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Exchange Online Roadmap 2025-2029
Updated: May 15, 2025
Changes to Exchange Online in 2025-2026 improve security, management, and control over capacity, but some… more
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M365 Copilot Chat an Alternative to ChatGPT for Businesses
May 15, 2025
Collaboration Services Roadmap 2025 – Stay with Safe Choices
May 12, 2025
Roadmap and Darwin chart for Microsoft’s collection of collaboration services; highlighting safe destinations and items… more
Microsoft 365 Mobile Apps Add Copilot, Purview Hooks
May 12, 2025
Office apps for phones and iPads will integrate more Copilot natural language processing and Purview… more
Microsoft 365 Government: What’s in the Box?
Updated: May 11, 2025
Microsoft 365 Government offers regulatory compliance, but at the cost of missing features, which are… more
Executive Focus: Introduction to Data Governance in the Age of AI
Updated: May 6, 2025
This Executive Focus provides an overview of data governance including what it is, the key… more
Exchange Online to Block Basic Senders in Sept. 2025
May 6, 2025
Exchange Online will block Basic Authentication for SMTP client submission beginning in Sept. 2025, cutting… more
Deciphering Power Apps Licensing
Updated: May 5, 2025
Power Apps, a low-code platform for building business apps, offers some entitlements with Microsoft 365… more
Microsoft Lists Fills the Gap Between Excel and SharePoint Lists
May 5, 2025
Microsoft Lists tracks tabular data with more sharing capabilities and control than Excel workbooks and… more
Understanding Microsoft Defender for IoT
May 4, 2025
Microsoft Defender for IoT is intended to help organizations gain insight into their embedded devices,… more
Dynamics 365 CRM 2025 Wave 1: AI Focused with Extra Cost
April 28, 2025
The Dynamics 365 CRM 2025 Wave 1 release is focused on AI features that, although… more
Dynamics 365 Compliance Change: Avoid the August 2025 Lock Out
April 28, 2025
Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations is putting a lock on the front door and will… more
Copilot Agents: How to Avoid Surprising Licensing Costs
Updated: April 27, 2025
Copilot agent licensing has recently been revised bringing updates to pay-as-you-go pricing that should be… more
Directory Ties Cloud Customers to Exchange Server
April 27, 2025
Exchange Server 2016 and 2019 customers will have 90 days or less under product support… more
Azure Files Improves Performance, Syncing, and Pricing Flexibility
April 20, 2025
Azure Files (Microsoft’s cloud-hosted and fully managed file server) now offers improved performance and synchronization… more
Security Services Roadmap
April 18, 2025
Achieving more complete security coverage requires licensing a large number of Microsoft services.
Microsoft Entra: The Collected Services
Updated: April 18, 2025
Entra is a family of Microsoft identity services designed to help manage security of identities,… more
Understanding SharePoint Advanced Management
April 14, 2025
SharePoint Advanced Management (SAM) gives SharePoint Online administrators automated policies and content-restriction controls to manage… more
What Is Advanced Data Residency?
Updated: April 14, 2025
Microsoft’s Advanced Data Residency add-on helps ensure most of an organization’s Microsoft 365 data resides… more
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