M365 News Roundup for - June 2026

Scouting for the real cost of new Copilot features

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Microsoft Build happened, and Microsoft made more announcements about new Copilot agents and features, and naturally, AI “experts” told us how this changes everything, again, for like the third (fourth?) time in 2026.

I’m sorry, did that seem cynical? I wouldn’t want to give anyone the impression that I’m cynical about AI.

Let’s skip straight to one of the bigger announcements - Microsoft Scout.

• Microsoft Scout Explained: How always-on, autonomous agents are redefining the future of AI

• Microsoft Scout and the Agentic Upgrade Coming to Teams and M365

Like many of the recent announcements from Microsoft about agents, though, the real question is how much is this going to cost?

That’s the unanswerable question for many of us.

Scout seems to be based on a Copilot for M365 license, a Github Copilot license, and usage costs.

I suspect there are a lot of organizations with no idea how to budget for AI token usage. They are still trying to figure out exactly what people use it for, and now we are being asked to predict exactly how much usage it will get for the next year, while it also change multiple times during that same year?

Good luck with that.

Copilot News:

Of course, Scout wasn’t the only Copilot news:

They changed the interface, again - Introducing a new design for Microsoft 365 Copilot

I wrote about memories a couple of weeks ago so I was interested in this as well:

Complete Guide to Microsoft 365 Copilot Memory for Admins and Users

They never released the item from the Roadmap but you can create a psuedo version - Copilot prompt libraries for your tenant.

This seems interesting. Has anyone built a skill yet?

The New Way to Automate Without Power Automate: Skills in AI in SharePoint

Non-Copilot News:

Well, this would be the not specifically about Copilot Security and DLP section of the newsletter anyway:

• How To Govern Shadow AI Using Microsoft Purview, Defender And DSPM

• DLP and Sensitivity Labels for SMBs: A Practical Copilot Readiness Playbook

• Deploy Microsoft Purview DLP For Copilot Security

• Microsoft Purview data governance best practices

• Microsoft Extends Purview With Visibility and Control of Anthropic Claude

Of course, not everything is AI, there are always other security risks in the M365 environment:

• FBI warns Kali365 phishing kit is stealing Microsoft OAuth tokens at scale

This might impact some of your applications - Outlook Calendar Sharing Moves from MAPI to REST

Intune and CAP can be difficult to get right. I’ve seen the struggle. - Intune compliance policies + Conditional Access integration.

That’s it for what I’ve been reading and bookmarking over the last month. I’m taking an honest-to-goodness vacation next week, but I will be back in your inboxes with more M365 testing results in a couple of weeks.