Microsoft 365 Copilot Super App, Passkeys Enforcement & More: Top Enterprise Changes

Tom Arbuthnot and Rolf (Change Cockpit) review the enterprise Microsoft 365 changes worth acting on now, including the rumoured Copilot "super app" merging Copilot Chat, Cowork, Autopilot and GitHub Copilot, passkey nudges from 1 September ahead of SMS and voice MFA decommissioning, and Copilot credit spending limits that have stopped working. They also cover Teams Rooms passwordless resource accounts and the removal of the memberOf dynamic membership operator.

In the first episode of our new format, Tom Arbuthnot (Empowering.Cloud) and Rolf (Change Cockpit) break down the biggest Microsoft 365 enterprise changes you need to know about:

- Microsoft's Copilot "Super App" - merging Copilot Chat, Cowork, Autopilot, and GitHub Copilot into one experience

- Passkey enforcement & phone MFA nudges starting September 1st, with SMS/voice auth being decommissioned by Microsoft

- Copilot credit cost management changes that may have broken your existing spending limits

- Mobile app voice notes for recording in-person meetings via the Copilot app

- OneNote multimodal capture (voice, images, typing) as an alternative way to capture meeting content

- Passwordless Entra resource accounts for Teams Rooms

- The "member of" rule operator being removed from dynamic membership rules in Entra ID

If you manage Microsoft 365 for your organisation, these changes could directly impact your users - don't get caught off guard.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Introductions and new format
• 1:08 Copilot "super app": what Microsoft has said so far
• 7:09 Licensing, compliance and model mix questions
• 7:36 Passkey enforcement and phone MFA nudges from 1 September
• 9:31 SMS and voice decommissioning and telecom provider options
• Copilot credit cost management changes break existing limits
• 13:11 Copilot mobile app voice notes for in-person meetings
• 15:15 OneNote mobile multimodal capture
• 17:33 Passwordless Entra resource accounts for Teams Rooms
• 19:21 memberOf rule operator removal in Entra ID and Intune
• 21:31 Feedback and wrap-up

Key insights

• Satya Nadella said the Copilot super app is coming this quarter, meaning Microsoft fiscal Q1, ending September, with no roadmap or message centre item yet.
• From 1 September, passkey nudges apply to all users who could enrol SMS or voice under your authentication methods policy, not just those already enrolled.
• Disable SMS and phone call as MFA methods now for affected users, or use the forthcoming Entra admin centre option to postpone the nudge.
• Microsoft will stop providing SMS and voice authentication from 1 February next year; telecom provider solutions in the security store were stated for 18 September.
• Changes to Copilot credit cost management have broken previously configured spending limits, so recreate them, especially if pay-as-you-go is enabled.
• Copilot mobile voice notes for in-person meetings allow up to 120 minutes of recording and are on by default, with an admin toggle to disable.
• OneNote mobile multimodal capture combines audio, images and typing into a Copilot notebook, already on iOS with preview in the second half of August.
• The memberOf rule operator is being removed from dynamic groups, administrative units and Intune targeting; affected rules go stale from the beginning of November.

Insights summarised by AI from the episode transcript, reviewed by the Empowering.Cloud team.