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Copilot Chat vs Agents: When to Use Which
Copilot Chat vs agents: when to use which The most common question I get in Copilot workshops right now is not "how do I write a better prompt". It is "should I be using an agent for this?" And the honest answer, probably of the time, is no. Copilot Chat vs agents is...
Sharing a Copilot Agent Can Share Its Data. Here’s When
Sharing a Copilot agent can share its data. Here is exactly when. A question came up in an enterprise enablement session last week that stopped the room. If I build a Copilot agent, attach a knowledge source, and share the agent with two hundred people, have I just...
Microsoft Data and AI News: Top 7 Stories This Week
Microsoft Data and AI news this week: seven stories that matter (7 September 2026) Most weeks in the Microsoft Data and AI news cycle are noise. This one was not. Across Power BI, Fabric, Copilot Studio and Microsoft 365 Copilot, the same pattern showed up in five...
Copilot in Outlook: Inbox Management and Email Triage
Copilot in Outlook for inbox management: a practical guide to email triage A question came up in a Copilot workshop recently that I hear in some form on almost every engagement. Someone had been away for a week or two or even 3 months, came back to seventy unread...
Fabric Mirroring for SQL Server: Our FabCon Europe 2026 Session
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Fabric Mirroring for SQL Server at FabCon + SQLCon Europe 2026 If you have ever watched a production SQL Server grind to a crawl at 9am because forty people opened the same Power BI report, this session is for you. On Tuesday 29 September,...
Microsoft 365 E7: The Questions the Upgrade Doesn’t Answer
Your Microsoft account team is probably already talking to you about Microsoft 365 E7. It reached general availability on 1 May 2026, it bundles E5, Microsoft 365 Copilot, the Entra Suite and Agent 365 into a single suite, and moving customers from E5 to E7 is a...
AI Watermarking: Accountability Beats Detection
AI Watermarking Has Arrived. But Accountability Matters More Than Detection Imagine I write a client report. I conduct the interviews. I examine the client’s systems. I identify the problems. I develop the recommendations. Then I give the draft to an AI system and ask...
The 30-Day Job Search Plan: Evidence-First, AI-Assisted
The 30-Day Evidence-First Job Search Plan Everything in this series so far has been a component. This post is the assembly instructions. Over the past two months I have walked through the state of the 2026 recruitment market, the evidence bank, decoding adverts,...
AI Mock Interviews That Push Back: Prep That Works
Ask ChatGPT to run a mock interview and it will tell you that your answers are great. That is the problem. Out of the box, every mainstream AI model is agreeable. It wants the conversation to go well. Ask it to interview you and it lobs soft questions, accepts your...