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GitHub Actions OIDC for Azure: No More Expired Secrets

October 31, 2026 Michael Megel Comments 0 Comment

Happy Halloween! 🎃 Let me tell you a horror story. Recently, my pipeline stopped deploying. No code change, no failing test, just a red run. I wondered why, until it clicked: the client secret of my old service principal had expired. A zombie secret, haunting my pipeline. Annoying? Yes. Avoidable? Absolutely. The better way is GitHub Actions OIDC for Azure. It removes the secret completely. First, GitHub proves who your workflow is with a short-lived token. Next, Microsoft Entra ID checks…

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Spec-Driven Azure Infrastructure Before You Start Coding

October 25, 2026 Michael Megel Comments 0 Comment

What if you could describe your Azure environment in plain words and get it deployed – secure, cost-controlled, and repeatable? That is spec-driven Azure infrastructure. And you don’t need to be a cloud architect to try it. I restarted my Expenses Manager in June with one ambition: rebuild it without click ops. No portal wizards, no manual setup. That is why I use spec-driven development and rely on GitHub Copilot to assist me. In one of my previous posts, I…

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Databricks Service Principal in Power Automate

October 17, 2026 Michael Megel

In the previous post, I built a Power Automate flow that uploads a document into a Databricks volume. It works. But it runs on my personal access token, and I called that a shortcut right away. Time to fix that with a Databricks service principal in Power Automate. Why does that matter? The token belongs to my user account. It expires. And if my access changes, the flow breaks. That’s fine for a demo. However, it’s not fine for a…

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Upload Files to Databricks with Power Automate

October 10, 2026 Michael Megel

In the previous post, I signed up for Databricks Free Edition and built a catalog, a schema, and a volume named dropzone. That volume is empty, though. Now it’s time to upload files to Databricks, and that’s where my two hats (Data Platform Architect and Power Apps MVP) actually have to talk to each other. My plan was simple: trigger a Power Automate flow from Dataverse, and have it upload a document straight into that volume. So I opened a…

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Getting Started with Databricks Free Edition

October 6, 2026 Michael Megel

I wear two hats. My profession is Data Platform Architect, where Databricks, Delta tables, and Unity Catalog are just another Tuesday. My hobby – if you can call it that – is being a Microsoft MVP for Power Apps, living inside Dataverse, Power Automate, and low-code. It is how it is. These two worlds rarely meet. This post is where I make them. If you’ve followed my spec-driven development series, you know I already extract receipts and invoices using Azure…

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Baltic Summit 2026 was all about AI & Power Platform

October 3, 2026 Michael Megel

Baltic Summit 2026 just wrapped up in Gdynia, Poland, and I’m still working through my notes. Three days, a packed agenda, and honestly one of the best-organized conferences I’ve attended in a while. Registration was smooth, and the tracks were easy to follow. By the end, the whole event felt well thought out from start to finish. The overall theme across sessions was clear: AI, Copilot, Power Platform solutions, governance, and security. All of it was viewed from a dozen…

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Never Pay for the Same Dataverse Mistake Twice

September 28, 2026 Michael Megel

GitHub Copilot showed me something new: GPT-5.6 Sol, plus a 30% discount. Yes, and I couldn’t resist trying it on a Dataverse task. Why not see the new model in action, right? As a result, that decision burned nearly a month’s budget before the task was even done. But here’s the thing: the expensive part isn’t the story worth telling. What came out of it was a GitHub Copilot custom skill – a reusable file that captures everything the agent…

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M365 Con DACH 2026 Recording Is Live

September 27, 2026 Michael Megel

Missed my session at M365 Con DACH 2026? Good news – the recording is live. One note before you press play: it’s in German. On paper, my session covers Power Platform and document processing with AI Foundry Content Understanding. That’s the abstract I submitted. Reality had other plans. Shortly before the talk, my demo environment fell apart, and I had to rebuild it fast. So I turned to GitHub Copilot. It rebuilt the Dataverse tables, flows, and the Content Understanding…

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One Task Table to Rule Them All

September 5, 2026 Michael Megel

The backlog from my last post had one line I couldn’t ignore: status transitions weren’t implemented yet. Tables, views, the model-driven app – all done. The missing piece was the Dataverse Agent Task contract itself. In other words, the part that lets Power Platform and Azure talk to each other. That wasn’t a bug. It was a missing seam. Without an explicit contract, two teams can’t build independently. They can’t test independently either. Remember my post about project decomposition? I…

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My Son Built an App with No IT Background

August 25, 2026 Michael Megel

“Dad, can we build an app with AI?” That question started a spec-driven development experiment I’ll never forget. He was seventeen. No coding background, no CS classes. Just frustration with the school carpool situation: thirty parents in a WhatsApp thread, nobody knowing who was driving, every morning a small disaster. I said yes. But on one condition: we use GitHub 🌱 SpecKit. He looked puzzled. Fair enough. So I explained: it’s a framework for Spec-Driven Development. Describe the problem the…

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