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Episodes

How to Architect Scalable SharePoint Automation: The Modern Blueprint for Enterprise Workflows
Feb. 16, 2026

How to Architect Scalable SharePoint Automation: The Modern Blueprint for Enterprise Workflows

This episode of the M365.FM Podcast — “Architecting Scalable SharePoint Automation” — explains why automation in SharePoint often fails to scale from initial wins to widespread enterprise value. The core insight is that many organizations build SharePoint workflows and automations with a tactical m…
Guest: Mirko Peters
High-Performance Automation Control Plane: Architektur, Governance & Best Practices für Power Automate in Microsoft 365
Feb. 15, 2026

High-Performance Automation Control Plane: Architektur, Governance & Best Practices für Power Automate in Microsoft 365

This episode of the M365.FM Podcast — “The High-Performance Automation Control Plane” — explains why most enterprise automation initiatives stall or fail not because of tooling, but because they lack a control plane that governs automation at scale. Simply building workflows and connectors without …
Guest: Mirko Peters
From SaaS to AI Agents: Managing Architectural Entropy in Your Enterprise Cloud Strategy
Feb. 14, 2026

From SaaS to AI Agents: Managing Architectural Entropy in Your Enterprise Cloud Strategy

The episode explains that adopting AI is not just adding a feature to existing SaaS systems, but a fundamental shift toward dynamic, agent-driven architectures where AI orchestrates decisions and workflows. While this promises simplification, it actually increases complexity and unpredictability, l…
Guest: Mirko Peters
Why Your Microsoft Copilot Agents Fail (And How to Fix Governance, Data Quality and Architecture)
Feb. 13, 2026

Why Your Microsoft Copilot Agents Fail (And How to Fix Governance, Data Quality and Architecture)

This episode of the M365.FM Podcast — “Why Copilot Agents Fail & How to Make Them Successful” — examines the common reasons enterprise Copilot agent programs collapse and offers a practical framework to avoid those pitfalls. The core insight is that many teams treat agents as assistive features — f…
Guest: Mirko Peters
Persistent Context in AI: Why Your Prompting Strategy Fails with Copilot and ChatGPT
Feb. 12, 2026

Persistent Context in AI: Why Your Prompting Strategy Fails with Copilot and ChatGPT

This episode of the M365.FM Podcast — “The Architecture of Persistent Context: Why Episodic AI Is Slowing You Down” — explains that persistent context is not a convenience feature but a foundational architectural layer that determines whether AI systems can scale reliably and productively in the en…
Guest: Mirko Peters
Enterprise Architecture & Copilot Governance: How AI Agents Quietly Erode Your Microsoft 365 Architecture (and What To Do About It)
Feb. 11, 2026

Enterprise Architecture & Copilot Governance: How AI Agents Quietly Erode Your Microsoft 365 Architecture (and What To Do About It)

This episode of the M365.FM Podcast titled “The Agentic Mirage: Why Your Enterprise Architecture is Eroding Under Copilot” explains why simply adopting Microsoft Copilot without a disciplined architectural strategy can quietly collapse your enterprise architecture. Most organizations treat Copilot …
Guest: Mirko Peters
ow to Scale Autonomous Agents in Microsoft 365 Without Chaos
Feb. 10, 2026

ow to Scale Autonomous Agents in Microsoft 365 Without Chaos

This episode of the M365.FM Podcast — “The Agentic Advantage: Scaling Intelligence Without Chaos” — explains why simply rolling out more AI agents does not automatically increase productivity, and why many enterprise agent programs collapse when they confront real-world issues like scale, audit pre…
Guest: Mirko Peters
How to Build a High-Performance Agentic Workforce in 30 Days with Microsoft Copilot
Feb. 9, 2026

How to Build a High-Performance Agentic Workforce in 30 Days with Microsoft Copilot

This episode of the M365.FM Podcast (titled “How to Build a High-Performance Agentic Workforce in 30 Days”) explains why most enterprise AI agent programs fail quickly, and what it really takes to build an AI-driven workforce that delivers measurable business value — not just experimental demos. Th…
Guest: Mirko Peters
Autonomous Microsoft Enterprise: How Altera Transforms Copilot Into End‑to‑End Automation
Feb. 8, 2026

Autonomous Microsoft Enterprise: How Altera Transforms Copilot Into End‑to‑End Automation

How Altera Unlocks the Autonomous Microsoft Enterprise” explores why most “AI agent” initiatives in Microsoft environments stall or fail — and what it actually takes to build true autonomy at enterprise scale. The host argues that the difference between Copilot as a work-assisting tool and autonomo…
Guest: Mirko Peters
Microsoft Fabric Governance Best Practices: Prevent Cost Drift, Governance Theater and Metric Chao
Feb. 7, 2026

Microsoft Fabric Governance Best Practices: Prevent Cost Drift, Governance Theater and Metric Chao

This episode of the M365.FM Podcast explains why Microsoft Fabric governance often fails in real life — even when organizations believe they’ve “solved” governance simply by adopting the platform. The host argues that treating Fabric as a single unified platform with one governance story is a dange…
Guest: Mirko Peters
Microsoft 365 Governance: You Don’t Have a Tool Problem, You Have a People Problem
Feb. 6, 2026

Microsoft 365 Governance: You Don’t Have a Tool Problem, You Have a People Problem

This episode of the M365.FM Podcast explores why Microsoft 365 governance failures are rarely caused by missing features or technical limitations. Instead, the root issue is structural and human: fragmented ownership, unclear accountability, and a misunderstanding of what governance actually means.…
Guest: Mirko Peters
AI Cybersecurity Resilience: How to Lead Security in the Age of AI Threats
Feb. 5, 2026

AI Cybersecurity Resilience: How to Lead Security in the Age of AI Threats

In this episode of the M365.FM Podcast, the host challenges the traditional belief that deploying modern security controls (like MFA, EDR, Conditional Access, and Zero Trust checklists) makes an organization “secure.” Instead, true security comes from engineering trust as a system and building resi…
Guest: Mirko Peters
AI Collaboration Framework: Why Human Judgment Remains Irreplaceable in the Age of Copilot
Feb. 4, 2026

AI Collaboration Framework: Why Human Judgment Remains Irreplaceable in the Age of Copilot

In this episode of the M365.FM Podcast, the host explains how AI, especially Copilot and work-assisting models, fundamentally alters collaboration dynamics in organizations. AI shifts collaboration from human dialogue to artifact-centric workflows where summaries, drafts, and recaps become the de f…
Guest: Mirko Peters
Why Your AI Strategy Is Failing: The End of Outsourced Judgment in the Copilot Era
Feb. 3, 2026

Why Your AI Strategy Is Failing: The End of Outsourced Judgment in the Copilot Era

This episode explains why most enterprise AI strategies fail—not because of technology, licenses, prompts, or governance tools, but because organizations outsource judgment to probabilistic systems like Copilot and then mistake plausible output for real decisions. Copilot and similar models generat…
Guest: Mirko Peters
Showback vs Chargeback: Why Cost Transparency Alone Fails to Create Accountability in Cloud and Microsoft 365
Feb. 2, 2026

Showback vs Chargeback: Why Cost Transparency Alone Fails to Create Accountability in Cloud and Microsoft 365

This episode challenges the common belief that showback and chargeback alone create accountability in enterprise IT cost management. Many organizations implement showback dashboards or reports expecting they will change behavior, only to find that business units ignore, dispute, or game the numbers…
Guest: Mirko Peters
Microsoft 365 Governance Illusion: Why Native Controls Don’t Give You Real Tenant Control
Feb. 1, 2026

Microsoft 365 Governance Illusion: Why Native Controls Don’t Give You Real Tenant Control

In this episode, the hosts dismantle a common misconception in Microsoft 365 governance: that deploying the platform automatically delivers governance. Many organizations treat Microsoft 365 governance as a checklist—policies here, controls there, reports somewhere else—only to discover that compli…
Guest: Mirko Peters
Model Context Protocol (MCP): The Secure Alternative to Custom AI Glue
Jan. 31, 2026

Model Context Protocol (MCP): The Secure Alternative to Custom AI Glue

This episode explains why attempts to integrate AI into enterprise systems fail not because of model intelligence, but because of unbounded action and brittle integrations. The core claim is that the Model Context Protocol (MCP) is not a plugin system, API wrapper, or merely “standardized function …
Guest: Mirko Peters
From Greenwashing to Governance: What Microsoft’s Carbon Control Plane Gets Right (and Wrong)
Jan. 30, 2026

From Greenwashing to Governance: What Microsoft’s Carbon Control Plane Gets Right (and Wrong)

This episode explains why enterprise sustainability fails when it is treated as a reporting problem instead of a control problem. Most organizations already collect large amounts of emissions, consumption, and activity data, but that data is scattered across systems, calculated differently by diffe…
Guest: Mirko Peters
ESG Compliance Made Practical: Designing an End‑to‑End Auditable ESG Stack
Jan. 29, 2026

ESG Compliance Made Practical: Designing an End‑to‑End Auditable ESG Stack

This episode explains why the EU’s VAT in the Digital Age (ViDA) initiative is not a compliance upgrade, but a fundamental shift in how VAT operates—from delayed, periodic reporting to continuous, transaction-level control. Traditional VAT models relied on time gaps between transactions and reporti…
Guest: Mirko Peters
7 Common ViDA Mistakes in Dynamics 365 (And How to Avoid Them
Jan. 28, 2026

7 Common ViDA Mistakes in Dynamics 365 (And How to Avoid Them

This episode explains why the EU’s VAT in the Digital Age (ViDA) initiative is not a compliance upgrade, but a fundamental shift in how VAT operates—from delayed, periodic reporting to continuous, transaction-level control. Traditional VAT models relied on time gaps between transactions and reporti…
Guest: Mirko Peters
Fast Low-Code, Slow Business: The Hidden Scalability Trap
Jan. 27, 2026

Fast Low-Code, Slow Business: The Hidden Scalability Trap

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…
Guest: Mirko Peters
From System of Record to System of Action: ServiceNow, Microsoft 365 and the Future of Work
Jan. 26, 2026

From System of Record to System of Action: ServiceNow, Microsoft 365 and the Future of Work

Most organizations still think of ServiceNow as a ticketing system.That framing is not just wrong—it’s actively harmful.Ticketing was the entry point, not the destination.The real enterprise problem is not tool sprawl. It’s that work has no single authoritative state, no durable ownership…
Guest: Mirko Peters
Future of Enterprise Connectivity: How Logic Apps and Copilot Studio Bridge the Intent Gap in Enterprise Automation
Jan. 25, 2026

Future of Enterprise Connectivity: How Logic Apps and Copilot Studio Bridge the Intent Gap in Enterprise Automation

Most enterprises believe their automation problems are caused by poor integration, but the real issue is the loss of intent as work moves across systems, teams, and vendors. Organizations already have APIs, connectors, and integration platforms, yet still experience delays, rework, audit failures, …
Guest: Mirko Peters
How to Design Smart Dataverse Models That Scale Low‑Code Business Apps Without Breaking in Production
Jan. 24, 2026

How to Design Smart Dataverse Models That Scale Low‑Code Business Apps Without Breaking in Production

In this in-depth episode, we reframe how you think about Microsoft Dataverse and the data models that underpin modern business applications. Rather than treating Dataverse as just a database, this conversation argues that your data model is your strategy — and that smart modeling is what separates …
Guest: Mirko Peters