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Latest Posts
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Copilot and the Office Domain-Specific Language - Part 2
In our attempt to deepdive into the inner workings of Copilot for Microsoft 365, we already explored the foundation provided by the Office Domain-Specific Language. In this post, we will dive into how this ties into Copilot for Microsoft 365 when used in the Office Productivity apps. -
Copilot and the Office Domain-Specific Language
Everywhere you look, you'll see people writing blogs and articles on emerging features in Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365. Whilst I applaud these, I always found the blogs lacking fundamental knowledge on how Copilot for Microsoft 365 actually works inside the Microsoft Office Productivity apps like Word and PowerPoint. In this post I'll take you along the journey of the Office Domain-Specific Language, what that has to do with Copilot for Microsoft 365 and uncover quite a bit of the reasoning behind the various requirements Microsoft imposes when you want to use Copilot for Microsoft 365. -
Group-based licensing
In this post we will explore how licenses are assigned to objects such as groups, how Microsoft stores your configuration on what plans you want enabled and provides some input on how to get a grip on Microsoft License assignments through some minor automation using PowerShell. -
Reverting from Microsoft 365 Multi-Geo Part 4/4
In this post we will explore validating the Purview Compliance retention policies are active on the moved objects. This is especially important when you have restored objects from an inactive state, as you do not want to inadvertently lose data because some background process did not properly apply your expected retention policy. -
Reverting from Microsoft 365 Multi-Geo Part 3/4
In this post we will explore moving inactive data and as reminder, this is data that a regular user can no longer access as it's kept in retention only. As opposed to data a user can access, which can be actively used or is sitting there consuming storage capacity whilst being redundant, obsolete or trivial. -
Reverting from Microsoft 365 Multi-Geo Part 2/4
In this post will explore moving active data. As a reminder, this is data that a user can still access, as opposed to data only kept in soft-deleted mailboxes and SharePoint Online Preservation Hold Library etc. Active user mailboxes can also hold data a user cannot access such as Teams Chats that have been copied as part of a Compliance Retention policy to a part of the Recoverable Items Folder of the user mailbox -
Reverting from Microsoft 365 Multi-Geo Part 1/4
In this post we the WHY, HOW and WHAT you need to do whenever you're considering wind-down of Microsoft 365 Multi-Geo. In this series of articles, I’ll describe my learnings on a client that asked to decommission their Microsoft 365 Multi-Geo setup as preparation for returning to a true single-geo setup. In order to truly be ready, all data stored in their satellite regions needs to be cleared. -
Enabling Windows Copilot within the EU
UPDATED June 21st, 2024! In this post I'll share my findings on how to bypass the Country-level restrictions imposed by Microsoft that disables Windows Copilot. Next to how, I'm also sharing a PowerShell script that can help enable it for you! -
Teams Meeting Transcription & its effect on Copilot for Microsoft 365
In this post we will dive into the changes coming to how Microsoft will store Teams Meeting Transcripts on OneDrive for Business and how this might affect Copilot for Microsoft 365. We will also step into some questions that pop up with this feature looking at the new technical possibilities this change provides. -
Upgrading to the Microsoft Azure Information Protection Unified Labeling v3 client
In this short post, we’ll dive into the why and how of the upgrade to the V3 Unified Labeling client. -
Copilot for Microsoft 365: label inheritance and auto-labeling
The whole can be greater than the sum of its parts. It's a reference to a well-known phrase and really fits the narrative of this post. Within this post, we'll explore the label inheritance incorporated into Copilot for Microsoft and the power of Microsoft Purview Auto-labeling to solve issues with inheritance. -
Sensitivity labels & Copilot for Microsoft 365
Many organizations are using Microsoft Purview Sensitivity labels to classify their unstructured data for quite a while now. Some organizations are also exploring Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365, but how do these two services work together? In this post I'm providing some of my own learnings on this topic from first-hand deployment experience and guidance on how to resolve some of the issues I've seen to date.