M365 News Roundup for June 2025
Should we worry about our M365 data being connected to various AI tools?
It started with ChatGPT Deep Research creating a connection to OneDrive and SharePoint data.
More recently, ChatGPT created a simple connector for all Pro, Team, and Enterprise accounts.
Should Security and Compliance professionals working in M365 be concerned about this?
Yes. I think we should. We should be cautious about which AI tools are being used on corporate devices and what data our users could be uploading from those devices into those platforms.
That has been true. This ups the ante in terms of letting OpenAI and other AI tools that will eventually build similar connectors access data directly instead.
As I shared in the Thought-Provoking newsletter last week, developments with AI are moving too quickly for security policies and procedures to be developed and vetted. This is a recipe for disaster, but it’s also something many of us will be powerless to stop because of the increasing demand for all the new tools.
This is why I spend so much of my time looking at Purview tools related to AI. I know we are all moving too fast to be secure ahead of time, but hopefully we can at least keep moving as well.
How are you trying to stay ahead in this race?
Copilot News:
I Tested Microsoft's AI Researcher Agent (And It Blew My Mind)
I won’t say that it blew my mind because that’s not my style. It was very impressive, though.
The new UI was introduced to my workplace tenant last week, and while it took a little getting used to, I think it does make things slightly more intuitive.
Copilot Notebook was the feature I was most interested in. There are some powerful use cases here for users who would be intimidated by the idea of building an agent. If we can get Microsoft to allow us to use more than 20 documents as references, that would be beneficial. (Then again, we can do that with folders and an agent, so this is the scaled-down version of that!)
Discover the POWER of New Copilot
One of the interesting features of a Notebook is the ability to generate an audio overview of the reference documents, which is, I guess, a way to get that while we wait for the ability to create audio summaries directly from OneDrive and SharePoint to move to general availability.
I haven’t spent much time looking at the Analyst agent, but this might be interesting to some of you:
Analyst Agent for Stock Technical Analysis
I fully expect the first story of someone losing their shirt due to an AI-generated hallucination related to stock data analysis to appear any day now. 😳
Some Copilot news from Build 2025:
Finally, how do you feel about using a Viva Engage community as part of your Copilot rollout? I haven’t given it much thought myself, but if we had been using Engage already, I’d probably check this out:
Copilot Adoption Community Now Available for All Viva Engage Customers
Non-Copilot News:
In other news from Build, this was directed at developers regarding the limitation of access to enhanced permissions needed to run programs on Windows. It may also impact business desktop policies. - Enhance your application security with administrator protection.
This is an interesting security tool, and maybe a data leak vector you haven’t considered - Microsoft Teams will soon block screenshots and recordings of your meetings.
I’m in favor of Loop integration wherever possible. - How to Add a Loop Workspace to a Teams Channel Tab
Calling this in-depth was no lie:
In-Depth Series: DLP Strategy with Microsoft Purview
Speaking of DLP - Announcing Public Preview of DLP for M365 Copilot in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
So you want to work in M365 Compliance?
Other things worth reviewing - with a couple of videos:
That’s everything I found that I considered worth sharing. As always, there is a wealth of M365 news available. I hope this newsletter helped you find one or two things before you learned them the hard way - when they appear in our tenants!
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