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SharePoint Gets HTML Pages, Deepfake Protection Advances, and Copilot Keeps Expanding · Microsoft 365 Roadmap Rundown

• 00;00;00;15 - 00;00;12;23 Sam Users are getting the ability to create raw HTML using Copilot directly inside the SharePoint interface, or if they prefer, they can upload raw HTML files from outside code editors straight into the page's library. 00;00;12;25 - 00;00;13;19 Alex And it just works. 00;00;13;25 - 00;00;22;11 Sam Yeah. SharePoint will then process and render that HTML as a native intranet page. 00;00;22;14 - 00;00;24;10 Sam Welcome to the Roadmap Rundown. 00;00;24;14 - 00;00;31;07 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;31;12 - 00;00;35;18 Sam Let's get into it. 00;00;35;20 - 00;00;47;16 Alex Imagine you're, sitting in a high stakes virtual meeting, right? The CEOs on your screen, they're authorizing this massive wire transfer for a new vendor. And I mean, their voice sounds perfectly normal. 00;00;47;18 - 00;00;49;18 Sam Yeah, their face looks exactly right. 00;00;49;20 - 00;01;01;09 Alex Exactly. But it's actually an AI deepfake. And, you know, a year ago, that was basically a sci fi movie plot. But today, it is a daily multimillion dollar threat. 00;01;01;11 - 00;01;17;11 Sam Oh, it's the absolute nightmare scenario for every IT security team. I mean, when the tools to clone a voice or a face become incredibly cheap and frankly, widely available, the fundamental trust we place in our digital communications just starts to fracture, right? 00;01;17;14 - 00;01;28;15 Alex Which is exactly why we're here today. Welcome to the roadmap Rundown. If you're listening, you probably have a massive mountain of Microsoft 365 roadmap updates sitting in front of you. 00;01;28;17 - 00;01;31;22 Sam Yeah, just hundreds of new technical capabilities. It's a lot. 00;01;31;25 - 00;01;43;01 Alex It really is. So our mission in this deep dive is simple. We are here to extract the most important nuggets of insight to make sure you stay perfectly well informed without suffering from that awful info overload. 00;01;43;04 - 00;01;53;24 Sam Because navigating these updates really can feel like trying to drink from a firehose while completely blindfolded. I mean, our goal today is to synthesize that noise into a clear, actionable signal for you. 00;01;53;28 - 00;01;56;14 Alex Exactly. We aren't just going to list off release dates. 00;01;56;15 - 00;02;06;20 Sam No no, no. We want you to understand the underlying mechanisms, like how these tools actually work, why they are shifting your architecture and you know, how they impact your security posture on a practical level. 00;02;06;21 - 00;02;15;05 Alex To do that, we've structured this run down into four distinct parts for you. We've got top stories, The Rundown, roadmap, roulette, and finally Admin. 00;02;15;05 - 00;02;23;23 Sam Watch. But before we get anywhere near the everyday app features that your end users are actually going to touch and feel, we have to start with the foundational shifts, right? 00;02;23;26 - 00;02;30;24 Alex Which brings us to our top stories. And the overarching theme for this session today is absolutely centered on trust and identity. 00;02;31;01 - 00;02;35;02 Sam Which points right back to that terrifying feature you teased in the introduction. 00;02;35;03 - 00;02;35;25 Alex The deep fakes. 00;02;35;26 - 00;02;42;29 Sam Exactly. Microsoft Teams is currently developing deep fake detection, integration, and active impersonation warnings for meetings. 00;02;43;05 - 00;02;43;22 Alex Oh, wow. 00;02;43;23 - 00;02;47;22 Sam Yeah. And this is slated for general availability in November 2026. 00;02;47;25 - 00;02;57;19 Alex I want to use an analogy here for the listeners. Think of this new feature as, hiring a highly trained digital bouncer. To stand at the virtual door of your team's. 00;02;57;19 - 00;02;58;18 Sam Meeting like that. 00;02;58;20 - 00;03;09;00 Alex Right. And this bouncer isn't just checking names on a list. They're carefully analyzing the faces of everyone walking in to see if anyone is, you know, wearing a high tech, lifelike mask. 00;03;09;03 - 00;03;12;25 Sam It's a fun analogy, but we actually need to be careful with that visualization. 00;03;12;26 - 00;03;13;16 Alex Oh, why is that? 00;03;13;18 - 00;03;19;29 Sam Because it's fundamentally more robust than just checking people at the door. I mean, this isn't a one time check when you join the call. 00;03;20;02 - 00;03;21;05 Alex But really it's continuous. 00;03;21;12 - 00;03;32;17 Sam Yes, exactly. Teams is introducing integration with certified third party security providers to analyze meeting audio and video continuously in real time, frame by frame. 00;03;32;19 - 00;03;37;11 Alex That is massive. So how does it actually spot the fake? 00;03;37;13 - 00;03;51;26 Sam The API takes the video feed, looks for synthetic manipulation anomalies. So things like unnatural pixel blending around the mouth or digitized audio artifacts. And it sends an active threat signal back into the team's client. 00;03;51;28 - 00;04;02;08 Alex So it's an ongoing behavioral analysis. And the reason security leaders should care so deeply about this is because we are firmly entrenched in an era of weaponized AI generated media. 00;04;02;10 - 00;04;03;04 Sam Oh, without a doubt. 00;04;03;07 - 00;04;16;09 Alex Social engineering attacks have evolved, right? We've gone from phishing emails with bad grammar into sophisticated, real time clones of executives designed to extract highly sensitive data or, you know, authorize financial transactions. 00;04;16;13 - 00;04;23;09 Sam Yeah. Having a trust mechanism built natively into the communication platform is just a massive architectural defense. 00;04;23;10 - 00;04;24;21 Alex But there's a catch, isn't there? 00;04;24;23 - 00;04;34;09 Sam There always is. And that leads to a very critical preparation step for IT departments, because the technology alone won't save an organization if the human doesn't know what to do. 00;04;34;12 - 00;04;36;14 Alex The takeaway here is all about training. 00;04;36;15 - 00;04;45;20 Sam Exactly. You need to design your user training around this immediately. Your employees must understand exactly what an impersonation warning looks like when it pops up on their screen, right? 00;04;45;21 - 00;04;48;02 Alex They can't just ignore it like a cookie consent banner. 00;04;48;03 - 00;04;54;23 Sam No. Critically, they need to know what the internal protocol is for halting the meeting and reporting the incident when that red flag appears. 00;04;54;28 - 00;05;07;07 Alex That idea of verifying identity doesn't just stop at video meetings, though. It's forcing a massive shift in how we handle guest access at the architecture level. Which brings us to the changes happening in Microsoft entra. 00;05;07;09 - 00;05;08;04 Sam Yes. 00;05;08;07 - 00;05;19;06 Alex The pesky update passkeys are extending to the B2B users. And this is turning on by default in October 2026. Now I'm looking at this update and I have to admit, I'm a bit lost. 00;05;19;09 - 00;05;21;01 Sam Okay, let's unpack it. 00;05;21;03 - 00;05;29;03 Alex If Passkeys are going to external users by default, are we just, opening a backdoor around our own multifactor authentication rules? 00;05;29;05 - 00;05;35;25 Sam I can see why it looks that way on the surface, but no, you aren't opening a backdoor. In fact, you're building a stronger front door. 00;05;35;26 - 00;05;37;07 Alex Okay, laid out for me. 00;05;37;09 - 00;05;52;14 Sam Let's break down the mechanics. Historically, Passkeys were heavily reliant on the user's home tenant. But with this update, your B2B users, whether they are internal cross tenant users or external guests, can register and sign in with Passkeys that are issued directly by your resource tenant. 00;05;52;15 - 00;06;00;10 Alex Okay, so just to clarify, for everyone listening, the resource tenant is the destination. Right. It's your company's environment that the guest is visiting. 00;06;00;11 - 00;06;21;13 Sam Correct. The guest can set up this passkey from your tenant's security info page, or even through an inline prompt when they try to access a file you shared. Oh that's convenient. It is. The mechanism here uses that newly minted passkey to satisfy your specific multifactor authentication requirements, rather than relying entirely on whatever lax policies might exist back in their home tenant. 00;06;21;15 - 00;06;22;19 Alex That makes sense. 00;06;22;21 - 00;06;28;12 Sam And because it utilizes cryptographic key pairs tied to the device hardware, it is highly phishing resistant. 00;06;28;15 - 00;06;32;12 Alex So that completely changes the MFA planning architecture for external collaboration. 00;06;32;14 - 00;06;33;16 Sam It really does. 00;06;33;19 - 00;06;46;27 Alex If you have high security resources, you no longer have to blindly trust that an external partners IT department is enforcing strong authentication. You are forcing the guest to use high assurance credentials managed by your own policies. 00;06;47;00 - 00;06;50;26 Sam But there is a massive catch, which is why admins need to pay attention right now. 00;06;50;26 - 00;06;52;12 Alex Here's the takeaway, folks. 00;06;52;14 - 00;07;02;16 Sam Because Microsoft is flipping this on by default. You have to proactively review your authentication methods, policy and your conditional access scoping before that October rollout, right? 00;07;02;20 - 00;07;04;02 Alex You can't just let it happen to you. 00;07;04;03 - 00;07;15;09 Sam Exactly. If you want to restrict which external guests are allowed to register these passkeys, or if you need to phase this in slowly, your policies must be updated and locked down before the global switch happens. 00;07;15;09 - 00;07;26;23 Alex Measure twice, cut once. I love that. For our final top story, we're shifting layers. We are moving from the deep back end security architecture to the presentation layer. 00;07;26;26 - 00;07;27;28 Sam This is a fun one. 00;07;27;28 - 00;07;32;06 Alex It is. SharePoint is finally introducing native HTML pages. 00;07;32;08 - 00;07;40;05 Sam This is just a massive update for anyone working in corporate communications. It's rolling out in October 2026. 00;07;40;08 - 00;07;42;04 Alex And what exactly does it do? 00;07;42;06 - 00;07;54;15 Sam Users are getting the ability to create raw HTML using Copilot directly inside the SharePoint interface, or if they prefer, they can upload raw HTML files from outside code editors straight into the pages library. 00;07;54;16 - 00;07;55;11 Alex And it just works. 00;07;55;16 - 00;08;00;15 Sam Yeah. SharePoint will then process and render that HTML as a native intranet page. 00;08;00;17 - 00;08;12;27 Alex I mean, for years, internet admins and designers have had to wrestle with rigid ASP pages. You know that old school, highly restrictive framework that forces you into specific web part layouts? 00;08;13;00 - 00;08;17;03 Sam It's essentially a grid system that fights back if you try to make it look truly unique. 00;08;17;05 - 00;08;32;23 Alex Yes. The reason this HTML capability matters so much is that it shatters those grid constraints. It gives content creators the raw flexibility to present custom, heavily branded interactive content without fighting the default Microsoft framework at every turn. 00;08;32;27 - 00;08;45;23 Sam It's all about providing the right tool for the job. Internet designers now have an entirely new avenue to build bespoke, visually stunning communication experiences that sit right alongside the standard templated SharePoint pages. 00;08;45;25 - 00;08;47;13 Alex So you get the best of both worlds. 00;08;47;14 - 00;08;55;24 Sam Exactly. You can have your quick standard team sites and your highly customized interactive corporate landing pages. Living in Harmony. 00;08;55;26 - 00;09;02;22 Alex Which is going to make corporate communications teams incredibly happy. And with that, we wrap our top stories. 00;09;02;24 - 00;09;10;26 Sam If we look at the trajectory here, we're moving from high level architecture and platform infrastructure directly into the tools that end users interact with daily. 00;09;11;01 - 00;09;18;02 Alex Let's transition in this section to the rundown. I want to start with the digital hoarders out there. You know the people who never delete a single email. 00;09;18;03 - 00;09;28;29 Sam We all know someone like that and they are going to love this. For eligible E5 license holders. Purview Exchange Archive mailboxes can now grow beyond the old 1.5TB limit. 00;09;29;06 - 00;09;39;13 Alex A terabyte and a half of emails. Just for context. Why was 1.5TB a hard ceiling in the first place? Like what happens to a mailbox when it gets that heavy? 00;09;39;15 - 00;09;52;00 Sam Well, at 1.5TB, a mailbox isn't just large, it's basically a structural hazard. Historically, when an exchange archive hit that limit, the back end database just struggled to index it. 00;09;52;02 - 00;09;53;17 Alex So search would just break. 00;09;53;17 - 00;10;09;28 Sam Search functionality would simply die. The outlook client would freeze up. It just became an inoperative brick. But Microsoft is now allowing these archives to scale virtually without limit. And they're adding graph API access so custom applications can query that massive archive through a single view. 00;10;10;01 - 00;10;22;26 Alex Okay. For anyone unfamiliar, the graph API is essentially the connective tissue that lets outside apps talk to Microsoft 365 data securely. So limitless archiving means uninterrupted retention. 00;10;23;02 - 00;10;26;19 Sam Which keeps the legal and compliance teams very, very happy. 00;10;26;22 - 00;10;33;09 Alex But, you know, limitless data requires tight oversight. Who is watching the people who watch the data? 00;10;33;11 - 00;10;44;09 Sam That brings us to purview permissions and logs. We're seeing a bundle of enhancements here. Far deeper audit logs for permission checks and crucially, fixed duration roll limits for administrators. 00;10;44;11 - 00;10;55;09 Alex Well, I like that. This sounds like a core component of zero trust architecture. The idea that you never trust, you always verify, and you only grant the absolute minimum access required. 00;10;55;11 - 00;11;04;08 Sam Precisely. In the old days, if an IT staffer needed global admin rights to fix, say, a specific server issue, they were given the keys to the kingdom. 00;11;04;10 - 00;11;06;13 Alex And often those keys were just never taken. 00;11;06;13 - 00;11;16;15 Sam Back, right? They just sat there with indefinite God level access. But now you can grant an admin role that automatically vaporizes after a set number of hours or days. 00;11;16;17 - 00;11;29;21 Alex That is brilliant. It cleans up the administrative clutter automatically. Speaking of cleaning up clutter, let's talk about building actual automations. Power automate is getting some really interesting visual upgrades for desktop flows. 00;11;29;23 - 00;11;36;22 Sam Yeah, for the makers building these automations, they're introducing a visual flowchart authoring mode alongside centralized scheduled triggers. 00;11;36;25 - 00;11;46;10 Alex Okay, break that down for me. What is the actual difference between a cloud flow and a desktop flow? And why does a visual flowchart even matter? 00;11;46;12 - 00;12;05;09 Sam Good question. So a cloud flow happens entirely in the background on Microsoft servers. Like saving an email attachment to a SharePoint folder. But a desktop flow actually takes over a user's local machine to mimic human actions like, say, opening an old legacy application and clicking a specific button and copying some text. 00;12;05;11 - 00;12;05;29 Alex Okay. 00;12;06;02 - 00;12;14;04 Sam Previously, scheduling those local desktop actions was incredibly complex. You literally had to build a cloud flow just to tell the desktop flow when to run. 00;12;14;06 - 00;12;28;21 Alex It sounds exhausting. So now it's centralized and visually. I mean, for anyone who has ever tried to program a complex logic loop, you know, if this happens, do this. Otherwise do that. Staring at a linear list of text is just miserable. 00;12;28;26 - 00;12;40;10 Sam It really is. Toggling into a flowchart mode where you can actually see the logic as connected nodes just makes much more sense for the human brain. It drastically lowers the barrier to entry for building robust automations. 00;12;40;12 - 00;12;53;03 Alex Okay, balancing out the limitless email archiving we discussed earlier, we have a new SharePoint Inactive Archiving policy. Admins can now automatically archive files that haven't been touched in anywhere from 6 to 48 months. 00;12;53;05 - 00;13;01;05 Sam And the beauty of this is that it happens in place using SharePoint Advanced Management. The files move to a cold storage tier, which clears out the active clutter. 00;13;01;07 - 00;13;04;05 Alex But what about search? Can people still find their stuff? 00;13;04;08 - 00;13;09;10 Sam Yes. It keeps all the metadata, the compliance rules and the search ability perfectly intact. 00;13;09;11 - 00;13;23;27 Alex Okay, so the user can still find their five year old quarterly report if they search for it, but it isn't clogging up the active servers. But hold on. Is Microsoft just giving us unlimited cold storage for free? 00;13;23;29 - 00;13;24;24 Sam Not quite. 00;13;24;26 - 00;13;25;15 Alex There is a catch. 00;13;25;16 - 00;13;26;09 Sam There's always a catch. 00;13;26;10 - 00;13;27;24 Alex There's always this. 00;13;27;26 - 00;13;36;28 Sam This specific auto archiving policy requires Microsoft 365 archive to be enabled, which runs on a pay as you go consumption billing model. 00;13;37;01 - 00;13;37;09 Alex Right. 00;13;37;12 - 00;13;42;19 Sam It is an excellent way to organize data, but it shifts the cost structure directly to your Azure consumption budget. 00;13;42;21 - 00;13;50;12 Alex I think it's truly free. Well, let's pivot to user interface for a moment. I see some quality of life tweaks for OneDrive on the roadmap. 00;13;50;13 - 00;14;04;24 Sam Yes, small but impactful. The iPad app is getting a view only PDF presentation mode. And for the web version of OneDrive, the Add New Upload button is migrating from the left navigation pane over to the right side of the screen. 00;14;04;26 - 00;14;11;08 Alex I mean, moving a button sounds trivial, but it unifies the muscle memory across the web interface. So it actually matches SharePoint. 00;14;11;12 - 00;14;12;07 Sam Exactly. 00;14;12;10 - 00;14;21;28 Alex And that iPad update. Anyone who has ever tried to present a PDF to a client on a tablet knows the absolute terror of accidentally swiping the screen, losing your place. 00;14;22;01 - 00;14;22;16 Sam Oh yeah. 00;14;22;16 - 00;14;27;17 Alex Locking it into a presentation mode is brilliant. It's just a big quality of life win. 00;14;27;17 - 00;14;37;17 Sam It's all about reducing friction. Yeah. Which brings us to a massive bundle of collaboration updates for teams and outlook. Microsoft is heavily focused on reducing context switching right now. 00;14;37;23 - 00;14;48;14 Alex Because context switching is the absolute productivity killer. Every time an alert pulls your attention away, it takes, what, 20 minutes to get your focus back? So what are they doing to fix it? 00;14;48;20 - 00;15;12;11 Sam A whole suite of things. They are auto onboarding new team members to the most relevant channel so they aren't overwhelmed by empty spaces. They're allowing side conversations directly inside a meeting window. Nice. They're offering presets to dial down channel notification noise and an outlook. You can now fully customize the ribbon. And they finally brought back the ability to see the total item count in a folder, not just the unread count. 00;15;12;12 - 00;15;23;01 Alex Finally, I mean, knowing I have zero unread emails is great, but knowing I have 4000 total emails sitting in my inbox gives me the actual context of my digital hoarding. 00;15;23;02 - 00;15;24;12 Sam Exactly. 00;15;24;14 - 00;15;27;03 Alex But wait, I have to push back on one item in this bundle. 00;15;27;04 - 00;15;27;19 Sam Go for. 00;15;27;19 - 00;15;46;20 Alex It. So what does this all mean with the I call delegation update? It says copilot can now answer incoming calls and gather context. If my AI is answering your AI or you just entering a dystopian era where our bots talk to each other to schedule a meeting while we just sit back and watch? 00;15;46;20 - 00;15;58;29 Sam It sounds like science fiction, I know, but this raises an important question about how we value human attention. Think about it. An incoming phone call does not respect your schedule. It's an immediate demand for your time. 00;15;59;00 - 00;15;59;17 Alex Fair point. 00;15;59;22 - 00;16;12;05 Sam The AI isn't there to replace you. It acts as an intelligent buffer. It gathers the context of why the person is calling, so you can make an informed decision about whether it's actually worth breaking your current flow state to pick up the line. 00;16;12;08 - 00;16;23;15 Alex Okay. I can see the value in that. Let the bot figure out if it's an emergency before my phone starts screaming at me. Speaking of bots doing the work, let's talk about copilot expanding within outlook and Chat. 00;16;23;17 - 00;16;31;22 Sam We're seeing conversational email drafting arrive in outlook. You can chat back and forth with copilot to refine the tone of an email before you send it. 00;16;31;25 - 00;16;32;28 Alex Which is super helpful. 00;16;32;29 - 00;16;41;18 Sam It is, but the more significant architectural shift is in copilot chat. They are adding dataverse business skills and usage based billing models. 00;16;41;20 - 00;16;48;02 Alex Okay, for those not managing database schemas, all they would exactly is dataverse in plain English. 00;16;48;05 - 00;16;58;14 Sam Think of dataverse as the central nervous system for your company's business data. It's the underlying storage structure that powers a dynamics 365 and the power platform. 00;16;58;17 - 00;16;59;11 Alex Okay. 00;16;59;14 - 00;17;16;28 Sam So by giving Copilot business skills tied to Dataverse, copilot is evolving from a generic assistant, you know, like asking it to write a polite email into a deeply integrated business tool. It can securely query your custom sales pipelines or your inventory levels directly. 00;17;17;01 - 00;17;26;21 Alex Wow. But tapping into that central nervous system takes serious computing power, which I'm guessing is where the usage based billing or Uber comes in. 00;17;26;23 - 00;17;41;21 Sam Exactly. Using these advanced models will drain a centralized tenant credit pool. It forces administrators to budget AI usage directly in the model selector. If a department burns through their compute credits, they literally have to stop and request more budget. 00;17;41;23 - 00;17;52;08 Alex Oh man. Which brings us perfectly to section three Roadmap Roulette. We just talked about all this rapid scaling, but in software development, not everything goes to plan. 00;17;52;11 - 00;17;54;05 Sam No, it definitely does not. 00;17;54;07 - 00;18;05;11 Alex Software roadmaps are like weather forecasts. You know, they can change instantly when the atmospheric pressure drops. And a few things just abruptly fell off the radar. Let's look at the cancellations. 00;18;05;13 - 00;18;16;00 Sam Yeah, we saw several outright cancellations. Microsoft officially killed the purview credential scanning agent, the copilot chat Chrome extension, and the teams meeting interactive agents. 00;18;16;07 - 00;18;30;26 Alex The interactive agents for teams meetings is a huge loss. The promise there was that you could have custom built AI agents join your calls, act as participants, and remember the history of previous sessions. Why does a cancellation like that matter so much to an enterprise? 00;18;31;03 - 00;18;48;29 Sam Because of the planning cycle. Enterprises design multi-year deployment strategies around these roadmaps. If an it department spent the last six months designing a workflow reliant on a copilot Chrome extension to bridge external web apps, they now have to immediately halt that project, throw out the blueprints and find a workaround. 00;18;48;29 - 00;18;54;26 Alex That is painful. And alongside the cancellations, some major features simply got pushed back. 00;18;54;26 - 00;19;06;08 Sam Yes. We're seeing key date slips for things like Inline Edge, DLP mam, DLP for Intune managed apps and Vivas Agent Analytics dashboards. They are all delayed until 2027. 00;19;06;12 - 00;19;14;15 Alex Hold on. Alphabet soup there. For anyone not configuring mobile device policies every day. What does MRM DLP actually mean? 00;19;14;16 - 00;19;21;03 Sam Right, sorry. Mom stands for Mobile Application Management. DLP is data loss prevention. 00;19;21;03 - 00;19;21;17 Alex Got it. 00;19;21;18 - 00;19;33;01 Sam Put them together for Intune. And you're basically trying to stop an employee from copying sensitive company data out of a managed work app like outlook on their phone and pasting it into their personal WhatsApp. 00;19;33;03 - 00;19;40;03 Alex Oh wow. That sounds incredibly complicated to enforce at the network edge without breaking the device's basic functionality. 00;19;40;09 - 00;19;54;27 Sam It is. And these delays show that deeply integrated security, like intercepting data at the browser's network layer and building accurate dashboards to track the actual return on investment for AI. While they're proving far more complex to finalize than initially projected. 00;19;55;00 - 00;20;17;25 Alex So patience is required. You won't get that unified dashboard proving the ROI of your custom bots until next year at the earliest. Now, with features constantly launching, shifting, or disappearing, the burden of maintaining order falls entirely on the administrators. Let's move into our final section admin watch. We're closing out by looking at the new guardrails being put in place. 00;20;17;27 - 00;20;27;17 Sam Let's start with ERP agent restrictions. ERP stands for Enterprise Resource Planning. The massive software systems handling finance, supply chains and manufacturing. 00;20;27;18 - 00;20;28;23 Alex The really important stuff. 00;20;28;23 - 00;20;38;17 Sam Exactly. Dynamics 365 admins can now apply specific security roles and privileges that only activate when a user accesses the ERP via an AI agent. 00;20;38;19 - 00;20;55;27 Alex Oh, this comes back to the difference between human intent and automated action. Just because I, as a senior accountant, have the security clearance to completely delete a financial ledger in the user interface, it absolutely does not mean my AI agent should be allowed to do it. If it hallucinates or misunderstands my prompt. 00;20;55;29 - 00;21;05;00 Sam It is a brilliant safety net. You maintain your broad rights in the traditional UI, but you severely narrow those rights when you ask an AI to act on your behalf. 00;21;05;04 - 00;21;12;29 Alex That is so smart. Next up, Business Central Dataverse mapping. Admins can now map new dataverse fields directly in Business Central. 00;21;13;04 - 00;21;24;13 Sam This massively reduces configuration overhead. Organizations customize their CRM schemas all the time. Maybe you add a brand new field to track a specific type of regional sales tax. 00;21;24;18 - 00;21;26;09 Alex Right. Happens all the time. 00;21;26;11 - 00;21;37;00 Sam Previously syncing that new custom field across systems required developer intervention. But now you don't need to write custom table extensions or code. You just map it right in the interface. 00;21;37;02 - 00;21;45;12 Alex Speaking of reducing manual effort, let's talk about what happens when an employee leaves the company. Purview is introducing departed user lifecycle controls. 00;21;45;15 - 00;21;54;12 Sam This automates off boarding compliance. When someone leaves, admins can now auto delete their content in containers like their personal OneDrive and mailbox at scale. 00;21;54;14 - 00;22;01;22 Alex That removes so much manual error prone effort between HR and IT. But man, this requires extreme caution. 00;22;01;25 - 00;22;03;04 Sam Oh, absolutely. 00;22;03;06 - 00;22;13;06 Alex If your retention policies are perfectly dialed in, you could automatically vaporize critical company data just because an employee moved to a different company. Measure twice. Auto delete once. 00;22;13;12 - 00;22;26;11 Sam Exactly. Finally, let's look at OneDrive storage limits. Microsoft is introducing a new pay as you go consumption meter. It allows targeted OneDrive accounts to grow beyond their standard licensed storage limits. 00;22;26;13 - 00;22;40;13 Alex Wait a pay as you go consumption meter. Are we just handing users a blank check for digital hoarding? Like if an executive decides to store terabytes of uncompressed video files, they could quietly drain the IT budget. 00;22;40;16 - 00;22;51;10 Sam That is exactly the risk. It replaces rigid storage limits with flexible billing, which solves the immediate problem of a key executive running out of space ten minutes before presentation. 00;22;51;12 - 00;22;53;01 Alex True. Which is a nightmare. 00;22;53;06 - 00;23;09;07 Sam It is, but it transfers the risk directly to Azure consumption. Admins must tightly control who gets this capability. You do not turn this on globally. You selectively target the accounts that legitimately need to scale. And you monitor that meter like a hawk. 00;23;09;10 - 00;23;17;08 Alex Well, here's where it gets really interesting. We've covered a massive volume of updates in this session. But look at the underlying trend connecting them all. 00;23;17;11 - 00;23;18;21 Sam What do you mean? 00;23;18;24 - 00;23;30;05 Alex Notice how many of these roadmap items aren't actually about building brand new flashy applications. They are almost entirely about restricting budgeting or auditing AI and automation. 00;23;30;07 - 00;23;31;02 Sam Oh yeah. 00;23;31;04 - 00;23;38;13 Alex The ERP agent restrictions, the usage based billing for copilot, the auto labeling for data security, the temporary admin roles. 00;23;38;15 - 00;23;50;03 Sam It's true. It is a profound shift in the industry. The role of the IT professional is fundamentally transitioning from being a traditional software gatekeeper to being an AI orchestrator and budget manager. 00;23;50;06 - 00;24;12;05 Alex Exactly. Is AI learns to act on our behalf. You know, drafting conversational emails, answer your phone calls. Querying our central nervous system and dataverse. The most vital skill isn't knowing how to click the buttons. It will simply be knowing how to write the intricate rules that keep those bots in check. You have to be the architect of that digital bouncer we talked about at the very beginning. 00;24;12;13 - 00;24;16;27 Sam Because if you don't define the rules clearly, the automation will simply scale the chaos. 00;24;17;02 - 00;24;32;06 Alex And nobody has the budget for limitless automated chaos. Thank you for joining us for this exploration of the sources. Stay curious. Keep those bots in check and we will catch you on the next rundown. 00;24;32;09 - 00;25;01;08 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. 00;25;01;11 - 00;25;01;19 Sam