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75% of you said that clients are allowing you to restrict AI app usage. Boy is this some good news. In the SMB Community Podcast this week (drops on Thursday) I'll be talking about a situation where ChatGPT presented a "security check" that involved running some code on the computer. This is why I'm so glad to see that you have restrictions in place. 
 
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4 things to do:  Add holidays to all users Outlook. Remove URLs from 365 allow list. Teach your AI agents to learn from each other. Baking metaphor for prompting
 

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4 things to know: Notebooks new name. Autoreply comes to Outlook rules. How Microsoft's cloud is growing. Personalization for PointPoint Live.

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Copilot Workspaces replaces Copilot Notebooks: a shared, team-first place to work with Copilot. Existing notebooks move over automatically. What's changing.

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Outlook rules can now send an automatic reply using one of your saved templates in new Outlook for Windows and Outlook on the web from December. How it works.

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Microsoft Cloud Powers FY27 Q1 Results

Every quarter, I look for interesting nuggets about Microsoft 365 and the wider Microsoft Cloud ecosystem in the quarterly results. $63.9 billion is a lot

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Personalize PowerPoint Live with Theme, Navigation, and Notes pane controls | Microsoft Community Hub

PowerPoint Live now gives presenters more ways to personalize and control their presentation experience with: light, dark, and high contrast modes up and...

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Discover how to separate your identity from the business you built and why true progress comes from empowering your team, not always solving problems.

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4 things to do: Add holidays to all users Outlook. Remove URLs from 365 allow list. Teach your AI agents to learn from each other. Baking metaphor for prompting

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A simple proof of concept script that illustrates how to populate holiday events in Microsoft 365 user's calendars via the Graph API, in bulk.

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Responsiveness of M365 depends on your firewall priortizing traffic. Here are URLs you need to remove from the list. 

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The AI advantage your company can keep | Microsoft Copilot Blog

New research from Microsoft and Keystone looks across more than 200 enterprises to see how shared knowledge can help companies coordinate their agents.

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Inside Track - Our best recipes for cooking up better Copilot prompts

From better prompts to reusable skills, discover simple ways to get more value from Copilot and share your best AI work.

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