M365 Show Podcast
Welcome to the M365 Show — your essential podcast for everything Microsoft 365, Azure, and beyond. Join us as we explore the latest developments across Power BI, Power Platform, Microsoft Teams, Viva, Fabric, Purview, Security, and the entire Microsoft ecosystem. Each episode delivers expert insights, real-world use cases, best practices, and interviews with industry leaders to help you stay ahead in the fast-moving world of cloud, collaboration, and data innovation. Whether you're an IT professional, business leader, developer, or data enthusiast, the M365 Show brings the knowledge, trends, and strategies you need to thrive in the modern digital workplace. Tune in, level up, and make the most of everything Microsoft has to offer. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/m365-show-podcast--6704921/support.
Episodes
November 6, 2025 • 22 mins
Opening: The AccusationYour Fabric Data Warehouse is just a CSV graveyard. I know that stings, but look at how you’re using it—endless CSV dumps, cold tables, scheduled ETL jobs lumbering along like it’s 2015. You bought Fabric to launch your data into the age of AI, and then you turned it into an archive. The irony is exquisite. Fabric was built for intelligence—real‑time insight, contextual reasoning, self‑adjusting analytics. Ye...
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November 6, 2025 • 20 mins
Opening — The Real Bottleneck Isn’t Data, It’s LanguageEveryone swears their company is “data‑driven.” Then they open SQL Management Studio and freeze. The dashboard may as well start speaking Klingon. Every “business‑driven” initiative collapses the moment someone realizes the data is trapped behind the wall of semicolons and brackets.You’ve probably seen this: oceans of data — sales records, telemetry, transaction logs — but acce...
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November 5, 2025 • 21 mins
Opening: The Lie Your Power BI Query Tells YouYou think Power BI runs your query exactly as you wrote it. It doesn’t. It quietly reorders your steps like a bureaucrat with a clipboard—efficient, humorless, and entirely convinced it knows better than you. You ask it to filter first, then merge, then expand a column. Power BI nods politely, jots that down, and proceeds to do those steps in whatever internal order it feels like. The r...
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November 5, 2025 • 23 mins
Opening: The AI That Hallucinates Because You Taught It ToCopilot isn’t confused. It’s obedient. That cheerful paragraph it just wrote about your company’s nonexistent “stellar Q4 surge”? That wasn’t a glitch—it’s gospel according to your own badly wired data.This is the “garbage in, confident out” effect—Microsoft Fabric’s polite way of saying, you trained your liar yourself. Copilot will happily hallucinate patterns because your ...
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November 4, 2025 • 24 mins
Opening: The Cost of Power BI Project FailureLet’s discuss one of the great modern illusions of corporate analytics—what I like to call the “successful failure.” You’ve seen it before. A shiny Power BI rollout: dozens of dashboards, colorful charts everywhere, and executives proudly saying, “We’re a data‑driven organization now.” Then you ask a simple question—what changed because of these dashboards? Silence. Because beneath those...
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November 4, 2025 • 21 mins
Opening: “You Thought Your Power BI Maps Were Safe”You thought your Power BI maps were safe. They aren’t. Those colorful dashboards full of Bing Maps visuals? They’re on borrowed time. Microsoft isn’t issuing a warning—it’s delivering an eviction notice. “Map visuals not supported” isn’t a glitch; it’s the corporate equivalent of a red tag on your data visualization. As of October 2025, Bing Maps is officially deprecated, and the P...
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November 3, 2025 • 24 mins
Introduction & The Chaos HookPower BI. The golden promise of self-service analytics—and the silent destroyer of data consistency. Everyone loves it until you realize your company has forty versions of the same “Sales Dashboard,” each claiming to be the truth. You laugh; I can hear it. But you know it’s true. It starts with one “quick insight,” and next thing you know, the marketing intern’s spreadsheet is driving executive deci...
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November 3, 2025 • 23 mins
Opening: The Cost AmbushYou thought Dataverse was included, didn’t you? You installed Power Apps, connected your SharePoint list, and then—surprise!—a message popped up asking for premium licensing. Congratulations. You’ve just discovered the subtle art of Microsoft’s “not technically a hidden fee.”Your Power Apps project, born innocent as a digital form replacement, is suddenly demanding a subscription model that could fund a smal...
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November 2, 2025 • 21 mins
Opening – The Beautiful New Toy with a Rotten CoreCopilot Notebooks look like your new productivity savior. They’re actually your next compliance nightmare. I realize that sounds dramatic, but it’s not hyperbole—it’s math. Every company that’s tasted this shiny new toy is quietly building a governance problem large enough to earn its own cost center.Here’s the pitch: a Notebooks workspace that pulls together every relevant document...
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November 2, 2025 • 23 mins
Opening Hook & Teaching PromiseSomewhere right now, a data analyst is heroically exporting a hundred‑megabyte CSV from Microsoft Fabric—again. Because apparently, the twenty‑first century still runs on spreadsheets and weekend refresh rituals. Fascinating. The irony is that Fabric already solved this, but most people are too busy rescuing their own data to notice.Here’s the reality nobody says out loud: most Fabric projects bur...
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November 1, 2025 • 21 mins
Opening – The Governance HeadacheYou’re still doing manual Fabric audits? Fascinating. That means you’re voluntarily spending weekends cross-checking Power BI datasets, Fabric workspaces, and Purview classifications with spreadsheets. Admirable—if your goal is to win an award for least efficient use of human intelligence. Governance in Microsoft Fabric isn’t difficult because the features are missing; it’s difficult because the sys...
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November 1, 2025 • 24 mins
Opening: The Illusion of CapabilityMost people think GPT‑5 inside Copilot makes the Researcher Agent redundant. Those people are wrong. Painfully wrong. The confusion comes from the illusion of intelligence—the part where GPT‑5 answers in flawless business PowerPoint English, complete with bullet points, confidence, and plausible references. It sounds like knowledge. It’s actually performance art.Copilot powered by GPT‑5 is what ha...
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October 31, 2025 • 20 mins
Opening: The Arrogant Intern ArrivesYou’ve probably heard this one already: “AI can run SharePoint now.”No, it cannot. What it can do is pretend to. The newest act in Microsoft’s circus of automation is the SharePoint Knowledge Agent—a supposedly brilliant little assistant that promises to “organize your content, generate metadata, and answer questions.” The pitch sounds amazing: a tireless, robotic librarian who never stops workin...
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October 31, 2025 • 23 mins
The Data Cleanup TrapYou think your job is analysis. It isn’t. It’s janitorial work with better branding. Every spreadsheet in your life begins the same way—tabular chaos pretending to be data. Dates in six formats, currencies missing symbols, column headers that read like riddles. You call that analysis? That’s housekeeping with formulas.Let’s be honest—half your “reports” are just therapy for the punishment Excel inflicts. You op...
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October 30, 2025 • 23 mins
The Data Entry NightmareLet’s start with something familiar — the Power Apps form. Every organization has one. Rows of text boxes pretending to be productivity. You click “New Record,” a form opens, and suddenly you’re not an analyst or a manager. You’re a typist. Copying names, phone numbers, addresses, maybe from an email that someone forwarded, maybe from a PDF invoice that refuses to let you copy cleanly. This isn’t digital tra...
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October 30, 2025 • 20 mins
The Myth of Mandatory MigrationWhy is it that in every digital transformation meeting, someone insists the first step is to migrate everything? As if physical relocation somehow increases intelligence. A file sits peacefully in SharePoint, minding its own business, and then a consultant declares it must be “upgraded” to Dataverse for “future compatibility.” Translation: they’d like another project. You’re told that modernization eq...
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October 29, 2025 • 18 mins
Opening: The Canvas App LieYou still build Canvas Apps? Fascinating. That’s like hand‑coding a macro in 2024. Once upon a time that gave you bragging rights; now it just means you volunteered for unnecessary suffering. Canvas Apps promised liberation—the power to design any interface you could imagine. Freedom, they said. Drag‑and‑drop creativity without code, they said. What you actually got was a lifetime subscription to pixel pu...
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October 29, 2025 • 21 mins
The “Free Lunch” IllusionEveryone’s mesmerized by that shiny button in Power Apps that says, “Describe your page, and we’ll build it.” You type a sentence like, “Create a calendar showing upcoming product launches,” and a few seconds later, AI conjures a functional interface, styled neatly, connected to data you didn’t even bother wiring up. No drag, no drop—just type and watch the scaffolding appear. Magical. Effortless. Microsoft...
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October 28, 2025 • 23 mins
The UI ParadoxYou’re still dragging rectangles around in Power Apps? Fascinating. It’s 2025, and half of you are still nudging buttons pixel by pixel like it’s 2019. The rest have discovered something far more sophisticated—describing their pages in plain English and letting AI build the layout. One group babysits pixels. The other supervises intelligence.Manual canvas apps are the digital equivalent of painting by hand—slow, stran...
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October 28, 2025 • 21 mins
The Myth of “Low-Code for Everyone”Most people think Power Apps is about dragging buttons onto screens until something vaguely resembling an app appears. Click, drag, publish—done. Wrong. That’s the fairy tale version Microsoft marketed to “empower everyone,” and it worked—too well. Because now, there’s a new species loose in the ecosystem: Vibe Code. That’s the evolution where Power Apps meets serious development. Equal parts Java...
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