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Power Apps Code Apps: Your Code, Power Platform's Guardrails
Code apps let you build a React or Vue app in your own IDE and run it on Power Platform, with Entra ID sign-in, 1,400+ connectors, and DLP handled for you.
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The latest learnings from the field — Azure architecture, AI, security, and cloud engineering.
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Finding GitHub Copilot Harness Agents Before PPAC Shows Them
The Power Platform admin center still doesn't flag which Copilot Studio agents run on the GitHub Copilot harness. The isCLIAgent property does, and Microsoft has now published governance guidance built on it.
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Customizing GitHub Copilot: A Quickstart for the Best Experience
A 20-minute quickstart for customizing the GitHub Copilot app as a non-coder: instructions, agent skills, MCP servers, custom agents, and plugins.
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Microsoft Foundry Canvas: A Visual Front End for Agent Code
Foundry Canvas puts model selection, toolboxes, guardrails, testing, and deployment in a Copilot side panel while leaving you the actual agent code.
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Publish Foundry Agents to Teams Behind a Private Endpoint
Disabling public network access removes the Foundry portal's Teams publish button. Here's the REST path that replaces it and the inbound design you now own.
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Add ServiceNow to Copilot Studio with User Login SSO (So ServiceNow Permissions Are Respected)
Connect ServiceNow to Copilot Studio with Microsoft Entra ID User Login so requests honor each user's roles, ACLs, and audit trail.
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Vibe Code Your Blog, Part 2: Build It, Then Ship It to Azure
Deploy an Astro blog to Azure Static Web Apps with OIDC, least-privilege access, and a walkthrough of the resources and trade-offs.
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The Vibe-Coding/Engineering Stack I Actually Ship With
The AI tools I use to design, ground, review, and ship vibe-coded projects, from Impeccable and Microsoft Foundry to MCPs and Power Platform Skills.
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The Copilot Studio Auth Trap: Turning On SSO Changes Your Client
Turning on authentication breaks the Copilot Studio SDK with EnvironmentSettingViolation. Here's why Direct Line and a server-side token exchange are the fix.
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The Intune Permission Trap: Your Graph Scope Is Only Half the Story
A field report on diagnosing an Intune Graph 403 after granting DeviceManagementManagedDevices.Read.All, with instrumentation patterns for missing access.
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Portal of Portals: One Console for Every Admin Portal
A tour of Portal 360°: multi-tenant admin, config drift, CVE tracking, and the BFF-secured Next.js architecture behind one Microsoft cloud console.
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Ready, Set, Vibe! (Using AI)
A beginner-friendly setup guide for building your first project with AI: a GitHub account, Git, Node.js, Python, GitHub Copilot, agents, and reusable skills.
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Coding with AI: A Neurodivergent Non-Coder's Guide to Building Real Apps
Field-tested lessons from shipping with AI: use plan mode, build reusable skills, choose models deliberately, and keep a reviewer in the loop.
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I'm Finally Starting a Blog (and Here's What I've Been Building)
Why I finally started writing after years of putting it off, plus a tour of what I built with AI: Pulse 360°, Portal 360°, and the Microsoft Communications Portal.