“Bring your AI to work” is here: Microsoft edition - What Multiple Account Access to Copilot means

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Multiple Account Access to Copilot On October 1. 2025 Microsoft released a blog post explaining how employees now can use Copilot from their personal 365 plans to work on organizational data. This is of course, an extension of the already existing "Multi account" feature that was released for corporate accounts a "couple of months" ago. In other words, “bring your own Copilot” is now a real thing in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote on desktop and mobile, with enterprise protections intact. “Bring your AI to work” is an important topic, and banning AI altogether might not be the answer. Whether sanctioned or shadow, AI has already entered everyday knowledge work. Microsoft’s new multi‑account access offers a safer path where employees can use Copilot from their personal Microsoft 365 subscriptions on work files, while the file’s access, auditing, and compliance still flow through the work identity and tenant. That’s better than users copy‑pasting sensit...

Configure Skype for Business Cloud Connector Edition with your SBC

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Microsoft Ignite 2016 in Atlanta is now over. It has been a very busy week for all involved. It was a great opportunity to meet fellow MVP's, new and old partners and customers, and to get a glimpse of the future of Skype for Business (and whatevere else I got to go to).

I was given the opportunity to deliver a session on CCE as an appliance in a SBC, and had a great time doing so. The session is now live, and can be watched at Youtube:


I got great feedback, and might be following up with a couple of deep-dive sessions on the topic in near future.