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techcommunity.microsoft.comImplementing Next Best Action (NBA) in Foundry with Microsoft-Decision-1 | Microsoft Community HubImagine a sales rep opening their account list at the start of the day. One customer wants a product demo. Another has a larger potential deal, but its...

A Foundry demo compares rules, GPT-4o and Microsoft-Decision-1 for next-best-action sales recommendations, using the same evidence. #Copilot techcommunity.microsoft.com...

thurrott.comMicrosoft Has a Strategy to Secure AI AgentsMicrosoft is addressing the recent explosion in AI safety risks by formalizing its strategy to protect its customers. It's surprisingly straightforward.

Microsoft is extending Project Perception to treat AI agents as insider risks, with controls for identity, permissions, risk, conditional access, playbooks and monitoring. #M365 thurrott.com/a-i/343031/mic...

techcommunity.microsoft.comGPT-chat-latest gets more intelligent, interactive, and personal in Microsoft Foundry | Microsoft Community HubWhat if a conversational AI could respond with an interactive chart instead of a wall of text and start delivering useful information before the full answer...

GPT-chat-latest in Foundry adds GenUI and interleaved output, surfacing information before a full answer is ready. techcommunity.microsoft.com...

microsoft.comAI at Work Roadmap | Microsoft 365The Microsoft 365 Roadmap lists updates that are currently planned for applicable subscribers. Check here for more information on the status of new features and updates.

Have you played with computer use agents in Copilot Studio yet? It's nearly reaching GA Atomate websites and apps, with hosted browser controls and environment-level permissions for admins. GA Oct 2026. #Copilot #M365 microsoft.com/microsoft-365...

techcommunity.microsoft.comWhich Reflection Model Should Power your Agent Optimizer? | Microsoft Community HubAuthors: Priyanka Paul, Abi Komma, Charles Kim, Luffy Chen, Morteza Ziyadi Agent optimizer in Foundry Agent Service automatically improves prompt agents and...

Microsoft tested five reflection models for Foundry Agent Optimizer across four workloads. techcommunity.microsoft.com...

techcommunity.microsoft.comDelivering Agent Skills Over MCP | Microsoft Community HubGetting a skill working with one agent is a useful start. Sharing it with other agents raises a different question: where should that skill live? You could...

Microsoft Foundry documents shared agent skills over MCP. The finalised Skills extension lets compatible agents discover and load them when needed. techcommunity.microsoft.com...

techcommunity.microsoft.comWhen the Answer Isn’t in the Document: Metadata-Aware Agentic RAG with Foundry IQ | Microsoft Community HubThe problem SharePoint libraries often contain years of carefully curated metadata, including root cause, severity, business unit, document type,...

Microsoft shows how Foundry IQ can use SharePoint metadata in agentic RAG via a custom Azure AI Search index. techcommunity.microsoft.com...

techcommunity.microsoft.comIntroducing Microsoft-Decision-1 in Microsoft Foundry for decision and classification workloads | Microsoft Community HubNot every step in an AI application needs a large language model to generate a response. Many high-volume application steps are decisions: classify an input,...

Microsoft-Decision-1 is in public preview in Foundry. It handles fast, structured tasks such as classification, routing and model selection. techcommunity.microsoft.com...

commandline.microsoft.comBringing local models and sandboxed tools to Windows and GitHub CopilotComing soon, GitHub Copilot will determine when a task is best handled by on-device intelligence and when it should leverage cloud-scale models.

GitHub Copilot will route coding tasks between local and cloud models across the CLI, Copilot app and VS Code. Microsoft is also bringing sandboxed tool access through Execution Containers in Windows. commandline.microsoft.com/l...

techcommunity.microsoft.comClosing the AI Agent Governance Gap with Microsoft Foundry | Microsoft Community HubDevelopers are shipping agents faster than security teams can catalog them. As organizations move beyond pilots and begin operating dozens or hundreds of...

Microsoft Foundry sets four AI agent governance layers: resources, builders, behaviour and dependencies. Azure Policy and RBAC add guardrails. techcommunity.microsoft.com...

techcommunity.microsoft.comFrom Business Brief to Production Agent: Building in Three Stages, Not One | Microsoft Community HubThe problem with "AI can help my business" Every non-technical founder has heard some version of "you should put an AI agent on this." Far fewer have seen...

Build AI agents in three stages: mock the idea, run a real Agent Framework agent locally, then deploy. Validate before spending. techcommunity.microsoft.com...

techcommunity.microsoft.comSkill vs. will: What leaders must solve for AI adoption | Microsoft Community HubIf you’re leading AI adoption, you may be asking why trained employees aren’t changing how they work. In this post, you’ll learn how to distinguish skill...

Microsoft’s advice on approaching large-scale AI adoption: training and access matter, but leaders also need to assess willingness and organisational… techcommunity.microsoft.com...

techcommunity.microsoft.comWhat's New in Microsoft Teams | August - September 2026 | Microsoft Community HubA quick note before we get into it: What's New in Teams is shifting from a monthly to a quarterly rhythm. You'll hear from us next in December, March, and...

Teams' What's New roundup is moving from monthly to quarterly. techcommunity.microsoft.com...

techcommunity.microsoft.comYour Agent Shouldn't Wait for a Prompt: Build an Event-Driven Microsoft Foundry Routine | Microsoft Community HubMost agents are still waiting in a chat window. They may be capable of classifying an incident, finding the right documentation, or recommending an owner -...

Foundry Routines trigger agents from GitHub issues, schedules or Teams messages, with identity controls and run history. techcommunity.microsoft.com...

techcommunity.microsoft.comChanges to Microsoft Learn’s public documentation repositories | Microsoft Community HubMicrosoft Learn is changing how it manages public documentation repositories. Learn what the changes mean for GitHub contributors and where to continue...

Microsoft is changing how its Learn docs work, removing repositories used for documentation history and feedback. techcommunity.microsoft.com...

bleepingcomputer.comMicrosoft pauses KB5002907 update after Office license deactivationsMicrosoft has paused the rollout of the KB5002907 Microsoft 365 update after users report that it deactivated, or in some cases completely removed, perpetual Office 2016 and Office 2019 installations.

FYI, if you or your customers have had Office deactivating or disappearing, this might be the reason. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-365-kb5002907-update-paused-after-office-license-deactivations/

youtube.comSo Microsoft put out three posts on Friday about the future of Copilot, tucked in at the end of theSo Microsoft put out three posts on Friday about the future of Copilot, tucked in at the end of the quarter. Everyone has done the headlines. This is three minutes on the bits underneath them. 🔹…

So Microsoft put out three posts on Friday about the future of Copilot, tucked in at the end of the quarter. Everyone has done the headlines. This is three minutes on the bits underneath them. youtube.com/shorts/XYiCP...

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blogs.microsoft.comIntroducing the new Copilot with Home, Code and Autopilot - The Official Microsoft BlogWe’re reimagining Microsoft Copilot to enable work as it evolves and to help expand what every individual and every organization can accomplish in the flow of human ambition. Today we’re introducing…

Nobody's leavers process was written for it. Sources- Official blog: blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/09...

Pricing model: techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microso... USL and UBB on Learn: learn.microsoft.com/microsoft-36... Managed Runtime admin doc: learn.microsoft.com/microsoft-36... #M365 #Copilot #Cowork #Licensing

This is the enterprise story. The Copilot Business default-on change is a separate one, I posted on that last week. I'll be unpicking each of these properly over the next few weeks, starting with a map of what Copilot actually is now.

Food for thought 🤔 🔹 Copilot deciding when you pay extra is convenient right up until the invoice. Who set the router's budget? 🔹 "Start on credits, move into the licence later" is now written down. Early adopters fund the bundle. 🔹 An agent with its own identity is a new kind of account.

The switch you used to flick was the thing that started the bill. 🔹 If your spending policy has "auto-apply new services" on (it's the default), every new metered thing Microsoft ships lands in it without anyone touching the policy.

🔹 Code looks like App Builder reframed: dashboards and small line of business apps. Building them costs credits, and running them will too. 🔹 Scout is now Autopilot. Cloud-hosted, its own identity, its own memory, consumption based. Less "my Copilot got a memory", more "I've hired a colleague".

🔹 Two terms to learn. USL is the user subscription licence, the M365 Copilot seat and everything in it. UBB is usage-based billing, credits and pay-as-you-go. Microsoft have now written that split down as the model, so it isn't going away.

🔹 Chat and Cowork are merging, and Copilot will decide which one runs your request. Chat is in the seat, Cowork is on the meter.

🧵 1/ Flex routing goes live today for EU/EFTA Copilot tenants. Check MC to validate your default. Your Copilot data could process out of region now...

6/ What to do: 🔹 Find the flex routing MC post in your tenant's Message Center 🔹 Admin Center > Copilot > Settings > Flexible inferencing during peak load periods 🔹 PPAC has a separate toggle for Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Copilot Studio 🔹 Not visible if you've bought Multi-Geo

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7/ Sources: portal.changepilot.cloud/MC1269219 learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/copilot/copilot-flex-routing

🧵 1/ Flex routing goes live today for EU/EFTA Copilot tenants. Check MC to validate your default. Your Copilot data could process out of region now...

4/ Context: When Copilot joined the EU Data Boundary commitment in March 2024, the message was "EU traffic stays within the EU Data Boundary." Flex routing is the release valve, it lets MS satisfy demand from datacenter regions around the world as needed.

5/ Data at rest still stays in the boundary. Data is encrypted in transit. But if flex routing is on, prompts and responses may traverse to the US/Canada/Australia during peak load.

🧵 1/ Flex routing goes live today for EU/EFTA Copilot tenants. Check MC to validate your default. Your Copilot data could process out of region now...

2/ Microsoft is introducing "flex routing", a setting that lets EU/EFTA tenants use Copilot LLMs outside of their sovereign data boundary (i.e. in USA, Canada etc.) when they are having peak demand issues.

3/ The default state is per-tenant: 🔹 New tenants (post-25 March 2026): on by default 🔹 Existing tenants: individual MC posts communicate your tenant's default Mine (MC1269219) shows off by default, live from 17 April 2026. Yours could differ.

🧵 1/ Granular toggle for enabling Anthropic AI in Copilot coming soon. MC1263276, rolling out late April 2026. If you run Copilot or manage anyone who does, this one matters.

6/ From late April you can scope it. Specific users, Entra ID groups, up to 999, nested groups supported. Enforced across Admin Center, PPAC, and Copilot Studio.

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7/ Pilot with a scoped group. Enable only where the data posture works. Keep it off where it doesn't. If you've been parked on this decision for client tenants — this is the control you've been waiting for. Source: portal.changepilot.cloud/MC1263276

🧵 1/ Granular toggle for enabling Anthropic AI in Copilot coming soon. MC1263276, rolling out late April 2026. If you run Copilot or manage anyone who does, this one matters.

4/ Excluded from the EU Data Boundary. Excluded from in-country commitments for the UK, Australia, India, Japan etc. EU/EFTA and UK tenants have it off by default for exactly this reason.

5/ Until now you had to choose: accept that for every user in the tenant, or turn Anthropic off and lose the features entirely. Not exactly a fun conversation with a compliance team.

🧵 1/ Granular toggle for enabling Anthropic AI in Copilot coming soon. MC1263276, rolling out late April 2026. If you run Copilot or manage anyone who does, this one matters.

2/ TL;DR: Admins will soon be able to assign Anthropic (Claude) access in M365 Copilot to specific users or Entra ID groups. No more all-or-nothing tenant toggle.

3/ Why it matters: Claude powers some of Copilot's best stuff — Researcher, Agent Mode in Excel, Office agents, Copilot Studio. But processing happens outside Microsoft's data boundary.

Microsoft has ~15 retirements and service changes on the 2026 roadmap. A lot of coverage frames this as chaos. But there's a why behind it. 🧵

This isn't random churn. It's a security strategy playing out over years. Doesn't remove the pain. Migrations are still work. But remembering the why does shift how you look at 2026.

Any of these deprecations eating into your planning time? Or are you now worrying about which changes you've missed entirely... 😅

Microsoft has ~15 retirements and service changes on the 2026 roadmap. A lot of coverage frames this as chaos. But there's a why behind it. 🧵

At least one ties directly to the Secure Future Initiative. The security overhaul Microsoft kicked off after those high-profile breaches. It's been running quietly in the background. Timelines fit for changes to show up in production now.

Evergreen platform means standards evolve. MS has too much history maintaining legacy stances, so it's good to see movement here. That said, some changes are still unfathomable without knowing the goal. Other than Copilot everywhere. 😄

23 Jan

Microsoft has announced a significant change to what’s covered by Teams Premium, landing 1 April 2026. It impacts both Places and large-scale events, and it’s worth a look if Places felt too expensive before or if you bought Premium mainly for events. 🧵⬇️

📍 Places changes follow the same pattern Core end-user features move into base M365 (E3/E5/Business): • Places Finder • Places Explorer • Desk booking No extra cost if you already have E3/E5. Places is no longer positioned as Premium-adjacent by default.

techcommunity.microsoft.comLicensing updates extend access to advanced capabilities in Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Places | Microsoft Community HubAt Microsoft, we empower organizations to achieve more through intelligent communication, inclusive collaboration, and connected workplace experiences. Our...

23 Jan

🏢 Shared Device → Shared Space • One licence now covers up to 4 desks/spaces • Space analytics & booking policies included Teams Premium is left more tightly focused on meetings, calling and intelligence. Details still to come, but the direction is clear: techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microso...

Big picture: Teams Premium has long been a catch-all for “advanced” Teams features. These changes narrow that scope. The licensing gate is shifting from who has Premium to what you need to do at scale. Events are the clearest example.