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Dan Brinkmann shared thisDave C. you were just added to my Copilot calendar instructions, and now Microsoft 365 Copilot will automatically accept your meetings if my calendar is free. No action required on my end. Custom Calendar Instructions let you tell Copilot things like "always accept meetings from [name] if I'm free" or "follow meetings after 5pm" or "auto-remove canceled meetings." It just... handles it. The setup is in Settings > Copilot > Calendar instructions and the whole thing took about 30 seconds. https://lnkd.in/eBBtsd_7 If you haven't poked around in your Copilot settings lately, worth a look. The pace of M365 updates right now is a lot. DeltaPulse helps me keep up: https://lnkd.in/gSY-nfJT #Microsoft365 #DeltaPulse #MicrosoftCopilot
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Dan Brinkmann posted thisComing up on 30 years in technology, I've watched a lot of shifts. Client-server. The internet. Mobile. Cloud. Each one changed who was winning and who was scrambling to catch up. AI feels different. What stands out to me is how fast the gap is opening between people who are genuinely weaving it into how they work and those who haven't found their footing with it yet. I see it constantly now. People using AI as a real thinking partner, a research tool, a force multiplier for their time. And then people who know it's out there but haven't made it click yet. What I'm not sure about: how do you close that gap once it gets wide enough? I remember the days of "let me Google that for you." Eventually everyone figured out search. Maybe that happens here too. But I'm not sure the analogy holds. Googling had a ceiling. This doesn't. #AI #Technology #MSP
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Dan Brinkmann shared thisDenver. You. Microsoft 365. Tomorrow (Thursday 3/18/2026) at 3:30pm. What else were you even going to do? #Denver #Colorado #M365 #Microsoft365 #UserGroup #MSP #SysadminDan Brinkmann shared thisWhat's better than Happy Hour on a Thursday? Happy hour + learning + community networking at tomorrow's Microsoft M365 Meetup group!Protecting Sensitive HR Data in Microsoft 365, Thu, Mar 19, 2026, 3:30 PM | MeetupProtecting Sensitive HR Data in Microsoft 365, Thu, Mar 19, 2026, 3:30 PM | Meetup
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Dan Brinkmann reposted thisDan Brinkmann reposted thisIf you've managed an M365 tenant for any amount of time, you know how quickly things get messy. Stale accounts burning E5 licenses. Guest accounts from vendor engagements that ended two years ago. App registrations with expired secrets that nobody owns. Service principals with Directory.ReadWrite.All that were "temporary." So you export CSVs from three portals and cross-reference device IDs that don't match because Microsoft uses different identifiers in Entra, Intune, and Defender for the same physical device. A week later, you hand over the report. Next quarter, you start from scratch. Third-party tooling hasn't solved this either. It's just given you better spreadsheets. Point-in-time exports with no memory of what you've already reviewed. What if the audit remembered where you left off? Inspect 365 pulls data from Entra, Intune, Defender, and Exchange daily, resolves it into unified records, and runs continuous checks against the consolidated view. When you mark a finding as accepted, that decision persists through tomorrow's analysis. The audit trail records who reviewed it, when, and why. If you're an MSP, multiply that across every client tenant. That means a single pane and no per-tenant logins. Tenant hygiene shouldn't be a quarterly fire drill. It should be a continuous process with memory. inspect365.app #MSP #Microsoft365 #M365 #Inspect365
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Dan Brinkmann shared thisAsking for a friend: Do you live in the Denver area, work with Microsoft 365, and have no particularly compelling plans next Thursday at 3:30 PM? Because we've got MVP Nick Ross coming in to talk Microsoft Purview and DLP, and honestly it's a better use of 2 hours than whatever you were going to do. Free snacks. Real talk about protecting HR data. Zero judgment about how many times you've said "we'll set up DLP eventually." #Denver #MSP #Microsoft365 Andy Sulak Daniel Johnson Russell Sanderson Joshua HoffmanDan Brinkmann shared this👉 Attention Denver-area MSPs, Microsoft Partners, IT professionals, plus current or former Microsoft employees! Join us for our next meeting on Thursday March 19th featuring Microsoft MVP Nick Ross as he shows you how to protect HR data in Microsoft 365. Whether you're working with sensitive files or getting ready for AI tools like Microsoft Copilot, protecting HR data can be a challenge. This deep dive into Microsoft Purview and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) will show you how to detect sensitive HR data in SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, or Exchange and stop it from leaving the organization. ✅ Map out where HR data actually lives across SharePoint and OneDrive ✅ Build a custom Sensitive Information Type for internal HR identifiers ✅ Test your classifier against real HR files to reduce false positives ✅ Create a DLP policy that blocks HR data from being sent outside the org ✅ Use simulation mode to safely discover non-compliant locations ✅ Surface alerts and incidents when users try to email or share HR data We'll also recap all the latest Microsoft 365 news and updates! Drinks and snacks provided, bring your M365 questions! ➡️ Register Today! https://lnkd.in/gED7EGFj 📅 Thursday, March 19, 2026 🕤 3:30PM - 5:30PM 📍 Plaza Tower One --> Training Room A, 1st Floor Conference Facility 📍 6400 S Fiddlers Green Circle, Greenwood Village, CO 80111 🫂 Join our LinkedIn Group: https://lnkd.in/gWdzKAAj Nick Ross Dan Brinkmann Andy Sulak #Microsoft365 #MicrosoftPartner #Community #AI #cybersecurity
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Dan Brinkmann shared thisIn case you missed it. Here are the highlights from the Microsoft 365 Message Center and Roadmap last week. Teams: Identify external bots joining meetings (May 2026) MC1251206 — Teams will detect and label AI meeting bots in the lobby. Organizers can approve, deny, or remove them. On by default, with a new admin policy to configure handling. https://lnkd.in/gyY97uXh Copilot Declarative Agents upgrade to GPT-5.2 (March 2026) MC1251203 — Agents move to GPT-5.2 with improved reasoning, multi-step workflows, and structured output. Validate your key workflows during rollout. https://lnkd.in/gtcU3Syb Microsoft Agent 365 Generally Available May 1, 2026 MC1247634 — Agent 365 hits GA on May 1. Frontier participants keep access. Trial and paid options coming with transition guidance ahead of launch. https://lnkd.in/gC7_ZJve Copilot Chat: Draft and send Outlook email directly in chat (March 2026) MC1247637 — Copilot now opens an embedded Outlook compose form when it detects email intent. On by default for licensed desktop users with Exchange Online. https://lnkd.in/gyjuZ47s Anthropic Claude Sonnet now available in Microsoft 365 Copilot (March 2026) MC1247880 — Licensed Copilot users can select Claude Sonnet in Copilot Chat. Not available in EU/EFTA, UK, or government clouds. Some regions require admin opt-in. https://lnkd.in/gW9Sh25T Microsoft Entra passkeys on Windows (March 2026) MC1247893 — Phishing-resistant passwordless sign-in via Windows Hello, now extending to unmanaged and personal devices. No impact unless you opt in. https://lnkd.in/giARW2Ds Teams: Live transcription in Teams Rooms on Android (April 2026) MC1249432 — Real-time transcription with speaker attribution and optional translation. Requires Teams Rooms Pro. On by default, respects existing transcription policies. https://lnkd.in/gwY4aj6M Windows Autopatch enabling hotpatch updates by default (May 2026) MC1248388 — Hotpatch goes on by default for all eligible Intune devices with the May security update. Opt-out controls arrive April 1. VBS must be enabled on x86 devices to qualify. https://lnkd.in/gMpuY3Jt RSAT on Arm-based Windows 11 PCs MC1248343 — Five core RSAT tools now available on Arm64 as of the February 2026 non-security preview update. Install it to get access. https://lnkd.in/gjNfUsak Microsoft Purview: Credential Scanning in Data Security Posture Agent (June 2026) 558436 — Surfaces exposed Entra credentials, private keys, and API tokens across scoped locations, with risk scores and AI-generated insights per finding. https://lnkd.in/gcv-bs5Y Subscribe to the DeltaPulse weekly digest and get this delivered every Sunday morning. https://lnkd.in/gSY-nfJT #Microsoft365 #DeltaPulse #MicrosoftTeams #MicrosoftEntra #Intune #Purview
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Dan Brinkmann shared thisTeams is getting the ability to detect and label external AI meeting bots in the lobby before they join. Organizers will be able to approve, deny, or remove them. Bot detection is on by default, and admins will have a new policy in Teams admin center to configure how detected bots are handled. MC1251206 — Rolling out May to June 2026. https://lnkd.in/gyY97uXh I think this is a step in the right direction, but it's also a bit of a fleeting goal. Most of these bots today are passive. They join, they transcribe, they summarize. That's it. And for that use case, this policy makes sense, you should know who, or what, is in your meeting. But the harder reality is that client-side recording is basically unsolvable at the platform level. I have two apps on my laptop right now that can capture audio from any meeting I'm in, regardless of what the meeting platform does. Screen capture is the same story. If someone wants the data from your meeting, there are plenty of ways to get it that Teams can't touch. Where this might matter more is what's coming next. Bots aren't going to stay passive forever. As AI agents become more active participants, asking follow-up questions, interjecting, taking actions on behalf of someone outside your org, that's where a policy like this becomes genuinely important. Knowing a bot is in your meeting, and having the control to remove it, is a different conversation when the bot isn't just listening. So I get it. I support it. I just think we should be honest that keeping transcripts out of third-party hands is a much harder problem than lobby controls can solve. Am I way off here? Comment below. Subscribe to the DeltaPulse weekly digest to stay on top of changes like this every Sunday morning. https://lnkd.in/gSY-nfJT #Microsoft365 #DeltaPulse #MicrosoftTeams
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Dan Brinkmann shared thisOne week from today I'll be at Plaza Tower One in Greenwood Village with some of my favorite people in the M365 community. If you're in the Denver Metro area, I'd love to see you there. I attend and participate in this user group because I genuinely believe there's no substitute for getting in a room with people who are actually living inside these platforms every day. This session hits close to home for a lot of us right now. Microsoft MVP Nick Ross is walking through how to protect HR data in M365 using Purview and DLP. If your org is rolling out Copilot, this isn't just interesting, it's urgent. AI surfaces data in ways most people didn't plan for. HR data sitting in SharePoint or Teams that nobody thought twice about before? Copilot found it. Nick's going deep on custom Sensitive Information Types, DLP policies, simulation mode, and real detection. Not theory. 📅 Thursday, March 19th | 3:30 - 5:30 PM 📍 Plaza Tower One, Training Room A | Greenwood Village, CO 🔗 Register: https://lnkd.in/gED7EGFj Drinks, snacks, and good M365 conversations. Come with your questions. Daniel Johnson Andy Sulak Dan Brinkmann #Microsoft365 #MicrosoftPartner #Community #AI #Cybersecurity #DenverDan Brinkmann shared this👉 Attention Denver-area MSPs, Microsoft Partners, IT professionals, plus current or former Microsoft employees! Join us for our next meeting on Thursday March 19th featuring Microsoft MVP Nick Ross as he shows you how to protect HR data in Microsoft 365. Whether you're working with sensitive files or getting ready for AI tools like Microsoft Copilot, protecting HR data can be a challenge. This deep dive into Microsoft Purview and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) will show you how to detect sensitive HR data in SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, or Exchange and stop it from leaving the organization. ✅ Map out where HR data actually lives across SharePoint and OneDrive ✅ Build a custom Sensitive Information Type for internal HR identifiers ✅ Test your classifier against real HR files to reduce false positives ✅ Create a DLP policy that blocks HR data from being sent outside the org ✅ Use simulation mode to safely discover non-compliant locations ✅ Surface alerts and incidents when users try to email or share HR data We'll also recap all the latest Microsoft 365 news and updates! Drinks and snacks provided, bring your M365 questions! ➡️ Register Today! https://lnkd.in/gED7EGFj 📅 Thursday, March 19, 2026 🕤 3:30PM - 5:30PM 📍 Plaza Tower One --> Training Room A, 1st Floor Conference Facility 📍 6400 S Fiddlers Green Circle, Greenwood Village, CO 80111 🫂 Join our LinkedIn Group: https://lnkd.in/gWdzKAAj Nick Ross Dan Brinkmann Andy Sulak #Microsoft365 #MicrosoftPartner #Community #AI #cybersecurity
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Dan Brinkmann shared thisTeams Rooms on Android is getting live transcription. Starting late April 2026, room participants will see real-time transcription directly on the device, complete with speaker attribution, timestamps, and optional translated transcripts on the front-of-room screen. Teams Rooms Pro license required. No action needed to enable it, it's on by default for licensed devices. Key things to confirm before rollout: -Android room devices have Teams Rooms Pro licenses assigned -Your transcription policies in Teams Admin Center are set the way you want them MC1249432 on DeltaPulse: https://lnkd.in/dEvnGR9a Not tracking Message Center yet? The DeltaPulse weekly digest lands every Sunday morning with the changes that actually matter. Subscribe at https://lnkd.in/gSY-nfJT #Microsoft365 #DeltaPulse #MicrosoftTeams
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Daniel Glenn guessing we might see that in next week's video on https://www.youtube.com/365mcs ?
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Dan Brinkmann liked thisDan Brinkmann liked thisNew in M365 Copilot: Council. You can run multiple models on the same prompt at the same time, so you can see where they align and diverge, and understand what each adds. This is one I’ve been super excited to see go live! Learn more: https://lnkd.in/g3mzcpk6
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Dan Brinkmann liked thisDan Brinkmann liked thisYour clients think their M365 environment has 50 identities. It has hundreds. Every Business Premium tenant is full of non-human identities - apps, agents, automated connections - most of them ungoverned, some of them years old. Hackers know this. They use people to get in. Then they go straight for the NHIs. The MSPs winning right now are turning this into a managed service - and using Microsoft’s July pricing changes as the moment to launch it. One client conversation. Two outcomes. Are you having it?
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Dan Brinkmann liked thisDan Brinkmann liked thisTekStack Agent. Ask any question about accounts and opportunities Prep for calls Update opportunities Add notes to records Basically anything you want to do Directly from your mobile via Teams chat.
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Dan Brinkmann liked thisDan Brinkmann liked thisMicrosoft Entra Backup just dropped this morning! I talked a little about this in my previous blog > https://lnkd.in/ek6MmMzN You get: • Automated backups taken once per day for the last 5 days! • Ability to revert objects to any previous state within the last 5 days! • To view the difference reports to see the state difference between backups! Yes, it is not a foolproof solution, and the retention doesn't account for the average time an attack can go unnoticed! But, it's better than nothing and a huge step forward! #Entra #Microsoft #Backup
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Dan Brinkmann liked thisNeedless to say this is a huge step forward for native Entra recovery. I definitely have so may questions. Entra as a whole is made of extremely complex scale units and layers that make sense to natively support these capabilities.Dan Brinkmann liked thisMicrosoft Entra Backup just dropped this morning! I talked a little about this in my previous blog > https://lnkd.in/ek6MmMzN You get: • Automated backups taken once per day for the last 5 days! • Ability to revert objects to any previous state within the last 5 days! • To view the difference reports to see the state difference between backups! Yes, it is not a foolproof solution, and the retention doesn't account for the average time an attack can go unnoticed! But, it's better than nothing and a huge step forward! #Entra #Microsoft #Backup
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Exploring the future of desktop virtualization
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Four desktop virtualization use cases
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Breaking down Remote Desktop Services roles
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