This Week in IT

This month, Microsoft has started throttling email from outdated Exchange servers, Entra is taking control away from Active Directory, Microsoft and AWS are embracing multi-cloud, and Windows Search is finally becoming less opinionated. Are these isolated updates, or signs that Microsoft is fundamentally changing how enterprise IT is managed?👏 Sponsored by Cayosoft 

Microsoft is merging the consumer and commercial versions of Copilot into a single app but is your corporate data governance ready? At the same time, they've launched an AI security platform where autonomous agents hunt for your vulnerabilities around the clock, and published an AI containment framework that says, in black and white, if you let the AI decide when to ask a human, you've already lost control. Plus, for the first time, Entra admins can discover and govern every tenant connected to their organisation.👏 Thanks to Cayosoft for sponsoring this episode!

Copilot Cowork is here but so are Copilot Credits, cost controls and awkward ROI questions.This month, Russell Smith and Craig Birch also dig into Windows Ready Print, NTLM’s future, and Microsoft’s passkey push.🔗 Episode resources: https://petri.com/podcast/copilot-cowork-is-here-but-can-you-control-the-costs/#microsoft365 #windows11 #microsoftcopilot #artificialintelligence Thanks to  Cayosoft  for sponsoring this episode!

This week, the Mac Mini quietly became the default home for always-on AI agents — and your users are probably already running them outside your security boundary. Meanwhile, VMware just dropped an ARM hypervisor. And if you needed a reason to treat AI agents like real identities, a coding agent just wiped an entire production database and every backup in nine seconds flat.👏 Thanks to Cayosoft for sponsoring this episode!

This Week in IT, Google Chrome is silently downloading a 4 gigabyte AI model onto devices right now and unless you've deployed one specific policy, there's nothing stopping it. Meanwhile, Microsoft's fix for a sluggish Windows 11 is to spike your CPU to the max when clicking, and they just started the deprecation clock on Entra Connect Sync whether Entra Cloud Sync is ready or not.👏 Thanks to Cayosoft for sponsoring this episode!