Practical 365
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The Practical 365 Podcast is a fortnightly show covering all things Microsoft 365, Copilot, AI, MIcrosoft Teams, Exchange & Cybersecurity plus any hot technology topics that are worth a deep-dive to help you learn more and get the real-world view. Your hosts are Microsoft MVPs Steve Goodman, Paul Robichaux and Quest's Bastiaan Verdonk, who will share their expert opinions on the talk of the week, and Q&A with special guests.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Microsoft announcements receive a practical stress test from hosts attentive to security, administration and the risks hidden inside new AI capabilities.
Practical 365 turns Microsoft's steady flow of product changes into a candid technical conversation about what those changes mean in use. Steve Goodman and Paul Robichaux move between Microsoft 365 administration, Copilot and security, questioning the promises and tracing the…
Microsoft announces another agent; Steve Goodman and Paul Robichaud ask what you're letting it touch.
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A warm goodbye that values chemistry as much as information.
Rich Dean's final Practical 365 appearance feels less like a formal sendoff than a handoff, with Steve Goodman keeping the tone light through toys, Transformers, and the kind of familiar banter that makes the show feel lived-in.
A grounded discussion of Copilot Studio, local testing, and the tradeoffs of adding MCP infrastructure.
The episode is strongest when it stays on the practical side of Copilot Studio and MCPs instead of drifting into product polish. It keeps returning to a useful dividing line: what can be tested locally, and what still needs more infrastructure before it is worth the effort.
Practical Microsoft 365 security talk that stays grounded in admin reality.
The Practical 365 Podcast episode with Steve Goodman and Paul Robichaud keeps its attention on Microsoft 365 security and management. It favors practical guidance for administrators over broad theory, and that makes the discussion feel useful rather than polished for its own…
A steady, practical look at identity security and admin access in hybrid environments.
The episode stays focused on the plain, difficult work of Active Directory security: tiering, privileged access, and using identity to keep the blast radius small.
Practical Microsoft 365 discussion of Copilot, external services, and admin risk.
A Practical 365 episode keeps its focus on the awkward edge of modern Microsoft work: what happens when Copilot-style systems meet external services, user workarounds, and admin controls.
A practical look at Exchange cleanup and Entra changes, with AWS outage context.
The episode uses an AWS outage to frame how much Microsoft 365 still depends on shared cloud infrastructure. It then makes a practical case for retiring the last Exchange server, with Entra ID preview changes around source of authority and groups making that cleanup feel more…
A practical security conversation that skips the slogans and stays close to real operational tradeoffs.
Practical 365 keeps its focus on cybersecurity, identity, and Microsoft 365, and that narrow frame works. The Adam Banks segment gives the episode its weight because it keeps circling back to funding, identity, and the language IT leaders need when they are trying to get…
Practical hybrid-work logic, with enough skepticism to keep the license math honest.
This episode treats Microsoft Places, Teams features, and Copilot worries as an operations problem, not a shiny launch. Steve and Paul keep pulling the focus back to what actually helps people line up office days, meetings, and travel, and what just adds another license line.
Film craft for the VFX workbench.
Accessibility, veterans, and practical independence explained clearly.
Host Jack Rhysider narrates true hacking, breach, and privacy stories from the people involved.
David Pierce and Verge staffers cover AI industry news, gadgets, and tech policy weekly.
Long-form interviews on AI coding agents, infrastructure, and security, plus a recurring SED News roundup.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
Steve Goodman and Paul Robichaud spend the episode unpacking Microsoft Places, Teams, and the Copilot licensing conversation.
The episode opens in familiar fashion, with weather chatter before the Microsoft 365 admin talk gets underway.
Steve Goodman and Paul Robichaux discuss recent Copilot Studio licensing changes, the new Jan local AI tool, and broader enterprise considerations for balancing cloud AI innovation with data security.
Steve Goodman and Paul Robichaux discuss Microsoft's latest updates, including free Copilot Chat for Microsoft 365, AI agents, and document summarization features.
Steve Goodman and Paul Robichaud open Practical 365 Podcast S04E38 with an on-premises pricing discussion, including Microsoft's 10% uplift and the surprise that Skype on-premises still has a substantial customer base.
Practical 365 Podcast S4 E41 opens with a reported zero-click Copilot vulnerability in Outlook that Microsoft had already resolved before public disclosure, and the hosts break down how message classification, external-link detection, and remote image loading were chained together.
The hosts discuss Microsoft's evolving Copilot licensing, AI agents, and hardware developments, while critiquing trends like 'work slop' and pilot adoption challenges in enterprise AI.
The hosts Steve Goodman and Paul Robichaux introduce Season 4, Episode 36, covering Exchange Server updates, AI hype, and practical cybersecurity.
The hosts and guest Tom Arbuthnot discuss a critical SharePoint on-prem exploit affecting hundreds of organizations, emphasizing the need for patching and cloud migration.
Victor King discusses Active Directory security best practices, including identifying overprivileged accounts, protecting tier zero assets, and the importance of continuous monitoring.
The hosts discuss Microsoft 365's growth to 430 million paid users and the evolution of Viva Engage, then interview Adam Banks on cybersecurity leadership.
Steve Goodman and Paul Robichaux discuss key announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2025, focusing on Copilot updates, the new Agent 365 for AI governance, and voice features.
The hosts discuss a major AWS outage caused by a DNS automation race condition, its impact on services like airlines, and lessons for cloud disaster recovery.
Hosts Steve Goodman and Paul Robichaux discuss recent Microsoft updates, including confusing domain changes, Copilot renaming, and the retirement of Viva Goals, while critiquing product transitions and predicting future security and AI developments.
Rich Dean signs off from the Practical 365 Podcast.