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Security Talk is where we deal with the uncomfortable but necessary reality that the modern threat landscape is no longer “patching and antivirus” — it is identity-centric, cloud-first, constantly evolving, and deeply business-impacting.
This is Microsoft Defender, Sentinel, Entra ID, Purview risk and compliance capabilities, Zero Trust patterns, SIEM + XDR fusion, identity protection, conditional access strategy, and the practical translation of security controls into operational, measurable outcomes.

The discussion is not tool-demo driven — it is threat-driven.
We talk about how to actually design and maintain a defensible Microsoft security posture in environments that are hybrid, mobile, multi-tenant, and constantly changing. We unpack what Secure Score actually means in real life, how to interpret signals instead of chasing alerts, why identity hygiene matters more than firewall rules, how to navigate user friction vs control, and how to build security approaches that support the business instead of blocking it.

Security Talk is about translating Microsoft’s security stack into patterns that reduce blast radius, enable fast detection, accelerate response, withstand breaches, and help security teams work as a strategic partner rather than a reactive helpdesk. It is focused on real attack path reduction, not checkbox compliance.

If it hardens identity, protects data, strengthens posture, or allows defenders to respond faster and smarter — it lives in Security Talk.
Dec. 15, 2025

Your Power App Is A Lie

Your Power Apps app works perfectly, until one day it fails with no error message and users can only say “it spins.” This podcast explains why low-code apps often break in silence: copy-pasted Power Fx formulas drift into conflicting versions, dev and prod blur without real environments, and hidden…
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. 12, 2025

Power Automate as the Orchestrator: What Actually Works… and What Never Comes Back.

Ever had a Power Automate flow wake you at 3:07 a.m. with 6,000 ghost runs and no clear owner? This video is your blueprint for taming the orchestrator before it tames you. You’ll learn how to design resilient Power Automate architectures with clean triggers, Dataverse as a single source of truth, …
Nov. 30, 2025

Excel Is NOT Your Database: Stop The Power Apps Lie

Your “Simple” Excel App Is Quietly Wrecking Your Business (And You Won’t See It Until It’s Expensive) Stop wiring Power Apps into spreadsheets and calling it “production.” Every shared Excel file is a glass elevator: silent data loss, last-save-wins concurrency, and zero governance until an audi…
Nov. 26, 2025

Power Automate Is Dead: The AI Workflows Agent That Replaced Your Job

n this episode, we put Microsoft 365 Copilot’s Workflows Agent head-to-head with Power Automate and ask the uncomfortable question: are your painstakingly hand-built cloud flows now the slow, expensive option? We break down where conversational, intent-driven automation beats traditional designer-d…
Nov. 25, 2025

The Power Apps Lie: Why Your Excel Data Will Still Fail

You clicked “Create app from Excel,” felt clever, and accidentally migrated your chaos at scale. In this episode, we break down why Excel is a calculator with delusions of grandeur and why Dataverse will punish spreadsheet habits with integrity errors. I tear down the five silent failure patterns t…
Nov. 24, 2025

The Rebirth of Canvas Apps Is a Lie: Here's What Microsoft Is Really Building

This episode rips the mask off Microsoft’s new “canvas app revival” story and shows what’s actually happening under the hood. It’s not a renaissance. It’s a fork. A split. A deliberate architectural divide between the fast personal Copilot lane and the governed enterprise Power Platform lane. Acros…
Nov. 23, 2025

Stop Sabotaging Your Power Automate Email Flows

Your Power Automate email flows aren’t clever automations, they’re HR risk wrapped in HTML. You wire a flow to a “service account,” fight through MFA once, get it working, and decide it’s done. It’s not done. It’s brittle, over-privileged, impossible to audit cleanly, and the first time conditional…
Nov. 14, 2025

Stop Using Default Gateway Settings: Fix Your Power Platform Connectivity NOW!

Your Power BI refreshes still crawling like dial-up? This episode exposes the real villain: your “safe” on-prem data gateway. We tear apart the myth of the dumb tunnel and show how the gateway actually behaves like an overloaded processing engine—juggling auth, TLS, caching and concurrency. You…
Nov. 14, 2025

Stop Dragging Planner Tasks: Automate NOW

Still dragging cards around in Microsoft Planner like it’s 2015? In this episode, I show you how to stop babysitting boards and start speaking tasks into existence with a “Task Planner” Copilot agent. You’ll learn how Planner, Copilot Studio, and Power Automate actually fit together: Planner kee…
Nov. 12, 2025

STOP Building Cloud Flows! Use Agent Flows Instead

Cloud Flows vs Agent Flows: The Budget Bombshell Microsoft Hoped You’d Miss You’re building automations like it’s 2019 and it’s quietly draining your budget. The premium connector trap turns one small flow into a company-wide license bill. Hidden API throttling slows down your automations without …
Nov. 10, 2025

5 Power Automate Hacks That Unlock Copilot ROI

Most companies think Copilot = instant productivity. Wrong. Copilot isn’t the ROI engine — Power Automate is. Copilot only “suggests.” Power Automate does the work. In this episode we expose the 5 hacks that turn Copilot from a chatty intern into a revenue-generating automation machine — …
Nov. 9, 2025

Master Power Platform AI: The 4 New Tools Changing Everything

AI inside the Microsoft Power Platform isn’t “Copilot writes formulas” anymore. In 2025, Microsoft shipped four capabilities that fundamentally change how apps, data and automation get built: Dataverse Prompt Columns, AI Form Filler / Form Assist, Generative Pages and Copilot Agents. These aren’t f…
Nov. 8, 2025

SharePoint Is NOT a Database: The Power Apps Lie

In this episode of the M365 Show, we unpack the most common Power Apps mistake in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem: assuming SharePoint is a “free database.” We break down why SharePoint lists look like a database, but architecturally behave like a file-centric collaboration layer—not a transactional da…
Nov. 7, 2025

Why Power Apps Charts Are Broken (and How AI Fixes It)

Power Apps charts are obsolete. They look like a 1990s Excel demo and they can’t be styled, can’t be made dynamic, and can’t be made modern without pain. We stop trying to fix them. The new move is simpler: don’t render charts inside Power Apps at all. Let AI draw the chart image for you — on…
Nov. 7, 2025

Stop Losing Inventory: The Power Apps Barcode Fix

Most “inventory systems” are just Excel sheets LARPing as ERPs — and that’s why warehouses lose assets, fail audits, and end up with phantom spreadsheets nobody trusts. Barcode scanning isn’t a gimmick — it’s the only sane way to ingest perfect data into Dataverse once — not typed twice. Power Apps…
Nov. 6, 2025

The SharePoint List Mistake That Breaks Your Power App

Power Apps makes it dangerously easy to build an app on a SharePoint list—and most beginners assume that if it works instantly, it must be the right foundation. It isn’t. SharePoint was never engineered to act like a real transactional database, and when you scale—users, data size, queries—delegati…
Nov. 2, 2025

Dataverse Pitfalls Q&A: Why Your Power Apps Project Is Too Expensive

Dataverse isn’t “included.” It’s a premium, enterprise-grade platform with costs that stack fast: licenses, capacity, environments, storage (db/file/log), and API limits. Most sticker shock comes from assumptions—thinking M365 covers Dataverse, that guests are free, or that storage is cheap. Use…
Oct. 30, 2025

Fix Power Apps Data Entry: Use THIS AI Agent

Power Apps forms turn knowledge workers into typists—rigid fields, copy-paste from emails/PDFs, and slow, error-prone decay that pollutes Dataverse, Power BI, and downstream automations. The fix isn’t more validation; it’s an interpreter: the AI Data Entry Agent. Inside model-driven apps, it conver…
Oct. 29, 2025

Canvas Apps Are Dead: Why Generative Pages Win

Canvas Apps gave pixel freedom but bred fragility: endless containers, brittle Power FX, and hours lost to layout therapy while data modeling and governance languished. The game has changed. Generative Pages inside Power Apps shift creation from craft to command: you describe intent (“ideas tracker…
Oct. 28, 2025

Stop Using Generative Pages Wrong! The Licensing Trap

Generative Pages feel “free” because they turn a sentence into a working Power Apps page. But the instant you click Generate, you’re on Dataverse—and that’s premium land: governed data, model-driven scaffolding, audit, flows, and a license bill. The UX hides the escalation: scaffolding a React page…
Oct. 28, 2025

Manual UI vs. AI Pages: Is Vibe Coding Worth It in 2025?

“Vibe coding” (Generative Pages) turns plain-English prompts into responsive, Dataverse-aware React pages, replacing the pixel babysitting of manual canvas apps. The upside: speed, consistency, accessibility, and built-in governance via Dataverse metadata and roles. The downside: speed can mask fra…
Oct. 27, 2025

The TRUTH About Power Apps: Vibe Code vs. Low Code

“Low-code for everyone” was a great story—but the sequel is Vibe Code: Power Apps Code Apps (React + TypeScript + Git) living inside the same governed Power Platform. Low-code (Canvas/Model-Driven) still wins for speed and business-led prototyping, but it hides complexity, fragments UI, and resists…
Oct. 25, 2025

Generative Pages Just Killed Low Code Safety

Generative Pages feel like low-code’s endgame: describe a page, get React that talks to Dataverse, ship in minutes. The trap is hidden in one click—Edit Code. The second you crack open JSX, Power Apps stops shielding you. You inherit npm drift, security patches, schema changes, auth gaps, and AI “h…