Field-tested guidance on Microsoft cloud and agentic technologies — written by Russ Rimmerman, Principal Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft, and fully supported by his team of highly skilled agents.
Why I finally started writing after years of putting it off, plus a tour of what I built with AI: Pulse 360°, Portal 360°, and the Microsoft Communications Portal.
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Manage GitHub Copilot credit consumption with usage reports, monthly budgets, focused prompts, model choices, and session limits that preserve quality.
Compare Copilot Studio transcript replication through Fabric and Azure Functions, with practical guidance on retention, identity, parsing, and Power BI costs.
Estimate Copilot Studio agent costs from business tasks, measure cost per successful outcome, and refine production budgets with observed credit consumption.
What the Microsoft Communications Portal is, how it aggregates Power Platform, Microsoft 365, Azure, and Fabric update feeds into one dashboard, its defense-in-depth security model, deployment options with Azure Developer CLI or Docker, and how to contribute on GitHub.
A technical tour of every Power Platform and Copilot Studio API surface behind Portal 360° — BAP, api.powerplatform.com, RBAC, the inventory query endpoint, Dataverse, and the tenant-scoped usage host — with real, sanitized calls and screenshots.
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