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Nine Power Platform responsibilities, from environments to Microsoft support, running past the project handover with no end date
Power Platform

Power Platform managed services: what running the estate involves after go-live

Power Platform managed services cover what a project leaves behind: environments, data policies, capacity, licences, alerts, releases and the support gaps.
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Diagram: recorded AI activity covers the last 30 days and the busiest sites, inside a much larger area of everything a licensed user can open
Copilot & AI

DSPM for AI: what it shows, and what it cannot see

DSPM for AI in Microsoft Purview, checked November 2026: what it records for Copilot, agents and ChatGPT, what each licence shows, and what it
Eight data domains, six with a named owner and two with nobody accountable, captioned the deliverable is an owner, not a number
Data strategy

Data maturity assessment: what it should produce

A data maturity assessment has no Microsoft model behind it. What Microsoft does publish, what a score is worth, and what the work should
Timeline of weeks after Copilot licences are assigned: data still arriving in weeks 0 to 3, readable but mixed in weeks 3 to 6, worth judging from week 6
Copilot & AI

Copilot adoption: what you can actually measure

Copilot adoption reporting answers later and narrower than people expect. What the numbers count, what they cannot show, and what to do before they
Dataverse database capacity for a 30 seat Dynamics 365 estate: 37.5 GB entitled, made up of 30 GB with the first Enterprise subscription plus 250 MB a seat, against the 45 to 75 GB where a five to ten year legacy migration lands, with the excess billed at 40 dollars per GB per month
Dynamics 365

Dynamics CRM implementation: what moves the price

A dynamics crm implementation is priced by decisions, not by seats. What the licences cost, the capacity nobody quotes, and what actually moves the
An annual Microsoft subscription term drawn as a long bar, with two narrow seven-day windows marked at purchase and at renewal: seats can be added on any day of the term but reduced on only fourteen of them
Azure

CSP vs Enterprise Agreement vs MCA: which one you should be on

CSP vs Enterprise Agreement vs MCA: the seven-day rule, the 2026 price rises, and what each agreement changes about how you run your Microsoft
Where six weeks of a Fabric foundation go: week zero for access, quota, tenant settings and region, weeks one to four for the platform and one data product, with the first report live in production around week four, and the remaining weeks for Git, deployment pipelines and the decision log
Microsoft Fabric

Fabric implementation: what the first six weeks deliver

A six-week Fabric implementation plan delivers a platform and one data product, not a migration. The decisions that are hard to reverse, and week

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