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06/15/2026

Join Karuana Gatimu and Heather Cook as they take you through the latest Microsoft news in AI, Microsoft 365 product updates, and community news & events!

� Episode 77 of "Mondays at Microsoft" goes LIVE on Monday, June 15th at 8:00 AM PT!

06/11/2026

They turned their biggest skeptic into their biggest champion. Here's how. 👇

At The Microsoft 365 Community Conference, Sarah Lundy sat down with Chris Dickey and Chris Martin of Nuveen at the Community News Desk to unpack the playbook behind their Viva Engage transformation.

What stuck with us:
📊 Stop selling the tool — connect communications to the outcomes leaders care about (retention, productivity), then prove it with metrics
🌱 Start small, pilot, and find your champions
🔄 How one skeptic became their loudest advocate
🤖 Let AI handle the tedious so communicators can focus on the work they love

If you're driving employee communications or adoption in your org, this is a masterclass. 🎙️

▶️ Watch the full interview: https://msft.it/6184v9Xko

06/10/2026

🍎 What's new with OneDrive on Mac?

In the latest episode of Sync Up, hosts Stephen Rice and Arvind Mishra chat with Jack Nichols, Partner Software Architect for OneDrive, about the latest investments making OneDrive feel more native, reliable, and polished on macOS.

Tune in to hear about:
✅ A refreshed Activity Center
✅ An updated Settings experience
✅ The new Native Sync Engine
✅ Continued improvements to performance, battery life, Spotlight search, and sync reliability
✅ Future support for syncing up to 1 million files

If you're a Mac user, or supporting Mac users, this episode is packed with insights into how the team is building a faster, smoother OneDrive experience.

🎧 Watch now: https://msft.it/6181vgtMz

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06/09/2026

Teaching people to use AI as a thought partner, rather than just a tool, doubled the odds of producing high quality work. That finding, from a new Microsoft study with GAP, captures exactly what Dr. Jaime Teevan came to The Microsoft 365 Community Conference to talk about.

At the Community News Desk, Jaime, Chief Scientist and Technical Fellow at Microsoft and one of the minds behind Copilot, sat down with Heather Cook for a grounded conversation about AI and collaboration.

Her message: the magic isn't a faster draft. It's using AI to think more deeply, see your work in new ways, and collaborate better across space and time. And as AI takes on more of the doing, the human edge moves up a level, to how we think, plan, and validate.

🎥 Full interview: https://msft.it/6182vgyiw

06/08/2026

What does “keeping up” with security alerts actually look like for your team right now? 🔐

Last month, we focused on identity and access. Now we’re continuing the conversation with a look at how schools are using automation to strengthen security operations without adding headcount.

Join us on June 23 for a live session exploring how Microsoft Defender XDR helps teams investigate and respond faster with a more “self-healing” approach to cybersecurity.

Choose the session that works best for you:
🕗 8:00–9:00 AM PST session https://msft.it/6188v5kvC
🕓 4:00–5:00 PM PST session https://msft.it/6180v5ka6

Can’t attend live? Register anyway and we’ll send the recording after the event.

06/08/2026

What’s next for Microsoft 365 archiving? 📁

File-level archiving is on the way, giving organizations more flexibility and control over managing inactive content while keeping it accessible when needed.

In this new video, the team walks through:
✅ What file-level archiving means
✅ Why it matters for long-term storage and governance
✅ How it can help optimize costs while maintaining access to important content

If you work with SharePoint, OneDrive, or Microsoft 365 administration, this is worth a watch.

🎥 Watch now: What's next: https://msft.it/6189v5ZLx

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06/05/2026

"If you can draw the line from communications to the balance sheet, that is when leaders really start to pay attention."

That is how Dan Mulcahey of Nuveen, a TIAA company thinks about earning a seat at the table, and it anchored his conversation with Sarah Lundy at The Microsoft 365 Community Conference.

His case for modern employee communications is built on results, not theory. By tying comms to the outcomes leaders care about, retention and productivity, and backing it with external benchmarking, Dan took Viva Engage at Nuveen from zero to 2.5 million impressions in under three years, with more than 25,000 reactions along the way.

The bigger shift: email is now fit for purpose only, reserved for the narrow cases where you do not want a conversation. Everything else, from org announcements to town halls, now lives where employees can actually engage.

As the function evolves in the AI age, his takeaway is clear. Communicators who speak the language of business value are the ones who get heard.

🎥 Full interview: https://msft.it/6180vdLoE

06/04/2026

AI is reshaping employee communications, but the heart of the work hasn't changed. It's still about people, and it's still about trust.

That was the throughline at the Community News Desk, where Allison Michels sat down with John Cirone and Amy Morris of Microsoft's Global Executive and Employee Communications team, who together help lead comms for more than 200,000 employees.

Some gems from the conversation:

✨Start with the problem, not the tool. Strategy comes from your data and the change you're trying to drive, and only then does the question of channel and voice follow.

✨Keep the human in the loop. AI can analyze, draft, and summarize, but the person shaping the prompts and inputs is what makes the output worth trusting. Never just copy and paste.

✨Let AI do what people couldn't at scale. Listening used to mean counting likes by hand. Now it can be fast, sophisticated, and actually useful.

🎥 Watch the full interview: https://msft.it/6182vdzBE

06/03/2026

Allyship isn't the thing that happens on stage. It's what happens in the rooms you're not in.

That was the heart of the Women in Tech & Allies Luncheon at the Microsoft 365 Community Conference. As Dr.. Jaime Teevan put it, the biggest impact people have had on her career came from those advocating for her when she wasn't present. With one crucial corollary: you have to let people know what to advocate for. You can't be sponsored for a future you've never said out loud.

That idea threaded through the whole panel, moderated by Danielle Moon and Heather Cook, with Kate Faaland, Vasu Jakkal, Sumi Singh, Lan Ye, and Karuana Gatimu.

Some of he big takeaways:
💟Ask out loud. Mentorship helps you figure out where you want to go. Sponsorship is someone sitting down and building the plan to get you there. Neither works until you can name the destination.
💟Make room for others. Allyship is seeing people as human beings, dropping rank, and reaching out with a simple "I see you," especially to the only woman in the room.
💟Know your worth. Use the tools in front of you to understand your value, and then normalize the conversation so the next woman can too.

None of the great things happen when we're alone. Community is what gets us to the next room.

🎥 Watch the full panel: https://msft.it/6189vjUJX

06/02/2026

"Security needs to be end to end and comprehensive, and in this age of AI that's more critical than ever."

Moments after she walked off the keynote stage at The Microsoft 365 Community Conference, Vasu Jakkal, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Security, sat down with Jonathan Jones at the Community News Desk for a clear-eyed look at securing the agentic era. 🤖

Her advice for leaders is refreshingly concrete: start with your data foundations. Classify it, label it, set the policies that tell your AI what to access and what not to. Then treat agents the same way you treat humans, with their own identity and controls.

She also reframes a few things worth sitting with:
- Security should be ambient and autonomous, because the AI it protects already is.
- Attackers think in graphs, so defenders need to think in graphs.
- Productivity and security aren't opposites. Done right, security is the best catalyst for productivity.

🎥 Watch the full interview: https://msft.it/6183vbC83