Microsoft Mechanics Podcast

Apply the newest engineering from Microsoft to the work you do every day. Mechanics is Microsoft's official video series for IT Pros, Solution Architects, Developers, and Tech Enthusiasts. Watch as Microsoft engineers show you how to get the most from the software, service, and hardware they built. Through in-product demos, recommendations, how-to's, and tips, they simplify complex topics so you can share them with clients, peers, and your management team. These are in-depth looks at Microsoft 365, Azure, Data and AI, Surface, Windows, and the Power Platform. Get up to speed and subscribe.

Build autonomous agents in Copilot Studio | Your MCPs, your models & multi-agent 08/19/2025

New data lake in Microsoft Sentinel 07/24/2025

New Surface Laptop 5G for Business, Copilot+ PC 07/24/2025

NEW Conditional Access Optimization Agent in Microsoft Entra + Security Copilot in Entra updates 07/15/2025

How SharePoint Embedded works and how to build AI apps on it 07/07/2025

How SharePoint Embedded works and how to build AI apps on it Build AI-powered apps that connect directly to Microsoft 365 content without moving files or compromising security, using SharePoint Embedded. SharePoint Embedded is a fully managed, cloud-based, API-only document management system that lets you securely integrate your custom web or mobile apps, whether built on Azure or other clouds, with Microsoft 365 file storage. It’s especially ideal for ISVs building multi-tenant apps because content stays within each customer’s Microsoft 365 tenant. Design apps that include Microsoft 365 Copilot and agent capabilities, connected Office experiences like Word, and Microsoft Purview compliance and data protection, all within your own user experience. Use built-in retrieval augmented generation (RAG) or bring your own models to create intelligent, secure solutions that reason over your business content, support real-time co-authoring, and scale with granular permissions and storage control. Jeremy Chapman, Microsoft 365 Director, shares how to build intelligent, secure solutions that integrate seamlessly with Microsoft 365 content and services. ► QUICK LINKS: - Keep content secure & compliant without moving it - Build fully custom experiences - Use built-in vector indexing and RAG - Use your models with Copilot's vector search - How it works - How the app is built - Microsoft Copilot retrieval API - Security and compliance - Wrap up ► Link References Build your first agent at ► Unfamiliar with Microsoft Mechanics? As Microsoft's official video series for IT, you can watch and share valuable content and demos of current and upcoming tech from the people who build it at Microsoft. • Subscribe to our YouTube: • Talk with other IT Pros, join us on the Microsoft Tech Community: • Watch or listen from anywhere, subscribe to our podcast: ► Keep getting this insider knowledge, join us on social: • Follow us on Twitter: • Share knowledge on LinkedIn: • Enjoy us on Instagram: • Loosen up with us on TikTok: /episode/index/show/microsoftmechanics/id/37308105

Secure your AI apps with user-context-aware controls | Microsoft Purview SDK 06/26/2025

Microsoft Intune data-driven management | Device Query & Copilot 06/17/2025

Introducing Microsoft Purview Alert Triage Agents for Data Loss Prevention & Insider Risk Management 06/16/2025

Fix Identity Sprawl + Optimize Microsoft Entra 06/10/2025

What's new in SQL Server 2025 06/03/2025

What runs ChatGPT, Sora, DeepSeek & Llama on Azure? (feat. Mark Russinovich) 05/29/2025

What runs ChatGPT, Sora, DeepSeek & Llama on Azure? (feat. Mark Russinovich) Build and run your AI apps and agents at scale with Azure. Orchestrate multi-agent apps and high-scale inference solutions using open-source and proprietary models, no infrastructure management needed. With Azure, connect frameworks like Semantic Kernel to models from DeepSeek, Llama, OpenAI’s GPT-4o, and Sora, without provisioning GPUs or writing complex scheduling logic. Just submit your prompt and assets, and the models do the rest. Using Azure’s Model as a Service, access cutting-edge models, including brand-new releases like DeepSeek R1 and Sora, as managed APIs with autoscaling and built-in security. Whether you’re handling bursts of demand, fine-tuning models, or provisioning compute, Azure provides the capacity, efficiency, and flexibility you need. With industry-leading AI silicon, including H100s, GB200s, and advanced cooling, your solutions can run with the same power and scale behind ChatGPT. Mark Russinovich, Azure CTO, Deputy CISO, and Microsoft Technical Fellow, joins Jeremy Chapman to share how Azure's latest AI advancements and orchestration capabilities unlock new possibilities for developers. ► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - Build and run AI apps and agents in Azure 00:26 - Narrated video generation example with multi-agentic, multi-model app 03:17 - Model as a Service in Azure 04:02 - Scale and performance 04:55 - Enterprise grade security 05:17 - Latest AI silicon available on Azure 06:29 - Inference at scale 07:27 - Everyday AI and agentic solutions 08:36 - Provisioned Throughput 10:55 - Fractional GPU Allocation 12:13 - What's next for Azure? 12:44 - Wrap up ► Link References For more information, check out ► Unfamiliar with Microsoft Mechanics? As Microsoft's official video series for IT, you can watch and share valuable content and demos of current and upcoming tech from the people who build it at Microsoft. • Subscribe to our YouTube: • Talk with other IT Pros, join us on the Microsoft Tech Community: • Watch or listen from anywhere, subscribe to our podcast: ► Keep getting this insider knowledge, join us on social: • Follow us on Twitter: • Share knowledge on LinkedIn: • Enjoy us on Instagram: • Loosen up with us on TikTok: /episode/index/show/microsoftmechanics/id/36764530

New Microsoft 365 Copilot Tuning | Create fine-tuned models to write like you do 05/20/2025

New Microsoft 365 Copilot Tuning | Create fine-tuned models to write like you do Create fine-tuned, task-specific models that write like you by teaching models using expert knowledge, tone, and structure - with reference information directly attached to the models themselves using Microsoft 365 Copilot Tuning. Fine-tuning adds new skills to foundational models, simulating experience in the tasks you teach the model to do. This complements Retrieval Augmented Generation, which in real-time uses search to find related information, then add that to your prompts for context. Fine-tuning helps ensure that responses meet your quality expectations for specific repeatable tasks, without needing to be prompting expert. It's great for drafting complex legal agreements, writing technical documentation, authoring medical papers, and more - using detailed, often lengthy precedent files along with what you teach the model. Using Copilot Studio, anyone can create and deploy these fine-tuned models to use with agents without data science or coding expertise. There, you can teach models using data labeling, ground them in your organization’s content - while keeping the information in-place and maintaining data security and access policies. The information contained in the task-specific models that you create stay private to your team and organization. Task-specific models and related information are only accessible to the people and departments you specify - and information is not merged into shared large language models or used for model training. Jeremy Chapman, Director on the Microsoft 365 product team, shows how this simple, zero-code approach helps the agents you build write and reason like your experts—delivering high-quality, detailed responses. ► QUICK LINKS: - Fine-tune Copilot - Tailor Copilot for specialized tasks - How it works - Create a task-specific model - Data labeling - Build agents that use your fine-tuned model - Wrap up ► Unfamiliar with Microsoft Mechanics? As Microsoft's official video series for IT, you can watch and share valuable content and demos of current and upcoming tech from the people who build it at Microsoft. • Subscribe to our YouTube: • Talk with other IT Pros, join us on the Microsoft Tech Community: • Watch or listen from anywhere, subscribe to our podcast: ► Keep getting this insider knowledge, join us on social: • Follow us on Twitter: • Share knowledge on LinkedIn: • Enjoy us on Instagram: • Loosen up with us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@msftmechanics /episode/index/show/microsoftmechanics/id/36645285

Agent management updates | Copilot Control System 05/06/2025

Data security for agents and 3rd party AI in Microsoft Purview 05/06/2025

Unified data access & security with OneLake 05/06/2025

Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2 Spring updates 05/01/2025

Protect AI apps with Microsoft Defender 04/29/2025

How Microsoft 365 Backup works and how to set it up 04/24/2025

Microsoft Purview protections for Copilot 04/22/2025

Microsoft 365 Copilot Power User Tips 04/16/2025

Microsoft Purview: New data security controls for the browser & network 04/09/2025

How to set up Windows 365 (2025 tutorial) 04/02/2025

New reasoning agents: Researcher and Analyst in Microsoft 365 Copilot 04/02/2025

How AI and agents transform frontline work 03/25/2025

Introducing Microsoft Purview Data Security Investigations 03/24/2025

Introducing Microsoft Purview Data Security Investigations Investigate data security, risk and leak cases faster by leveraging AI-driven insights with Microsoft Purview Data Security Investigations. This goes beyond the superficial metadata and activity-only signals found in incident management and SIEM tools, by analyzing the content itself within compromised files, emails, messages, and Microsoft Copilot interactions. Data Security Investigations allows you to pinpoint sensitive data and assess risks at a deeper level—quickly understanding the value of what’s been exposed. Then by mapping connections between compromised data and activities, you can easily find the source of the security risk or exposure. And using real-time risk insights, you can also apply the right protections to minimize future vulnerabilities. Data Security Investigations is also integrated with Microsoft Defender incident management as part your broader SOC toolset. Nick Robinson, Microsoft Purview Principal Product Manager, joins Jeremy Chapman to share how to enhance your ability to safeguard critical information. ► QUICK LINKS: - Microsoft Purview Data Security Investigations - Risks of data theft & data leaks - Start an investigation - Results of an investigation - Vector-based search & semantic indexing - Use AI for the investigation - Map activities - Connect SOC & Data Security teams - Known leaked information - Steps to get DSI up and running - Wrap up ► Link References Get started at Stay up-to-date with our blog at ► Unfamiliar with Microsoft Mechanics? As Microsoft's official video series for IT, you can watch and share valuable content and demos of current and upcoming tech from the people who build it at Microsoft. • Subscribe to our YouTube: • Talk with other IT Pros, join us on the Microsoft Tech Community: • Watch or listen from anywhere, subscribe to our podcast: ► Keep getting this insider knowledge, join us on social: • Follow us on Twitter: • Share knowledge on LinkedIn: • Enjoy us on Instagram: • Loosen up with us on TikTok: /episode/index/show/microsoftmechanics/id/35837895

Introducing Copilot in the Microsoft 365 admin centers 03/17/2025

Introducing Copilot in the Microsoft 365 admin centers Streamline daily admin tasks with AI-powered insights, natural language queries, and automation using Microsoft 365 Admin Copilot. Quickly recap key updates, monitor service health, and track important changes—all in one place. No more digging through multiple pages—just ask Copilot for the answers you need, grounded in real-time data from your tenant. From finding users and managing licenses to generating visual insights and automating tasks with PowerShell, use Copilot to simplify complex admin workflows and save valuable time. For Copilot in the admin center to light up, all you need is one active Microsoft 365 Copilot license for any user in your tenant and from the Microsoft 365 admin center, you can get started right away. Jeremy Chapman, Director of Microsoft 365, demonstrates how to leverage Copilot for proactive guidance, whether in the Microsoft 365 admin center or directly within Copilot Chat. ► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - Copilot in Microsoft 365 00:42 - Use Copilot for change management 02:13 - Stay ahead of upcoming changes 03:31 - User and licensing queries 04:21 - Generate Visual Insights for Licensing and Usage 04:50 - Author PowerShell scripts for bulk operations 06:07 - Copilot Chat using Microsoft 365 Admin agent 07:37 - Copilot admin coming soon 07:51- Wrap up ► Link References For more information, check out Start using Microsoft 365 Copilot in the Microsoft 365 admin center at ► Unfamiliar with Microsoft Mechanics? As Microsoft's official video series for IT, you can watch and share valuable content and demos of current and upcoming tech from the people who build it at Microsoft. • Subscribe to our YouTube: • Talk with other IT Pros, join us on the Microsoft Tech Community: • Watch or listen from anywhere, subscribe to our podcast: ► Keep getting this insider knowledge, join us on social: • Follow us on Twitter: • Share knowledge on LinkedIn: • Enjoy us on Instagram: • Loosen up with us on TikTok: /episode/index/show/microsoftmechanics/id/35732390

Introducing Azure AI Foundry - Everything you need for AI development 03/10/2025

Connect to any data with Shortcuts, Mirroring and Data Factory using Microsoft Fabric 03/03/2025

Connect to any data with Shortcuts, Mirroring and Data Factory using Microsoft Fabric Easily access and unify your data for analytics and AI—no matter where it lives. With OneLake in Microsoft Fabric, you can connect to data across multiple clouds, databases, and formats without duplication. Use the OneLake catalog to quickly find and interact with your data, and let Copilot in Fabric help you transform and analyze it effortlessly. Eliminate barriers to working with your data using Shortcuts to virtualize external sources and Mirroring to keep databases and warehouses in sync—all without ETL. For deeper integration, leverage Data Factory’s 180+ connectors to bring in structured, unstructured, and real-time streaming data at scale. Maraki Ketema from the Microsoft Fabric team shows how to combine these methods, ensuring fast, reliable access to quality data for analytics and AI workloads. ► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - Access data wherever it lives 00:42 - Microsoft Fabric background 01:17 - Manage data with Microsoft Fabric 03:04 - Low latency 03:34 - How Shortcuts work 06:41 - Mirroring 08:10 - Open mirroring 08:40 - Low friction ways to bring data in 09:32 - Data Factory in Microsoft Fabric 10:52 - Build out your data flow 11:49 - Use built-in AI to ask questions of data 12:56 - OneLake catalog 13:36 - Data security & compliance 15:10 - Additional options to bring data in 15:42 - Wrap up ► Link References Watch our show on Real-Time Intelligence at Check out Open Mirroring at ► Unfamiliar with Microsoft Mechanics? As Microsoft's official video series for IT, you can watch and share valuable content and demos of current and upcoming tech from the people who build it at Microsoft. • Subscribe to our YouTube: • Talk with other IT Pros, join us on the Microsoft Tech Community: • Watch or listen from anywhere, subscribe to our podcast: ► Keep getting this insider knowledge, join us on social: • Follow us on Twitter: • Share knowledge on LinkedIn: • Enjoy us on Instagram: • Loosen up with us on TikTok: /episode/index/show/microsoftmechanics/id/35513340

Copilot Control System explained 02/27/2025

Introducing Face Check with Microsoft Entra Verified ID 02/24/2025

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