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- 1 weeks ago8 min
New Conditional Access policy plans in Microsoft Entra
Group related Conditional Access policies into policy plans and define users, apps and conditions once for every rule in the plan. Add a rule for each requirement, like phishing-resistant MFA or compliant devices, and keep the shared scope in one place. Build a plan around a user group, like headquarters staff, or a shared condition, like high agent risk, and start from templates. Merge existing policies into a plan with the migration tool. It pulls shared conditions up to the plan and turns each policy into a rule. Your current policies stay enforced until you cut over. Etan Basseri, Principal Product Manager, Microsoft Entra, shares how plans and rules fit together in the Microsoft Entra admin center. 👥 Who it's for: Identity and security admins who manage Conditional Access in Microsoft Entra, and architects planning how to organize or migrate large policy sets, including access controls for AI agents. ⏱️ Chapters: 00:00 Conditional Access policy plans in Microsoft Entra 00:48 Track policies beyond naming prefixes 01:29 How shared conditions and rules work 02:41 Create a policy plan for HQ users 03:43 Add a phishing-resistant MFA rule 04:43 Add a compliant device rule 05:51 Block high-risk AI agents in one plan 06:56 Migrate existing policies into a plan 08:11 Keep policies enforced until cutover What are Conditional Access policy plans? They organize access controls around an objective, either a persona like employees, external guests or administrators, or a security goal like requiring compliant devices or securing agent activity. Plan-level attributes cover identities, resources and applications, user actions and authentication context, plus shared conditions like risk levels, devices, network locations and client app types. Each rule layers its own conditions and grant or session controls on top. Plans live in a new Policy plans view, next to your existing policy list under Con
- 3 weeks ago12 min
Fight AI with AI | Multi-Agent Security Defense
Match AI-powered attacks at machine speed with Project Perception. Point red, blue, and green AI agent teams at a known threat actor, confirm which vulnerabilities attackers can reach, then deploy KQL detections, harden your posture, and merge a tested code fix in minutes with Microsoft Defender. Stay in control and approve key actions before agents run them. Run Microsoft's pre-built playbooks or build your own, and manage sessions from the Defender portal or from your terminal with the MCP plug-in. Keep token costs low with MAI Cyber Flash, a purpose-built security model inside MDASH. Dave Weston, CVP Microsoft Security, shares how Microsoft's threat intelligence and incident response expertise power agents you direct. 👥 Who it's for: SOC analysts, security engineers, and red and blue teamers evaluating agentic AI for defense, plus AppSec and DevSecOps teams who own vulnerability remediation. ⏱️ Chapters: 00:00 Fight AI-powered attacks with AI agents 00:45 How AI attacks adapt mid-breach 01:39 Jailbroken and abliterated models 02:04 Inside the Project Perception security stack 03:28 Red, blue, and green agent teams 04:07 Playbooks that orchestrate agent workflows 04:43 Ask Perception if you're protected 06:06 Red team agents emulate a threat actor 06:59 Approve high-impact agent actions 07:26 MDASH findings confirm reachable vulnerabilities <a class= "ytAttributedStringLink ytAttributedStringLinkCallToActionColor" tabindex="0" href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afXHGzGNAtM&t=502s" target="" aria-label="8 mi
- Oct 5, 20269 min
Build Automated Agents, Workflows, and Apps - New in Copilot Studio
Take a business process from prompt to production by building agents, workflows, and apps in one place with Copilot Studio. Describe the agent you need and generate its instructions and reusable skills, choose the model, connect MCP tools and specialist agents, then test its quality at scale with Evaluations. Trigger workflows from incoming email, classify submissions, hand work to your agents, and pause for human review on the decisions that need it. Track timing and paths for every step in the Activity tab. Then generate a full stack app on your Dataverse data so your team can filter, review, and approve every bid from one shared view. Jack Rowbotham, Copilot Studio Senior Product Manager, shares how to automate a procurement process for bids from multiple vendors, using agents that reason, route, and recommend. 👥 Who it's for: IT admins, Power Platform makers, solution architects, and developers building agentic solutions, plus operations and procurement teams automating reviews and approvals. ⏱️ Chapters: 00:00 Build agents, workflows, and apps in one place 01:04 Automate a multi-vendor bid review end to end 02:18 Build an agent from a prompt 03:28 Add models, MCP tools, and specialist agents 04:13 Test the bid agent in Preview 05:05 Evaluations 05:59 Automated workflows 07:42 Track every run in the Activity tab 08:13 Build an app from a prompt 09:10 Approve bids from the team app <a class= "ytAttributedStringLink ytAttributedStringLinkCallToActionColor" tabindex="0" href= "htt
- Sep 23, 20269 min
Create agents fast with Agent Builder in Copilot
Build a specialist AI agent without writing a line of code. Describe what you want in one prompt, and Copilot Agent Builder generates the name, instructions, skills, and knowledge setup for you — grounded only in the SharePoint sites, files, and Copilot Connectors you choose. Teach your agent a Skill to handle recurring work, like drafting weekly status emails from your own template, then test it in Preview before you publish. Share it with people or groups and set exact permissions, track real usage in the new Monitor tab, and push your best agents into your org's Agent Store catalog. Ned Friend, Group Product Manager for Copilot Agent Builder shares how to turn an agent into a tool your whole team can run, measure, and trust. 👥 Who it's for: Team leads and managers who want trusted, repeatable answers for their team, plus IT admins and Microsoft 365 power users building specialist Copilot agents without code. ⏱️ Chapters: 0:00 Build specialist agents inside Copilot 0:34 Ground agents in trusted org knowledge 1:31 Create a new hire onboarding agent 2:15 Natural-language agent creation 2:41 Ground answers in SharePoint knowledge 4:13 Skills for repeatable tasks 4:53 Precise knowledge grounding 6:37 Preview and test before publishing 7:03 Share your agent with set permissions 7:39 See the new hire's agent view 8:22
- Sep 1, 20269 min
New Agent 365 controls for Microsoft admins
Govern every AI agent running across your organization with Agent 365. Track agents from Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Salesforce in one registry, sync in agents you're already running on AWS Bedrock, Google Cloud, Databricks Genie, and Anthropic Claude, and lock down shadow AI with default blocks and Execution Container isolation. Agent 365 inspects your environment for every agent Microsoft and partners have registered, then layers control on top. Reusable security policy templates apply Conditional Access, Access Packages, and Custom Security Attributes the moment you approve an agent, Tools governance blocks risky MCP servers and connectors org wide, and the Adoption Dashboard breaks down usage by group, job function, and license type for every manager in your org. Jeremy Chapman, Microsoft 365 Director, shares how to bring every agent in your organization under one governed registry, and how to shut down shadow AI before it ever compromises your environment. 👥 Who it's for: IT admins, security engineers, and identity teams governing AI agents across Microsoft 365, Entra, Purview, Defender, and Intune; solution architects designing agent access, tools, and security policy at scale; developers and DevOps teams building and registering agents and custom MCP servers in Copilot Studio, Agent Builder, and Foundry; and team leads, finance, and IT leaders tracking agent adoption, usage, and spend across the organization. ⏱️ Chapters: 00:00 Why you need an AI agent control plane 02:00 See every AI agent across your environment with the unified agent registry 02:50 Track local AI activity with OpenTelemetry and the Agent Map 03:16 Sync AI agents from AWS Bedrock, Google Cloud, Databricks and Claude with Registry Sync 03:55 Approve, publish and block AI agents across your organization 04:42 Manage MCP servers, plugins and connectors with Tools governance 05:18 Apply reusable security policy templates across Entra, Purview, Defender and Intune 06:06 Block shadow AI and isolate local agents with Microsoft Execution Containers <a class= "ytAttributedStringLink ytAttributedStringLinkCallToActionColor" tabindex="0" href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kmlNeW-MnE&t=383s" target="" aria-lab
- Aug 21, 202615 min
Windows 365: Five Years In, See What's New
An AI agent works inside your Windows 365 Cloud PC from a Teams chat on your phone — finding downloaded files, editing documents, and drafting emails with your laptop lid closed. Microsoft Scout, a new Autopilot agent powered by the open source OpenClaw project, runs on your own Cloud PC using your identity, your files, and your apps. Developers get a Developer Optimized Cloud PC preloaded with GitHub, VS Code, and Node.js that runs Foundry Local for token-free AI coding, and input and output protection capabilities black out the screen when anyone tries to capture a sensitive file. Bhavya Chopra, Windows 365 Partner Director, joins Jeremy Chapman, Microsoft 365 Director, to show how Windows 365 now covers every seat — end users, developers, admins, and the AI agents working alongside them. 👥 Who it's for: architects and IT teams deploying AI agents like Scout and Windows 365 for Agents, developers who want a pre-configured cloud coding environment with local AI, security and compliance teams enforcing data loss prevention on remote desktops, and admins managing Cloud PC connection health. ⏱️ Chapters: 0:00 What's new across Windows 365 Cloud PCs 0:59 Why Cloud PC adoption keeps accelerating 2:04 Healthcare and telecom Windows 365 case studies 3:14 Sign in to a full Windows desktop anywhere 4:10 Block screenshots with input and output protection capabilities 4:35 Pull table data from images with Click to Do 5:19 Resume your Cloud PC session on an iPad 5:52 Publish Cloud Apps with Windows 365 Flex 7:01 Give AI agents a dedicated Cloud PC 7:27 Run Microsoft Scout from a Teams chat <span cla
- Jul 16, 20267 min
Build your first Power App from data in seconds
Build a fully working model-driven app from your existing Dataverse, SharePoint, or SQL data in under a minute — screens, navigation, and forms included. Generate new pages from a natural language prompt with Generative Pages, auto-populate records from any document in seconds with Automatic Form Fill, and embed Copilot to query your app data directly. Layer in an Agent Feed to proactively surface decisions, missing data, and action items, then connect to Outlook and Microsoft 365 through Work IQ to act on your app data without leaving your inbox. Jed Brown, Power Platform Group Product Manager, shares how to turn existing business data into a modern, AI-powered app. ► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - Create apps using Power Apps 01:07 - Create an app from existing data 02:26 - Copilot + Form Fill Assist 03:46 - AI-generated pages from a prompt 04:53 - Agent feed for proactive intelligence 06:16 - M365 integration via Work IQ 06:46 - Wrap up ► Link References Build your first Power App today at https://make.powerapps.com ► Unfamiliar with Microsoft Mechanics? Microsoft's Official Video Series for IT - Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/c/MicrosoftMechanicsSeries - Microsoft Tech Community: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-mechanics-blog/bg-p/MicrosoftMechanicsBlog - Podcast: https://microsoftmechanics.libsyn.com/podcast ► Join us on social: - https://twitter.com/MSFTMechanics - https://www.linkedin.com/company/microsoft-mechanics/ - https://www.instagram.com/msftmechanics/ - https://www.tiktok.com/@msftmechanics
- Jul 15, 20269 min
Microsoft Entra Suite hands-on tour of identity and network access protections
Unify identity and network access controls. Enforce least privilege access across every app and resource. Wire lifecycle workflows directly to your HR system to strip stale permissions on role changes, gate sensitive data behind biometric step-up verification, and replace your VPN with per-app, identity-scoped access that revokes tokens the moment risk spikes. Secure AI usage at every layer. Block confidential data from reaching public AI tools and stop adversarial prompt injections before your agents process them. John Damon, Microsoft Entra Suite Senior Product Manager, shares how to lock down identity, network access, and AI usage from a single control plane. ► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - Identity and network controls 00:45 - Lifecycle Workflows 01:28 - Verified ID with Face Check 02:15 - Request access for direct reports 03:17 - Global Secure Access + Token Revocation 04:32 - Secure AI usage 06:20 - Network DLP / ChatGPT Block 07:12 - Prompt Injection Protection 08:31 - Wrap up ► Link References Check out our related deep dives at https://aka.ms/EntraSuitePlaylist For more information, go to https://aka.ms/EntraSuite ► Unfamiliar with Microsoft Mechanics? As Microsoft's official video series for IT, you can watch and share valuable content and demos of current and upcoming tech from the people who build it at Microsoft. • Subscribe to our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MicrosoftMechanicsSeries • Talk with other IT Pros, join us on the Microsoft Tech Community: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-mechanics-blog/bg-p/MicrosoftMechanicsBlog • Watch or listen from anywhere, subscribe to our podcast: <a href
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