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Vlad Catrinescu @vladtalkstech.com · 17h

You can watch the entire AB-900 path free with a @pluralsight.com trial. Three courses, 8h50, and a certification waiting at the end of it. Link in the replies. #MicrosoftCertification

Announcement graphic for the AB-900 certification path on Pluralsight, a three-course path for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Agent Administration Fundamentals.

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Vlad Catrinescu @vladtalkstech.com · 30/09/2026

That agent someone built last month? Somebody's paying for it, and somebody should be watching it. Course three of the AB-900 path makes you that person: licensing, billing, publishing, and monitoring for Copilot and agents. Link in the replies. #MicrosoftCopilot

Course graphic for AB-900 course three, Perform Basic Administrative Tasks for Copilot and Agents, from the Pluralsight AB-900 path.

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Vlad Catrinescu @vladtalkstech.com · 30/09/2026

I make on-demand content for a living, and I still think nothing replaces a week around people solving the same problems you are. That's why I clear my calendar for @espccommunity.bsky.social every year. Amsterdam, Nov 30 to Dec 3, demo-driven workshop on the Monday. Code VladSpecial. #ESPC

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Vlad Catrinescu @vladtalkstech.com · 29/09/2026

Past PPCC parties have had Christina Aguilera and Carly Rae Jepsen. This year? Mr. Worldwide himself. Pitbull, live, for everyone. The evenings are where you end up talking to someone who already solved the thing you are stuck on. Not on any agenda, and a big part of why I go. #PPCC26

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Vlad Catrinescu @vladtalkstech.com · 29/09/2026

Four ways to build an agent in Microsoft 365, from no-code to pro-code: SharePoint agents, Agent Builder, Copilot Studio, and Microsoft Foundry. Meet your makers where they already are. #CopilotStudio

Slide from the AB-900 Pluralsight path listing the tools to create agents in Microsoft 365, from SharePoint agents and Agent Builder through Copilot Studio to Microsoft Foundry.

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Vlad Catrinescu @vladtalkstech.com · 28/09/2026

Your data loss prevention policies now speak Copilot: restrict Microsoft 365 Copilot from using sensitive items in answers, from processing sensitive prompts, and from touching sensitive files entirely. Same Microsoft Purview engine, new enforcement point. #MicrosoftCopilot

Slide from the AB-900 Pluralsight path showing data loss prevention options for Microsoft 365 Copilot in Microsoft Purview.

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Vlad Catrinescu @vladtalkstech.com · 25/09/2026

After 11 years of making courses for @pluralsight.com, I'm finally going to Shift in person for the first time. Oct 12-15 in Hollywood, Florida. If you've watched my courses, or assigned them to your team, come find me and say hi. I'd love to meet you.

Vlad Catrinescu holding a sticker-covered laptop next to 'See You at Shift 26'. October 12 to 15, 2026, Diplomat Beach Resort, Hollywood, Florida.

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Vlad Catrinescu @vladtalkstech.com · 25/09/2026

Fundamentals doesn't mean entry-level knowledge you already have. AB-900 is where Microsoft now starts the Microsoft 365 story for the Copilot era. The three-course path is on @pluralsight.com, link in the replies. #MicrosoftCertification

Why Get Certified carousel slide 1 for the AB-900 certification path.

Why Get Certified carousel slide 2: reasons the AB-900 certification is worth taking.

Why Get Certified carousel slide 3: what the AB-900 certification proves about your Copilot and agent administration skills.

Why Get Certified carousel slide 4: the Microsoft 365 Certified Copilot and Agent Administration Fundamentals credential and where to start.

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Vlad Catrinescu @vladtalkstech.com · 24/09/2026

The admin job changed: AI is in every layer of SharePoint now. Drew Madelung and I are running a full-day, demo-driven workshop on it at ESPC, governance through to agents. November 30 in Amsterdam. #ESPC

The AI-Era SharePoint Administrator workshop card for ESPC 2026.

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Vlad Catrinescu @vladtalkstech.com · 23/09/2026

I love PowerShell. I even wrote a book on it for Office 365. What gives me pause in Syskit's new State of M365 Governance Report isn't the tool. It's that half of orgs run governance with 1-2 people, often on scripts that live in one person's head. Strategy, or one person's knowledge?

Syskit card showing how many full-time staff organizations dedicate to Microsoft 365 governance: 5% less than one FTE, 50% one to two FTEs, 45% three to five FTEs.

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Vlad Catrinescu @vladtalkstech.com · 23/09/2026

Who approves the agents your users build? Depends where they built them. SharePoint agents: the site owner's call. Agent Builder: shareable org-wide by default. Copilot Studio: waits for an admin. Know your defaults, the AB-900 exam asks for exactly that. #MicrosoftCopilot

Slide from the AB-900 Pluralsight path comparing agent approval by type: SharePoint agents, Agent Builder agents, and Copilot Studio agents, with each one's default sharing and approval behavior.

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Vlad Catrinescu @vladtalkstech.com · 22/09/2026

Microsoft 365 Copilot doesn't just open SharePoint and start reading files. Course two of the AB-900 path covers how it actually reaches your work data, and how Microsoft Purview keeps that data protected while your users work. Link in the replies. #MicrosoftCopilot

Course graphic for AB-900 course two, Understand Data Protection and Governance Tasks for Microsoft 365 and Copilot, from the Pluralsight AB-900 path.

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Vlad Catrinescu @vladtalkstech.com · 22/09/2026

About a month until PPCC26. Staying current on Power Platform doesn't happen between tickets, it happens when you book the time. Three days, 200+ sessions, and the people building the platform in one building. There's still time to register. VLAD150 saves $150. #PPCC26

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Vlad Catrinescu @vladtalkstech.com · 21/09/2026

Join me this Wednesday for my free SharePoint Skills webinar, 10am ET. An hour of mostly hands-on work, turning repeatable SharePoint tasks into reusable AI assets anyone on your team can run. Can't make it live? Register and I'll send you the recording.

Vlad Catrinescu with the SharePoint Skills interface.

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Vlad Catrinescu @vladtalkstech.com · 20/09/2026

Everyone's excited about SharePoint Agents. Fewer people are talking about how you govern what they can actually reach. That's the fun part of my SharePoint Advanced Management 2026 session at #M365Toronto on Oct 2. If you run SharePoint, this one's for you.

M365 Toronto 2026: SharePoint Advanced Management 2026 Deep Dive session on October 2, with Vlad Catrinescu and the Toronto skyline.

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Vlad Catrinescu @vladtalkstech.com · 19/09/2026

The more I help teams roll out Microsoft 365 Copilot, the more it comes back to one thing: you can only trust Copilot as far as your SharePoint governance goes. That's my whole SharePoint Advanced Management deep dive at #M365Toronto, Oct 2 at Microsoft Toronto. Come say hi!

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Vlad Catrinescu @vladtalkstech.com · 18/09/2026

Which admin center owns what between SharePoint, Teams, and Exchange? Course one of the AB-900 path sorts it out: the core Microsoft 365 services, licensing, and the admin surface, all at fundamentals level, on @pluralsight.com. Link in the replies. #Microsoft365

Course graphic for AB-900 course one, Identify the Core Features and Objects of Microsoft 365 Services, from the Pluralsight AB-900 path.

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Vlad Catrinescu @vladtalkstech.com · 18/09/2026

Last year PPCC put a full F1 car on the conference floor for a pit stop challenge. Of course I had to try it. Let's just say nobody from the pit crews called me after. Where else do you get Power Platform devs arguing about tire changes between sessions? VLAD150 saves $150. #PPCC26

Vlad kneeling at a pink and blue F1 car on the PPCC conference floor, wheel gun in hand, mid pit stop challenge.

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Vlad Catrinescu @vladtalkstech.com · 17/09/2026

The uncomfortable part of the agent era: most teams still govern Microsoft 365 the way they did before agents showed up in every tenant. You can only govern what you can see. On Sep 22 I'm talking agents, oversharing, and the checks teams skip, with @syskit.bsky.social.

Syskit webinar promo card with Vlad Catrinescu and the title Oversharing, agents, and the tools most teams aren't running often enough. Live webinar September 22, 11 AM ET.

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Vlad Catrinescu @vladtalkstech.com · 16/09/2026

Something from the latest Microsoft 365 governance data stuck with me: 83% of orgs are confident they know who can access sensitive data. 99% still have a live oversharing scenario. Confidence isn't verification. That gap is what I'm unpacking Sep 22 with @syskit.bsky.social.

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Vlad Catrinescu @vladtalkstech.com · 16/09/2026

Your SharePoint permissions decide exactly what Microsoft 365 Copilot can surface for each user. Right permissions mean the right people see the right things, in search, in sites, and now in every Copilot answer. That's why permissions come so early in my AB-900 path. #SharePoint

Slide from the AB-900 Pluralsight path explaining why SharePoint permissions matter for Microsoft 365 Copilot, since Copilot surfaces only what each user already has access to.

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Vlad Catrinescu @vladtalkstech.com · 15/09/2026

A SharePoint Skill is a repeatable process you capture once, so anyone on the site can run it and get the same result every time. Doc review checklists. Content tagging. Summaries. Site owners build these themselves. I make a few live in my free webinar. Sep 23, 10am ET.

The SharePoint Skills interface showing a Skill running in SharePoint.

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Vlad Catrinescu @vladtalkstech.com · 14/09/2026

I asked Microsoft's Dave Minasyan which SharePoint Advanced Management feature he's most excited about. He didn't hesitate: the SharePoint Admin Agent. His reason: tasks that seemed impossible for admins a year ago now take about a minute, from chat instead of PowerShell.

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Vlad Catrinescu @vladtalkstech.com · 11/09/2026

One of the events I look forward to most each year is ESPC in Amsterdam. This time a full-day workshop with Drew Madelung, plus two sessions on SharePoint, AI, and governance. If you've been putting off the AI side of admin, this is the one. #ESPC

Vlad at a Dutch windmill with tulip beds behind him in the Netherlands.

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Vlad Catrinescu @vladtalkstech.com · 11/09/2026

Every agenda this year is AI and agents. The PPCC26 track people underestimate is governance and enterprise scale, sitting right next to it. Most orgs are not blocked on whether agents are possible. They are blocked on who is allowed to build one. VLAD150 saves $150. #PPCC26

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Vlad Catrinescu @vladtalkstech.com · 11/09/2026

Three courses. Three AB-900 exam domains. One map. From the Microsoft 365 core services to data protection to Copilot and agent administration basics, learn it all. Bookmark this if AB-900 is on your list. #MicrosoftCertification

AB-900 path carousel slide 1: the three-course Microsoft 365 Copilot and Agent Administration Fundamentals path overview.

AB-900 path carousel slide 2: course one, the core Microsoft 365 services, licensing and admin centers.

AB-900 path carousel slide 3: course two, data protection and governance with Microsoft Purview.

AB-900 path carousel slide 4: course three, the basics of Microsoft 365 Copilot and agent administration.

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Vlad Catrinescu @vladtalkstech.com · 11/09/2026

Multi-Geo might be the hardest thing to manage in Microsoft 365, and Microsoft has a whole team dedicated just to it. So it caught my eye that the SharePoint Admin Agent is starting to help, beginning with tracking geo moves.

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Vlad Catrinescu @vladtalkstech.com · 09/09/2026

Ask Microsoft 365 Copilot to summarize a labeled document, and the answer inherits the highest-priority sensitivity label. Protection travels with the content, AI-generated included. That's Microsoft Purview at work, and AB-900's biggest exam domain. #MicrosoftCopilot

Slide from the AB-900 Pluralsight path showing how sensitivity labels apply to Microsoft 365 Copilot, with Copilot output inheriting the highest-priority label of its source content.

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Vlad Catrinescu @vladtalkstech.com · 09/09/2026

One SharePoint admin, thousands of users. That's most orgs, and it's why "just govern it all" never works. What stuck with me here: Microsoft wants the SharePoint Admin Agent to help the site owners too, not just admins. You can't clone your admin, so scale them instead.

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Vlad Catrinescu @vladtalkstech.com · 08/09/2026

If you own a SharePoint site, you have run the same process a hundred times: reviewing docs against a checklist, tagging, summarizing. SharePoint Skills let you capture it once and let the whole team run it. No code, no developer. Free webinar, Sep 23, 10am ET. Recorded too.

Getting Started with SharePoint Skills free webinar graphic with Vlad Catrinescu.

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Vlad Catrinescu @vladtalkstech.com · 07/09/2026

SharePoint admins get their own view of which AI agents are reading their content, including who built each one. Dave Minasyan, Principal Product Manager at Microsoft, on why that visibility sits with the SharePoint admin.

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Vlad Catrinescu @vladtalkstech.com · 04/09/2026

If you're near Ottawa on Sept 25, Microsoft 365 Ottawa is worth your Friday. A full day of Microsoft community sessions (I'm running Getting Started with SharePoint Skills, on SharePoint's new no-code AI workflows), a $10 ticket, proceeds to the Ottawa Food Bank. #M365Ottawa

Event card for Microsoft 365 Ottawa 2026: Vlad Catrinescu's session Getting Started with SharePoint Skills, Friday September 25.

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Vlad Catrinescu @vladtalkstech.com · 04/09/2026

Users in one admin center, Teams policies in another, mailboxes in a third. This map from my AB-900 path shows which admin center owns what in Microsoft 365. The exam expects you to identify this, and active screens can drop you right into one. Save it. #Microsoft365

Slide from the AB-900 Pluralsight path mapping which Microsoft 365 admin center owns which service, covering the Microsoft 365 admin center, SharePoint, Teams, Exchange, Microsoft Purview and Microsoft Entra.

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Vlad Catrinescu @vladtalkstech.com · 04/09/2026

Being a SharePoint Administrator is not enough to run SharePoint's new file-level oversharing report. It needs a separate role, granted on purpose. Dave Minasyan: the moment a tool touches files instead of sites, it stops being a SharePoint decision and becomes a compliance one.

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Vlad Catrinescu @vladtalkstech.com · 02/09/2026

You can't clean up an entire tenant at once and make it perfect. So don't. Dave Minasyan's approach: scope a permission state report to one department, remediate it, roll Microsoft 365 Copilot out to those users, repeat. Targeted beats tenant-wide, and AI adoption lands sooner.

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Vlad Catrinescu @vladtalkstech.com · 01/09/2026

Most orgs have a business process that mostly works, that nobody wants to touch, and that somebody has now been asked to add AI to. That's my full-day workshop at PPCC26. Automating business processes with cloud flows and AI, start to finish, in a day. Bring a laptop. #PPCC26

Workshop promo card, Automating Business Processes with Cloud Flows and AI, October 30th, 8am to 3pm, code VLAD150 for $150 off.

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Vlad Catrinescu @vladtalkstech.com · 31/08/2026

"We do not train the agents that we have, or the LLMs that we have, with your data." Dave Minasyan, Principal PM at Microsoft, answering the question every admin asks before turning on SharePoint AI. Which is why the structure has to come from you.

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Vlad Catrinescu @vladtalkstech.com · 26/08/2026

Microsoft pitches SharePoint governance tooling as AI readiness. Dave Minasyan, Principal Product Manager at Microsoft, frames it better: content governance isn't optional. Inactive sites and oversharing are search and security problems long before they're AI problems.

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Vlad Catrinescu @vladtalkstech.com · 25/08/2026

250+ Microsoft engineers and product team members are at PPCC all week, on Ask the Expert and in the hallways. You can bring the thing you're actually stuck on and get an answer from the person who built it. No ticket, no doc page, no guessing. #PPCC26

PPCC26 speaker card for Vlad Catrinescu with workshop title, October 30th 8:00AM to 3:00PM, and discount code VLAD150.

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Vlad Catrinescu @vladtalkstech.com · 25/08/2026

Spoke at Microsoft 365 Community Days Montréal on Friday. Best part: it's my hometown, so no flight this time, just a short trip to a packed room. A full day of real-world Copilot and agents sessions, run by the GUM365 community. Merci to everyone who came out! #M365Community

Vlad Catrinescu presenting a session to a seated audience at Microsoft 365 Community Days Montréal, downtown Montréal visible through the windows.

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Vlad Catrinescu @vladtalkstech.com · 24/08/2026

Microsoft is mounting an AI agent on top of SharePoint Advanced Management. Dave Minasyan on what it means to have something reason over your content, instead of you knowing which of thirty reports to run. Full conversation in the reply.

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Vlad Catrinescu @vladtalkstech.com · 18/08/2026

PPCC26 standard pricing ends today, Aug 18. The conference pass goes from $1,999 to $2,049, and the hotel gift card on the multi-workshop bundles disappears entirely. My code VLAD150 takes $150 off on top of whichever tier you land in. #PPCC26

PPCC26 pricing table showing standard pricing through August 18 and last chance pricing after, with discount code VLAD150 for $150 off.

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Vlad Catrinescu @vladtalkstech.com · 11/08/2026

Speaking at PPCC26 again this October. 250+ Microsoft engineers are there all week, on Ask the Expert and in the hallways, so you can walk up to whoever built the thing you're stuck on and just ask. And the parties are legendary: Pitbull, live. Standard pricing ends Aug 18. #PPCC26

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Vlad Catrinescu @vladtalkstech.com · 31/07/2026

Under two weeks left on the free Microsoft Fabric and SQL certification vouchers. The deadline to request one through Fabric Data Days is August 10, and only 20,000 exist. If a DP-600, DP-700, or DP-800 is on your list, this is the moment. #MicrosoftFabric

Free Microsoft Fabric or SQL certification via Fabric Data Days, showing the three Microsoft Certified associate badges and an August 10 deadline.

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Vlad Catrinescu @vladtalkstech.com · 28/07/2026

The part I like about the free Fabric Data Days deal: two of the three steps to qualify are just studying. Join the Microsoft Fabric Community, watch two Data Days sessions, finish three Microsoft Learn modules. About an hour, and it doubles as exam prep. #MicrosoftFabric

Free Microsoft Fabric or SQL certification via Fabric Data Days, with an August 10 deadline.

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Vlad Catrinescu @vladtalkstech.com · 24/07/2026

The free Fabric Data Days voucher covers three certs: DP-600 Fabric Analytics Engineer, DP-700 Fabric Data Engineer, and DP-800 SQL AI Developer. My advice: pick the one that matches the role you are aiming for, not the one that looks easiest. #MicrosoftFabric

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Vlad Catrinescu @vladtalkstech.com · 21/07/2026

If you're PL-200 certified, about half the AB-410 carries straight over. The other half is new: learning to infuse AI into the apps and flows you already know how to build. Pull up an old lab and practice adding AI features. That's the fastest way to be ready.

Vlad Talks Tech AB-410 Intelligent App Builder Associate promo graphic, alternate layout

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Vlad Catrinescu @vladtalkstech.com · 20/07/2026

Microsoft is giving away 20,000 free exam vouchers for a Microsoft Fabric or SQL certification through Fabric Data Days. About an hour of learning and the exam costs you nothing. The deadline to request one is August 10, so I would not wait. #MicrosoftFabric

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Vlad Catrinescu @vladtalkstech.com · 17/07/2026

Here's the mindset shift the AB-410 is really testing: not "AI, go build me an app," but "I already have an app, how do I make it smarter?" You take the PL-200 skills you already have and start adding AI Builder prompts and models into them. That's the AI era in one line.

AB-410 exam first look thumbnail, Taking the NEW AB-410

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Vlad Catrinescu @vladtalkstech.com · 16/07/2026

Renewed as a Microsoft MVP for the 14th year in a row, and it still doesn't feel real. 14 years of getting to give back to a community that gave me so much, and to be a small part of your learning journey. Thank you, all of you. Here's to even more together this year. #MVPBuzz

Microsoft MVP award graphic celebrating Vlad Catrinescu's 14th year as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional.

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