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M365 FM Podcast
The M365 FM Podcast is your daily destination for everything happening across the Microsoft cloud. We cover the full spectrum of Microsoft 365, including Teams, SharePoint, Exchange, OneDrive, and the tools driving the modern workplace. Each episode delivers practical insights, expert interviews, and hands-on strategies for IT admins, cloud architects, developers, power users, and decision-makers in the Microsoft ecosystem.

We explore the latest M365 updates, dive into Power Platform topics like Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Power Pages, and share real-world guidance on automation, digital transformation, and low-code development. You’ll also get deep insights into Azure, including cloud infrastructure, Azure AD / Entra ID, identity, hybrid cloud, and Azure security.

The show features focused discussions on Microsoft 365 Security, Defender, compliance, DLP, Zero Trust, and the best practices needed to protect and optimize your environment. We also highlight how AI and Copilot for Microsoft 365 are transforming productivity, collaboration, and automation across the cloud.

Whether you want to improve Teams collaboration, strengthen security, enhance cloud architecture, or stay ahead of the latest Microsoft 365, Azure, Power Platform, and AI announcements, The M365 Podcast is your essential guide. M365 FM Podcast is Part of the M365.Show Network.
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Microsoft Teams Rooms - Simply Explained
Oct. 23, 2026

Microsoft Teams Rooms - Simply Explained

Your meeting room has its own Microsoft 365 account, and nobody told you. A Microsoft Teams Room is a meeting space where the room itself signs into Teams, so nobody has to plug in a laptop. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: What a Teams Room Really Is What's Inside the Room How the Room Knows Your Meeting Windows or Android Basic, Pro, and the Portal Rooms That Actually Work Keeping the Fleet Alive The Recap and a Question Simply Explained by M365.FM breaks down Micr
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Predictive Maintenance on Azure for Manufacturers: What You Actually Need Before the Model
Oct. 23, 2026

Predictive Maintenance on Azure for Manufacturers: What You Actually Need Before the Model

Predictive maintenance on Azure only pays off when a warning arrives early enough for your team to act on it. In this episode of the iFAKT series, we start with the maintenance decision and work backward to the evidence, data and process you need before choosing a model on Azure. We follow one hypothetical asset from sensor reading to approved work order and ask the questions most projects skip: What action should a warning trigger? How much warning horizon do spares, permits, isolation and pro
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Fabric Notebooks - Simply Explained
Oct. 23, 2026

Fabric Notebooks - Simply Explained

Imagine opening a Fabric notebook for the first time and seeing code, data, strange errors, and words you’ve never used before. It feels like you’ve walked into a room built for developers, while your job is simply to get data you can trust. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: Opening: The Code Wall Is Not the Real Problem What a Fabric Spark Notebook Actually Is The Five Parts of the Notebook Screen The Non-Developer Workflow: Explore Before You Transform Transform Data Wi
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Log Analytics - Simply Explained
Oct. 23, 2026

Log Analytics - Simply Explained

Log Analytics is a filing cabinet for everything your systems whisper to each other. Every sign-in, every file open, and every error becomes a record in that cabinet, and on its own one record is nearly useless. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: What Log Analytics actually is Where all these logs come from Inside a workspace and its tables Asking questions with a few lines of KQL What teams actually do with it Where the money actually goes How long your data sticks arou
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Subnetting and CIDR - Simply Explained
Oct. 23, 2026

Subnetting and CIDR - Simply Explained

Your home Wi-Fi router has been subnetting this whole time, and nobody told you. Every device on your network sits inside a block of 256 addresses, and that block is what people mean when they say subnet. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: Why Your Home Router Is Already Doing Subnetting What an IP Address Is Made Of The Slash Number Is Just a Size Why We Split a Network at All The Math Without Fear Where the Classes Went and Why CIDR Won Subnetting in Real Life: Your Of
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Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager - Simply Explained
Oct. 23, 2026

Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager - Simply Explained

There's a question that makes most companies go quiet, and it's the one about whether they're actually compliant. Compliance Manager lives inside Microsoft Purview, and it takes that messy question and turns it into a single number you can watch move. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: What Compliance Manager Is The Compliance Score Assessments Regulations and Templates Improvement Actions Who Does What The Workflow End to End A Quick Recap and One Open Question Simply
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Windows Autopilot - Simply Explained
Oct. 23, 2026

Windows Autopilot - Simply Explained

Imagine unboxing a brand-new work laptop and watching it set itself up for your company without an IT person in the room. That's the promise behind Windows Autopilot, and it's why a new hire can be productive on day one instead of day five. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: What Autopilot Actually Is Why IT Teams Made the Switch How a Device Gets Claimed: The Hardware Hash Deployment Profiles: The Instructions the Device Follows Joining the Organization: Entra Join and In
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Microsoft AI Center of Excellence - Simply Explained
Oct. 23, 2026

Microsoft AI Center of Excellence - Simply Explained

Copilot pilots are spreading through M365, Power Platform, and Azure faster than most organizations can map them. One team uses Copilot to prepare meetings. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: Stakes, the AI Problem Teams Can’t See Yet What an AI Center of Excellence Actually Is Why Organizations Need One Before AI Spreads Further Pillar One, Governance: Decisions, Guardrails, and Proof Pillar Two, Security: Protecting Data, Identity, and AI Actions Pillar Three, Adoption:
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IoT Hub vs Event Hubs — Why Most Manufacturers Pick the Wrong Service
Oct. 23, 2026

IoT Hub vs Event Hubs — Why Most Manufacturers Pick the Wrong Service

1. THE SHOP FLOOR SYMPTOM & CORE CHALLENGETeams frequently send plant telemetry into Azure using whatever service sounds right in initial workshops, only to discover months later that the data path cannot support actual plant operations. This often results in multiple dashboards showing conflicting values (such as 5-minute averages compared against maximum values or alarms) derived from copies of the same signal. Ultimately, this technical disconnect creates an issue of trust rather than a simpl
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Semantic Kernel - Simply Explained
Oct. 23, 2026

Semantic Kernel - Simply Explained

Semantic Kernel is the layer under Microsoft's AI tools that almost nobody explains. It's a free, open-source kit that lets your own code talk to a large language model, and lets that model call your code back. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: What Semantic Kernel Actually Is The Kernel and the Name Plugins and Functions Planning and Function Calling Memory and RAG Connectors and Prompts One Kit, Three Languages Copilot, Foundry, and What Comes Next When to Use Seman
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Connect ERP, MES, and IoT — Without Replacing Anything
Oct. 22, 2026

Connect ERP, MES, and IoT — Without Replacing Anything

When a critical manufacturing bottleneck machine stops mid-shift, production lines default to a familiar, reactive scramble. Operators immediately call maintenance, supervisors check the master production schedule, and team members begin cross-referencing multiple digital systems. Someone opens the Manufacturing Execution System (MES), someone else queries the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platform, and a brand-new dashboard inevitably appears because every factory floor crisis seems to de
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Power Platform Governance - Simply Explained
Oct. 22, 2026

Power Platform Governance - Simply Explained

Somewhere in your organization, an app is running that nobody remembers building. It still works, so nobody asks. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: What Governance Really Means Why Anyone Bothers Environments Are Just Rooms Data Policies: The Rules of the Road Who Actually Owns This Watching What Happens Control Without Killing Freedom The Short Version Simply Explained by M365.FM breaks down Microsoft 365, Azure and modern IT topics in clear, jargon-free language. Ho
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Edge vs. Cloud in Manufacturing- Why the Wrong Architecture Costs You More
Oct. 22, 2026

Edge vs. Cloud in Manufacturing- Why the Wrong Architecture Costs You More

When a production line halts mid-shift, the real cost isn't just measured on a cloud billing dashboard. It manifests as physical scrap, operators standing idle at a stopped station, and networks flooded with unneeded data. Most cloud-first projects fail because they immediately push everything upward, ignoring the reality of the factory floor where milliseconds and local constraints dictate whether a product makes it or gets scrapped. THE FACTORY CLOCK: MATCHING WORKLOADS TO TIME HORIZONSA manu
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Windows Hello for Business - Simply Explained
Oct. 22, 2026

Windows Hello for Business - Simply Explained

Microsoft's cloud sees over three hundred million fraudulent sign-in attempts every day, and almost all of them are aimed at passwords. You might think the fix is a longer password, but the real fix is to take the password out of the picture. In this episode of Simply Explained you will learn: Why passwords fail What Windows Hello for Business is Your PIN is not a password Where your face and fingerprint go The chip that holds the key How the sign-in works Key trust, certificate trust, c
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About the Hosts

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Mirko Peters

Microsoft MVP | Host of M365.fm | Founder of M365 Show and M365Con

Mirko Peters is a Microsoft MVP, podcast host, and founder of M365.fm, M365 Show, and M365Con. His work connects Microsoft practitioners through podcast interviews, livestreams, and community events.

At M365.fm, Mirko hosts conversations with Microsoft MVPs, product experts, architects, and community contributors. Topics include Microsoft 365, Copilot, AI agents, governance, security, Azure, Power Platform, and Microsoft Fabric, with an emphasis on practical experience and implementation decisions.

M365.fm is the podcast and learning platform. M365 Show brings experts together for livestreams, while M365Con provides an online conference setting for community learning.

Official website: Mirko Peters (https://www.mirkopeters.com/). Recognition: Mirko Peters — Microsoft MVP profile (https://mvp.microsoft.com/de-DE/mvp/profile/9b0ca797-db5a-493a-a845-8b9158046cf5). Connect on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/m365showpodcast/).

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Carina de Vries [MVP]

Carina de Vries is a Microsoft MVP for Microsoft 365, Teams and Copilot, an IT adoption expert, speaker, and host with more than fourteen years of experience helping organizations turn technology into something people can actually understand, use, and benefit from.

Her career started in office automation and application management, giving her a broad perspective on the digital workplace: from technology and IT management to end users, work processes, behavior, and organizational change. Today, she specializes in the human side of Microsoft 365, Teams, Copilot, and AI adoption.

Carina is particularly interested in what happens after technology has been implemented. Because making a tool available is not the same as changing the way people work. Her work explores the gap between implementation and actual adoption: why people embrace technology, why they resist it, and what organizations need to do differently to create lasting change.

Her approach is built around three principles: Verwonderen, Versimpelen and Verankeren — first understanding what is really happening, then making change simpler and easier to grasp, and finally embedding new behavior into everyday work.

Alongside her work in IT adoption, Carina is an experienced speaker, podcast and radio host, and active member of the Microsoft community. She has spoken at *Microsoft Ignite, where her session on moving from Copilot pilot to productivity was selected as one of the Top 10 MVP Theater Sessions. She is also a board member of Dutch Women in Tech*, contributing to greater visibility, connection, and opportunities for women in the technology industry.

As a host, Carina combines curiosity with a talent for asking the question behind the question. She enjoys conversations at the intersection of technology, work, leadership, and human behavior — especially when they challenge assumptions about how technological change actually happens.

Her guiding belief is simple: technology may enable change, but people determine whether it creates value.

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Emma-Claire (Pengelly) Shaw

Microsoft MVP | Power Platform Governance & Enablement Specialist 🚀 | M365 Enthusiast 🤓 | International Speaker 🎤

I am a creative leader and enthusiastic problem solver with a focus on leveraging Microsoft technology to drive business change. Passionate about cloud-enabled transformation, I specialize in leading M365 and AI adoption and enablement, with a particular focus on the Power Platform. My goal is to unlock the immense value this technology offers, accelerating digital transformation and empowering individuals to make a meaningful impact. With 17 years of experience in technology innovation and consultancy, I excel at identifying and harnessing emerging tech to transform enterprises and deliver lasting value.

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Craig White

Principal Architect, Co-host @ Power Platform Panic Room podcast, former Microsoft MVP

Power Platform Architect with 15yrs experience across the Power Platform stack, as well as VBA, SQL Server, SharePoint, M365 Services & Azure.

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Anitha Eswaran

D365FO Technical Architect | 4x Microsoft MVP in AI ERP | 2x MCT | Global Speaker & ERP Integration Specialist

I am a Microsoft MVP in AI ERP and Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) with 19+ years of architectural and technical expertise in Microsoft Dynamics AX and Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations (D365FO). My career spans multiple versions (D365FO, AX2012, AX 5.0/4.0/3.0) and includes 12 successful end‑to‑end implementations across diverse industries.

As a Technical Architect, I specialize in designing and delivering complex ERP solutions and integrations that transform enterprise systems into scalable, business‑driven solutions. My approach emphasizes automation, efficiency, and secure design, enabling organizations to accelerate deployments, streamline operations, and achieve reliable outcomes.

Core Expertise:

ERP Implementations: 12 successful rollouts (9 with D365FO, 2 with AX2012, 1 with AX5.0)

Upgrades & Migrations: AX2012 → D365FO upgrades; automated data migration with Azure Data Factory (ADF) to optimize UAT cycles

Integration Architecture: Proven experience with DIXF, OData, Logic Apps, Azure Data Factory, Azure Service Bus, Dual Write, and Power Platform integration.

Leadership & Recognition:

Community Contributor: Active speaker, mentor, and knowledge‑sharer at global bootcamps and user groups

Microsoft Recognition: Honored as MVP in AI ERP and MCT, reflecting both technical excellence and commitment to advancing the Microsoft ecosystem

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Practical Microsoft 365 Knowledge You Can Apply

M365.fm provides structured, practical guidance to help you understand and implement Microsoft 365, Copilot, Teams, Power Platform, and Security in real-world scenarios.

Instead of focusing on theory, we explain how Microsoft technologies work in practice — including architecture, governance, automation, and security considerations. Our goal is to give you clear, actionable insights you can apply directly in your daily work.

You’ll find guidance on topics such as Microsoft 365 architecture, Teams and SharePoint governance, identity and access management with Entra ID, Power Platform solutions, and the responsible use of AI with Copilot.

From Understanding to Implementation

Understanding Microsoft 365 is only the first step. M365.fm helps you move from learning to execution.

We break down complex concepts into structured explanations that highlight:

  • What a feature or service does
  • How it works in real environments
  • When to use it — and when not to
  • Best practices, limitations, and common pitfalls

This approach helps you design better solutions, avoid typical mistakes, and make informed technical decisions.

Built for Real-World Microsoft 365 Scenarios

M365.fm is designed for IT professionals, architects, and decision-makers working with Microsoft cloud technologies in real organizations.

Whether you are planning a new setup, improving governance, securing your environment, or introducing Copilot and automation, you’ll find reliable guidance tailored to practical use cases — not just theory.

By combining structured knowledge with real-world insights, M365.fm helps you simplify complexity, strengthen security, and get more value out of Microsoft 365.