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Copilot Talk Episodes

Copilot Talk is where we take the wave of Microsoft AI — and strip away both the hype and the fear — so we can talk about what actually changes in real work. Copilot for Microsoft 365, Copilot Studio, Copilot in Dynamics, Copilot in Azure, the Fabric AI workloads, generative analytics, prompt design, grounding, plugins, orchestration, data access boundaries — this category exists to translate AI from marketing headline into operational capability.

We focus on how to make AI useful — not magical.
How to implement responsible access patterns, how to shape prompts into reusable patterns, how to ground Copilot against organisational data safely, how to avoid hallucination traps, how to create enterprise guardrails without killing innovation, how to structure data to make Copilot trustworthy, and how to measure value instead of “we piloted it and it produced a paragraph”.

We discuss AI not as something external — but as a new “interaction layer” across the entire Microsoft stack. Workflows change. Roles change. Documentation gets rewritten. User enablement shifts to “autoskills”. Task completion becomes conversational. Apps become co-authors. AI becomes the UI. And organisations that adopt this well will gain operational advantage that compounds.

Copilot Talk is where business value and technical reality meet in the middle — where AI becomes a capability, not a toy. If it uses Microsoft AI, extends Copilot, builds an AI pattern, governs AI access, or transforms work through language-first interfaces — it belongs in Copilot Talk.
Dec. 18, 2025

Agentageddon: Why Your Agents Are Outpacing You — And How Humans Can Prevent the Collapse

What if your AI systems aren’t rebelling — they’re simply executing the chaos you built? In this episode, we break down a hard truth about AI agents, Microsoft Copilot, Power Automate, and enterprise automation: failures don’t come from intelligence gone rogue, they come from human inconsistency…
Dec. 18, 2025

Cosmic Knowledge Engines: Unlocking SharePoint Premium’s AI Power

In this episode, we dive deep into how organizations can stop drowning in documents and start building a true AI-powered knowledge engine with SharePoint Premium and Copilot readiness. You’ll learn how data naturally drifts into entropy—and how the right structure, governance, and AI models give it…
Dec. 17, 2025

Stop Feeding Copilot Lies: The IA Blueprint

Your AI isn’t broken — your digital city is lying to it. In this noir-style podcast episode, we pull back the curtain on why Copilot, search, and enterprise AI tools hallucinate, misfire, and surface the wrong answers even when the data “exists.” The culprit isn’t prompts or models — it’s informati…
Dec. 17, 2025

Copilot's Data Blindness: The Custom Agent Fix

You think Microsoft Copilot knows your business. It doesn’t—and that blind spot is costing you real decisions. In this episode, we expose the uncomfortable truth about Microsoft 365 Copilot: out of the box, it only sees surface-level data like emails, chats, and documents—not the systems that ac…
Dec. 15, 2025

AI Agents Are The New Shadow IT

Shadow IT didn’t disappear, it evolved into AI agents quietly moving your data faster than your controls can see. In this episode, we break down how AI agents, Copilot Studio bots, and Power Automate flows are becoming the new Shadow IT inside Microsoft 365. What starts as productivity quickly t…
Dec. 13, 2025

The Automation Murders: Who Killed the Customer Journey

The cursor freezes. The event stream flatlines. Silence gets loud. That’s how customer journeys fail in the summer—quietly, invisibly, and at the worst possible moment. Summer traffic is deceptive. Intent spikes, teams run lean, and automation is supposed to carry the load. But when journeys rel…
Dec. 6, 2025

MCP & Semantic Kernel: Building AI Agents That Take Action, Not Just Chat

You’re wasting AI on small talk. In this session I show you how to turn chatty models into hardened IT ops agents that actually fix incidents while you sleep. We wire Semantic Kernel, MCP, Microsoft Graph and Azure OpenAI with managed identity so agents can plan, act and auto-verify – without handi…
Dec. 5, 2025

RAG vs Copilot: When You Need Your Own AI — and When You Don’t

The night is thick with static inside your tenant, and the questions aren’t small anymore. Copilot can walk the clean, well-lit M365 streets — summarizing inbox noise, tightening your notes, finding what you already have permission to see. Fast, friendly, useful. But tone isn’t truth, and guesses d…
Nov. 29, 2025

Y'all Need Governance: The LangChain4j & Copilot Studio Mess

AI agents are shipping faster than your change control, and they’re carrying master keys to your data. This talk rips into how LangChain4J and Copilot Studio quietly turn “helpful copilots” into data-leaking, over-permissioned shadow admins with no audit trail. You’ll see exactly how prompt injecti…
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. 28, 2025

The Secret Architecture That Makes AI Agents Actually Work

Tired of “smart” AI agents doing dumb, dangerous things in your Microsoft 365 tenant? This episode shows you the one architectural move that turns flaky prompt-powered agents into reliable, auditable systems: a pre-execution contract check that blocks bad behavior before it ever hits your data. We …
Nov. 27, 2025

Stop Building Dumb Copilots: Why Context Engineering Is Your Only Fix

Your copilot isn’t dumb, you’ve just been starving it of context and then blaming “hallucinations” for your own chaos. This talk basically says: the real reason Power Platform AI and Copilot Studio builds fail isn’t model IQ, it’s that you shipped an agent with no spine—no clear system message, no …
Nov. 23, 2025

Stop Training Your Users Wrong: Deploy the Copilot Learning Center

This episode rips apart the illusion that “Copilot training” is a workshop, a slide deck, or a single rollout campaign. It starts with a familiar pain: you trained users on Microsoft Copilot, pinned decks, hosted Q&As, ran office hours—and your help desk ticket queue still grew. Users got smarter f…
Nov. 22, 2025

Python is Dead: The AI That Killed It

Python is NOT the language of AI inside the Microsoft stack—and in this episode, I show you why that belief is quietly wrecking your Power Platform projects, inflating defects, and burning your budget. If you’re cramming Python into Power Automate, Power BI, Fabric, or custom connectors as “glue co…
Nov. 21, 2025

Copilot Is Broken Until You Do THIS

Out-of-the-box Microsoft Copilot sounds like a genius—but in real enterprises it’s a dangerously confident intern. In this episode, we expose where default Copilot quietly fails on the questions that actually matter: “Can I share this file?”, “Who’s on-call right now?”, “Is this HIPAA-safe?” You’ll…
Nov. 21, 2025

Why Your Copilot Rollout Will Fail

Your Copilot rollout is probably going to flop—and it won’t be the AI’s fault. Most organizations treat Microsoft 365 Copilot like a feature toggle: light up licenses, send a heroic memo, run one training… and three months later MAU is a rounding error. In this episode, we expose the five hidden…
Nov. 19, 2025

The Microsoft 365 Agent SDK Is Not Optional

Your M365 AI agent isn’t failing because the model is bad—it’s failing because your plumbing is. This episode exposes why DIY agents that “work in dev” die the second real users and security show up. You’ll hear how app-only auth quietly nukes permission fidelity and audit trails, why stateless bot…
Nov. 17, 2025

Stop Building Dumb Copilots: Why Agentic RAG Is Your Only Fix

Your Copilot isn’t smart – it’s a very expensive autocomplete. In this episode, we break down why classic RAG (retrieve-augment-generate) quietly fails the moment your truth lives in more than one system, and how “agentic RAG” on Azure turns Copilot from a context tourist into an actual reasoning e…
Nov. 16, 2025

Stop Typing to Copilot: Use Your Voice NOW!

Typing to Copilot is the new fax machine—and your thumbs are the bottleneck. In this episode we break down how to give Copilot an actual voice, a memory, and a legal department, so it can keep up with the way you think, not the way you type. You’ll hear how GPT-4o Realtime turns Copilot from a s…
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. 13, 2025

The Autonomous Agent Excel Hack

🔍 Key Topics Covered 1) The Anatomy of an Autonomous Agent (Blueprint) - What “autonomous” means in Copilot Studio: Trigger → Logic → Orchestration. - Division of labor: Power Automate (email trigger, SharePoint staging, outbound reply) + Copilot...
Nov. 13, 2025

The Secret to Putting SQL Data in Copilot Studio

Your Copilot sounds smart but secretly knows nothing about your business. It’s guessing from Wikipedia while your real memory—orders, invoices, inventory—sits locked in SQL Server behind the firewall. This episode exposes the fix: the Power Platform Data Gateway, a locked-down, outbound-only “spina…
Nov. 12, 2025

The Custom Connector Lie: How to Really Add MCP to Copilot Studio

Think adding Model Context Protocol to Copilot Studio is “just a custom connector”? This episode blows that lie apart. We unpack why the shiny MCP dropdown only talks to Microsoft’s own sources, and why your “connected” MCP is usually a dead tunnel, not a live bridge. You’ll learn what MCP really i…
Nov. 11, 2025

Copilot now included with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook & OneNote

Microsoft says Copilot is now free across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote. But here’s the twist: it’s not magic — it’s your data, orchestrated. In this episode we rip off the marketing gloss and show how Microsoft Graph pipes your emails, files, meetings, and notes into a single “AI b…