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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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22:13

Why Your Copilot Rollout Will Fail

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2025/11/21

Most Copilot rollouts fail—not because of technology, but because of people, culture, and workflow reality. In this episode, we break down the five failure modes that quietly kill Microsoft Copilot adoption inside real organizations. You’ll learn why “turning it on” isn’t enough, how leadership behaviors determine success, why governance panic stalls progress, and how targeted use cases and repeatable prompting frameworks can turn your rollout around in the first 90 days. This is the practitioner’s

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21:43

Stop SharePoint Hoarding: The Blob Storage Fix

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2025/11/21

If your SharePoint environment feels cluttered, inconsistent, or impossible to govern, this episode is your turning point. We break down why SharePoint hoards content, why search results often surface the wrong “final” version of documents, and how that chaos degrades Microsoft Copilot accuracy. More importantly, we walk through a practical, admin-approved, politically safe solution that offloads stale drafts and duplicates to Azure Blob Storage—without breaking collaboration or trust. This episode

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23:49

Microsoft Just Fixed Doc Libs: What You Missed

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2025/11/20

The New Doc Libs UX: Navigation That Actually Helps Work Happen Discoverability cuts meetings. Fewer clicks reduce errors. Obvious context prevents “Where did my files go?” drama. You don’t need more storage; you need a surface that shows intent. What’s new (and why it matters):Enhanced breadcrumbs: hop across folders and libraries without losing state. No more six-level backtracks.View switcher + filter pills: visible filters end blame games. Hover to see what’s applied; clear in one click.Options

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23:05

M365 Show - Microsoft 365 Digital Workplace Daily -...

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2025/11/20

Why DIY Agents Fail in M365 EcosystemsIdentity ≠ checkbox. “App-only” where you need act-as-user breaks permission fidelity, nukes audit trails, and fails review. M365 access is identity-bound (files, chats, calendars, mail).State is not optional. Scaling from a laptop to multiple nodes without shared conversation + turn state causes amnesia: lost clarifications, tool drift, repeated answers.Channel chaos. Teams, web, Slack, Outlook all differ (typing, cards, attachments, streaming). Hand-rolled

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21:11

M365 Show - Microsoft 365 Digital Workplace Daily -...

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2025/11/19

Context: Why Paginated Reports Exist (and Power BI Isn’t It) Executives want fixed layouts. Headers that repeat on every page. Page numbers that don’t lie. Legal disclaimers that never wander. That’s not a dashboard problem; that’s a print problem. Paginated Reports are RDL-based—print-first design. You connect an RDL to the same Power BI semantic model your dashboards use, but the engine renders to pages with strict control: paper size, margins, headers/footers, groups, and page breaks. No

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21:24

Stop Using DAX UDFs Wrong! The Hidden Gotchas

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2025/11/19

The Two Modes That Change Everything — VAL vs EXPR In DAX UDFs, parameter mode isn’t decoration; it’s semantics. It changes when evaluation happens, which changes the result.VAL = pass by value. Argument is evaluated once in the caller’s filter context; the function receives a fixed scalar. It behaves like a VAR: captured and frozen.EXPR = pass by expression. You pass the formula unevaluated; the function evaluates it in its own context every time it’s used. It behaves like a measure:

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19:11

Stop Syncing Your OneDrive Like It's 2007: Use Shortcuts

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2025/11/18

The Hidden Cost of Traditional Syncing (a.k.a. The 2007 Method) Clicking Sync on an entire library feels familiar. It’s also why your machine wheezes.Metadata overhead: the client tracks names, sizes, versions, permissions—for every item. Thousands of items = thousands of disk/CPU hits.File system tax: the OS renders thumbnails, indexes, and watches changes for folders you never use.Network churn: Files On-Demand still evaluates each item for changes and conflicts. Your bandwidth pays for “Are we

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20:33

3D Objects Are the Ultimate Test of Fabric...

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2025/11/18

🏗️ Defining Fabric Governance — The Foundation of Trust Governance in Fabric isn’t a checklist of forgotten policies. It’s the operating system for your data life—identity, permissioning, lineage, classification, policy, and monitoring—all wired directly into OneLake and workspaces. A 3D asset isn’t a file; it’s a constellation. High-resolution captures, meshes, textures, simulation parameters, and licensing metadata all move together. Each piece carries its own sensitivity and usage rights. Fabric

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22:45

Stop Building Dumb Copilots: Why Agentic RAG Is Your...

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2025/11/17

🙋‍♀️ Who’s This For🧠 CIOs / CDOs / Heads of AI — want auditable, verified, compliant answers🏗️ Enterprise & Data Architects — designing Azure-based copilots with real reasoning📊 BI / Analytics Leads — merging Fabric metrics + SharePoint context🛡️ Security & GRC Teams — enforcing OBO auth, RLS/CLS, Purview governance⚙️ Ops & Product Leads — need decisions, not hallucinations🔎 Search Tags Agentic RAG • Azure AI Agent Service • Microsoft Fabric • SharePoint Retriever •On-Behalf-Of

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22:59

Stop Paying for Cloud VMs: Run Azure on a Mini PC

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2025/11/17

🙋‍♀️ Who’s this forCIOs/CFOs cutting runaway cloud spend without losing governanceIT Architects/Platform Teams standardizing control across hybrid/edgeDevOps/SRE needing local latency + cloud-grade automationRetail/Manufacturing/Healthcare edge deploying at dozens/hundreds of sitesSecurity/GRC teams wanting unified audit, RBAC, and policy across on-prem + cloud🔍 Key Topics Covered 1) The Cloud Without the CloudAzure = muscle (hardware) + brain (control plane). You can rent the brain while

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22:41

Stop Typing to Copilot: Use Your Voice NOW!

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2025/11/16

🔍 Key Topics Covered 1) Opening — The Problem with Typing to CopilotTyping (~40 wpm) throttles an assistant built for millisecond reasoning; speech (~150 wpm) restores flow.M365 already talks (Teams, Word dictation, transcripts); the one place that should be conversational—Copilot—still expects QWERTY.Voice carries nuance (intonation, urgency) that text strips away; your “AI collaborator” deserves a bandwidth upgrade.2) Enter Voice Intelligence — GPT-4o Realtime APITrue duplex: low-latency audio

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23:19

Stop Your Cloud Migration: You Are Not AI Ready

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2025/11/16

🔍 Key Topics Covered 1) The Cloud Migration Warning (Opening)“Cloud-first” ≠ AI-capable. VMs in Azure don’t buy you governance, lineage, or identity discipline.Lift-and-shift moves location, not logic—you just rehosted sprawl in someone else’s data center.AI needs fluid, governed, traceable data pipelines; static, siloed estates suffocate Copilots and LLMs.2) The Cloud Migration Trap — Why Lift-and-Shift Fails AISpeed over structure: legacy directory trees, inconsistent tagging, and brittle

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23:25

The NVIDIA Blackwell Architecture: Why Your Data...

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2025/11/15

🔍 Key Topics Covered 1) The Real Problem: Your Data Fabric Can’t Keep Up“AI-ready” software on 2013-era plumbing = GPUs waiting on I/O.Latency compounds across thousands of GPUs, every batch, every epoch—that’s money.Cloud abstractions can’t outrun bad transport (CPU–GPU copies, slow storage lanes, chatty ETL).2) Anatomy of Blackwell — A Cold, Ruthless Physics UpgradeGrace-Blackwell Superchip (GB200): ARM Grace + Blackwell GPU, coherent NVLink-C2C (~960 GB/s) → fewer copies, lower latency.NVL72

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23:48

Dataverse Pitfalls Q&A: Why Your Power Apps Project...

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2025/11/03

Opening: The Cost AmbushYou thought Dataverse was included, didn’t you? You installed Power Apps, connected your SharePoint list, and then—surprise!—a message popped up asking for premium licensing. Congratulations. You’ve just discovered the subtle art of Microsoft’s “not technically a hidden fee.”Your Power Apps project, born innocent as a digital form replacement, is suddenly demanding a subscription model that could fund a small village. You didn’t break anything. You just connected the wrong

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21:53

The Hidden Governance Risk in Copilot Notebooks

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2025/11/02

Opening – The Beautiful New Toy with a Rotten CoreCopilot Notebooks look like your new productivity savior. They’re actually your next compliance nightmare. I realize that sounds dramatic, but it’s not hyperbole—it’s math. Every company that’s tasted this shiny new toy is quietly building a governance problem large enough to earn its own cost center.Here’s the pitch: a Notebooks workspace that pulls together every relevant document, slide deck, spreadsheet, and email, then lets you chat with it like

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23:49

The Difference Between Agents and Workflows in Copilot

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2025/10/27

People keep calling these “AI automations” like that phrase means anything. It doesn’t. You can’t lump a Copilot Studio agent and a Power Automate workflow into the same conceptual bucket any more than you can call a Roomba and a human housekeeper “similar cleaning devices.” One follows strict routines; the other interprets messy instructions and improvises when things get weird. Understanding that difference isn’t academic—it’s operational survival. Because as soon as you let an autonomous agent

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20:23

Why Your AI Flows Fail: The RFI Fix Explained

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2025/10/27

The Hidden Killer of Your “Smart” FlowsYour AI flow didn’t fail because of AI. It failed because it trusted you.That’s the part nobody wants to hear. You built an automation, called it “smart,” and then fed it half-baked data from a form someone filled out on a Friday afternoon. You assumed automation meant reliability—when in reality, automation just amplifies your errors faster and with more confidence than any intern ever could.Let me translate that into business language: your Copilot Studio

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10:57

Understanding Microsoft Fabric A Business Perspective

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2025/10/20

You have lots of complex data. It is hard to understand it all. Microsoft Fabric helps with this. It is one smart platform. It makes data analysis easy. It helps businesses make good choices. Businesses want to be better than others. The market for data tools will be worth $4.25 billion in 2025. This shows how important it is. Microsoft Fabric prepares your data for the future. We will explain Microsoft Fabric simply. This blog shows why it is good for your business. It helps you make choices using

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21:56

Stop Writing GRC Reports: Use This AI Agent Instead

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2025/10/20

Opening — The Pain of Manual GRCLet’s talk about Governance, Risk, and Compliance reports—GRC, the three letters responsible for more caffeine consumption than every SOC audit combined. Somewhere right now, there’s a poor analyst still copying audit logs into Excel, cell by cell, like it’s 2003 and macros are witchcraft. They’ll start with good intentions—a tidy workbook, a few filters—and end up with forty tabs of pivot tables that contradict each other. Compliance, supposedly a safeguard, becomes

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19:24

Microsoft Copilot Prompting: Art, Science—or...

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2025/10/17

Everyone tells you Copilot is only as good as the prompt you feed it. That’s adorable, and also wrong. This episode is for experienced Microsoft 365 Copilot users—we’ll focus on advanced, repeatable prompting techniques that save time and actually align with your work. Because Copilot can pull from your Microsoft 365 data, structured prompts and staged queries produce results that reflect your business context, not generic filler text. Average users fling one massive question at Copilot and cross

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