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Data governance on WindowsForum.com covers the policies, permissions, and audit controls that determine how AI assistants and enterprise platforms access organizational data. Discussions focus on Microsoft 365 Copilot, Google Workspace Gemini, Power BI Copilot, and Microsoft Fabric, emphasizing that endpoint controls alone cannot solve data-exposure risks. Topics include default-enabled data sources, connector frameworks that avoid copying licensed content, governed analytics models, and the impact of cancelled migration tools like the Microsoft Purview Unified Catalog. The tag also addresses national AI policy gaps and practical IT governance decisions around identity, data boundaries, and entitlement checks for secure AI deployment.
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    Askpolly Joins Microsoft Copilot Cowork: Data Governance Questions for Dynamics 365 and Power BI

    Askpolly, an Ottawa-based market-research company, says it has plugged its social-media research platform into Microsoft Copilot Cowork. Research Live reported the news on October 9, 2026. The company's own announcement went out on October 1. For admins who run Dynamics 365, Power BI and...
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    Microsoft Fabric OneLake Catalog Adds Table-Level Search Preview: Permissions and Admin Settings

    Microsoft Fabric's OneLake Catalog is getting table-level search in preview. Searches will return individual tables instead of only the Fabric items that contain them. The feature was announced in a Fabric Community post. It was meant to start rolling out in late September, so don't assume every...
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    King V Principle 10: SQL Server 2016 Support Risks and Windows Server 2016 Audit Evidence

    South Africa's new King V governance code is being read by many boards as a reporting chore. Johan Lamberts, managing director of Ascent Technology, argues in ITWeb that it is more than that. He says Principle 10 makes directors accountable for the database estate now, not for a paragraph in a...
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    Business Central RT0056 Telemetry Audits Open in Excel Exports in 2026 Wave 2

    If you run Dynamics 365 Business Central, the Open in Excel button has long been a gap in your logs. A user could take a list of customers, vendors or posted invoices into a spreadsheet, and the environment's telemetry recorded nothing specific about it. Microsoft is closing that gap. Roadmap...
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    Viva Insights Agent Dashboard Export: Default-On User-Level Copilot Metrics Arrive in Late 2026

    Microsoft is adding a download button to the Viva Insights Agent Dashboard. It lets the right people pull out week-by-week, user-level data on how Copilot agents are being used. That has three practical effects. Your organisation's AI analysts can go further than the dashboard's charts. Your...
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    Daivio AI Analyst Launches for Microsoft Fabric: OneLake Data Residency and Security Questions

    Microsoft Fabric has a new third-party tool for analysts who are tired of cleaning messy spreadsheets. DATA AI ANALYSIS LTD, a company based in Tel Aviv, announced on September 29, 2026 that Daivio, which it calls an "AI analyst for Microsoft Fabric," is now available as a workload in the Fabric...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot Security: Fix Oversharing, Permissions and Purview Governance First

    Microsoft 365 Copilot does not break into anything. It uses the doors your organization already left open. That distinction runs through a new feature on information protection and insider risk in the Copilot era. The piece argues that generative AI rarely creates new data governance failures...
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    Microsoft Fabric Migration: SoCura Rebuilt Qlik Sense Reports

    SoCura gGmbH, a German IT service provider, has replaced its old Qlik Sense reporting environment with a Microsoft Fabric platform built by the consultancy Dataciders. The company says data now reaches reports up to 70% sooner and moves from source to report up to 80% faster, across several...
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    Databricks Buys Row Zero for Planned Governed Genie Spreadsheets

    Databricks said on September 24, 2026, that it has bought Row Zero, a cloud spreadsheet that works on live data. Databricks plans to build Row Zero into Genie, its AI assistant for business teams, so finance, sales and operations staff can move from a chat answer into a spreadsheet without...
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    Power BI Copilot Preview Lets Write Users Edit Semantic Models

    Current guidance on business intelligence (BI) strategy agrees on one point: AI assistants such as Copilot in Power BI are only as reliable as the data and semantic models behind them. As a result, the BI projects worth funding in 2026 are the ones built around specific business decisions, one...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot Loses Legacy Teams Retention in October

    Microsoft will stop letting legacy Microsoft Teams retention policies implicitly govern Microsoft 365 Copilot interactions in October 2026, creating a compliance gap for tenants that have relied on the old combined policy location without realizing it. Roadmap item 571306, published September...
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    Outlook Web Profile Cards Custom Fields Now Due October 2026

    Microsoft has moved its plan to let organizations place custom, externally sourced properties on Microsoft 365 profile cards to October 2026, giving tenant administrators a more direct way to surface HR and internal-directory data when employees view colleagues in Outlook on the web. The feature...
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    Copilot Studio Ask Jack Agent Paused for Portal Refresh

    Jack Fertility says it built its “Ask Jack” fertility-information agent in Microsoft Copilot Studio in days, then spent three to four weeks refining it — a sharp contrast with the 12 to 16 weeks and £30,000 to £45,000 the startup says a conventional rules-based chatbot would have required. The...
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    MSP Copilot Readiness Lags Behind Governance Demand

    Microsoft 365 Copilot’s appeal for managed service providers is clear: clients are asking for help with AI governance, while providers see a potential reduction in routine workload. But an August 2026 survey of 193 MSP professionals suggests that permission hygiene, repeatable tenant baselines...
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    Atlassian Rovo Teams Connector Indexes DMs by Default

    Atlassian has added a Microsoft Teams connector to its Teamwork Graph, allowing Rovo Search, Chat, and Agents to retrieve Teams messages, channels, meeting chats, and—after extra configuration—meeting transcripts alongside Jira and Confluence content. The practical benefit is clear for...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot Powers Wipro iSkill for 240,000 Staff

    Wipro says its internal iSkill agent is bringing personalized learning recommendations to more than 240,000 associates through Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams, using Microsoft Fabric, Power BI and SharePoint to connect role data, certification history and course catalogs. The immediate...
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    China AI Plan Ties Chip Support to Data and Algorithm Controls

    China’s Cyberspace Administration has published a 2026–2030 action plan that explicitly tells its core technology and cybersecurity companies to pursue high-end AI chips, stronger foundation models, AI agents and embodied intelligence, while accepting tighter oversight of algorithms, data...
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    China’s 2028 AI Dataset Plan Raises Supply-Chain Risks

    China’s June 2026 dataset policy is a serious bid to make industrial and public-sector data more usable for AI, but it is not a published plan to supply “what the world’s AI knows.” The National Data Administration’s document sets a domestic target: by the end of 2028, China wants validated...
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    Google Workspace Intelligence Enables 4 Sources by Default

    Google Workspace’s Workspace Intelligence is enabled by default for supported tenants, allowing Gemini features to actively retrieve relevant context from Gmail, Drive and Docs, Calendar, and Google Chat. That is a real governance change worth auditing—but it did not arrive quietly this week...
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    Windows 11 Copilot: Endpoint Controls Can’t Fix Data Exposure

    Copilot governance on a managed Windows PC now starts with a less glamorous task than choosing an AI policy: determining which Copilot experience is actually installed, which identity is using it, and which data boundary applies. TechTarget’s assessment of the expanding Copilot risk surface is...
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