Microsoft 365

Microsoft’s January 15, 2024 announcement expanded access to Copilot for Microsoft 365 for small and medium-sized businesses. This official milestone brought AI assistance within familiar productivity applications into reach for more organizations. For a business considering adoption, the central question is how that assistance fits its people, information and daily work. Choose work that benefits from assistance A useful starting point is a recurring task with a clear...

On October 1, 2022, Microsoft began the scheduled retirement of Basic Authentication for several Exchange Online connection methods. The change affected older email clients and applications that depended on those methods. Microsoft’s lifecycle announcement identifies the start of the rollout; it was not a single simultaneous cutoff for every organization and every email protocol. Why the authentication method matters Basic Authentication relies on a username and password...