Copilot Compliance Nightmare? Microsoft Suddenly Rolls Out Flex Routing

Flex Routing for Copilot Processing.

Microsoft plans to introduce flex routing to handle situations when demand exceeds capacity for Copilot processing in Europe. This could be an issue for Microsoft 365 tenants in the European Union or European Free Trade Association who want to be sure that their data is processed in Microsoft local datacenters and not sent to the U.S. or Australia when available capacity cannot meet the demand for “large language model inferencing”.

New Microsoft Defender Revelation Reopens Troubling Quality Questions

Defender for Cloud Apps and Entra ID Login Events.

Microsoft disclosed that Entra ID login events were missing from Microsoft Defender for Cloud Applications for nine months — and waited more than three months after the fix to tell customers. Here’s why that matters and what you should do about it.

Is the New Agent 365 Worth $99?

The Microsoft 365 E7 Debate.

Microsoft 365 E7 bundles Microsoft 365 E5, Microsoft 365 Copilot, the Entra Suite, and the new Agent 365 into a $99/user/month SKU. The big question is whether investing in Microsoft 365 E7 licenses make sense for tenants? Buying a big batch of licenses will simply throw money away unless those licenses can be used. Paul Robichaux debates the issues and suggests some advice about how to assess the need for E7.

Office 365 for IT Pros January 2025 Update

Monthly update #115 is now available for download by subscribers to the Office 365 for IT Pros (2025 edition) eBook. The files available to subscribers also include an update for the Automating Microsoft 365 with PowerShell eBook. Those who bought the PowerShell book without buying the Office 365 for IT Pros bundle can also download the update.

Using the Plenom Busylight for Teams Presence Status

The Plenom Busylight is a small LED light that plugs into a USB port on your computer and changes color to reflect your presence status in Teams, Skype, Zoom, Jabber, or several other UC clients. It’s well worth the price to signal when you’re busy to people whom you share your home with.

“Unable to discover PowerShell endpoint URI” when using MFA with Skype Online

Grrr. It’s been that kind of day. While chasing a Teams bug (about which more another time, once I have a consistent repro case), I needed to log on to Skype Online PowerShell. We use the Azure baseline policy that forces MFA for all admin accounts in our tenant; I just updated Chapter 3 of …