On the Sensible 365 podcast this week, Wealthy Dean and I chat about TEC Europe 2024 and canopy a few of the most vital subjects on this planet of Microsoft 365, together with Entra ID Conditional Entry modifications to concentrate on, Copilot for Safety reaching GA, plus heaps extra.
Microsoft Copilot for Safety Reaches Common Availability
Microsoft has introduced the overall availability of Copilot for Safety, a product that helps cyber safety professionals with pure language steerage and insights from numerous safety merchandise. Copilot for Safety goals to streamline workflows and enhance effectivity and accuracy for safety duties, similar to incident response, malware evaluation, and menace searching.
In keeping with a examine, safety analysts utilizing Copilot had been 22% sooner and seven% extra correct of their duties. The product additionally presents options like customized promptbooks, information base integrations, utilization reporting, and exterior assault floor data. Copilot for Safety will likely be accessible for buy on April 1, 2024, as a consumption providing by means of Azure. The launch is supported by a rising library of plugins and partnerships throughout the safety ecosystem.
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Microsoft Wants You to Act Now: Microsoft Managed Conditional Entry Insurance policies
Microsoft has launched a brand new initiative to assist organizations safe their sources with minimal effort and cut back the danger of compromise. The initiative, referred to as Safe Future, introduces Microsoft-managed Conditional Entry insurance policies that mechanically apply finest practices for safety, similar to enabling multifactor authentication (MFA).
Directors can assessment the affect of those insurance policies, customise them, or create their very own variations. The initiative additionally supplies steerage and documentation for securing numerous eventualities and sources. Microsoft urges directors to behave now and activate or alter the Microsoft-managed Conditional Entry insurance policies to boost their safety posture.
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Microsoft & NVIDIA Increase Their Partnership
Microsoft and NVIDIA have introduced a big enlargement of their collaboration, integrating NVIDIA’s superior generative AI and Omniverse applied sciences into Microsoft’s Azure, Azure AI providers, Microsoft Material, and Microsoft 365.
This partnership goals to boost AI capabilities throughout numerous sectors, with a deal with healthcare and life sciences by means of cloud, AI, and supercomputing applied sciences. Key developments embody the adoption of NVIDIA’s Grace Blackwell Superchip in Azure, the overall availability of Azure NC H100 v5 VMs primarily based on NVIDIA’s H100 NVL platform, and the introduction of NVIDIA Omniverse Cloud APIs on Azure.
Moreover, Microsoft Copilot will likely be powered by NVIDIA’s AI and computing platforms, and new NVIDIA generative AI microservices will likely be accessible on Azure AI, aiming to speed up AI deployments and innovation.
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You Can Strive the New Preview AI-powered Planner App in Groups
The brand new Microsoft Planner app in Groups, introduced at Microsoft Ignite, is now accessible in Public Preview. It integrates AI to supply a easy, collaborative work administration resolution inside Microsoft 365. The replace features a streamlined expertise with ‘My Day,’ ‘My Duties,’ and ‘My Plans’ sections, consolidating duties from numerous sources. Customers can pin their favourite plans, entry premium options like dash planning, and make the most of Copilot in Planner for activity administration.
The preview is accessible for organizations with ‘Focused launch’ enabled within the M365 admin portal. Microsoft seeks suggestions by means of the Planner app and the Suggestions Portal, with extra options and fixes to be launched quickly.
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Of Word within the Microsoft 365 Roadmap
- Basic Outlook lastly will get key Copilot characteristic: Draft by Copilot (along with summarize) is rolling out now. This characteristic permits customers to create draft emails primarily based on a number of key phrases or sentences, utilizing pure language era and Copilot’s understanding of the context and tone. Customers can even ask Copilot to summarize lengthy emails or paperwork into concise bullet factors. This characteristic is predicted to be accessible for all Basic Outlook customers by March 2024.
- Groups Voice Isolation rolling out, permitting noise cancellation of each background noise and different folks’s voices. Introduced final yr, this characteristic makes use of your voice profile in Groups (PC solely) to filter out any undesirable sounds out of your microphone, similar to keyboard typing, visitors noise, or different conversations. This may enhance the audio high quality and readability of your voice throughout Groups conferences or calls. The characteristic is at the moment rolling out to pick customers and needs to be accessible for all Groups customers on PC by March 2024.
- Copilot Chat arrives on Groups Cell. Copilot chat now reveals throughout the Groups app on cellular units, and isn’t to be confused with the Copilot icon within the Microsoft 365 app. This characteristic supplies comparable performance to Copilot chat in Groups and the M365 portal, similar to answering questions, offering options, creating duties, or scheduling conferences. Customers can entry Copilot chat by tapping on the Copilot icon on the underside proper of the Groups cellular app. The characteristic can also be rolling out to pick customers and needs to be accessible for all Groups cellular customers by March 2024.
- Microsoft Groups – Assembly particulars will likely be displayed on pre-join display on PC & Mac, together with scheduled begin, finish time, present individuals, and many others. This characteristic will assist customers get a fast overview of the assembly they’re about to affix, similar to who’s already within the assembly, how lengthy the assembly is predicted to final, and what the assembly matter is. Customers can even use this display to regulate their audio and video settings earlier than becoming a member of the assembly. This characteristic is coming in April 2024 for all Groups customers on PC and Mac.
- Viva to get new Copilots: Copilot in Viva Studying, Glint & Objectives. Viva, Microsoft’s new worker expertise platform, can even combine Copilot’s capabilities in a few of its modules. Copilot in Viva Studying will assist customers uncover, entry, and full related studying content material, similar to programs, movies, podcasts, or articles. Copilot in Glint will assist customers get suggestions, insights, and training on their efficiency, engagement, and well-being. Copilot in Objectives will assist customers set, monitor, and obtain their private {and professional} targets. These options are anticipated to launch in September 2024 for Viva Studying and November 2024 for Glint and Objectives.
- Copilot in Excel: It’s in preview now, however will likely be launched as GA. Copilot in Excel is a characteristic that enables customers to ask pure language questions on their knowledge and get solutions, charts, or formulation from Copilot. Customers can even use Copilot to create pivot tables, carry out calculations, or apply formatting to their knowledge. This characteristic is at the moment in preview for choose customers and will likely be typically accessible for all Excel customers by June 2024.
- Intelligent Recap in Groups (Obtainable in Groups Premium and Copilot for M365 licenses) will assist transcript-only conferences for offering AI notes and duties, much like Copilot in Groups Conferences. Clever Recap is a characteristic that mechanically generates a abstract of the important thing factors, motion objects, and selections from a Groups assembly, utilizing AI and Copilot’s understanding of the assembly content material. Beforehand, this characteristic required a video or audio recording of the assembly to work, however now it’ll additionally work with transcript-only conferences, the place solely the chat messages are captured. This characteristic will likely be accessible for Groups Premium and Copilot for M365 customers by June 2024.
- Contributors in Groups Conferences will likely be allowed to alter their show identify, no matter their tenant-set show identify. No point out of any potential admin controls to forestall/permit this. This characteristic will give customers extra flexibility and management over how they seem in Groups conferences, particularly once they be part of conferences with exterior visitors or companions. Customers will be capable of change their show identify earlier than or throughout a gathering, and the change will solely apply to that particular assembly. This characteristic will likely be accessible for all Groups customers by Could 2024.
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