{"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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In this episode of the M365FM Podcast, we expose one of the biggest hidden risks inside modern cloud architecture: enterprise workflows tethered to personal user accounts. It starts innocently enough. An engineer builds a Power Automate flow, connects a Logic App, configures a Power BI refresh, or deploys a SharePoint integration using their own credentials because it is fast and convenient. But the moment that person changes roles, resets a password, triggers Conditional Access, loses MFA access, or leaves the company entirely, the entire automation chain collapses. This is identity rot. Organizations across the world are unknowingly building mission-critical infrastructure on top of human dependencies instead of infrastructure identities. The result is brittle automation, failed workflows, silent outages, security gaps, and operational chaos that often goes unnoticed until production systems fail. As Microsoft moves toward the 2026 identity model, the era of service-principal-less automation is ending. Legacy authentication patterns are being deprecated, old Azure AD Graph integrations are disappearing, and modern workloads are being forced toward identity-first architecture. This episode breaks down why Service Principals, Managed Identities, Federated Credentials, and Zero-Secret authentication are no longer optional modernization projects. They are now foundational requirements for operational survival. If your automation breaks when an employee resigns, your architecture is already unstable. THE SHADOW ACCOUNT TRAP Most identity problems begin with convenience. An engineer connects a workflow using their own Microsoft 365 account because the permissions already exist and the deplo…","meta_description":"Your Microsoft 365 automation environment is probably running on borrowed identity. 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