilot from Windows, nor is it doing less AI; it is just removing Copilot icons from most places and trying to be more thoughtful about how it deploys AI in Windows 11 The Windows Insider Program makes 0 sense right now, and this was only partially addressed; it's not clear what's changing yet Davuluri says that WinUI3 UIs are the solution to many performance problems, but just using an old Mor These show notes have been truncated due to length. For the full show notes, visit https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly/episodes/976 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell
In 2015, Satya Nadella said that he wanted users to love Windows. But Microsoft has only enshittified Windows more aggressively since then. Paul wrote a book. And now Microsoft says it's changed, baby, and it's serious this time. Here's what was said ... and what was not said.A Timeline Early signs of positive change: Rust in the Windows kernel, numerous new security features in Windows 11 - "two sides" of Windows, the engineering side and the "let's push AI at all costs/UX" side - more recently, Baseline Security Mode and User Transparency and Consent announcement Last September, Pavan Davuluri took over Windows and reorganized the business immediately, bringing Server/Core back in-house In December, Paul saw the first signs of positive changes in OneDrive, while not perfect, a major step back from the enshittification there. It took a few months to understand exactly what changed. In January, there are over one billion Windows 11 users. Davuluri first mentions a push for quality in 2026 - "pain points" In February, Nadella announced leadership changes that included people directly in charge of security and engineering quality Now, Microsoft has announced that it will address (some of) the complaints about Windows 11, and this includes performance and reliability improvements across the board Microsoft said it will Let you move the Taskbar to other screen edges, finally Improve File Explorer performance Make changes to how users to skip Windows Updates (vaguely) Make improvements to Widgets (but what about the quality problem?) Remove unnecessary Copilot entry points Make the Windows Insider Program more transparent More relevant recommendations in Start - ?? Reduce resource usage across the board, give more resources to what you're doing (good for gaming, especially) Reduce interaction latency - WInUI3 Reduce search latency throughout - also context menus and navigation (which is WinUI3, I guess) Make improvements to Windows Subsystem for Linux OS, drive, and in-box app reliability improvements Windows Hello improvements - Wonders if this is tied to the complaint about speed here What Microsoft didn't discuss Of the several items in the Windows 11 Enshittification Checklist, only one was addressed by Davuluri's post, Windows Update chaos, and then only partially. Not mentioned: Forced telemetry, bundled crapware, forced Microsoft account sign-ins, forced Microsoft Edge usage and configuration harassment, hardware requirements (less relevant today), OneDrive behaviors (partially addressed already). Recall is rare in that it's opt-in, but most of the AI and unwanted features are opt-out or worse Controlled Feature Releases are not controlled, but they do suck Microsoft has monthly Security Updates that include new features. Security and Feature updates should be separate and have different pausing rules Microsoft is not removing Copilot from Windows, nor is it doing less AI; it is just removing Copilot icons from most places and trying to be more thoughtful about how it deploys AI in Windows 11 The Windows Insider Program makes 0 sense right now, and this was only partially addressed; it's not clear what's changing yet Davuluri says that WinUI3 UIs are the solution to many performance problems, but just using an old Mor These show notes have been truncated due to length. For the full show notes, visit https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly/episodes/976 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell
In 2015, Satya Nadella said that he wanted users to love Windows. But Microsoft has only enshittified Windows more aggressively since then. Paul wrote a book. And now Microsoft says it's changed, baby, and it's serious this time. Here's what was said ... and what was not said.A Timeline Early signs of positive change: Rust in the Windows kernel, numerous new security features in Windows 11 - "two sides" of Windows, the engineering side and the "let's push AI at all costs/UX" side - more recently, Baseline Security Mode and User Transparency and Consent announcement Last September, Pavan Davuluri took over Windows and reorganized the business immediately, bringing Server/Core back in-house In December, Paul saw the first signs of positive changes in OneDrive, while not perfect, a major step back from the enshittification there. It took a few months to understand exactly what changed. In January, there are over one billion Windows 11 users. Davuluri first mentions a push for quality in 2026 - "pain points" In February, Nadella announced leadership changes that included people directly in charge of security and engineering quality Now, Microsoft has announced that it will address (some of) the complaints about Windows 11, and this includes performance and reliability improvements across the board Microsoft said it will Let you move the Taskbar to other screen edges, finally Improve File Explorer performance Make changes to how users to skip Windows Updates (vaguely) Make improvements to Widgets (but what about the quality problem?) Remove unnecessary Copilot entry points Make the Windows Insider Program more transparent More relevant recommendations in Start - ?? Reduce resource usage across the board, give more resources to what you're doing (good for gaming, especially) Reduce interaction latency - WInUI3 Reduce search latency throughout - also context menus and navigation (which is WinUI3, I guess) Make improvements to Windows Subsystem for Linux OS, drive, and in-box app reliability improvements Windows Hello improvements - Wonders if this is tied to the complaint about speed here What Microsoft didn't discuss Of the several items in the Windows 11 Enshittification Checklist, only one was addressed by Davuluri's post, Windows Update chaos, and then only partially. Not mentioned: Forced telemetry, bundled crapware, forced Microsoft account sign-ins, forced Microsoft Edge usage and configuration harassment, hardware requirements (less relevant today), OneDrive behaviors (partially addressed already). Recall is rare in that it's opt-in, but most of the AI and unwanted features are opt-out or worse Controlled Feature Releases are not controlled, but they do suck Microsoft has monthly Security Updates that include new features. Security and Feature updates should be separate and have different pausing rules Microsoft is not removing Copilot from Windows, nor is it doing less AI; it is just removing Copilot icons from most places and trying to be more thoughtful about how it deploys AI in Windows 11 The Windows Insider Program makes 0 sense right now, and this was only partially addressed; it's not clear what's changing yet Davuluri says that WinUI3 UIs are the solution to many performance problems, but just using an old Mor These show notes have been truncated due to length. For the full show notes, visit https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly/episodes/976 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell
It's going to be easier to identify bots joining your meetings with a dedicated section singling them out. SharePoint and OneDrive agents will soon allow a list to be a source for your chats. This week we also chat about two confusing messages that announced the removal of agent capabilities in M365 apps for people without an M365 license. 0:00 Introduction 2:26 New admin control for AI‑generated code previews in Microsoft 365 Copilot Pages - MC1254560 6:15 Copilot Notebooks: New features coming to Frontier Public - MC1254552 11:00 Designer tools in Copilot - MC1256040 15:34 Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat - Updates to Copilot in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote - MC1253858 18:40 Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat - Updates to Copilot in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint - MC1253863 22:12 Lists as a knowledge source for agents in SharePoint and OneDrive - MC1255409 24:53 Whiteboards created in Teams channels will now be stored in SharePoint - MC1253753 27:04 Microsoft Teams: Identify external bots joining your Teams meetings - MC1251206
Most people think they've already experienced AI. They've asked a chatbot a question, had it summarize something, maybe even draft an email. That version is useful, but it isn't the one that actually changes how work gets done. The real shift starts when AI stops talking about work and starts participating in it. That's the moment Rob ran into while experimenting with Cowork tools, and it was convincing enough to push him into changes he hasn't made since the DOS era. Microsoft just announced Copilot Cowork, and Rob thinks it could turn out to be the most significant AI product Microsoft has shipped so far. Not because of a flashy feature list, but because of where it lives. When something like this can operate across the Microsoft 365 environment where work already happens, it suddenly has real context. Files in OneDrive. Documents in SharePoint. Conversations in Teams. Meetings in Outlook. At that point the tool isn't sitting off to the side anymore. It's working inside the same ecosystem your team already runs on. Most of the working world is still standing on the quiet side of an inflection point they don't fully see yet. Once tools like this start showing up inside the systems companies already use every day, things will move quickly. In this episode Rob and Justin unpack why this moment matters, why Copilot Cowork could change how people experience AI at work, and what it means for the people and organizations paying attention right now. If that includes you, this is the one to listen to.
OneDrive's automatic folder backup in Windows 11 has frustrated millions, but this episode reveals new changes that finally let users opt out—if you act fast. Find out how Microsoft's latest update could solve, or complicate, your cloud storage headaches. Host: Paul Thurrott Download or subscribe to Hands-On Windows at https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-windows Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.
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Just last week, we asked about Phil Spencer and why he's been so quiet lately. Now we know why! Also, OneDrive for the Mac is finally going to look like it belongs on the Mac. And Google Chrome finally picks up a split view like the rest of the planet, plus a few other new features. PHIL SPENCER OUT AT XBOX Phil Spencer has retired from Microsoft and his heir-apparent, Sarah Bond, left Microsoft as well Report details the Xbox reorg Ex-Xbox executive issues an old guy shouting at sky assessment New Microsoft Gaming CEO discusses "return to Xbox" Hot-take: This person seems unqualified to run Xbox/MS Gaming, but let's give her a chance Alternative hot-take: She is literally here to wind down this business, which makes no sense... unless there's a spin-off Windows WSJ report sheds some light, and adds a lot of confusion, to Nvidia's Windows PC plans Week D arrived on time this month Preview of March Patch Tuesday updates Network speed test, pan and tilt in Camera settings, sysmon, RSAT improvements, Quick Machine Recovery improvements, WEBP background image support, Emoji 16.0 And you thought the Canary channel was weird already -New builds for Canary, Dev, and Beta. Canary gets features we already saw elsewhere, Dev and Beta get context menu, settings, and Taskbar improvements Paul has published (an incomplete version of) De-Enshittify Windows 11 De-enshittifying Copilot and AI is doable but not yet automated What about the alternatives? Next step: Security and Apps chapters HP revenues up 6.9 percent to $14.4 billion but RAM warning is more dire than expected Apple to add multitouch to MacBook Pro lineup in late 2026. Oh the irony AI Xbox February update brings 1440p streaming to Xbox consoles, updates for Xbox ROG Ally, more Xbox app is delivering post-game recaps on Windows 11 for Insiders EA had the most game downloads on PC and console in 2025, thanks to having the three most popular AAA games of the year (BF6, EA Sports FC 25, and EA Sports FC 26). Microsoft was number two, followed by Take-Two, Ubisoft, and Sony. Fortnite is somehow still the biggest game overall on console, and Counter-Strike 2 (!!!!) is the biggest on PC. 20 million Fortnite players on PS, 15 million on Xbox Tips and picks Tip of the week: OneDrive for the Mac App pick of the week: Google Chrome RunAs Radio this week: SaaS on Multiple Clouds with Steve Buchanan Brown liquor pick of the week: Sons of Vancouver Wheated Rye Whisky Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to Windows Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: bitwarden.com/twit zscaler.com/security
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