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Copilot | eDiscovery

Worth Reading – Is Microsoft 365 Copilot Tracking Your Prompts? The Real Enterprise Answer
ByMike McBride May 13, 2026 Reading Time: 2 minutes

You may read that and think that means your employer can see every prompt you enter in Copilot. To some extent, that is true; in the same way, they can see every email message or Teams chat you type with your work account. It is a work account after all. The key piece missing from that simple statement is that it’s not easy to do, and, by design, there are usually very few people who can collect and review that data. Usually, the effort required to do that isn’t worth it. So, if it has happened to you, it’s likely because someone or something has raised a suspicion that warranted an investigation. Most users never reach this level of scrutiny.

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Copilot | Licensing

Worth Reading – Why Copilot works differently now (and why that’s a good thing)
ByMike McBride April 29, 2026April 28, 2026 Reading Time: 2 minutes

I do appreciate that the water between the two tools is less muddy. It’s still not clear. There is still confusion among the average users, but it’s a little less murky. That’s a good thing.

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Microsoft Inc.

Worth Reading – Microsoft 365 Uptime Perfomance Sinks to New Low
ByMike McBride April 28, 2026 Reading Time: 1 minute

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Uncategorized

A Perfect Storm of Ignored M365 Security Options
ByMike McBride April 22, 2026 Reading Time: 2 minutes

How many organizations have a tenant and have simply left a lot of the default settings from when they bought their first licenses? What would that look like now?

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Copilot

Worth Reading – Microsoft backtracks on Copilot Chat access in M365 apps
ByMike McBride April 6, 2026 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Will that ever be enough revenue to offset the massive investments they’ve made in AI? Time will tell. Right now, these are some early warning signs, but also small enough that I can’t imagine they’ll move the needle one way or the other. I’m not jumping to any conclusions based on them, but I do have my eyes open.

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Defender

Worth Reading – Microsoft Defender Revelation Poses Troubling Questions
ByMike McBride April 1, 2026 Reading Time: 2 minutes

If we can’t trust Microsoft’s own tools to work, people will look for other tools. The advantage of being the built-in tool disappears when we can’t trust it.

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Teams

Worth Reading – Help on the line: How a Microsoft Teams support call led to compromise
ByMike McBride March 21, 2026March 20, 2026 Reading Time: 1 minute

Microsoft has made efforts to make it clearer when a call is from outside the tenant, and I think that helps. Still, it might now be a good idea to review the proper procedures with your users, and for larger organizations where users may not recognize the support team, an identity verification step might also be worth considering.

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Copilot

Worth Reading – Microsoft Copilot Email and Teams Summarization Vulnerability Enables Phishing Attacks
ByMike McBride March 16, 2026 Reading Time: 1 minute

If you can get Copilot to drop a link into the auto-summary, it would be less suspicious than an email sent from outside with a link. That’s probably true. After all, if you trust your AI Summarization tool to summarize the email instead of reading it, why wouldn’t you trust any links it included?

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Copilot

Worth Reading – 4 obstacles impede paid Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption
ByMike McBride March 6, 2026 Reading Time: 1 minute

It just isn’t clear to them that they would need to pay for that when they’re already using Copilot to help them write emails and summarize log documents. They are using AI for free on their work PC, their home PC, everywhere. Microsoft has done a really good job of explaining the difference to people who follow Microsoft blogs, but an extremely poor job of explaining it to the average M365 user.

It doesn’t help that they keep changing what is included in the free version, either.

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Teams

Worth Reading – Microsoft Teams Audio‑Only Meeting Recording: How it Works and Why it Keeps Meetings Human
ByMike McBride March 1, 2026February 28, 2026 Reading Time: 1 minute

I’m glad we can now record only the audio. It makes it slightly less intrusive to record a meeting that others may need to listen to later.

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