M365 Show - Modern work, security, and productivity with Microsoft 365
Mirko Peters (Microsoft 365 consultant and trainer)
416 episodes
7 hours ago
Welcome to the M365 Show — your essential podcast for everything Microsoft 365, Azure, and beyond. Join us as we explore the latest developments across Power BI, Power Platform, Microsoft Teams, Viva, Fabric, Purview, Security, and the entire Microsoft ecosystem. Each episode delivers expert insights, real-world use cases, best practices, and interviews with industry leaders to help you stay ahead in the fast-moving world of cloud, collaboration, and data innovation. Whether you're an IT professional, business leader, developer, or data enthusiast, the M365 Show brings the knowledge, trends, and strategies you need to thrive in the modern digital workplace. Tune in, level up, and make the most of everything Microsoft has to offer.
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Welcome to the M365 Show — your essential podcast for everything Microsoft 365, Azure, and beyond. Join us as we explore the latest developments across Power BI, Power Platform, Microsoft Teams, Viva, Fabric, Purview, Security, and the entire Microsoft ecosystem. Each episode delivers expert insights, real-world use cases, best practices, and interviews with industry leaders to help you stay ahead in the fast-moving world of cloud, collaboration, and data innovation. Whether you're an IT professional, business leader, developer, or data enthusiast, the M365 Show brings the knowledge, trends, and strategies you need to thrive in the modern digital workplace. Tune in, level up, and make the most of everything Microsoft has to offer.
The Fabric Ecosystem: I Have Forged Your New Data Reality.
M365 Show - Modern work, security, and productivity with Microsoft 365
35 minutes
5 days ago
The Fabric Ecosystem: I Have Forged Your New Data Reality.
(00:00:00) The Data Ecosystem Landscape
(00:00:46) One Lake: The Unified Watershed
(00:01:18) Domains and Workspaces: Territorial Governance
(00:02:32) Lake House and Warehouse: Complementary Shelters
(00:03:33) The Semantic Model: A Shared Language
(00:04:26) Balancing the Ecosystem's Resources
(00:06:15) Data Flows: The Lifeblood of the Ecosystem
(00:11:23) Power BI: The Display Bird
(00:17:02) Governance and Security: Protecting the Habitat
(00:22:41) Copilot: A Helpful Symbiont
Your data estate isn’t broken — it’s fragmented. Dashboards sip from stale pools, pipelines struggle upstream, and datamarts sit like isolated organisms unable to thrive. In this episode, we explore how Microsoft Fabric reconstructs the entire habitat: unifying data, governance, domains, and AI assistance into one living ecosystem. OneLake becomes the watershed. Domains evolve into territories. Workspaces become nests. Lakehouses and Warehouses form the shelters where different species flourish. And Power BI? It becomes the bright-feathered messenger whose survival depends entirely on whether the upstream biome is healthy. This episode teaches you to map the terrain, understand the flows, and steward the ecosystem before chaos returns. If you can read the habitat, you can govern it. If you can govern it, you can empower Copilot, AI, and analytics without fear. 🗺️ What You’ll Learn in This Episode 🌍 1. The New Habitat: OneLake, Domains & Workspaces
Why OneLake is the water table beneath your entire analytics landscape.
How domains define responsibility, reduce sprawl, and carry governance forward.
Why Bronze/Silver/Gold are not optional — they’re the soil layers that ecosystems rely on.
🏕️ 2. Lakehouse vs Warehouse: The Two Shelters of Fabric
The Lakehouse as an open range where files, Delta tables & shortcuts coexist.
The Warehouse as a structured refuge for SQL-native creatures.
How both habitats coexist and feed the shared semantic model, the language of truth.
Using Dataflows Gen2 as the gentle analyst-friendly tributary.
Shortcuts & mirroring as zero-copy canals that preserve lineage.
Matching refresh cadence to the thirst of the domain.
🦚 4. Power BI: The Bright-Feathered Species
Why Power BI is only healthy when the ecosystem upstream is clean.
How Direct Lake transforms performance by feeding visuals directly from Delta.
The importance of semantic models, star schemas, RLS, and certification.
🛡️ 5. Predators & Protection: Security and Compliance
Workspace roles, deployment pipelines, and lifecycle protections.
Row-level and object-level security as natural habitat boundaries.
Purview labels as feather tags that travel across tools.
OneLake’s item-level and column-level protections as wardens on the trail.
🤝 6. Copilot: The Symbiotic Species
When Copilot becomes a helpful companion — and when it grows foggy.
How governance clarity sharpens AI accuracy.
Copilot’s role in ingestion, modeling, optimization & anomaly detection.
🧭 7. Field Path: The Sales Data Journey
A blueprint for CRM → Lakehouse → Silver → Gold → Power BI.
How to assign stewards, schedules, retention, lineage, and labels.
🚚 8. Migration Path: Moving Existing Models to Fabric + Direct Lake
How to migrate calmly, not chaotically.
Rebuilding semantic models, RLS, shortcuts, and Silver logic.
Why Direct Lake is a transformation, not a simple switch.
🎯 Who This Episode Is For ✔ Power BI professionals elevating to Fabric ✔ Data engineers building modern ecosystems
M365 Show - Modern work, security, and productivity with Microsoft 365
Welcome to the M365 Show — your essential podcast for everything Microsoft 365, Azure, and beyond. Join us as we explore the latest developments across Power BI, Power Platform, Microsoft Teams, Viva, Fabric, Purview, Security, and the entire Microsoft ecosystem. Each episode delivers expert insights, real-world use cases, best practices, and interviews with industry leaders to help you stay ahead in the fast-moving world of cloud, collaboration, and data innovation. Whether you're an IT professional, business leader, developer, or data enthusiast, the M365 Show brings the knowledge, trends, and strategies you need to thrive in the modern digital workplace. Tune in, level up, and make the most of everything Microsoft has to offer.
