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Idempotency

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A property of an operation or deployment that produces the same result no matter how many times it is run; in infrastructure as code, re-running a deployment only changes what differs from the desired state.

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Episodes about Idempotency

Fix Silent Failures in Automated Customer Journeys

2025-12-13 · Video on YouTube

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…

Build Reliable Power Automate Flows for Production

2025-12-12 · Video on YouTube

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…

Bicep - Simply Explained

2026-07-14 · Video on YouTube

Azure Bicep is Microsoft's modern Infrastructure as Code (IaC) language for deploying and managing Azure resources using a clean, readable, and declarative syntax. In this episode of Microsoft Knowledge Nuggets on M365 FM, Mirko Peters explains why Azure…

Automate Viva Connections, Topics, Learning, and News

2025-08-05 · Video on YouTube

Your Viva rollout isn’t failing—your automation is. Stop hand-typing Topics, chasing Learning content across LMS silos, and waiting for Connections posts to “eventually” appear. Learn the exact auth scopes, payload shapes, and batching tactics to: publish…

2025-08-05 – Automate Viva Connections, Topics, Learning, and News2025-11-23 – Service Accounts vs App Registrations for Power Automate…2025-12-12 – Build Reliable Power Automate Flows for Production2025-12-13 – Fix Silent Failures in Automated Customer Journeys2026-07-02 – Microsoft Graph and PowerShell for Enterprise Automation2026-07-14 – Bicep - Simply Explained2025-082026-07
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How do you keep Viva automation jobs reliable?

Use logging, backoff and idempotency, together with batching tactics that stay within rate limits. These patterns keep unattended jobs green and avoid cryptic 401, 403 and throttling failures. · From the episode: Automate Viva Connections, Topics, Learning…

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