Steve Thoms

Microsoft 365 Lead | Productivity Helper | Former Professional Googler & Modern Device Management Engineer

[Steve Thoms @thomstech12]

New on the M365 roadmap this week: Copilot in Excel will soon run parallel AI searches that cross-check each other's work before returning results. Microsoft's betting that coordinated agents beat single-pass reasoning for research tasks. The quiet admission here is worth noting.

[Steve Thoms @thomstech12]

Testing

[Steve Thoms @thomstech12]

Microsoft shipped a default-on Teams policy blocking unregistered AI bots from meetings. Notetakers like Otter and Fireflies get flagged as 'suspected threats' in the lobby. If your org relies on these, check Teams Admin Center now — this may silently break workflows.

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

In a 3% experiment, removing the Top-30 highest paid revenue share accounts from the For You timeline increased both time spent and daily active users on X.

[Steve Thoms @thomstech12]

Have any companies adopted memory at an enterprise level? I’m curious if organizations are even considering that.

[Speaker 25 @rodtrent]

Microsoft unveils Memora to tackle AI agents’ memory problem https://t.co/03Qcsb4up7

[Steve Thoms @thomstech12]

I’m wondering if skills eventually help get rid of macros in Excel…

[Laura Rogers, Microsoft MVP @WonderLaura]

Copilot in Excel is getting a big upgrade for finance teams. 📊
New features include:
✅ Skills for repeatable workflows (DCF models, variance analysis, forecasting)
✅ Financial data connectors like FactSet, Morningstar, PitchBook, and S&P Global
✅ Better traceability with planning, change attribution, and audit-friendly transparency
AI isn't just generating answers—it can now show its work. 🔍

#Microsoft365 #Copilot #Excel #Finance

[Laura Rogers, Microsoft MVP @WonderLaura]

Copilot in Excel is getting a big upgrade for finance teams. 📊
New features include:
✅ Skills for repeatable workflows (DCF models, variance analysis, forecasting)
✅ Financial data connectors like FactSet, Morningstar, PitchBook, and S&P Global
✅ Better traceability with planning, change attribution, and audit-friendly transparency
AI isn't just generating answers—it can now show its work. 🔍

#Microsoft365 #Copilot #Excel #Finance

[Steve Thoms @thomstech12]

ActivTrak analyzed 443M hours across 1,111 companies. After AI adoption: email up 104%, chat up 145%, focused work down 9%. The term researchers landed on: AI brain fry. Productivity gains are real — but so is the fragmentation cost.

[Steve Thoms @thomstech12]

I’m always amazed at how many people don’t utilize memory in Copilot - it should be mandatory training for Copilot.

https://t.co/qbAoTweFBu

[Wassim Chegham @manekinekko]

I love the diagram feature of the @github Copilot App, works well with my fleet IoT side projects!
Kudos to @lichinlin 🎊

[Steve Thoms @thomstech12]

When M365 users can choose between Copilot, ChatGPT, and Gemini, Copilot's active share drops to 8%. Make it the only tool available? 68%. For any product lead building the renewal case, that 60-point gap is the most honest number in the room.

[Mike Beauvais @MikeBeauvais]

Rob Reiner’s five-film run from 1986 to 1992 is as impressive as they come.

Five unforgettable movies spanning five different genres is something not just any director can pull off.

Rest in peace.

[Gary Blok [GARYTOWN.COM] @gwblok]

I've been building a custom #PowerShell OSD frontend for @2pintsoftware #DeployR that also works in #ConfigMgr OSD and made it available for anyone to use / modify. Driven by JSON Config

Check out the Post Here:
https://t.co/HRUDpLWDx3

@GitHubCopilot helped a lot! #SCCM

[Brian Mason @abetterpc]

Welcome Reception on an aircraft carrier. I'm in!

[Steve Thoms @thomstech12]

@IntuneSuppTeam Thank you!

[Steve Thoms @thomstech12]

Have you gotten reports around the amount of Intune UI typos in the recent release? This is in the remediations section but I’m seeing “removes” in other areas as well @IntuneSuppTeam

[Steve Thoms @thomstech12]

@IntuneSuppTeam Thank you!

[Steve Thoms @thomstech12]

Are you seeing any reports of Intune Management Agent crashing? @IntuneSuppTeam We are seeing this starting on September 24th:

https://t.co/n8DgykCgoL

[Steve Thoms @thomstech12]

@awakecoding @PrzemyslawKlys Cloudflare pages/workers might be worth looking into.

[Steve Thoms @thomstech12]

@IntuneSuppTeam @1stitman I sent you guys a link to someone else seeing it on the Microsoft tech community and my organization is also seeing it.