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Microsoft Teams Is Missing: Hidden or Gone?
Aug. 25, 2025

Microsoft Teams Is Missing: Hidden or Gone?

No—Microsoft didn’t delete your Teams. The iconic Teams tab moved, and the new layout folds channels closer to chat to reduce context-switching and prep for deeper M365/Copilot integrations. Day one feels jarring because muscle memory breaks, not because data vanished. In this episode, you’ll see e…
GPT-5 in Copilot Fixes What Slowed You Down
Aug. 25, 2025

GPT-5 in Copilot Fixes What Slowed You Down

Outlook lag, Word re-formatting déjà vu, and Excel nudging—those tiny frictions steal hours. GPT-4-era Copilot helped, but often felt transactional: you instructed; it complied. With GPT-5, Copilot shifts from executing commands to understanding intent—mirroring tone, anticipating steps, and stitch…
Why SharePoint Fails at Knowledge Management
Aug. 24, 2025

Why SharePoint Fails at Knowledge Management

SharePoint doesn’t fail—organizations do when they treat it like a dumping ground. The result: duplicate “final” files, broken search, and shadow repositories in Teams, OneDrive, and email. This episode breaks down why SharePoint devolves into chaos (no lifecycle, no ownership, no metadata), the co…
Microsoft 365 Tasks: Why You're Drowning
Aug. 24, 2025

Microsoft 365 Tasks: Why You're Drowning

Microsoft 365 doesn’t suffer from too many task apps—it suffers from unclear roles. To Do, Planner, Lists, Outlook, and Loop each solve a different context (personal focus, team coordination, structured tracking, comms-driven follow-ups, and freeform co-creation). Chaos shows up when teams mix thos…
Guest Access in M365: Brilliant or Broken?
Aug. 23, 2025

Guest Access in M365: Brilliant or Broken?

Guest access in M365 isn’t a switch—it’s three identity layers and four services that don’t always agree. That mismatch creates silent exposure: a guest “allowed” in Teams can inherit broader SharePoint access; Purview often spots it after the fact. The fix isn’t a single toggle—it’s lifecycle + le…
Copilot Agent or Copilot Hype? The Hard Choice
Aug. 23, 2025

Copilot Agent or Copilot Hype? The Hard Choice

Don’t build a Copilot—solve a job. Quick, generic copilots demo well but stall in real work because they lack role context and system access. A Copilot Studio agent earns its keep only when it’s built for a specific persona, high-value use cases, and grounded in your data + actions. Our test showed…
Stop Patchwork Coding: Copilot’s Agent Changes Everything
Aug. 23, 2025

Stop Patchwork Coding: Copilot’s Agent Changes Everything

Patchwork debugging steals your day one tiny rebuild at a time. In this hands-on walkthrough, we put GitHub Copilot’s agent mode inside a real .NET + Azure solution and let it hold the cross-file context: updating services, bindings, DI, configs, and infra in one coordinated flow. You’ll see a befo…
Zero Trust vs. User Freedom: Both Are Broken
Aug. 22, 2025

Zero Trust vs. User Freedom: Both Are Broken

“Zero Trust everywhere” and “freedom for everyone” both fail in production. One grinds work to a halt; the other invites disaster. In this workshop we show how top M365 orgs hit the operating sweet spot—where CISO, GDPR officer, and everyday users all win. You’ll learn how small portal changes casc…
How to Set Up and Use Microsoft Copilot in Teams
Aug. 22, 2025

How to Set Up and Use Microsoft Copilot in Teams

Most professionals lose hours every week re-reading meeting notes, scrolling Teams chat history, and rewatching recordings — not because they’re unorganized, but because decisions get buried. Microsoft Copilot in Teams solves that — IF it’s configured correctly. This episode explains: why Copil…
What Makes Microsoft Entra a Comprehensive IAM Solution?
Aug. 21, 2025

What Makes Microsoft Entra a Comprehensive IAM Solution?

Active Directory was built for office networks that barely exist anymore. Today, identities — not networks — are the real perimeter. Microsoft Entra isn’t “AD in the cloud”; it’s a suite designed for a hybrid, perimeter-less world: Entra ID for auth and conditional access, Permissions Management fo…
Step-by-Step: Automate Compliance Checklists in Power Automate
Aug. 21, 2025

Step-by-Step: Automate Compliance Checklists in Power Automate

Compliance fails when it’s static. Checklists freeze rules in time, but regulations keep moving. In this episode, you’ll learn how to turn compliance from a brittle, manual checklist into a self-updating, feedback-driven system using Power Automate + SharePoint/Dataverse + Power BI. We cover recur…
How to Set Up Data Loss Prevention (DLP) in Microsoft 365
Aug. 20, 2025

How to Set Up Data Loss Prevention (DLP) in Microsoft 365

This episode examines the real return on Copilot by focusing on outcomes rather than features. It argues that the biggest cost in modern organizations isn’t failed projects or bad strategy, but the quiet drain of routine work—emails, meetings, drafts, reports, and administrative tasks that create t…
How to Monitor Compliance in Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Aug. 20, 2025

How to Monitor Compliance in Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Most teams “pass” audits yet miss real misconfigurations between reviews. Microsoft Defender for Cloud changes that by turning compliance into a live posture: map your estate to frameworks (ISO/NIST/PCI), tailor controls to your own standards, auto-remediate drift, and surface results in Power BI f…
Step-by-Step Guide to Organizing Projects in Teams
Aug. 19, 2025

Step-by-Step Guide to Organizing Projects in Teams

Most projects don’t fail for lack of tools—they fail for lack of system. This episode shows how to build a durable project operating system in Microsoft 365: SharePoint as the single source of truth, Power Automate to eliminate manual updates, and Teams as the conversation layer. You’ll get a pract…
Azure Logic Apps for Automation
Aug. 19, 2025

Azure Logic Apps for Automation

Most teams drown in handoffs—forwarding emails, chasing approvals, pasting links into chats—while the real work waits. Azure Logic Apps turns that manual glue into a reliable, enterprise-grade automation fabric across Microsoft 365, the Power Platform, and third-party systems (SAP, Salesforce, Serv…
Microsoft Purview and Azure Information Protection
Aug. 18, 2025

Microsoft Purview and Azure Information Protection

Think Purview and Azure Information Protection are “enterprise-only”? Think again. If you’re already on Microsoft 365 (E3 or Business Premium), you likely have sensitivity labels, baseline DLP, and email encryption ready to use—no extra spend. This episode debunks the biggest myth about data protec…
What Is Microsoft Intune Used For?
Aug. 18, 2025

What Is Microsoft Intune Used For?

Microsoft Intune isn’t just device management—it’s the control plane for identity-aware access, protected apps, adaptive risk, and verifiable compliance across Microsoft 365. When Intune is wired into Azure AD (Entra ID), Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, and Microsoft Purview, you get conditional a…
Step-by-Step Guide to Automating GRC Reports with Power Automate
Aug. 17, 2025

Step-by-Step Guide to Automating GRC Reports with Power Automate

Manual GRC reporting is a risk multiplier—copy-paste errors, stale data, and missed escalations. With Power Automate, you can stitch together SharePoint, Excel, Dataverse, and ticketing tools into a real-time pipeline that standardizes data, assembles evidence, and publishes audit-ready packs autom…
Dynamics 365 Copilot for Field Service
Aug. 17, 2025

Dynamics 365 Copilot for Field Service

Field techs lose 15–30 minutes per job on paperwork—creating hidden costs, bad data, and delayed billing. Dynamics 365 Field Service + Copilot turns spoken updates into structured work orders (parts, labor, photos, signatures) and pushes them into scheduling, inventory, and invoicing in real time. …
Fabric Dataflows Gen2: The Future of ETL in Microsoft Fabric
Aug. 17, 2025

Fabric Dataflows Gen2: The Future of ETL in Microsoft Fabric

Fabric Dataflows Gen2 turns scattered Power Query/ADF jobs into a single, reusable ETL asset that feeds Lakehouse, Warehouse, and Power BI—backed by separate, elastic compute and managed staging. Translation: faster refreshes, zero zombie temp tables, consistent logic everywhere, and Git-native col…
Microsoft Designer for Business Content Creation
Aug. 17, 2025

Microsoft Designer for Business Content Creation

Microsoft Designer and Fabric Dataflows Gen2 are killing the busywork in marketing and analytics. Designer auto-applies your brand kit (fonts, colors, logos) to create on-brand assets in seconds—inside Microsoft 365 with real-time collaboration across SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams. Dataflows Gen2…
Dev Tunnels in Visual Studio for Microsoft 365 App Testing
Aug. 16, 2025

Dev Tunnels in Visual Studio for Microsoft 365 App Testing

Dev Tunnels in Visual Studio let you expose your local Teams, SharePoint, or Power Platform services to the internet in minutes—no Azure deploys required. Configure a named, persistent tunnel and use Private (authenticated) access tied to Microsoft Entra ID to keep tests secure and your OAuth redir…
Dynamics 365 Embedded Analytics with Fabric & Power BI
Aug. 16, 2025

Dynamics 365 Embedded Analytics with Fabric & Power BI

Stop exporting Dynamics 365 data to Excel. Connect Dataverse to Microsoft Fabric, build an analytics model once, and embed Power BI directly inside Dynamics 365 (CRM/ERP) screens. With live, role-aware metrics (RLS), sales and ops teams act on fresh data without tab-switching, stale snapshots, or v…
How to Audit User Activity with Microsoft Purview
Aug. 16, 2025

How to Audit User Activity with Microsoft Purview

Most Microsoft 365 “usage” charts don’t prove who did what. Microsoft Purview Audit gives you forensic, tenant-wide activity logs—across Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, Entra ID, and more—so you can trace actions to users, sessions, IPs, and timestamps. Turn on auditing intentionally, baseli…