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Microsoft Ignite is just around the corner but still plenty of updates coming from Microsoft prior to their big tech event. Listen and stay up to date with everything that is happening in the Microsoft Cloud. Resources @directorcia Join my shared channel CIAOPS merch store Become a CIAOPS Patron CIAOPS Blog CIAOPS Brief CIAOPSLabs Support CIAOPS Streamline collaboration with the new chat and channels experience in Microsoft Teams  How to manage false positives – Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Get started with false negative investigations in Microsoft Defender for Office 365 How to investigate email messages in Microsoft Defender for Office 365 How to use the Alert page – Microsoft Defender XDR Defender XDR Monthly news – November 2024 How Microsoft Defender for Office 365 innovated to address QR code phishing attacks Skill up to strengthen your organizations cybersecurity posture Manage Microsoft Entra ID role assignments with Microsoft Entra ID Governance Announcing General Availability of Inbound SMTP D

Microsoft announced last week new agents that can be created with Copilot studio to automate tasks using AI capabilities. Also in this episode you'll find a great new tool from CISA called Scubagear that will allow you to check the baseline security of your Microsoft 365 environment. Plenty more updates and information from the Microsoft Cloud, so listen along. @directorcia Join my shared channel CIAOPS merch store Become a CIAOPS Patron CIAOPS Blog CIAOPS Brief CIAOPSLabs Support CIAOPS AI Tour Demo: Copilot Studio and Pre-built Agents Scale your team with new autonomous agents Unlocking autonomous agent capabilities with Microsoft Copilot Studio Reimagine business process with Copilot and agents Unlock Autonomous Agent Capabilities with Copilot Studio Microsoft 365 Copilot drove up to 353% ROI for small and medium businesses—new study Favorite Microsoft 365 Copilot Prompts Enhancing Security with CISA’s ScubaGear Baselines for M365 Phish, Click, Breach: Hunting for a Sophisticated Cyber Attack Microsoft Dig

It's OneDrive's turn in the spotlight. After a recent dedicated OneDrive event I have all the latest about updates and improvements that have been announced. Of course, there is plenty of other news also around security and Copilot as well as improvements to the new Outlook that you should check out. Thanks again for listening. Resources @directorcia Join my shared channel CIAOPS merch store Become a CIAOPS Patron CIAOPS Blog CIAOPS Brief CIAOPSLabs Support CIAOPS Welcome to the New Era of Microsoft OneDrive: AI, Productivity, and Memories at Your Fingertips  Get to know Copilot in OneDrive Introducing Copilot in OneDrive: Now Generally Available What's New In Copilot | September 2024 New Copilot enhancements help small and medium-sized businesses innovate Introducing Copilot Labs and Copilot Vision New experiences coming to Copilot+ PCs and Windows 11 An AI companion for everyone  Create desktop flows using the AI Recorder  Token theft protection with Microsoft Entra, Intune, Defender XDR & Windows Use c

Microsoft has announced updates to Copilot for Microsoft 365 which they are calling Wave 2. IN this episode I cover off some of these changes and what I feel will be most useful for people. A number of other products from Microsoft have also become generally available so listen alone for all the new on that plus everything happening at Microsoft for SMB. Resources @directorcia Join my shared channel CIAOPS merch store Become a CIAOPS Patron CIAOPS Blog CIAOPS Brief CIAOPSLabs Support CIAOPS Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2: Pages, Python in Excel, and agents The next phase of Microsoft 365 Copilot innovation Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2: AI Innovations in SharePoint and OneDrive Microsoft 365 Copilot | Copilot Pages Announcing Copilot Pages for multiplayer collaboration Copilot pages for IT Admins – Sep 2024 update New Copilot enhancements help small and medium-sized businesses innovate Microsoft 365 Copilot – Small Business Guide to Prepare your Data for Search  Update on Recall security and privacy architecture

Some Copilot and Security updates this week as well as some handy information about Microsoft OneNote and Loop, plus a whole lot more. Listen for all the latest cloud news from Microsoft. Resources @directorcia Join my shared channel CIAOPS merch store Become a CIAOPS Patron CIAOPS Blog CIAOPS Brief CIAOPSLabs Support CIAOPS The art and science behind Microsoft threat hunting: Part 3 North Korean threat actor Citrine Sleet exploiting Chromium zero-day Peach Sandstorm deploys new custom Tickler malware in long-running intelligence gathering operations Microsoft Announces Windows Endpoint Security Ecosystem Summit With CrowdStrike on September 10 What’s new: Multi-tenancy in the unified security operations platform experience in Public Preview Harnessing the power of KQL Plugins for enhanced security insights with Copilot for Security Critical Cloud Assets: Identifying and Protecting the Crown Jewels of your Cloud What’s new in Microsoft Intune August 2024 Support Tip: Enforcement of multifactor authentication

You are going to need to update any global administrator account that doesn't have MFA enabled soon. Failing to do so will cause you some pain when you visit the Azure, EntraID or Intune portal. See the included article for more details. This and lots of Microsoft cloud news in this episode including some great improvements to Microsoft Teams. Resources @directorcia Join my shared channel CIAOPS merch store Become a CIAOPS Patron CIAOPS Blog CIAOPS Brief CIAOPSLabs Support CIAOPS Announcing mandatory multi-factor authentication for Azure sign-in Moving to OneNote on Windows Microsoft Defender for Endpoint’s Safe Deployment Practices Updates to Microsoft Copilot to bring enterprise data protection to more organizations Reimagining content management at Microsoft with SharePoint Premium Give a custom name to the General channel in Microsoft Teams Enhanced presenter and attendee experience with the expanded gallery view in Teams  Face Check is now generally available Show or hide the Discover feed in Microsoft T

Along with all the news and updates from the Microsoft Cloud I muse on the fact that the new Microsoft 365 Backup service may have been partially created to solve the storage issues of deleted data in Microsoft 365 environments. Just a theory, but listen along if you like to hear my thoughts.  Resources @directorcia Join my shared channel CIAOPS merch store Become a CIAOPS Patron CIAOPS Blog CIAOPS Brief CIAOPSLabs Support CIAOPS Microsoft 365 Insider Round Up Microsoft Defender XDR - Monthly news - August 2024  Windows 365 at three years: Customer-centric solutions for security, management and productivity New Windows 365 features help provide a more secure workspace Windows 365 GPU-enabled Cloud PCs now generally available Supercharge Your Business: Simplify communications with AI in Microsoft Teams and Teams Phone Microsoft Announces General Availability of Microsoft 365 Backup and Microsoft 365 Backup Storage SharePoint roadmap pitstop: July 2024 What’s new in Copilot | July 2024 What’s New in Microsoft T

The Crowdstrike issue has been the dominant news item recently and I have some information as well as my own thoughts on this which I share. As always the news and updates from Microsoft continue and I share with you what I feel is most relevant including a number of handy videos on various Copilots, so listen along and enjoy. As always love to hear your thoughts and feedback. Resources @directorcia Join my shared channel CIAOPS merch store Become a CIAOPS Patron CIAOPS Blog CIAOPS Brief CIAOPSLabs Support CIAOPS Helping our customers through the CrowdStrike outage Microsoft Bookings | Your Appointment Scheduling Solution Announcing Public Preview of Inbound SMTP DANE with DNSSEC for Exchange Online Guest sharing now available in Microsoft Loop Make OT security a core part of your SOC strategy with Microsoft Defender XDR Perfect your prompt with Copilot for Microsoft 365 Build a great prompt with Copilot for Microsoft 365 New Outlook for Windows | How to use Coaching by Copilot Copilot Learning Hub: Your Gate

Latest news and updates from the Microsoft Cloud. Global Secure Access pricing has been announced but not a lot of details published on this as yet, hopefully soon. Updates for both Entra and Copilot that you should take a look at. Also a great video demonstrating the use of Microsoft technology in a modern classroom. Thanks again for listening. Resources @directorcia Join my shared channel CIAOPS merch store Become a CIAOPS Patron CIAOPS Blog CIAOPS Brief CIAOPSLabs Support CIAOPS What is Global Secure access? Microsoft Entra certificate-based authentication enhancements OneNote Copilot now supports inked notes What’s new in Microsoft Entra – June 2024 Intro to Config Refresh – a refreshingly new MDM feature Why AI sometimes gets it wrong — and big strides to address it More Threat Intelligence Content in MDTI, TA Enables Better Security Outcomes What’s new in Copilot | June 2024 Driving Copilot for Microsoft 365 adoption with an assist from Microsoft Viva Introducing the Microsoft Entra PowerShell mod

Lots of news an updates after being a few weeks since last episode. Fear not however, they are all linked below. Plenty of really detailed and helpful articles from Microsoft of late, especially around security. All of which I highly recommend you spend time working through and implementing the recommendations. Also plenty of new features and products to cover so dive in and take a look. Resources @directorcia Join my shared channel CIAOPS merch store Become a CIAOPS Patron CIAOPS Blog CIAOPS Brief CIAOPSLabs Support CIAOPS Granular RBAC permissions for endpoint security workloads  How to break the token theft cyber-attack chain Microsoft Incident Response lessons on preventing cloud identity compromise How Copilot for Microsoft 365 Works From pixels to presence: new features coming to Microsoft Mesh How to unlock new experiences on your Copilot+ PC Introduction to Cross-Tenant Mailbox Migrations Copilot is now available in classic Outlook for Windows Microsoft Incident Response tips for managing a ma

All the latest from Microsoft Build along with the new from the hardware and Ai run just prior. Unsurprisingly, the news is full of more Ai and the latest GPT-4o features coming to Copilot on the desktop. The focus of unlocking AI in a business is around Copilot studio but Build also gave us news about security updates and some other interesting thing to pay attention to. Listen in for the latest. Resources @directorcia Join my shared channel CIAOPS merch store Become a CIAOPS Patron CIAOPS Blog CIAOPS Brief CIAOPSLabs Support CIAOPS Microsoft Build 2024 book of news Build presentation keynote New agent capabilities in Microsoft Copilot unlock business value Introducing Team Copilot Microsoft Copilot Studio: Building copilots with agent capabilities New Windows 11 security features are designed for hybrid work  Introducing Copilot+ PCs You’re wrong about Windows Recall — How Microsoft keeps your data safe on Copilot+ PCs  Microsoft Edge for Business: Revolutionizing your business with AI, security and product

Lots of Ai and security news since the last episode. We are also on the cusp of Microsoft Build so we expect even more shortly. Although I'm a tad under the weather (apologies for sounding a bit nasal) but I felt I needed to get this episode out before the deluge of information we expect shortly from build. I think the OpenAI announcements along with those from Google are the most worthy to pay attention to here but I'm sure there should be something to interest everyone here. Listen on and enjoy! Resources @directorcia Join my shared channel CIAOPS merch store Become a CIAOPS Patron CIAOPS Blog CIAOPS Brief CIAOPSLabs Support CIAOPS Introducing GPT-4o Project Astra: our Vision of the Future of AI assistance Security above all else—expanding Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative RSA news: What’s new in Defender XDR? Respond to trending threats and adopt zero-trust with Exposure Management Public preview: Expanding passkey support in Microsoft Entra ID Microsoft introduces passkeys for consumer accounts Public

I've now had a chance to play with Copilot for Security and can recommend it but to ensure that costs don't spiral out of control for SMB, it needs to used in an ad hoc manner. Listen along for my thoughts and a walk through of resources available for you. Also news of updates of Exchange email threshold limits being changed as well as improvements for Microsoft Mesh, Loop and more. Listen in for the latest updates. Resources @directorcia Join my shared channel CIAOPS merch store Become a CIAOPS Patron CIAOPS Blog CIAOPS Brief CIAOPSLabs Support CIAOPS Microsoft Copilot for Security  Microsoft Copilot for Security Intune Plugin Overview How to Become a Microsoft Copilot for Security Ninja: The Complete Level 400 Training Copilot for Security – The low down for SMB Public Preview: High Volume Email for Microsoft 365 Exchange Online to introduce External Recipient Rate Limit Hunting for QR Code AiTM Phishing and User Compromise Microsoft Mesh: A new way to connect Realigning global licensing for Microsoft 365 I

It is only a matter of days now before we get our hands on Copilot for Security. Listen along for the latest information on this exciting new service from Microsoft. You'll also hear about the new Security Exposure Management and lots more announcements from Microsoft. Resources @directorcia Join my shared channel CIAOPS merch store Become a CIAOPS Patron CIAOPS Blog CIAOPS Brief CIAOPSLabs Support CIAOPS Here’s what you missed from Microsoft Secure Microsoft Copilot for Security generally available on April 1 Microsoft Copilot for Security is generally available on April 1, 2024, with new capabilities Microsoft Copilot for Security: AI-Powered Security for All Security Exposure Management Introducing Microsoft Security Exposure Management Microsoft introduces a preview of Copilot in Intune Advancing the new era of work with Copilot, Windows, and Surface Introducing Microsoft Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 for Business Collect information like a pro – New Microsoft Lists forms experience The new Planner

Microsoft has just completed its Copilot for Microsoft 365 tech accelerator which I'd recommend you take a look at. There are a variety of videos that are well worth watching. They are also available on Youtube as well. I have linked to many below in the show notes for you. Of course, there is also plenty of other news and updates from the Microsoft Cloud, so listen along. Resources @directorcia Join my shared channel CIAOPS merch store Become a CIAOPS Patron CIAOPS Blog CIAOPS Brief CIAOPSLabs Support CIAOPS CIAOPS Techwerks 23 Copilot for Microsoft 365 Tech Accelerator Copilot in Forms | Create engaging forms Extending Copilot: Expanding knowledge with Graph connectors Measuring usage, adoption, and the impact of Microsoft Copilot Copilot now available for the Microsoft 365 mobile app Try new ways of working with Help me create in the Microsoft 365 web app Copilot in OneDrive: A New Wave of File Interaction What’s New in Copilot for Microsoft 365 How to drive Copilot for Microsoft 365 usage and satisfaction

Copilot for Microsoft 365 is already amongst us but are now waiting for what I believe will be an even more impactful AI assistance in SMB - Copilot for security. I've got plenty of information, including some great videos for you to take a look at here along with all the news and updates from the Microsoft Cloud. Enjoy! Resources @directorcia Join my shared channel CIAOPS merch store Become a CIAOPS Patron CIAOPS Blog CIAOPS Brief CIAOPSLabs Support CIAOPS CIAOPS Need to Know February webinar CIAOPS Techwerks 23 Creating video from text Seven Tips for Having a Great Conversation with Copilot Introducing AI in a Minute: A video series on the tech behind generative AI Staying ahead of threat actors in the age of AI  Hunting for QR Code AiTM Phishing and User Compromise Introducing the new Microsoft Copilot experience in Teams How licensing works for work and school accounts in the new Outlook for Windows  Microsoft plans to add Copilot support to OneDrive on the web in May Deep Dive of Microsoft-managed Condit

Two major releases from Microsoft since the last episode, the full Intune Suite as well as Teams Mesh immersive experience. Stay tuned for information and links to both of these plus more news and updates from the Microsoft cloud. Resources @directorcia Join my shared channel CIAOPS merch store Become a CIAOPS Patron CIAOPS Blog CIAOPS Brief CIAOPSLabs Support CIAOPS CIAOPS Need to Know February webinar CIAOPS Techwerks 23 Microsoft Intune Suite – beyond endpoint management in 2024  Microsoft Intune Tunnel for Mobile Application Management  Microsoft Cloud PKI 3 new ways the Microsoft Intune Suite offers security, simplification, and savings What’s new in Microsoft Intune January 2024 Midnight Blizzard: Guidance for responders on nation-state attack Vulnerable Components Inventory now in public preview Monthly Microsoft Security news – February 2024 Bring virtual connections to life with Microsoft Mesh, now generally available in Microsoft Teams Easily control audio and video settings in Teams meetings Unlock

The big news is that Copilot for Microsoft 365 is now available in SMB. There are also some additional Copilot options available as well. I cover all this plus provide some information around getting Copilot on your desktop apps as well as other news and updates from the Microsoft Cloud. Tune in and catch up. Resources @directorcia Join my shared channel CIAOPS merch store Become a CIAOPS Patron CIAOPS Blog CIAOPS Brief CIAOPSLabs Support CIAOPS Bringing the full power of Copilot to more people and businesses Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 Microsoft 365 Copilot video play list  Copilot for Microsoft 365 for small and medium businesses  Introducing Microsoft Copilot App Introducing Copilot Pro: Supercharge your Creativity and Productivity Microsoft’s new Copilot Pro brings AI-powered Office features to the rest of us Adding Copilot button to desktop applications  Set up Microsoft 365 backup  Microsoft Entra’s Top 50 Features of 2023 Protect faster with Microsoft Defender XDR’s latest UX enhancements New M

Welcome to 2024! A few pieces of interesting news and updates from Microsoft especially around the PAYG offering with Syntex. I'm hanging out for the remaining items in the Intune suite to drop, especially third party patching so stay tuned for more information when that becomes available. Until then here' s the latest in the Microsoft Cloud. Resources @directorcia Join my shared channel CIAOPS merch store Become a CIAOPS Patron CIAOPS Blog CIAOPS Brief CIAOPSLabs Rerun queries in query history Microsoft Datacenter Tour: Virtual Experience SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: December 2023  Enabling Microsoft Syntex PAYG Experience AI-enhanced meetings in every Teams Room Introducing a new Copilot key to kick off the year of AI-powered Windows PCs What’s New in Microsoft Teams | December 2023  Get organized at work with Microsoft Loop Copilot app for iOS Copilot app for Android Financially motivated threat actors misusing App Installer  Overview of multi factor authentication 

Back with a Merry Christmas and happy New Year for those still listening. Got a few updates and thoughts for you before we start 2024 when I hope to again pump out more episode after thinking about what works best. I also some thoughts around the current 'Copilot fatigue' we are all experiencing, especially in SMB. Stay safe and tune in again for regular episodes in 2024. Resources @directorcia Join my shared channel CIAOPS merch store Become a CIAOPS Patron CIAOPS Blog CIAOPS Summer school CIAOPS Copilot webinar CIAOPS Brief Research at Microsoft 2023: A year of groundbreaking AI advances and discoveries Managing Microsoft Sentinel across multiple tenants using Lighthouse Microsoft Viva Overview Decorate your background in Teams meetings With Copilot, Every Meeting Is a ‘Digital Artifact’  Upcoming changes to Windows single sign-on Microsoft Intune and Security Copilot - Policy Generation Microsoft Intune and Security Copilot - Troubleshooting