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Azure Talk Episodes

Azure Talk is where we zoom out from “cloud as hosting” and talk about cloud as a platform — as the backbone of modern digital capability. We take all the chaotic product names, all the constantly-shifting service changes, and translate them into architectural clarity. Azure compute, networking, storage, PaaS services, serverless, containers, dev environments, integration services, identity and access, FinOps, governance, patterns for scale — this is the centre of gravity.

We don’t treat Azure as a shopping list of services. We treat Azure as a strategic operating model for the organisation. We explore platform landing zones, policy-driven guardrails, subscription design, identity boundary decisions, the difference between “cloud adoption” and “cloud engineering”, how to apply Zero Trust in a real tenant, how to integrate Azure with M365 and Power Platform, how to avoid creating cloud debt, and how to design for cost transparency instead of billing surprises. We talk about the discipline behind cloud — not just the convenience.

Azure Talk is also the place where we acknowledge the human shift inside cloud transformation. Architects need to think like product owners, operations teams need to think like automation engineers, developers need to think about resiliency and cost impacts, and business stakeholders need to understand that cloud success is not buying services — it is designing platforms. Cloud literacy is a capability, not a project.

Azure Talk is for the people that want to understand why and how to build on Azure — not just which service to click. If it runs code, hosts workloads, integrates systems, secures identity boundaries, operationalises platform strategy, or makes “cloud” real instead of theoretical — it lives in Azure Talk.
Dec. 12, 2025

The Multi-Agent Lie: Stop Trusting Single AI

Ever trusted an AI answer that felt certain, then realised you couldn’t prove where it came from? This video is a forensic walkthrough of how single agents hallucinate, leak data, drift off stale indexes, and fail every audit that matters – and how to fix it with a multi-agent reference architectur…
Dec. 11, 2025

Stop Document Chaos: Build Your Purview Shield Wall

In a recent podcast, Mirko Peters discussed the critical importance of effective document management and compliance in organizations, emphasizing that lost documents can lead to organizational failure. He presented strategies for building an audit-ready Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system in…
Dec. 9, 2025

Your Optimization Problems Are Already Solved: The Azure Quantum Hybrid Fix

This episode performs an “autopsy” on why classical optimization collapses on NP-hard problems and how hybrid quantum methods, especially QAOA on Azure, can triage them. It explains qubits, superposition, entanglement, and interference as tools for exploring many “maybes” at once, while a classical…
Dec. 8, 2025

No Modules. No Dependencies. No Limits: PowerShell + Graph API the Modern Way

Still writing PowerShell against MSOnline and AzureAD modules in 2025? This episode explains why that stack is legacy – and how to go API-first with pure REST and Microsoft Graph. We walk through the core “token, headers, REST call” pattern, three real-world auth flows (device code, client credenti…
Dec. 8, 2025

Planning, Collaboration, Tooling: Building Multi-Agent Systems with Azure Foundry + Semantic Kernel

Tired of chatbots that answer Intune incidents with poetry instead of fixes? In this episode, we go hands-on with Azure AI Foundry and Semantic Kernel to build a mini, self-healing, governed multi-agent system for enterprise IT. You’ll learn why single agents stall on real Intune, Entra ID, and Mic…
Dec. 7, 2025

Your Endpoints Are Lying to You: Why Intune Alone Isn’t Enough

Stop patching ghosts and start running a self-healing workplace. This Podcast reveals why Microsoft Intune alone can’t scale your endpoint management – and how pairing Intune with Azure, Automation, Functions, Microsoft Graph, managed identities and Log Analytics turns chaos into a quiet, secure es…
Dec. 7, 2025

The Backup Operator from Hell: Why Your Azure Backups Aren’t as Safe as You Think

Think your Azure backups are safe by default? They’re not. In this episode, we uncover how a single over-privileged identity can quietly kill “immutable” backups in Azure. You’ll hear real-life attack paths using compromised automation, shadow admins, and broad Contributor or Owner roles that delet…
Dec. 1, 2025

Your MFA Is Useless: The Entra ID Attack Nobody Audits

The podcast explains how attackers bypass MFA by abusing OAuth consent instead of stealing passwords. When a user or admin approves a malicious “productivity” app, it gets tokens with scopes like mail or files read and offline_access. That lets the attacker quietly read email, files and chats for m…
Nov. 29, 2025

The Compute Lie: Diagnosing Your AI's Fatal Flaw

In this episode of The M365 Show we investigate a familiar but often misunderstood failure pattern in enterprise AI: GPU costs rise, throughput collapses and latency becomes unpredictable, even though the dashboards look healthy and the models appear to work. Instead of blaming parameters or archit…
Nov. 16, 2025

Stop Paying for Cloud VMs: Run Azure on a Mini PC

Still paying sky-high cloud rent for servers you can’t even touch? This episode shows you how to bring “the cloud” home, slash your Azure bill, and keep all the governance, security, and automation you actually care about. You’ll learn how Azure Arc lets your own mini-PCs and edge boxes wear an Azu…
Nov. 15, 2025

Stop Your Cloud Migration: You Are Not AI Ready

Stop your cloud migration. Seriously. If you’re still bragging about being “cloud first,” this episode will show you why your shiny Azure estate is actually AI hostile. 🧨 We break down the brutal truth: lift-and-shift doesn’t modernize anything—it just moves your technical debt into someone else…
Nov. 9, 2025

Master AD to Entra ID Migration: Troubleshooting Made Easy

Managing identity in 2025 shouldn’t feel like running a smartphone next to a rotary phone, but that’s exactly what happens when organizations rely on both on-prem Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID. This episode breaks down the real cost of that dual-directory setup: mismatched policies, sync …
Nov. 3, 2025

Bing Maps Is Dead: The Migration You Can't Skip

You Thought Your Power BI Maps Were Safe breaks down the Bing Maps → Azure Maps eviction — and why this is not optional, not cosmetic, and not “a visual upgrade.” As of Oct-2025, Bing Maps visuals are deprecated. If you don’t migrate, your map visuals become blank boxes. This episode explains …
Oct. 24, 2025

Your Azure File Sync Is A Time Bomb

Azure File Sync still “works” for many orgs—but on 2010s-era auth: local X.509 certs and SAS tokens. Those are possession-based secrets: whoever holds them is “you.” They sprawl into scripts, backups, repos, and logs; they expire silently; and one leak grants silent exfiltration via valid creds. Th…
Oct. 24, 2025

Your AD Groups Are A Lie: Fix Source of Authority NOW

Most orgs still treat on-prem AD groups as sacred, syncing them to Entra ID and calling it “hybrid.” In reality, those objects are zombies: visible in Entra but ruled by on-prem, which blocks modern governance (dynamic membership, access reviews, APIs) and slows HR-driven provisioning. The fix is r…
Oct. 23, 2025

Azure PostgreSQL Is Costing You THOUSANDS

Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server isn’t pricey because of traffic; it’s pricey because defaults quietly overprovision compute, storage, and HA. “Managed” means patched, not optimized—you still pay for VM cores at idle, disks that only grow, and standby replicas that double costs while…
Oct. 22, 2025

Azure App Gateway Network Isolation: The Security Fix You Missed

For years, a “private” Azure Application Gateway still needed a public IP and outbound Internet just to talk to Microsoft’s control plane. Management (control plane) and user traffic (data plane) shared the same door—an architectural contradiction that forced ugly firewall exceptions, Azure-DNS dep…
Oct. 21, 2025

Stop Paying the Multi-Cloud Network Tax

Multi-cloud sounds like freedom—until physics and billing collide. Stitching Azure, AWS, and GCP together turns “resilience” into a toll road: you pay egress to leave one cloud, port/cross-connect fees in the colocation meet-me, and operational overhead to run three of everything (IAM, gateways, mo…
Oct. 18, 2025

PowerShell Is The Only Copilot Admin Tool You Need

The Microsoft 365 Admin Center is a great map—but it’s not the vehicle. For Copilot and AI governance, clicking through GUI toggles won’t scale, won’t prove compliance, and won’t survive audits. The Admin Center prioritizes visibility; PowerShell delivers authority: bulk actions, reproducible chang…
Oct. 13, 2025

Your Azure AI Foundry’s Agent Army: Why It Wins

Azure AI Foundry isn’t “just a big model.” It’s a governed runtime where every interaction is logged and traceable. Agents are built as disciplined “squad leaders” from three gears—Model (brain), Instructions (orders), Tools (capabilities)—and their work leaves receipts via Threads (conversation hi…
Oct. 12, 2025

Active Directory: The Crown Jewel Hackers Hunt

Active Directory (AD) is the single crown-jewel system: compromise it and an attacker can own identities, files, mail, GPOs—everything. Breaches rarely hinge on zero-days; they accelerate through identity abuse: one phished user → lateral movement (pass-the-hash/ticket reuse) → privilege escalation…
Oct. 11, 2025

The Castle Gate Is Open—Is Your Entra ID Secured?

Identity is the real border now. In Microsoft cloud the firewall is no longer the decisive wall — Entra ID is. Modern attackers don’t smash doors; they log in using harvested, phished, or purchased credentials. That’s why a password-only world is effectively a natural-1 on defense. Real protection …
Oct. 10, 2025

Autonomous Agents Gone Rogue? The Hidden Risks

AI agents are about to feel like real coworkers inside Teams—fast, tireless, and dangerously literal. This episode gives you a simple framework to keep them helpful and safe: manage their memory, entitlements, and tools, and layer prompting, verification, and human-in-the-loop oversight. You’ll lea…
Oct. 6, 2025

Ditch Passwords—How Real Azure Apps Secure Everything

In this episode, we break down the essential steps for securing web applications on Microsoft Azure, focusing on Azure App Service and its built-in security capabilities. You’ll learn what Azure App Service is, why it’s a powerful platform-as-a-service (PaaS) option, and how it simplifies deploymen…