Field notes on Azure, identity, Copilot, and agents. I write down what I learn on the job, including the parts that don't show up in the docs.
Russ Rimmerman.30+ years in IT, from the U.S. Air Force to Microsoft.About me
Why I finally started writing after years of putting it off, plus a tour of what I built with AI: Pulse 360°, Portal 360°, and the Microsoft Communications Portal.
Read articleA customer's Excel tracker became a testable app in 25 minutes. Here's how Copilot Studio, Cowork, code apps, and GitHub Copilot compare.
I compared two finished apps built from the same brief, one with Claude Sonnet 5.5 and one with Claude Opus 5.5, screen by screen. Both work, and the gaps are specific.
I had an agent build six demo apps in Copilot Studio in one day, then wire one to live energy data through custom connectors. Here's what review taught me.
Power Platform sends CSP violation reports from code, model-driven, and canvas apps. Here's the small open source collector I built to triage them.
A field guide to InfiniAIBook, the AI research notebook you host yourself: cited chat, live voice discussions, Studio formats, videos, and Azure deployment.
AI Harness Helper brings your coding tool settings into one view, finds duplicate MCP servers, and estimates how much context your instruction files use.
Curated paths through the archive.
Every label used across the blog, busiest first.
