In this episode of the M365 FM Podcast, host Mirko Peters speaks with Microsoft AI MVP and CTO Karthikeyan VK about the biggest problem in today’s AI landscape: organizations are relying too heavily on Large Language Models (LLMs) while ignoring the engineering foundations needed for reliable enter…
Microsoft is ending support for Exchange Web Services (EWS) in Exchange Online, with full retirement starting October 2026. The article explains why this matters for Microsoft 365 administrators, developers, ISVs, backup vendors, and enterprises still relying on legacy integrations. EWS has been a …
In this episode of the M365.fm podcast, Mirko Peters speaks with Microsoft MVP and MCT Nick Doelman about the rapid evolution of agentic coding and how AI is transforming software development. Nick shares his journey from traditional development into the world of low-code, Power Platform, and AI-as…
Keith shares his background in traditional .NET and SQL development and explains why Power Apps immediately stood out to him: speed. Instead of repeatedly building the same forms, logic, and app structures manually, Power Apps allowed him to focus more on solving business problems while drastically…
In this episode of the m365.fm podcast, Mirko Peters talks with Microsoft MVP Gábor Ruzsinszki about the evolution of modern .NET development, from legacy WPF desktop applications to ASP.NET Core, cloud-native architectures, and gRPC services.Gábor shares his journey from teaching IT and progra…
PowerShell is far more than just a scripting language for administrators. It is a powerful automation platform that can simplify repetitive tasks, connect services, and save countless hours across many different environments. From Microsoft 365 and Azure automation to local system management, repor…
In this episode of the M365.fm podcast, Mirko Peters explores why many microservice architectures gradually become slower, more fragile, and harder to manage despite originally being designed for speed and agility. What begins as a clean and scalable architecture often turns into a complex web of d…
In this episode of the M365 FM Podcast, we explore why modern microservice architectures can quietly become “toxic” under pressure — not because services crash, but because they slow down. A single delayed dependency can silently trigger cascading latency across APIs, queues, databases, and cloud w…
In this episode of the M365 FM Podcast, Mirko Peters talks with Lukas Pavelka about the future of enterprise app development, AI-assisted coding, and the growing connection between Figma and Microsoft Power Platform. Lukas shares his journey from Java development into building tools like PowerApps …
In this episode of the m365.fm podcast, the discussion focuses on using PowerShell to automate tasks across Azure and Microsoft 365 with guest Matthew Dowst MVP. Matthew explains how automation became essential as cloud environments grew more complex and repetitive administrative work increased.…
This episode explains that most Microsoft 365 governance approaches fail because they rely on static checklists, manual processes, and reporting instead of real enforcement. It argues that governance is not something you “set up” once, but an ongoing operating model that must be built into how the …
This episode explores the shift from traditional collaboration tools to the concept of an enterprise operating system, where platforms like Microsoft 365 unify apps, data, identity, and security into a single architecture. It explains how modern organizations are moving beyond disconnected tools to…
Your Power Apps app works perfectly, until one day it fails with no error message and users can only say “it spins.” This podcast explains why low-code apps often break in silence: copy-pasted Power Fx formulas drift into conflicting versions, dev and prod blur without real environments, and hidden…
Still writing PowerShell against MSOnline and AzureAD modules in 2025? This episode explains why that stack is legacy – and how to go API-first with pure REST and Microsoft Graph. We walk through the core “token, headers, REST call” pattern, three real-world auth flows (device code, client credenti…
Stop burning cycles on manual Java upgrades. In this episode, we walk through a real-world, end-to-end modernization of a legacy Java 8 Spring app to Java 21, and show how AI agents quietly do the work your team keeps postponing—with receipts.You’ll hear how we go from a drifting Java 8-era Spr…
Stop your cloud migration. Seriously. If you’re still bragging about being “cloud first,” this episode will show you why your shiny Azure estate is actually AI hostile. 🧨We break down the brutal truth: lift-and-shift doesn’t modernize anything—it just moves your technical debt into someone else…
Your Copilot sounds smart but secretly knows nothing about your business. It’s guessing from Wikipedia while your real memory—orders, invoices, inventory—sits locked in SQL Server behind the firewall. This episode exposes the fix: the Power Platform Data Gateway, a locked-down, outbound-only “spina…
Microsoft just made Python “run natively” inside Power Platform — and chaos followed.From Copilot Studio’s Code Interpreter to Azure Functions, everyone’s suddenly a Python dev… until the flows time out, the files hit 512 MB, and IT gets a heart attack.In this episode, we break down the great…
“Vibe coding” (Generative Pages) turns plain-English prompts into responsive, Dataverse-aware React pages, replacing the pixel babysitting of manual canvas apps. The upside: speed, consistency, accessibility, and built-in governance via Dataverse metadata and roles. The downside: speed can mask fra…
Azure File Sync still “works” for many orgs—but on 2010s-era auth: local X.509 certs and SAS tokens. Those are possession-based secrets: whoever holds them is “you.” They sprawl into scripts, backups, repos, and logs; they expire silently; and one leak grants silent exfiltration via valid creds. Th…
The Microsoft 365 Admin Center is a great map—but it’s not the vehicle. For Copilot and AI governance, clicking through GUI toggles won’t scale, won’t prove compliance, and won’t survive audits. The Admin Center prioritizes visibility; PowerShell delivers authority: bulk actions, reproducible chang…
In this episode, we walk through how to integrate with Microsoft Dynamics 365 using its powerful API capabilities, focusing on the REST-based Web API that provides secure and flexible access to CRM data. We start with an introduction to Dynamics 365 as a suite of intelligent business applications a…
In this episode, we dive into how R and SQL Server work together to create a powerful data analytics workflow. You’ll learn why SQL Server excels at storing, organizing, and retrieving large datasets, while R specializes in statistical analysis, visualization, and machine learning. When combined, t…
people often hear the words sql and t-sql thrown around as if they’re interchangeable, and for a while they feel like they are. you write a query, you get your results, and everything seems straightforward. but the deeper you go into database work, the more you notice that not all sql behaves the s…