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PODCAST

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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22:59

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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22:26

Copilot’s ‘Compliant by Design’ Claim: Exposed

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2025/10/17

Everyone thinks AI compliance is Microsoft’s problem. Wrong. The EU AI Act doesn’t stop at developers of tools like Copilot or ChatGPT—the Act allocates obligations across the AI supply chain. That means deployers like you share responsibility, whether you asked for it or not. Picture this: roll out ChatGPT in HR and suddenly you’re on the hook for bias monitoring, explainability, and documentation. The fine print? Obligations phase in over time, but enforcement starts immediately—up to 7% of

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20:37

AI Factory vs. Chaos: Which Runs Your Enterprise?

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2025/10/16

Ah, here’s the riddle your CIO hasn’t solved. Is AI just another workload to shove onto the server farm, or a fire-breathing creature that insists on its own habitat—GPUs, data lakes, and strict governance temples? Most teams gamble blind, and the result is budgets consumed faster than warp drive burns antimatter. Here’s what you’ll take away today: the five checks that reveal whether an AI project truly needs enterprise scale, and the guardrails that get you there without chaos. So, before we

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19:12

Copilot Memory vs. Recall: Shocking Differences Revealed

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2025/10/16

Everyone thinks Copilot Memory is just Microsoft’s sneaky way of spying on you. Wrong. If it were secretly snooping, you wouldn’t see that little “Memory updated” badge every time you give it an instruction. The reality: Memory stores facts only when there’s clear intent—like when you ask it to remember your tone preference or a project label. And yes, you can review or delete those entries at will. The real privacy risk isn’t hidden recording; it’s assuming the tool logs everything automatically

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21:37

Governance Boards: The Last Defense Against AI Mayhem

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2025/10/16

Imagine deploying a chatbot to help your staff manage daily tasks, and within minutes it starts suggesting actions that are biased, misleading, or outright unhelpful to your clients. This isn’t sci-fi paranoia—it’s what happens when Responsible AI guardrails are missing. Responsible AI focuses on fairness, transparency, privacy, and accountability—these are the seatbelts for your digital copilots. It reduces risks, if you actually operationalize it. The fallout? Compliance violations, customer

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20:34

Active Directory: The Crown Jewel Hackers Hunt

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2025/10/13

What’s the one system in your environment that, if compromised, would let an attacker own everything—logins, files, even emails? Yep, it’s Active Directory. Before we roll initiative, hit Subscribe so these best-practices get to your team. The question is: how exposed is yours? Forget firewalls for a second. If AD is a weak link, your whole defense is just patchwork. By the end, you’ll have three concrete areas to fix: admin blast radius, PKI and templates, and hybrid sync hygiene. That means

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21:28

Your SharePoint Is Stuck in 2013 (Here’s the Fix)

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2025/10/12

Your SharePoint isn’t outdated because you’re lazy—it’s outdated because legacy workflows are basically bosses that refuse to retire. If you want the cheat codes for modernizing SharePoint, hit Subscribe so these walkthroughs land in your feed. Here’s the twist: you don’t need to swing a +5 developer sword. With Power Platform, you can shape apps and automate flows straight from the lists you already have. And once AI Builder and Copilot Studio join the party, those repetitive file-tagging goblins

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31:32

Automating Microsoft 365 Tenant Governance with...

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2025/10/04

Automating governance tasks in Microsoft 365 Tenant Governance is very important. It helps improve security and efficiency. PowerShell is a strong tool for this job. By automating regular tasks, you can keep governance practices consistent. This also helps lower human mistakes. For example, automated policy enforcement ensures that rules are the same across all Microsoft 365 Tenant Governance workspaces. This method reduces risks and allows your IT team to focus on more important projects instead of

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17:47

Unlocking Power BI: The True Game Changer for Teams

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2025/10/04

You ever feel like your data is scattered across 47 different dungeons, each guarded by a cranky boss? That’s most organizations today—everyone claims to be data-driven, but in practice, they’re just rolling saving throws against chaos. Here’s what you’ll get in this run: the key Power BI integrations already inside Microsoft 365, the roadmap feature that finally ends cross-department fights, and three concrete actions you can take to start wielding this tool where you already work. Power BI now

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22:18

Autonomous Agents: Productivity Hack or Admin Nightmare?

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2025/09/28

Picture this: your boss asks you to try Copilot Studio. You think you’re spinning up a polite chatbot. Ten minutes later, it’s not just chatting—it’s booking a cruise and trying to swipe the company card for pizza. That’s the real difference between a copilot that suggests and an agent that acts. In the next 15 minutes, you’ll see how agents cross that line, where their memory actually lives, and the first three governance checks to keep your tenant safe. Follow M365.Show for MVP livestreams that

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