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Copilot Shows Wrong or Old Data: Fix Permissions and Trust Fast
Nov. 21, 2025

Copilot Shows Wrong or Old Data: Fix Permissions and Trust Fast

Your Copilot rollout is probably going to flop—and it won’t be the AI’s fault.Most organizations treat Microsoft 365 Copilot like a feature toggle: light up licenses, send a heroic memo, run one training… and three months later MAU is a rounding error. In this episode, we expose the five hidden…
Guest: Mirko Peters
How to Archive Inactive SharePoint Sites Without Breaking Governance
Nov. 20, 2025

How to Archive Inactive SharePoint Sites Without Breaking Governance

SharePoint looks confident on the surface, but under the hood it’s drowning in duplicates, forgotten drafts, and every “final final V2” that ever existed. In this episode, we pull back the curtain on why your search results lie, why Copilot sounds smart while guessing, and how a quiet storm of rogu…
Guest: Mirko Peters
Stop Losing Files in SharePoint: Fix Your Document Library Views Today
Nov. 20, 2025

Stop Losing Files in SharePoint: Fix Your Document Library Views Today

Your SharePoint / Microsoft 365 document libraries are quietly killing productivity — and Microsoft already shipped the fix. In this episode, I show you how the NEW Doc Libs UX, Forms, Autofill and Copilot turn your “final_v3_REALLY_final.docx” graveyard into an intelligent workflow that actually g…
Guest: Mirko Peters
Multi‑Channel M365 Agents Without Broken Adapters (Teams, Slack, Outlook)
Nov. 19, 2025

Multi‑Channel M365 Agents Without Broken Adapters (Teams, Slack, Outlook)

Your M365 AI agent isn’t failing because the model is bad—it’s failing because your plumbing is. This episode exposes why DIY agents that “work in dev” die the second real users and security show up. You’ll hear how app-only auth quietly nukes permission fidelity and audit trails, why stateless bot…
Guest: Mirko Peters
How to Choose the Right Paginated Tool: Service vs Report Builder vs SSRS
Nov. 19, 2025

How to Choose the Right Paginated Tool: Service vs Report Builder vs SSRS

Your Power BI dashboards aren’t broken – you’re just using them for the wrong job. This episode shows why “Export to PDF” is a lying screenshot, and how paginated reports (in the Service, Report Builder, or Visual Studio) finally give executives the print-perfect, audit-ready PDFs they keep asking …
Guest: Mirko Peters
Stop DAX UDF Timeouts: Materialize with ADDCOLUMNS Instead
Nov. 18, 2025

Stop DAX UDF Timeouts: Materialize with ADDCOLUMNS Instead

You thought VAL vs EXPR was harmless syntax sugar. In reality, it decides when your metrics are evaluated, which means the same function, same arguments can return a completely different “truth” — clean visuals, perfect totals, and numbers that are confidently wrong.
Guest: Mirko Peters
Duplicates and sync conflicts in OneDrive? How to stop broken file versions
Nov. 18, 2025

Duplicates and sync conflicts in OneDrive? How to stop broken file versions

Stop treating the cloud like a USB stick from 2007. In this episode, we unpack why “Sync Everything” secretly trashes your CPU, storage, bandwidth, and governance—and how OneDrive shortcuts turn that wheezing laptop into a fast, curated workspace. If your fan is screaming, your sync queue is stuck …
Guest: Mirko Peters
How to Keep 3D Models From Bypassing Your Fabric Governance Rules
Nov. 17, 2025

How to Keep 3D Models From Bypassing Your Fabric Governance Rules

Think spreadsheets are chaos? Cute. In this episode we stress-test Microsoft Fabric against the worst data you own: photorealistic 3D assets and full-fidelity digital twins. We break down why a single “file” is actually a sprawling supply chain of scans, meshes, textures, physics, and licenses — an…
Guest: Mirko Peters
Auditors Question Your AI Decisions? Use Agentic RAG for Traceable Proof
Nov. 17, 2025

Auditors Question Your AI Decisions? Use Agentic RAG for Traceable Proof

Your Copilot isn’t smart – it’s a very expensive autocomplete. In this episode, we break down why classic RAG (retrieve-augment-generate) quietly fails the moment your truth lives in more than one system, and how “agentic RAG” on Azure turns Copilot from a context tourist into an actual reasoning e…
Guest: Mirko Peters
Why Your Azure Invoice Explodes Each Month (And How a Mini PC Fixes It)
Nov. 16, 2025

Why Your Azure Invoice Explodes Each Month (And How a Mini PC Fixes It)

Still paying sky-high cloud rent for servers you can’t even touch? This episode shows you how to bring “the cloud” home, slash your Azure bill, and keep all the governance, security, and automation you actually care about. You’ll learn how Azure Arc lets your own mini-PCs and edge boxes wear an Azu…
Guest: Mirko Peters
Still Typing into Copilot? Turn on Hands‑Free Voice in 5 Minutes
Nov. 16, 2025

Still Typing into Copilot? Turn on Hands‑Free Voice in 5 Minutes

Typing to Copilot is the new fax machine—and your thumbs are the bottleneck. In this episode we break down how to give Copilot an actual voice, a memory, and a legal department, so it can keep up with the way you think, not the way you type.You’ll hear how GPT-4o Realtime turns Copilot from a s…
Guest: Mirko Peters
Cloud Costs Exploding After AI? Here’s the Real Reason
Nov. 15, 2025

Cloud Costs Exploding After AI? Here’s the Real Reason

Stop your cloud migration. Seriously. If you’re still bragging about being “cloud first,” this episode will show you why your shiny Azure estate is actually AI hostile. 🧨We break down the brutal truth: lift-and-shift doesn’t modernize anything—it just moves your technical debt into someone else…
Guest: Mirko Peters
Fix This Data Bottleneck Before You Buy More NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs
Nov. 15, 2025

Fix This Data Bottleneck Before You Buy More NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs

Your GPUs aren’t the problem. Your data fabric is.In this episode, we unpack why “AI-ready” on top of 2013-era plumbing is quietly lighting your cloud bill on fire—and how Azure plus NVIDIA Blackwell flips the equation. Think thousands of GPUs acting like one giant brain, NVLink and InfiniBand …
Guest: Mirko Peters
Stop Using Default Gateway Settings: Fix Your Power Platform Connectivity NOW!
Nov. 14, 2025

Stop Using Default Gateway Settings: Fix Your Power Platform Connectivity NOW!

🔍 Key Topics Covered 1) The Misunderstood Middleman — What the Gateway Actually Does - The real flow: Service → Gateway cluster → Host → Data source → Return (auth, TLS, translation, buffering—not a “dumb relay”). - Modes that matter: Standard...
Let Copilot Create Your Planner Tasks so You Don’t Click All Day
Nov. 14, 2025

Let Copilot Create Your Planner Tasks so You Don’t Click All Day

Still dragging cards around in Microsoft Planner like it’s 2015? In this episode, I show you how to stop babysitting boards and start speaking tasks into existence with a “Task Planner” Copilot agent.You’ll learn how Planner, Copilot Studio, and Power Automate actually fit together: Planner kee…
Guest: Mirko Peters
Auto‑fill Excel RFI spreadsheets from your knowledge base in minutes
Nov. 13, 2025

Auto‑fill Excel RFI spreadsheets from your knowledge base in minutes

This episode explains how to eliminate manual Excel work by using an autonomous agent that completes spreadsheet-based RFIs without human involvement. Instead of relying on macros or step-by-step automation, the system watches for incoming Excel files, interprets the questions inside them, generate…
Guest: Mirko Peters
Step-by-Step: Connect Azure SQL to Copilot Studio via Data Gateway
Nov. 13, 2025

Step-by-Step: Connect Azure SQL to Copilot Studio via Data Gateway

Your Copilot sounds smart but secretly knows nothing about your business. It’s guessing from Wikipedia while your real memory—orders, invoices, inventory—sits locked in SQL Server behind the firewall. This episode exposes the fix: the Power Platform Data Gateway, a locked-down, outbound-only “spina…
Guest: Mirko Peters
Why Your MCP Server Is Invisible to Copilot Studio (And How to Fix It)
Nov. 12, 2025

Why Your MCP Server Is Invisible to Copilot Studio (And How to Fix It)

Think adding Model Context Protocol to Copilot Studio is “just a custom connector”? This episode blows that lie apart. We unpack why the shiny MCP dropdown only talks to Microsoft’s own sources, and why your “connected” MCP is usually a dead tunnel, not a live bridge. You’ll learn what MCP really i…
Guest: Mirko Peters
Migrating Power Automate Cloud Flows to Agent Flows: Where to Start First
Nov. 12, 2025

Migrating Power Automate Cloud Flows to Agent Flows: Where to Start First

Cloud Flows vs Agent Flows: The Budget Bombshell Microsoft Hoped You’d MissYou’re building automations like it’s 2019 and it’s quietly draining your budget. The premium connector trap turns one small flow into a company-wide license bill. Hidden API throttling slows down your automations without …
Guest: Mirko Peters
How to stop breaking Power Automate flows with Python
Nov. 11, 2025

How to stop breaking Power Automate flows with Python

Microsoft just made Python “run natively” inside Power Platform — and chaos followed.From Copilot Studio’s Code Interpreter to Azure Functions, everyone’s suddenly a Python dev… until the flows time out, the files hit 512 MB, and IT gets a heart attack.In this episode, we break down the great…
Guest: Mirko Peters
Free Copilot, not free governance: the admin checklist you need first
Nov. 11, 2025

Free Copilot, not free governance: the admin checklist you need first

Microsoft says Copilot is now free across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote. But here’s the twist: it’s not magic — it’s your data, orchestrated. In this episode we rip off the marketing gloss and show how Microsoft Graph pipes your emails, files, meetings, and notes into a single “AI b…
Guest: Mirko Peters
Too Many False Positives in Defender? Fix It With Synthetic Analysts
Nov. 10, 2025

Too Many False Positives in Defender? Fix It With Synthetic Analysts

Your “intern” just became your scariest, smartest coworker—and it’s made of code.In this episode, we unpack how Microsoft Security Copilot is quietly turning traditional Security Operations Centers into AI-driven defense factories. Forget drowning in alerts, phishing noise, and endless Patch Tu…
Guest: Mirko Peters
How to Use Power Automate to Cut Your Copilot Time in Half
Nov. 10, 2025

How to Use Power Automate to Cut Your Copilot Time in Half

Most companies think Copilot = instant productivity.Wrong.Copilot isn’t the ROI engine — Power Automate is.Copilot only “suggests.” Power Automate does the work.In this episode we expose the 5 hacks that turn Copilot from a chatty intern into a revenue-generating automation machine — …
Guest: Mirko Peters
Your Power Apps Are Slow Because You Still Type Data by Hand
Nov. 9, 2025

Your Power Apps Are Slow Because You Still Type Data by Hand

AI inside the Microsoft Power Platform isn’t just about 'Copilot writes formulas' anymore. In 2025, Microsoft introduced four innovative capabilities that transform how apps, data, and automation are developed: Dataverse Prompt Columns, AI Form Filler / Form Assist, Generative Pages, and Copilot Ag…
Guest: Mirko Peters