How Does Dynamics 365 Integrate With Microsoft 365 in GCC High?

As of September 2026, Dynamics 365 connects to Microsoft 365 through five integrations, Teams collaboration on records, Outlook and Exchange server-side synchronization of email, contacts, tasks and appointments, SharePoint document management, Power Apps built on the same Dataverse data, and Entra security groups and Conditional Access, and each one is...

Who Builds SharePoint Solutions for CMMC Level 3?

Three kinds of firm: a large federal systems integrator, a CMMC-focused security consultancy, or a Microsoft delivery firm with a compliance practice. Whichever of the three you shortlist, require two things in writing before you sign. First, delivery evidence against named control families in NIST SP 800-171 and a GCC...

Segregation of Duties: Which Automated Approvals Need a Second Human?

As of September 2026, under NIST SP 800-53 control AC-5, classify each automated approval by the action it can complete, not by the department that owns it. Where a single identity can both initiate and complete that action, the approval is a control and needs a second named human who...

Defender for Cloud Apps File Policies Retire: What Moves to Purview?

As of September 2026, Microsoft says Defender for Cloud Apps file policies retire on January 6, 2027 and, after that date, will no longer be supported or enforced, so every file policy has to be recreated as a Microsoft Purview DLP policy or an auto-labeling policy first, according to Microsoft’s...

When Should You Hire a Power Platform License Audit Consultant?

You hire a senior Microsoft implementation team to run this as a technology assessment, not an audit firm to run it as an attestation. The qualification that decides the outcome is build experience: whoever runs it has to have split an app and moved a connector before, because that is...

SharePoint Classic Pages and Custom Script: What Ends, and When?

As of September 2026, Microsoft’s timeline for SharePoint Online has two dates: beginning March 1, 2027, no tenant can create new classic publishing sites or activate the classic publishing feature, and beginning October 1, 2028, classic user-created pages in existing tenants become read-only and the ability to add or update...

Office Online Server Retirement: What Replaces It?

As of September 2026, Office Online Server retires on December 31, 2026, according to Microsoft, after which it receives no security updates, bug fixes or technical support; on premises, SharePoint Server users lose viewing, editing and collaboration on Office documents in the browser, and the document previews it generates will...

SPFx or Power Apps for SharePoint Online: Which Should You Build On?

As of September 2026, use Power Apps for SharePoint forms and apps when the business maintains them, and SharePoint Framework (SPFx) for whatever must render in the page, extend views or commands, or serve keyboard and screen-reader users there. Add-ins stopped for all tenants on April 2, 2026.

Power BI Q&A Retirement: How Do You Move Report Users to Copilot?

As of September 2026, Microsoft Learn says Power BI Q&A experiences are going away in February 2027 and recommends Copilot for Power BI. According to Microsoft Learn, Copilot needs paid Fabric capacity at F2 or higher or Power BI Premium at P1 or higher. Trial capacities and free SKUs are...

AS9100 Corrective Action: Dynamics 365, Power Apps or an eQMS?

As of September 2026, before an audit, according to IAQG, AS9100 lists clauses 10.2 “Nonconformity and corrective action” and 8.7 “Control of nonconforming outputs”. Keep nonconformances in Dynamics 365 when they start there, add Power Apps for workflow gaps, and buy an eQMS for multi-site CAPA.

Windows 10 LTSB and LTSC End of Support: Which Path for Each Device?

As of September 2026, Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB 2016 and Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSB 2016 end support on October 13, 2026 and Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 ends support on January 12, 2027, according to Microsoft, while Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021 moves to Extended Support that day...

.NET 8, .NET 9 and Azure Functions In-Process End of Support: A Guide to What Stops on November 10, 2026 and What to Fund First

As of September 2026, Microsoft ends support for .NET 8, .NET 9 and the Azure Functions in-process model on November 10, 2026, so move in-process function apps to the isolated worker model first, because that model is the only way past .NET 8, and move every .NET 8 and .NET...

Microsoft 365 Apps on Server 2022: Server 2025, AVD or Windows 365?

As of September 2026, Microsoft supports Microsoft 365 Apps on Windows Server 2022 only while Windows Server 2022 is in Mainstream Support, which ends on October 13, 2026; Microsoft will keep sending security updates for Microsoft 365 desktop apps on those hosts until October 10, 2028, but feature updates stop...

Azure Service Bus: How Should External Partners Get Access?

As of September 2026, let a third party reach Azure Service Bus only through the narrowest access Microsoft offers: its own queue, topic or subscription, and either a Microsoft Entra ID application holding the Azure Service Bus Data Sender or Data Receiver role at that entity or, for a queue...

Office 2021 End of Support: LTSC 2024 or Microsoft 365 Apps?

As of September 2026, move every machine that can reach the internet at least once every 30 days to Microsoft 365 Apps, which Microsoft recommends, and put machines that cannot take feature updates or cannot connect to the internet on Office LTSC 2024, the path Microsoft Learn gives for commercial...

Copilot Web Search and DLP: Can You Keep Regulated Data Out?

For Copilot web search queries, Microsoft says its Data Protection Addendum, HIPAA compliance and the EU Data Boundary do not apply, so keeping web search on is a decision for privacy, compliance and counsel. Purview DLP can also stop Copilot using the content of labeled files and emails.

Secure Boot Certificate Expiration: How Do You Update Every Device?

As of September 2026, two Secure Boot certificates Microsoft issued in 2011 have expired, the Microsoft Corporation KEK CA 2011 on June 24, 2026 and the Microsoft UEFI CA 2011 on June 27, 2026, and the Microsoft Windows Production PCA 2011 that signs the Windows boot loader expires on October...

Power App Rebuild SOW: What Must the Statement of Work Contain?

If your Power App is failing, its rebuild statement of work names seven things: the failures to close, the rebuild evidence, the data carried over, the licenses, a managed path to production, acceptance criteria, and phases ending on named events. If the process is not yet agreed, write discovery first.

Microsoft Industry Clouds for Regulated Enterprises: What Each One Is Now and When to Build Direct Instead

If your account team pitches a Microsoft industry cloud: as of September 2026, Microsoft’s pages describe its industry offerings as combining Azure, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Fabric and Power Platform. Adopt a prebuilt piece when it is generally available and fits your data model; otherwise build directly.

Microsoft Entra Non-Human Identities: How Do You Govern Them?

Governing non-human identities in Microsoft Entra means inventorying every application, service principal, managed identity and AI agent identity, and naming a human accountable for each. Keep access least-privileged and reviewed, replace stored secrets with managed identities or federation where supported, and govern agents through Entra Agent ID.