Microsoft Power Platform Podcast – Governance, Security & Architecture Episodes

The Microsoft Power Platform enables rapid solution development through low-code and no-code tools — but scalability and security depend entirely on governance and architectural discipline. Power Platform Talk focuses on understanding Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Dataverse as enterprise platforms rather than isolated tools.

Episodes explore tenant-wide governance, environment strategies, identity integration, data loss prevention, lifecycle management, and security boundaries. We analyze why unmanaged Power Platform adoption often results in shadow IT, compliance gaps, and operational complexity.

Power Platform Talk emphasizes architectural intent and long-term maintainability. Topics include environment design, connector usage, integration with Microsoft 365 and Azure, and how low-code solutions interact with enterprise identity and security controls.

This category is designed for platform owners, IT administrators, and architects responsible for enabling innovation without losing control. If you are managing Power Platform adoption at scale, these episodes provide practical guidance on building a secure and sustainable low-code environment.

Feb. 18, 2026

The Hybrid Mandate: Orchestrating Python Inside the Power Platform

Most organizations misunderstand Power Platform. They treat it like a productivity toy. Drag boxes. Automate an email. Call it transformation. It works at ten runs per day. It collapses at ten thousand. Not because the platform failed. Because...

Jan. 27, 2026

The Explainability Frontier: Why Low-Code Challenges Scalability at Leadership Level

This episode explores why speed in low-code and no-code platforms does not equal scalability, and why explainability—not velocity—is the true bottleneck for modern organizations. While low-code tools dramatically reduce time to delivery, they often obscure logic, data lineage, ownership, and decisi…

Dec. 29, 2025

Power Platform Is Secure — Until Governance Disappears

Is Power Platform actually dangerous for the enterprise—or is that fear hiding a more uncomfortable truth?In this episode, we dismantle the question executives keep asking: “Is Power Platform secure enough?” The answer is sharper than most teams expect. Yes—Microsoft’s Power Platform security i…

Dec. 15, 2025

Your Power App Is A Lie

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…

Dec. 13, 2025

The Automation Murders: Who Killed the Customer Journey

The cursor freezes. The event stream flatlines. Silence gets loud. That’s how customer journeys fail in the summer—quietly, invisibly, and at the worst possible moment.Summer traffic is deceptive. Intent spikes, teams run lean, and automation is supposed to carry the load. But when journeys rel…

Dec. 12, 2025

Power Automate as the Orchestrator: What Actually Works… and What Never Comes Back.

Ever had a Power Automate flow wake you at 3:07 a.m. with 6,000 ghost runs and no clear owner? This video is your blueprint for taming the orchestrator before it tames you. You’ll learn how to design resilient Power Automate architectures with clean triggers, Dataverse as a single source of truth, …

Nov. 30, 2025

Excel Is NOT Your Database: Stop The Power Apps Lie

Your “Simple” Excel App Is Quietly Wrecking Your Business (And You Won’t See It Until It’s Expensive)Stop wiring Power Apps into spreadsheets and calling it “production.” Every shared Excel file is a glass elevator: silent data loss, last-save-wins concurrency, and zero governance until an audi…

Nov. 26, 2025

Power Automate Is Dead: The AI Workflows Agent That Replaced Your Job

n this episode, we put Microsoft 365 Copilot’s Workflows Agent head-to-head with Power Automate and ask the uncomfortable question: are your painstakingly hand-built cloud flows now the slow, expensive option? We break down where conversational, intent-driven automation beats traditional designer-d…

Nov. 25, 2025

The Power Apps Lie: Why Your Excel Data Will Still Fail

You clicked “Create app from Excel,” felt clever, and accidentally migrated your chaos at scale. In this episode, we break down why Excel is a calculator with delusions of grandeur and why Dataverse will punish spreadsheet habits with integrity errors. I tear down the five silent failure patterns t…

Nov. 24, 2025

The Rebirth of Canvas Apps Is a Lie: Here's What Microsoft Is Really Building

This episode rips the mask off Microsoft’s new “canvas app revival” story and shows what’s actually happening under the hood. It’s not a renaissance. It’s a fork. A split. A deliberate architectural divide between the fast personal Copilot lane and the governed enterprise Power Platform lane. Acros…

Nov. 23, 2025

Stop Sabotaging Your Power Automate Email Flows

Your Power Automate email flows aren’t clever automations, they’re HR risk wrapped in HTML. You wire a flow to a “service account,” fight through MFA once, get it working, and decide it’s done. It’s not done. It’s brittle, over-privileged, impossible to audit cleanly, and the first time conditional…

Nov. 14, 2025

Stop Using Default Gateway Settings: Fix Your Power Platform Connectivity NOW!

Your Power BI refreshes still crawling like dial-up? This episode exposes the real villain: your “safe” on-prem data gateway.We tear apart the myth of the dumb tunnel and show how the gateway actually behaves like an overloaded processing engine—juggling auth, TLS, caching and concurrency.You…

Nov. 14, 2025

Stop Dragging Planner Tasks: Automate NOW

Still dragging cards around in Microsoft Planner like it’s 2015? In this episode, I show you how to stop babysitting boards and start speaking tasks into existence with a “Task Planner” Copilot agent.You’ll learn how Planner, Copilot Studio, and Power Automate actually fit together: Planner kee…

Nov. 12, 2025

STOP Building Cloud Flows! Use Agent Flows Instead

Cloud Flows vs Agent Flows: The Budget Bombshell Microsoft Hoped You’d MissYou’re building automations like it’s 2019 and it’s quietly draining your budget. The premium connector trap turns one small flow into a company-wide license bill. Hidden API throttling slows down your automations without …

Nov. 10, 2025

5 Power Automate Hacks That Unlock Copilot ROI

Most companies think Copilot = instant productivity.Wrong.Copilot isn’t the ROI engine — Power Automate is.Copilot only “suggests.” Power Automate does the work.In this episode we expose the 5 hacks that turn Copilot from a chatty intern into a revenue-generating automation machine — …

Nov. 9, 2025

Master Power Platform AI: The 4 New Tools Changing Everything

AI inside the Microsoft Power Platform isn’t just about 'Copilot writes formulas' anymore. In 2025, Microsoft introduced four innovative capabilities that transform how apps, data, and automation are developed: Dataverse Prompt Columns, AI Form Filler / Form Assist, Generative Pages, and Copilot Ag…

Nov. 8, 2025

SharePoint Is NOT a Database: The Power Apps Lie

In this episode of the M365 Show, we unpack the most common Power Apps mistake in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem: assuming SharePoint is a “free database.” We break down why SharePoint lists look like a database, but architecturally behave like a file-centric collaboration layer—not a transactional da…

Nov. 7, 2025

Why Power Apps Charts Are Broken (and How AI Fixes It)

Power Apps charts are obsolete. They look like a 1990s Excel demo and they can’t be styled, can’t be made dynamic, and can’t be made modern without pain.We stop trying to fix them.The new move is simpler: don’t render charts inside Power Apps at all. Let AI draw the chart image for you — on…

Nov. 7, 2025

Stop Losing Inventory: The Power Apps Barcode Fix

Most “inventory systems” are just Excel sheets LARPing as ERPs — and that’s why warehouses lose assets, fail audits, and end up with phantom spreadsheets nobody trusts. Barcode scanning isn’t a gimmick — it’s the only sane way to ingest perfect data into Dataverse once — not typed twice. Power Apps…

Nov. 6, 2025

The SharePoint List Mistake That Breaks Your Power App

Power Apps makes it dangerously easy to build an app on a SharePoint list—and most beginners assume that if it works instantly, it must be the right foundation. It isn’t. SharePoint was never engineered to act like a real transactional database, and when you scale—users, data size, queries—delegati…

Nov. 2, 2025

Dataverse Pitfalls Q&A: Why Your Power Apps Project Is Too Expensive

Dataverse isn’t “included.” It’s a premium, enterprise-grade platform with costs that stack fast: licenses, capacity, environments, storage (db/file/log), and API limits. Most sticker shock comes from assumptions—thinking M365 covers Dataverse, that guests are free, or that storage is cheap.Use…

Oct. 30, 2025

Fix Power Apps Data Entry: Use THIS AI Agent

Power Apps forms turn knowledge workers into typists—rigid fields, copy-paste from emails/PDFs, and slow, error-prone decay that pollutes Dataverse, Power BI, and downstream automations. The fix isn’t more validation; it’s an interpreter: the AI Data Entry Agent. Inside model-driven apps, it conver…

Oct. 29, 2025

Canvas Apps Are Dead: Why Generative Pages Win

Canvas Apps gave pixel freedom but bred fragility: endless containers, brittle Power FX, and hours lost to layout therapy while data modeling and governance languished. The game has changed. Generative Pages inside Power Apps shift creation from craft to command: you describe intent (“ideas tracker…

Oct. 28, 2025

Stop Using Generative Pages Wrong! The Licensing Trap

Generative Pages feel “free” because they turn a sentence into a working Power Apps page. But the instant you click Generate, you’re on Dataverse—and that’s premium land: governed data, model-driven scaffolding, audit, flows, and a license bill. The UX hides the escalation: scaffolding a React page…