Notes
What came up
while roasting.
Most notes exist in German and English. A few are German only — those are in the German archive.
Application landing zones become workload landing zones – five CAF scenarios vanish
Microsoft is renaming the application landing zone to workload landing zone. More urgent: five CAF scenarios disappear, AVD and SAP on 30 October 2026.
Deleting data nobody wants to delete
Retention periods rarely fail because of Purview. They fail because no named person makes the decision — and here is how to change that.
Retention policy is not deleting — four common causes
Simulation mode, legal hold, label beats policy, delayed application. With the PowerShell calls to check all four, one after another, in order.
Microsoft 365 Community – heat free
There is this one moment when you look at a number and go quiet for a second. For me, that was this summer. I counted the contributions to the Hitzefrei campaign…
SocialHub with Azure
I built my own social hub. One single page where everything comes together: LinkedIn, Instagram, the blog, the podcast, the newsletter, my speaking dates.
Conditional Access with a sense of proportion, not full throttle
Every additional policy increases security and lowers acceptance. Where the line is, how to justify it and what belongs in the break-glass account.
Your files belong to one person
There is one sentence I have to say in almost every customer project: „This file does not live in the team. It lives in the OneDrive of exactly one person.
Microsoft Foundry vs. Azure OpenAI Service — Clearing Up the Confusion
Last week, customer call. Architect from a mid-sized company asks: „We’ve been using Azure OpenAI for two years.
Managing company templates in Microsoft 365
Anyone who has tackled template management in an organisation over the past few years knows the classic route: a third-party tool like Template Chooser, Templafy…
Copilot Flex Routing: How Microsoft sends your EU data to America
It was one of those Monday afternoon situations. I opened the Message Center to collect material for the next M365 News episode — and then I stumbled across…
Azure Costs: The Black Box That Gets More Expensive Every Month
You sit with people who live inside Azure — architects, MVPs, engineers. And at some point the conversation turns to costs.
11,000 Models – So Which One Do I Actually Pick?
It was towards the end of my last session at Microsoft. The slides were done, the coffee cold – and then the questions came. Not one, not two.
My “five” learnings with Power Apps
Who would have thought! Many colleagues and people in my network did not expect that my knowledge of the Power Platform was still in its early days.
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