Dona Sarkar

💞Chief Troublemaker for @Microsoft Enterprise AI Advocacy⚡️Code-blooded beast 🤷🏽‍♀️@FastCompany Most Productive

[Dona Sarkar @donasarkar]

@gdlinux Its incredible how you spot an AI response in one second.

Cringe.

[Dona Sarkar @donasarkar]

See this image 👇🏼

I got this in my personal email. How many people in your life would scan that QR code? More than zero?

In this moment when we’re like AI, Copilots, Agents, Autopilots, next thing, isn’t it wild that old school spam and phishing with terrible photoshop and nonsense language still exists…and still works?

I was creating a talk for an internal thing and realized that when we do our tech training, we can’t forget the old school basics of security, privacy, etc because most non-tech people still don’t know what to do if they get a mail like this!

Our work is never done, I think 🤷🏽‍♀️

[Dona Sarkar @donasarkar]

@DarrellPrichard @TheRichWoods You lucky FXS be busy with Actual Issues leaving me to do Angel of DEATH duties 🗡️

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@zacbowden @TheRichWoods 🤬

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@ryanyates1990 @TheRichWoods NO

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@TheRichWoods Because nonsense things summon me from deep slumber

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@andruyeung Jon Levy also has salon dinners at really cool people’s homes where everyone talks about everything BUT work. I went to one before New Years and it was amazing.

[Dona Sarkar @donasarkar]

Oh and this pic was NOT Taylor’s wedding before people start making stuff up. It was a wedding in Barbados for Danielle and Andres at the same time.

[Dona Sarkar @donasarkar]

“Taylor had a huge 1,000 person wedding with a bunch of people she barely knows, in a giant event space, with ostentatious decor and high security!”

Laughs in Persian/Caribbean/Colombian/Indian/etc weddings.

Y’all really need to make more friends and get invited to more things 😂

[Dona Sarkar @donasarkar]

Sigh. None is this is true. Else societies where fragrance is a big deal would be extinct.

Fragrance has been around for 4000ish years, btw.

Stop listening to people who have never been outside their dad’s basement much less worn a fragrance outside.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

There's an actual name for what perfume does to your neck, and dermatologists have been diagnosing it for a century: berloque dermatitis.

The culprit is bergaptene, a compound in bergamot oil that shows up in most citrus-forward fragrances. On its own it does nothing. Add sunlight and it turns into a photosensitizer. UV light hits the bergaptene bound to your skin cells and triggers a reaction that fuses the compound directly into your DNA, cross-linking the strands. Your body reads that as damage and floods the area with melanin.

The result is a streaky brown discoloration exactly where the spray dripped down your neck. Gravity draws the perfume into thin lines, so the pigmentation shows up as drip marks, which is how you tell it apart from a normal sunburn. Once it sets, it can take months to years to fade.

The neck is the worst possible target for three reasons at once. The skin there runs thinner than almost anywhere on your body, so compounds penetrate faster. It sits under direct sun all day. And the alcohol base strips the skin barrier with every application, which lets more of the fragrance soak in on the next spray.

Doctors named this the "atomizer sign," anterior neck eczema right at the Adam's apple, because aerosol perfume lands there so reliably that seeing it tells the dermatologist what to test for before the patient says a word.

The thyroid and hormone panic going around is mostly unsupported. This part is real, dated, and has a diagnosis code. Spray it on your clothes instead of your skin and the whole mechanism never starts.

[Mat Velloso @matvelloso]

Microsoft was doing forward deployment engineering way before forward deployment engineering was invented.

This is their strength. It's how you make AI real.

So, good sign.

[Dona Sarkar @donasarkar]

@matvelloso You know you want one

[Dona Sarkar @donasarkar]

Happy Governance Day to all who celebrate! 👮🏽

We know it’s that time of the deployment cycle when we have thousands of people gathered up at 9 am to learn about AI Governance at #EPPC26 😂

We’ve been through this before though!

Remember we told everyone how to build SharePoint sites, Power Apps and now Agents and then…everyone DID!

Now we need to take inventory of what we have, how they are behaving, who owns them, etc.

This morning for the Day 2 keynote, I got to show off MY favorite governance tools in Agent365:

1. The Agent registry shock factor! People are AMAZED when they find out how many Agents they actually have in their biz (spoiler alert: it is a lot!)

2. The Agent Map! Click on an Agent and choose Map and you can see the reach of the Agent. What tools it calls, how many exceptions AND which users it reaches!

3. Rules and Policy Templates! Why do manual work when tech can do it for you? We created a set of rules to help babysit your Agents such as reassigning Agents if someone abandons their Agent. Run these at scale! Create policy templates if you really like how an Agent is behaving and want to automatically add that policy to other Agents.

BONUS: @mamaspring_24 showed how to detect and pull in Shadow AI agents and Shilpi Sinha showed off Cost Management guardrailing so you don’t have surprises!

If you have feedback on Agent365, please do holler at us with your thoughts. The product team legit has their entire work backlog based on what YOU need in your orgs!

Have a fantastic day, all our fellow Governance Gurus! 💝

[Dona Sarkar @donasarkar]

Okay real talk!

Who knows how to BUILD an Agent? 🙋🏽‍♀️

Who knows how to deploy and babysit and make sure that Agent is doing its Agently goodness and causing chaos? 😅

HMMM! That’s how it is across the board but TOMORROW at #EPPC26, this band of brilliant mischief makers will show you EXACTLY how you can babysit all those new Agents that have cropped up in your biz. LOTS of new things coming that all of you have been asking for 👀

And yes, I DO have a segment in this keynote and yes it will be shenanigans 😂

See everyone tomorrow morning at 9 am SHARP.

Be there 💃🏻

[Dona Sarkar @donasarkar]

@HammerToe @davidfowl @liamchampton Yes I know him, what a sweetheart!

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@davidfowl I’m in your oistins driving your banks

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@HammerToe @davidfowl I was! Wow, small world!

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@HammerToe @davidfowl Ah we leave today! I lived here for about two years earlier this decade. I love it here! I’ll be back!

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@stevesi @pjbryant I can’t believe EVERY AI company is doing this too!

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@HammerToe @davidfowl Omg do you live here? I’m on hols for a wedding!