Azure architecture looks easy when everything works.The real test starts when dependencies fail, regions become unavailable, traffic spikes, assumptions turn out to be wrong, requirements change, and someone eventually asks the uncomfortable question: why did we design it this way in the first place?In this episode of M365.FM, Mirko Peters talks with Mike Martin [MVP] about what Azure architecture looks like when it has to survive real production conditions rather than just look good on a diagra...

Microsoft 365 Copilot can help people find information and get work done faster, but its answers depend on the content and permissions already in an organization’s Microsoft 365 tenant. In this episode of the M365 FM podcast, Mirko Peters speaks with Microsoft MVP Paul Keijzers, founder of KB Works, about preparing Microsoft 365 for Copilot in a practical, responsible way. They look beyond demos and licensing to the foundations that shape Copilot results: SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, OneDrive, d...

Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft 365 make it possible to run powerful messaging environments, but moving email to the cloud does not automatically make it secure. In this episode of the M365 Show, host Mirko Peters [MVP] talks with Thomas Stensitzki [MVP] about the security gaps that can hide in Exchange Server, Exchange Online, and hybrid deployments. Drawing on more than 25 years of messaging experience, Thomas explains how identity protection, careful configuration, secure mail flow, and oper...

What happens when AI agents start making sense of financial and business data — not just displaying it?In this episode of M365.FM, Mirko Peters talks with Rishi Sapra Microsoft MVP about the architecture required to move beyond traditional dashboards and toward AI-powered, context-aware analytics with Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Copilot Studio, semantic models, ontologies, and data agents.Organizations already have enormous amounts of information spread across ERP systems, Excel workbooks, Power...

Artificial intelligence is changing software development at a speed we have rarely seen before.Developers have already moved from writing every line of code themselves to working with AI assistants that can generate code, explain unfamiliar systems, create tests, debug applications, and automate repetitive work.But according to Microsoft MVP Andre Baltieri, that is only the beginning.In this episode of M365.FM, Mirko Peters sits down with Andre for a deep dive into the transition from traditiona...

Microsoft Power Platform is often described as a low-code platform. But what happens when the applications you build become business-critical, highly integrated, and too complex for a simple maker-first approach?In this episode of M365 FM, Mirko Peters talks with Power Platform Solution Architect Ian Tweedie about what happens when Power Platform moves beyond simple low-code applications and becomes part of a serious enterprise architecture. LOW-CODE DOESN’T MEAN LOW ARCHITECTURE Power Platform...

Microsoft 365 Copilot doesn’t arrive in a clean Microsoft 365 tenant. It arrives in an environment that organizations have been building for years — full of SharePoint sites, Teams, OneDrive content, duplicate documents, historic migrations, guest accounts, inconsistent permissions, forgotten workspaces, broken ownership models, and content nobody has reviewed in years.For traditional Microsoft 365 management, much of this technical debt could remain relatively hidden. AI changes that.In this ep...

Does Microsoft 365 Copilot really make people more productive?In this episode of the M365 FM podcast, Mirko Peters speaks with Microsoft MVP Adrian Espes about what Copilot actually delivers in everyday work—not in a polished demo, but during a normal working day filled with meetings, emails, documents, Teams messages, deadlines, and constant interruptions.Adrian brings a practical perspective shaped by his experience in training, business analytics, modern workplace consulting, and Microsoft 36...

Microsoft 365 has given organizations more tools than ever to communicate, collaborate, automate, and manage information. Now Microsoft 365 Copilot adds an entirely new layer of AI capability. But behind all the discussion about productivity, automation, agents, and AI, there is a much bigger question: are these technologies simply helping us work faster, or are they fundamentally changing the way we think, learn, communicate, collaborate, and work?In this episode of m365.fm, Mirko Peters sits d...

Modern SharePoint development does not mean building every component from scratch. In this episode of the M365 FM Podcast, Mirko Peters talks with Microsoft MVP Siddharth Vaghasia about building production-ready SharePoint Framework (SPFx) solutions by combining the right Microsoft 365 technologies with reusable community components.Siddharth brings nearly 18 years of experience across the Microsoft technology stack, from .NET and the early days of SharePoint Server to SharePoint Online, Microso...

For years, SharePoint has carried a reputation for complicated document libraries, outdated intranets, confusing navigation, too many sites, and information that employees simply cannot find. But Microsoft 365 is changing, and Copilot is making SharePoint more important than it has been in a long time.In this episode of the M365 FM Podcast, Mirko Peters talks with Microsoft MVP Marcin Siewnicki about how SharePoint is evolving from a traditional document and intranet platform into a central info...

Microsoft Fabric brings data engineering, analytics, business intelligence, governance and increasingly AI together in one platform. But what does an end-to-end Fabric architecture actually look like when you move beyond individual features and start connecting everything?In this episode of the M365 FM Podcast, Mirko Peters is joined by Amit Chandak [Microsoft Data Platform MVP] for a practical journey through Microsoft Fabric — starting with raw organizational data and ending with trusted infor...

Enterprise AI is moving beyond chatbots that simply answer questions. The next generation of AI agents can understand business context, connect to enterprise systems, orchestrate workflows, and take action on behalf of users.But building an impressive AI agent demo is easy. Building an agent that works reliably across a global enterprise—with sensitive data, complex business processes, governance requirements, thousands of users, and measurable outcomes—is a very different challenge.In this epis...

What happens when your cloud strategy cannot live entirely in the public cloud? Organizations are modernizing infrastructure with Azure, platform services, Infrastructure as Code, automated deployment pipelines, and Azure Landing Zones. At the same time, some workloads still need to remain close to factories, offices, regulated environments, existing infrastructure, or latency-sensitive systems. In this episode of M365 FM, Mirko Peters talks with Microsoft MVP Christoffer Klarskov Jakobsen about...

Microsoft 365 Copilot is moving far beyond prompt engineering. As organizations adopt AI more seriously, the challenge becomes connecting Copilot and AI agents to business applications, Microsoft Graph, organizational knowledge, APIs, workflows, and enterprise data while maintaining security and governance. In this episode of the M365 FM Podcast, Mirko Peters talks with Microsoft MVP and AI Tech Lead Yves Habersaat about Microsoft 365 Copilot extensibility, Copilot Studio, Microsoft Foundry, Mod...

AI-assisted development is moving beyond autocomplete and chat. Modern AI coding agents can inspect repositories, modify files, run tests, analyze failures, create pull requests, and execute increasingly complex development tasks. In this episode of the M365 FM Podcast, Mirko Peters talks with Microsoft MVP Lars Gyrup Brink Nielsen about GitHub Copilot, AI coding agents, developer experience, automated testing, TypeScript, JavaScript, Nx, monorepos, Polygraph, GitHub Actions, Playwright, and the...

Microsoft 365 licensing is often treated as a procurement problem: choose E3, E5, E7 or a collection of add-ons, assign the licenses, and move on. But licensing decisions directly influence security architecture, endpoint management, identity protection, and operational costs. In this episode of M365 FM, Mirko Peters talks with Videsh Chavan about building a unified Microsoft 365 strategy where licensing, Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Defender, identity, and endpoint security work together instead...

Most developers think of a database as the place where an application stores information. Tables, transactions, indexes, stored procedures, reporting, backups, and reliable data storage are the traditional responsibilities we associate with SQL. But what happens when the database itself becomes an active participant in the application architecture? In this episode of M365 FM, Mirko Peters talks with Dirceu Resende about how Azure SQL Database is evolving beyond traditional data storage. The conv...

Everyone wants Copilot. Everyone wants AI agents. Everyone wants employees to ask natural-language questions and immediately receive trustworthy answers from enterprise data. But what happens when the underlying data is fragmented, business definitions conflict, governance is weak, and semantic models were never designed for AI? In this episode of M365 FM, Mirko Peters sits down with Walter E. Calcagno, Microsoft MVP in Data Platform, Microsoft Certified Trainer, data architect, author, educator...

What happens when AI stops being just a tool and becomes the team that designs, builds, tests, secures, documents, deploys, and even maintains your software?In this episode of the M365 FM Podcast, Mirko Peters speaks with Mark Smith [MVP], widely known as NZ365Guy, about the transition from traditional Microsoft development toward AI-first software engineering. Mark brings decades of experience across Microsoft technologies, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Copilot, AI platforms, consulting, traini...

Business Central works. Your finance team trusts the numbers. The company grows. Then someone says: “We’ll just move to Finance & Operations later.”There’s one problem: Business Central and Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations are not two steps on the same ERP ladder.In this episode of M365 FM, Mirko Peters breaks down why moving from Business Central to Finance & Operations is not a traditional upgrade or migration. We explore the architectural differences, data models, consolidation challenges, D...

Why Power Platform Is Your Real Automation Layer — Not Custom Code Every new automation request in Microsoft Dynamics 365 seems to become a development ticket. A new approval path, Teams notification, reminder, document-generation process, or...

Power Platform makes it possible for people across an organization to solve problems, automate processes, and build business applications faster than traditional development approaches. But that accessibility also creates difficult enterprise questions: Who can build what? Where does company data go? How should environments be structured? And how can organizations prevent shadow IT without becoming the department that says no to every new idea? In this episode of M365 FM, Mirko Peters talks with...

Most people still think Microsoft Copilot is fundamentally a question-and-answer system: you ask something, it searches for information, and an LLM generates an answer. But that mental model is becoming outdated. Copilot is evolving toward an orchestration system that can determine where to search, evaluate what it finds, decide whether additional information is required, and increasingly take action based on the result. In this deep dive, we break down Agentic RAG, how it differs from tradition...