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A few Power Apps IT knows about beside a long tail of unaccounted apps, each needing a premium licence
Power Platform

Power Platform managed environments: the licence check is already running

Power Platform managed environments now notify unlicensed users, escalating every seven days. The requirement is not new. The enforcement is, and it is live.
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Fabric workspace items with a Git status column, two marked unsupported
Microsoft Fabric

Fabric Git integration: what actually syncs, and where the gap shows up

Fabric Git integration versions your workspace, but not every item. What syncs, where the gap is flagged, and why nobody looks at the column
Forty Copilot licence seats with only fourteen shown as in regular use
Copilot & AI

Why 74% of enterprises cannot show a return on Copilot, and what the other 26% did first

Primary and paired Microsoft Fabric regions: OneLake data replicates while workspaces, pipelines and semantic models do not
Microsoft Fabric

Microsoft Fabric disaster recovery: what is and is not replicated

Data catalogue graph showing classified, unlabelled and oversharing assets around a central governance node
Data governance

Microsoft Purview: data governance at scale

Data is the most valuable asset enterprises possess, yet for most organizations, it remains ungoverned, undiscovered, and untrustworthy. Regulatory…
A data pipeline fanning out from one source into parallel processing stages and back to a single sink
Azure

Azure Data Factory at scale

Azure Data Factory (ADF) is Microsoft’s cloud-native ETL/ELT service, but scaling from 10 to 1,000+ pipelines requires architectural patterns that most…
Power BI capacity bars with a usage trend line rising across six quarters
Power BI

Power BI enterprise deployment

Power BI is the world’s leading BI platform, but scaling from 100 to 10,000+ users requires fundamental architectural changes. Most organizations hit…

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