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Recent briefings below
Recent Briefings
Microsoft's latest push to manage Copilot agent extensibility leads today's edition of The Tenant Desk, accompanied by critical security guidance on passkey vishing campaigns and non-human identity ri…
Enterprise AI operators are firmly in the crosshairs today, as federal lawmakers propose extending cybercrime liability directly to organizations deploying autonomous agents. We're also tracking a cri…
Usage limits for Microsoft 365 Copilot take center stage today, as Microsoft sets an official December start for metered consumption billing. We are also looking at Anthropic's new enterprise deployme…
Microsoft is tightening the reins on enterprise extensibility today, detailing new script-injection protections for Entra ID and consolidating AI agents into a single Microsoft 365 plugin registry. We…
Today on The Tenant Desk: We are tracking a hard end-of-year deadline for migrating off classic Purview security consoles, alongside the launch of a unified Microsoft 365 plugin registry. Elsewhere, t…
The general availability of Windows 11 26H2 anchors today's updates, deploying as a low-friction enablement package for existing builds. We are also charting Exchange Online's accelerated EWS deprecat…
Licensing overhauls and legacy patching are dominating the administrative docket today. We're breaking down a major structural shift for Microsoft Teams Events, emergency zero-day updates across older…
Following up on this weekend's Copilot architecture overhaul, Microsoft is now making Entra Agent IDs mandatory for all AI agents and initiating metered billing. Elsewhere on the docket: Nvidia introd…
The fallout from a critical SharePoint RCE vulnerability escalated this weekend with an emergency federal patching directive. Also on the radar: sweeping new meeting controls and hardware deprecations…
Microsoft is fundamentally restructuring Copilot today, splitting the platform into a unified hub and introducing the metered credit model we've been tracking. Also on the docket: the U.S. Supreme Cou…