AI tools and agents boost productivity, but unmanaged usage often leads to hidden data leaks and security gaps. Microsoft introduces the Shadow AI page in the Microsoft 365 admin center (Frontier preview) to help you identify and block unauthorized AI agents before they become a risk.
Microsoft Entra ID Account Discovery, currently in preview, gives admins better visibility into user accounts across enterprise applications in Entra ID. By classifying accounts as local, unassigned, or assigned, it highlights mismatches and disconnected users before provisioning. Since this feature isn’t enabled by default, admins need to opt in at the tenant level to start using it.
Keeping up with Microsoft 365 updates isn’t easy. With constant feature rollouts, important changes can easily get lost in the noise. Because of this, there’s always been a need for better control over release updates, especially as features roll out faster than review cycles. Finally, Microsoft is tackling this with a modernized change management model for Microsoft 365 tenants. …
Microsoft has integrated the ability to block multi-tenant and consumer apps using application management policies in Entra ID. This shift brings policy-based control directly into the UI, eliminating the need for Graph-only configurations.
Microsoft Entra ID replaces “most recently used” logic in system-preferred MFA with device-preferred credential selection (preview). This method automatically prompts users with the most suitable authentication method based on their device, improving both security and the sign-in experience.
Copilot Cowork introduces AI-driven task orchestration in Microsoft 365, allowing users to define goals while the system plans and executes tasks across applications. It operates within tenant boundaries with approvals and has limited third-party integration.
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