by Andrew Hunt | Aug 10, 2026 | AI, IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
For the last couple of years, most of the talk about Microsoft Copilot has been about drafting emails, summarising meetings and helping with documents. Over the past few months, though, Microsoft has quietly added a new set of features that go well beyond personal...
by Andrew Hunt | Jul 31, 2026 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
If you’ve ever set up a Teams Room, you’ve probably used device code sign-in without giving it a second thought. The screen in the meeting room says something like “go to microsoft.com/devicelogin and enter code XYZ123”. You pull out your phone, sign in, approve the...
by Andrew Hunt | Jul 30, 2026 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
New Zealand has a new cyber security baseline For years the NCSC’s Critical Controls helped businesses focus on the security measures that made the biggest difference. They served us well. But the way we work has changed a lot: cloud services, working from home,...
by Andrew Hunt | Jul 24, 2026 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
You’re going to hear the word “passkey” a lot over the next year, ready or not. Microsoft has confirmed it’s making passkeys the default way to sign in to Microsoft 365 and Entra ID, starting September 2026. So it’s worth knowing what...
by Andrew Hunt | Jul 23, 2026 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
Have a look around your office and you’ll probably find it already. Someone writing emails with ChatGPT. Someone summarising a report in Copilot. Someone pasting a client spreadsheet into an AI tool to “just tidy it up quickly”. None of it is...
by Andrew Hunt | Jul 20, 2026 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
I’ve had some version of this conversation a lot lately: “We bought Copilot licences. We know AI matters. But hardly anyone is using it.” A year or two ago the debate was whether AI was worth paying attention to at all. That’s pretty much...
