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Top 10 Microsoft Ignite 2025 Highlights Every Microsoft 365 Administrator Should Know

November 25, 2025December 5, 2025Brian Alderman

Microsoft Ignite 2025 delivered one of the most transformative sets of announcements we’ve seen in years — especially for Microsoft 365 administrators responsible for productivity, security, governance, and now AI-driven operations. The shift toward agent-based workflows, deeper intelligence layers, and unified governance means the admin role is rapidly evolving from “systems operator” to “AI orchestrator.” If you’re a Microsoft 365 admin, consultant, architect, or IT decision-maker, here are the top 10 Ignite highlights that will shape how you manage and secure your environment in 2025 and beyond. Agent 365: A Unified Governance Platform for AI Agents The star of Ignite was Agent 365, Microsoft’s new central control plane for managing… Read More

Microsoft Teams Premium is Released

February 20, 2023July 30, 2024Brian Alderman

In February 2023, Microsoft announced that Microsoft Teams Premium is generally available. Microsoft Teams Premium is an add-on per-user license used to enhance the Teams experience. Teams Premium includes the integration of OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 making one-on-one meetings, large meetings, virtual appointments, and webinars more intelligent, personalized, and secure. Some of these features are already available as individual add-ons, but when you start adding up the total cost of these add-ons, it can get a bit pricey on a per-user basis. Microsoft includes all these individual add-ons in Microsoft Teams Premium for one low per-user price. Speaking of pricing, the per-user pricing of Teams Premium is $10 per user per month.… Read More

SharePoint Server 2019: What you can expect

June 3, 2018June 3, 2018Brian Alderman

Microsoft made several announcements at the SharePoint Conference North America in Las Vegas last week, and one of the biggest announcements that everyone wants to hear about is; what is happening with SharePoint Server 2019. Well, I have some hot-off-the-press information about what Microsoft is saying we can expect in SharePoint Server 2019. Microsoft Senior Product Manager Bill Baer delivered a session the first day of the conference to share the exciting news about what’s in store for SharePoint on-premises Admins, and developers. We can summarize it in one word: Modern. I’ll be focusing on the IT Pro information, but provide a smidge of developer info, and I will begin… Read More