RunAs Radio Unified Tenant Management with Nik Charlebois-Laprade
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Mar 25, 2026 Nik Charlebois-Laprade, creator of Microsoft365DSC and leader of Microsoft 365 configuration-as-code work. He discusses fighting configuration drift with tenant snapshots and desired-state tooling. He explains managing many tenants, promoting changes from sandboxes, and the new Graph-based Unified Tenant Configuration preview. Conversation covers APIs, performance gains, supported workloads, and roadmap plans.
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Schedule Snapshots And Monitor For Drift
- Use snapshots plus scheduled monitoring to detect configuration drift and reapply your known-good template.
- Nik recommends scheduling continuous checks so a detected drift (like an extra group) is reverted to the template.
Graph APIs Lower The Barrier And Add Support
- Moving Microsoft365DSC into an official Graph-based product reduces learning curve and adds support SLAs.
- Nik explains open-source required many PowerShell modules and lacked formal support, motivating Graph APIs.
Manage Templates In Git And Trigger API Deploys
- Integrate configuration templates with your ALM pipeline and trigger Graph API deployments from pull-request approvals.
- Nik recommends storing templates in GitHub/Azure DevOps and calling UTCM APIs from CI/CD when changes are approved.