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🔊 Announcing the AI Cloud & Modern Workplace Conference 2026

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We’re delighted to bring back the AI Cloud & Modern Workplace Conference 2026 for the third consecutive year-an effort that, despite tight timelines and real organizational challenges, Konstantinos Boutsioulis MVP managed to deliver together with George – Chrysovalantis Grammatikos .

📌 When & Where
11–14 February 2026 (UTC+2) · Online · Free to attend with no registration required. For agenda updates and resources, visit the official site: AI CLOUD & MODERN WORKPLACE CONFERENCE 2026.
Who’s on stage

♨️A curated lineup featuring speakers from Microsoft, Microsoft MVPs, and seasoned leaders from the broader IT market—bringing practical insights from product engineering, consulting, and frontline delivery.

🔖 What you’ll gain
Actionable guidance across AI, Cloud, and Modern Work scenarios-grounded in real implementations and best practices.
Hands‑on, practitioner‑level sessions spanning topics.
Community value – organized by the Digital Innovation Minds community, focused on vendor‑neutral learning aligned to Microsoft technologies.
Format & experience
Expect focused talks, panel discussions, and practical deep dives designed for IT leaders, architects, developers, and security & data professionals who need outcomes they can apply the next day.

Important notes for attendees
🔖 The conference is 100% online—join from anywhere.
🏷️ It is entirely free—no registration or sign‑up forms are required.
🌍 More information, daily updates, and speaker materials will be available on the official site:
AI CLOUD & MODERN WORKPLACE CONFERENCE 2026.
We can’t wait to share four days of practical learning and community‑driven knowledge. See you online!

Marko Filipovic Paris Dimitrakopoulos Tzvia Gitlin Troyna Pieter de Bruin Michael Haggar Chloé Moreau Angeliki Patsiavou Korina Katsani Konstantinos Passadis Massimo Crippa Joanna Vathis Antonios Chatzipavlis Chris Spanougakis MSc, MCT, MVP George Kosmidis Nikos Delis George Markou

🔐 New AI Transparency Policy in Microsoft 365

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Microsoft 365 will offer a policy to add visual or audio watermarks to AI-generated or altered video and audio content, available via Cloud Policy by February 2026. This enhances transparency but does not apply to images, which users can watermark through privacy settings separately.

To help provide additional transparency about what content has been generated or altered by using AI in Microsoft 365, Microsoft is providing you with a policy setting that visually designates when content, such as video or audio content, is generated or altered by using AI. This policy setting controls your organization’s option to add a visual or audio watermark to video and audio content that your users generate or alter by using AI in Microsoft 365.

To turn on watermarks for video and audio content that your users generate or alter by using AI in Microsoft 365, you need to use the “Include a watermark when content from Microsoft 365 is generated or altered by AI” policy. This policy is available only in Cloud Policy service for Microsoft 365. 

Note: Watermarks are not turned on unless you set the policy to Enabled. Your organization is always responsible for following the Microsoft Enterprise AI Services Code of Conduct, including not generating or sharing deceptive AI content. 

This change is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 547831.

When this will happen

General Availability (Worldwide): We anticipate that this policy will be available in Cloud Policy by the second half of February 2026.

How this will affect your organization

Who is affected

Users that generate or alter video and audio content by using AI in Microsoft 365

What will happen

If you set the “Include a watermark when content from Microsoft 365 is generated or altered by AI” policy to Enabled in Cloud Policy, a visual or audio watermark is added to video and audio content that is generated or altered by using AI in Microsoft 365. Here are two examples:

  • A visual watermark is added to a video generated with Clipchamp.
  • An audio watermark is added to an audio overview generated by Copilot from a Word document.

Notes:

  • This policy doesn’t affect images generated or altered by using AI in Microsoft 365.
  • Instead, your users will be able to turn on watermarks for images by going to Settings & Privacy > Privacy at https://myaccount.microsoft.com. We anticipate this capability will be available in the second half of February 2026. 

What you need to do to prepare

Review the information in the following article: Add watermarks to content generated or altered by using AI in Microsoft 365. If you decide to set the “Include a watermark when content from Microsoft 365 is generated or altered by AI” policy to Enabled, inform your users that a visual or audio watermark will be added to video and audio content that they generate or alter by using AI in Microsoft 365. 

🚀 What an amazing session yesterday!

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🙌 A huge thank you to everyone who joined our live event: Securing Productivity with Microsoft 365 Copilot! 💻✨

It was such a pleasure to connect with so many of you, share ideas, and dive deep into how we can boost productivity while keeping security front and center. 🔐💡

Your questions and engagement made the discussion truly insightful and interactive. This is exactly what makes these sessions so valuable—learning together and exchanging perspectives!

🎥 Missed the session? No worries!

We’ve got you covered. You can catch the full recording here 👇

✨ Grab a coffee ☕, sit back, and enjoy the insights—we hope you find some great takeaways to apply in your organization.

💬 I’d love to hear from you:

👉 How are you planning to use Microsoft 365 Copilot securely in your organization?

👉 What challenges or opportunities do you see when combining AI and security?

Drop your thoughts below! 👇💭 Let’s keep the conversation going and learn from each other.

#Microsoft365 #Copilot #Security #Productivity #AI #ModernWorkplace #Innovation #FutureOfWork #CyberSecurity #DigitalTransformation

📢 You’re Invited! M365 Copilot Data Protection, Security and Compliance

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🚨 Live Event Alert! 🚨
We’re thrilled to invite you to an exclusive live session where we’ll unpack some of the most pressing topics in the Microsoft 365 Copilot ecosystem:

🔐 Data Protection
🛡️ Security & Compliance
🤖 Responsible AI

📅 Date: November 12
🕗 Time: 8:00 p.m. EET (GMT +2)
🔗 Join us live: https://lnkd.in/dqtspW5K

Whether you’re an IT pro, security enthusiast, or just curious about the future of AI in the workplace, this session is packed with insights you won’t want to miss.

📌 Stay in the loop! Subscribe to our channel for updates on future sessions and expert content:
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👀 Looking forward to seeing you there!

Empowering Cybersecurity with Microsoft Purview Data Security Investigations (Preview)

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Data Security Investigations (preview) workflow helps you quickly identify, investigate, and take action on data associated with security and data breach incidents. This workflow isn’t a linear process. It includes significant iteration requirements for several of the steps to fine tune searches, evidence gathering, classification, and investigation by using AI and activities.

Analysts can use Data Security Investigations (preview) features in your organization to:

  • Quickly and efficiently search, discover, and identify impacted data.
  • Use deep content AI analysis to discover exact data risks hidden in data.
  • Take action to reduce the impact of data security incidents and quickly mitigate ongoing risks.
  • Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders on investigation details.

Check out the following videos to learn about how Data Security Investigations (preview) can help you respond to data security incidents:

DSI builds on and extends Microsoft Purview’s existing best-of-breed Data Security portfolio. Our information protection, data loss prevention, and insider risk management solutions have provided customers with a strong foundation to protect their crown jewels, their data. Data is at the center of cyberattacks, and now DSI will use AI to re-imagine how customers investigate and mitigate data security incidents, accelerating the process dramatically.  Most organizations we spoke to (77%) believe that AI will accelerate data security detection and response, and 76% think AI will improve the accuracy of data security detection and response strategies. With its cutting edge, generative AI-powered investigative capabilities, DSI will transform and scale how data security admins analyze incident-related data. DSI uncovers key security and sensitive data risks and facilitates secure collaboration between partner teams to mitigate those identified risks. This simplifies previously complex, time-consuming tasks – what once took months, can now be done in a fraction of the time.

Read more:
Get started with Data Security Investigations (preview)
Learn about Data Security Investigations (preview)

New feature-M365 Copilot Chat can now answer questions about the currently open page

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Microsoft introducing a new capability in Copilot Pages that allows Copilot Chat to answer questions based on the contents of the currently open page. This enhancement supports more efficient workflows by enabling users to get contextual answers directly within the side-by-side Chat experience, without needing to switch views or search manually.

When this will happen:
General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out in early October 2025 and expect to complete by early November 2025.

How this affects your organization:

  • Who is affected: Users with access to Copilot in Microsoft 365 who use Copilot Pages and Copilot Chat in side-by-side mode.
  • What will happen:
    • Users will be able to ask questions in Copilot Chat about the currently open page in Copilot Pages.
  • Copilot will respond using the content of the open page to provide contextual answers.
  • The feature will be ON by default for eligible tenants to configure.
  • Existing admin policies are respected; no policy changes are required.

What you can do to prepare:

  • Communicate this change to helpdesk and support staff.
  • Update internal documentation or training materials that reference Copilot Pages or Chat functionality.
  • Review user guidance to ensure users understand how to use Copilot effectively in side-by-side mode.

Learn more:  Manage Copilot Pages and Copilot Notebooks in your organization | Microsoft Learn

Compliance considerations
No compliance considerations identified, all compliance capabilities will be the same as the Microsoft 365 Copilot Pages experience.

Jo The Ciphermind: A Comic Journey Through Data, Privacy, and Security in Microsoft 365 Copilot

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Hello Friday 🎉 !
It’s time to unwind with a great story. Who doesn’t love comics?
I certainly do! So, let’s dive into my comic story and introduce you my character…
My new Tech Comic: Meet Jo Valiant the Guardian of Digital Realms & AI Ethics


🆕 Character
🦸 Name: Jo Valiant
✍ Alias: The Ciphermind
🚨 Role: Guardian of Digital Realms & AI Ethics
🗒️ Catchphrase: “Decode The Chaos.”


In a futuristic digital landscape where data flows like storms and privacy is constantly under threat, emerges Jo The Ciphermind—a guardian clad in encrypted armor and equipped with a mind shielded by advanced privacy protocols. Jo is not just a character but a symbol of resilience and vigilance in the realm of Microsoft 365 Copilot. With glowing blue accents and a brain symbol illuminated on the chest, Jo represents the fusion of human cognition and artificial intelligence. The headphones signify constant connectivity, while the surrounding icons—a padlock, AI chip, shield with a brain, and fingerprint—highlight Jo’s mission to protect data, ensure privacy, and uphold security. This slide introduces Jo as the protagonist of our comic-style journey, setting the stage for an engaging exploration of how Microsoft 365 Copilot integrates these critical elements into its ecosystem.

Balance of Innovation and Integrity
Jo’s journey highlights the balance between advancing AI innovation and upholding responsible data stewardship.

Jo’s Mission
Jo The Ciphermind’s mission transcends individual battles—it’s about empowering users with transparency, control, and trust in Microsoft 365 Copilot.

To be continue…

Data Loss Prevention: Restrict Microsoft 365 Copilot from processing emails with sensitivity labels

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Microsoft Purview’s Data Loss Prevention (DLP) now allows you to prevent Microsoft 365 Copilot from processing emails and other content marked with specific sensitivity labels by configuring DLP policies in the Microsoft Purview portal.

By creating a DLP policy with the “Content contains > Sensitivity labels” condition for the Microsoft 365 Copilot policy location, you can restrict Copilot from using this sensitive content in its responses and summarizations, thereby enhancing data protection.

This feature will allow DLP policies to provide detection of sensitivity labels in emails as enterprise grounding data and restrict access of the labeled emails in Microsoft 365 Copilot chat experiences. This feature only works for emails on or after 1/1/2025.

How this will affect your organization:

Organizations with no existing DLP for Microsoft 365 Copilot policies are not impacted. Customers with the required licenses will be able to go to the Microsoft Purview portal to create policies in the Data Loss Prevention solution. Admins can also go to Data Security Posture Management for AI (DSPM for AI) to see recommendations for creating Microsoft 365 Copilot policies.

Admins should create a new DLP policy using the Copilot location to use this feature:

Check also Microsoft Rodmap

Microsoft Teams: Copilot in Teams can analyze content shared on-screen during a meeting (Roadmap ID 325873)

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Microsoft Copilot will be able to answer questions based on content shared onscreen during a Teams meeting.

Microsoft: “Copilot will be able to understand slides, documents, spreadsheets, and websites, or anything else shared onscreen. Users will be able to ask simple recall questions, such as “Show me the content that was shared on the screen” or more specific questions like “what was the Sales target number” if it was shared on a previous slide. Users will also be able to combine screen-share with transcript and chat data to ask, “Show me all the slides and the feedback on each slide,” or “Rewrite the paragraph based on the comments from the audience”.”

Microsoft Update at August 2025

After further review, we are not able to continue rolling this out at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience. Now, Copilot in Teams can analyze content shared on-screen during a meeting when recording is enabled. This, along with meeting transcript and meeting chat, enables users to ask Copilot to summarize or find specific information from screen-shared content (e.g., ‘Which products had the highest sales?’), consolidate insights across both the conversation and presentation (e.g., ‘What was the feedback per slide?’), and draft new content based on the entire meeting (e.g., ‘Rewrite the paragraph shared on the screen incorporating the feedback from the chat’). This works for any content shared while sharing your desktop screen (including but not limited to documents, slides, spreadsheets, and websites, irrespective of platform or app). Support for PowerPoint Live and Whiteboard in Teams will be available at a later date.

Expected Release: August 2026

Security Copilot Agent in Microsoft Purview Overview (preview)

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Microsoft has introduced Security Copilot agents in Microsoft Purview (preview) to assist organizations automate and scale triage across Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and Insider Risk Management (IRM). These AI-powered agents are built on the Microsoft Security Copilot platform and leverage Security Compute Units (SCUs) to reason over alerts, analyze content, and priorities risk—at scale.

The Microsoft Purview Triage Agents run on Security Compute Units (SCU). Your organization must have SCUs provisioned for the agents to run SKU/subscriptions licensing.

When you deploy an agent, and when you edit triggers, you can select whether the agent will run automatically based on a set schedule or Agent will run manually on one alert at a time . If you select Run automatically based on a set schedule, the agent will triage the alerts that are included in the Select Alert timeframe setting.