Notes from the trenches of real projects. What worked, what didn't, and why — no marketing spin.
Building long-running business processes in Copilot Studio using standard harness, state tables, agent flows, and multi-agent orchestration. Boring but effective and save
Child agents, connected agents, A2A, MCP, and the new skills: which of them exist in which harness, why, and how I decide before a single agent gets built.
A practitioner's reference for Power Platform core, Copilot Studio, Dataverse, Dynamics 365 Contact Center, and Dynamics 365 Customer Service.
Cowork's Scheduling and Calendar Management skills — finding times, sending invites, reviewing the week, and defending focus time.
Using Cowork's Email skill to triage, draft, and send mail in Outlook end-to-end — with approval prompts before anything leaves your tenant.
Hands-on custom skills in Cowork — the SKILL.md format, OneDrive layout, a working weekly-report example, and the limits that still apply.
Cowork's 13 built-in skills named and scoped — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, Email, Scheduling, Meetings, Deep Research, and more.
Anthropic's role as a Microsoft subprocessor in Cowork, the default-state map by region, and the GDPR checklist before opting in.
The four-step Frontier enrollment path for Cowork — tenant opt-in, admin account enrollment, user availability, and the first-run experience.
Microsoft MVP & MCT | Low Code Hacker | Copilot, Copilot Studio, Power Platform & Azure Architect
I’m a Microsoft MVP focused on agentic AI, intelligent agents, and enterprise AI solutions. Using Microsoft Copilot Studio and Azure AI Foundry, I design and build systems that help people and organizations work smarter. This blog is a collection of field notes, practical insights, and real-world experiences—from architecture and orchestration patterns to lessons learned along the way. Your feedback is always welcome—let’s continue the conversation.
