{"podcast":{"title":"M365.FM a Microsoft MVP Podcast by Mirko Peters","slug":"m365-fm-modern-work-security-and-productivity-with-microsoft-365-7311214","podcast_index_feed_id":7311214,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/6704921/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.m365.fm","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/dcd2a8cc504197846a71af23bbeb0707.jpg","author":"Mirko Peters - Microsoft 365, Teams, SharePoint, and Copilot for IT Pros","episode_count":989,"summary":"M365.FM is a podcast about Microsoft 365, Microsoft Copilot, AI, Modern Work, security, governance, Power Platform, Azure, and the technologies shaping the future of work.Hosted by Microsoft MVP Mirko Peters, M365.FM brings together Microsoft MVPs, Microsoft employees, product experts, architects, developers, and community leaders from around the world.Each episode goes beyond announcements and hype to explore what Microsoft technologies mean in practice. From Microsoft 365 Copilot and AI agents to Teams, SharePoint, Power Platform, Microsoft Fabric, Entra, Purview, security, governance, adoption, and automation, M365.FM focuses on real-world experience, implementation, strategy, and lessons learned.Expect expert interviews, technical deep dives, practical explainers, and conversations with people building, implementing, and shaping the Microsoft ecosystem.If you work with Microsoft 365, Copilot, AI, Modern Work, or the Microsoft Cloud, M365.FM helps you understand what matters, what works, and what is coming next.Hosted by Mirko Peters, Microsoft MVP. 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It arrives in an environment that organizations have been building for years — full of SharePoint sites, Teams, OneDrive content, duplicate documents, historic migrations, guest accounts, inconsistent permissions, forgotten workspaces, broken ownership models, and content nobody has reviewed in years.For traditional Microsoft 365 management, much of this technical debt could remain relatively hidden. AI changes that.In this episode of M365.FM, Mirko Peters talks with Richard Harbridge, Microsoft MVP and industry advisor at ShareGate, about why AI readiness is fundamentally connected to Microsoft 365 modernization and governance.The conversation moves beyond the question of how to deploy Copilot and focuses instead on a more important question: What kind of Microsoft 365 environment are we actually giving AI access to? COPILOT DOESN’T CREATE THE MESS — IT AMPLIFIES IT One of the central ideas in this conversation is that Microsoft Copilot is not necessarily creating entirely new governance problems. Instead, AI makes existing problems significantly more visible and consequential.Organizations have accumulated years of decisions around permissions, sharing, workspace creation, ownership, migrations, external access, inactive content and collaboration.Richard describes this accumulation using the concept of “sprawl.”Sprawl itself is not automatically bad. A growing number of Teams, SharePoint sites and other resources can be evidence that people are successfully adopting Microsoft 365.The problem begins when that growth happens faster than the organization’s ability to manage it.Temporary permissions become permanent. Old collaboration spaces remain accessible. Ownership changes. Business structures evo…","meta_description":"Microsoft 365 Copilot doesn’t arrive in a clean Microsoft 365 tenant. 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