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In this episode of the M365 Podcast, Mirko Peters sits down with Microsoft MVP Michel Mendes to explore his remarkable journey from traditional SharePoint development to becoming a leading Power Platform Architect. Michel shares how he started his Microsoft technology career in Brazil, transitioned from C# and SharePoint development into the modern Power Platform ecosystem, and eventually moved to...

Everyone is building AI agents. Very few organizations are building agent architectures. Across Microsoft 365, Copilot Studio, Azure OpenAI, Power Platform, and custom AI solutions, enterprises are racing to deploy copilots, bots, assistants, and autonomous workflows. Teams are creating agents for customer service, IT support, HR onboarding, knowledge discovery, incident management, and business o...

Artificial Intelligence is rapidly evolving from simple chatbots into sophisticated multi-agent systems capable of automating complex business processes, collaborating across services, and delivering real business value. In this episode of the M365 Podcast, Mirko Peters sits down with Microsoft MVP David Lorenzo Lopez to explore the future of intelligent automation and how organizations can levera...

Everyone is talking about AI adoption. Far fewer are talking about AI sovereignty. Organizations have rushed to deploy Microsoft Copilot, Azure OpenAI, ChatGPT Enterprise, Claude, Gemini, and dozens of AI-powered productivity tools. The results have been impressive. Productivity has increased. Development cycles have accelerated. Knowledge discovery has improved. But beneath the excitement lies a...

or years, organizations believed metadata governance was a training problem. If users understood the taxonomy better, governance would improve. If the dropdown lists were clearer, metadata quality would improve. If more communication and documentation were provided, compliance would improve. But what if the problem was never the user? What if the real problem is that governance logic was placed in...

Most discussions about quantum computing focus on a single question:When will quantum computers break encryption? The better question is this:How quickly can your organization replace encryption when it happens? Because the organizations that survive the quantum transition won't necessarily be the ones that adopt the newest algorithms first. They'll be the organizations that can change algorithms...

As organizations race to adopt Microsoft 365 Copilot, AI Agents, and Generative AI, one critical question continues to emerge: is your data ready for AI? In this episode of M365 FM, Mirko Peters sits down with Peter Rising, Senior Partner Solution Architect at Microsoft, to explore Microsoft Purview, Zero Trust, Data Governance, Compliance, Security, and the growing importance of protecting inform...

For years, organizations have followed a simple rule: move everything to the cloud. The strategy worked brilliantly for collaboration, analytics, business intelligence, and productivity workloads. Microsoft 365, Azure, Power BI, Teams, and modern cloud platforms transformed how organizations operate. But a growing number of industries are discovering a hard reality. Physics doesn't care about your...

What does it really take to build secure, scalable, and automated cloud environments in Microsoft Azure? In this episode of M365 FM, Mirko Peters sits down with Microsoft Azure MVP Maik van der Gaag to explore Infrastructure as Code, DevOps culture, Terraform, Bicep, GitHub, Azure automation, cloud governance, and the growing impact of AI on modern platform engineering. Drawing from more than 15 y...

Most organizations think their AI costs are driven by model pricing. They're wrong. The biggest cost problems in Microsoft AI environments often have nothing to do with GPT-5, Azure OpenAI, or Copilot licensing. Instead, they come from hidden architectural decisions that quietly multiply costs behind the scenes. In this episode, we break down the real economics of building AI agents in Microsoft A...

The Microsoft AI landscape is evolving at an incredible pace, and few people are closer to the transformation than Microsoft Business Applications MVP Nathan Rose. In this episode of M365 FM, host Mirko Peters welcomes Nathan for an in-depth conversation about Copilot Studio, Dataverse MCP (Model Context Protocol), Business Skills, Agentic AI, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and the future of intelligent b...

What if Microsoft's biggest AI breakthrough isn't a larger model? What if the future of Microsoft Copilot, enterprise AI, and Microsoft 365 productivity isn't powered by trillion-parameter frontier models at all? What if the real innovation is happening in the opposite direction? In this deep-dive episode, we explore one of the most important shifts happening in artificial intelligence today: the...

What separates successful Power Platform implementations from those that become difficult to manage, impossible to scale, and increasingly risky to maintain? In this in-depth episode of the M365 Podcast, host Mirko Peters welcomes Microsoft MVP Parvez Ghumra for a comprehensive discussion on Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), enterprise delivery, governance, DevOps, CI/CD, and the future of M...

Most architects default to HNSW because it's the industry standard. It's the algorithm used by most vector databases, the one featured in tutorials, and the option many teams deploy without a second thought. For small and medium-sized workloads, that's often the right decision. But at enterprise scale, a hidden problem begins to emerge. The moment organizations start dealing with hundreds of milli...

Artificial Intelligence is everywhere. Every conference keynote, every technology roadmap, every boardroom discussion, and nearly every software announcement seems to revolve around AI. Yet despite the excitement, many organizations are still asking the same question: How do we move beyond AI experimentation and actually create measurable business value? In this episode of the M365 Podcast, host M...

Your data map is supposed to show everything. Yet in most organizations, it only shows the data someone remembered to register. It doesn't show the forgotten storage account a project team created two years ago. It doesn't show the customer records copied into a personal OneDrive folder for "temporary analysis." It doesn't show abandoned development databases populated with production information,...

Three and a half million pages. Two thousand videos. One hundred and eighty thousand images. Most people assume that once you connect Microsoft Copilot to a massive dataset, the answers simply appear. The reality is very different. In this episode of the M365 FM Podcast, we go deep into the engineering challenges behind building a retrieval architecture capable of handling one of the largest and m...

Everyone talks about hallucinations as if they're a model problem. They blame GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, or whatever large language model happens to be in the spotlight this week. They tweak prompts, add more tokens, experiment with different temperatures, and hope the problem magically disappears. But what if hallucinations aren't a model problem at all? What if your Copilot is working exactly as des...

Most organizations already have the ingredients for enterprise AI success. They have SharePoint. They have years of accumulated knowledge stored across documents, spreadsheets, policies, manuals, contracts, and project files. They may even have access to powerful AI models. Yet when employees ask questions, the answers are often incomplete, inaccurate, or missing entirely. The problem isn't the AI...

rtificial Intelligence is rapidly changing how organizations interact with data, but many businesses are still searching for practical ways to connect AI-powered assistants with advanced analytics and predictive insights. In this episode, we explore how Microsoft Copilot and Power BI can work together to transform the way users discover, analyze, and act on business data. As organizations invest i...

In this episode of the M365 Show, host Mirko Peters sits down with Gautam Sheth, a five-time Microsoft MVP, Microsoft 365 developer, open-source contributor, and one of the key maintainers behind some of the most widely used community tools in the Microsoft ecosystem. Gautam has spent years helping organizations build, automate, and extend Microsoft 365 solutions while contributing to projects suc...

What if you could test every major Microsoft 365 decision before making it? What if you could simulate governance changes, Copilot deployments, security investments, automation initiatives, and organizational transformation strategies before spending a single dollar? In this episode of M365 FM, Mirko Peters explores a groundbreaking approach to Microsoft 365 strategy: building a synthetic market o...

Most people are using Microsoft Copilot completely wrong. They treat it as a smarter search engine, a better chatbot, or a productivity feature tucked away inside Outlook, Teams, or Word. They ask a question, get an answer, and move on to the next task. But that's not JARVIS.In this episode of M365 FM, Mirko Peters explores how Microsoft Copilot can evolve from a reactive assistant into a true ope...

In this episode of the M365 FM Podcast, Mirko Peters welcomes Areti Iles, Microsoft MVP, Head of Professional Services at Telefonica Tech’s AI Business Solutions Division, community leader, mentor, conference organizer, and one of the most respected voices in AI governance, compliance, Dynamics 365, and Power Platform. Together, they explore enterprise transformation, Agentic AI, leadership, respo...

AI video generation is moving far beyond simple prompts. Most creators approach AI filmmaking by treating every tool as an isolated experience. They generate images in one platform, create video in another, and hope everything magically works together. The result is familiar to anyone experimenting with AI movies today: characters change appearance between shots, motion becomes distorted, scenes l...