Two Major Admin Control Updates for Copilot and Agent Management

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At Ignite Microsoft showcased and talked about two new admin controls for Copilot and Agents. These controls drew a significant amount of attention for their potential to simplify management and strengthen governance across Copilot experiences and AI agents. These capabilities are now emerging in preview, offering administrators early access to improved insights, expanded control surfaces, and more secure operational foundations. Copilot Overview Page Refresh in Microsoft 365 Admin Center First off is the redesigned landing page for Copilot in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center (MAC), giving admins an at-a-glance view of the Copilot journey across Chat, Agents, and M365 Copilot. This update  centralizes critical insights and success metrics, helping organizations accelerate adoption and maintain security posture. The refreshed page introduces success metrics such as Chat active users, assisted hours for licensed users, and satisfaction rate. Each Copilot pillar now includes multi‑...

Lost in the virtual time....

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No, this isn't a sci-fi blog. It's about windows time in a virtual environment. Some applications depend on the computers having the same time. And this is no problem if all virtual machines are running on the same host. But in my case, I have a one server running virtual servers, and one or more computers running virtualPC images to access the VM's on the server.
Now, in a perfect scenario, all computers should have the same time scource (At least within the same campus). But as in my case, the lab is totally isolated. Time servers are not available to the hostserver or the vm's (who always, unless told otherwise sync with host-time).
I have recently discovered a way to stop the virtual pc from syncing the hostoperating system. There is no gui for this, and you have to turn your VM off first. Then edit the .vmc file:
Find the section of the .VMC file that looks like this:
<integration>
<microsoft>
<mouse>
<allow type="boolean">true</allow>
</mouse>
</microsoft>
</integration>
Change it to look like this:
<integration>
<microsoft>
<mouse>
<allow type="boolean">true</allow>
</mouse>
<components>
<host_time_sync>false
</enabled>
</host_time_sync>
</components>

Restart the virtual machine, and set any time you like. Very handy, also when testing betas that have expired ;)