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Agentic Copilot video creation, Microsoft expands the reusable Skills and Auto-labeling scale. · Microsoft 365 Roadmap Rundown

• 00;00;00;10 - 00;00;14;23 Alex So the action item here is to identify your team's most successful AI workflows today and document them, because tomorrow you are going to package them into these reusable skills. 00;00;14;25 - 00;00;16;22 Sam Welcome to the Roadmap Rundown. 00;00;16;27 - 00;00;23;20 Alex The podcast that keeps you up to speed on what's new, what's changing, and what's coming next across Microsoft 365. 00;00;23;24 - 00;00;35;11 Sam Let's get into it. Imagine sitting down at your computer opening up a video editor, but instead of, you know, scrubbing through timelines and cutting clips yourself, you just type something. 00;00;35;13 - 00;00;40;06 Alex Right? Like, make a punchy two minute promo video using our Q3 marketing asset. 00;00;40;07 - 00;00;45;04 Sam Exactly. And then you just sit back while the software literally builds the video right in front of your. 00;00;45;04 - 00;00;46;29 Alex Eyes, which is wild to think about. 00;00;47;00 - 00;00;56;00 Sam It really is. And the crazy part is that isn't some science fiction concept for five years from now that is actually hitting Microsoft Clip Chimp this December. 00;00;56;02 - 00;00;57;14 Alex Yeah, it's coming up fast. 00;00;57;17 - 00;01;09;17 Sam So welcome to the Roadmap Rundown. If you're joining us, you know our mission. We are taking a massive stack of Microsoft 365 roadmap updates and pulling out the facts, the context, and exactly what this means for your daily. 00;01;09;17 - 00;01;11;27 Alex Workflows and your long term planning goals. 00;01;11;29 - 00;01;14;26 Sam And we're doing a real deep dive into the source material today. 00;01;14;28 - 00;01;21;24 Alex And looking at this particular batch of updates. There is a very clear, I mean, a massive overarching theme here. 00;01;21;28 - 00;01;22;29 Sam Oh, absolutely. 00;01;23;01 - 00;01;33;07 Alex Microsoft is rapidly shifting AI from a simple chat box that you just talked to into this autonomous agent that does all the heavy lifting in the background. 00;01;33;10 - 00;01;36;20 Sam Which is great, but also kind of scary from an administrative side. 00;01;36;21 - 00;01;43;29 Alex Well, exactly. Simultaneously, they are just scrambling to give IT admins the tools to keep that autonomous AI secure. 00;01;44;03 - 00;01;51;17 Sam Yeah, I'm really glad you brought up the security piece early on, because letting an AI loose on your company's files is, frankly, a terrifying thought for most admins. 00;01;51;21 - 00;01;53;00 Alex Oh for sure. Nightmares. 00;01;53;07 - 00;02;01;00 Sam But let's unpack this macro level architectural shift that's shaping the future of work. I want to dive right into our top stories, starting with that Clip Chimp update. We mentioned. 00;02;01;01 - 00;02;02;13 Alex Yep. Let's do it. 00;02;02;15 - 00;02;12;24 Sam So Copilot in Clip Chimp will soon generate, edit, and refine videos entirely from prompts. And the key here is that it pulls from specific documents or, your work IQ knowledge. 00;02;12;29 - 00;02;19;25 Alex Right. And we should probably clarify what work IQ actually is for anyone who hasn't been deep in the Microsoft documentation lately. 00;02;19;26 - 00;02;21;15 Sam Yeah, definitely. What's the short version? 00;02;21;20 - 00;02;28;20 Alex It is essentially the intelligence layer that maps out all the relationships between your organization's data, your people, and your workflows. 00;02;28;21 - 00;02;33;18 Sam Got it. Which fundamentally changes the skill set required for video creation, right? 00;02;33;21 - 00;02;34;03 Alex Totally. 00;02;34;05 - 00;02;38;09 Sam You aren't making the granular cuts anymore. You are basically sitting in the director's chair. 00;02;38;16 - 00;02;39;18 Alex That's a great way to put it. 00;02;39;20 - 00;02;49;02 Sam It's like having a tireless assistant editor sitting right next to you. You just say, swap out that intro clip. And it does. But the catches the eye needs good raw material. 00;02;49;03 - 00;02;58;07 Alex Exactly. I mean, bad inputs, equal bad outputs. If your corporate assets are just a disorganized mess, the. I really can't build a cohesive video. 00;02;58;10 - 00;02;59;10 Sam Makes sense. 00;02;59;12 - 00;03;06;17 Alex So the move for you right now as a listener is to start organizing your core media and brand documents and work IQ immediately. 00;03;06;21 - 00;03;18;17 Sam So the AI actually has something to work with when this preview drops in December, precisely. Which bridges perfectly into our next story. Because if we are automating complex things like video editing, we need standardization. 00;03;18;18 - 00;03;19;14 Alex Oh, absolutely. 00;03;19;15 - 00;03;20;29 Sam Otherwise, it's just chaos, right? 00;03;21;00 - 00;03;35;16 Alex Otherwise, you have five different employees prompting the AI in five completely different inefficient ways. Right. Yeah. Which waste time and compute power. So Microsoft is actually expanding the reusable skills and agent ecosystem around October and November. 00;03;35;17 - 00;03;40;00 Sam This is a huge shift away from everyone. You know, reinventing the wheel every morning. 00;03;40;01 - 00;03;45;21 Alex It really is. Copilot studio is getting a skills catalog. And we're seeing context IQ. 00;03;45;21 - 00;03;47;08 Sam Which is the predictive AI. Right? 00;03;47;09 - 00;03;47;21 Alex Right. 00;03;47;27 - 00;03;50;13 Sam The one that anticipates what you need a typer attached. Next. 00;03;50;14 - 00;03;55;12 Alex Exactly. Yeah. So context IQ can now invoke third party tools and custom agents. 00;03;55;17 - 00;04;01;29 Sam Oh wow. And my personal favorite in this whole lineup, PowerPoint, is getting brand kit skills. 00;04;02;02 - 00;04;04;05 Alex Yes. This is huge for marketing teams. 00;04;04;06 - 00;04;14;01 Sam It's amazing. You can upload an MD file right into PowerPoint Copilot. And for those who aren't familiar, an MD or markdown file is basically just a lightweight text document. 00;04;14;06 - 00;04;16;02 Alex Super simple formatting, right? 00;04;16;04 - 00;04;26;21 Sam You can put your company's exact color, hex codes, font rules, and brand voice guidelines into that plain text file. Feed it to copilot, and it just knows exactly how to format your deck. 00;04;26;21 - 00;04;34;16 Alex Which is just brilliant for consistency. It allows the builders in your company to discover, reuse, and selectively share approved organizational skills. 00;04;34;17 - 00;04;36;26 Sam So you don't have to guess what shade of blue the logo should be. 00;04;36;29 - 00;04;44;06 Alex Exactly. Like, say you find a prompt workflow that perfectly summarizes a sales pitch. You package it and you put it in the catalog. 00;04;44;08 - 00;04;45;10 Sam That's powerful. 00;04;45;12 - 00;04;57;02 Alex It is. So the action item here is to identify your team's most successful AI workflows today and document them, because tomorrow you are going to package them into these reusable skills. 00;04;57;05 - 00;05;04;10 Sam Okay, but hold on. If we are giving everyone these highly capable, reusable AI skills that can access the entire corporate network. 00;05;04;17 - 00;05;05;05 Alex I know where you're going. 00;05;05;05 - 00;05;16;01 Sam With this, right? That immediately raises a massive red flag. What happens if the AI pulls up, say, a highly confidential HR document to help build a PowerPoint slide? 00;05;16;03 - 00;05;22;26 Alex Yeah, that brings us right to story number three, which is how Microsoft is trying to secure this massively expanding data estate purview. 00;05;22;27 - 00;05;23;07 Sam Right? 00;05;23;09 - 00;05;36;23 Alex Yes. Purview. Their data governance and compliance suite is massively expanding its auto labeling scale for SharePoint and OneDrive. The capacity is jumping from 100,000 files per tenant per day, up to 500,000 files. 00;05;36;26 - 00;05;40;17 Sam Okay. Half a million miles a day. That is a huge leap in processing power. 00;05;40;19 - 00;05;41;09 Alex It's massive. 00;05;41;10 - 00;06;04;12 Sam But I was reading through the source notes for this deep dive, and it says auto labeling and data loss prevention are also extending to Non-Microsoft apps are. Yeah, like Google Workspace, AWS box and Salesforce. Let me push back on this a bit, or at least ask a clarifying question. Sure. Is Microsoft Purview basically acting as a universal security blanket over Google and Amazon environments now? 00;06;04;13 - 00;06;07;26 Alex Essentially, yes. I mean, it's a strategic necessity at this point. 00;06;08;03 - 00;06;08;26 Sam How so? 00;06;08;29 - 00;06;20;16 Alex Well, copilot is only as secure as your data labels. If you have unlabeled sensitive data sitting in like a box folder that your AI has access to, the AI doesn't know any better. 00;06;20;18 - 00;06;21;05 Sam They'll just grab. 00;06;21;05 - 00;06;25;15 Alex It, right? You will happily summarize it and hand it to an employee who absolutely shouldn't see it. 00;06;25;22 - 00;06;26;28 Sam Yikes. Okay. 00;06;27;01 - 00;06;37;23 Alex So by extending purview to Google Workspace and AWS, Microsoft is basically trying to establish a unified compliance boundary regardless of who server the files actually sitting on. 00;06;37;29 - 00;06;42;09 Sam Okay. That makes a lot of sense. You really have to lock down the data before you let the AI loose. 00;06;42;14 - 00;06;47;22 Alex Exactly. And to track all this, they are adding per policy coverage reports twice. 00;06;47;25 - 00;06;54;08 Sam So the play here is to use those new reports to track your enforcement progress against your simulation snapshots. 00;06;54;11 - 00;07;00;20 Alex You got it. You can see exactly what has been labeled across all your connected apps and just close the gaps. 00;07;00;22 - 00;07;01;28 Sam Perfect. 00;07;02;00 - 00;07;07;11 Alex Now what? We're on the topic of securing data. We have to talk about where that data physically lives. 00;07;07;14 - 00;07;12;03 Sam Yes. Story four is about copilot local inferencing for sovereignty. 00;07;12;05 - 00;07;13;07 Alex Arriving by December. 00;07;13;12 - 00;07;22;07 Sam Right. So AI inferencing will happen locally in five markets Australia, India, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States. 00;07;22;10 - 00;07;28;14 Alex And just a level set for everyone. When we say inferencing, we're talking about the heavy computational lifting. 00;07;28;16 - 00;07;30;03 Sam The actual brainpower. 00;07;30;04 - 00;07;36;18 Alex Exactly. It is the moment the AI model actually reads your prompt, does the math and generates the response. 00;07;36;21 - 00;07;40;05 Sam So why is it so crucial that this happens locally? 00;07;40;08 - 00;07;48;21 Alex Because of data sovereignty laws, I mean, many governments and highly regulated industries mandate that sensitive data simply cannot cross national borders for processing. 00;07;48;24 - 00;07;51;02 Sam Oh, right. Like if you're a bank. 00;07;51;05 - 00;08;03;04 Alex Exactly. Previously, if you were a bank in Australia and your copilot prompt had to be sent to a data center in, say, the US for inferencing, your compliance team would just block Copilot entirely. 00;08;03;09 - 00;08;04;25 Sam Because it's a massive violation. 00;08;04;25 - 00;08;08;22 Alex Right? But now the processing happens in country. 00;08;08;27 - 00;08;13;28 Sam Meaning a lot of global organizations that have basically been locked out of the AI race just got the green. 00;08;13;28 - 00;08;15;29 Alex Light. Yep. It opens the floodgates. 00;08;16;01 - 00;08;24;09 Sam So you really need to review your regional data residency requirements, because you might finally be able to deploy Copilot in those previously blocked regions. 00;08;24;09 - 00;08;35;06 Alex Definitely. Let's round out the top stories with dynamics 365 Field Service. We've talked a lot about office work, but they are building an end to end asset maintenance planning stack. 00;08;35;08 - 00;08;38;19 Sam Oh, this is going generally available in February 2027 right. 00;08;38;21 - 00;08;39;27 Alex That's the one. 00;08;40;00 - 00;08;44;21 Sam This introduces reasonable templates forecasting and time based scheduling for asset maintenance. 00;08;44;21 - 00;08;45;23 Alex Which is so needed. 00;08;45;29 - 00;08;49;27 Sam It replaces the old scattershot localized maintenance habits. 00;08;50;00 - 00;09;03;09 Alex Okay. Because before it was just a mess. Yeah. I mean, instead of designing a custom maintenance schedule for every single piece of machinery, you just define a baseline strategy. Once you create a governance standard and apply it to groups of similar assets across your entire fleet. 00;09;03;11 - 00;09;11;16 Sam That saves so much time. So if you are an asset or service leader, start getting your baseline maintenance strategies out of your head and onto paper right now. 00;09;11;17 - 00;09;15;28 Alex Yes. Do the prep work today so you can easily map them into these digital templates later. 00;09;16;04 - 00;09;23;18 Sam Awesome. All right. So those are the macro architectural shifts. Let's move from the Grand strategy down to the micro interactions. 00;09;23;18 - 00;09;24;08 Alex The fun stuff. 00;09;24;11 - 00;09;30;05 Sam Exactly. How are these updates actually going to look on your screen in the next few weeks. Let's get into the rundown. 00;09;30;12 - 00;09;31;11 Alex Let's do it. 00;09;31;14 - 00;09;40;03 Sam I think we should group these to make them digestible, starting with what I call copilot everywhere. We are seeing AI woven into highly specific tasks now. 00;09;40;06 - 00;09;41;29 Alex Right. It's not just a general chat anymore. 00;09;42;03 - 00;09;49;27 Sam Exactly. Like legal plug ins are arriving in word and Co-Work to read, line and summarize contracts. OneDrive is getting a prompt gallery. 00;09;50;02 - 00;09;55;17 Alex Oh, in the copilot chat inside the edge browser can now natively reason over open cloud docs. 00;09;55;19 - 00;09;59;21 Sam Meaning you don't have to download a PDF to ask questions about it, which is so nice. 00;09;59;23 - 00;10;05;02 Alex Such a time saver. Plus, classic outlook is getting that unified copilot entry point. 00;10;05;04 - 00;10;13;18 Sam But the contextual awareness is what's really jumping out to me. Word in PowerPoint can now search text inside embedded images using optical character recognition. 00;10;13;19 - 00;10;14;26 Alex That is huge. 00;10;14;28 - 00;10;20;06 Sam If you drop a screenshot of a chart into your deck. Copilot can actually read the numbers inside that image. 00;10;20;06 - 00;10;20;25 Alex It's wild. 00;10;20;28 - 00;10;27;03 Sam It is. And OneNote on Windows and Android just launched multimodal capture. I love this one note update, by the way. 00;10;27;04 - 00;10;28;07 Alex It's pretty slick here. 00;10;28;09 - 00;10;37;12 Sam You can be in a meeting recording the audio, snapping photos of the whiteboard, typing messy notes all at the same time, and copilot takes all of those different inputs. 00;10;37;15 - 00;10;39;09 Alex For audio visual text. 00;10;39;09 - 00;10;44;02 Sam Right? It takes all of it and structures it into one clean, organized copilot page. 00;10;44;09 - 00;10;52;22 Alex If that is just magic for project managers. Oh, and for the back users out there, Copilot for PowerPoint can now run tasks in the background. 00;10;52;25 - 00;10;58;29 Sam See that background processing is the perfect example of the shift to a genetic AI we talked about at the top of the show. 00;10;58;29 - 00;10;59;20 Alex It really is. 00;10;59;22 - 00;11;11;02 Sam It's exactly like putting a roast in the oven and just walking away. You don't have to sit there staring at the PowerPoint loading bar. You give it the prompt, go answer emails, and it literally notifies you when your slide deck is cooked. 00;11;11;08 - 00;11;13;06 Alex I love the roast analogy, right? 00;11;13;08 - 00;11;23;20 Sam So the takeaway here. Stop trying to force one generic Copilot browser window to do all your heavy lifting. Start using the contextual tools built directly into the app you are currently in. 00;11;23;25 - 00;11;31;22 Alex That's great advice. Moving to our next grouping in the rundown operations and voice, AI is finally reaching the frontline workers. 00;11;31;28 - 00;11;32;22 Sam About time. 00;11;32;29 - 00;11;38;02 Alex Seriously. Dynamics 365 Field service added non-bailable financial tracking. 00;11;38;09 - 00;11;44;00 Sam Oh, so that means your crews can track internal operational work without needing to tie it to a specific customer contract? 00;11;44;00 - 00;11;51;03 Alex Exactly. It cleans up the accounting side immensely. Plus, Copilot mobile chat is arriving for frontline workers. 00;11;51;04 - 00;11;57;27 Sam That's huge. And on the voice side, teams Kuz is adding copilot chat to summarize recorded customer service calls instantly. 00;11;58;01 - 00;12;01;17 Alex Which is going to save call center managers hours every week. 00;12;01;18 - 00;12;12;11 Sam Oh without a doubt. Also live subtitles are coming to Copilot voice chat. And for listeners in the public sector Copilot chat usage reporting has officially launched for GCN, dot. 00;12;12;13 - 00;12;16;18 Alex That's the government, community cloud and Department of Defense environments for those wondering. 00;12;16;18 - 00;12;18;06 Sam Right. Thank you. 00;12;18;08 - 00;12;25;16 Alex But going back to the mobile aspect, getting AI into the hands of a field technician on a phone or tablet is a massive leap. 00;12;25;19 - 00;12;29;10 Sam It really breaks the barrier that AI is only for people sitting at a desk. 00;12;29;13 - 00;12;38;14 Alex Exactly. Which means your move here is to ensure your frontline teams actually have the mobile Field service app installed and enabled. 00;12;38;16 - 00;12;44;01 Sam Because once they do, they don't have to navigate five layers of drop down menus while they're on a job site. 00;12;44;03 - 00;12;51;17 Alex Right? They could just talk to the AI naturally and ask. Hey, who worked on this Hvac unit last week and get an instant answer? 00;12;51;19 - 00;12;58;05 Sam Such a game changer. Okay, our final grouping in the rundown covers quality of life and launched items. 00;12;58;08 - 00;13;01;00 Alex These are the little things that make a big difference. 00;13;01;02 - 00;13;08;17 Sam Definitely, teams just added alt text for images shared from OneDrive and SharePoint, which is a fantastic accessibility win. 00;13;08;20 - 00;13;11;03 Alex Long overdue, but very welcome. Yep. 00;13;11;05 - 00;13;18;21 Sam Outlook mobile restored the ability to share availability and finally, finally added an event duplication button. 00;13;18;24 - 00;13;20;03 Alex I know you were excited about that one. 00;13;20;04 - 00;13;22;06 Sam Seriously, the event duplication button? 00;13;22;11 - 00;13;22;22 Alex Okay. 00;13;22;25 - 00;13;29;12 Sam No more manually recreating a chaotic 15 person recurring meeting from scratch just because you need a second copy. 00;13;29;15 - 00;13;36;07 Alex It's the little victories. Also, Exchange Online launched a PowerShell commit to transfer meeting organizers. 00;13;36;09 - 00;13;44;25 Sam Let's define that real quick. Okay. A comment is basically just a lightweight script command that IT admins use to automate tasks in the background, right? 00;13;44;27 - 00;13;48;07 Alex And that specific script solves a massive daily friction point. 00;13;48;08 - 00;13;49;10 Sam Oh, I bet. 00;13;49;13 - 00;13;57;08 Alex Think about when a manager leaves your company. Their recurring meetings usually turn into unmanageable ghost events that nobody can edit or cancel. 00;13;57;09 - 00;14;00;04 Sam Yes, I've been stuck in so many ghost meetings, right? 00;14;00;07 - 00;14;04;27 Alex Well, now an admin can just run that command and seamlessly transfer ownership to someone else. 00;14;04;28 - 00;14;12;23 Sam That is a lifesaver. IT admins, you need to add that PowerShell comment to your standard employee off boarding checklists today. Do not wait on that. 00;14;12;24 - 00;14;13;12 Alex Absolutely. 00;14;13;15 - 00;14;22;26 Sam Also, just a quick note before we move on that Excel agent, PowerPoint reference files and planners refresh GCC experience all officially reached launched status. 00;14;23;00 - 00;14;29;14 Alex Awesome. But you know, as much as we love talking about what is launching in technology, the only constant is change. 00;14;29;19 - 00;14;30;13 Sam Ain't that the truth? 00;14;30;14 - 00;14;37;09 Alex Sometimes projects hit a wall, get delayed, or just quietly vanish. Let's spin the wheel on roadmap roulette. 00;14;37;12 - 00;14;45;18 Sam All right, road roulette. We'll start with the outright cancellations. Three specific copilot sales agent capabilities have been axed. 00;14;45;19 - 00;14;46;14 Alex Gone completely. 00;14;46;15 - 00;14;57;00 Sam Yep. These were features meant to enrich account summaries with non CRM data and summarize inbound leads. They are officially gone. Also canceled is purview auto labeling for Azure SQL and storage. 00;14;57;05 - 00;15;00;12 Alex Wow. Okay, well that changes rollout assumptions immediately. 00;15;00;15 - 00;15;00;26 Sam Right. 00;15;00;28 - 00;15;12;02 Alex If you were building your Q4 sales strategy around the idea that your CRM was going to automatically enrich leads using these agents, you need to pivot right now. Adjust your deployment assumptions. 00;15;12;05 - 00;15;22;26 Sam But wait, I'm genuinely confused about the purview cancellation. We just spent ten minutes talking about how purview auto labeling is expanding massively to half a million files and covering Google and AWS. 00;15;22;28 - 00;15;25;28 Alex Yeah, the juxtaposition is a little jarring, right? 00;15;26;00 - 00;15;32;05 Sam Why would Microsoft cancel the auto labeling for their own Azure SQL databases while expanding everywhere else? 00;15;32;12 - 00;15;42;01 Alex It really comes down to technical friction and prioritization. Scanning a word document in SharePoint for a credit card number is a relatively light lift, computationally speaking. 00;15;42;02 - 00;15;43;06 Sam Okay, that makes sense. 00;15;43;09 - 00;15;51;21 Alex But scanning millions of rows of structured, rapidly changing data inside a live SQL database without breaking performance, that is incredibly difficult. 00;15;51;23 - 00;15;54;20 Sam Oh, I see. So it probably slowed the databases to a crawl. 00;15;54;22 - 00;15;59;24 Alex Exactly. They are likely pulling it back to completely re-engineer it. Gotcha. 00;15;59;26 - 00;16;11;17 Sam Let's move to the items that were ghosted but launched. Purview retention bypass teams, granular external access and SharePoint e-signature routing were all quietly removed from the roadmap feed. 00;16;11;20 - 00;16;12;27 Alex But they didn't die. 00;16;13;04 - 00;16;15;23 Sam Nope. They are actually launched and live right now. 00;16;15;25 - 00;16;23;27 Alex Which is a really good reminder that a disappearing roadmap item doesn't always mean the feature is dead. Sometimes the features get scrubbed for administrative reasons. 00;16;24;01 - 00;16;25;09 Sam Good to know. 00;16;25;11 - 00;16;31;05 Alex And you should absolutely be using these. Granular external access in teams, for example, is huge. 00;16;31;08 - 00;16;32;14 Sam Why is that one so important? 00;16;32;22 - 00;16;42;10 Alex Because it means you can open up communication with a specific external partners domain for a single project without having to drop your firewall and open federation for your entire tenant. 00;16;42;12 - 00;16;43;23 Sam Oh, that is so much safer. 00;16;43;24 - 00;16;44;19 Alex Way safer. 00;16;44;27 - 00;16;55;27 Sam Okay, let's look at the delays. Teams multi-line call history got pushed back an entire year to November 2026. Ouch. Yeah. In scheduling a channel meeting from outlook slipped a month. 00;16;55;29 - 00;16;59;25 Alex And we are seeing a massive slide in physical meeting room tech across the board. 00;16;59;26 - 00;17;01;14 Sam Really? Like what? 00;17;01;20 - 00;17;13;27 Alex Teams rooms, enhancements. Things like proximity join, Intel iframe hardware, camera processing, and the facilitator agent for in-person meetings. They all moved to late 2026 or January 2027. 00;17;13;29 - 00;17;23;00 Sam That's a significant push. Oh, and purview insider risk and copilot readiness timelines also got delayed. It seems like there's a distinct pattern here. 00;17;23;02 - 00;17;30;17 Alex There really is. When you you're dealing with pure software updates like adding a button to outlook. It rolls out fast. 00;17;30;19 - 00;17;33;13 Sam Right? Because you just push the code exactly. 00;17;33;15 - 00;17;48;02 Alex But physical hardware integrations like smart cameras in teams rooms, trying to track faces or really complex data security engines like insider risk, they almost always face delays. There are just too many variables to test in the real world. 00;17;48;05 - 00;17;56;17 Sam So temper your expectations. Do not promise your executive team that the new proximity joint feature in the boardroom will be flawless by next month. 00;17;56;21 - 00;18;01;07 Alex Definitely not just your hybrid meeting. Upgrade timelines based on these delays. 00;18;01;10 - 00;18;11;01 Sam Sound advice, which leads us perfectly into our final section. We have AI acting autonomously. Hardware features delayed and security boundaries expanding. 00;18;11;04 - 00;18;12;03 Alex It's a lot to manage. 00;18;12;05 - 00;18;20;03 Sam The sheer volume of change is staggering. How does an IT department keep a lid on this without losing their minds? Let's check the admin watch. 00;18;20;04 - 00;18;21;20 Alex All right. Bring it on. 00;18;21;22 - 00;18;32;06 Sam Our first grouping here is Rollbacks and Access. Cloud update is now allowing monthly enterprise channel devices to roll back to versions while somehow still keeping the latest security updates. 00;18;32;09 - 00;18;34;00 Alex This is massive for it. 00;18;34;03 - 00;18;48;09 Sam Just for context, the monthly enterprise channel is a setting where devices only get new features once a month, mainly for stability. Additionally, teams is expanding it's granular conditional access to all meeting clients Android, iOS, Mac, desktop, and web. 00;18;48;16 - 00;18;53;17 Alex Going back to that rollback feature, it relieves so much tension for IT departments. 00;18;53;20 - 00;18;54;29 Sam How did it work before? 00;18;55;02 - 00;19;07;24 Alex Well, historically, if a monthly update broke a critical legacy app that your company relies on, you were kind of trapped. Rolling back meant you also rolled back your security patches, leaving you completely vulnerable. 00;19;07;25 - 00;19;11;18 Sam Oh, that's a terrible choice to have to make functionality versus security. 00;19;11;20 - 00;19;15;21 Alex Exactly. But this update separates the two. 00;19;15;23 - 00;19;22;21 Sam So it's like a digital undo button that leaves the security alarms armed. You get your old functionality back, but the hackers stay locked out. 00;19;22;26 - 00;19;25;10 Alex Beautifully said. Awesome. Yeah. 00;19;25;13 - 00;19;35;06 Sam You need to update your patch management protocols right away to utilize this two version rollback buffer. If Patch Tuesday breaks your company's core workflow. You finally have a safe parachute. 00;19;35;08 - 00;19;36;23 Alex Use it. 00;19;36;25 - 00;19;42;09 Sam All right. Our final grouping is Governance and Diagnostics. Copilot studio is adding maker guidelines. 00;19;42;09 - 00;19;48;23 Alex Which allows admins to embed approved tool guidance directly into the workflow where people are building AI prompts. 00;19;48;25 - 00;20;01;20 Sam Super helpful and more importantly, admins can now delegate organization prompt publishing to aid groups. Yes. Add being Azure Active Directory, which is essentially the bouncer for your company's network managing who has access to what. 00;20;01;23 - 00;20;13;20 Alex Exactly it controls. The guest list and on the compliance front, purview added authorization diagnostics. Think of it as highly enhanced audit logs and endpoint data loss prevention investigations. 00;20;13;20 - 00;20;15;04 Sam Lots of visibility upgrades. 00;20;15;07 - 00;20;22;08 Alex Yes, teams admins are getting recommendations for which third party agents to enable, along with Android Room health alerts. 00;20;22;08 - 00;20;22;28 Sam Oh that's nice. 00;20;23;05 - 00;20;28;07 Alex And finally, Insider risk is bringing it's temporary file noise reduction to the government clouds. 00;20;28;12 - 00;20;30;13 Sam That noise reduction is so necessary. 00;20;30;15 - 00;20;36;11 Alex You cannot have a security alarm go off every time an employee's computer generates a harmless, temporary cash file. 00;20;36;15 - 00;20;39;09 Sam The IT desk would just ignore all alarms eventually, right? 00;20;39;10 - 00;20;40;21 Alex Alert fatigue is real. 00;20;40;23 - 00;20;50;15 Sam And that really speaks to the broader survival strategy here. Central. It simply cannot micromanage every single prompt. Every third party app connection or every false positive alert. 00;20;50;21 - 00;20;57;07 Alex The absolute can't. The adoption wave of AI is just too big. Delegation is mandatory at this point. 00;20;57;11 - 00;21;06;09 Sam Which brings us to our final piece of advice for this rundown. Use those Azure Active Directory groups to delegate prompt publishing to trusted department heads. 00;21;06;14 - 00;21;09;03 Alex Right. Let the marketing director approve the marketing prompts. 00;21;09;09 - 00;21;10;05 Sam Exactly. 00;21;10;05 - 00;21;18;03 Alex We want to decentralize the innovation so people can build the AI tools they need quickly, while you maintain the tenant level oversight to ensure they don't break the system. 00;21;18;08 - 00;21;21;14 Sam You basically want to give them the tools, but define the sandbox. 00;21;21;17 - 00;21;30;13 Alex That's a perfect way to phrase it. Give them the sandbox. Well, we have covered a massive amount of ground today, from AI video directors to PowerShell off porting scripts. 00;21;30;13 - 00;21;31;18 Sam We really have. 00;21;31;20 - 00;21;37;04 Alex And you know, looking back across all these sources, there is a fundamental shift that I want everyone listening to internalize. 00;21;37;05 - 00;21;38;14 Sam Lay it on us. 00;21;38;17 - 00;22;05;10 Alex As copilot evolves from a tool that we actively use into an agent system that works autonomously in the background. Your primary job is changing. So moving forward, your most valuable skill will not be generating content yourself. Your most valuable skill will be curating the knowledge, like getting your work IQ organized and governing the boundaries, like configuring purview that allow these autonomous agents to thrive safely and effectively. 00;22;05;13 - 00;22;11;03 Sam Wow. So we aren't creating the output anymore. We are just setting the stage for the AI to perform. 00;22;11;04 - 00;22;12;06 Alex That's exactly it. 00;22;12;09 - 00;22;28;06 Sam I absolutely love that perspective. Thank you so much for joining us on the Roadmap Rundown to sort through the noise and find the signal. Keep questioning, keep learning, and we'll catch you on the next deep dive into the source material. 00;22;28;09 - 00;22;57;03 Sam Thanks for listening to that roadmap rundown. You can find the show notes, roadmap, item links, and more at Roadmap rundown.com. We'll be back next week with another look at what's new, what's changing, and what's coming next across Microsoft 365. Roadmap rundown uses AI assisted production and synthetic voices based on information from the official Microsoft 365 roadmap. See you next time.