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    South & Vale’s Azure Exit: Taking Control of Local Government IT

    South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse District Councils completed a 2025 exit from a nearly decade-long outsourced IT model, moving 800 Windows 11 laptops, 14 legacy servers, and Teams-based telephony into a Microsoft Azure environment built with Node4. The case, reported by THINK Digital...
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    Microsoft’s AI in Education 2026: Copilot Tools, Guardrails, Training for Schools

    On June 24, 2026, Microsoft released its third annual AI in Education Report from Redmond and announced new no-additional-cost AI tools for Microsoft 365 Education, aimed at helping schools turn widespread classroom experimentation into structured, responsible use before ISTELive 26 in Orlando...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot Auto-Install Returns in June 2026: Admin Controls Tested

    Microsoft has resumed the automatic installation of the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on eligible commercial Windows PCs in June 2026, targeting devices with Microsoft 365 desktop apps already installed while excluding tenants in the European Economic Area. The move revives a deployment plan...
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    Microsoft Pauses Automatic Microsoft 365 Copilot App Rollout on Windows 11

    Microsoft’s decision to pause automatic deployment of the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on Windows 11 is a small operational change with outsized symbolic value. It suggests the company is still committed to making Copilot a central part of the Microsoft 365 experience, but it also shows that the...