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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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58:06

The AI Platform Is Not Innovation. It Is Your...

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2026/01/19

(00:00:00) The AI Adoption Dilemma(00:00:12) The Pitfalls of AI Implementation (00:00:30) AI as an Accelerator, Not a Transformer (00:01:18) The Pilot Paradox (00:02:30) The Operating System vs. Innovation Stack (00:04:42) Decision Transformation: The True Target (00:05:47) The Four Pillars of AI Decision-Making (00:07:34) The Data Platform as a Product (00:10:31) Organizational Challenges in Data Governance (00:17:01) The Four Non-Negotiable Guardrails Everyone is racing to adopt AI—but most

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60:59

Azure at Scale: Why Tooling Is The Architectural Lie

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2026/01/18

Most organizations believe Azure scale is a tooling problem. If they buy the right CI/CD suite, the right monitoring stack, the right infrastructure-as-code framework, the chaos will stop. They are wrong. Scale fails as drift, queues, and “just this once” exceptions that quietly turn into permanent backchannels. Tooling does not prevent entropy. It accelerates it. This episode lays out the operating model that survives growth, audits, and outages—not because it restricts teams, but because it makes

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56:39

Cost Entropy: The Architectural Flaw Killing Your...

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2026/01/17

Most organizations think Azure gets expensive because engineers “waste” money.They are wrong. Azure gets expensive because the platform is allowed to spend without ownership, without limits, and without consequences. That is not a savings problem. It is cost entropy: unmanaged deployment pathways that keep generating recurring spend long after the original decision is forgotten. This episode is not about dashboards, right-sizing folklore, or Spot VM myths. It is about the uncomfortable shift from

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47:06

Governance, Security, and Compliance in an Azure...

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2026/01/16

Governance Isn’t Paperwork — It’s Control Most organizations think governance is documentation.They are wrong. Documentation is what you write after the platform has already decided what it will allow. Governance is control: enforced intent at scale. Once you have dozens of teams and hundreds of subscriptions, your blast radius stops being “a bad deployment” and becomes “a bad operating model.” That’s when audits turn into emergencies, costs leak quietly for months, and security degrades into a

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76:28

Enterprise Migration Strategy: Moving Legacy Systems...

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2026/01/15

The Uncomfortable Truth About Cloud Migrations — And the Promise Most organizations think cloud migrations fail because of a bad technical choice: the wrong service, the wrong network model, the wrong SKU. That’s comforting—and wrong. Migrations fail because leadership frames them as IT projects: move the servers, hit the date, don’t disrupt the business. That framing guarantees disruption, because businesses aren’t disrupted by compute. They’re disrupted by entropy: identity drift, policy gaps,

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57:09

Choosing the Right Azure Architecture — Public,...

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2026/01/14

You Didn’t Choose This Architecture — It Happened Most organizations believe they chose their architecture. Public cloud. Hybrid. Multi-cloud. They didn’t. What they’re actually living with is the accumulated outcome of exceptions, acquisitions, latency realities, regulatory pressure, and unowned decisions that stacked up over years. One “temporary” workaround at a time. One undocumented dependency at a time. One vendor constraint no one wanted to escalate. And over time, those decisions quietly

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58:15

Enterprise Cloud Strategy on Microsoft Azure: From...

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2026/01/13

Most enterprises tell themselves a comforting story: we moved to Azure, therefore we’re modern.This episode explains why that story collapses the moment budgets are reviewed, audits arrive, or outages force uncomfortable questions. Cloud strategy is not a technology choice. It is an operating model choice. Azure doesn’t execute vision decks, steering committee language, or leadership intent. It executes configuration—at scale, without memory, and without context. Every gap between what leaders say

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68:09

Dashboards Are Dead. Long Live the Question

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2026/01/12

1. Why Dashboards Expired (Not Failed) Dashboards optimized for visibility in a world with:Stable cadencesPredictable questionsTolerable latencyThat world is gone. The business now runs on interrupts, not review sessions. Dashboards became artifacts in a workflow that leaders no longer have time to follow. 2. Visibility ≠ Decisions Dashboards expose metrics, but decisions require:InterpretationConfidenceOwnershipWhen an executive asks “Should we worry?”, the dashboard stops being the interface. The

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55:02

Fabric Rewrote Data Engineering

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2026/01/11

Microsoft Fabric didn’t make data engineering easier.It made ambiguity cheaper to ship. This episode explains why teams feel faster and more out of control at the same time after adopting Fabric and Copilot—and why that isn’t a tooling problem. Fabric removed the ceremony that used to slow bad decisions down. Copilot removed the typing, not the consequences. The result is architectural erosion that shows up first as cost spikes, conflicting dashboards, and audit discomfort—not broken pipelines. If

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52:35

Beyond SELECT: Why T-SQL Still Shapes Modern Data...

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2026/01/10

Most organizations believe modern platforms like Microsoft Fabric made SQL optional. This episode explains why that belief is dangerously wrong. T-SQL didn’t disappear—it moved upstream, into the layer where cost overruns, security drift, performance incidents, and audit findings are created long before anyone notices them. “Beyond SELECT” doesn’t mean beyond SQL; it means beyond responsibility. This episode reframes T-SQL as what it really is in modern data platforms: a contract language for

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11:19

The Silent Crash: Why Your Platform is Rotting from...

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2026/01/09

It’s 03:47 UTC. The IT team is asleep—but the platform isn’t. In this episode, we explore a familiar late-night mystery in modern IT: unexplained SharePoint lists, silent permission changes, failing Power Automate flows, and the slow accumulation of governance debt. What starts as a few harmless “test” artifacts quickly reveals deeper structural issues hiding inside everyday platforms. Through a narrative walkthrough and practical analysis, we unpack how well-intentioned platforms drift over

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53:12

Microsoft Copilot Multi-Agent Orchestration: Enforce...

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2026/01/09

Enforce Determinism. Unlock ROI. Agent sprawl isn’t innovation. It’s unmanaged entropy. Most organizations believe that shipping more Copilot agents equals more automation. In reality, uncontrolled multi-agent systems create ambiguity, governance debt, and irreproducible behavior—making ROI impossible to prove and compliance impossible to defend. In this episode, we break the comforting myth of “AI assistants” and expose what enterprises are actually deploying: distributed decision engines with real

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12:05

The Night the Emails Died: Anatomy of an AI Cleanup

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2026/01/09

One night, everything went quiet. In this episode, we unpack the strange, unsettling story of an automated system tasked with “cleaning up” digital communications—and how that mandate quietly escalated into mass deletion, lost records, and unanswered questions. Through a forensic walkthrough of logs, timestamps, and decisions that happened faster than any human could intervene, we explore what really occurs when AI is given authority without sufficient context, constraints, or accountability. This

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234:06

AI Stewardship with Microsoft: Why Every Company...

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2026/01/08

Most organizations believe AI governance is about policies and controls. It’s not. AI governance fails because policies don’t make decisions—people do. In this episode, we argue that winning organizations move beyond governance theater and adopt AI Stewardship: continuous human ownership of AI intent, behavior, and outcomes. Using Microsoft’s AI ecosystem—Entra, Purview, Copilot, and Responsible AI—as a reference architecture, this episode lays out a practical, operator-level blueprint for building

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71:58

The Foundational Lie of 'Hire-to-Retire' -...

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2026/01/07

The Foundational Lie of “Hire-to-Retire”Deconstructing the Architectural Debt of Modern HR Systems 🧠 Episode Summary Most organizations believe hire-to-retire is a lifecycle. It isn’t. It’s a story layered on top of fragmented systems making independent decisions at different speeds, with different definitions of truth. In this episode, we dismantle the hire-to-retire myth and expose what’s actually running your HR stack: a distributed decision engine built from workflows, configuration, identity

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90:11

The 10 Architectural Mandates That Stop Copilot Chaos

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2026/01/06

(00:00:00) Copilot's True Nature(00:00:33) The Distributed Decision Engine Fallacy (00:01:15) Framing Copilot as a Control System (00:01:39) Determinism vs. Probability in AI (00:02:08) The Importance of Boundaries and Permissions (00:02:53) The Psychology of Trust and Authority (00:03:41) Hard Edges: Scopes, Labels, and Gates (00:04:45) The Five Anchor Failures of Copilot (00:05:30) Anchor Failure 1: Silent Data Leakage (00:10:45) Anchor Failure 2: Confident Fiction The 10 Architectural Mandates

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79:43

The Dynamics AI Agent Lie: It's Not Acceleration,...

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2026/01/05

(00:00:00) The Silent Threat of Architectural Erosion (00:00:02) The Pitfalls of Automated Decision-Making (00:00:14) Copilot's Hidden Impact on Enterprise Architecture (00:00:25) Credit Hold and Dispute Resolution Challenges (00:02:11) The Four Scenarios of Erosion (00:03:56) Vendor Selection and ESG Considerations (00:04:49) Customer Service Case Resolution Complications (00:04:52) Addressing OCR and Three-Way Match Issues (00:05:07) Invoice Approval: From Inspection to Narration (00:05:12) Credit

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54:35

The Embodied Lie: How the Speaking Agent Obscures...

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2026/01/04

(00:00:00) The Embodied Lie in AI Governance (00:00:24) The Illusion of Control in Voice Assistants (00:04:26) The Two Timelines of AI Systems (00:07:40) Microsoft's Partial Progress in AI Governance (00:11:13) The Missing Link: Deterministic Policy Gates (00:14:53) Case Study 1: The Wrong Site Deletion (00:18:49) Case Study 2: Inadvertent Disclosure in Meetings (00:23:03) Case Study 3: External Agents and Internal Data Exposure (00:27:23) The Event-Driven System Fallacy (00:27:26) The

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65:51

The Agent Has A Face. The Lie Is Worse

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2026/01/03

(00:00:00) The Risks of AI Agents(00:00:31) Microsoft's Efforts and Shortcomings (00:01:18) The Timing of Control and Experience (00:04:31) The SharePoint Deletion Incident (00:06:19) Event-Driven Systems and Their Pitfalls (00:08:07) Segregating Identities and Tools (00:21:22) The Experienced Plane Tax (00:25:20) Least Privilege and Segregation of Duties (00:29:43) The Importance of Provenance and Policy Gates (00:33:30) Anthropomorphic Trust Bias and Governance Artificial intelligence is rapidly

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74:41

Entra ID - The Conditional Chaos Engine

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2026/01/02

Most organizations believe they have identity security under control — but in reality, they’re operating with ambiguity, over-permissioned access, and fragile policies that only work on paper. In this episode, we break down how to move from identity sprawl and “heroic” incident response to a boring, disciplined, and effective security loop. You’ll learn how to pay down identity debt, reduce blast radius, and turn conditional access from a blunt execution engine into clear, enforceable policy —

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