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Agent 365 Q&A: where the baseline stops, answered
Agent 365: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly drew a lot of questions, some live and some through the Q&A panel. This is the full written record, with the context behind each answer. We spent the…
- Collaboration Governance
Agent 365 is a baseline, not a strategy: what it governs, what it costs, and what it leaves exposed
Every licensed user in a default Microsoft 365 tenant can already build and share an agent. That single fact is why 2026 has become the year of agent sprawl. We have seen this pattern before, with…
- Collaboration Governance
What ByteDance and Alibaba's overnight AI agent shutdown means for every enterprise
On 15 July, 345 million people lost access to their AI agents overnight. ByteDance's Doubao and Alibaba's Qwen had built personalised AI agents used across China at enormous scale. New rules from the…
- AI Governance
What Is Agent 365? The M365 AI Governance Gap, Explained
Here is the good news: Microsoft has built powerful AI agent capabilities directly into Microsoft 365. Copilot Studio, SharePoint Agents, and declarative agents give your teams tools that automate…
- AI Governance
Understanding Microsoft Agent 365 Pricing: What You Need to Know
The use of Agents in Microsoft 365 is rapidly increasing. Agents create many opportunities and interesting business cases for organizations, but also raise practical questions about control, cost,…
- Collaboration Governance
Microsoft 365 Governance: How to Close the Gap Between IT Policy and End-User Behaviour
Here is the good news: Microsoft has built powerful AI agent capabilities directly into Microsoft 365. Copilot Studio, SharePoint Agents, and declarative agents give your teams tools that automate…
- Collaboration Governance
Governance at Scale: What Our Webinar Audience Really Wanted to Know
Last week's webinar, "The COE Is Dead. Who's Governing Your Power Platform Now?" , generated a lot of questions from attendees across financial services, professional services, government, and…
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Who's Governing Your Power Platform Now That Microsoft's COE Starter Kit Is Gone?
Microsoft has stopped investing in the COE Starter Kit, the free toolkit thousands of organisations leaned on to govern Power Platform. That withdrawal is colliding with citizen developer programmes…
- Collaboration Governance
The Invisible Dependency
Many organizations have spent the last 18 months treating AI governance as a secondary concern. The priority has been adoption: deploying Copilot , building agents , integrating AI into workflows.…
- Collaboration Governance
Power Platform COE Starter Kit: End of Life
In February 2026, Microsoft stopped releasing monthly updates to the Power Platform Center of Excellence (CoE) Starter Kit. In May 2026, it was officially confirmed: the Kit is no longer actively…
- AI Governance
Operationalizing AI agents: What every IT and compliance leader should know
Beyond familiar scripts and automations, a new class of software is emerging: AI agents. These intelligent agents are designed to perform tasks that were once manual, connecting systems and people in…
- AI Governance
AI governance in regulated industries: How to manage risk, compliance, and control
The promise of AI to drive efficiency is undeniable, but for a defense contractor, a single misplaced query could leak classified data. For a hospital, it could expose sensitive patient records.…
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