VA6LAT DE VA3EZR QSL. You are 5/9 on Blueski eh, 73.

My older Surface Pro's HD was within a few hundred MB of being filled. Today I cleared off 12GB of unused apps and OneDrive files I don't need local, only to watch it full right back up again with who knows what. Pending updates? Other OneDrive stuff? No way to know.

"... as long as we don't see snow or some other condition that would be impossible to predict."

Tried to park on two streets around Dundas and Os, I think Tuesday, and both the app and machines reported no parking due to snow clearing, even though both were already cleared. Asked staff at the store I was at and that's the way it had been since the weekend. Store owners were ticked.

Sign the Petition Remove Pete Hoekstra as US ambassador to Canada. Let's send Pete Packing!

Sign and share: the petition to kick MAGA ambassador Pete Hoekstra out of Canada. Gotta love this initiative.

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The people opposing the change do not understand the concept of a walking community. They want to live in suburbs where you get in a car and drive to food and retail.

Shadow AI poses a greater risk than overshared content. Providing managed GenAI does not need to be held up by protecting company secrets, you can do both and that's what I've been busy with these days.

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An article on GenAI training in today's Star describes the need to align training to recognize that different roles will use AI in different ways, and the need to deliver for different learning styles, often generational. The solution? More AI. Interesting read. www.thestar.com/business/opi...

Mostly metal. It's where I put the metal.
#zunelife

Oh man, they should have told those people they should have the Weather Network app for that.

I sure hope the Weather Network didn't rely on them for anything, like
Warnings!

Singh took the bait and triggered the election and these outcomes became hard to avoid. Wish they could have coordinated better, but at that point trust was hard to come by.

This week in "your devices aren't really yours," Google announces end of life for early Nest thermostats. What a great time to switch to another brand.

Now was it stupider if he did it to make some billionaires richer, and it backfired, or if he genuinely believed this magic thinking might actually work? Or if he was conned into believing this magical thinking just might work? And how many stood by and watched? Cucked by their own economy.

The common denominator is stupid. Companies that stake their reputations on being "smart," on wanting to instill their "smarts" in our daily lives. Bowed to stupid and here we are.

Stunning Brooks, that is one glamourous pup.

Inept doesn't begin to describe it. Would not last 30 seconds in a real job except to bore livestock to sleep.

Thanks to @buckleyplanet.bsky.social for hosting #CollabTalk once again. Great questions prove I don't need to know a lot about a topic to have opinions (though experience with Studio certainly helped)! Have a great day out there, cheers.

A7: My suggestion for the future of agents is to make it easier to make user context available in the prompt priming script - user roles, location, event their expertise with a topic, can influence how the agent should answer and what it should assume. All my votes go on that request. #CollabTalk

A6: It's hard to say what feature I'm waiting for most with SharePoint & Copilot agents. I honestly think multiple fully developed add-ins are a better model than having multiple agents in a chat, and that one could prove a net minus. #CollabTalk

A5: With Copilot agents, I haven't found it easy to pull info from the current user's profile (role, home office, current location), perhaps this is easier with SP agents thought I wouldn't expect it, and that context often matters. #CollabTalk

A5: The biggest constraint of Copilot agents I find is that they often need a lot of context guidance to provide good answers. Who's asking and are answers role-dependent? What office are they in and what content applies there? Will it ask the right (or any) follow-up questions? #CollabTalk

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A4: Getting a view of unique permissions, sharing links, and external access in M365 is a must-have for any org that values security. My favourite tool there is Envision IT's Tenant Dashboard (envisionit.com/products/m36...), which gives you all that at a glance. It's a truly killer app. #CollabTalk

A4: Preparing for SP Agents is identical with Copilot in general - have a unified view of your content and permissions and a plan to remediate oversharing, and then layer in Purview for Info Protection, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), and Retention. #CollabTalk

A3: The Q is about managing the SP Agents that people will create and I think training & awareness are still the best answers. People who understand basic prompt engineering are able to build useful agents. Holding hacklabs and other events where they can learn + build is a great start. #CollabTalk

Here's where I defer to people who've been planning SharePoint Agents - managing the rollout is really important and allows an opportunity to tap IT's experience and familiarity with company AI policy (presuming there is one!). #CollabTalk

My personal SP tenant has decades of writing and reference on everything from fly fishing to electronics to music, and agree - the ability to unlock _my own_ forgotten knowledge is amazing #CollabTalk

Lifecycle planning is really important to be sure old content cycles out. About half of clients preparing for Copilot are also rolling out Purview Retention Labels & Policies at the Team and Site-scope to ease the process in the long run. #CollabTalk

A2: To enable effective, security-minded SP agents, it's still best to take a "Teams-first" approach to site planning. Avoid unique permissions, subsites, and all those things that make permission audits difficult. #CollabTalk

A1: SharePoint Agents make it possible for anyone to make a Q&A app to ask questions about content in SP - Copilot Studio is not necessary. I just built a Copilot Studio agent for Policies and Procedures, and now an end user could conceivably do the same without IT's involvement. #CollabTalk

A1: Since SP agents are still fairly new it's worth posting a link to what we're talking about: support.microsoft.com/en-us/office...