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.
Read digest →Zero-Trust
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.
Read digest →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.
Read digest →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.
Read digest →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.
Read digest →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.
Read digest →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.
Read digest →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.
Read digest →Executive's Guide — Week of 2026-05-19
A credential-only cloud breach, an actively exploited Linux vulnerability, and a hard November deadline for SAP integrations headline a week that demands attention from identity, security, and IT leadership.
Read digest →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.
Read digest →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.
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