Posts

· 16 min read

Modern Work Weekly - Week of 2026-09-08

Four Critical CVEs land across Azure AD B2C, Copilot Studio, Azure AI Language, and Microsoft Fabric - plus GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1 go live in Copilot, and Exchange hybrid shops face a hard version-floor deadline starting this week.

Identity & Access Endpoint & Device Management Collaboration & Productivity AI & Copilot Employee Experience Security & Compliance
17 action items 15 CVEs
Read digest →
· 15 min read

Modern Work Weekly - Week of 2026-09-01

Autopilot device association reaches GA with hardware-backed pre-enrollment trust, Remote Help gets unattended Windows access, and two Critical-severity CVEs land alongside a heads-up from Exchange Online that legacy identifier properties may be on their way out.

Endpoint & Device Management Security & Compliance Identity & Access Collaboration & Productivity AI & Copilot
19 action items 15 CVEs
Read digest →
· 5 min read

Modern Work Weekly - Week of 2026-08-25

Purview gets two meaningful compliance additions this week - retention for Copilot Memory and DSI integration with endpoint DLP alerts - plus expanded Organizational Messages support for hybrid-joined devices.

Security & Compliance
3 action items
Read digest →
· 13 min read

Modern Work Weekly - Week of 2026-08-18

Exchange Server SE gets its August security updates while CU1 slips further, and a wave of CVE acknowledgment updates signals an active patch cycle. Engineers also get new Defender for Identity tooling, granular Purview audit logs on the horizon, and a useful roundup of Windows device recovery options.

Security & Compliance Collaboration & Productivity Identity & Access AI & Copilot Endpoint & Device Management
3 action items 15 CVEs
Read digest →
· 18 min read

Modern Work Weekly - Week of 2026-08-11

Entra Tenant Governance hits GA for multi-tenant control at scale, Defender for Identity expands sensor v3.x coverage to AD FS, AD CS, and Entra Connect, and the Copilot Domain Exclusion feature gets quietly rolled back - a lot moved this week.

Identity & Access Endpoint & Device Management Collaboration & Productivity AI & Copilot Employee Experience Security & Compliance
5 action items 15 CVEs
Read digest →
· 20 min read

Modern Work Weekly - Week of 2026-08-04

Defender for Office 365 Plan 1 lands in M365 E3, Writeback for Cloud-Managed Remote Mailboxes hits GA, and Midnight Blizzard is actively targeting hospitality sign-in portals - a rich week of capability unlocks alongside real threat intelligence to act on.

Identity & Access Endpoint & Device Management Collaboration & Productivity AI & Copilot Security & Compliance
6 action items 12 CVEs
Read digest →
· 5 min read

Modern Work Weekly - Week of 2026-07-28

A lighter week on volume but with two billing and governance changes that warrant immediate attention: Purview DLM moves to a volume-based billing model, and a new admin control lets you permanently purge People Skills data from your tenant.

Security & Compliance
3 action items
Read digest →
· 12 min read

Modern Work Weekly - Week of 2026-07-21

Passkeys become the default in Entra ID, Entra Backup and Recovery hits GA, and advanced Intune Suite capabilities land in M365 E3/E5 - a dense week for identity hardening and endpoint licensing.

Identity & Access Endpoint & Device Management Collaboration & Productivity AI & Copilot Security & Compliance
5 action items 8 CVEs
Read digest →
· 6 min read

Modern Work Weekly - Week of 2026-07-14

A light data week dominated by MSRC vulnerability disclosures for gawk and node-tar, plus an OWA Light retirement announcement that Exchange Server admins need to plan for.

Collaboration & Productivity Security & Compliance
3 action items 7 CVEs
Read digest →
· 8 min read

Modern Work Weekly - Week of 2026-07-07

Copilot Cowork goes GA worldwide with Claude Sonnet 5 and Sales Agent in tow, while five new CVEs land in AI and TLS libraries that may touch your supply chain.

Endpoint & Device Management Collaboration & Productivity AI & Copilot Security & Compliance
3 action items 5 CVEs
Read digest →
· 9 min read

Modern Work Weekly - Week of 2026-06-30

Six CVEs land across libxml2, GNU gzip, attr, and acl for Linux-adjacent workloads, Intune's June release doubles down on AI-era endpoint hygiene, and a malicious Chromium extension spoofing Perplexity AI is actively redirecting browser search. EWS retirement remains on track for its October 2026 deadline.

Identity & Access Endpoint & Device Management Collaboration & Productivity AI & Copilot Security & Compliance
5 action items 6 CVEs
Read digest →
· 10 min read

Modern Work Weekly - Week of 2026-06-23

EWS retirement hits its final phase with a hard October 2026 deadline, Intune Suite advanced capabilities land in M365 E3/E5 by August 1, and three Entra ID legacy auth controls are heading for retirement — this week is heavy on deadlines and migration obligations.

Identity & Access Endpoint & Device Management Collaboration & Productivity AI & Copilot Security & Compliance
5 action items 7 CVEs
Read digest →
· 8 min read

Modern Work Weekly - Week of 2026-06-16

Entra Tenant Governance surfaces shadow tenants, Purview DSPM for AI hits GA, and computer-using agents in Copilot Studio are production-ready — a feature-dense week with meaningful capability unlocks across identity, data, and automation.

Collaboration & Productivity AI & Copilot Security & Compliance
5 action items 2 CVEs
Read digest →
· 8 min read

Modern Work Weekly - Week of 2026-06-09

Teams Live Events dies June 30 — migrate now. Exchange Server OWA has an active XSS CVE. Meanwhile, Purview ships posture reporting, Copilot Studio goes fully agentic with computer-use GA, and Entra tackles shadow tenant sprawl.

Endpoint & Device Management AI & Copilot Security & Compliance
5 action items 1 CVE
Read digest →
· 14 min read

Modern Work Weekly - Week of 2026-06-02

CVE-2026-42897 demands immediate patch action on all on-prem Exchange deployments, while Teams Live Events hits its June 30 retirement deadline — but this week also delivers real capability unlocks across AI agent governance, Purview posture reporting, and Entra multi-tenant visibility.

Identity & Access Endpoint & Device Management Collaboration & Productivity AI & Copilot Security & Compliance
3 action items 1 CVE
Read digest →
· 13 min read

Modern Work Weekly - Week of 2026-05-26

Global Secure Access hits a GA trifecta this week with iOS client, cloud firewall for remote networks, and file-type content filtering all shipping. Pair that with Purview DLP sync dropping from 2 hours to 30 minutes and the Intune Data Warehouse v1 connector retirement, and there's real work to do.

Identity & Access Endpoint & Device Management Collaboration & Productivity AI & Copilot Security & Compliance
5 action items
Read digest →
· 10 min read

Modern Work Weekly - Week of 2026-05-19

Dirty Frag is being actively exploited on Linux endpoints. Storm-2949 proves credentials alone are enough to wipe a cloud environment. Know what needs action now.

Identity & Access Endpoint & Device Management AI & Copilot Security & Compliance
Read digest →
· 11 min read

Modern Work Weekly - Week of 2026-05-17

Two hard June deadlines, hotpatch going default across all eligible devices, and Agent 365 is now the live control plane for AI governance. This week has teeth.

Identity & Access Endpoint & Device Management AI & Copilot Security & Compliance
7 action items
Read digest →