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M365.FM - Modern work, security, and productivity with Microsoft 365

Mirko Peters (Microsoft 365 consultant and trainer)

Welcome to the M365.FM — your essential podcast for everything Microsoft 365, Azure, and beyond. Join us as we explore the latest developments across Power BI, Power Platform, Microsoft Teams, Viva, Fabric, Purview, Security, and the entire Microsoft ecosystem. Each episode delivers expert insights, real-world use cases, best practices, and interviews with industry leaders to help you stay ahead in the fast-moving world of cloud, collaboration, and data innovation. Whether you"re an IT professional,

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82:01

The Agentic Advantage: Scaling Intelligence Without...

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2026/02/10

Most organizations hear “more AI agents” and assume “more productivity.” That assumption is comfortable—and dangerously wrong. At scale, agents don’t just answer questions; they execute actions. That means authority, side effects, and risk. This episode isn’t about shiny AI features. It’s about why agent programs collapse under scale, audit, and cost pressure—and how governance is the real differentiator. You’ll learn the three failure modes that kill agent ecosystems, the four-layer control plane

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82:34

How to Build a High-Performance Agentic Workforce in...

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2026/02/09

Most organizations believe deploying Copilot equals deploying an agentic workforce. That assumption quietly kills adoption by week two. In this episode, we break down why most AI agent rollouts fail, what actually defines a high-performance agentic workforce, and the 30-day operating model that produces measurable business outcomes instead of demo theater. This is not a hype episode. It’s an execution blueprint. We cover how to design agents that replace work instead of imitating chat, why

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84:27

Beyond the Sidebar: How Altera Unlocks the Autonomous...

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2026/02/08

Most organizations think “AI agents” mean Copilot with extra steps: a smarter chat box, more connectors, maybe some workflow buttons. That’s a misunderstanding. Copilot accelerates a human. Autonomy replaces the human step entirely—planning, acting, verifying, and documenting without waiting for approval. That shift is why fear around agents is rational. The moment a system can act, every missing policy, sloppy permission, and undocumented exception becomes operational risk. The blast radius stops

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80:59

The Fabric Governance Illusion: Why Your Data...

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2026/02/07

Most organizations believe Microsoft Fabric governance is solved the moment they adopt the platform. One tenant, one bill, one security model, one governance story. That belief is wrong — and expensive. In this episode, we break down why Microsoft Fabric governance fails by default, how well-intentioned governance programs turn into theater, and why cost, trust, and meaning silently decay even when usage looks stable. Fabric isn’t a single platform. It’s a shared decision engine. And if you don’t

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78:06

You Don’t Have a Microsoft Tool Problem — You Have a...

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2026/02/06

Most Microsoft 365 governance initiatives fail — not because the platform is too complex, but because organizations govern tools instead of systems. In this episode, we break down why assigning “Teams owners,” “SharePoint admins,” and “Purview specialists” guarantees chaos at scale, and how fragmented ownership turns Microsoft 365 into a distributed decision engine with no accountability. You’ll learn the real governance failure patterns leaders miss, the litmus test that exposes whether your tenant

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78:55

The Resilience Mandate: Leading Security in the Age...

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2026/02/05

Most organizations believe they are well secured because they have deployed modern controls: phishing-resistant MFA, EDR, Conditional Access, a Zero Trust roadmap, and dashboards full of reassuring green checks. And yet breaches keep happening. Not because tools are missing—but because trust was never engineered as a system. This episode dismantles the illusion of control and reframes security as an operating capability, not a checklist. We explore why identity-driven incidents dominate modern

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76:58

The Architecture of Excellence: Why AI Makes Humans...

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2026/02/04

Most organizations still talk about AI like it’s a faster stapler: a productivity feature you turn on. That framing is comforting—and wrong. Work now happens through AI, with AI, and increasingly because of AI. Drafts appear before debate. Summaries replace discussion. Outputs begin to masquerade as decisions. This episode argues that none of this makes humans less relevant—it makes them more critical. Because judgment, context, and accountability do not automate. To understand why, the episode

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75:23

The End of Outsourced Judgment: Why Your AI Strategy...

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2026/02/03

Most organizations think their AI strategy is about adoption: licenses, prompts, champions. They’re wrong. The real failure is simpler and more dangerous—outsourcing judgment to a probabilistic system and calling it productivity. Copilot isn’t a faster spreadsheet or deterministic software. It’s a cognition engine that produces plausible language at scale. This episode explains why treating cognition like a tool creates an open loop where confusion scales faster than capability—and why

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76:26

Showback Is Not Accountability

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2026/02/02

Most organizations believe showback creates accountability. It doesn’t. Showback creates visibility—and visibility feels like control. Dashboards appear. Reports circulate. Cost reviews get scheduled. Everyone relaxes. But nothing in the system is forced to change. A dashboard is not a decision.A report is not an escalation path.A monthly cost review is not governance. This episode dismantles the illusion. You can instrument cloud spend perfectly and still drift into financial chaos. Real governance

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89:29

The Governance Illusion: Why Your Tenant Is Beyond...

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2026/02/01

Most organizations believe Microsoft 365 governance is something they do. They are wrong. Governance isn’t a project you complete—it’s a condition that must survive every day after the project ends. Microsoft 365 is not a static system you finish configuring. It is an ecosystem that continuously creates new Teams, Sites, apps, flows, agents, and access paths whether you planned for them or not. This episode strips away the illusion: why policy existing doesn’t mean policy is enforced, why

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103:21

MCP: The End of Custom AI Glue

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2026/01/31

Everyone is suddenly talking about MCP—but most people are describing it wrong. This episode argues that MCP is not a plugin system, not an API wrapper, and not “function calling, but standardized.” Those frames miss the point and guarantee that teams will simply recreate the same brittle AI glue they’re trying to escape. MCP is a security and authority boundary. As enterprises rush to integrate large language models into real systems—Graph, SharePoint, line-of-business APIs—the comfortable

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78:25

The Carbon Control Plane: Microsoft’s Impossible Audit

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2026/01/30

Corporate Social Responsibility is usually treated like branding. This episode argues that view is obsolete. CSR now functions as a control plane—a governance system that constrains how companies operate under real physical limits: power, carbon, water, land, and regulation. Using Microsoft as a case study, the episode examines what happens when sustainability stops being a pledge and starts becoming infrastructure. Microsoft promises to be carbon negative by 2030, yet its emissions have risen as

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82:41

The Anatomy of an Auditable ESG Stack

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2026/01/29

Most ESG programs are built to tell a story. Auditors aren’t listening for stories—they’re looking for evidence. In this episode, we dismantle the most common misconception in sustainability reporting: that ESG is a report. It isn’t. ESG, if it’s going to survive assurance, regulation, and investor scrutiny, must behave like a system of record. This is a deep dive into what “audit-grade ESG” actually means in system terms—and how to build it on Microsoft Cloud without relying on dashboards,

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122:05

VAT in the Digital Age: The Architectural Redesign of...

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2026/01/28

VAT in the Digital Age: The Architectural Redesign of European Trade VAT was designed for a paper economy. Returns were periodic, invoices were documents, and errors were absorbed at month-end. But modern businesses don’t run on paper anymore—they run on APIs, automated billing, marketplaces, instant settlement, and platform economics. ViDA (VAT in the Digital Age) is the EU acknowledging that reality. This episode explains why ViDA is not a compliance refresh, not an e-invoicing mandate, and not “a

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56:57

The Explainability Frontier: Why Low-Code Challenges...

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2026/01/27

Low-code promises speed—but at scale, speed without explainability becomes executive risk. In this episode, we unpack why “fast” is not the same as “scalable,” how abstraction quietly erodes governance, and why leaders end up accountable for systems they can’t explain. From audit failures to operational fragility and vendor exit crises, this conversation reframes explainability as a leadership control, not a technical preference—and shows why notebooks, not more policy, are emerging as the

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56:35

Beyond ITSM: The ServiceNow and Microsoft Power Play

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2026/01/26

Most organizations think ServiceNow is a ticketing tool and Microsoft is a productivity suite. Both assumptions are wrong—and they’re why enterprise work still breaks under pressure. In this episode, we unpack why ITSM was only the entry point, why tickets don’t control outcomes, and how real enterprises need an operating layer that turns human intent into governed execution. This is a deep dive into workflows, orchestration, and why Microsoft and ServiceNow aren’t competitors—they’re two halves of

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58:00

The Future of Enterprise Connectivity: Unlocking...

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2026/01/25

Episode OverviewMost enterprises think connectivity is a plumbing problem. It isn’t. It’s an intent problem. In this episode, we break down why integrations keep failing even when APIs and connectors exist—and how a new architecture model built on Copilot Studio, Logic Apps, and MCP changes what’s possible. This isn’t a product demo. It’s a set of executive mental models for building enterprise AI that scales without collapsing under governance, audit, and operational reality. 🔑 Core Themes &

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51:09

From Tables to Strategy: What Smart Dataverse Models...

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2026/01/24

(00:00:00) The Data Verse Dilemma (00:00:38) The Low-Code Fallacy (00:01:56) The Model as Story (00:04:45) Data Verse as a Semantics Engine (00:08:02) Leadership's Role in Data Modeling (00:12:59) The Importance of Consistent Modeling (00:15:48) Relationships: The Backbone of Data Modeling (00:21:00) Deployment and Governance in Data Verse (00:32:35) The AI Imperative (00:32:51) AI's Dependence on Clear Data Models This episode was inspired by Bülent Altinsoy Microsoft MVP, who delivered a

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55:47

The Teams Admin Center Trap

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2026/01/23

Most organizations treat the Teams Admin Center like it’s the control tower for Microsoft Teams. It isn’t. It’s a service console—useful, visible, and familiar—but it does not decide who gets in, who gets blocked, or what gets a token. That authority lives upstream, in identity. In this episode, we dismantle the most common Teams governance myth: that configuring Teams is the same as controlling Teams. It’s not. Teams consumes decisions—it doesn’t make them. Microsoft Entra ID issues tokens and

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55:41

Architectural Drift: Governing Autonomous AI Models...

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2026/01/22

Most teams assume AI agents will standardize their Power BI and Fabric models. They won’t. They produce outputs that compile, render, and even perform—while the meaning quietly changes underneath. That silent shift is architectural drift: when your semantic layer keeps answering questions, but no longer answers the same question, for the same reasons, across teams and time. In this episode, we define architectural drift in practical Fabric terms, trace exactly where it begins, and explain why

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