Most companies think a Microsoft 365 migration is just copying files from one account to another, and that assumption is exactly what sinks the project. When a merger closes or a division gets sold, two separate Microsoft accounts have to become one, and nothing carries over on its own. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: What a tenant really is Why companies leave one tenant for another What actually moves The Teams problem The domain move Running both tenants at once Cu...

The controls you drag onto a Power Apps screen are only half the story. Underneath them sits a second layer that lets developers build their own controls, the kind that turn plain forms into real maps, custom grids, and interfaces that feel made by hand. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: The Hidden Half of Power Apps The Wall Every Power App Hits Eventually What the Component Framework Actually Is How a Component Works Under the Hood From Idea to Shipped Component Where ...

Half the tutorials online assume you're not on Windows, and that used to mean you had the wrong machine. Windows now ships a free feature that runs real Linux right beside it, built into Windows 10 and 11. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: Why Linux Tools Keep Showing Up in Windows Tutorials What WSL Actually Is The Real Difference Between WSL 1 and WSL 2 Installing It in One Command How Linux and Windows Share Your Files What You Can Actually Do With It Where It Breaks...

Most companies find out they're overspending on the cloud when the invoice lands, and by then the money is already gone. Welcome to the M365 FM podcast, where we explore the people, ideas, and technologies shaping the future of work. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: Why Cloud Costs Feel Out of Control What FinOps Actually Means The Six Habits Every FinOps Team Shares How FinOps Runs in Three Repeating Phases What FinOps Looks Like on a Normal Tuesday Where FinOps Lives ...

Power Automate gives you two kinds of robot, and they don't cost the same. One sits with you at your desk and works while you watch. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: Two Robots, One Job What Power Automate Desktop Actually Is When the Robot Works While You Watch When the Robot Works While You're Gone The Real Difference Between Them How the Robot Signs In and Runs Alone Choosing the Right One for Your Job What It Costs and the Trap Most Beginners Hit Where It Breaks ...

Autopilot demos work. Real rollouts hit networks, hardware, apps and user behavior. In this episode of M365 FM, we discuss what breaks in large Intune and Autopilot rollouts: enrollment flows, app dependencies, hardware hashes, ESP failures and support processes. You will learn how to design for scale, test the awkward cases and prepare your helpdesk. Who it is for: Endpoint engineers, Intune admins and service desk leads. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/m36...

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There's a whole part of Microsoft 365 that has no screen at all. It's called SharePoint Embedded, and it stores files for apps instead of for people. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: What It Actually Is The Container Idea Where Your Files Live The Security Story What You Get Built In It's Not a SharePoint Site How the Billing Works Where You'll Meet It The Recap and One Question Simply Explained by M365.FM breaks down Microsoft 365, Azure and modern IT topics in cle...

Branching sounds like a small detail until two people change the same file. Then someone has to figure out which version is the real one, and that's a branching problem. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: What a branch is Why branching strategies exist The three building blocks Git Flow, the structured one GitHub Flow, the simple one Trunk-based development, the fast one Pull requests explained Merge versus rebase Choosing a strategy for small and large teams Common m...

You might think Teams Premium is just Microsoft Teams with a bigger price tag. It's actually a separate add-on license that switches on features your normal Teams license leaves off. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: What Teams Premium Actually Is Meetings That Think Keeping the Meeting in the Room Looking Like Your Company Big Events Appointments and Bookings The IT Team Features Who Actually Needs It The Licensing Basics Teams Premium or Copilot Recap and a Questi...

Azure Migrate is free, and it will tell you what your own servers are really costing you. That sounds simple, but the hard part of a migration usually happens before anyone opens the cloud portal, because nobody mapped what was connected to what. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: What Azure Migrate Actually Is How Discovery Works The Assessment: Readiness, Sizing, Cost Dependency Analysis Agentless or Agent-Based Moving in Waves The Hub and Its Tools The Pitfalls to Av...

Power Automate Desktop is a free robot already sitting on your Windows PC, and most people never switch it on. It's Microsoft's answer to work you do the same way, over and over, in apps that were never built to talk to anything else. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: What Power Automate Desktop Actually Is Desktop Flows Versus Cloud Flows How the Recorder Turns Your Clicks Into Actions Attended Versus Unattended Connecting Desktop Flows to Cloud Flows What It Costs Wha...

Every email in your company is being checked by rules you've never seen. They're called mail flow rules, and they sit between the send button and the inbox. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: The Rules You Never See What A Mail Flow Rule Really Is The Three Questions Every Rule Asks When A Rule Fires And What Happens Next The Jobs People Actually Give These Rules The Limits Nobody Warns You About Testing A Rule Before It Bites Where This Sits In Microsoft 365 And Azure ...

Microsoft's OneDrive is one name hiding two completely different products. You might think the OneDrive on your home laptop is the same as the one your job handed you, but they are two separate accounts that only look alike. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: What OneDrive Actually Is Two OneDrives, One Name How Your Files Get Onto Your Computer Sharing and Permissions The Folder Backup You Didn't Ask For Undo: Versions and the Recycle Bin OneDrive vs SharePoint Who's R...

Your Azure setup lives in your memory, and that's a problem. You clicked it into place once, on screens you'll never find again, and nothing was ever written down. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: What Bicep actually is Why not just use ARM JSON or the portal How Bicep works under the hood Reading a Bicep file in plain words Modules, your reusable building blocks Deploying, and the what-if safety net Bicep versus ARM versus Terraform The mistakes beginners make Recap...

Most of us assume GitHub Copilot writes code so we don't have to. That assumption misses what's actually happening inside the editor. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: What Copilot Actually Is Three Ways to Talk to It How It Knows About Your Code What It Costs Privacy and Who Owns the Code Mistakes Beginners Make Recap and a Question Simply Explained by M365.FM breaks down Microsoft 365, Azure and modern IT topics in clear, jargon-free language. Hosted by Mirko Peters....

Azure Data Factory is a courier service for your company's data. It picks up raw information from wherever it lives, cleans it on the way, and drops it off somewhere your reports can actually use it. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: What Azure Data Factory Actually Is The Building Blocks: Pipelines and Activities Linked Services and Datasets: The Keys and the Address Integration Runtimes: The Engine Room Triggers and Scheduling: Making It Run on Its Own Mapping Data Flo...

Imagine betting your entire data strategy on a platform that leaves your reports crawling, your engineers fighting for control, or your budget blowing up every time a new team needs access. One wrong decision can create years of unnecessary work, and the ongoing friction adds up fast. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: Opening: The Platform Choice That Creates Years of Extra Work, 100 words Start With the Simple Mental Model: One Data Journey, Three Approaches, 420 words Fab...

Microsoft Forms is the survey and quiz builder you already own. Welcome to the M365 FM podcast, where we explore the people, ideas, and technologies shaping the future of work. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: The Tool You Already Own Building Your First Form When a Survey Becomes a Quiz Branching: The Form That Rewrites Itself Collecting Answers Without the Headache Answers That Land in Excel by Themselves Letting Power Automate Do the Follow-Up The Limits Worth Know...

Microsoft Viva Insights is probably already switched on inside your Microsoft 365 account. You might think it's a tool for your manager to watch you, but the first view it opens is the one that's just for you. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: What Viva Insights Actually Is The Four Views of the Same Data Your Own Insights: Focus Time, Quiet Time, and Switching Off What Your Manager Sees What Leaders See Across the Company The Analyst Role: Where the Real Questions Get A...

The word serverless is a lie, and the truth behind it is far more useful. There's no such thing as computing without servers, but there's a way to stop renting machines you barely use. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: Why the word serverless trips almost everyone up What serverless computing actually means How serverless decides when to run and what it costs Where serverless already lives in Microsoft 365 The jobs serverless is genuinely good at The limits that surprise...

Most load balancers never read the request they're delivering. Azure Application Gateway does, and that single habit changes where your traffic lands. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: What It Actually Is Listeners and Routing Rules Backend Pools and Health Probes Where HTTPS Gets Handled What Stops the Attacks Scaling Without Thinking The Three Azure Load Balancers Recap and a Question Simply Explained by M365.FM breaks down Microsoft 365, Azure and modern IT topics ...

Docker is the most-used tool in cloud development, and it's not even close. You've probably heard the word thrown around like it's basic knowledge everyone else already has. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: The Problem Docker Actually Solves What a Container Really Is Images, Dockerfiles, and the Power of Layers Registries: Where Images Live and Travel Containers vs Virtual Machines Where People Actually Use Docker The Mistakes Beginners Make When You Should Not Reach...

Somewhere in your Microsoft 365 tenant, an AI agent is signing in with an account nobody can name. It reads your mail, opens your files, and answers questions in Teams, and when something goes wrong, there's no person on the other end to ask. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: The Agent Nobody Can Name Why Agents Need Their Own Identity What An Agent Identity Actually Is Blueprints: One Template, Many Agents Agent Identities vs Service Principals vs Managed Identities Con...