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Luise Freese: Azure & Power Platform Architect

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Introducing Mermaid to Dataverse Converter

It’s OK to be seen trying

Stuck in pilot - Part 1: no foundations, no future

The MVP trap: AI lets you do more, but often worse

The productivity graph is broken and we’re pretending it’s fine

Stuck in pilot - Part 0: The comfort of the sandbox

Round Robin assignments in Power Automate

Copilot Studio: Part 5 - From tool to capability – making Copilot Studio strategic

Copilot Studio: Part 4 - Agents that outlive their creators – governance, risk, and the long tail of AI

Org chart is cheap, show me the relationships

Baltic Summit

ESPC 2025

Codemotion 2025

Copilot Studio: Part 3 - The cost of (in)action – what you’re really paying for with Copilot Studio

Smart buttons for incident tracking in SharePoint

Assumption is the mother of all fuck-ups

Copilot Studio: Part 2 – Copilot Studio agents: the ALM reality check

'I’ll refactor this later': The lie that ships with every sprint

There are no temporary fixes (just permanent shortcuts)

Introducing QR Watchface: Your wrist’s new best friend

What Tinder🔥 taught me about bad Dataverse design

Stop pretending your text is bold: why fake formatting breaks accessibility

Copilot Studio: Part 1 – when automation bites back – autonomy ≠ chaos

Copilot Studio: Part 0 – everything is an agent, until it isn't

Software development is a decathlon (and low-code only gives you running shoes for two events)

Test Less. Test Better: The Modern Testing Stack

Highway to the danger zone: No testing of business apps

You can’t outsource accountability

The benefits of testing (beyond working apps)

Rethinking identity beyond passwords

Confidently wrong: Why we misquote Maslow and misunderstand AI

BYOM: Using Azure AI Foundry models in Copilot Studio

Your Testing strategy is broken - Let’s fix it

Tired of the AI hype machine

Should I automate it?

From duct tape to data discipline

Still running on spreadsheets: the hidden cost of outdated infrastructure

Outsourcing your brain: cognitive offloading 'in the age of AI'

I'm never going to financially recover from this

Blueprint for a successful AI project

A hill to die on: there are no tiny changes

No, a crash course won’t make you an AI leader

AI as a finite vs infinite game in organizations

How to let your AI project fail in spectacular fashion!

Still stuck in Permit A38? Stop AI-ing the wrong things

Unmeasured Part 5 – Rethinking productivity for a human future

Unmeasured: Part 4 – The emotional cost of the productivity theater

Unmeasured: Part 3 – The agility illusion

Unmeasured: Part 2 – The difference between running and changing your business

Unmeasured: Part 1 – We are measuring the wrong things

Unmeasured: Part 0 - More ain't better

Isolation as a business model

How to Build a List Formatting Web Part with all the cool samples from the Universal Sample Gallery

A Manifesto for Ethical Software

Why the infamous 'Lets make a list of use cases' is THE way to kill AI innovation

What are we doing? I mean apart from back-to-back meetings and emails...

Productivity isn’t an assembly line: escaping the 1925 mindset with Microsoft 365 Copilot

Transform the way we think about Copilot

Turning Culture Into Capital: AI and the new means of production

How to create a wordclock with Python

Introducing Bluesky Terminal Poster

How to make a SharePoint Web Part multilingual

#FF69B4 or how to read Hex Color Values

Improving a Web Part with PnP.js and React Webhooks

Building my first SharePoint Web Part with SPFx Toolkit

AI and dinosaurs

Introducing the SVG to JSON for SharePoint List formatter

Display SVGs with multiple paths in a SharePoint list

How to apply modern card design in a SharePoint list with listformatting

Populate SharePoint List multiple choice column with Microsoft 365 Groups-and add some List formatting

Resource naming reloaded: Azure Policy and Bicep for the winner!

How to rotate secrets with Azure Logic Apps, Key Vault and Managed Identity

How to use Azure Policy to enforce resource naming conventions in your DevOps pipelines

How to automate vulnerability scans in Azure DevOps with Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Go Go governance! Enforcing Azure Policies with Azure CLI

Azure RBAC is so 2023! Let’s get ABAC to the rescue!

Why you shouldn’t say 'please' or 'thank you' to AI (and why it matters)

How to secure access to an Azure Container registry with a Managed Identity and RBAC

Hasta la vista?! About how we picture AI

AI can now REASON?! tl;dr: no, it cant!

How to secure access to an Azure Container registry with RBAC

How to use Azure Container registry to standardize deployments using Bicep across your organization

How to use Bicep to deploy Azure LogAnalytics Workspace and link Application Insights to it

How to get from Dev? Ooops! 🤭 to proper (Azure) DevOps for Power Platform

Yolo! Let's deploy Friday?!

How to upload files to SharePoint for Dataverse integration in a Power Apps canvas app

How to build a deskbooking tool with Microsoft Planner and Power Automate

How to organize your homeoffice with NFC tags and Apple

How to use Azure OpenAI with data in your SharePoint libraries

How to add and remove owners from a Power Automate flow with CLI Microsoft 365

Get started with CLI Microsoft 365 for Power Platform people

Intro to custom functions in Power Apps

How to add Azure AD directory extensions

Microsoft Graph toolkit people-picker lookalike for Power Apps

How to make a auto-height textinput component for Power Apps

Series: Build Power Apps that don't look like Power Apps - Material Design part 2

Series: Build Power Apps that don't look like Power Apps - Material Design part 1

Get started with planning your Power Apps components properly

Build a progress button with me (yes it is a component)

Can you make it pop?

How to create your own scrollbar for galleries in Power Apps

How to build a curved gallery in Power Apps

How to build a swipe-right component in Power Apps

How to build a split button component for Power Apps

How to show the app version in Power Apps Canvas Apps

How to navigate Power Apps studio formula bar keyboard-only

How to build a Power Apps progress bar component

Why your Power Platform service principal doesn't need a Dynamics user_impersonation scope

How to get the hex color value from a control in Power Apps

How to build a Power Apps Likert component

How to implement a Power Automate progress indicator in Power Apps

How to enhance maker experience with a custom theme for Teams apps

How to build a color-contrast-ratio checker for improved accessibility in Power Apps

Get insights about Power Apps usage with Microsoft Clarity PCF code component

How to rename files in SharePoint with Power Automate

how to use oh-my-posh with PnP PowerShell

How to query Azure Monitor Log Analytics in Logic Apps with a Managed Identity and output results in a SharePoint list

How to get started with deploying Azure resources with Bicep

How to be better at twitter - part 2

Get rid of Key Vault! (Making good things even better)

How to create a custom connector for your own Azure hosted API

How to be better at twitter

be brave enough to suck at something new

How to move your blog from Wordpress to Hugo

How to deal with many to many relationships in Dataverse

How 3 makers, 2 devs and a princess came together to save kittens for a hackathon

ProvisionGenie - an open-source provisioning engine for Microsoft Teams

4 ways to level up your Power Automate flows

How to get started with GitHub and Git

Create a portfolio site with GitHub pages and reveal.js

Putting some more FUN into Azure Functions, Managed Identity & Microsoft Graph

The friendly SMS reminder with Logic Apps, Azure Functions & Key Vault

Should you attend yet another meeting?

LearnTogether: Build Apps with Microsoft Graph

Microsoft Graph Fundamentals learning path – Module 3

Microsoft Graph Fundamentals learning path – Module 2

Microsoft Graph Fundamentals learning path - Module 1

How to get started with Graph Explorer

X things you should do before making an app

5 commands to try in CLI for Microsoft 365 to fall in love with it

How to create a (faux) table in Adaptive Cards with Power Automate

Should we use SharePoint REST or Microsoft Graph API in Power Automate?

How to build a FAQ chatbot for Microsoft Teams with Power Virtual Agents

How to use a custom connector in Power Automate

How to get started with CLI Microsoft 365 and Adaptive Cards

Why I blog or Why Sharing IS caring

How to get started with HTTP requests in Power Automate

How to use Parse JSON action in Power Automate

How to add a simple preview in libraries in SharePoint

How to let people love metadata in SharePoint and Microsoft Teams

Create a dynamic preview for documents in SharePoint

How to spend less time organizing your agenda with Bookings, FindTime, Cortana & MyAnalytics

How to create a Content plan for your Social Media activities in a calendar view in SharePoint lists & automate all the boring work

How we use SharePoint list formatting and Power Automate at PYOD to ease our marketing

SharePoint list formatting made easy

digital clutter and how we use our time

Templatize a Collaboration Contract workshop and provision teams that organizations will love

#digitalclutter and our 168 open tabs -Part 2 of #LetItGo series

Let it go – digital clutter

my 2020 or jumping into the next rabbit hole

How to avoid overcommitting

Announcement: Luise is now member of PnP Core Team

How to deploy Microsoft Teams app templates in your tenant

M365 Developer Bootcamp

Power Platform Licensing QnA – Key take-aways

About Me

Please don’t “hello” me! Why “hello” in Microsoft Teams isn’t polite!

Lego & Community – Interviews about building and learning

Exploring Microsoft Graph Toolkit as a non Developer – Part 6

Community Profile of the June – #MSBuild edition of Microsoft 365 Developer Newsletter

How to make a conference app in less than 30 minutes

Exploring Microsoft Graph Toolkit as a non-developer -Part 5

May the force be with me: My first Canvas App in Power Apps

Exploring Microsoft Graph Toolkit as a non-Developer — Part 4

Exploring Microsoft Graph Toolkit Lap as a non-developer -Part 3

Exploring Microsoft Graph Toolkit Lap as a non-developer — Part 2

Exploring Microsoft Graph Toolkit Lap as non Developer

With great power comes great responsibility: Ensure that Microsoft Teams Owners are digitally literate

How to learn sketchnoting even if you can’t draw and what sketchnotes taught me

TimeTracking Tool with #PowerPlatform and Adaptive Cards

How to use Power Virtual Agents to simplify IT and unf*ck User Experience

2019 or How I started to believe in myself

privacy

Consultancy & Development

Speaking Gigs

Adaptive Cards for Beginners- Monitor a Hashtag on Twitter

Office 365 as an IT-only project – what could possibly go wrong?!

Manage your contacts during events with Microsoft Flow

What shall I use for managing tasks? Email? Outlook Tasks? Planner? To Do or even OneNote?

On my way to become a Power User

Using Microsoft Flow to automate my process of sending stickers…

No email just for the sake of #NoEmail?

How can we overcome the pain with email?

How do we organize our phones?

11 + 5 reasons to fall in love with Microsoft To Do

10 signs you are an Office 365 Consultant

10 things IT Pros should care about while designing a great digital work experience

How to build a working hours tracker

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Copilot Readiness – Preparing your data and environments for AI success

DevOps jumpstart for Azure & Power Platform

Root cause accelerator – focused problem-solving sessions

Secure foundations workshop – getting started with Power Platform without the fluff

Smart licensing optimization – Power Platform cost management & planning