A special welcome to our new sponsor, MSP Radio. For their first entry they are offering a free 68-point checklist to kick off your audits.
Meanwhile, Microsoft has a new competitor - Open AI. Kind of ironic since Microsoft gave so many billions to start that company. Open AI is introducing document, spreadsheet and slide producing apps. Microsoft has competitors, some of whole arrived on the scene to great fanfare and some who have been around a long time. No one has touched their market share. The question is, is this different? Yes or No? Vote below.
In the Newsletter this week
October is CyberSecurity month to kick it off, we have a lot of security content in this weeks newsletter, including a compelling and free 31 days cybersecurity challenge. This would make a great tech team training program. Add some incentives for completion!
4 things to know: Big take-away: AI favors hackers. Public preview of pay-as-you-go storage is live. Microsoft Voice transcription debuts at No.1. Try out 7 new features in M365 - or tell your clients to.
From Third Tier and B² MSP Advisors:
ThirdTier: Update your patching service. Article 3
B²: Is more automatically more valuable?
4 things to do: How to edit a SharePoint page with Copilot. How Outlook CA gets enforced. Play 31 days of CyberSecurity challenges. Bulk email improvements finally rolling out -- called Promotions
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Should Microsoft be worried about apps in ChatGPT?
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I hope that you enjoy this week's newsletter and tell everyone to subscribe.
thanks, Amy
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4 things to know: Big take-away: AI favors hackers. Public preview of pay-as-you-go storage is live. Microsoft Voice transcription debuts at No.1. Try out 7 new features in M365 - or tell your clients to.
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Read highlights from the 2026 Microsoft Digital Defense Report, which reflects a security environment that continues to grow more interconnected.
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Along with today’s launch of our top-ranking MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, we’re also announcing two new voice models: MAI‑Voice‑2.1 and our blazing-fast variant, MAI‑Voice‑2.1‑Flash.
Together, they give users the fast and fluid building blocks to create conversational experiences, with no compromise on accuracy or voice quality.
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We’ve rounded up some of the most popular features to release lately in your favorite apps. It’s not too late to try them out!
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From Third Tier and B² MSP Advisors:
ThirdTier: Update your patching service. Article 3
B²: Run a better business. New group forming Oct 27th
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How a connected device inventory replaces traditional patching to enhance your service model against modern threats and business risks.
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4 things to do: How to edit a SharePoint page with Copilot. How Outlook CA gets enforced. Play 31 days of CyberSecurity challenges. Bulk email improvements finally rolling out -- called Promotions
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Copilot in SharePoint now lets you select a section or web part before you prompt, so your edits land exactly where you want them on the page. Available now.
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If a CA policy applies to the attachment app and a targeted user doesn’t satisfy it, that user is blocked from downloading, previewing, or uploading classic attachments, including inline images. This happens even though they can still open and read the mail.
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Celebrate Cybersecurity Awareness Month with 31 interactive security challenges. Test your Microsoft 365 security skills with a new challenge every day.
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Admins can learn about bulk email detection, including the bulk complain level (BCL) values that are used in Microsoft 365.
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