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- 13 min readCopilot Studio
Sync ALL your Copilot Studio conversation transcripts to a single location
Compare Copilot Studio transcript replication through Fabric and Azure Functions, with practical guidance on retention, identity, parsing, and Power BI costs.
- 8 min readPower Platform
Microsoft Communications Portal: One Feed for Every Microsoft Update
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.
- 49 min readAzure
An Hour with Azure SRE Agent
What Azure SRE Agent is, what setup actually looks like, and what happened when I pointed it at my own repo, my Application Insights telemetry across Dataverse, Copilot Studio, and Foundry, and then asked it for a health check on everything at once. Plus what connecting an incident platform buys you — autonomous mitigation, a verification loop, and a handoff straight to the GitHub Copilot coding agent — the five switches worth flipping that you don't get turned on by default, and what the newly published Zero Ops framework recommends, including the two governance layers above per-tool Allow and Ask and three details worth verifying against the current docs.
- 12 min readCopilot Studio
Finding GitHub Copilot Harness Agents Before PPAC Shows Them
The Power Platform admin center still doesn't flag which Copilot Studio agents run on the GitHub Copilot harness. The isCLIAgent property does, and Microsoft has now published governance guidance built on it.
- 9 min readMicrosoft Foundry
Microsoft Foundry Canvas: A Visual Front End for Agent Code
Foundry Canvas puts model selection, toolboxes, guardrails, testing, and deployment in a Copilot side panel while leaving you the actual agent code.
- 14 min readMicrosoft Foundry
Publish Foundry Agents to Teams Behind a Private Endpoint
Disabling public network access removes the Foundry portal's Teams publish button. Here's the REST path that replaces it and the inbound design you now own.
- 21 min readVibe Coding
Vibe Code Your Blog, Part 2: Build It, Then Ship It to Azure
Create an Astro blog with GitHub Copilot, put it on GitHub, and deploy it to Azure Static Web Apps with OIDC and least-privilege access.
- 20 min readAzure
Portal of Portals: One Console for Every Admin Portal
A tour of Portal 360°: multi-tenant admin, config drift, CVE tracking, and the BFF-secured Next.js architecture behind one Microsoft cloud console.
- 37 min readVibe Coding
Vibe Coding 99-101 for non-coders
Set up GitHub Copilot to vibe code a blog, an app, or your own project. Learn the tools, agents, and skills; install Astro only for the blog example.
- 13 min readVibe Coding
Coding with AI: A Neurodivergent Non-Coder's Guide to Building Real Apps
Field-tested lessons from shipping with AI: use plan mode, build reusable skills, choose models deliberately, and keep a reviewer in the loop.
- 8 min readAzure
I'm Finally Starting a Blog (and Here's What I've Been Building)
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.