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Learn how to design Microsoft Purview DLP policies that actually work. Master scoping, sensitive information types, simulation mode, and tuning to reduce risk. DLP policies fail when they either block everything or catch nothing. The sweet spot takes iteration. In this episode of M365 FM, we explain how to design Microsoft Purview DLP policies that work: scoping, sensitive information types, polic...

Discover SharePoint Embedded in M365. Learn what it is, how file containers and security work, billing, and how apps use it without a standard user interface. 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...

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 requ...

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 Feature...

Connecting PLCs to IT systems adds value and risk if production is not protected. In this episode of the iFAKT series, we discuss architecture patterns for OT-IT convergence on Azure, with safe boundaries and data flows. You will learn how to connect equipment without breaking production. Who it is for: OT engineers, IT architects and plant managers. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www...

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...

Dashboards are only as good as the machine data feeding them. In this episode of the iFAKT series, we cover common data quality problems: missing values, naming, timestamps and units, and how to fix them before they reach Power BI. You will learn how to build data quality checks into the pipeline. Who it is for: Data engineers, BI developers and manufacturing analysts. Become a supporter of this p...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 Micros...

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...

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,...

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 Tha...

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 Mana...

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 alr...

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 Q...

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 Mach...

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 Blueprint...

Your Azure app probably has a password written into its settings right now. Every database login, API key, and secret copied into a config file is a key left out in the open, and millions of them leak every year. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: Why Secrets in Code Are a Problem What a Managed Identity Actually Is System-Assigned and User-Assigned How Your App Gets a Token Grant...

Nearly nine in ten attacks on the web start with a stolen password. That's one secret you type into every site you use, so one leak spreads everywhere. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: Why a password on its own isn't enough The three things a factor can be What actually happens when you sign in Authenticator apps, text messages, and security keys Why phishing-resistant is the ph...

More than ten thousand ready-made building blocks are sitting inside GitHub right now. They're called actions, and they plug into a tool called GitHub Actions that runs your work for you whenever something happens in your project. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: What GitHub Actions Really Is Where The Instructions Live What Wakes It Up: Events Jobs, Steps, And Runners The Marke...

Hello everyone, and welcome to another episode of Microsoft Knowledge Nuggets here on m365.fm. I’m your host, Mirko Peters. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: The Encryption Gap: Data in Use Why the Cloud Needs a Private Room The Trusted Execution Environment, Plain English Attestation: Checking the Room Before You Trust It Azure Building Blocks: VMs, Containers, and Services Wher...

Imagine your website suddenly gets ten times more visitors, but only one virtual machine handles every request. Pages slow down, people wait, and some may leave before your app even responds. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: Opening: Why One Virtual Machine Isn’t Enough The Problem: A Single VM Has a Fixed Limit What a Virtual Machine Scale Set Actually Is How Requests Reach Hea...