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(00:00:00) The AI Revolution in Microsoft Power Platform (00:00:50) Data Verse: AI-Powered Data Intelligence (00:05:27) Form Filler: AI-Driven Data Entry Automation (00:11:23) Generative Pages: AI-Generated UI Components (00:17:56) Copilot Agents: Modular AI Orchestration (00:23:38) The Future of Microsoft Power Platform In this episode of M365.fm, Mirko Peters breaks down four new Power Platform ...

(00:00:00) The Hybrid Identity Dilemma (00:00:09) The Dual Identity System Burden (00:01:21) The Source of Authority Conundrum (00:04:05) Preparing for Migration (00:07:38) Migrating Groups to Cloud Management (00:11:11) Migrating Users to Microsoft Entra ID (00:15:07) Troubleshooting Common Sync Issues (00:18:40) Optimization and Long-Term Strategy (00:21:10) The Path to Modern Identity Managemen...

(00:00:00) Introducing Copilot Studio's New "Computer Use" Feature (00:01:22) The Power of Direct Computer Interaction (00:03:19) Setting Up Computer Use: A Step-by-Step Guide (00:06:16) Watching the AI Learn: A Fascinating but Flawed Process (00:09:49) The Governance Catch: Balancing Autonomy and Control (00:15:02) Building a Responsible AI Workforce (00:20:16) Upcoming Deep Dives and Subscriptio...

(00:00:00) The SharePoint Database Myth (00:00:58) The Illusion of SharePoint as a Database (00:01:38) SharePoint's Limitations and Performance Issues (00:04:02) The Scale Myth: When SharePoint Fails (00:10:06) Relationships and Data Integrity: SharePoint's Achilles' Heel (00:15:38) Security: A False Sense of Protection (00:18:06) Lifecycle Management: The Hidden Costs (00:20:08) The Licensing Tra...

(00:00:00) The Power Apps Chart Conundrum (00:01:25) The Broken Native Chart Control (00:04:17) AI to the Rescue: A New Visualization Engine (00:08:08) Building Your First AI Chart Module (00:11:46) Dynamic and Context-Aware Charts (00:16:35) The Future of Power Apps: 3D Visualizations (00:19:51) The AI-Powered Visualization Revolution In this episode of M365.fm, Mirko Peters explains why native P...

(00:00:00) The Importance of Barcode Scanning in Inventory Management (00:01:17) The Pitfalls of Manual Inventory Management (00:03:20) The Power of Structured Data Capture (00:04:20) The Architecture of Inventory Management (00:08:41) Power Automate: The Compliance Officer (00:13:12) Power BI: The Lens on Order (00:18:07) Compliance, Governance, and Risk Containment (00:20:33) The Transformative...

(00:00:00) The SharePoint Dilemma (00:01:20) The Illusion of Easy App Creation (00:02:41) The Hidden Costs of SharePoint Lists (00:04:21) The Delegation Disaster (00:07:37) The Scalability Wall (00:11:46) The Governance Gap (00:15:53) Data Verse: The Scalable Alternative (00:21:18) The Final Verdict and Homework SharePoint list Power Apps: in this episode of M365.fm, Mirko Peters shows why buildin...

Fabric data warehouse AI: in this episode of M365.fm, Mirko Peters explains why your Fabric data warehouse has quietly become a CSV graveyard and how to turn it back into a living, AI‑ready decision system. He shows how legacy ETL habits—nightly CSV exports, cold tables, and snapshot thinking—turn OneLake into digital Tupperware instead of the real‑time lakehouse and intelligence fabric it was des...

Copilot Studio Fabric data: in this episode of M365.fm, Mirko Peters shows how Copilot Studio turns plain English into governed Microsoft Fabric queries so business users stop waiting for SQL and start getting answers directly. He tears down the myth that analytics is a “data problem” and explains why the real bottleneck is language: every question must be translated into SQL, which creates ticket...

(00:00:00) The Hidden Execution Order of Power BI Queries (00:00:48) Power BI's Secret Execution Plan (00:03:47) Query Folding: Power BI's Optimization Technique (00:09:00) The Consequences of Folding Failure (00:13:44) The Three Stages of Query Execution (00:17:54) Mastering Query Order for Better Performance (00:21:38) Calibrating Your Curiosity Power BI query folding: in this episode of M365.fm...

Fabric semantic model Copilot: in this episode of M365.fm, Mirko Peters explains why your Fabric semantic model is quietly training Copilot to hallucinate—and how to rebuild your medallion layers so AI stops turning schema chaos into confident fiction. He shows how duplicate joins, missing semantics, and leaky Bronze‑to‑Gold pipelines feed Copilot ambiguous metadata, so the model rearranges half‑c...

(00:00:00) The Illusion of Successful Failure (00:00:06) The Decorative Dashboards Dilemma (00:00:47) The Three Non-Negotiables of Power BI Success (00:01:36) Defining and Containing Scope (00:06:12) The Data Quality Foundation (00:11:11) Implementing Governance from Day One (00:17:06) The Integrated Blueprint for Power BI Success (00:20:42) Common Mistakes and Recovery Strategies (00:22:05) The N...

Bing Maps Power BI migration: this episode of M365.fm explains why your existing Bing Maps visuals in Power BI are on borrowed time and how to migrate them to Azure Maps before your executive dashboards go blank mid‑quarter. Mirko Peters walks through what Microsoft’s deprecation of Bing Maps really means, why unsupported map visuals will simply stop rendering, and how to treat this as an urgent p...

Power BI hub and spoke planning: this episode of M365.fm explains why most self‑service Power BI environments devolve into chaos and how a Hub and Spoke architecture restores one version of truth without killing agility. Mirko Peters starts with the “Wild West” problem—every department builds its own “Sales Dashboard,” each with different definitions of revenue, refresh times, and filters—so execu...

Dataverse licensing Power Apps: this episode of M365.fm breaks down why your Dataverse‑backed Power Apps project suddenly feels “too expensive” and how to design licensing, capacity, and environments so costs stay predictable instead of exploding right before go‑live. Mirko Peters starts with the Dataverse cost illusion: everyone assumes it “comes with” Microsoft 365, until premium connectors, per...

Copilot Notebooks governance risk: this episode of M365.fm reveals why Copilot Notebooks look like a productivity upgrade but quietly create a compliance and data‑lineage nightmare inside Microsoft 365. Mirko Peters shows how every “innocent” AI summary becomes a new, unlabeled data artifact that inherits no sensitivity labels, retention policies, or Purview visibility—turning powerful contextual...

Fabric Dataflows Gen2 architectures: in this episode of M365.fm, Mirko Peters explains why most Microsoft Fabric Dataflows Gen2 deployments quietly burn far too much compute—and how three clear architectures for staging, transforming, and serving data can cut your capacity bill while improving governance and performance. He shows how treating Dataflows Gen2 like “Power BI dataflows 2.0” leads to d...

Fabric governance GPT‑5: this episode of M365.fm shows how GPT‑5 inside Microsoft 365 Copilot finally fixes Fabric governance by reasoning across Purview, Power BI, and Fabric so you can stop doing manual spreadsheet audits. Mirko Peters explains why governance breaks today: each system logs its own truth—classifications in Purview, roles and RLS in Power BI, lineage and workspaces in Fabric—witho...

GPT‑5 vs. Researcher Agent: in this episode of M365.fm, Mirko Peters shows why GPT‑5 inside Copilot feels like it can replace the Researcher Agent—and why that assumption will quietly wreck your governance model when content needs to survive audits and regulation. He explains how GPT‑5’s fluent chain‑of‑thought reasoning optimizes for speed and coherence, while the Researcher Agent optimizes for t...

SharePoint Knowledge Agent vs. human admin: in this episode of M365.fm, Mirko Peters dissects Microsoft’s new SharePoint Knowledge Agent and asks whether it can truly replace a SharePoint administrator—or if it is just a very confident digital intern that needs constant supervision. You’ll hear how the agent promises to “organize your content, generate metadata, and answer questions,” but in pract...

Data cleanup in Excel: in this episode of M365.fm, Mirko Peters explains why most “analysis” jobs are really endless spreadsheet janitor work—and how Excel Copilot finally turns that cleanup into something you can delegate instead of suffer through. He walks through the everyday reality of messy CSVs, mixed date formats, rogue spaces, inconsistent labels, and columns pretending to be databases, sh...

Power Apps data entry AI agent: in this episode of M365.fm, Mirko Peters shows how to stop wasting time on manual form filling and let an AI data entry agent handle unstructured inputs, emails, and screenshots inside your model‑driven apps. He starts from the everyday nightmare of customer onboarding and request forms—rows of rigid text fields, copy‑paste from Outlook and PDFs, and typos that quie...

SharePoint Lists Copilot knowledge: in this episode of M365.fm, Mirko Peters dismantles the myth that “modernization” always means migration—and shows how SharePoint Lists can now act as first‑class Copilot knowledge without moving a single row into Dataverse or Fabric. He starts with the “migration mirage”: the reflex to rebuild working lists in new platforms just because AI or Power BI are invol...

Canvas Apps vs. Generative Pages Power Apps: in this episode of M365.fm, Mirko Peters explains why clinging to classic Canvas Apps has become self‑inflicted pain—and how Generative Pages with the new App Agent fundamentally change how you should design Power Apps. He starts with the “Canvas lie”: the promise of pixel‑perfect freedom that turned into pixel purgatory, where every layout tweak, theme...

Power Apps Generative Pages licensing: in this episode of M365.fm, Mirko Peters breaks down the “free lunch” illusion behind Generative Pages in Power Apps and explains how a single click on “Describe your page” can silently upgrade you into Dataverse‑backed, premium‑licensed territory. He shows how AI‑generated pages look like harmless prototypes—pretty calendars, dashboards, and forms built from...