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Microsoft Audits Hosting Providers Every Other Year Now, and Most Have No Governance Plan

Nearly half of Microsoft hosting providers surveyed by SAMexpert were audited or verified within the past twelve months, a rate higher than researchers expected. Most run SPLA without a dedicated owner, and 47% have no audit governance plan at all. Alexander Golev and Daryl Ullman break down what separates providers who can prove their compliance position from those whose confidence has nothing behind it.
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Agentic AI in ITSM: 5 Ways Agentic AI Is Transforming the IT Service Desk

For 30 years, the ticket ran the IT service desk: submit, log, triage, resolve, close. Agentic AI in ITSM is retiring that model, executing fixes across systems rather than drafting them for a human to click through. There are five places IT leaders get this transition wrong, from inflated agentic claims to the governance gap most vendor decks skip entirely, and why the ticket itself may not survive the shift.
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5 Innovative ITSM Best Practices That Transform Your IT Help Desk

Most IT help desks stop at ticket resolution and leave the rest of the ITSM platform underused. Drawing on customer conversations and internal use at Desk365, this piece lays out five practical ways to push further: QR-code support requests, cross-department automations, AI-generated tickets from meeting notes, a single source of truth, and narrowly trained AI agents. Small changes, real gains in efficiency.
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