Confident or covered? Microsoft MVPs unpack the 2026 State of Microsoft 365 report
Confidence isn't control. Four Microsoft MVPs will separate the real risks from the noise and take your questions.
We asked IT teams in 9 countries about migration, governance, compliance, and AI in Microsoft 365. The answers don't add up.
Confidence is up. So is exposure. Why?
To answer that, we’re bringing four Microsoft MVPs together in this roundtable: Marc D. Anderson will dig into where the risk actually sits and what to fix first. Laura Rogers will explain why none of these problems started with Copilot. Jasper Oosterveld will show how differently compliance lands in Europe versus North America. Richard Harbridge will connect it to what he sees across the ecosystem.
What we'll dig into:
- Why are the most confident teams having the most incidents? 93% say their governance is ready for AI. Among the most confident, exposure hits 37%.
- What makes AI's return on investment so hard to prove? 86% expect measurable ROI within 18 months, but 51% can't see what it costs.
- How the tooling gap widened in the year everyone deployed Copilot. 82% had a governance incident and only 1% use a tool built to prevent one.
- How compliance went from a gate to a stop sign. Teams delaying or avoiding migrations over compliance jumped from 20% to 34% in a year.
Findings come from The State of Microsoft 365: Migration, governance, and the AI reckoning in 2026—a survey we conducted across nine countries: 943 IT professionals on migration, governance, security, and compliance, and 851 IT leaders on AI governance.
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