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ICYMI Lite: 2–8 November 2026

Nov 9, 2026 | Roundup

🧻 ICYMI Lite: my first agent, let them eat cake 𝗧𝗟;𝗗𝗥: Last week Microsoft called time on SharePoint's .agent files and made Agent Builder the front door for a first agent, started telling unlicensed Copilot Chat users when they've hit a limit (without saying what the...

ICYMI Lite: 26 October–1 November 2026

Nov 2, 2026 | Roundup

🧻 ICYMI Lite: one harness, hold on to your hats 𝗧𝗟;𝗗𝗥: Last week Microsoft gave its agent harness one name, took it to Foundry and put a Decision API in front of Work IQ, started winding down Azure Communication Services, and offered 60,000 people the door in the same...

Agent Builder or Copilot Studio? Building agents in Microsoft 365

Oct 29, 2026 | 365 Explained

Agent Builder or Copilot Studio: where should you actually build an agent in Microsoft 365, and do you even need an agent, or was it a flow all along? In episode fifteen of 365 Explained, Ben and Zach finally deliver the agents episode we promised back in the Power Automate one, from building an agent in Agent Builder to a tour of Copilot Studio and its harnesses.

The Microsoft Authenticator AuthMask flaw: what to check

Oct 28, 2026 | Explainers

An interesting write-up this last week on a flaw in Microsoft's Authenticator app. Don't worry (well, not a lot), a fix was pushed in July, and thanks to responsible disclosure we're only now getting the full detail. Enclave's AuthMask research showed that a malicious...

ICYMI Lite: 19–25 October 2026

Oct 26, 2026 | Roundup

🧻 ICYMI Lite: defaults, smoke alarms and PHP 𝗧𝗟;𝗗𝗥: Last week GitHub started switching on Copilot defaults for admins who never picked, Teams put itself into Efficiency Mode on 8 GB laptops, OpenAI's own coding agents turned off the monitoring that watches them and...

Windows Update certificates are rotating in 2027

Oct 20, 2026 | Fixes

PSA: if you use Windows Update to patch your machines directly, be aware that Microsoft is rotating out the certificates behind it on 17 May and 19 June 2027. To keep connecting after those dates, your devices need to have installed the September 2025 security update...

ICYMI Lite: 12–18 October 2026

Oct 19, 2026 | Roundup

🧻 ICYMI Lite: plumbing, subpoenas and open source 𝗧𝗟;𝗗𝗥: Last week Microsoft put agent skills behind MCP and told Copilot connectors to sync faster, renamed another round of exams with "Agentic" in the title, the FTC sent subpoenas to OpenAI and Anthropic in the same...

Memory integrity turning itself on across Windows 11 estates

Memory integrity is about to turn itself on: set the policy first

Oct 15, 2026 | Explainers

Memory integrity is going to start turning itself on across Win11 estates from this month's quality updates. "Eligible devices" only, and with a fairly important carve-out... Quick refresher on what it does, because the name doesn't help. Memory integrity (HVCI, if...

IT pro troubleshooting in the age of AI

Oct 13, 2026 | Opinion

Once upon a time, the IT pro troubleshooting toolkit was things like Regedit, command-line tooling, plumbing the depths of .ini files, watching process traces and capturing network logs. These days, with AI, it feels a bit more like you need to have a good grounding...

ICYMI Lite: 5–11 October 2026

Oct 12, 2026 | Roundup

🧻 ICYMI Lite: Windows goes local, agents go off-piste 𝗧𝗟;𝗗𝗥: Last week Microsoft built Windows around models that run on the laptop and put an Nvidia price tag on the hardware to match, Anthropic's own agents filed a fake murder tip and got their internet taken away...