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Agents vs. Skills: Teaching Your AI Coding Assistant to Be Consistently Great
AI coding assistants like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot are remarkably capable — they can refactor entire modules, debug complex issues, and...
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Microsoft 365 E7 Discounts Launch May 1, 2026: A Smart Time to Revisit Your Security and AI Strategy
Keith Tillier: May 11, 2026 11:07:18 AM
Microsoft has announced new Microsoft 365 E7 promotional pricing, available beginning May 1, 2026, giving organizations an opportunity to adopt...
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Microsoft 365 E7: Why Microsoft Created It and What IT Leaders Should Understand
Keith Tillier: Apr 14, 2026 2:10:16 PM
Microsoft doesn’t introduce new enterprise licensing tiers very often. In fact, the last time it did, Microsoft 365 E5 was brand new. That was over a...
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Three Copilots to Accelerate Application Development
Does your organization suffer from Excel mart syndrome? This is when critical data is managed in Excel. Well, you are not alone! This post will...
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Can I Get that Copilot Studio Agent as a Popup Agent?
Mary Harvey: Mar 30, 2026 4:55:53 PM
Displaying Copilot Studio Agents from a floating chat button in SharePoint with SSO
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Choosing the Right AI Approach for Text Classification
Text classification is already embedded in most enterprises, even if teams don’t call it that. Support ticket routing, document tagging, incident...
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Unifying Retrieval for AI Agents with Azure AI Search and Foundry IQ
Azure AI Search and Foundry IQ work together to create a unified retrieval layer for AI applications. Azure AI Search provides the underlying...
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AI - Embracing the Boogeyman
I have 19 years of experience within the Information Technology Space, the past 10 of those years have been spent in the capacity of supporting...
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Mapping Microsoft Fabric to the Medallion Architecture
Modern enterprise data architectures are often organized using the Medallion Architecture paradigm, which segments data processing into Bronze,...
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Unifying Enterprise Data with Databricks Unity Catalog: A Real-World Success Story
In today’s enterprise landscape, data often lives in silos — across on-premises systems, cloud databases, and analytics platforms. When we started...
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From Data Warehouse Subject Areas to Agentic Intelligence Data Grounding: A New Paradigm in Data Architecture
For decades, the Data Warehouse Subject Area pattern has served as the backbone of enterprise data architecture. These subject areas, such as Sales,...
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The battle of the AI Protocols: MCP vs A2A
Reshaping AI Forever While obsessing over ChatGPT vs Claude, a far more consequential battle has been raging behind the scenes. Two protocols,...