Thom McKiernan
@thommck.bsky.social
Tech & Sustainability Specialist for #Microsoft
#Azure, #M365 #Entra #Defender
🎸 #IndieKid
🎬 #Cinephile
🌱 #Vegan
☕ #Coffeeholic
🏋️ #GymLad
#Azure, #M365 #Entra #Defender
🎸 #IndieKid
🎬 #Cinephile
🌱 #Vegan
☕ #Coffeeholic
🏋️ #GymLad
Not IRL but great to have a chat with @scott.hanselman.com in our internal #TechBoost today. Brilliant talk on AI but probably not in the way you'd expect. I also got a compliment from him on my moustache ☺️💅
September 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Not IRL but great to have a chat with @scott.hanselman.com in our internal #TechBoost today. Brilliant talk on AI but probably not in the way you'd expect. I also got a compliment from him on my moustache ☺️💅
Unfortunatley finding that I still need to share this frequently. Let's keep it simple and just say "on-prem"
#brandpolice #grammarcop
#brandpolice #grammarcop
September 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Unfortunatley finding that I still need to share this frequently. Let's keep it simple and just say "on-prem"
#brandpolice #grammarcop
#brandpolice #grammarcop
I ❤️ using movies as my test case for any new AI feature. I've been using the Surveys agent for Microsoft Forms and it makes it instantly more useful with the insights it provides from the underlying data. Find out more: support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/...
August 21, 2025 at 11:04 AM
I ❤️ using movies as my test case for any new AI feature. I've been using the Surveys agent for Microsoft Forms and it makes it instantly more useful with the insights it provides from the underlying data. Find out more: support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/...
#TIL that Microsoft To Do supports hashtags in task titles 🤯.
I'm trying to get back into using ToDo as my task list but sometimes a task doesn't just fit into one category. Hashtags let me easily click or search to find related tasks. You can use multiple tags and even emojis
#totd #MicrosoftToDo
I'm trying to get back into using ToDo as my task list but sometimes a task doesn't just fit into one category. Hashtags let me easily click or search to find related tasks. You can use multiple tags and even emojis
#totd #MicrosoftToDo
August 20, 2025 at 4:37 PM
#TIL that Microsoft To Do supports hashtags in task titles 🤯.
I'm trying to get back into using ToDo as my task list but sometimes a task doesn't just fit into one category. Hashtags let me easily click or search to find related tasks. You can use multiple tags and even emojis
#totd #MicrosoftToDo
I'm trying to get back into using ToDo as my task list but sometimes a task doesn't just fit into one category. Hashtags let me easily click or search to find related tasks. You can use multiple tags and even emojis
#totd #MicrosoftToDo
Still feels a bit disconcerting when I realise #ChatGPT has a memory!
Anyway, don't they know it's not *just* Microsofties that use MS Forms, right?
Anyway, don't they know it's not *just* Microsofties that use MS Forms, right?
August 12, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Still feels a bit disconcerting when I realise #ChatGPT has a memory!
Anyway, don't they know it's not *just* Microsofties that use MS Forms, right?
Anyway, don't they know it's not *just* Microsofties that use MS Forms, right?
Had this idea for a birthday card and wanted to see how #dalle & #ChatGPT death with it. Trying to create my dream page in an #Argos catalogue from my childhood. Not perfect but good start 1st attempt. I like the sound of a Nintendo Gamepie 😂
@openaidalle.bsky.social
@openaidalle.bsky.social
August 3, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Had this idea for a birthday card and wanted to see how #dalle & #ChatGPT death with it. Trying to create my dream page in an #Argos catalogue from my childhood. Not perfect but good start 1st attempt. I like the sound of a Nintendo Gamepie 😂
@openaidalle.bsky.social
@openaidalle.bsky.social
I feel like I've been auto-describedbin in the most generic way possible 😂
July 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I feel like I've been auto-describedbin in the most generic way possible 😂
Weird seeing ChatGPT show up as a referrer to my blog. Even though I haven't touched it in a year or so, nice to know that even with today's Web habits it's still useful for people
July 7, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Weird seeing ChatGPT show up as a referrer to my blog. Even though I haven't touched it in a year or so, nice to know that even with today's Web habits it's still useful for people
Had some old Windows #Vista screenshots show up in my OneDrive memories. We had it all figured out in 2009. Has there ever been a better UI?
June 30, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Had some old Windows #Vista screenshots show up in my OneDrive memories. We had it all figured out in 2009. Has there ever been a better UI?
So AI wine is a thing now
June 20, 2025 at 9:29 AM
So AI wine is a thing now
Some days you just have to give thanks out loud to the unknowable developer that put a little tweak in the software you use every day.
Today it's the dev who put "Change Picture > From Clipboard" into #PowerPoint @microsoft365.microsoft.com
Today it's the dev who put "Change Picture > From Clipboard" into #PowerPoint @microsoft365.microsoft.com
June 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Some days you just have to give thanks out loud to the unknowable developer that put a little tweak in the software you use every day.
Today it's the dev who put "Change Picture > From Clipboard" into #PowerPoint @microsoft365.microsoft.com
Today it's the dev who put "Change Picture > From Clipboard" into #PowerPoint @microsoft365.microsoft.com
Wow! Tone-deaf advertising on the London underground 🤦♂️ #agenticAI
June 4, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Wow! Tone-deaf advertising on the London underground 🤦♂️ #agenticAI
Finally, use the free security recommendations in Defender for Cloud, including how to fix risks. Or go a step further by enabling the workload protection plans for containers, key vaults, devops code, databases, APIs & storage 🥵 www.microsoft.com/en-us/securi...
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild /🧵
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild /🧵
May 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Finally, use the free security recommendations in Defender for Cloud, including how to fix risks. Or go a step further by enabling the workload protection plans for containers, key vaults, devops code, databases, APIs & storage 🥵 www.microsoft.com/en-us/securi...
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild /🧵
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild /🧵
For AI specifically, if you build in #Azure then #AIFoundry has built in security controls & filters. This means it blocks common threats & jailbreak attempts by default, but what about trolling? Harder to detect but you can slide a switch in Foundry/IaC to block it too!
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild
May 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
For AI specifically, if you build in #Azure then #AIFoundry has built in security controls & filters. This means it blocks common threats & jailbreak attempts by default, but what about trolling? Harder to detect but you can slide a switch in Foundry/IaC to block it too!
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild
... The answer is to use a defence-in-depth approach. Security is like an onion - it has layers! A lot of these features may be seen as outside the remit of a dev but with an average of 1 sec to 100 devs we all need to help each other to stay secure
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild
May 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
... The answer is to use a defence-in-depth approach. Security is like an onion - it has layers! A lot of these features may be seen as outside the remit of a dev but with an average of 1 sec to 100 devs we all need to help each other to stay secure
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild
Cyber Threats & AppSec (Application Security) vulnerabilities are growing dramatically just over a year, so what can you do with #DevOps to reduce the risk...
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild
May 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Cyber Threats & AppSec (Application Security) vulnerabilities are growing dramatically just over a year, so what can you do with #DevOps to reduce the risk...
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild
This one is worth a whole post just on its own:
"Microsoft is the largest cloud contributor to open source @cncf.io projects in the last year"
That's a lot of bugfixes, updates & enhancements for the benefit of the whole community 💖
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild
"Microsoft is the largest cloud contributor to open source @cncf.io projects in the last year"
That's a lot of bugfixes, updates & enhancements for the benefit of the whole community 💖
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild
May 21, 2025 at 11:52 AM
This one is worth a whole post just on its own:
"Microsoft is the largest cloud contributor to open source @cncf.io projects in the last year"
That's a lot of bugfixes, updates & enhancements for the benefit of the whole community 💖
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild
"Microsoft is the largest cloud contributor to open source @cncf.io projects in the last year"
That's a lot of bugfixes, updates & enhancements for the benefit of the whole community 💖
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild
I always find it a bit mindblowing that #ChatGPT runs on #Azure, built using the same hardware & services available to anyone, faster, lower cost & at global scale
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild
May 21, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I always find it a bit mindblowing that #ChatGPT runs on #Azure, built using the same hardware & services available to anyone, faster, lower cost & at global scale
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild
The day2 keynote ends with Scott Guthrie taking us inside the newest AI datacentres. Great to see a focus on #sustainability in Scott's talk - 100% renewable energy, reducing embodied carbon and zero-waste water cooling for those hot AI GPUs!
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild
May 21, 2025 at 11:52 AM
The day2 keynote ends with Scott Guthrie taking us inside the newest AI datacentres. Great to see a focus on #sustainability in Scott's talk - 100% renewable energy, reducing embodied carbon and zero-waste water cooling for those hot AI GPUs!
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild
We shared impressive stats & trends on the future of work. Over 300 million daily users of Teams & predicting 1.3 billion(!) AI Agents by 2028. #CopilotStudio does a lot of the AI heavy-lifting, connecting with other tools via MCP & grouping Agents to work together
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild
May 21, 2025 at 11:52 AM
We shared impressive stats & trends on the future of work. Over 300 million daily users of Teams & predicting 1.3 billion(!) AI Agents by 2028. #CopilotStudio does a lot of the AI heavy-lifting, connecting with other tools via MCP & grouping Agents to work together
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild
For data governance & security, #Purview works across databases, documents and the M365 apps to respect confidential or sensitive data. It will either apply the most-sensitive label to any content Copilot comes back with or tell you when it's against policies
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild
May 21, 2025 at 11:52 AM
For data governance & security, #Purview works across databases, documents and the M365 apps to respect confidential or sensitive data. It will either apply the most-sensitive label to any content Copilot comes back with or tell you when it's against policies
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild
From my non-dev viewpoint it was good to understand more on the #AIFoundry security & monitoring services available in the ecosystem. Using red-team agents to look for risks, adding guardrails & controls (like Prompt Shields), & investigating incidents
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild
May 21, 2025 at 11:52 AM
From my non-dev viewpoint it was good to understand more on the #AIFoundry security & monitoring services available in the ecosystem. Using red-team agents to look for risks, adding guardrails & controls (like Prompt Shields), & investigating incidents
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild
Another cool demo putting agents into practice. This time they built an app using multiple agents to manage all the tasks involved with putting on events. They used the AI Foundry extension in @vscode.dev to be able to work on code and the Agents threads side by side
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild
May 21, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Another cool demo putting agents into practice. This time they built an app using multiple agents to manage all the tasks involved with putting on events. They used the AI Foundry extension in @vscode.dev to be able to work on code and the Agents threads side by side
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild
Our "Agent Factory" is made up of Models + Knowledge + Agents. Cool model features include the leaderboard, same-time access for OpenAI models in Foundry, APIM, model router and distillation (which optimises complex models into more efficient ones)
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild
May 21, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Our "Agent Factory" is made up of Models + Knowledge + Agents. Cool model features include the leaderboard, same-time access for OpenAI models in Foundry, APIM, model router and distillation (which optimises complex models into more efficient ones)
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild