Shorts

Stop asking your employees to be librarians while they are trying to be engineers or salespeople. Manual data tagging has a 30 percent adoption rate, meaning 70 percent of your intellectual property is essentially invisible to your security tools. It is time to move from user-driven tagging to autonomous governance…

Your enterprise automation strategy may be built on the wrong foundation. In this episode of the M365FM Podcast, we expose the hidden architectural failure behind modern enterprise integration: the managed connector. For years, organizations have embraced low-code connectors as the “easy button” for automation, believing these pre-built wrappers accelerate digital…

Your Azure SQL firewall is no longer protecting your data. It is protecting outdated assumptions. In this episode of the M365FM Podcast, we expose the structural collapse of perimeter-based security and explain why traditional Azure SQL firewall strategies are failing in today’s AI-driven threat landscape. Most organizations still believe that…

What does it take to lead in the age of AI without losing your humanity? In this episode of the 365 FM Podcast, we sit down with Dan Barba, a Microsoft MVP and the founder of Strathos, to explore the intersection of technology, leadership, and mental health. Dan shares his…

Stop letting your Microsoft 365 budget disappear into idle storage silos and static quotas. Most organizations are suffering from a fiscal hemorrhage because they overprovision resources to avoid support calls, leaving massive amounts of paid capacity untouched. In this video, we re-engineer your multi-tenant architecture to move from rigid silos…

In this powerful and deeply technical episode of the m365.fm podcast, Mirko Peters explores one of the most urgent and misunderstood threats in enterprise AI today: the collapse of traditional security models in the age of autonomous agents, multi-model AI systems, and adversarial finance attacks. Financial institutions are rapidly deploying…

🚀 Unlock the secrets to building world-class ERP architectures with Dynamics 365 expert Anitha Eswaran [MVP/MCT]. In this episode of the M365 FM podcast, we explore how to move beyond simple technical connectors to create strategic integration ecosystems that scale with your business. 💡 From her early days with Axapta…

Your Azure bill usually starts going wrong long before finance ever notices the number. That’s the real problem. Most FinOps teams still operate on a reactive model built around dashboards, reports, alerts, exports, and month-end review cycles. But cloud spend doesn’t wait for governance meetings. It starts the second someone…

Azure promises that you only pay for what you use, but the reality is that most teams pay for what they forgot to shut down. If your cloud bill is filled with orphaned disks, idle VMs, and stale test environments, manual cleanup is no longer a viable strategy. In this…

Is your organization truly ready for the AI revolution, or are you just shining a bright light on hidden security risks? In this episode of the M365 FM podcast, we dive deep into the world of Copilot security and governance with expert with Åsne Holtklimpen [MVP/MCT]. We explore how to…

Are you ready to take your enterprise AI applications from prototype to production? Join us as we explore the power of Microsoft AI Foundry with expert Edgar McOchieng [MVP] to learn how to build scalable, secure, and cost-effective AI agents. Whether you are managing skyrocketing API costs or looking to…

Did you choose microservices for speed, only to find that every simple feature now requires three team handoffs and a complex API review? The bureaucracy didn't disappear, it just moved out of the org chart and directly into your runtime. In this video, we break down why 42% of organizations…

One slow dependency can quietly poison an entire cloud platform long before any dashboard shows a major outage. The systems still appear healthy. CPU looks normal. Containers remain online. Health checks keep passing. Yet underneath the surface, capacity is already collapsing because the architecture was built on a dangerous assumption:…

Are you ready to see how AI and Figma are completely changing the game for Power Platform developers? In this episode of the M365.FM podcast, we sit down with Microsoft MVP with Lukas Pavelka to discuss the future of Vibe coding, custom Figma plugins, and building efficient design systems. Lukas…

Ticketing looks clean on paper. You get the numbers. The queues. The dashboards. But the real cost of support usually starts long before a ticket ever appears. An employee loses access to a file. A Teams meeting fails seconds before it starts. A sharing link breaks. Someone retries the same…

Identity used to be simple. Employees logged into corporate systems from managed devices inside a controlled network perimeter. Security teams built walls, directories stored accounts, and trust lived inside one organization. That world no longer exists. Today, customers move across apps and devices constantly. Partners collaborate across tenants. Contractors join…

Are you still clicking through the Microsoft 365 admin center for every small change? It is time to level up your automation game with the power of PowerShell. In this episode of the M65 Podcast, we sit down with automation architect Matthew Dowst [MVP] to discuss why PowerShell is more…

Your Copilot problem isn’t a feature issue—it’s a trust failure in the model behind it. Most organizations still believe safety lives in prompts, permissions, and a few edge filters. But attackers don’t need to break your prompt—they just need to poison the context around it. That’s where everything collapses. Hidden…

A wire request lands in your inbox. Everything looks right—the name, the tone, even a voice note that sounds exactly like your CEO. In the past, that was enough. Today, it’s a liability. This episode breaks down a hard truth: trust based on recognition is no longer safe. We’re no…

Managed Environments were supposed to fix the mess. The promise was simple. More control, better visibility, and an end to chaos across the Power Platform. Governance would bring order, reduce risk, and finally make low-code safe at scale. But for most organizations, the opposite happens. They lock the platform down…

Most global teams think the hard part is translation. It isn’t. The real challenge begins after the words land, when tone, hesitation, hierarchy, and polite resistance get flattened into something that looks clear, but isn’t. Meetings end, transcripts look clean, summaries feel organized, and yet everyone leaves with a different…

Are you looking for the best way to share your Dataverse data with external users safely and efficiently? In this episode, Microsoft Business Applications MVP Nicholas Hayduk joins Mirko Peters to break down everything you need to know about Power Pages. Power Pages is the essential piece of the Power…

Your dashboard looks perfect on launch day. Clean visuals, aligned KPIs, and a sense that everything is finally “visible.” But the decay starts immediately. Because dashboards depend on one fragile assumption: someone will open them at the exact moment something matters. That rarely happens. In this episode, we challenge one…

Automation is evolving—and fast. What used to be simple task execution is now becoming something far more powerful: systems that can observe themselves, make decisions, and recover without human intervention. In this episode, we explore what it really means to engineer self-healing automation, and why telemetry is the missing piece…