Azure role-based access control is really just a keycard, not a light switch. A light switch is either on or off for a whole room, while a keycard opens specific doors for a specific person. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: What RBAC Actually Does The Three Pieces of Every Role Assignment The Four Sizes of Scope The Roles You'll Actually Meet Least Privilege Is the Whole Point Built-In or Build Your Own Azure Roles Are Not Entra Roles The Mistakes Everyone Makes Reca...

Most people treat low-code and pro-code as a contest between real development and a shortcut. That framing is the reason so many beginners freeze before they build anything. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: Two Ways to Build the Same App What Low-Code Actually Means What Pro-Code Actually Means It's a Spectrum, Not a Switch How You Actually Build With Each Where Low-Code Wins and Where Pro-Code Wins The Mistakes and the Honest Limits How This Fits Microsoft 365 and Az...

Your password is the master key to your account, and OAuth 2.0 is the valet key. It's the reason you can sign into a brand new app with your Microsoft account and never hand over your password. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: Why apps never ask for your password anymore The four players in every OAuth handshake What happens when you click Sign in with Microsoft Why there isn't just one OAuth flow The two tokens and the scope that keeps them honest Where OAuth lives ins...

Microsoft promised Copilot would clear the busywork off our plates, and for a lot of teams it added one more thing to check. The Power Platform is where that promise gets real, because the apps, the flows, the reports, and the agents all live there. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: Why this keeps feeling harder than it should What Copilot in Power Platform actually means Where Copilot shows up while you build apps, flows, and reports Copilot Studio, the part that answers ...

Your reports don't fail because the business lacks data — they fail because someone still has to open that Excel export, fix the dates, delete blank rows, rename columns, and then hope nothing changed before the next refresh. The real tension here isn't access, it's trust. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: Opening: Your Data Is Ready, Until Someone Has to Clean It What Dataflows Gen2 Actually Does From Messy Source to Fabric Table Gen1 vs Gen2: More Than a New Name The Co...

You've used OpenID Connect more times this week than you realize, and you never knew its name. It answers one simple question every app has to ask, and that question is who is this person. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: The sign-in you never think about Why OAuth 2.0 wasn't enough on its own What actually happens when you click sign in What's inside the ID token Where this shows up in Microsoft 365 and Azure The mistakes people make and the honest limits How it stack...

Five billion passkeys are already in use worldwide, according to the FIDO Alliance. That's a huge shift for something most of us still can't explain, and Microsoft has just made passkeys the default way to sign in to Microsoft 365. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: A newer way to sign in that Microsoft just made the default What a passkey actually is How the keys do their work without ever sharing a secret Why phishing stops working once the secret is gone The two kinds o...

Let's start with the plain version, before any of the acronyms get involved. Azure SQL Database is a relational database that Microsoft runs for you in their cloud. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: What Azure SQL Database Actually Is The Two Ways You Pay For It Picking Your Service Tier Elastic Pools: The Timeshare Trick What Azure Handles So You Don't Have To Security, Without the Jargon Azure SQL Database or a Virtual Machine The Mistakes Beginners Make Wrapping Up...

Most companies think a Microsoft 365 migration is just copying files from one account to another, and that assumption is exactly what sinks the project. When a merger closes or a division gets sold, two separate Microsoft accounts have to become one, and nothing carries over on its own. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: What a tenant really is Why companies leave one tenant for another What actually moves The Teams problem The domain move Running both tenants at once Cu...

Terraform exists because your Azure portal clicks can't be rebuilt twice. It writes that infrastructure down as a file you can read, review, and run again. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: What Infrastructure as Code Really Means What Terraform Actually Is Providers: How Terraform Talks to Your Cloud Plan and Apply: The Safety Net The State File: Terraform's Memory Modules: Stop Rebuilding the Same Thing Remote State: Working With Other People Drift: When Reality Quie...

The controls you drag onto a Power Apps screen are only half the story. Underneath them sits a second layer that lets developers build their own controls, the kind that turn plain forms into real maps, custom grids, and interfaces that feel made by hand. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: The Hidden Half of Power Apps The Wall Every Power App Hits Eventually What the Component Framework Actually Is How a Component Works Under the Hood From Idea to Shipped Component Where ...

Half the tutorials online assume you're not on Windows, and that used to mean you had the wrong machine. Windows now ships a free feature that runs real Linux right beside it, built into Windows 10 and 11. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: Why Linux Tools Keep Showing Up in Windows Tutorials What WSL Actually Is The Real Difference Between WSL 1 and WSL 2 Installing It in One Command How Linux and Windows Share Your Files What You Can Actually Do With It Where It Breaks...

Most companies find out they're overspending on the cloud when the invoice lands, and by then the money is already gone. Welcome to the M365 FM podcast, where we explore the people, ideas, and technologies shaping the future of work. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: Why Cloud Costs Feel Out of Control What FinOps Actually Means The Six Habits Every FinOps Team Shares How FinOps Runs in Three Repeating Phases What FinOps Looks Like on a Normal Tuesday Where FinOps Lives ...

Power Automate gives you two kinds of robot, and they don't cost the same. One sits with you at your desk and works while you watch. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: Two Robots, One Job What Power Automate Desktop Actually Is When the Robot Works While You Watch When the Robot Works While You're Gone The Real Difference Between Them How the Robot Signs In and Runs Alone Choosing the Right One for Your Job What It Costs and the Trap Most Beginners Hit Where It Breaks ...

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There's a whole part of Microsoft 365 that has no screen at all. It's called SharePoint Embedded, and it stores files for apps instead of for people. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: What It Actually Is The Container Idea Where Your Files Live The Security Story What You Get Built In It's Not a SharePoint Site How the Billing Works Where You'll Meet It The Recap and One Question Simply Explained by M365.FM breaks down Microsoft 365, Azure and modern IT topics in cle...

Branching sounds like a small detail until two people change the same file. Then someone has to figure out which version is the real one, and that's a branching problem. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: What a branch is Why branching strategies exist The three building blocks Git Flow, the structured one GitHub Flow, the simple one Trunk-based development, the fast one Pull requests explained Merge versus rebase Choosing a strategy for small and large teams Common m...

You might think Teams Premium is just Microsoft Teams with a bigger price tag. It's actually a separate add-on license that switches on features your normal Teams license leaves off. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: What Teams Premium Actually Is Meetings That Think Keeping the Meeting in the Room Looking Like Your Company Big Events Appointments and Bookings The IT Team Features Who Actually Needs It The Licensing Basics Teams Premium or Copilot Recap and a Questi...

Azure Migrate is free, and it will tell you what your own servers are really costing you. That sounds simple, but the hard part of a migration usually happens before anyone opens the cloud portal, because nobody mapped what was connected to what. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: What Azure Migrate Actually Is How Discovery Works The Assessment: Readiness, Sizing, Cost Dependency Analysis Agentless or Agent-Based Moving in Waves The Hub and Its Tools The Pitfalls to Av...

Power Automate Desktop is a free robot already sitting on your Windows PC, and most people never switch it on. It's Microsoft's answer to work you do the same way, over and over, in apps that were never built to talk to anything else. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: What Power Automate Desktop Actually Is Desktop Flows Versus Cloud Flows How the Recorder Turns Your Clicks Into Actions Attended Versus Unattended Connecting Desktop Flows to Cloud Flows What It Costs Wha...

Every email in your company is being checked by rules you've never seen. They're called mail flow rules, and they sit between the send button and the inbox. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: The Rules You Never See What A Mail Flow Rule Really Is The Three Questions Every Rule Asks When A Rule Fires And What Happens Next The Jobs People Actually Give These Rules The Limits Nobody Warns You About Testing A Rule Before It Bites Where This Sits In Microsoft 365 And Azure ...

Microsoft's OneDrive is one name hiding two completely different products. You might think the OneDrive on your home laptop is the same as the one your job handed you, but they are two separate accounts that only look alike. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: What OneDrive Actually Is Two OneDrives, One Name How Your Files Get Onto Your Computer Sharing and Permissions The Folder Backup You Didn't Ask For Undo: Versions and the Recycle Bin OneDrive vs SharePoint Who's R...

Your Azure setup lives in your memory, and that's a problem. You clicked it into place once, on screens you'll never find again, and nothing was ever written down. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: What Bicep actually is Why not just use ARM JSON or the portal How Bicep works under the hood Reading a Bicep file in plain words Modules, your reusable building blocks Deploying, and the what-if safety net Bicep versus ARM versus Terraform The mistakes beginners make Recap...

Most of us assume GitHub Copilot writes code so we don't have to. That assumption misses what's actually happening inside the editor. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: What Copilot Actually Is Three Ways to Talk to It How It Knows About Your Code What It Costs Privacy and Who Owns the Code Mistakes Beginners Make Recap and a Question Simply Explained by M365.FM breaks down Microsoft 365, Azure and modern IT topics in clear, jargon-free language. Hosted by Mirko Peters....