Kevin McDonnell - Microsoft MVP, Copilot Connection

M365 Con M365 Show Week — The Ultimate Microsoft 365 Week for IT Pros and Devs.

Up in 40 mins at the M365 Con where I will be talking on Anatomy of an Agent. Sign up at m365con.net or search M365 show on youtube. See you there!

Tech Promised Everything. Did it deliver? | Scott Hanselman | TEDxPortland YouTube video by TEDx Talks

Hey friends! I did a TEDx talk and it's now up on the TED Conferences YouTube. It's possibly the best and most important talk I've ever done.

I would ask that you watch it, and please SHARE it broadly and widely. Thank you! youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg #AI #Tech #TED

It’s almost time #ESPC25 for the Christmas Ugly Sweater contest! 11:20 at the community lounge!!!

And celebrating with these legends of the community @maarten.eekels.net @luisefreese.bsky.social

Kicking off #ESPC25 with Jeff Teper celebrating the best community in Tech

Busted

Me wearing a truly awful Christmas shirt

Coming to @espccommunity.bsky.social in Dublin on December? The ESPC Christmas Ugly Sweater contest is back!!!

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I find the naming of this so confusing when it is currently just for personal and family. Hope that changes quickly

Word of the Day is ‘snerdle’ (19th century): to stay warm and still beneath the covers for as long as humanly possible.

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Kevin wrote the book on this stuff (literally; it’s titled “Innate”). He neither oversimplifies things or overcomplexifies them. Speaking as a brain researcher with decades of experience who has also read and thought about these issues a lot, this thread capture’s what’s what.

Working for me on WiFi in Belgium where I’m visiting and with my UK SIM here too

Bedlam the card game A tech-focused card game similar to Apples to Apples and Cards Against Humanity

I vibe coded a free online version of my card game Bedlam, which is like Cards Against Humanity but for techies.

Try it out yourself at www.bedlamgame.com, play with others at work or add AI players to test it out single player -or use screenshot mode to generate pictures of funny card combos.

Missing image?

Downgrading a package version?

The issue with GPT-5 in a nutshell is that unless you pay for model switching & know to use GPT-5 Thinking or Pro, when you ask “GPT-5” you sometimes get the best available AI & sometimes get one of the worst AIs available and you can’t tell and it might even switch within a single conversation.

011 | Microsoft 365 Copilot: How it Works & Extensibility Overview YouTube video by Code. Deploy. Go Live.

Can’t remember exactly when it was but you can enjoy the whole episode here! youtu.be/VZPonwV8vHY?...

🌟 Speaker Spotlight 🌟 @kevmcdonk.com blends 13 years in financial services with deep expertise in Microsoft 365, helping organizations navigate their modern workplace transformation. Don’t miss him at #ESPC25! #MVP #ModernWorkplace

Full agenda 👉 ow.ly/kcs150VRH2z

Just ran @OpenAI #GPT0SS120B locally on my #MacBookPro M3 Max (128GB, 40‑core GPU) 🚀
Asked a tricky logic puzzle… it answered before I finished explaining.
Watch the drive‑by demo 👉 go.macona.org/openaigptoss... #AI #M3Max #LocalAI #OpenAI #SmallLanguageModels #SLM #LocalAgents

Hate the fact that this could be about so many different things

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This did flash through my head

Have you ever pushed a hard-coded key to a repo? YouTube video by Microsoft Developer

"Have you ever pushed a hard-coded key to a repo?"

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Awful idea…

…however, now I want to know which video talked about Play It Again Sam!

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To all the new #mvpbuzz award receivers today, huge huge congrats and enjoy that magical buzz!

To any still waiting to hear, keep sharing, keep caring and your time will come

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Funniest moment of recent @codedeploygo.live? @julieturner.net pointing out to @andrewconnell.com that the orchestrator in Copilot is definitely a she! That made me properly laugh out loud

Screenshot of VS Code one click instsall button

Another weekend project launched. This time for the MCP community!

VS Code - MCP Install Button Generator

Check it out at VSCodeMCP.com

The backstory: I wanted an easy way for users to one-click install my Lokka.dev MCP Server to VSCode

Oooo, need to get there in time - had just been hunting when you were on

We now have audited data on water consumption for AI.

Over the 18 month lifespan of Mistral Large 2, a 128B model, all water usage (including chats, training; hardware & data centers) took as much water as 678 US households use yearly.

Each additional query is 45 mL. (Fixed a conversion error)

Hope for better times. Such a neglected area so really happy to read this. Hope UK does more again