Microsoft’s Copilot Studio has added a near‑real‑time monitoring and control layer for AI agents, letting enterprises intercept, evaluate and — when necessary — block agent actions as they execute, and giving security teams a new way to enforce policies at runtime without sacrificing agent...
Microsoft’s Copilot Studio has moved from built‑in guardrails to active, near‑real‑time intervention: organizations can now route an agent’s planned actions to external monitors that approve or block those actions while the agent is executing, enabling step‑level enforcement that ties existing...
Microsoft has quietly but meaningfully shifted the balance of power between autonomous AI agents and enterprise defenders: Copilot Studio now supports near‑real‑time runtime security controls that let organizations route an agent’s planned actions through external monitors (Microsoft Defender...
Knowing who is logged into a Windows Server at any given moment is an admin’s basic toolkit — it helps you troubleshoot resource contention, track unauthorized access, and clean up idle or orphaned Remote Desktop sessions quickly and safely.
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Microsoft has quietly added a new diagnostic aimed at keeping Copilot agents working reliably inside Microsoft Teams: the Copilot Agent Functionality Diagnostic — a customer-facing validator now accessible through Microsoft’s diagnostic surfaces and designed to surface licensing, permission, and...
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Microsoft has published an advisory for an information‑disclosure flaw affecting Dynamics 365 FastTrack Implementation Assets that can allow an attacker to disclose private personal information over a network — but the public record and vendor sources show a mismatch in the CVE identifier, so...
Hanmi Pharmaceutical’s decision to equip its field force with 5G-enabled Surface Copilot+ PCs and roll out Microsoft 365 Copilot across the business marks a clear inflection point in how a major R&D-centric pharmaceutical company is defining the “AI PC” era — a move intended to marry anywhere...
Microsoft has quietly deployed a fix for a noisy but harmless CertificateServicesClient (CertEnroll) error that began appearing in Event Viewer after July and August updates, and that resolution is bundled with the August 29, 2025 preview cumulative update KB5064081 for Windows 11, version 24H2...
Hotels face a crossroads: artificial intelligence promises smarter personalization and leaner operations, but when guest names, preferences or booking histories are casually copy-pasted into public chatbots the consequences can be legal, financial and reputational — as Amsterdam-based middleware...
Microsoft has quietly closed the loop on a recent Event Viewer nuisance in Windows 11 by shipping a targeted fix in the August preview update, addressing repeated CertificateServicesClient log entries that were cluttering system logs and unnerving admins despite posing no functional harm...
Microsoft will audit and then begin enforcing a block on NTLMv1–derived credentials in Windows 11, version 24H2 and Windows Server 2025: the change is gated by a new registry key (BlockNtlmv1SSO), exposes two new NTLM event IDs for Audit vs Enforce behavior, and will be rolled out in phases...
Security researchers have observed a coordinated, large‑scale reconnaissance campaign probing Microsoft Remote Desktop services that began as a sudden one‑day spike and escalated into a torrent of scans — a pattern that looks less like opportunistic background noise and more like deliberate...
Microsoft’s Copilot for Microsoft 365 was supposed to make AI agents safer to run at enterprise scale; instead, recent reports show a control-plane failure that left some agents discoverable and installable despite tenant-level policy locks—forcing administrators into time-consuming, per-agent...
Microsoft has pushed the refreshed Message Trace for Exchange Online out of preview and into general availability for worldwide (WW) tenants, triggering a hard look at automation, reporting integrations, and long-running scripts that rely on the legacy message-tracing stack; admins must plan now...
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Microsoft has moved the revamped Message Trace experience in Exchange Online out of preview and into general availability, bringing a faster UI, new PowerShell cmdlets, extended query windows, and new operational constraints that will change how administrators automate and extract trace data...
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Microsoft’s Copilot agent governance has slid into the spotlight after multiple, independent reports found that tenant-level policies intended to prevent user access to AI agents were not reliably enforced — a misconfiguration and control-plane gap that left some Copilot Agents discoverable or...
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Urgent: What CVE-2025-55229 Means for Windows — A Deep Dive for Admins and Power Users
By WindowsForum.com Staff Reporter — August 21, 2025
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Microsoft has published a vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-55229 that affects Windows certificate handling: an improper verification...
Microsoft’s Copilot is delivering real productivity gains across Word, Teams, Outlook and other Microsoft 365 surfaces — but a recent disclosure shows those gains can come at the cost of auditability: under certain prompting patterns Copilot has produced user-visible summaries and actions...
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