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This month, Microsoft has started throttling email from outdated Exchange servers, Entra is taking control away from Active Directory, Microsoft and AWS are embracing multi-cloud, and Windows Search is finally becoming less opinionated. Are these isolated updates, or signs that Microsoft is fundamentally changing how enterprise IT is managed?👏 Sponsored by Cayosoft

Microsoft is merging the consumer and commercial versions of Copilot into a single app but is your corporate data governance ready? At the same time, they've launched an AI security platform where autonomous agents hunt for your vulnerabilities around the clock, and published an AI containment framework that says, in black and white, if you let the AI decide when to ask a human, you've already lost control. Plus, for the first time, Entra admins can discover and govern every tenant connected to their organisation. 👏 Thanks to Cayosoft for sponsoring this episode!

Copilot Cowork is here but so are Copilot Credits, cost controls and awkward ROI questions.This month, Russell Smith and Craig Birch also dig into Windows Ready Print, NTLM’s future, and Microsoft’s passkey push.🔗 Episode resources: https://petri.com/podcast/copilot-cowork-is-here-but-can-you-control-the-costs/#microsoft365 #windows11 #microsoftcopilot #artificialintelligence Thanks to  Cayosoft  for sponsoring this episode!

This week, the Mac Mini quietly became the default home for always-on AI agents — and your users are probably already running them outside your security boundary. Meanwhile, VMware just dropped an ARM hypervisor. And if you needed a reason to treat AI agents like real identities, a coding agent just wiped an entire production database and every backup in nine seconds flat.👏 Thanks to Cayosoft for sponsoring this episode!

This Week in IT, Google Chrome is silently downloading a 4 gigabyte AI model onto devices right now and unless you've deployed one specific policy, there's nothing stopping it. Meanwhile, Microsoft's fix for a sluggish Windows 11 is to spike your CPU to the max when clicking, and they just started the deprecation clock on Entra Connect Sync whether Entra Cloud Sync is ready or not. 👏 Thanks to Cayosoft for sponsoring this episode!

This Week in IT, Microsoft Edge is exposing passwords by design, shadow AI agents are lurking on your endpoints, and Azure is quietly pulling the plug on VMs you're probably still running.Thanks to Cayosoft for sponsoring this episode!🔗 Links and resources

Microsoft is previewing a full system rollback for Windows 11 — OS, apps, files, everything — snapped back to where it was 72 hours ago. It's basically a time machine for your PC. But here's the thing: it can also roll back your security patches. Meanwhile, a single configuration change knocked Outlook off every iPhone for over 24 hours. And Microsoft flipped the switch: Copilot is now doing its thing by default, whether your governance is ready or not. Thanks to Cayosoft for sponsoring this episode.

Microsoft just confirmed that AI agents — including third-party ones — are coming to the Windows 11 taskbar. The controls to manage them exist the default hands control to the user. Plus, there's a new way to do a Hybrid Entra Join without waiting for Entra Connect to sync, but it needs Windows Server 2025 domain controllers in every domain. And Windows Recall is back in the security headlines — a researcher has proven he can silently drain your entire Recall history after a single Windows Hello tap. Microsoft says that's fine. Thanks to Cayosoft for sponsoring this episode!

This Week in IT, hackers have a new trick that uses an Oauth 2.0 login process to slip into accounts, no password needed. Meanwhile, Microsoft is locking down its Copilot AI with fresh controls to keep your company’s data under wraps. And just when you’re getting comfortable with Copilot, Microsoft’s already onto the next frontier: autonomous AI agents that won’t wait for your commands but handle your tasks for you, from start to finish.👏 Thanks to Cayosoft sponsoring this episode!🔗 Links and resources: https://petri.com/podcast/eviltokens-...

This Week in IT, Omnissa says enterprise PCs are “unreliable, unpatched, and unloved” with Windows machines crashing 3-times more and updating far slower than Macs. At the same time, Washington is ripping foreign-made routers off the market over spying fears, effectively banning new Wi-Fi equipment from abroad to safeguard networks. And just as hackers weaponize AI to hijack logins, Microsoft is releasing AI agents in Defender to hunt down identity thieves inside your organization. Thanks to Cayosoft for sponsoring this episode!

Microsoft just officially announced a significant Windows 11 quality manifesto, including taskbar upgrades, smarter Copilot integration, and a promise to fix the update chaos. At the same time, a hacking group hijacked Microsoft Intune and wiped tens of thousands of a company’s devices overnight. Craig Birch, Principal Technologist at Cayosoft joins me to discuss the incident. And just when migrating servers to Azure seemed like months of work, Microsoft’s new AI Copilot agent promises to plan it in minutes. Thanks to  Cayosoft  for sponsoring this episode!🔗 Links and resources

Imagine running Microsoft’s cloud entirely on your own terms. This week, Microsoft’s Azure Local and Microsoft 365 Local go live, letting governments and regulated industries run mission-critical workloads and AI models completely offline. Meanwhile, Excel’s Agent Mode expands to Europe and even works with files stored on your own PC, and Windows 11’s latest preview update pumps up system reliability with a built-in network speed test, Sysmon integration and more. Sponsored by: Cayosoft

Microsoft 365 Copilot has been caught reading confidential emails it was supposed to ignore, an alarming privacy blunder. Meanwhile, Chinese hackers exploited a backdoor in Dell’s backup software for 18 months without anyone noticing. And as Broadcom hikes VMware prices, IT leaders are looking to reduce reliance on it. Thanks to Cayosoft for sponsoring this episode!🔗 Links and resources: https://petri.com/podcast/copilot-confidential-when-ai-reads-your-sensitive-emails/

What if Microsoft’s email system suddenly categorized genuine emails as phishing attempts? It happened this week, disrupting businesses. Plus, 4,000 Microsoft accounts got hacked through a genuine Outlook add-in from the official Store, and we’ll reveal how attackers pulled that off. And Microsoft’s building a brand-new mini-OS in Rust to keep bad code in a cage.

This week in IT, Windows 11 adoption just jumped past 62 percent — after months of going nowhere. At the same time, Microsoft admits that barely 3 percent of Microsoft 365 users are paying for Copilot. And Redmond has reassigned senior leadership to focus on quality and security.