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Dataverse Pitfalls Q&A: Why Your Power Apps Project Is Too Expensive
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…
The Hidden Governance Risk in Copilot Notebooks
Nov. 2, 2025

The Hidden Governance Risk in Copilot Notebooks

Copilot Notebooks feel magical — a conversational workspace that pulls context from SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, decks, sheets, emails — and synthesizes answers instantly. But the moment users trust that illusion, they generate data that has no parents. Every Copilot output — a summary, parag…
Stop Wasting Money: The 3 Architectures for Fabric Data Flows Gen 2
Nov. 1, 2025

Stop Wasting Money: The 3 Architectures for Fabric Data Flows Gen 2

Most Microsoft Fabric teams are bleeding money because they treat Dataflows Gen2 like old Power BI ETL. In Fabric, compute—not storage—is the meter, so every redundant refresh spins up clusters, reloads the same sources, and multiplies cost. The fix is architectural, not heroic CSV exports. Ther…
GPT-5 Fixes Fabric Governance: Stop Manual Audits Now!
Nov. 1, 2025

GPT-5 Fixes Fabric Governance: Stop Manual Audits Now!

Fabric didn’t fail at features—it failed at governance cohesion. Data lives in Fabric, security sits in Power BI, labels live in Purview—and they don’t natively reason about each other. That’s why audits devolve into CSV marathons and name-matching nightmares. Enter GPT-5 inside Microsoft 365 Co…
Stop Using GPT-5 Where The Agent Is Mandatory
Oct. 31, 2025

Stop Using GPT-5 Where The Agent Is Mandatory

GPT-5 in Copilot is dazzling—but its fluency can fool you. It produces executive-ready prose fast, yet lacks defensible provenance. That makes it great for creation (drafts, outlines, brainstorming) and terrible for compliance (anything that must survive audit). The Researcher Agent is the counterw…
SharePoint Agent vs. Human Admin: Can AI Replace You?
Oct. 31, 2025

SharePoint Agent vs. Human Admin: Can AI Replace You?

The SharePoint Knowledge Agent is marketed as an autonomous librarian; in practice, it’s an overconfident intern that needs supervision. It can suggest metadata, set simple natural-language rules, and answer questions across libraries—but it amplifies whatever chaos already exists. Auto-tagging mir…
Stop Cleaning Data: The Copilot Fix You Need
Oct. 30, 2025

Stop Cleaning Data: The Copilot Fix You Need

Most “analysis” in Excel is disguised janitorial work: inconsistent dates, mixed data types, rogue spaces, and copy-pasted chaos that later poisons Power BI, Power Automate, and Fabric. The fix isn’t heroics—it’s Excel Copilot acting as an AI janitor that understands structure, enforces types, and …
Fix Power Apps Data Entry: Use THIS AI Agent
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…
Stop Migrating: Use Lists as Copilot Knowledge
Oct. 29, 2025

Stop Migrating: Use Lists as Copilot Knowledge

Enterprises reflexively “modernize” by migrating data—Lists → Dataverse → Fabric—burning time and budget to recreate what already works. The myth: Copilot needs data moved to “enterprise-class” stores. The reality: Copilot Studio now connects directly to SharePoint Lists—live, permission-aware, no …
Canvas Apps Are Dead: Why Generative Pages Win
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…
Stop Using Generative Pages Wrong! The Licensing Trap
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…
Manual UI vs. AI Pages: Is Vibe Coding Worth It in 2025?
Oct. 28, 2025

Manual UI vs. AI Pages: Is Vibe Coding Worth It in 2025?

“Vibe coding” (Generative Pages) turns plain-English prompts into responsive, Dataverse-aware React pages, replacing the pixel babysitting of manual canvas apps. The upside: speed, consistency, accessibility, and built-in governance via Dataverse metadata and roles. The downside: speed can mask fra…
The TRUTH About Power Apps: Vibe Code vs. Low Code
Oct. 27, 2025

The TRUTH About Power Apps: Vibe Code vs. Low Code

“Low-code for everyone” was a great story—but the sequel is Vibe Code: Power Apps Code Apps (React + TypeScript + Git) living inside the same governed Power Platform. Low-code (Canvas/Model-Driven) still wins for speed and business-led prototyping, but it hides complexity, fragments UI, and resists…
The Difference Between Agents and Workflows in Copilot
Oct. 27, 2025

The Difference Between Agents and Workflows in Copilot

Stop calling everything “AI automation.” In the Power Platform, workflows and agents are different species. Power Automate flows are deterministic: fixed triggers, ordered steps, predictable outcomes—excellent for compliance and repetition, terrible at ambiguity. Copilot Studio agents are autonomou…
Why Your AI Flows Fail: The RFI Fix Explained
Oct. 26, 2025

Why Your AI Flows Fail: The RFI Fix Explained

Your “smart” flow didn’t fail because of AI—it failed because it trusted unvalidated input. Automation amplifies bad data at machine speed: blank fields, sloppy emails, vague purposes become corrupted Dataverse rows, bogus approvals, and dashboards that lie confidently. The fix isn’t “more AI,” it’…
Stop Waiting: Automate Multi-Stage Approvals with Copilot Studio
Oct. 26, 2025

Stop Waiting: Automate Multi-Stage Approvals with Copilot Studio

Approvals die in inboxes. Copilot Studio’s Agent Flows flip the script by letting AI act as the first approver, enforcing policy instantly and escalating only edge cases to humans. You design a multi-stage flow: an AI stage evaluates objective rules (amount, category, dates) and—optionally—cross-ch…
Generative Pages Just Killed Low Code Safety
Oct. 25, 2025

Generative Pages Just Killed Low Code Safety

Generative Pages feel like low-code’s endgame: describe a page, get React that talks to Dataverse, ship in minutes. The trap is hidden in one click—Edit Code. The second you crack open JSX, Power Apps stops shielding you. You inherit npm drift, security patches, schema changes, auth gaps, and AI “h…
The Model-Driven App Lie: Use Teams and SharePoint Instead
Oct. 25, 2025

The Model-Driven App Lie: Use Teams and SharePoint Instead

Model-Driven Power Apps sell “enterprise-grade” credibility but often deliver ceremony over outcomes. The catch is Dataverse: powerful, yes—but it drags licensing, security matrices, solution layers, environment sprawl, and governance latency into problems that needed a shared list and three notifi…
Your Azure File Sync Is A Time Bomb
Oct. 24, 2025

Your Azure File Sync Is A Time Bomb

Azure File Sync still “works” for many orgs—but on 2010s-era auth: local X.509 certs and SAS tokens. Those are possession-based secrets: whoever holds them is “you.” They sprawl into scripts, backups, repos, and logs; they expire silently; and one leak grants silent exfiltration via valid creds. Th…
Your AD Groups Are A Lie: Fix Source of Authority NOW
Oct. 24, 2025

Your AD Groups Are A Lie: Fix Source of Authority NOW

Most orgs still treat on-prem AD groups as sacred, syncing them to Entra ID and calling it “hybrid.” In reality, those objects are zombies: visible in Entra but ruled by on-prem, which blocks modern governance (dynamic membership, access reviews, APIs) and slows HR-driven provisioning. The fix is r…
Dataverse vs. SharePoint: The Governance Mistake Costing You Time
Oct. 23, 2025

Dataverse vs. SharePoint: The Governance Mistake Costing You Time

SharePoint Lists feel “free” and familiar, so teams prototype apps on them—and then accidentally build departments on sand. As lists multiply, you get broken lookups, 5k-item throttling, rogue permissions, attachment bloat, and schema drift. Governance collapses quietly: no environment isolation, i…
Azure PostgreSQL Is Costing You THOUSANDS
Oct. 23, 2025

Azure PostgreSQL Is Costing You THOUSANDS

Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server isn’t pricey because of traffic; it’s pricey because defaults quietly overprovision compute, storage, and HA. “Managed” means patched, not optimized—you still pay for VM cores at idle, disks that only grow, and standby replicas that double costs while…
Azure App Gateway Network Isolation: The Security Fix You Missed
Oct. 22, 2025

Azure App Gateway Network Isolation: The Security Fix You Missed

For years, a “private” Azure Application Gateway still needed a public IP and outbound Internet just to talk to Microsoft’s control plane. Management (control plane) and user traffic (data plane) shared the same door—an architectural contradiction that forced ugly firewall exceptions, Azure-DNS dep…
Your Fabric Data Lake Is Too Slow: The NVMe Fix
Oct. 22, 2025

Your Fabric Data Lake Is Too Slow: The NVMe Fix

Your Fabric and Power Platform workloads aren’t slow because of Spark or DAX—they’re slow because your data lives far from your compute. Managed storage adds network hops, caps IOPS, and taxes every read/write with latency. The fix isn’t “more nodes”; it’s proximity. Azure Container Storage v2 (ACS…