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As the countdown to Christmas begins, the festive season brings a flurry of activities and a sense of urgency. With time at a premium, making the most of every moment becomes essential, especially when it comes to meetings. Microsoft 365 offers a suite of tools designed to make your meetings efficient and productive, transforming them into powerhouses of collaboration and innovation without the need to build core strength. Let’s explore how you can leverage these tools to navigate this busy season with ease and success.

In January 2025, Microsoft will roll out changes to storage policies for unlicensed OneDrive accounts. The change will impact IT administrators and OneDrive users who will be unable to access archived unlicensed accounts.  Further, unlicensed accounts tied to active users where the information is stored in OneDrive will be deleted.

Congratulations to Rangitikei District Council on this well-deserved recognition!

Welcome back to our Microsoft Monthly Update, where we highlight the latest Microsoft news and other important info, making it easy for you to stay updated.

This article is part of a series exploring effective management of your 365 storage; brought to you by Ian Morrish, Information Leadership Infrastructure and Cloud Practice Lead. 

AI is the topic of the month with a new report for Microsoft forecasting that Generative AI could add a massive $76 billion per year to New Zealand’s GDP by 2038. Word for Windows has also taken a leap forward in accessibility with their ‘Quick Fix’ functionality, and new Sharepoint features enable collaboration and restoring of content from version history.

One of the challenges that many of our customers face is the growing storage space demand in 365. We all know that new files have to be added to SharePoint regularly, but many customers lack a safe way of removing files that are not needed anymore, so they end up buying more space.

This month marks 20 years since Directors Sarah Heal and Grant Margison founded Information Leadership, believing there were better ways of delivering information management projects.

This month Copilot is making document editing a breeze with new word limits to summaries, and new capability to revise and reformat selected text. Unfortunately, this month wasn’t without its challenges for Microsoft with the CrowdStrike incident and other outages causing disruptions across New Zealand and the globe.

As Information Leadership approaches its 20th anniversary, co-founders Sarah Heal and Grant Margison are not resting on their laurels. With 65+ staff nationwide they are passionate about making work better with innovative solutions for customers needing serious information management.