Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast

Episode 437: Nasuni and AI-Ready Unstructured Data with Nick Burling

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 12:00:32 +0000

Welcome to Episode 437 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode, Nick Burling, Chief Product Officer at Nasuni, joins Ben and Scott to talk about getting unstructured file data ready for AI. Nick digs into why 70 to 80 percent of enterprise data sits in file shares and object storage, how that data tends to end up ungoverned and risky to point AI at, and Nasuni’s PSYCHIC framework for making it proprietary, secure, current, indexed, hybrid, and continuous. The conversation covers Nasuni’s AI Activate, the MCP based service that enforces permissions before a query ever runs, and the recent DryvIQ acquisition, which adds content classification, redaction, and policy enforcement on top of that index.

They also get into where this overlaps with Purview and Copilot’s own indexing, how DriveIQ reads and respects Microsoft’s existing sensitivity labels, and why 97 percent of orgs are piloting AI agents while only 43 percent call those projects successful. Nick closes with practical advice for anyone evaluating a platform like this: pick one high value use case, define success metrics up front, and keep the initial scope small.

Discosure: This is a sponsor interview with Nasuni who is a sponsor of the podcast.

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Show Notes

About our guest

Nick Burling is Chief Product Officer at Nasuni, where he leads the company’s product strategy at the intersection of enterprise data management, cloud infrastructure, and AI. He is responsible for shaping Nasuni’s vision for how organizations manage, protect, and activate unstructured data for enterprise teams and AI at scale. This includes expanding the company’s capabilities for continuous cost optimization and protection, while empowering compounding workforce productivity through AI-optimized unstructured data.
An accomplished product executive and entrepreneur, Nick brings deep experience translating technology innovation and market shifts into clear strategic advantage. His career spans leadership roles at Fortune 500 companies including Microsoft and IBM, as well as early-stage ventures he has guided from launch through successful exit. At Nasuni, he leads the teams defining how enterprises will manage and act on unstructured data in an AI-driven world. Learn more about Nick at Forbes on their Technology Council Profile.

Sponsors

	Nasuni is a leading unstructured data platform for enterprises where file data is mission-critical for both people and AI. Nasuni powers the operational file layer where work happens — helping organizations manage, protect, and activate data so teams can work smarter, reduce costs, and operate securely without limits.
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Episode 436: Finding the Entra Tenants You Didn’t Know You Had

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:00:54 +0000

Welcome to Episode 436 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode, Ben and Scott dive into Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance. Almost nobody runs one Microsoft Entra tenant. Mergers, divestitures, dev and test environments, regional partitioning, that one AI proof-of-concept somebody spun up on a credit card. Organizations accumulate tenants the way they accumulate SharePoint sites. The difference is that nobody ever built an inventory of the tenants, and central IT frequently cannot name them, let alone say whether they are configured safely.

Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance, now generally available, is Microsoft’s first-party answer. It is genuinely four products under one blade: it finds the tenants you did not know about, gives you a least-privilege way to administer them without local accounts, monitors their configuration for drift against a JSON baseline, and gates the creation of new ones so the next tenant is governed from birth.

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Show Notes

Sponsors

	Nasuni is a leading unstructured data platform for enterprises where file data is mission-critical for both people and AI. Nasuni powers the operational file layer where work happens — helping organizations manage, protect, and activate data so teams can work smarter, reduce costs, and operate securely without limits.
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Episode 435: Power BI Meets Git and MCP

Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:00:42 +0000

Welcome to Episode 435 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode, Ben and Scott take a lap around what’s new in Power BI, starting with the two MCP servers now in preview, one local and one remote, that can clean up your data model, write DAX for you, and turn a messy pile of tables into an actual usable semantic model. Ben shares how it helped him tame a 44 table QuickBooks Online mess, and why he had way better luck with it than with Copilot in Power BI.

From there they get into PBIP, the newer Power BI project file format that breaks a report into files you can actually put in Git and collaborate on like real developers, branches, rollbacks, and all. It has been in preview since 2023 and still lacks solid guidance from Microsoft on wiring up CI/CD, but Ben and Scott dig into why it is worth adopting anyway, even if you are working solo.

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Show Notes

Sponsors

	Nasuni is a leading unstructured data platform for enterprises where file data is mission-critical for both people and AI. Nasuni powers the operational file layer where work happens — helping organizations manage, protect, and activate data so teams can work smarter, reduce costs, and operate securely without limits.
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Episode 434: Reading the Spec Sheet on Microsoft’s Agentic SOC

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:59:44 +0000

Welcome to Episode 434 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. Microsoft announced Project Perception on 2026-07-27 with a lot of “workforce of AI agents” language. In this episode, Ben and Scott discuss what Perception really is, what it needs from your tenant, what it costs, and what happens the first time an agent asks you to approve something. Six agents. Seven playbooks. Every one manually triggered. Each agent gets its own Entra Agent ID and a permission grant. There’s a lot to unpack.

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Prior podcast context

Sponsors

	Nasuni is a leading unstructured data platform for enterprises where file data is mission-critical for both people and AI. Nasuni powers the operational file layer where work happens — helping organizations manage, protect, and activate data so teams can work smarter, reduce costs, and operate securely without limits.
	Intelligink — Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 433: Passkeys, Passwords, and the End of SMS MFA

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:00:20 +0000

Welcome to Episode 433 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode, Ben and Scott discuss how Microsoft 365 authentication is moving from “make passwords safer with MFA” to “remove phishable authentication wherever possible.” The practical conversation for IT pros is no longer just whether MFA is enabled. It is which methods are allowed, which users are still on SMS or voice, how passkeys change the user experience, and how to balance security, accessibility, recovery, and support load.

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Show Notes

Sponsors

	Nasuni is a leading unstructured data platform for enterprises where file data is mission-critical for both people and AI. Nasuni powers the operational file layer where work happens — helping organizations manage, protect, and activate data so teams can work smarter, reduce costs, and operate securely without limits.
	Intelligink — Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 432: AI-Era Consulting Billing for Microsoft Cloud Delivery

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:00:16 +0000

Welcome to Episode 432 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode, Ben and Scott discuss how AI is not eliminating Microsoft 365 and Azure consulting, but it is changing what clients think they are buying.

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Show Notes

Sponsors

	Nasuni is a leading unstructured data platform for enterprises where file data is mission-critical for both people and AI. Nasuni powers the operational file layer where work happens — helping organizations manage, protect, and activate data so teams can work smarter, reduce costs, and operate securely without limits.
	Intelligink — Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 431: Agent Governance Is the New App Governance

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:00:09 +0000

Welcome to Episode 431 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode, Ben and Scott get into why agent governance is quickly becoming one of the most pressing challenges for Microsoft 365 administrators. As agentic workflows become more common across Copilot, Copilot Studio, and third-party platforms, organizations are dealing with a sprawl problem that looks familiar but hits differently. Agents bring their own identity, data access, permissions, lifecycle, and security concerns all at once, and unlike traditional apps, a single user can now have dozens of agents acting on their behalf or autonomously across Teams, SharePoint, Exchange, and beyond.

The episode walks through Microsoft Agent 365 as a starting point for building that control plane, including the agent registry, user and permission scoping, and the certification tab where publisher attestation gives some visibility into compliance claims though with notable gaps. Ben and Scott also touch on the Shadow AI preview in the Frontier program, the challenges of graph permission readability in the permissions view, and why the agent lifecycle problem, think what happens when the person who built a custom agent leaves the org, is something administrators need to start thinking about now before consumption billing turns an unmanaged agent into a surprise line item.

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Show Notes

Sponsors

	Nasuni is a leading unstructured data platform for enterprises where file data is mission-critical for both people and AI. Nasuni powers the operational file layer where work happens — helping organizations manage, protect, and activate data so teams can work smarter, reduce costs, and operate securely without limits.
	TrustedTech is a leading Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) specializing in Microsoft Cloud services, Microsoft perpetual licensing, and Microsoft Support Services for medium and enterprise-sized businesses. Their robust team of in-house, U.S.-based Microsoft architects and engineers are certified in all 6/6 Microsoft Solutions Partner Designations in the Microsoft Cloud Partner Program. M365 Licensing Consultation M365 Tenant Assessment Copilot Readiness Assessment
	ShareGate is your migration and governance solution for Microsoft 365. ShareGate helps your teams simplify tenant migrations, get Copilot-ready, and take control of Microsoft 365 governance.
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Episode 430: Scouting out Microsoft Scout

Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:00:47 +0000

Welcome to Episode 430 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast, where Scott and Ben dig into Microsoft Scout, the new desktop AI application announced at Microsoft Build. They walk through the real onboarding experience on both Mac and Windows, the licensing maze and admin controls needed to activate it, and how Scout’s architecture ties together models, automations, and integrations like MCP, GitHub Copilot, and Work IQ. Along the way they cover the model selector and personality options (everything from professional to sarcastic teenager), the automations and heartbeats that run on schedules to update you on industry news, monitor workflows, and manage meetings, and the limitations and workarounds around skills, session management, and local file access. They also sort out where Scout overlaps with and differs from Microsoft 365 Copilot and GitHub Copilot, how to rationalize all three for ROI, and what token-based, consumption-based pricing means for enterprise AI strategy.

Whether you’re a pilot user or just AI-curious, this episode cuts through the hype to show why Scout’s local-first approach is a game-changer for MCP workflows, custom skills, and offline automation, and what it actually takes to adopt Scout as your desktop AI hub. Hosted by Scott and Ben, two industry veterans passionate about AI and automation, it delivers practical, actionable insights for technical leaders, developers, and productivity enthusiasts. Join us as we unravel Scout’s potential to redefine your desktop AI experience, because knowing how to navigate its complexities now can save you time and money tomorrow.

Show Notes

Sponsors

	TrustedTech is a leading Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) specializing in Microsoft Cloud services, Microsoft perpetual licensing, and Microsoft Support Services for medium and enterprise-sized businesses. Their robust team of in-house, U.S.-based Microsoft architects and engineers are certified in all 6/6 Microsoft Solutions Partner Designations in the Microsoft Cloud Partner Program. M365 Licensing Consultation M365 Tenant Assessment Copilot Readiness Assessment
	ShareGate is your migration and governance solution for Microsoft 365. ShareGate helps your teams simplify tenant migrations, get Copilot-ready, and take control of Microsoft 365 governance.
	Nasuni is a leading unstructured data platform for enterprises where file data is mission-critical for both people and AI. Nasuni powers the operational file layer where work happens — helping organizations manage, protect, and activate data so teams can work smarter, reduce costs, and operate securely without limits.
	Intelligink — Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 429: Getting started with LLM Wikis

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Welcome to Episode 429 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode, Scott and Ben dig into the concept of LLM wikis, specifically building personal knowledge management vaults using Obsidian, markdown, and AI tooling like Claude Code, GitHub Copilot CLI, and Copilot Cowork. The core idea comes from a gist by Andrej Karpathy and involves creating a structured folder of markdown clippings that an LLM can reason over to extract entities, concepts, and sources, building a searchable, graph-linked knowledge base over time. Scott walks through how he wired up Obsidian Web Clipper and an RSS Dashboard plugin to feed articles into his vault automatically, then had the LLM help build a Python script to automate the ingest workflow and cut down on token usage.

The conversation expands into how Copilot Cowork fits into this workflow as a scheduling harness, with practical examples of using it to pull email from an inbox daily, convert messages to markdown, and generate a prioritized to-do list. Ben shares how he applied the same approach to 428 episodes of podcast transcripts, and both hosts note that token costs can run high fast without some upfront thinking about optimization. Scott closes with a reminder that pulling data into plain markdown sidecars outside of IRM and sensitivity label protections means teams should stay mindful of organizational data policies.

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Show Notes

Sponsors

	TrustedTech is a leading Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) specializing in Microsoft Cloud services, Microsoft perpetual licensing, and Microsoft Support Services for medium and enterprise-sized businesses. Their robust team of in-house, U.S.-based Microsoft architects and engineers are certified in all 6/6 Microsoft Solutions Partner Designations in the Microsoft Cloud Partner Program. M365 Licensing Consultation M365 Tenant Assessment Copilot Readiness Assessment
	ShareGate is your migration and governance solution for Microsoft 365. ShareGate helps your teams simplify tenant migrations, get Copilot-ready, and take control of Microsoft 365 governance.
	Nasuni is a leading unstructured data platform for enterprises where file data is mission-critical for both people and AI. Nasuni powers the operational file layer where work happens — helping organizations manage, protect, and activate data so teams can work smarter, reduce costs, and operate securely without limits.
	Intelligink — Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 428: Migrating Group Policy to Microsoft Intune

Thu, 21 May 2026 12:00:54 +0000

Welcome to Episode 428 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode, Ben and Scott unlock the secrets to modernizing your IT management by ditching pesky on-prem GPOs and embracing the future with Intune. They discuss how savvy IT pros are migrating thousands of GPOs into clean, manageable cloud policies. Dive into real-world workflows: from exporting and analyzing legacy GPOs with AI tools, to recreating policies in Entra ID, and finally decommissioning AD. You’ll discover how to think through the migration, avoid common pitfalls like leftover legacy configs, and implement a phased migration that minimizes disruption.

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Show Notes

Sponsors

	ShareGate is your migration and governance solution for Microsoft 365. ShareGate helps your teams simplify tenant migrations, get Copilot-ready, and take control of Microsoft 365 governance.
	Nasuni is a leading unstructured data platform for enterprises where file data is mission-critical for both people and AI. Nasuni powers the operational file layer where work happens — helping organizations manage, protect, and activate data so teams can work smarter, reduce costs, and operate securely without limits.
	TrustedTech is a leading Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) specializing in Microsoft Cloud services, Microsoft perpetual licensing, and Microsoft Support Services for medium and enterprise-sized businesses. Their robust team of in-house, U.S.-based Microsoft architects and engineers are certified in all 6/6 Microsoft Solutions Partner Designations in the Microsoft Cloud Partner Program. M365 Licensing Consultation M365 Tenant Assessment Copilot Readiness Assessment
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Episode 427: Copilot Cowork Hands-On Experiences

Thu, 07 May 2026 12:00:57 +0000

Welcome to Episode 427 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode, Ben and Scott open with a quick look at YAKO (getyako.com), a browser extension built by community member Merrill that replaces the new tab page with a customizable dashboard of Microsoft 365 and cloud links. From there, the conversation turns into an extended follow-up on Copilot Cowork, covering some of their recent hands-on experience with custom skills, artifact management, session crashes tied to an Anthropic API outage, and the friction of working with IRM-protected documents in Copilot Cowork. The bigger thread running through the episode is data security. Listen in to hear more about considerations for onboarding to Copilot Cowork in its early days. Your support makes this show possible! Please consider becoming a premium member for access to live shows and more. Check out our membership options. Show Notes Yako Get started with Cowork (Frontier) How does Cowork handle my data? Does Cowork connect to external models for processing? Are there unsupported countries/regions? Sensitivity labels for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat Sponsors TrustedTech Team is a leading Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) specializing in Microsoft Cloud services, Microsoft perpetual licensing, and Microsoft Support Services for medium and enterprise-sized businesses. Their robust team of in-house, U.S.-based Microsoft architects and engineers are certified in all 6/6 Microsoft Solutions Partner Designations in the Microsoft Cloud Partner Program. M365 Licensing Consultation M365 Tenant Assessment Copilot Readiness Assessment ShareGate is your migration and governance solution for Microsoft 365. ShareGate helps your teams simplify tenant migrations, get Copilot-ready, and take control of Microsoft 365 governance. Nasuni is a leading unstructured data platform for enterprises where file data is mission-critical for both people and AI. Nasuni powers the operational file layer where work happens — helping organizations manage, protect, and activate data so teams can work smarter, reduce costs, and operate securely without limits. Intelligink — Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 426: Claude Cowork vs Microsoft 365 Copilot Cowork

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:00:09 +0000

Welcome to Episode 426 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast.Ben and Scott are back together this week to talk through Microsoft 365 Copilot Cowork, including how it compares to Claude Cowork and where each one makes sense. The two products share a name but work pretty differently. Claude Cowork runs locally on your desktop and can access files on your machine, supports MCP server connections while M365 Copilot Cowork runs in the cloud, requires files to be in OneDrive, and does not support MCP connectors yet. On the flip side, the Microsoft version runs scheduled tasks without needing your machine to be on, has native access to all your M365 data through Graph, and fits inside your existing compliance and security controls through Purview, which matters a lot for regulated organizations. Your support makes this show possible! Please consider becoming a premium member for access to live shows and more. Check out our membership options. Show Notes Quentin Amaudry - As everyone knows, Cowork is coming within Copilot and it is extremely promising Copilot Cowork vs Claude Cowork: Same AI, Different Worlds Copilot Cowork: A new way of getting work done Cowork overview (Frontier) About the sponsors TrustedTech is a leading Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) specializing in Microsoft Cloud services, Microsoft perpetual licensing, and Microsoft Support Services for medium and enterprise-sized businesses. Our robust team of in-house, U.S-based Microsoft architects and engineers are certified in all 6/6 Microsoft Solutions Partner Designations in the Microsoft Cloud Partner Program. M365 Licensing Consultation M365 Tenant Assessment Copilot Readiness Assessment Your migration and governance solution for Microsoft 365. ShareGate helps your teams simplify tenant migrations, get Copilot-ready, and take control of Microsoft 365 governance. Nasuni is a leading unstructured data platform for enterprises where file data is mission-critical for both people and AI. We power the operational file layer where work happens — helping organizations manage, protect, and activate data so teams can work smarter, reduce costs, and operate securely without limits. Visit nasuni.com to learn more. Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 425 – Exploring Collaboration and Governance at the MVP Summit with Joy Apple

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:00:45 +0000

Welcome to Episode 425 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this audio and video episode recorded live at Microsoft headquarters during the MVP Summit, Ben welcomes a return guest, Joy Apple, to the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast and discuss her 20-year career in the Microsoft collaboration space, from financial services to SharePoint training, consulting, and her current role at Orchestry Software. Joy explains Orchestry as a Microsoft 365 governance automation layer covering templated provisioning for SharePoint and Teams, archiving policies (including Microsoft 365 Archive), guest management, and OneDrive governance. They emphasize that AI and Copilot amplify existing information architecture, permissions, and data hygiene issues, making governance more critical. They describe the MVP Summit as a “family reunion” where MVPs attend sessions and reconnect with peers. Joy and Ben also spend some time describing paths becoming an MVP and how much they just enjoy the community around the Microsoft 365 ecosystem and connecting with people both at MVP Summit as well as various conferences throughout the year. About Joy Apple Joy is a Microsoft MVP and Director of Success and Enablement at Orchestry. With years of experience as an information technologist, I’m dedicated to helping organizations implement technology with a purpose-driven, “human-first” approach, ensuring tools like Microsoft 365 empower people to do their best work. Teaching and knowledge-sharing are at the heart of what I do. Whether it’s through volunteering in the Microsoft Community, speaking at events, or writing as the “Joy of SharePoint,” I’m passionate about helping others unlock their potential with modern workplace solutions. Im also a cohost of the Guardians of M365 Governance podcast, where I explore the challenges and rewards of governance, and a columnist for She is Tulsa, a quarterly magazine celebrating impactful stories from my local community. Outside of work, you’ll often find me enjoying live music or discovering new spots in Tulsa, Oklahoma, combining my love of connection and creativity wherever I go. Show Notes See the recording from the Microsoft Studios! Joy Apple on LinkedIn The Microsoft 365 Maturity Model – Governance, Risk, and Compliance Competency The Microsoft MVP Communities About the MVP Program Overview of Microsoft 365 Archive Guests in the Microsoft 365 admin center Mitigate Oversharing to Govern Microsoft 365 Copilot and Agents Orchestry About the sponsors TrustedTech is a leading Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) specializing in Microsoft Cloud services, Microsoft perpetual licensing, and Microsoft Support Services for medium and enterprise-sized businesses. Our robust team of in-house, U.S-based Microsoft architects and engineers are certified in all 6/6 Microsoft Solutions Partner Designations in the Microsoft Cloud Partner Program. M365 Licensing Consultation M365 Tenant Assessment Copilot Readiness Assessment Your migration and governance solution for Microsoft 365 ShareGate helps your teams simplify tenant migrations, get Copilot-ready, and take control of Microsoft 365 governance. Our Microsoft 365 experts and Microsoft Azure experts focus on the Microsoft cloud, so you can focus on what you do best! Learn more how we can help you!

Episode 424 – A new frontier for Microsoft 365 with E7

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:00:18 +0000

Welcome to Episode 424 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode, Ben and Scott dig into the newly announced Microsoft 365 E7 SKU which bundles M365 E5, Microsoft 365 Copilot, the Microsoft Entra Suite, and Microsoft Agent 365. Your support makes this show possible! Please consider becoming a premium member for access to live shows and more. Check out our membership options. Show Notes Partner Blog | Introducing Microsoft 365 E7: The Frontier Suite Powering Frontier Transformation with Copilot and agents Microsoft Entra Suite Microsoft Entra Suite deployment scenarios introduction Microsoft Agent 365 Overview of Microsoft Agent 365 Use Microsoft Intune Suite add-on capabilities About the sponsors TrustedTech is a leading Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) specializing in Microsoft Cloud services, Microsoft perpetual licensing, and Microsoft Support Services for medium and enterprise-sized businesses. Our robust team of in-house, U.S-based Microsoft architects and engineers are certified in all 6/6 Microsoft Solutions Partner Designations in the Microsoft Cloud Partner Program. M365 Licensing Consultation M365 Tenant Assessment Copilot Readiness Assessment Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 423 – Non-Human Identities in Microsoft Entra with Eric Woodruff and Chris Brumm

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:00:25 +0000

Welcome to Episode 423 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode, Ben is live from Workplace Ninjas, joined by Eric Woodruff, Chief Identity Architect at Semperis and Microsoft MVP in Security focused on identity, and Chris Brumm, Cyber Security Architect at glueckkanja and Microsoft MVP in Security with over 16 years of experience in cybersecurity. Together they dig into the often-overlooked world of non-human identities in Microsoft Entra ID. They cover what service principals are, why they tend to fly under the radar compared to user accounts, and how attackers actively exploit that gap. The conversation spans credential management best practices, the risks of improper owner assignments, the challenges of multi-tenant app configurations, and why managed identities should be your go-to wherever possible. They also discuss the growing challenge of AI agent identities and what IT pros need to start thinking about now before that surface area explodes. Show Notes Eric Woodruff on LinkedIn Eric Woodruff on X (@ericanidentity) Eric on Identity Chris Brum on LinkedIn Chris Brumm on X (@cbrhh) Chris Brumm's Blog Application and service principal objects in Microsoft Entra ID Workload Identities Securing service principals in Microsoft Entra ID Securing managed identities in Microsoft Entra ID Conditional Access for Workload Identities Microsoft Entra Audit Logs Microsoft Sentinel Detection Templates Eric Woodruff Eric Woodruff is the Chief Identity Architect at Semperis and a Microsoft MVP in Security with a focus on identity. He specializes in all things Microsoft Entra and Active Directory, with a passion for helping organizations understand and secure both human and non-human identities. You can find Eric on social media as @ericanidentity. Chris Brumm Chris Brumm is a Cyber Security Architect at glueckkanja based in Germany, with over 16 years of experience across virtually every corner of cybersecurity. He is a Microsoft MVP in Security with a primary focus on identity security. His team operates SOC services and he brings a detection and response perspective to identity risk, helping organizations build lifecycle processes and monitoring strategies for non-human identities in Microsoft Entra. About the sponsors TrustedTech is a leading Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) specializing in Microsoft Cloud services, Microsoft perpetual licensing, and Microsoft Support Services for medium and enterprise-sized businesses. Our robust team of in-house, U.S-based Microsoft architects and engineers are certified in all 6/6 Microsoft Solutions Partner Designations in the Microsoft Cloud Partner Program. M365 Licensing Consultation M365 Tenant Assessment Copilot Readiness Assessment At Intelligink, our focus is singular: the Microsoft cloud. Our Microsoft 365 and Azure experts help you work securely and efficiently by unlocking the full value of what you're already paying for, so you can focus on running your business.

Episode 422: Back to the Terminal: The Rise of AI CLI Interfaces

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:00:38 +0000

Welcome to Episode 422 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode, Scott and Ben discuss their growing use of in their daily workflows, particularly Claude Code, GitHub Copilot CLI, and Gemini CLI. They explore how these command-line interfaces offer powerful ways to interact with local files and MCP servers beyond traditional desktop AI chat interfaces. They share how they are using these tools in their day-to-day roles to perform different tasks and accelerate their workflows. Your support makes this show possible! Please consider becoming a premium member for access to live shows and more. Check out our membership options. Show Notes Claude Code overview Using Claude in PowerPoint Create custom subagents Microsoft Work IQ CLI (Public Preview) https://github.com/obra/superpowers How to Use Claude Code: A Guide to Slash Commands, Agents, Skills, and Plug-ins Gemimi CLI overview Github Copilot overview About the sponsors Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 421: Microsoft 365 Mergers and Divestitures with Frank Lesniak

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 13:00:21 +0000

Welcome to Episode 421 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode Ben sits down for a conversation with Frank Lesniak, the lead of the Microsoft 365 team at West Monroe. In this episode, they dive into the intricacies of mergers and divestitures within Microsoft 365 environments. They discuss the initial due diligence phase, planning and approach, building and configuring new environments, and the final migration and cutover phase. Frank shares insights on common challenges such as integration of different licensing models, the handling of workstations and applications, and the importance of security assessments. The episode provides a detailed look at the methodology and tools used by Frank's team to streamline these complex processes. Your support makes this show possible! Please consider becoming a premium member for access to live shows and more. Check out our membership options. Show Notes Frank Lesniak on LinkedIn West Monroe Frank Lesniak Github Microsoft 365 tenant-to-tenant migrations Microsoft 365 inter-tenant collaboration Tenant life cycle considerations in multitenant solutions Frank Lesniak Frank Lesniak is a Sr. Cybersecurity & Enterprise Technology Architect at West Monroe with nearly 20 years of experience leading consulting engagements involving Microsoft infrastructure technology. His expertise spans modern cloud systems like Azure, Microsoft 365, and Entra ID to classic platforms like Windows Server, Active Directory, and SQL Server. His recent focus has been on Microsoft platform cybersecurity and automating technical processes using PowerShell. In his role, Frank establishes technical project methodologies, leads teams, automates associated processes, and creates internal software products at West Monroe and in the open-source community. About the sponsors Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 420 – Ben convinces Scott to buy a 3D printer

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 13:00:55 +0000

Welcome to Episode 420 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode, Scott is back for a lighthearted discussion on some of the new tech and toys and that Ben and Scott picked up over the holidays. Listen in as Ben tries to convince Scott he needs a 3D printer and some feedback on the gadgets they both picked up. Your support makes this show possible! Please consider becoming a premium member for access to live shows and more. Check out our membership options. Show Notes Bambu Lab P2S 3D Printer ViewSonic VP2788-5K 27" 5K Mac-Ready Monitor with 100% sRGB, 99% DCI-P3, Pantone Validated, Advanced Ergonomics, Thunderbolt 4, USB Hub, HDMI, and DP for Home and Office Everyone needs a UPS Logitech MX Master 4, Ergonomic Wireless Mouse with Advanced Performance Haptic Feedback, Ultra-Fast Scrolling, USB-C Charging, Bluetooth, Windows, MacOS Aqara Presence Sensor FP300 Wireless 5-in-1 Motion Sensor with mmWave, PIR, Light, Temperature & Humidity Detection, Thread & Zigbee, Supports HomeKit, Home Assistant, Alexa, Google Home Unifi Motion Sensor About the sponsors Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 419 – Security and AI: Security Store, Security Copilot, and Agents

Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:00:31 +0000

Welcome to Episode 419 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode, Ben is once again live from Workplace Ninjas and is joined by John Joyner, an 18-year Microsoft MVP in Cloud Security and Azure Management. They discuss some of the announcements from Microsoft Ignite focused around Microsoft Security as well as diving deep into the new Security Store, AI agents, Security Compute Units (SCUs), and how Microsoft is making enterprise AI security more accessible and affordable than ever. Key topics include the phishing triage agent, conditional access optimization, E5 integration with included SCUs, and the strategic consolidation of security services into the Defender XDR portal. Whether you're a security professional or IT administrator, this conversation provides valuable insights into Microsoft's AI-driven security roadmap and how to stay ahead of AI-powered threats. Your support makes this show possible! Please consider becoming a premium member for access to live shows and more. Check out our membership options. Show Notes John Joyner on LinkedIn John Joyner's Blog John Joyner's Books Corica Technologies What is Microsoft Security Copilot? Security Store Microsoft Security Copilot agents overview Learn about Security Copilot inclusion in Microsoft 365 E5 subscription Microsoft Security Copilot Phishing Triage Agent in Microsoft Defender John Joyner John Joyner is an inventor, author, speaker, and professor specializing in datacenter and enterprise cloud computing. He serves as Senior Director of Technology at Corsica Technologies (formerly AccountabilIT), where he delivers next-generation technology management services to customers worldwide as a cloud architect helping businesses stay competitive. John is a Microsoft Azure MVP and Security MVP, having been recognized eighteen times (2007-2026) as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for his exceptional technical expertise, leadership, speaking experience, online influence, and commitment to solving real-world problems. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with an Emphasis in Human Resources Management from the University of Colorado at Boulder. From 2007 to 2024, John served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Arkansas Little Rock, teaching a pro-bono cloud computing management course open to all Arkansas residents. As an author, John co-wrote the 2021 book "Azure Arc-Enabled Kubernetes and Server" from Apress and contributed to four editions of the industry-standard "System Center Operations Manager: Unleashed" from SAMS Publishing (2005-2013). Between 2012 and 2015, he authored weekly cloud and datacenter columns for CBS Technology publications including TechRepublic and ZDNet. A retired U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander and computer scientist, John worked for NATO in Europe and aboard an aircraft carrier in the Pacific. He earned the Computer Scientist sub-specialty and served as chief of network operations for NATO during the former Yugoslavia conflict. He is also a veteran of the Persian Gulf War. Outside of technology, John's personal passions include 4-wheeling in his 'Black Ops' Jeep Wrangler and running a visionary art clothing company called Lit Like Luma. About the sponsors Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 418 – An Anti-AI Adventure with Cat Schneider: SharePoint, Power Automate, and Conference Shenanigans

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 13:00:10 +0000

Welcome to Episode 418 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode, Ben sits down with Cat Schneider during a lively conference to discuss a variety of topics, focusing on the theme of “anti-AI.” They reflect on life and technology before AI became prominent, sharing tales of conferences, hackathons, and explorations of older tech solutions. They also discuss some of Cat’s adventures in SharePoint and Power Platform, including managing SharePoint permissions with flows, the challenges of migrating file shares to SharePoint, syncing issues with OneDrive, and practical uses of Power BI for troubleshooting and managing SharePoint data. Additionally, they dive into humorous conference anecdotes from the inaugural Workplace Ninjas US, including accidental late-night adventures. Cat Schneider is an experienced data specialist and Power Platform, SharePoint, and Teams enthusiast with a demonstrated history of innovation for almost 15 years in the public sector. Cat is skilled in Microsoft-based applications, quality assurance, and databases. She is a strong community and social services professional with a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Biology from Florida State University. In addition to being a self-taught coder with a never-ending thirst for learning more—and helping others learn and improve their coding skills—she is also co-leader of the Power Platform UX/UI and Accessibility (A11y) Global User Group. Your support makes this show possible! Please consider becoming a premium member for access to live shows and more. Check out our membership options. Show Notes Cat Schneider on LinkedIn Yer a wizard, Cat! Cat on GitHub About the sponsors Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 417 – Workplace Ninjas US, Zero Trust, and Conditional Access!

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 13:00:26 +0000

Welcome to Episode 417 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast, Jay Leask joins Ben once more as the two of them recap their experience at Workplace Ninjas US in Dallas, Texas. They discuss conference highlights, the unique hackathon, engaging sessions, the Clippy Bucks system, and the importance of community and inclusion. The conversation also covers upcoming events, memorable attendee interactions, and new traditions for future conferences. Your support makes this show possible! Please consider becoming a premium member for access to live shows and more. Check out our membership options. Show Notes Jay Leask on LinkedIn Workplace Ninja's US Follow Workplace Ninjas US on LinkedIn Workplace Ninja's US Microsoft Zero Trust Guidance Center Microsoft Zero Trust Assessment Tool Conditional Access Ben's YouTube video on Authentication Context and Conditional Access About the sponsors Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 416 – Microsoft Sentinel, Security, and Ignite with Henrik Wojcik

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 13:00:38 +0000

Welcome to Episode 416 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this week's episode, Ben finally has a chance to sit down with Henrik Wojcik. Henrik has been a long-time listener as well as a fellow Microsoft MVP in Security and we finally had the chance to sit down and record an episode together, something we've talked about doing for years. As they sit down and enjoy a sunny afternoon in at Microsoft Ignite in San Francisco they discuss security in the financial sector, EU regulations (N2 and DORA), integrating Data Lake with Sentinel, optimizing log analytics, and the latest on Security Copilot and E5 licensing. They also spend some time chatting about some of their conference highlights, assisting as proctors in the hands-on labs, and the unique experience of Ignite in San Francisco. Your support makes this show possible! Please consider becoming a premium member for access to live shows and more. Check out our membership options. Show Notes Microsoft Ignite (with sessions on demand) Microsoft Ignite Book of News Catch up on Microsoft Security sessions and announcements from Ignite 2025 Microsoft Sentinel benefit for Microsoft 365 E5, A5, F5, and G5 customers Learn about Security Copilot inclusion in Microsoft 365 E5 subscription Microsoft Sentinel data lake: Unify signals, cut costs, and power agentic AI What is Microsoft Sentinel data lake? KQL and the Microsoft Sentinel data lake Henrik F. Wojcik Henrik has worked in the IT industry since 2003. He's always had a passion for learning new technologies and expanding his knowledge through various means such as online courses, webinars, and reading up on the latest developments in the industry. Throughout his career, he's gained experience in various areas of IT, making him a true jack of all trades. However, his latest interests lie in the security space, modern workplace and management in Azure, with a particular focus on cyber security. He has experience working with products such as Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Identity, Defender for Cloud Apps, Defender for Office 365, Conditional Access, Microsoft Sentinel, and Microsof t Entra ID. His primary focus is on security on Azure workloads and identity (Entra ID). He prioritizes security awareness and believe that learning never stops, which is why He's always eager to expand my knowledge and skillset. In the past, He's also worked with various tools and technologies such as Cisco, Citrix, Dynamics AX, Exchange, ITIL, Azure, SCCM & SCOM, Scrum & Kanban, VMware, Windows Servers, and Windows Desktops. About the sponsors Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 415 – Diving Into Ignite 2025 for IT Pros and AI Agent Management

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:00:00 +0000

Welcome to Episode 415 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. Ben and Scott discuss the major announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2025, focusing on the dominant themes of AI agents and security. The conversation centers on three key areas: Security Copilot updates, Agent 365 for governance, and the broader security and management implications for IT professionals. Key Discussion Topics Security Copilot Expansion to E5 Customers 12 new Security Copilot agents coming to Defender, Entra, Intune, and Purview 30+ partner agents being added to the ecosystem Major announcement: Security Copilot will now be available to all Microsoft 365 E5 customers Rollout begins with Frontier program (Microsoft's insider ring for Copilot) Expanding in coming months to all E5 customers Security Copilot spans four pillars: Security Operations (Defender + Sentinel) Data Security (Purview) Identity & Access (Entra) Endpoint Management (Intune) Microsoft Agent 365 - The Control Plane for Agents Addresses the critical problem of agent sprawl and governance Think of it as "Entra ID for AI agents" Core capabilities: Registry: Complete inventory of all agents (registered, unregistered, and shadow agents Access Control: Conditional access policies and risk-based policies for agents Monitoring: Real-time visibility into agent behavior, performance, and organizational impact Security Integration: Defender protection, Purview data governance Key governance features: Approve pending agent requests Identify ownerless agents Apply DLP policies to agents Conditional access for agents Secure score for agents Available now through Frontier program in Microsoft 365 admin center Overarching Themes Agent security is the new frontier: All major product announcements (Purview, Entra, Defender) are focused on agent governance 100 trillion daily signals inform Microsoft's threat intelligence Ignite's evolution: Less about big product launches, more about storytelling and connecting features released throughout the year IT Pro focus: Understanding, managing, and securing AI agents is becoming a core competency Key Observations Ignite 2025 is heavily focused on AI and security - limited announcements for traditional products like SharePoint, Teams, or Loop The shift reflects Microsoft's rapid release cadence in the cloud era Agent sprawl is real and Microsoft is proactively addressing governance needs IT professionals need to embrace this change: "The only way out is through" Your support makes this show possible! Please consider becoming a premium member for access to live shows and more. Check out our membership options. Show Notes About the sponsors Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 414 – When the Cloud Falls: Understanding the AWS and Azure Outages of October 2025

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 13:00:11 +0000

Welcome to Episode 414 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast.This episode covers the major cloud service disruptions that impacted both AWS and Azure in October 2025. Even the biggest cloud providers face operational challenges. Learn what happened, how it was resolved, and what IT pros should keep in mind for future resilience planning. Your support makes this show possible! Please consider becoming a premium member for access to live shows and more. Check out our membership options. Show Notes Back to the Future: 40th Anniversary in IMAX [RESOLVED] Increased Error Rates and Latencies Azure Status History All Changes to Azure Frondoor Configuration are blocked currently. About the sponsors Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 413 – Simplifying Azure Files with a new file share-centric management model

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 12:00:17 +0000

Welcome to Episode 413 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. Microsoft has introduced a new file share-centric management model for Azure Files, aiming to eliminate the complexity of managing storage accounts. This model treats file shares as top-level Azure resources, allowing for easier automation, granular access control, and independent scaling. It also simplifies billing with transparent pricing and supports up to 1,000 file shares per subscription per region in the current preview. Your support makes this show possible! Please consider becoming a premium member for access to live shows and more. Check out our membership options. Show Notes Simplifying file share management and control for Azure Files Plan to deploy Azure Files Create an Azure file share with Microsoft.FileShares (preview) Scalability and performance targets for Azure Files Understand Azure Files billing models More questions? Reach out to AzureFiles@microsoft.com About our guest Connect with Will Gries on LinkedIn About the sponsors Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 412 – Microsoft Sentinel Gets a Data Lake

Thu, 09 Oct 2025 12:00:31 +0000

Welcome to Episode 412 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode, we explore three announcements from Microsoft that are reshaping how security teams work with Sentinel. From a reimagined data architecture to AI integration and new visualization capabilities, Microsoft is doubling down on making security operations more intelligent, efficient, and accessible. Whether you're a seasoned SOC analyst or just getting started with cloud security, these updates offer powerful new ways to detect threats, investigate incidents, and understand your security posture. Your support makes this show possible! Please consider becoming a premium member for access to live shows and more. Check out our membership options. Show Notes Logitech MX Master 4, Ergonomic Wireless Mouse with Advanced Performance Haptic Feedback, Ultra-Fast Scrolling, USB-C Charging, Bluetooth, Windows, MacOS - Graphite Microsoft Sentinel data lake is now generally available Announcing Microsoft Sentinel Model Context Protocol (MCP) server – Public Preview What is Microsoft Sentinel’s support for Model Context Protocol (MCP)? Add Microsoft Sentinel's collection of MCP tools Introducing Microsoft Sentinel graph (Public Preview) Graph models overview (preview) About the sponsors Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 411 – Securing AI with Microsoft Purview: Data Security Posture Management for AI

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 12:00:43 +0000

Welcome back to another episode of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast! In this episode, we dive deep into one of Microsoft Purview's AI monitoring and protection capabilities: Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) for AI - your secret weapon for monitoring and securing AI usage across your organization. Your support makes this show possible! Please consider becoming a premium member for access to live shows and more. Check out our membership options. Show Notes Learn about Data Security Posture Management Learn about Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) for AI Governing AI Shadow IT with the Microsoft Purview Browser Extension Get started with the Microsoft Purview extension for Chrome Considerations for DSPM for AI to manage data security and compliance protections for AI interactions Learn about Microsoft Purview billing models List of AI sites supported by Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI About the sponsors Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 410 – Joy and Jay take over and talk Change Management

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 12:00:44 +0000

Welcome to Episode 410 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast where hosts Jay Leask and Joy Apple are joined by special guest Ben Stegink for a discussion recorded live from the North American Cloud and Collaboration Summit in Branson. In this episode we focus on how organizations must adapt their change management approaches for the Microsoft 365 cloud environment.We discuss the fundamental shift from traditional IT operations, where organizations controlled software update timing, to cloud-based services with continuous updates outside of their control. Jay and Joy emphasize that successful modern IT requires cross-functional teams where IT partners closely with business units, communications, and training departments rather than operating in isolation. We then talk about the need for a shift in governance models to empower business users while requiring IT to balance user control with necessary oversight.Key themes include the importance of ongoing communication and adoption strategies, using tools like Viva Engage communities for peer-to-peer support, and adopting a "yes, and" approach to business requests rather than defaulting to "no." The episode emphasizes treating technology deployment as an ongoing service relationship rather than a one-time project, which is essential for success in the rapidly evolving cloud environment. Your support makes this show possible! Please consider becoming a premium member for access to live shows and more. Check out our membership options. Show Notes Joy Apple Joy is a Microsoft MVP and Director of Success and Enablement at Orchestry. With years of experience as an information technologist, I’m dedicated to helping organizations implement technology with a purpose-driven, “human-first” approach, ensuring tools like Microsoft 365 empower people to do their best work. Teaching and knowledge-sharing are at the heart of what I do. Whether it’s through volunteering in the Microsoft Community, speaking at events, or writing as the “Joy of SharePoint,” I’m passionate about helping others unlock their potential with modern workplace solutions. Im also a cohost of the Guardians of M365 Governance podcast, where I explore the challenges and rewards of governance, and a columnist for She is Tulsa, a quarterly magazine celebrating impactful stories from my local community. Outside of work, you’ll often find me enjoying live music or discovering new spots in Tulsa, Oklahoma, combining my love of connection and creativity wherever I go. Jay Leask Jay is a Principal Technical Architect at the Washington DC Microsoft Innovation Hub specializing in Modern Work. Jay facilitates discussions on modern IT practices, using 20 years of IT experience to engage customers in solutions design with a focus on increased the value and decreased risk within collaboration investments. His focus over the last 15 years has been on public sector organizations including state, local, and Federal government, as well as education institutions. Links Joy Apple on LinkedIn Connect with Jay Microsoft 365 Change Guide Stay on top of changes in Microsoft 365 Microsoft 365 Roadmap About the sponsors Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 409 – Preparing for Copilot- Securing Your Microsoft 365 Data and Beyond

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 12:00:44 +0000

Welcome to Episode 409 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode, Ben and Scott explore the configuration decisions tenant administrators face when preparing their Microsoft 365 environment for Copilot deployment. They dive into the key questions every IT professional should be asking: How do you identify and remediate oversharing in SharePoint sites before Copilot can access that content? What governance controls should be in place to prevent sensitive data from being discoverable through organization-wide search? The hosts examine practical tools for identifying high-risk sites and content, how to control which sites appear in Copilot results, and other configuration options that allow you to optimize how Copilot processes organizational content. Your support makes this show possible! Please consider becoming a premium member for access to live shows and more. Check out our membership options. Show Notes Data, Privacy, and Security for Microsoft 365 Copilot Apply principles of Zero Trust to Microsoft 365 Copilot Get started with data explorer Data access governance reports for SharePoint sites Semantic indexing for Microsoft 365 Copilot Restrict discovery of SharePoint sites and content A glimpse into the future of file sharing in Microsoft 365 About the sponsors Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 408 – Model Context Protocol (MCP) Part 2: Getting the Most Out of MCP Servers

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 12:00:11 +0000

Welcome to Episode 408 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. Part two of our exploration into Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers continues our hands-on discussion about finding, implementing, and getting the most out of MCP servers in your daily workflows. Your support makes this show possible! Please consider becoming a premium member for access to live shows and more. Check out our membership options. Show Notes Silicon Valley: Gilfoyle Made A Bot (Season 6 Episode 1 Clip) | HBO Lokka What is the Azure MCP Server (Preview)? Microsoft Learn Docs MCP Server overview Notion MCP Introducing Slack MCP Support Model Context Protocol servers Docker MCP Catalog About the sponsors Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 407 – Model Context Protocol (MCP) Part 1: The USB Port of AI Communications

Thu, 31 Jul 2025 13:40:29 +0000

Welcome to Episode 407 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode, we dive deep into the Model Context Protocol (MCP) - a game-changing specification that's extending the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) and creating exciting new possibilities for IT professionals working with Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365. MCP represents a significant shift toward more extensible and domain-specific AI interactions. Instead of being limited to pre-trained knowledge, you can now connect your AI tools directly to live data sources, APIs, and services that matter to your specific role and organization. Whether you're managing Azure infrastructure, creating content, or developing solutions, MCP provides a framework to make your AI interactions more powerful and contextually relevant to your daily workflows. Your support makes this show possible! Please consider becoming a premium member for access to live shows and more. Check out our membership options. Show Notes Introducing the Model Context Protocol Understanding MCP server concepts Understanding MCP client concepts A list of applications that support MCP integrations About the sponsors Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 406 – Agents of Insight: Copilot in Action and Sentinel on the Move

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 12:00:50 +0000

Welcome to Episode 406 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode, Ben and Scott discuss their recent experiences and thoughts on Microsoft's Copilot features and agents, specifically focusing on the Researcher and Analyst agents. They share practical applications and benefits of these tools, such as using Researcher for meeting preparations and Analyst for exploring data, summarizing data, and even coming up with python script to use with data. Additionally, they cover the upcoming migration of Microsoft Sentinel to the Defender portal, discussing its implications and potential future changes for other security tools. The episode ends with a teaser about an upcoming discussion on MCPs for AI! Your support makes this show possible! Please consider becoming a premium member for access to live shows and more. Check out our membership options. Show Notes Introducing Researcher and Analyst in Microsoft 365 Copilot Introducing Deep Research in Azure AI Foundry Agent Service Get started with Researcher in Microsoft 365 Copilot Researcher agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot Analyst agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot Get started with Analyst in Microsoft 365 Copilot New reasoning agents: Researcher and Analyst in Microsoft 365 Copilot Planning your move to Microsoft Defender portal for all Microsoft Sentinel customers About the sponsors Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 405 – Loop, Loop Workspaces, Loop Pages, Copilot Pages, Copilot Notebooks, Copilot Notebooks in OneNote Notebooks

Thu, 03 Jul 2025 12:00:43 +0000

Welcome to Episode 405 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode, Ben and Scott tackle the increasingly complex world of Microsoft's notebook ecosystem, exploring the new Copilot notebooks feature and how it relates to existing tools like OneNote and Loop. They break down the confusing landscape where "a notebook is not a notebook unless a notebook is a notebook in the right place." Your support makes this show possible! Please consider becoming a premium member for access to live shows and more. Check out our membership options. Show Notes Overview of Copilot Pages and Copilot Notebooks storage | Microsoft Learn Overview of Copilot Pages, Copilot Notebooks, and Loop workspaces permissions Overview of Loop storage | Microsoft Learn Copilot Pages, OneNote, Loop…where should I store my notes and tasks? About the sponsors Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 404: The Microsoft 365 Landing Page Shake-Up

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 12:00:43 +0000

Welcome to Episode 404 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode, Ben and Scott discuss the latest change Microsoft has rolled out to the Microsoft 365 user experience, redirecting users from the familiar portal.office.com to a new Copilot-centric landing page. This shift has caught many IT professionals off guard, rendering existing training documentation obsolete and creating user confusion across organizations. Your support makes this show possible! Please consider becoming a premium member for access to live shows and more. Check out our membership options. Show Notes WTF is happening with office.com? New Microsoft 365 Home Page How to Use the NEW Microsoft 365 Copilot Experience! About the sponsors Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 403 – Catching up on all the news from Microsoft Build 2025

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 12:00:25 +0000

Welcome to Episode 403 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast where Ben and Scott catch up on some of their favorite announcements and news from Microsoft Build 2025. Your support makes this show possible! Please consider becoming a premium member for access to live shows and more. Check out our membership options. Show Notes Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot Tuning New Microsoft 365 Copilot Tuning | Create fine-tuned models to write like you do Behind the Curtain: A white-collar bloodbath Announcing Microsoft Entra Agent ID: Secure and manage your AI agents Enterprise-grade controls for AI apps and agents built with Azure AI Foundry and Copilot Studio Quickstart: View enterprise applications BRK195: Inside Azure innovations with Mark Russinovich Microsoft Build 2025 - BOOK OF NEWS About the sponsors Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 402 – Declarative Agents with Andrew Connell

Thu, 22 May 2025 12:00:51 +0000

Welcome to Episode 402 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In today's episode, we’re thrilled to have Andrew Connell (AC) joining us once again. If you’ve been with us for a while, you’ll recognize AC as a repeat guest and one of the early voices who encouraged us to launch this podcast. In this episode, we’re diving deep into the world of Microsoft Copilot agents from a bit of a developer’s perspective . We expand on insights from Episode 400 and helping us understand some additional intricacies of how Copilot works under the hood. We’ll break down the different billing models and some limitations in what they provide and why having at least one $30 license is key to unlocking the semantic index. We’ll also explore how Copilot uses semantic indexing to ground responses in your organization’s data, and how it respects user permissions through access control lists. But it’s not all smooth sailing—AC also walks us through some of the current limitations, like missing metadata and large file indexing. He also shares a potential workaround using Azure AI Search for those needing more comprehensive coverage. Finally, we this weeks Microsoft Build Conference and tease a potential future episode where ACw will return to talk about custom Copilot development. Andrew Connell LinkedIn YouTube BlueSky Newsletter: The Full Stack Dev's Microsoft 365 Playbook Podcast: Code. Deploy. Go Live. - codedeploygo.live Code. Deploy. Go Live on YouTube Your support makes this show possible! Please consider becoming a premium member for access to live shows and more. Check out our membership options. Show Notes Episode 400 – Microsoft 365 Copilot Declarative Agents and Copilot Studio Agent Builder Create Copilot agents in Microsoft 365 Business Chat and Teams Grounding an agent to specific public websites Semantic indexing for Microsoft 365 Copilot Data, Privacy, and Security for Microsoft 365 Copilot About the sponsors Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 401 – Zero Trust in Microsoft 365

Thu, 08 May 2025 12:00:54 +0000

Welcome to Episode 401 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode, Ben Stegink and Scott Hoag dive into the intricacies of implementing Zero Trust principles within Microsoft 365 environments. They explore the foundational aspects of Zero Trust, starting with identity management and the importance of Entra ID. They also cover: Identity Management: The critical role of identity in Zero Trust, including MFA, password policies, and least privilege access. Endpoint Security: Strategies for verifying and managing devices, including compliance checks and the balance between corporate and BYOD devices. Networking: The complexities of securing network traffic in a SaaS environment, including conditional access policies and the emerging Global Secure Access feature. Application Management: The role of Defender for Cloud in monitoring shadow IT and ensuring data security across various applications. Data Protection: Techniques for safeguarding sensitive information, including DLP policies and the upcoming network-level DLP capabilities. Join us as we unpack these topics and provide practical insights for enhancing your organization's security posture with Zero Trust. Your support makes this show possible! Please consider becoming a premium member for access to live shows and more. Check out our membership options. Show Notes Zero Trust deployment for technology pillars Securing identity with Zero Trust Secure endpoints with Zero Trust Secure endpoints with Zero Trust Secure applications with Zero Trust Secure data with Zero Trust Microsoft Zero Trust Assessment About the sponsors Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 400 – Microsoft 365 Copilot Declarative Agents and Copilot Studio Agent Builder

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 12:00:51 +0000

Welcome to Episode 400 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode, Ben and Scott explore how IT professionals and developers can leverage Microsoft 365 Copilot’s declarative agents and the Copilot Studio Agent Builder to enhance productivity and streamline workflows within their organizations. Declarative agents allow you to define specific tasks and workflows, enabling Copilot to assist users more effectively. With the Copilot Studio Agent Builder, creating these agents becomes a streamlined process, even for those with minimal coding experience. Listen and learn how to build, deploy, and manage these agents, licensing considerations, and best practices to maximize their impact in your organization. Your support makes this show possible! Please consider becoming a premium member for access to live shows and more. Check out our membership options. Show Notes Use the Copilot Studio Agent Builder to Build Agents Copilot Studio Agent Builder Templates Publish and Manage Copilot Studio Agent Builder Agents Build and Install the Declarative Agent in Copilot Studio Copilot Studio Licensing Information About the sponsors Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 399 – Azure Infrastructure as Code with Greg Suttie

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 12:00:48 +0000

Welcome to Episode 399 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode, we bring you another interview from the MVP Summit. In this episode, we were able to meet up with long time listener Greg Suttie and talk about his path to becoming an MVP as well as some of what he's been working on in Azure. We cover everything he been doing with Infrastructure as code around Bicep, Azure Verified Modules, Azure Bicep Configuration files and more! Greg Suttie Greg is an Azure MVP and Microsoft Certified Trainer. He also a passionate developer with 25 years experience, mainly with Microsoft Technologies and background is a .NET developer since the start of .NET. – He was one of the first 50 people in the world to become an MCSD developer back in the day. Recently awarded the Outstanding contribution to the Microsoft Community UK Winner and then the Outstanding contribution to the Microsoft Community Global Winner both for 2023. Your support makes this show possible! Please consider becoming a premium member for access to live shows and more. Check out our membership options. Show Notes Greg Suttie - MVP Profile Greg Suttie's blog Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) What is IaC What is Bicep? Comparing JSON and Bicep for templates Quickstart: Integrate Bicep with Azure Pipelines Azure Verified Modules Azure Verified Modules What is the Azure Well-Architected Framework? Azure Quick Review Docs Azure Quick Review Github Azure Bicep Parameters Bicep Configuration Files Export a resource from the Azure Portal Visual Studio Code GitHub Copilot About the sponsors Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 398 – PowerShell and Intune with Harm Veenstra

Thu, 27 Mar 2025 12:00:50 +0000

Welcome to Episode 398 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode Ben meets up with Harm Veenstra at the annual Microsoft MVP Summit. They chat a bit about Harm experience as an MVP and his path to becoming an MVP. Then the move into a few technologies near and dear to Harm, PowerShell and Microsoft Intune. They start off talking about some of the ways Harm uses PowerShell and some of his favorite scripts. They talk about how he uses PowerShell with Intune, in particular using it with remediation scripts. Harm Veenstra Harm started working at 18, from a ServiceDesk employee to a workspace and system engineer at a large insurance firm in the Netherlands. 1996, those were the days! After working there for almost 11 years, Harm had different system engineer jobs and learned much about Citrix, Cisco, VMWare, storage, and Microsoft. Currently, He's employed at NEXXT (https://www.nexxt.one) as a Consultant, mainly in Endpoint Management, but He does anything Microsoft 😉 (Client, Server, 365, and Azure). And… He became a Microsoft MVP in March 2024 in PowerShell! Your support makes this show possible! Please consider becoming a premium member for access to live shows and more. Check out our membership options. Show Notes PowerShell is fun w/ Harm Connect with Harm on LinkedIn Harm's MVP Profile Microsoft PowerShell documentation Microsoft Intune documentation Intune Remediations Microsoft Graph PowerShell About the sponsors Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 397 – Local LLMs: Why Every Microsoft 365 & Azure Pro Should Explore Them

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 12:00:03 +0000

Welcome to Episode 397 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode, Scott and Ben dive into the world of local LLMs—large language models that run entirely on your device. We’re going to explore why more IT pros and developers are experimenting with them, the kinds of models you can run, and how you can integrate them directly into your workflow, including in Visual Studio Code for AI-assisted coding. Your support makes this show possible! Please consider becoming a premium member for access to live shows and more. Check out our membership options. Show Notes Ollama Running LLMs Locally: A Beginner's Guide to Using Ollama open-webui/open-webui LM Studio LM. Studio Model Catalog Why do people like Ollama more than LM Studio? A Starter Guide for Playing with Your Own Local AI! host ALL your AI locally Run your own AI (but private) About the sponsors Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 396 – Lessons from a real-life ransomware attack

Thu, 27 Feb 2025 13:00:49 +0000

Welcome to Episode 396 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode, Ben walks Scott through a ransomware attack on an on-premises VMware environment. As they discuss the attack and the results of it, they also talk through some lessons and considerations that could have helped mitigate such an attack. Your support makes this show possible! Please consider becoming a premium member for access to live shows and more. Check out our membership options. Show Notes How Long Does It Take for a Hacker to Crack a Password? Default Accounts in VMware vSphere How To Prevent Ransomware Attackers From Taking Over Your ESXi 8.0 Hosts Zero-Day Security Bug Likely Fueling Fortinet Firewall Attacks What is the 3-2-1 backup rule? Ransomware Payment: What Happens if You Pay the Ransom? About the sponsors Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 395 – Getting Started with VDI in Azure with Azure Virtual Desktop

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 15:00:52 +0000

Welcome to Episode 395 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode, we dive into Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) and how it enables organizations to deliver secure, scalable Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) in the cloud. Whether you’re looking to modernize remote work, enhance security, or optimize IT costs, AVD provides a flexible solution for accessing virtualized Windows desktops and applications from anywhere.Topics covered include: What is Azure Virtual Desktop? A breakdown of AVD’s features, benefits, and common use cases. Deployment essentials – Setting up host pools, session hosts, and assigning users. Configuration best practices – Managing user profiles with FSLogix and securing AVD with Microsoft Intune. Cost estimation – Key factors affecting pricing and how to optimize expenses. Getting started – Steps to connect via the Remote Desktop client on multiple platforms. Whether you’re an IT admin or just exploring VDI in Azure, this episode is packed with insights to help you get started. Tune in and take your remote desktop strategy to the next level! Your support makes this show possible! Please consider becoming a premium member for access to live shows and more. Check out our membership options. Show Notes Azure Virtual Desktop documentation Understand and estimate costs for Azure Virtual Desktop Azure Virtual Desktop Azure Virtual Desktop documentation for users Get started with the Remote Desktop client FSLogix for user profiles Managing with Intune Manage the operation system of sessions hosts (with Intune) About the sponsors Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 394 – Prepare your Microsoft 365 Tenant for Copilot Success

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 13:00:36 +0000

Welcome to Episode 394 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode, we explore everything you need to know to get your Microsoft 365 tenant ready for Copilot. From licensing requirements to deployment best practices, we break down the steps to ensure a seamless setup.Key topics include: Understanding Copilot licensing, including E3, E5, and Business Premium options. Ensuring compatibility with Microsoft 365 Apps, OneDrive, Teams, and Outlook. Exploring Copilot’s data protection and auditing architecture to safeguard sensitive information and prevent oversharing. Integrating SharePoint Advanced Management (SAM), now included with Copilot, to enhance collaboration and control. Leveraging Microsoft’s Copilot Control System for managing prompts, sensitivity labels, and security posture. We also cover the newly announced Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat initiative and the evolving role of AI-driven collaboration tools in business workflows. Whether you’re an IT admin or a decision-maker, this episode provides the insights you need to deploy Copilot successfully and harness its full potential.Don’t miss this comprehensive guide to preparing your organization for the future of AI-powered productivity! Your support makes this show possible! Please consider becoming a premium member for access to live shows and more. Check out our membership options. Show Notes Copilot for all: Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat Microsoft 365 Copilot admin guide for E3 + SAM licenses Microsoft 365 Copilot admin guide for E5 + SAM licenses Microsoft 365 Copilot with SharePoint Get ready for Microsoft 365 Copilot with SharePoint Advanced Management Copilot Control System explained AI security posture management Microsoft 365 Copilot data protection and auditing architecture Address oversharing concerns in Microsoft 365 Copilot deployment blueprint About the sponsors Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 393 – Microsoft Teams Meeting Room Solutions with Alex Mooney

Fri, 17 Jan 2025 13:00:57 +0000

Welcome to Episode 393 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode, Ben is joined on the show by Alex Mooney from Logitech. The two of them discuss the integration of technology into meetings. They start out discussion AI for transcribing in-person meetings, highlighting some of their benefits and then shift into discussion various meeting room systems for Microsoft Teams. They discuss some of the offerings from Logitech including the Rally Bar Huddle, Rally Bar Mini, and Rally Bar and how they are certified for both Android and Windows to work in different scenarios for building out your Microsoft Teams Room system. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Microsoft Teams Room Microsoft Teams Room Documentation Plan Microsoft Teams Rooms Microsoft Teams Room Devices Logitech Conference Room Systems Request Logitech Demo About Alex With a leadership role at Logitech, Alex has had the exciting opportunity to shape the future of digital workspaces. He's directed major collaborations, including the impactful partnership between Logitech and Microsoft that's driving billions in revenue. These aren't just business deals, they're transformations—helping companies worldwide navigate the ever-changing terrain of technology. Creating and implementing innovative solutions is part of Alex's DNA. Project Ghost, an immersive video conferencing experience, is just one of the many successful initiatives that he's been proud to lead. He's often invited to share my insights on industry trends and strategies at key events and in publications. It's a role he relishes — helping others grasp the opportunities that this rapid era of technological change brings. His focus is always forward, on the potential of what can be achieved together in the fields of collaboration and efficiency. Alex on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexm00ney/ About the sponsors Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 392 – Building Confidence In Your Microsoft Copilot Deployment with AvePoint CTO John Peluso

Fri, 03 Jan 2025 13:00:47 +0000

Welcome to Episode 392 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode, Ben interviews AvePoint CTO John Peluso. Listen in as they discuss Copilot in Microsoft 365 and how to govern and gain insights on your Copilot usage in your organization. Copilot in Microsoft 365 is becoming a critical tool to supporting modern work. As Microsoft continues to iterate and improve on Microsoft Copilot, partners such as AvePoint help to augment the administration and analytics of Copilot adoption in your organization. While Copilot enables your workforce with the tools to their jobs, Microsoft and AvePoint also provide the tools for administrators to empower their workforce quickly in a safe way. Another part of the puzzle of administering Copilot is how do you measure AI adoption in your organization, benchmark your organization against similar organizations, and understand the activity levels and adoption of Copilot? Listen in to hear about how AI tools like Copilot and AI in general can be governed in Microsoft 365 and how you can gain insights into how to approach analyzing Copilot adoption in your organization. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes AvePoint Introduces First-to-Market Benchmarking Data for Microsoft 365 Copilot IT Strategies for Copilot Administration Ignite 2024 - What's new for Microsoft 365 and Copilot admins Ignite 2024: Why nearly 70% of the Fortune 500 now use Microsoft 365 Copilot Microsoft Ignite 2024: Top Microsoft 365 Copilot Updates About the sponsors Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 391 – Remote Desktop and Application Delivery with Kamal Srinivasan from Parallels

Thu, 19 Dec 2024 13:00:45 +0000

Welcome to Episode 391 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode, Scott sits down with Kamal Srinivasan from Parallels to talk how you can think about delivering applications and desktops to your users in post-Citrix world. As the traditional “Citrix” model faces disruption, we explore how remote work, hybrid scenarios, and cloud-based computing are redefining how organizations deliver applications and desktops to end users. Key topics include: The shift away from static, on-prem desktops to dynamic, cloud-based compute. How to optimize app delivery by building on top of Microsoft’s Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) platform. Bridging the gap between legacy systems and cloud-based solutions, enabling businesses to roll out remote desktop solutions like AVD and Parallels RAS gradually while scaling down on-prem infrastructure. The changing role of IT admins in supporting a workforce that operates anywhere, anytime. Listen in and learn how your organization can streamline operations and empower your workforce with flexible, efficient application and desktop delivery. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Parallels Parallels RAS Parallels RAS Resources Parallels Secure Workspace Enhance your Azure Virtual Desktop experience with Parallels RAS Windows 365 Link Episode 390: Microsoft Ignite 2024: Windows 365 Link About the sponsors Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 390: Microsoft Ignite 2024: Windows 365 Link

Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:00:51 +0000

Welcome to Episode 390 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast, live from Microsoft Ignite 2024! In this episode Ben sits down for a chat with Melissa Grant, head of product marketing for Windows 11 Enterprise, Windows 365, and Azure Virtual Desktop at Microsoft. Melissa discusses her tenure at Microsoft and the evolution of cloud-based Windows offerings, starting with the launch of Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) five years ago and transitioning into Windows 365. They also discuss Windows 365 Link, Microsoft’s new dedicated endpoint device, designed for seamless, secure connections Windows 365 Cloud PCs. This device reduces the need for extensive IT management and resources by simplifying deployment process, and providing security benefits based on feedback from some of Microsoft’s customers. Melissa Grant Melissa Grant leads product marketing for Windows Enterprise, Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop within Microsoft Modern Work. She and her team are dedicated to delivering secure, productive and efficient commercial solutions so customers can do their best work with Windows. - Melissa on LinkedIn Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Windows in the Cloud leadership spotlight: Melissa Grant, Windows Marketing Windows 365 Link—the first Cloud PC device for Windows 365 Windows 365 Link Preview Demo: Introducing Windows 365 Link Windows 365 Link Documentation What is Windows 365 Link? About the sponsors Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 389: Microsoft Ignite 2024: Redefining AI, Productivity, and Edge Computing

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 13:00:57 +0000

Welcome to Episode 389 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this special episode, we recap the game-changing announcements from Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft’s premier conference unveiling innovations across Microsoft 365 and Azure.We explore advancements in Agentic AI and multi-modal models that seamlessly accept and produce text, voice, and graphics. Discover how Copilot is evolving with features like reasoning over on-screen content (coming to Teams in CY25) and enhanced capabilities in tools like Word, PowerPoint, and Excel—bringing automated summaries, dynamic graphics, and effortless data analysis to the forefront. Learn how Copilot Pages enable collaborative editing, while Copilot Extensibility and Agents allow businesses to create customized AI-powered helpers with ease. Imagine every SharePoint site having a built-in agent by default, making tasks more intuitive than ever. We also cover new updates in edge AI—a “distributed computing fabric” blending Azure Local bare-metal solutions and Windows 365 Link thin clients. Innovations in AI-ready silicon underpin these transformative changes. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Microsoft Ignite 2024 Book of News Introducing Copilot Actions, new agents, and tools to empower IT teams Redefine development: AI-first innovation with agents and Microsoft Copilot in Power Platform What’s new in Microsoft 365 Copilot in PowerPoint at Ignite 2024 Copilot in Excel: Transforming Data Analysis What’s new and coming to Microsoft Outlook – Ignite 2024 Microsoft Ignite 2024 | Microsoft 365 Copilot Innovation in Your Go-To Apps Ignite 2024 - What's new for Microsoft 365 and Copilot admins Introducing Copilot Analytics to measure AI impact on your business New Copilot Prompt Gallery helps you discover, save, and share your favorite prompts Introducing the AI-Powered Workplace: Technology solutions for flexible work About the sponsors Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 388 – Getting Started with Azure Bicep: Infrastructure as Code with a Domain Specific Language

Thu, 07 Nov 2024 13:00:55 +0000

Welcome to Episode 388 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode, we dive into Azure Bicep, Microsoft’s streamlined language for defining cloud infrastructure. If you’re new to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) or looking to simplify your Azure deployments, listen in to learn how easy it is to get started with Azure Bicep. We walk through the essentials, from setting up the necessary tools such as Visual Studio Code and the Azure Bicep extension, to exploring the intuitive features that make Bicep so powerful. Discover how Bicep’s functions, objects, and simplified syntax improve your workflow, offering a more readable and maintainable alternative to traditional ARM templates. Whether you’re an Azure admin or a developer, this episode provides a clear path to building and managing Azure resources effectively with Bicep. Tune in and start coding your infrastructure with confidence! Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Microsoft Ignite What is Bicep? Bicep functions Quickstart: Create Bicep files with Visual Studio Code Azure/azure-quickstart-templates ˚Decompiling ARM template JSON to Bicep Learn modules for Bicep About the sponsors Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 387 – Windows on ARM: Physical Hardware vs Virtual Machines, App Compatibility, and Other Considerations

Fri, 25 Oct 2024 12:00:12 +0000

Welcome to Episode 387 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode, Scott and Ben dive into a discussion around Ben's newly purchased Surface Pro 11th Edition - a Copilot Plus PC running on an ARM processor. Ben gives his takes on the state of the hardware and how Windows 11 runs on a native ARM processor. Scott also gives his experience running Windows 11 daily for work on Parallels Desktop on Apple Silicon. Scott's hot take - virtualizing Windows 11 on a Mac is better than running it on native hardware. Listen in as Ben and Scott talk through Windows on ARM, whether a virtual machine might be best for you to try out Windows on ARM, pitfalls of application compatibility, and when you might just want to consider a remote desktop session instead to get your Windows work done from a Mac. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Meet the Surface Pro 11th Edition Microsoft announces Copilot Plus PCs with built-in AI hardware The Ultimate Solution: Windows 11 in a virtual machine + Parallels Desktop + Mac Computers with Apple silicon Azure Cobalt 100-based Virtual Machines are now generally available Unified inbox in Outlook for Mac MMR Call Redirection for Azure Virtual Desktop, Windows 365 now available How emulation works on Arm Exploring Windows on ARM: The Future of Computing About the sponsors Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 386 – Exploring DevOps Tools: Maester, Pester, and SCUBA

Thu, 10 Oct 2024 12:00:16 +0000

Welcome to Episode 386 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode, we explore three powerful tools designed to improve automation, testing, and security in modern development and operations workflows: Maester, Pester, and SCUBA. Whether you’re a DevOps engineer, PowerShell enthusiast, or security professional, this episode is packed with valuable insights on how to streamline your processes and strengthen your infrastructure using these powerful tools. Tune in to level up your automation and security game! Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Maester Installation guide Maester Tests Entra ID - Security Config Analyzer Tests Writing custom tests Pester Use the What If tool to troubleshoot Conditional Access policies Secure Cloud Business Applications (SCuBA) Project https://github.com/cisagov/ScubaGear About the sponsors Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 385 – Microsoft Sentinel: Deployment, Management, and Cost Optimization

Wed, 02 Oct 2024 12:00:01 +0000

Welcome to Episode 385 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode, we dive into deploying, managing, and optimizing Microsoft’s leading cloud-native SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) solution. Whether you’re new to Microsoft Sentinel or looking to deepen your expertise, this episode is packed with actionable insights to help you secure your Azure environment effectively. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes What is Microsoft Sentinel? Deployment guide for Microsoft Sentinel Plan costs and understand Microsoft Sentinel pricing and billing Log retention plans in Microsoft Sentinel Prepare for multiple workspaces and tenants in Microsoft Sentinel Centrally manage multiple Microsoft Sentinel workspaces with workspace manager (Preview) Sentinel Content Packs Free data sources Automate threat response with playbooks in Microsoft Sentinel About the sponsors Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 384 – Securing Azure: Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Thu, 12 Sep 2024 12:00:38 +0000

Welcome to Episode 384 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode, we tackle a wide range of essential topics to help you monitor, secure, and streamline operations across your Azure estate. From access control strategies to virtual machine agents and everything in between, this episode gives you a high-level overview of Microsoft Defender for Cloud and the suite of Azure services it protects. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Episode 382 – Securing the Modern Workplace: Exploring Microsoft Entra ID Security Defaults, Conditional Access Policies, and Microsoft Secure Score Episode 383 – Securing Azure: Monitoring and observing your Azure estate What is Microsoft Defender for Cloud? Common questions about Defender for Cloud? Common questions about data collection, agents, and workspaces About Azure Update Manager Align responsibilities across teams About the sponsors Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 383 – Securing Azure: Monitoring and observing your Azure estate

Thu, 29 Aug 2024 12:00:59 +0000

Welcome to Episode 383 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode we continue our discussion on security, transitioning from Microsoft 365 to Azure (Episode 382 – Securing the Modern Workplace: Exploring Microsoft Entra ID Security Defaults, Conditional Access Policies, and Microsoft Secure Score) to Microsoft Azure. We begin with Azure security logging and auditing, discussing the importance of capturing and analyzing security logs to detect and respond to potential threats. Next, we delve into Azure Monitor data sources and data collection methods. Azure Monitor provides a comprehensive set of tools to collect, analyze, and act on telemetry data from your cloud and on-premises environments. Finally, we discuss how the components of Azure Monitor can be used for managing and analyzing the vast amounts of data generated in your Azure environment. We’ll explore how this platform supports advanced analytics, helps you identify trends and anomalies, and enables proactive threat detection. Whether you’re a cloud architect, security professional, or IT admin, this episode offers practical advice and strategies for leveraging observability to enhance your security posture in Azure. Tune in to discover how you can better protect your organization by implementing effective observability practices. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Announcing mandatory multi-factor authentication for Azure sign-in Azure security logging and auditing Azure Monitor data sources and data collection methods Azure Monitor data platform Extend Azure with Azure Native ISV Services About the sponsors Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 382 – Securing the Modern Workplace: Exploring Microsoft Entra ID Security Defaults, Conditional Access Policies, and Microsoft Secure Score

Thu, 15 Aug 2024 12:00:30 +0000

Welcome to Episode 382 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode, we dive into three essential tools for safeguarding your organization in the cloud-first world: Security Defaults in Microsoft Entra ID, Conditional Access Policies, and Microsoft Secure Score. Join us as we talk through and rationalize each solution, including when and why you might want to use each depending on your maturity with the Microsoft Cloud. Whether you’re an IT administrator, security professional, or just someone keen on understanding how to secure your digital workspace, this episode is packed with valuable insights and practical tips to help you leverage these security tools. Tune in to stay ahead of the curve and ensure your organization is protected against the evolving threat landscape! Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Security defaults in Microsoft Entra ID Microsoft Secure Future Initiative Every Microsoft employee is now being judged on their security work What is Conditional Access? Conditional Access policy templates Episode 256 – Conditional Access All The Things? Microsoft security portals and admin centers Track your Microsoft Secure Score history and meet goals Assess your security posture with Microsoft Secure Score About the sponsors Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 381 – Microsoft Graph Data Connect

Thu, 01 Aug 2024 12:00:04 +0000

Welcome to Episode 381 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode we discuss Microsoft Graph Data Connect, a service that allows organizations to access and manage data from Microsoft 365 in a secure, scalable, and efficient manner. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Elgato's New Stream Deck POWER-UPS make streaming even easier USB Hub - Multiport adapter for Stream Deck + Helping our customers through the CrowdStrike outage Azure status history Update on the SharePoint Files dataset Datasets, regions, and sinks supported by Microsoft Graph Data Connect microsoftgraph / dataconnect-solutions MGDC for SharePoint: New, Updated and Upcoming Datasets Step-by-step: Gather a detailed dataset on SharePoint Sites using the Microsoft Graph Data Connect About the sponsors Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 380 – The future of AD FS is cloudy

Thu, 18 Jul 2024 14:21:02 +0000

Welcome to Episode 380 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode we discuss some of the latest security breaches that you should be on the lookout for and then we get into AD FS migrations and if you should consider it. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes AT&T says criminals stole phone records of ‘nearly all’ customers in new data breach Largest password database leak exposes nearly 10M credentials Post-Breach Fixes: Snowflake Adds Mandatory MFA What Is Identity Theft Insurance? Move to cloud authentication with the AD FS migration tool! Use AD FS application migration to move AD FS apps to Microsoft Entra ID Migrate from AD FS to Microsoft Entra ID for identity management https://setup.cloud.microsoft/ Microsoft ordered employees in China to only use iPhones due to security threats About the sponsors Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 379 – Azure Verified Modules

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 12:00:21 +0000

Welcome to Episode 379 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode, Ben and Scott take a look at Azure Verified Modules, a new initiative from Microsoft to consolidate and set the standards for what a good Bicep and/or Terraform module looks like. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Ember Temperature Control Smart Mug 2, 14 Oz, App-Controlled Heated Coffee Mug with 80 Min Battery Life and Improved Design, Black Azure Verified Modules What, Why, How Module Indexes Module Support Terraform Modules Community Calls John Savill - Azure Verified Modules Overview About the sponsors Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 378 – Azure Compute Fleet

Thu, 06 Jun 2024 12:00:12 +0000

Welcome to Episode 378 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode we discuss Azure Compute Fleet, a new Preview service announced at Microsoft Build 2024. Azure Compute Fleet is a new Azure infrastructure service that lets you deploy Azure compute capacity across different virtual machine SKUs, availability zones, and pricing models. It's all about acquiring VM capacity at scale. If you're familiar with AWS EC2 and Spot fleet, this is effectively the equivalent in Azure. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes GoveeLife WiFi Freezer Thermometer Alarm, Remote App Alert with Anti-False, Wireless Smart Temperature Monitor Sensor, 2 Years Free Data Storage Export, Digital Thermometer for Refrigerator Pool Tub EC2 Fleet – Manage Thousands of On-Demand and Spot Instances with One Request Azure Compute Fleet PREVIEW Announcing the Public Preview of Azure Compute Fleet Build 2024: Microsoft Announces New Azure Virtual Machines for AI and Cloud-Native Workloads What is Azure Compute Fleet? (Preview) FAQ for Azure Compute Fleet Deploying Azure Compute Fleet virtual machines - YouTube About the sponsors Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 377 – Microsoft Copilot for Security

Thu, 23 May 2024 12:00:01 +0000

Welcome to Episode 377 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode, Ben and Scott talk about a recent incident at Google Cloud where one of their customer accounts was completely wiped out without notice. Then they dive into Microsoft Copilot for Security. Ben has been getting hands on with it and it is expensive. They discuss pricing for Copilot for Security, how to think about approaching the multiple embedded experiences in it, and how to think about building a corpus of knowledge and truly leveraging it as an assistant and accelerator for upping your security game in your Microsoft cloud. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes “Unprecedented” Google Cloud event wipes out customer account and its backups A joint statement from UniSuper CEO Peter Chun, and Google Cloud CEO, Thomas Kurian What was the recent outage caused by? Microsoft Copilot for Security Microsoft Security Copilot to be available April 1 as a capacity-based service Microsoft Copilot for Security - Pricing Manage usage of security compute units in Copilot for Security What is Microsoft Copilot for Security? Microsoft Copilot for Security experiences Copilot for Security prompting tips - Create effective prompts About the sponsors Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 376 – Catching up on the Microsoft 365 Community Conference

Thu, 09 May 2024 12:00:02 +0000

Welcome to Episode 376 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode. Ben and Scott discuss some of the announcements from the Microsoft 365 Community Conference. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Microsoft 365 Community Conference Microsoft launches SharePoint eSignature integration with Adobe and Docusign SharePoint eSignature Set up SharePoint eSignature Securely digitize document workflows with eSignature in Microsoft 365 | OD17 Unveiling the Newest OneDrive Capabilities OneDrive Adds New Offline Capabilities Work with OneDrive web app when offline The Intrazone - Add to OneDrive About the sponsors Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 375 – Securing Your Digital World: An Intro to Global Secure Access

Thu, 25 Apr 2024 12:00:57 +0000

Welcome to Episode 375 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast, where we discuss Microsoft's Global Secure Access offering. We explain how Global Secure Access brings identity, network, and endpoint access together under one service and how it combines with Defender for Cloud Apps and is built around the capacity of the Microsoft WAN. Join us as we take a deep dive into the world of digital security and learn how Global Secure Access can help you secure your digital world. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes What is Global Secure Access (preview)? Global Secure Access clients Global Secure Access client for Windows (preview) Global Secure Access (preview) traffic forwarding profiles Learn about Microsoft Entra Private Access Learn about Microsoft Entra Internet Access for all apps How to use the Global Secure Access (preview) enriched Microsoft 365 logs About the sponsors Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 374 – Azure Trusted Launch Virtual Machines

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 12:00:10 +0000

Welcome to Episode 374 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast where Ben and Scott break down Azure Trusted launch virtual machines - what they are, how they're different from Gen 1 Azure VMs, and how you can enable them for your new and existing workloads. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Trusted launch for Azure virtual machines Supported SKUs Enable Trusted launch on existing Azure VMs Deploy a VM with trusted launch enabled Enable Trusted launch on existing Azure VMs Trusted Launch FAQ About the sponsors Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 373 – Microsoft Intune (Part Trois)

Thu, 28 Mar 2024 16:00:57 +0000

Welcome to Episode 373 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast where Ben and Scott close out their review of Microsoft Intune and its third pillar - Endpoint security. They discuss the core components of Endpoint security, including antivirus, disk encryption, and firewall configuration. Ben also takes Scott on a tour of some more hidden gems in Endpoint security, including managed installers along with endpoint detection and response policies. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Microsoft Intune troubleshooting Manage endpoint security in Microsoft Intune Manage BitLocker policy for Windows devices with Intune Use FileVault disk encryption for macOS with Intune Monitor device encryption with Intune Endpoint security firewall rule migration tool overview Enforce compliance for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint with Conditional Access in Intune Endpoint detection and response policy for endpoint security in Intune Manage approved apps for Windows devices with App Control for Business policy and Managed Installers for Microsoft Intune About the sponsors Would you like to become the irreplaceable Microsoft 365 resource for your organization? Let us know!

Episode 372 – Microsoft Intune (Part Deux) – App

Thu, 14 Mar 2024 12:00:20 +0000

Welcome to Episode 372 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast, where we'll be discussing more of Microsoft Intune, one of the most powerful tools for managing your organization's devices, apps, and endpoint security. In this episode, we continue our discussion on the three pillars of Intune - Devices, Apps, and Endpoint Security - with Apps. We'll cover App protection policies, touch on the management experience, how MDM and MAM come into play, and how App protection policies protect your corporate data. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Overview of Windows Autopilot App protection policies overview App configuration policies for Microsoft Intune Policies for Office apps About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 371 – Microsoft Intune (Part Une) – Devices

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 13:00:02 +0000

Welcome to Episode 371 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast, where we'll be discussing Microsoft Intune, one of the most powerful tools for managing your organization's devices, apps, and endpoint security. In this episode, we'll start exploring the three pillars of Intune: Devices, Apps, and Endpoint Security. We'll cover what devices you can enroll, how to onboard them, and what configurations are available. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Washington's Dream - SNL - YouTube Microsoft Intune plans and pricing Microsoft Intune licensing Device-only licenses Microsoft Intune planning guide Get started with your Microsoft Intune deployment Supported operating systems and browsers in Intune Manage endpoint security policies on devices onboarded to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Import custom ADMX and ADML administrative templates into Microsoft Intune (public preview) Create a Settings Catalog policy using your imported GPOs in Microsoft Intune (public preview) Password and account lockout policies on Microsoft Entra Domain Services managed domains About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 370 – Revisiting Microsoft 365 Copilot

Thu, 15 Feb 2024 13:00:06 +0000

The restrictions have been lifted for Microsoft 365 Copilot licensing and you can now purchase licenses in tenants with less than 300 users. With the flood gates open, Ben and Scott revisit Microsoft 365 Copilot now that they both have access to it in their own tenants. Is it just a summarization tool? Is it any good for helping out Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Microsoft Teams? Listen in and find out! Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Microsoft 365 Copilot 'generally available' – if you can afford 300 seats Expanding availability of Copilot for Microsoft 365 Where can I get Microsoft Copilot? Microsoft Copilot help & learning Copilot in Microsoft Teams help & learning Email coaching with Copilot in Outlook Copilot in OneNote help & learning Copilot Pro plans & licensing About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 369 – Microsoft 365 Backup and Archive

Thu, 01 Feb 2024 13:00:40 +0000

In Episode 369, Ben and Scott explore the new Backup and Archive options for Microsoft 365 and Office 365 workloads - Microsoft 365 Archive and Microsoft 365 Backup. These two features may sound similar, but they have different functionalities. Microsoft 365 Archive provides coverage for SharePoint, while Microsoft 365 Backup provides coverage across SharePoint, OneDrive, and Exchange. We will be discussing why you should use these features, how to set them up, and their options. Additionally, we'll cover the differences between the two features, such as the fact that Microsoft 365 Backup does not require an Azure subscription, unlike Microsoft 365 Archive. We'll also delve into the policies, frequency and retention, and recovery options for each service. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Microsoft 365 Backup Microsoft 365 Backup - Microsoft Adoption Overview of Microsoft 365 Backup (Preview) Set up Microsoft 365 Backup (Preview) Pricing model for Microsoft 365 Backup (Preview) Microsoft 365 Roadmap - Feature ID 188799 Microsoft 365 Archive Microsoft 365 Archive - Microsoft Adoption Overview of Microsoft 365 Archive (Preview) Set up Microsoft 365 Archive (Preview) Pricing model for Microsoft 365 Archive (Preview) Microsoft 365 Roadmap - Feature ID 171100 About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 368 – Loop vs Notion vs Confluence vs OneNote – use the right tool for the job

Thu, 18 Jan 2024 13:00:57 +0000

In Episode 368, Ben and Scott talk through the differences between Notion and Microsoft Loop with a sprinkling of Confluence. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Microsoft officially launches Loop, its Notion competitor Loop vs. Notion: Microsoft’s new document app is a promising mess Is Microsoft Loop A Notion Alternative? Microsoft Loop - A Smarter Way to OneNote? Get started with Microsoft Loop Loop components in Whiteboard Get started with Copilot for Microsoft 365 in Loop Loop app Public Preview limits Guides and Tutorials - How to use Notion Confluence vs Notion Comparison Notion vs Confluence - Switch from Confluence Why Choose Microsoft Loop as Your Wiki About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 367 – Azure Files vs a Server with an SMB Share

Thu, 04 Jan 2024 13:00:42 +0000

In Episode 367, Ben and Scott kick off 2024 with a discussion of Azure Files. They start out reviewing a customer scenario Ben encountered and how they would approach it, breaking down the options available with Azure Files, hosting traditional SMB shares in Azure, and how a hybrid deployment can be the best of both worlds. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Planning for an Azure Files deployment Replace or extend Windows file servers with Azure Files and Azure File Sync Authentication & Identity Overview of Azure Files identity-based authentication options for SMB access Data protection What are the benefits of Microsoft Defender for Storage? Prevent accidental deletion of Azure file shares Accidental delete protection for Azure file shares using Azure Backup Azure Files data redundancy Costing Optimize costs for Azure Files with Reservations Understand Azure Files billing Performance and scale Azure Files scalability and performance targets Azure Files networking considerations NFS file shares in Azure Files Robocopy sees Cloud Tiered files in Azure File Sync as "modified" even though they are not, how to fix? About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 366 – Old Man Yells At Cloud

Thu, 28 Dec 2023 13:00:23 +0000

In this episode, Ben and Scott touched on some updates on their social media presence due to some recent happenings in the social media services space. As they transition into the Microsoft cloud world, they discuss updates to cloud computing software and user experience design. They also provided some insight into conditional access policies and break-glass accounts and examined strategies for managing these elements for optimal efficiency. They wrapped up their conversation on a contemplative note about the future of native apps versus progressive web apps (PWAs), and some frustrations about the increasing trend towards PWAs. It's also the season of giving, and we're raising money for Girls Who Code. Donate today at https://give.girlswhocode.com/msclouditpro! Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes @mattnavarra on Threads Emergency Pod: Sam Altman is Out at Open AI Show declined events on the calendar The new Forms app is here! Exclude Breakglass Accounts from Conditional Access Policies with PowerShell Update-BreakGlassUsersCAPolicies.PS1 Minimize the number of Conditional Access policies About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 365 – Still looking for gift ideas

Thu, 21 Dec 2023 13:00:19 +0000

In Episode 365, Ben and Scott break away from tech news to talk about some of their favorite gadget purchases in the past year. If you (or a geek in your life) are looking for ways to spend those Christmas gift cards or you need some last-minute ideas, give them a listen. It's also the season of giving and we're raising money for Girls Who Code. Donate today at https://give.girlswhocode.com/msclouditpro! Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Aqara Smart Lock U100, Fingerprint Keyless Entry Door Lock with Apple Home Key, Touchscreen Keypad, Bluetooth Electronic Deadbolt, IP65 Weatherproof, Supports Apple HomeKit, Alexa, Google, IFTTT, Gray I tried every Apple Home Key Lock, here’s the best Kwikset 916 Traditional Touchscreen SmartCode Electronic Deadbolt Smart Lock featuring SmartKey Security and ZigBee 3.0 Technology in Venetian Bronze, 1.19 x 2.81 x 5.06 inches, Metal OBSBOT Tail AIR AI-Powered PTZ Camera 4K Webcam,1.8" CMOS,f/1.8 Aperture,AI Auto Track, Gesture & Remote Controls,TOF Sensor, Support NDI,Wired&Wireless Connection,LiveStream for Churches/Music Live OBSBOT Tiny 2 Webcam 4K Voice Control PTZ, AI Tracking Multi-Mode & Auto Focus, Web Camera with 1/1.5" Sensor, Gesture Control, 60 FPS, HDR Light Correction, Webcam for PC, Streaming, Meeting, etc. This is a 4k Webcam You Should Know About- The OBSBOT Tiny 2 ODISTAR Desktop Vacuum Cleaner,Mini Table dust Sweeper Energy Saving with auto Power-Off Function,High Endurance up to 400 mins,Cordless&360º Rotatable for Keyboard/Home/Office (White Charging) USBC to Lightning adapter ALTI Wireless Charging Desk Mat BESTEK 150W Power Inverter DC 12V to 110V AC Converter 4.2A Dual USB Car Plug Adapter Outlet Converter (Blue) TRPPV375 - Tripp Lite PowerVerter 375-Watt Ultra-Compact Inverter Anker Prime 6-in-1 USB C Charging Station, 140W Compact Power Strip for Work and Travel, 5 ft Detachable Extension Cord with 6 Ports, for iPhone 15/15 Plus/15 Pro/15 Pro Max(Non-Battery, Non-Wireless) G.E.T. 6632-1-CL Heavy-Duty Plastic Restaurant Tumblers, 32 Ounce, Clear (Set of 12) About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 364 – Microsoft Designer, Azure Updates, and Enterprise IoT Security changes

Thu, 14 Dec 2023 13:00:45 +0000

In Episode 364, Ben and Scott discuss the recently announced Microsoft Designer, cover a handful of updates to Azure including Azure Automation and Azure Container Storage. Then they close out with some updates to the licensing model for Enterprise IoT Security. It's also the season of giving and we're raising money for Girls Who Code. Donate today at https://give.girlswhocode.com/msclouditpro! Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Microsoft Designer joenandez/joenandez_chatgpt_custom_instructions.txt General Availability: Azure Automation supports PowerShell 7.2 runbooks Azure Automation runbook types PowerShell End-of-support dates What is Azure Container Storage? Preview Enterprise IoT security is now included in Microsoft 365 E5 and E5 Security plans About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 363 – Hibernation is for more than bears

Thu, 07 Dec 2023 13:00:30 +0000

In Episode 363, Ben and Scott talk through some new hibernation capabilities coming to an Azure VM near you and the announced retirement of SharePoint Add-Ins. It's also the season of giving and we're raising money for Girls Who Code. Donate today at https://give.girlswhocode.com/msclouditpro! Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Hibernating virtual machines Hibernate a dev box in Microsoft Dev Box Microsoft adds Outlook to cloud.microsoft domain for its services SharePoint Add-In retirement in Microsoft 365 Azure ACS retirement in Microsoft 365 About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 362 – The Flustration of Microsoft Ignite

Thu, 30 Nov 2023 13:00:47 +0000

In Episode 362, Ben and Scott get sidetracked with some of the announcements coming out of Microsoft Ignite. It's also the season of giving and we're raising money for Girls Who Code. Donate today at https://give.girlswhocode.com/msclouditpro! Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Microsoft Ignite 2023: AI transformation and the technology driving change Microsoft Ignite 2023: all the AI news from Microsoft’s IT pro event Reduce Compute Costs by Pausing VMs (now in public preview) What's new and what's next with Azure IaaS | BRK245H What is rate limiting for Web Application Firewall on Application Gateway? Attach or detach a Virtual Machine to or from a Virtual Machine Scale Set The new Microsoft Planner: A unified experience bringing together to-dos, tasks, plans and projects Introducing SharePoint Premium – the future of AI powered content management and experiences About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 361 – TLS updates in Azure

Thu, 23 Nov 2023 13:00:39 +0000

In Episode 361, Ben and Scott discuss how Ben solved a data analysis problem with Azure Data Explorer and Scott shares some tips and tricks for Kusto. It's also the season of giving and we're raising money for Girls Who Code. Donate today at https://give.girlswhocode.com/msclouditpro! Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes What is Azure Data Explorer? Get data from file Get-MessageTrackingLog Two The Cloud -�Azure Data Explorer - One-click Ingestion parse-where operator case() TLS 1.2 to become the minimum TLS version for Azure Storage KB4017023 - SQL Server 2012, 2014 or 2016 Backup to Microsoft Azure Blob storage service URL isn't compatible for TLS 1.2 TLS 1.2 support for Microsoft SQL Server Upcoming TLS 1.3 on Azure App Service for Web Apps, Functions, and Logic Apps Update Microsoft Deprecates Three Features in Windows 11 Version 23H2 Windows CE, Microsoft's stunted middle child, reaches end of support at 26 years Automatic Conditional Access policies in Microsoft Entra streamline identity protection About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 360 – Who owns your data in Azure?

Thu, 16 Nov 2023 13:00:43 +0000

In Episode 360, Ben laments about a change in the data processing for Azure Sentinel and Scott contributes some suggestions around Microsoft's data processing policies and how customers can keep up to date on them along with some suggestions for how to manage your personal data in Log Analytics and Application Insights. Then they close out the show talking about how to track resource ownership over time for your Azure resources. It's also the season of giving and we're raising money for Girls Who Code. Donate today at https://give.girlswhocode.com/msclouditpro! Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Microsoft Azure Legal Material Microsoft Products and Services Data Protection Addendum (“DPA”) Large Language Model (LLM) Managing personal data in Log Analytics and Application Insights The latest Microsoft Digital Defence Report came out and it is a sobering read Azure Monitor Insights overview Azure Monitor activity log Azure resource logs Define your tagging strategy About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 359 – Microsoft Applied Skills and Azure Bastion Developer SKU

Thu, 09 Nov 2023 13:00:17 +0000

In Episode 359, Ben and Scott discuss Microsoft Applied Skills - a new skilling platform for Microsoft customers to get hands-on in a live, on-demand lab environment to validate their skills in a specific area and how Applied Skills compares to the existing role-based certification exams. Next up, it's a quick review of an upcoming roadmap item that impacts Microsoft-managed conditional access policies and how to monitor and keep up to date with Message Center messages that are applicable to your tenant. Then it's time to wrap up with a Developer SKU that was recently launched for Azure Bastion, offering lower cost to Bastion at the expense of some of the bells and whistles in the Basic and Standard SKUs. It's also the season of giving, and we're raising money for Girls Who Code. Donate today at https://give.girlswhocode.com/msclouditpro! Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Announcing Microsoft Applied Skills, the new credentials to verify in-demand technical skills Microsoft Applied Skills Azure Active Directory: Auto-rollout of Conditional Access policies Track new and changed features in the Microsoft 365 Message center Track your message center tasks in Planner Quickstart: Deploy Bastion using the Developer SKU (Preview) About Bastion configuration settings About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 358 – Amazon spends $1 billion on Microsoft 365

Thu, 02 Nov 2023 12:00:46 +0000

In Episode 358, Ben and Scott talk about Ben's new Teams-certified Poly Sync, a new teleprompter Scott ordered, and Amazon's investment in Microsoft 365. It's also the season of giving and we're raising money for Girls Who Code. Donate today at https://give.girlswhocode.com/msclouditpro! Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes POLY - Sync 20+ USB-A Personal Bluetooth Smart Speakerphone (Plantronics) - Connect to Smartphones via Bluetooth-PC/Mac via - BT600 Dongle -Works with Teams (Certified), Zoom & More,Black Elgato Prompter Amazon to drop a cool $1B on Microsoft 365 cloud suite Support for Office 2016 and 2019 clients connecting to Microsoft 365 services has ended Office versions and connectivity to Microsoft 365 services Microsoft Ignite About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 357 – Community galleries for Azure Compute Gallery

Thu, 26 Oct 2023 12:00:19 +0000

In Episode 357, Ben and Scott run through the recently announced Community gallery capability that has been added to the Azure Compute Gallery service. They also take a few minutes to discuss the public preview of table-level RBAC read-access controls for your Log Analytics workspaces. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Microsoft Ignite Share images using a community gallery Create a VM from a generalized image version Direct shared gallery Manage access to Log Analytics workspaces Set table-level read access About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 356 – The ROI of Microsoft 365 Copilot

Thu, 19 Oct 2023 12:00:12 +0000

In Episode 356, Ben and Scott revisit the ROI of Microsoft 365 Copilot, discuss some methods for bulk restores from the SharePoint Online Recycle bin, and some upcoming changes to default outbound internet access for your Azure VMs. If you have a chance, nominate the show for Best Podcast at the ESPC Inspire Awards! Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Microsoft 365 Copilot: Release Date, Price, Download & more Microsoft 365 CoPilot: Licensing, Cost, ROI Acquired.fm - NVIDIA Parts I, II, III Breaking Bard + Who Owns Your Face? + Gamer News! After Five Years, Gmail Finally Sheds the 'Beta' ShareGate - Copy Content Restore Recycle bin SharePoint Online with PowerShell Avoid getting throttled or blocked in SharePoint Online Microsoft Enters the Backup Business with a New Syntex Service ESPC Inspire Award Default outbound access for VMs in Azure will be retired- transition to a new method of internet access How can I transition to an explicit method of public connectivity (and disable default outbound access)? [memberful has_subscription_to="membership,yearly-membership"] Video https://youtu.be/SVyns4UPNhY [/memberful] About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 355 – SharePoint Framework On-premises is a Moving Target (with Andrew Connell)

Thu, 12 Oct 2023 12:00:03 +0000

In Episode 355, Ben and Scott sit down with SharePoint developer extraordinaire Andrew Connell from Voitanos to talk about SharePoint Server Subscription Edition and some changes in SharePoint Framework (SPFX) support. You'll definitely want to listen in to make sure that you're falling into the "Pit of Success" for developing SPFX solutions for your on-premises installations of SharePoint. `Note: We get into the weeds with things like version numbers between SharePoint Server Subscription Edition and the SharePoint Framework. You can use the links below to follow along. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Blog Post - SPFx Devs: Beware of the SharePoint SE 23H2 Feature Update YouTube - Beware of the SharePoint SE 23H2 Feature Update SharePoint Framework Developers! New and improved features in SharePoint Server Subscription Edition New and improved features in SharePoint Server Subscription Edition Version 23H2 Cyberattack protection by default and other enhancements to SharePoint Server - September 2023 SharePoint Framework (SPFx) component upgrades Support for SharePoint Framework (SPFx) version 1.5.1 New Add: Upgrade components in SPFx development with SPSE #9215 package-lock.json SharePoint Framework v1.5.1 release notes Episode 344 – The paradox of choice as a SharePoint Developer with Andrew Connell The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win About Andrew Connell Andrew is a web developer who loves to learn new in tech and help others learn! Microsoft has recognized me every year since 2005 with its annual MVP Award. I started teaching in 2007 in just about every way I can. During most of that time, I’ve focused on enterprise platforms like Microsoft Azure & Microsoft 365 including, SharePoint, and Microsoft Teams. Connect with AC Voitanos LinkedIn YouTube Threads Twitter Newsletter [memberful has_subscription_to="membership,yearly-membership"] Video https://youtube.com/@msclouditpro [/memberful] About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 354 – Splunk and Cisco sitting in a tree

Thu, 05 Oct 2023 12:00:46 +0000

In Episode 354, Ben and Scott catch up on news and the latest announcements starting with Cisco and Splunk merging. Then they discuss the Surface and AI event where we saw the latest Surface hardware and learned about the straight to GA release of Microsoft 365 and Windows Copilot. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Cisco to Acquire Splunk, to Help Make Organizations More Secure and Resilient in an AI-Powered World Cisco and Splunk: Driving the Next Generation of AI-Enabled Security and Observability Announcing Microsoft 365 Copilot general availability and Microsoft 365 Chat How to transform work with plugins for Microsoft 365 Copilot and AI apps Microsoft's Surface and AI event: all the news and announcements We don't know how AI works. .We're trusting it anyway [memberful has_subscription_to="membership,yearly-membership"] Video https://youtube.com/@msclouditpro [/memberful] About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 353 – Microsoft Ignite is coming. Prepare thyself.

Thu, 28 Sep 2023 12:00:58 +0000

In Episode 353, Scott talks to Ben about how he's using Portainer for container management on his home network and some tips and tricks for managing apps on your Mac (sorry Windows users). Then they pivot to Microsoft's largest conference of the year - Microsoft Ignite - coming Nov 14-17, 2023 for in-person attendees and November 15-16, 2023 for virtual attendees. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes AppCleaner CleanMyMac X Portainer Microsoft Ignite Registration Download convince your manager letter Apple Wonderlust event Apple Event - September 12 iPhone 15 event in 17 minutes Everything Apple Announced at Today's Event in Six Minutes Anker Powerline II 3-in-1 Cable, Lightning/Type C/Micro USB Cable for iPhone, iPad, Huawei, HTC, LG, Samsung Galaxy, Sony Xperia, Android Smartphones, iPad Pro 2018 and More(3ft, Black) USB charging blocks [memberful has_subscription_to="membership,yearly-membership"] Video https://youtu.be/p2QywoEjxVQ [/memberful] About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 352 – Newsletters in SharePoint? Yes please!

Thu, 21 Sep 2023 12:00:49 +0000

In Episode 352, Ben and Scott discuss their workflow and approach for "Read it later" services and Scott introduces Ben to a new service he's started using called Omnivore. Then they discuss a new feature coming to a SharePoint site and e-mail inbox near you - newsletter publishing from SharePoint. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Raindrop.io Omnivore.app Lenny's Newsletter Introducing new SharePoint news for email feature SharePoint News in Outlook [memberful has_subscription_to="membership,yearly-membership"] Video https://youtu.be/005xK62heKw [/memberful] About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 351 – Rock me like a hurricane… or Python in Excel

Thu, 14 Sep 2023 12:00:07 +0000

In Episode 351, Ben and Scott catch up on some of the latest news around Power Automate, Microsoft Entra, and Microsoft Excel. First, they discuss the Public Preview of Application Insights integration with Power Automate for debugging your cloud flows. Next, they break down the still in Private Preview features of platform SSO for macOS clients. And then they close on some exciting announcements around the addition of Python functions to Microsoft Excel. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Announcing the integration of Power Automate telemetry data with Azure Application Insights Workspace-based Application Insights resources Set up Application Insights with Power Automate (preview) Coming Soon – Platform SSO for macOS Microsoft Enterprise SSO plug-in for Apple devices 10 ways Microsoft Intune improves Apple device management Introducing a New Flexible Way of Bringing Identities from Any Source into Microsoft Entra ID! Frequently asked questions about API-driven inbound provisioning (Public preview) Announcing Python in Excel: Combining the power of Python and the flexibility of Excel. Data security and Python in Excel Introducing Python in Excel 😱 [memberful has_subscription_to="membership,yearly-membership"] Video https://youtube.com/@msclouditpro [/memberful] About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 350 – Take a look, it’s in a book, or in a Microsoft Learn exam

Thu, 07 Sep 2023 12:00:33 +0000

In Episode 350, Ben and Scott talk about some of the ambiguity in features between several types of Teams channels, a new model that includes access to Microsoft Learn for those taking role-based Microsoft certification exams, and a simplified experience for creating and managing CDN endpoints using Azure Front Door for Azure Storage customers. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Overview of teams and channels in Microsoft Teams Introducing a new resource for all role-based Microsoft Certification exams Open Book Microsoft Certification Exams | Interview with Microsoft's Liberty Munson Quick create Azure Front Door endpoints for Azure Storage accounts [memberful has_subscription_to="membership,yearly-membership"] Video https://youtube.com/@msclouditpro [/memberful] About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 349 – The War of the Policies

Thu, 31 Aug 2023 14:00:04 +0000

In Episode 349, Ben and Scott talk through considerations for working with Azure Policy to enable diagnostic settings at scale. Along the way they also talk about helpful tools that are available that can help you get your environment configured the way you need even quicker. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Create diagnostic settings at scale using Azure Policies and Initiatives Microsoft Sentinel content hub catalog Create-AzDiagPolicy Documentation for Azure Policy scripts Microsoft.PolicyInsights RBAC Remediate non-compliant resources with Azure Policy Manage access to Log Analytics workspaces Microsoft Sentinel workspace architecture best practices Azure Resource Graph sample queries for Azure Policy Azure Governance Visualizer aka AzGovViz Community Policy Repo [memberful has_subscription_to="membership,yearly-membership"] Video [/memberful] About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 348 – You get a subscription, and you get a subscription, and you get a subscription!

Thu, 24 Aug 2023 12:00:18 +0000

In Episode 348, Ben and Scott start the discussion focusing on the shifting dynamics of open-source tool access for customers, particularly in light of HashiCorp's decision to transition to a Business Source License (BSL). This move essentially limits what competitors can do with their code, requiring them to acquire a commercial license from HashiCorp if developing. While the change doesn't significantly impact customers who primarily use Terraform for deploying and managing resources, it may have significant implications for companies building competitive services based on HashiCorp's community products. As the discussion progresses, Ben and Scott transition into an exploration of Azure subscriptions. They suggested that businesses, especially those in their early stages, should create more Azure subscriptions than they think they need. This is due to a paradigm shift from treating resource groups as units of management aligned with business needs to viewing subscriptions in the same way. The conversation emphasized the importance of understanding this concept and planning accordingly when setting up Azure. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes HashiCorp adopts Business Source License How Red Hat’s License Change Is Reinvigorating Enterprise Linux Distros Enable all paid plans on your subscription Create Azure subscriptions programmatically What are Azure management groups? Subscription considerations and recommendations Create your initial Azure subscriptions What is an Azure landing zone? Move networking resources to new resource group or subscription [memberful has_subscription_to="membership,yearly-membership"] Video https://youtu.be/-EHyCY67sNI [/memberful] About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 347 – All your Entra.news with Merill Fernando

Thu, 17 Aug 2023 12:00:17 +0000

In Episode 347, Ben and Scott sit down with Merill Fernando to discuss the tools and content Merill is building to support Microsoft Entra customers. Merill is a Principal Product Manager in the Microsoft CAT team with a focus on Microsoft Graph for Identity and brings his experiences working with Microsoft Entra customers to the masses. In the conversation, we explore Merill's various contributions to technical tools aimed at simplifying complex processes when working with the Microsoft Cloud. His creations include CMD.Ms, a tool that streamlines access to different Microsoft services; Azure AD Exporter, a tool that exports your entire Microsoft Entra ID configuration and Azure AD B2C into JSON files; and Graph X-ray, a Chrome extension that converts API calls into code in your preferred language. Lastly, He highlighted the 'Weekly Dose of Microsoft Entra' newsletter as an ideal resource for keeping up-to-date with relevant news, blog posts and videos. To learn more from Merill and keep up with Microsoft Entra news, sign up for his newsletter at entra.news. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes cmd.ms Neat new feature in public preview for dynamic groups idPowerToys https://idpowertoys.com/assets/mindmaps/entra-v1.pdf microsoft/azureadexporter Graph X-Ray :Beta Update-MgUser (Microsoft.Graph.Users) Update-MgUserExtension (Microsoft.Graph.Users) New-MgUser (Microsoft.Graph.Users) Welcome to the Graph PowerShell Samples Community Entra.News - Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra [memberful has_subscription_to="membership,yearly-membership"] Video https://youtu.be/f1hrlDxzOBs [/memberful] About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 346 – Expanded cloud logging for everyone

Thu, 10 Aug 2023 12:00:36 +0000

In Episode 346, Ben and Scott discuss how some of the recent attacks on Microsoft 365 customers have led to Microsoft, in partnership with CISA, offering expanded cloud logging capabilities to all customers for no additional charge. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Microsoft is shutting down Cortana, and Apple should do the same with Siri Types of Power Automate licenses CISA and Microsoft Partnership Expands Access to Logging Capabilities Broadly Expanding cloud logging to give customers deeper security visibility Auditing solutions in Microsoft Purview Stolen Microsoft Security Key – Potential Breaches Beyond Outlook Microsoft mitigates China-based threat actor Storm-0558 targeting of customer email Analysis of Storm-0558 techniques for unauthorized email access [memberful has_subscription_to="membership,yearly-membership"] Video https://youtube.com/@msclouditpro [/memberful] About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 345 – Microsoft 365 Backup and Microsoft 365 Archive

Thu, 03 Aug 2023 12:00:02 +0000

In episode 345, Ben and Scott discuss the upcoming Microsoft 365 Backup and Microsoft 365 Archive services, as well as the pricing and value of Microsoft Co-Pilot. Microsoft 365 backup and Microsoft 365 archive services will provide users with options for backing up data in Microsoft 365, including SharePoint, OneDrive, and Exchange. They also discuss the benefits this will have on purchasing backup service directly from Microsoft, as well as how third-party backup providers can take advantage of this announcement. They also discuss how Microsoft 365 Archive, will complement Microsoft 365 Backup by offering cold to cool data storage for inactive data in Microsoft 365. This service aims to provide cost savings for storing older content while maintaining administrative search capabilities and other functionalities. The conversation then moves on to the pricing and value of Microsoft Co-Pilot. They discuss the potential benefits of using Co-Pilot for tasks like drafting proposals or generating meeting notes. However, they also express concerns about the pricing compared to existing licensing models and whether the value delivered by Co-Pilot justifies the cost. They speculate on how organizations might justify the expense based on time savings and productivity gains. Overall, they express a mix of excitement and skepticism about Copilot and emphasize the need to see it in action before fully evaluating the value. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Share Your Home Assistant Configs on GitHub Automatically Welcome to Microsoft Inspire 2023: Introducing Microsoft 365 Backup and Microsoft 365 Archive Manage content at scale with Microsoft Syntex Licensing for Microsoft Syntex Find the right Microsoft 365 enterprise plan for your organization Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot-A whole new way to work Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot - your copilot for work [memberful has_subscription_to="membership,yearly-membership"] Video https://youtu.be/JMcQZc74XXc [/memberful] About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 344 – The paradox of choice as a SharePoint Developer with Andrew Connell

Thu, 27 Jul 2023 12:00:27 +0000

In Episode 344, Ben and Scott invite Andrew Connell, SharePoint developer extraordinaire and founder of Voitanos on the show to talk about your options when it comes to developing modern web applications that interact with SharePoint and Teams. There's a lot to unpack here - when or even should you build a SharePoint app? Is it better to just build and deploy web apps that you can control end-to-end? Listen in to find out. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Real World Example: Build Web Apps - not M365 or Teams Apps Build Web Apps - not Microsoft 365, Teams, or SPFx Apps Learn the SharePoint Schedule (SPFx) - All Courses Creating your first Microsoft 365 Developer tenant Microsoft 365 Developer Program SharePoint Add-ins Overview of the SharePoint Framework Understand Microsoft Teams apps and their capabilities SaaS COGS: What To Consider In Your Cost Of Goods Sold Yo Teams Meet Your Citizen Developer Barry Schwartz: The paradox of choice Overview of Viva Connections About Andrew Connell Andrew is a web developer who loves to learn new in tech and help others learn! Microsoft has recognized me every year since 2005 with its annual MVP Award. I started teaching in 2007 in just about every way I can. During most of that time, I’ve focused on enterprise platforms like Microsoft Azure & Microsoft 365 including, SharePoint, and Microsoft Teams. Connect with AC Voitanos LinkedIn YouTube Threads Twitter [memberful has_subscription_to="membership,yearly-membership"] Video https://youtu.be/ge6o_Zlf3iQ [/memberful] About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 343 – Microsoft Entra: The Podcast

Thu, 20 Jul 2023 12:00:43 +0000

In Episode 343, Ben and Scott start to tackle the great renaming of Azure Active Directory to Microsoft Entra ID (or MEID). Except for the places that it didn't get renamed. It's not confusing at all. They discuss the implications of the rename and the potential confusion it could cause, as well as explore new product announcements related to Microsoft's foray into the security service edge market. They also provide resources for understanding the rename and navigating Microsoft Intra. Overall, they have some frustration with the renaming exercise, but acknowledge that it probably is a good thing and when it comes down to it, is largely a just a rename of the service. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Announcing new innovations in Microsoft Entra Microsoft Entra Plans & Pricing Azure AD is being renamed to Microsoft Entra ID New name for Azure Active Directory Azure AD Renamed! Enter Microsoft Entra ID Microsoft Entra External ID? public preview: Developer-centric platform Planning for customer identity and access management (preview) Identity PowerToys https://idpowertoys.com/assets/mindmaps/entra-v1.pdf Microsoft Entra Expands into Security Service Edge with Two New Offerings [memberful has_subscription_to="membership,yearly-membership"] Video https://youtu.be/AkRh0dCJXcg [/memberful] About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 342 – Microsoft Edge Workspaces

Thu, 13 Jul 2023 12:00:34 +0000

In Episode 342, Ben and Scott talk through how they manage access to the internet for the kids in their lives, Microsoft Edge Workspaces, and some of the frustrations with auto-generated documentation for the Microsoft Graph. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Using PiHole for parental control of your home network [GUIDE] How to Parental Controls - Options circle OpenDNS FamilyShield NextDNS Episode 341 – Our word of the day is “Notes” Edge Workspace scenarios Organize your ideas with Collections in Microsoft Edge Update-MgUserExtension Update-MgUser [memberful has_subscription_to="membership,yearly-membership"] Video https://youtu.be/FMaWDNYt7a8 [/memberful] About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 341 – Our word of the day is “Notes”

Thu, 06 Jul 2023 12:00:05 +0000

In Episode 341, Ben and Scott continue to dive into the confusion that is the note taking ecosystem in Microsoft 365 with the potential competition between OneNote and Loop, the formal retirement announcement for InfoPath Forms Services, and some more follow-up on Copilots and where you can use them in your day-to-day work. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Default Notes tab in Microsoft Teams for Enterprise customers Meeting Details in OneNote Now in Public preview & Targeted release: Collaborative meeting notes in Teams meetings Now in public preview: Collaborative notes in Microsoft Teams Meetings Yammer.com Rebranded to Viva Engage Support update for InfoPath Forms Services in Microsoft 365 InfoPath Forms Services Assessment SharePoint Server 2019 Lifecycle Microsoft Lists: Easier, Better, Faster, Stronger SharePoint: Microsoft Lists- A new forms experience to collect information You can now try Windows Copilot and native RAR and 7-Zip support in Windows 11 Meeting recap in Microsoft Teams Video https://youtu.be/pOJClKla1f8 About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 340 – A little bit of DDoS in your life

Thu, 29 Jun 2023 12:00:11 +0000

In Episode 340, Ben and Scott talk about some of the takeaways from the recent DDoS attacks on the Azure Portal, a (new to them) Terraform module for working with Azure AD, and how to start preparing your Microsoft 365 tenant for Microsoft Copilot. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Microsoft Response to Layer 7 Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks AzCopy - Use multiple clients to run jobs in parallel Azure AD intro with Terraform examples Terraform on Azure June Update How to prepare for Microsoft 365 Copilot Overview of update channels for Microsoft 365 Apps Semantic Index for Copilot: Explained by Microsoft How Microsoft 365 Copilot works Microsoft AI help & learning Microsoft Viva and Glint Video https://youtu.be/15ueLjgBESA About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 339 – The Internet is breaking down (again)

Thu, 22 Jun 2023 12:00:20 +0000

In Episode 339, Ben and Scott get side railed with the current Redditt drama around their paid API and some of their favorite apps going away. They also cover and update on Azure AD Graph Retirement before they move on to some new sample scripts from the Intune team that demonstrate how to work with Intune and Microsoft Graph. Finally, they close out discussing the new public preview of collaborative notes in Microsoft Teams. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Reddit CEO Steve Huffman isn't backing down Google Domains shutting down, assets sold and being migrated to Squarespace Google just killed Google Domains: Just kidding, it got sold Google Domains shutting down, assets sold and being migrated to Squarespace Important: Azure AD Graph Retirement and Powershell Module Deprecation Update to Microsoft Intune PowerShell example script repository on GitHub Now in public preview: Collaborative notes in Microsoft Teams Meetings Amazon's server outage broke fast food apps like McDonald's and Taco Bell Video https://youtu.be/r8orEAt34eY About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 338 – Wrangle your inbox after vacation

Thu, 15 Jun 2023 12:00:17 +0000

In Episode 338, Ben comes back from vacation which prompts Scott to start a discussion on mailbox management tips before they move on to some changes in the Apple Developer Program that could impact your users. Then they close out with some Azure announcements for AKS. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes One Email Rule - Have a separate Inbox and an Inbox CC to reduce email stress. Guaranteed. End meetings early or start late Support Tip: iOS/iPadOS 17 Beta with Microsoft Intune iOS 17 developer beta is open to anyone - here's how to download it now Classic Exchange admin center in Exchange Online Final Deprecation of Classic Exchange Admin Center (EAC) in Exchange Online Introducing the Azure Linux container host for AKS Transforming containerized applications with Azure Container Storage-now in preview What is Azure Container Storage? Preview Video https://youtu.be/0zXgEOs7Z40 About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 337 - Secure your Office 365 tenant and protect your users Episode 337 – Secure your Office 365 tenant and protect your users

Thu, 08 Jun 2023 12:00:00 +0000

In Episode 337, Ben and Scott through recommendations for securing your Office 365 tenants and admin accounts. They also address a listener question on how you can address the disparities in logging and metrics collections when you're using multiple SaaS products. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes CollabCon Conference 2023 Manage emergency access accounts in Azure AD Securing privileged access for hybrid and cloud deployments in Azure AD Conditional Access authentication strength is now Generally Available! Learn about data loss prevention Microsoft Sentinel data connectors Hybrid Cloud with AWS Video https://youtu.be/TMKm9lcaQE0 About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 336 – S Tier Microsoft Build 2023 Announcements

Thu, 01 Jun 2023 12:00:44 +0000

In Episode 336, Ben and Scott discuss some of the marquee announcements from Microsoft Build 2023. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Build Book of News Full Keynote | Satya Nadella at Microsoft Build 2023 Microsoft's Azure AI Studio lets developers build their own AI 'copilots' Copilot in Power BI technical preview Introducing Microsoft Fabric and Copilot in Microsoft Power BI Microsoft Fabric licenses Microsoft launches Fabric, a new end-to-end data and analytics platform What is Microsoft Fabric? Microsoft Fabric terminology Video https://youtu.be/0ml2d1OutRE About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 335 – The vagaries of Office 365 licensing

Thu, 25 May 2023 12:00:26 +0000

In Episode 335, Ben and Scott discuss some of the trials and tribulations of Office 365 and Microsoft 365 licensing. Specifically, some intricacies around Microsoft Defender for Office 365. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Vague documentation on licensing #12003 Manage who can create Microsoft 365 Groups Get started using Attack simulation training Microsoft Defender for Office 365 service description - Licensing terms Retiring the AWS Documentation on GitHub Preview: Automatic Scaling for App Service Web Apps Testing reachability of Azure Load Balancer frontend IPv4 address with ping Video https://youtu.be/oOqXXVX-1Z4 About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 334 – Converged Authentication Methods in Azure AD

Thu, 18 May 2023 12:00:45 +0000

In Episode 334, Ben and Scott take a detour into automating your home video devices/security cameras with Scrypted and then get back on track with some enhancements in Azure AD authentication methods and Microsoft Intune. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Scrypted Google’s new Pixel Tablet is a $500 slate for the home Azure Active Directory Gets 'Converged' Management for Authentication Methods Modernizing Authentication Management Microsoft Intune: iOS Web enrollment Enrollment guide: Enroll iOS and iPadOS devices in Microsoft Intune Video https://youtu.be/MjMJSIFRUFs About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 333 – Azure AD and LAPS in Preview

Thu, 11 May 2023 12:00:59 +0000

In Episode 333, Ben and Scott talk about some more strange choices coming from the Microsoft Edge team before they discuss the new preview of Azure AD LAPS (with and without Intune). Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Microsoft Teams Plans to Make Users Open Links in Edge Arc is coming to Windows in 2023 THE BROWSER COMPANY IS BUILDING A SWIFT DEVELOPMENT TOOLCHAIN FOR WINDOWS Android vs. Apple Market Share: Leading Mobile Operating Systems (OS) (May 2023) Compare Power BI Desktop and the Power BI service Get started with Windows LAPS and Azure Active Directory Using Microsoft Intune for Local Administrator Password Management Windows LAPS supported platforms and Azure AD LAPS preview status Microsoft Intune support for Windows LAPS Azure AD Certificate-Based Authentication (CBA) on Mobile now Generally Available! Everything New In Home Assistant 2023.5! Video https://youtu.be/ctrSyu-4TTg About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 332 – Copilot coming to a Microsoft 365 tenant near you

Thu, 04 May 2023 12:00:48 +0000

In Episode 332, Ben and Scott dive into the recent announcements around Microsoft 365 Copilot and its impending integration into the entirety of the Microsoft 365 product suite. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Bluesky Social Microsoft Posts In-Product Ads in SharePoint Online Stop in product messaging (Microsoft Conference) Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot—A whole new way to work What is the #CollabTalk TweetJam? How to build your first app using Power Apps | Automatically with Copilot or from scratch GitHub Copilot for the Windows systems administrator AI Made this VLOG Amazon CodeWhisperer Dangers of AI Hallucinations: How Wrong Answers Can Lead to Legal Liability and Mitigate Them Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZahDzG8KVC8 About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 331 – SharePoint 2013 Workflow retirement

Thu, 27 Apr 2023 12:00:52 +0000

In Episode 331, Ben and Scott dive into the announcement of the retirement of SharePoint 2013 Workflows and the release of SharePoint Workflow Manager for SharePoint Server 2013, 2016, 2019 and Subscription Edition. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Starship Flight Test Move SharePoint Designer Workflows to Power Automate SharePoint 2013 workflow retirement Guidance: Migrate from classic workflows to Power Automate flows in SharePoint Nintex unveils Workflow plan amid Microsoft retiring product Microsoft 365 Assessment tool Announcing the release of SharePoint Workflow Manager for SharePoint Server Install and configure workflow for SharePoint Server Announcing the release of SharePoint Workflow Manager for SharePoint Server What is an on-premises data gateway? Video https://youtu.be/cFizTtGcWV0 About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 330 – Home Assistant Geek Out

Thu, 20 Apr 2023 12:00:53 +0000

In Episode 330, Ben and Scott talk about Home Assistant and how it fits into their home automation workflows. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes How to Create a Home Assistant Dashboard Wall Mounted Dashboard for Home Assistant! (Fire Tablet + Fully Kiosk) Home Assistant Community Store (HACS) Inovelli SMART 2-1 SWITCH (ON/OFF OR DIMMER) Lutron Caséta Wireless Smart Lighting Dimmer Switch and Remote Kit | P-PKG1W-WH Video https://youtu.be/_eMm-RBc3Uo About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 329 – Catching up on news

Thu, 13 Apr 2023 12:00:24 +0000

In Episode 329, Ben and Scott talk about some old (but new to them) enhancements to Microsoft Intune that allow for the import of ADMX and ADML administrative templates, availability of Windows 365 Cloud PC preview for Frontline workers, and avatars for Teams coming to public preview. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes UniFi Gateway - WAN Load Balancing and Failover Flux Keyboard Windows 365 offers flexibility from the office or home to the frontline Import custom ADMX and ADML administrative templates into Microsoft Intune (public preview) Windows 365 Frontline available in public preview Avatars for Microsoft Teams in Public Preview Video https://youtu.be/DBdTc05VqWQ About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 328 – Get hands-on with the new Microsoft Teams

Thu, 06 Apr 2023 12:00:57 +0000

Episode 327 – The Loop app is not enabled in your organization

Thu, 30 Mar 2023 12:00:26 +0000

In Episode 327, Ben and Scott talk through the new Microsoft Loop app which has entered public preview. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Learn how to enable the Microsoft Loop app, now in Public Preview Use Loop components in Outlook You can now try Microsoft Loop, a Notion competitor with futuristic Office documents https://twitter.com/benstegink/status/1639074039850479616?s=20 https://twitter.com/EricaToelle/status/1638766066745888769?s=20 SharePoint Online Admin cannot access the Content Type Hub Microsoft Loop is coming to OneNote “very soon” Video https://youtu.be/-m5hkg3vadM About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 326 – Using Microsoft Teams to run study groups

Thu, 23 Mar 2023 12:00:19 +0000

In Episode 326, Ben and Scott take on a listener question about ways to run study groups using Microsoft Teams to study for certifications (or really anything else you'd get a group together to learn). Next, they tackle the newly announced Microsoft 365 Copilot service. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Build5Nines/exam-assessments MicrosoftLearning/AZ-104-MicrosoftAzureAdministrator MicrosoftLearning/AZ-104-MicrosoftAzureAdministrator Microsoft Azure Master Class v2 Learn Azure app Modern Work (Microsoft 365) Technical Skilling Content Survey Needs YOUR Input! Mentimeter Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work Raspberry Pi Brings ChatGPT AI to Clippy Explaining the Microsoft 365 Copilot System Introducing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Copilot, the world’s first copilot in both CRM and ERP, that brings next-generation AI to every line of business Hallucinations Could Blunt ChatGPT’s Success OpenAI says the problem’s solvable, Yann LeCun says we’ll see Microsoft lays off team that taught employees how to make AI tools responsibly Video https://youtu.be/liKGHwQMGJo About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 325 – How do I migrate from SharePoint Online to Azure blob storage?

Thu, 16 Mar 2023 12:00:40 +0000

In Episode 325, Ben and Scott talk through their experiences with Loop as it approaches its impending public preview and then dive into a question about how to approach a migration from SharePoint Online to Azure blob storage. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Overview of Loop components in Teams Microsoft Loop App to Launch in Public Preview This Month Manage Loop experiences (Loop app and Loop components) in SharePoint Copy file from SharePoint Online How To Call Logic App Synchronously From Azure Data Factory Transfer Files from SharePoint To Blob Storage with Azure Logic Apps Copy large files from SharePoint to Azure Blob Storage using Power Automate Episode 128 - Automating SharePoint Online with Flow, PowerShell, and Azure Episode 280 - Azure Storage or SharePoint for my files? About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 324 – Have your cake and it eat too with VMSS Flex

Thu, 09 Mar 2023 13:00:43 +0000

In Episode 324, Ben and Scott talk through some more fun with ChatGPT and how it can point you in the wrong direction even for code snippets. Then they dive into Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets and orchestration modes including VMSS Flex. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Microsoft has been secretly testing its Bing chatbot 'Sydney' for years Introducing the AI Mirror Test, which very smart people keep failing Orchestration modes for Virtual Machine Scale Sets in Azure FAQ for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 323 – Managed Identities, Azure Automation, and the Microsoft Graph

Thu, 02 Mar 2023 13:00:51 +0000

In Episode 323, Ben walks Scott through a recent customer project with Microsoft Graph, Azure Automation, and Logic Apps. It turns out that working with Microsoft Graph and Managed Identities gets a little confusing once you start throwing delegated vs application permissions into the mix. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Using the Microsoft Graph SDK for PowerShell with Azure Automation Microsoft Graph throttling guidance Get-MgUserPresence Tutorial: Access Microsoft Graph from a secured .NET app as the app Microsoft Graph permissions reference AzureAD/MSAL.PS About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 322 – The communities, they are a changin’

Thu, 23 Feb 2023 13:00:41 +0000

In Episode 322, Ben and Scott talk about the announced rebranding of Yammer to Viva Engage, a new admin center for Viva Engage, and the retirement of Run-As accounts. Oh, and please reach out to Ben and congratulate him on his newly minted MVP status! 🎉 Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Build connections with Games for Work, a new Microsoft Teams app Neat Frame Microsoft Dumps Yammer Brand Introducing Microsoft Viva Engage M365 Changelog: Multiple Yammer Networks Within Single Tenant No Longer Supported (1:Many Mode) Introducing OneDrive customer office hours New Admin Center for Viva Engage How Microsoft Security wants to help you take your fandom and turn it into global influence! Ben's a MVP! Microsoft Retires Azure Automation Run As Accounts in September 2023 About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 321 – ChapGPT comes to Bing

Thu, 16 Feb 2023 13:00:42 +0000

In Episode 321, Ben takes Scott through his current experience with the new Bing experience and ChatGPT integration. Then they talk about a quirk in the retirement/not retirement for free Teams business users and close out with the recently announced support for Multimedia Redirection (MMR) on Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 Cloud PC. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Windows 10 Home and Pro Tune in today: Learn Live experts are ready to accelerate your skilling Learn Live: Azure Core IaaS Study Hall Hands-on with the new Bing: Microsoft's step beyond ChatGPT ChatGPT vs the 'new Bing': Check out their very different answers to 20 questions GitHub Copilot Get Started with GitHub Copilot with VSCode and Python Extension Microsoft will wipe free Teams business users' data if they don't upgrade to a paid tier Say goodbye to Microsoft Teams Free (classic) and hello to Microsoft Teams (free) Announcing General Availability of Multimedia Redirection (MMR) on Azure Virtual Desktop Multimedia Redirection (MMR) on Windows 365 general availability Understanding multimedia redirection for Azure Virtual Desktop Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable latest supported downloads About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 320 – Teams Premium is here

Thu, 09 Feb 2023 13:00:35 +0000

In Episode 320, Ben and Scott get a little sidetracked and talk about their monitor setups, frustrations with Twitter and where we are on Mastodon, and then close out on Teams Premium. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Learn Live: Azure Core IaaS Study Hall Apple 2021 iPad Mini (Wi-Fi, 64GB) - Space Gray LG 28MQ780-B 28 Inch SDQHD (2560 x 2880) Nano IPS DualUp Monitor with Ergo Stand, DCI-P3 98% (Typ.) HDR10, USB Type-C (90W PD) - Black LG C2 Series 42-Inch Class OLED evo Gallery Edition Smart TV OLED42C2PUA, 2022 - AI-Powered 4K, Alexa Built-in Dell UltraSharp U4320Q 42.5" 4K UHD LED LCD Monitor - 16:9 - Black Nuphy Air 75 - Get 10% off any order from Nuphy Why Twitter users are upset about the platform’s latest change Twitter replaces its free API with a paid tier in quest to make more money Follow us on Mastodon: https://techhub.social/@BenStegink https://mastodon.social/@ciphertxt https://techhub.social/@msclouditpro Microsoft Teams Premium: Cut costs and add AI-powered productivity The better way to meet—Microsoft Teams Premium Microsoft Teams Premium licensing Microsoft Teams Premium - Overview for administrators About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 319 – Taking a peek at the Microsoft 365 roadmap

Thu, 02 Feb 2023 13:00:22 +0000

In Episode 319, Ben and Scott talk through a fun new way to keep up with updates to the Microsoft 365 roadmap using Office 365 Roadmap watch and them discuss a new item on the roadmap - explicit recording consent for Teams Meetings. Next up they get into IPv6 support coming to conditional access in March 2023 and some changes coming to Azure reservations now that Savings plans for compute are here. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Office 365 Roadmap Watch https://feeds.feedburner.com/Office365RoadmapWatcher Azure Timeline Microsoft Teams: Explicit Recording Consent for Teams meetings Azure AD IPv6 Support Comes in March 2023 IPv6 Support in Azure Active Directory General Availability: 5 GB Put Blob Self-service exchanges and refunds for Azure Reservations What is Azure savings plans for compute? Episode 305 – Azure Savings Plans for compute About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 318 – Application Health Extension and Azure Automation in VS Code

Thu, 26 Jan 2023 13:00:30 +0000

In Episode 318, Ben and Scott talk about the Defender debacle from last week and then get into some new Azure previews, including rich application health states with Virtual Machine Scale Sets, the Azure Automation extension for VS Code, and the latest preview of change tracking and inventory management with the Azure Monitor Agent. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Latest Defender Update KB2267602 Bug Deletes Shortcuts Security intelligence updates for Microsoft Defender Antivirus and other Microsoft antimalware Using Application Health extension with Virtual Machine Scale Sets Public Preview of Azure Automation extension for Visual Studio Code Runbook authoring through VS Code in Azure Automation Overview of change tracking and inventory using Azure Monitoring Agent (Preview) Migrate to Azure Monitor Agent from Log Analytics agent About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 317 – Microsoft 365 Groups (Conversations) Migration Pain

Thu, 19 Jan 2023 13:00:33 +0000

In Episode 317, Ben walks Scott through some of his trials and tribulations with migrating contents to and from Microsoft 365 Groups (Conversations) mailboxes. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Perform a Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) migration to Microsoft 365 or Office 365 BitTitan MigrationWiz Office 365 Groups vs. Shared Mailboxes Microsoft 365 Group to Microsoft 365 Group Mailbox (Conversations) Migration Guide Export Content search results Exporting individual messages or PST files Use network upload to import your organization's PST files to Microsoft 365 Folders and Rules Support for Microsoft 365 Groups in Outlook Manage Folders and Rules feature in Microsoft 365 Groups Windows Defender - ASRFalsely blocking and removing applications About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 316 – Azure DevOps or GitHub?

Thu, 12 Jan 2023 13:00:08 +0000

In Episode 316, Ben and Scott talk about the continued fallout from the Rackspace ransomware attack as well as some other recent hacks from LastPass and CircleCI. Then they get into their topic of the day - Azure DevOps or GitHub and which one they prefer for different tasks. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Rackspace: Ransomware attack caused by zero-day exploit Microsoft Exchange Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability More than 200 million Twitter users’ email addresses leaked by hackers LastPass - Notice of Recent Security Incident CircleCI security alert: Rotate any secrets stored in CircleCI (Updated Jan 6) ';--have i been pwned? Azure DevOps documentation GitHub documentation Microsoft acquires GitHub New year, new GitHub: Announcing unlimited free private repos and unified Enterprise offering About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 315 – Loop makes me loopy

Thu, 05 Jan 2023 13:00:40 +0000

In Episode 315, Ben takes Scott on a tour of Microsoft Loop and how it is working across Teams, Outlook and Word. Then they close out the episode with what tools they are using for personal work task management. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Microsoft Loop: Flexible Canvas App First things to know about Loop components Use Loop components in Word for the web Microsoft Whiteboard set to get Copy/Paste support for Loop Components Jira Work Management About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 314 – Microsoft Teams Premium Preview

Thu, 29 Dec 2022 13:00:56 +0000

In Episode 314, Ben and Scott have a quick follow-up on the Rackspace Hosted Exchange ransomware attack (TL;DR; if you haven't migrated to Exchange Online, do it now), a post-mortem that was published on the Azure PowerShell and PowerShell 7.3 compatibility issue that cropped up in Nov, and then discuss Microsoft Teams Preview. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Hosted Exchange Issues Episode 313 - Pour one out for the SREs at Rackspace Post-mortem: Azure PowerShell and PowerShell 7.3 compatibility issue Update to the latest version of Microsoft Edge on macOS Microsoft Teams Premium preview now available Microsoft Makes 30-Day Test Licenses Available for Teams Premium Microsoft Teams Premium licensing About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 313 – Pour one out for the SREs at Rackspace

Thu, 22 Dec 2022 13:00:13 +0000

In Episode 313, Ben and Scott discuss the ongoing fallout from the ransomware attack that took down the hosted Exchange environment at Rackspace in December. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Hosted Exchange Disruption Rackspace blames ransomware attack for ongoing Exchange outage Rackspace Cloud Office suffers destructive security breach Episode 108 – Backup and Recovery in Office 365 About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 312 – Gift ideas for the geek in your life

Thu, 15 Dec 2022 13:00:13 +0000

In Episode 312, Ben and Scott take a break from Azure and Office 365 to talk about gifts that you can get for the geek in your life. With the holidays coming up, we cover some of our favorite tech toys for our desks and travel. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes uBlock Origin extension (Edge/Chrome) Elgato Stream Deck Elgato Stream Deck+ Elgato Stream Deck MK.2 Elgato Stream Deck XL Elgato Stream Deck Mini Elgato Stream Deck Pedal Episode 299 – Scott’s Ode to the Stream Deck Macro Pads on Amazon Aviator cables Keyboards NuPhy Air75 Logitech MX Mechanical Mini Wireless Keychron K2 Logitech MX Master 3S Power adapters Universal Travel Power Adapter- EPICKA All in One Worldwide International Wall Charger AC Plug Adaptor with Smart Power USB for USA EU UK AUS Cell Phone Laptop (4 USB + Type C - White + Grey) Anker power banks CalDigit Thunderbolt 4 hubs OWC USB-C Travel Dock E Books One Second After One Year After The Final Day Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager Engineering Management for the Rest of Us Webcams insta360 Link Elgato Facecam Elgato Facecam Pro Continuity camera mounts About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 311 – Entra all the things

Thu, 08 Dec 2022 13:00:03 +0000

In Episode 311, Ben and Scott discuss some of the latest announcements around Microsoft Entra including the GA of Workload identities and upcoming changes to the Entra and Azure AD portal experiences. They close out with some tips for how to quickly access multiple portal landing pages and management experiences using [cmd.ms]. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Microsoft Entra Workload Identities Microsoft Entra Workload Identities now generally available What are workload identities? Workload identity federation New Admin Center Unifies Azure AD with Other Identity and Access Products [cmd.ms] Address bar autocomplete About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 310 – Azure Quota API and Bastion shareable links

Thu, 01 Dec 2022 13:00:52 +0000

In Episode 310, Ben and Scott discuss the preview of a new API for managing your Azure resource quotas using the Azure Quota Service API. They also discuss shareable links in Azure Bastion and how they can be created, managed, and the user experience for them. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Microsoft Edge Freezes in Office 365 Outlook With Overlays - Mac OS Clear Session Chrome Extension Azure Quota Service API Create a shareable link for Bastion - preview About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 309 – Cross-tenant migrations for Exchange and OneDrive

Thu, 24 Nov 2022 13:00:39 +0000

In Episode 309, Ben and Scott talk through some of the difficulties with the customer adoption and training aspects of Microsoft Teams, the GA of PowerShell 7.3 and some rough edges you might encounter with Azure PowerShell cmdlets, and then close with a discussion on cross-tenant migration for Exchange Online and OneDrive for Business. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Microsoft Teams Tools for Driving Adoption Teams adoption flipbook Teams Customer Success Kit PowerShell 7.3 General Availability GenericArguments[0] ... violates the constraint of type 'T' error since PowerShell 7.3.0.5 preview #18721 Cross-tenant User Data Migration is Now Generally Available Cross-tenant OneDrive migration Cross-tenant mailbox migration ShareGate: Microsoft Teams Migration About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 308 – Microsoft Purview In-place Data Share for Azure Storage with Priya Shetty

Thu, 17 Nov 2022 13:00:15 +0000

In Episode 308, Priya Shetty - Principal Product Manager - Azure Storage - joins Scott to talk all things Microsoft Purview In-place Data Share for Azure Storage. They cover data share use cases and scenarios for Azure Storage, data share feature capabilities, how it fits into Microsoft Purview, and describe the experience and how to deploy your first data share. New to Microsoft Purview? Check out our previous episodes: Episode 294 – Microsoft Purview with Erica Toelle Episode 295 – The artist formerly known as Azure Purview Episode 296 – Microsoft Purview data loss prevention Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Azure Storage in-place data sharing with Microsoft Purview (preview) Deployment and configuration demo Quickstart: Share and receive Azure Storage data in-place with Microsoft Purview Data Sharing (preview) Microsoft Ignite session: No data silos with Azure Blob Storage About our guest Priya Shetty (LinkedIn) is a Principal Product Manager with Azure Storage. She is passionate about all things data and empowering customers’ data-driven journeys on Blob and Data Lake Storage. About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 307 – Office connections to online services FUD

Thu, 10 Nov 2022 05:00:00 +0000

In Episode 307, Ben and Scott talk about some more deprecations starting with the deprecation of converting DLs to M365 Groups, changes to the support matrix for Office clients when it comes to connecting to online services, and the retirement of Azure MFA Server. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Deprecating Conversion of Distribution Lists to Microsoft 365 Groups Office and Microsoft 365 Apps Deployment & Update Management 2022 Microsoft Spreads FUD on Office Connections to Microsoft 365 Services Office versions and connectivity to Microsoft 365 services Windows and Office configuration support matrix Azure Multi-Factor Authentication Server will be deprecated 30 September 2024 Migrate from MFA Server to Azure AD Multi-Factor Authentication About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 306 – Testing Azure Arc using Azure VMs

Thu, 03 Nov 2022 12:00:46 +0000

Techtober has wrapped and we're making one last push at fundraising for Girls Who Code. Go to https://give.girlswhocode.com/msclouditpro and donate today to help ensure girls continue to have access to our educational experiences, programming, and incredible sisterhood. Because when you teach a girl to code, she’ll change the world. In Episode 306 Ben and Scott talk about Azure Arc and how you can get started testing it using Azure VMs - either regular VMs with minimal customization or using the Azure Arc Jumpstart project to kickstart your learning all of the Arc-enabled services. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes MS Cloud IT Pro Podcast fundraiser for Girls Who Code Passwordless authentication options for Azure Active Directory Yubico - YubiKey 5C NFC - Two Factor Authentication USB and NFC Security Key, Fits USB-C Ports and Works with Supported NFC Mobile Devices - Protect Your Online Accounts with More Than a Password Automation Hybrid Runbook Worker overview Evaluate Azure Arc-enabled servers on an Azure virtual machine Azure Arc Jumpstart Jumpstart ArcBox - Overview HYPER-V NESTED VMS IN AZURE About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 305 – Azure Savings Plans for compute

Thu, 27 Oct 2022 12:00:56 +0000

It is Techtober and we're fundraising for Girls Who Code. Go to https://give.girlswhocode.com/msclouditpro and donate today to help ensure girls continue to have access to our educational experiences, programming, and incredible sisterhood. Because when you teach a girl to code, she’ll change the world. In Episode 305, Ben and Scott dive into Azure Savings Plans for compute and how they differ from compute reservations. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes MS Cloud IT Pro Podcast fundraiser for Girls Who Code What are Azure savings plans for compute? Azure Hybrid Benefit Not sure if this is allowed to post but I’m looking for some help with OneDrive. Details are below.. thanks in advance for any guidance! SharePoint limits Restrictions and limitations in OneDrive and SharePoint About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 304 – Coming down from the Ignite high

Thu, 20 Oct 2022 12:00:18 +0000

It is Techtober and we're fundraising for Girls Who Code. Go to https://give.girlswhocode.com/msclouditpro and donate today to help ensure girls continue to have access to our educational experiences, programming, and incredible sisterhood. Because when you teach a girl to code, she’ll change the world. In Episode 304, Ben and Scott catch up some news from Ignite, talk about the announced retirement of the Azure Service Manager (classic) APIs, some upcoming breaking changes to the Azure CLI and Azure PowerShell, and then get a little ranty as they talk about the Office --> Microsoft rebranding that was recently announced. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes MS Cloud IT Pro Podcast fundraiser for Girls Who Code Microsoft Ignite Microsoft Ignite 2023 Microsoft Cloud and AI chief Scott Guthrie on what's new and next for Microsoft Cloud customers Azure classic resource providers will be retired on 31 August 2024 Azure CLI Ignite 2022 Announcements Blog Azure PowerShell Ignite 2022 announcements Microsoft Office will become Microsoft 365 in major brand overhaul Microsoft Office is changing to Microsoft 365 Microsoft 365 is NOT Office 365 Conditional Access: Require an authentication strength for external users Conditional Access authentication strength (preview) About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 303 – We don’t talk about Viva

Thu, 13 Oct 2022 12:00:17 +0000

It is Techtober and we're fundraising for Girls Who Code. Go to https://give.girlswhocode.com/msclouditpro and donate today to help ensure girls continue to have access to our educational experiences, programming, and incredible sisterhood. Because when you teach a girl to code, she’ll change the world. In Episode 303, Ben and Scott run through some pre-Ignite service retirement announcements for Unmanaged Disks and Azure Load Balancer Basic. Then they get into Microsoft Viva and do a quick review of some of the new features announced at Power Platform Conference. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes MS Cloud IT Pro Podcast fundraiser for Girls Who Code Azure unmanaged disks will be retired on 30 September 2025 Azure Basic Load Balancer will be retired on 30 September 2025—upgrade to Standard Load Balancer Azure Firewall Basic now in preview What is Azure Firewall Manager? Employee Experience and Engagement | Viva Announcing Answers in Microsoft Viva Episode 245 – When Good Viva Topics Go Bad People in Microsoft Viva – Putting people at the center of the employee experience. Why Google kills its own products Google is shutting down Stadia About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 302 – Picking the right Azure VM

Thu, 06 Oct 2022 12:00:29 +0000

In Episode 302, Ben and Scott follow up on Microsoft Dev Box pricing from the latest Two the Cloud stream before diving into how to decipher Azure VM naming and pick the VMs to run your workloads in Azure. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Microsoft Dev Box Pricing Windows 365 Enterprise Plans and Pricing What is Azure Virtual Desktop? Sizes for virtual machines in Azure Azure virtual machine sizes naming conventions Azure compute unit (ACU) Microsoft Azure VM Selector Best Practice: Right-size VMs About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 301 – Git comes to Power Apps

Thu, 29 Sep 2022 12:00:15 +0000

In Episode 301, Ben and Scott talk through some of the announcements from the Microsoft Power Platform Conference, including native co-authoring for canvas apps using Git repositories and named formulas in Power Fx. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Hurricane Ian Power Apps brings collaboration to center stage with 3 big announcements The new sidebar in Microsoft Edge helps you multitask smarter 🎈✨Setup co-authoring using Git for Power Apps Co-authoring in canvas apps (experimental) What is Microsoft Power Fx? Power Fx: Introducing Named Formulas About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 300 – Friends don’t let friends buy M365 from GoDaddy

Thu, 22 Sep 2022 12:00:44 +0000

In Episode 300, Ben and Scott dive into why you might want to reconsider purchasing your M365 licenses and tenant from GoDaddy. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Fried Tequila Shots - LemonsforLulu.com Uber Investigating Breach of Its Computer Systems - The New York Times (nytimes.com) What is the text that's written when I press it? : yubikey (reddit.com) Touch triggered OTP (yubico.com) Why You Should Not Use GoDaddy for Microsoft 365 | CSolutions (csolutionsit.com) Defederating GoDaddy 365 - (tminus365.com) Change your SharePoint domain name - SharePoint in Microsoft 365 | Microsoft Docs About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 299 – Scott’s Ode to the Stream Deck

Thu, 15 Sep 2022 12:00:49 +0000

In Episode 299, Ben lets Scott tell him all about his love of the Stream Deck and how he uses it to make remote work easier. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Azure Windows Virtual Machine Activation: two new KMS IP addresses (…and why you should care) - Microsoft Tech Community Automatically allow traffic to Office 365 endpoints on Azure Firewall (microsoft.com) Stream Deck on Amazon GitHub - BarRaider/streamdeck-worldtime: Shows the time in different cities around the world Audio Switcher - Plugins (elgato.com) Control Center - Plugins (elgato.com) Philips Hue - Plugins (elgato.com) Home Assistant - Plugins (elgato.com) Elgato Stream Deck — Smart Profiles – Elgato Stream Deck - Nerd or Die streamdeck-iconpack-fluentui-system-icons/README.md at main · czottmann/streamdeck-iconpack-fluentui-system-icons · GitHub Touch Portal - Remote macro control deck for PC and Mac OS for streamers, content creators and other professionals (touch-portal.com) About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 298 – Clearing the deck for Ignite

Thu, 08 Sep 2022 12:00:38 +0000

In Episode 298, Ben and Scott talk through some of the recent GA announcements, including Change Analysis, Managed Grafana, and Ampere Altra processor availability. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Basic Authentication Deprecation in Exchange Online – September 2022 Update - Microsoft Tech Community Yeah… disabling basic auth for Autodiscover actually breaks Autodiscover. Only Basic Auth is supported today. Change Analysis GA announcement - Microsoft Tech Community Get resource changes - Azure Resource Graph | Microsoft Docs Elevate your visualizations with Azure Managed Grafana—now generally available | Azure Blog and Updates | Microsoft Azure What is Azure Managed Grafana? | Microsoft Docs Azure Virtual Machines with Ampere Altra Arm–based processors—generally available | Azure Blog and Updates | Microsoft Azure Overview of the Dplsv5 and Dpldsv5-series sizes - Azure Virtual Machines | Microsoft Docs Enterprise-grade edge in Azure Static Web Apps | Microsoft Docs Azure Data Explorer supports native ingestion from Amazon S3 Microsoft opens first global datacenter region in Qatar, bringing new opportunities for a cloud-first economy – Middle East & Africa News Center About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 297 – Microsoft Teams, Planner, and PowerApps Rough Edges

Thu, 01 Sep 2022 12:00:33 +0000

In Episode 297, Ben and Scott talk about some of the rough edges with Planner, Teams, and Microsoft PowerApps before they transition to some PowerShell weirdness with management plane and data plane operations in Azure Storage. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes dbx 286s Microphone Preamp & Channel Strip Processor, Mono 4-Way Rode Rodecaster Pro II Podcast Production Console Integrate your Teams Power Apps with Planner (contains video) - Power Apps | Microsoft Docs April Dunnam - The Developer's Guide to the Power Platform Galaxy - YouTube Deep Linking in Teams Embedded Power Apps - YouTube Embed an app in Teams - Power Apps | Microsoft Docs Microsoft 365 Roadmap - Planner | Microsoft 365 Remove-AzRmStorageContainer (Az.Storage) | Microsoft Docs Remove-AzStorageContainer (Az.Storage) | Microsoft Docs About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 296 – Microsoft Purview data loss prevention

Thu, 25 Aug 2022 12:00:30 +0000

In Episode 296, Ben and Scott continue their whirlwind tour of Microsoft Purview by turning their attention to the data loss prevention capabilities that fall under the Purview banner. They talk through what you can do with DLP policies and things to consider as you start to configure them. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes How the Graph X-Ray Tool Helps PowerShell Developers (office365itpros.com) Microsoft Purview- Paint By Numbers Series (Part 0) - Overview - Microsoft Tech Community Learn about data loss prevention - Microsoft Purview (compliance) | Microsoft Docs Using Endpoint DLP - Microsoft Purview (compliance) | Microsoft Docs Learn about the default DLP policy in Microsoft Teams (preview) - Microsoft Purview (compliance) | Microsoft Docs Get started with the default DLP policy - Microsoft Purview (compliance) | Microsoft Docs Get started with the DLP Alerts dashboard - Microsoft Purview (compliance) | Microsoft Docs About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 295 – The artist formerly known as Azure Purview

Thu, 18 Aug 2022 12:00:58 +0000

In Episode 295, Ben and Scott follow up last weeks episode on Microsoft Purview and dive into the Azure side of it - Data Map, Data Catalog, In-place Data Share, and Data Estate Insights. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Introduction to Microsoft Purview governance solutions - Microsoft Purview | Microsoft Docs Microsoft Purview governance portal Elastic data map - Microsoft Purview | Microsoft Docs Microsoft Purview Data Map supported data sources and file types - Microsoft Purview | Microsoft Docs Pricing - Microsoft Purview | Microsoft Azure About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 294 – Microsoft Purview with Erica Toelle

Thu, 11 Aug 2022 12:00:50 +0000

In Episode 294, Ben sits down for a chat with Erica Toelle about Microsoft Purview. They start out by discussing Information Governance and Data Lifecycle Records Management in general and how it can impact your business. From there, they move into some of the specific features within Microsoft Purview that can help you with your Information Governance, Information Lifecycle Management, and other Compliance needs your organization may have for data stored in Microsoft 365. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes The future of compliance and data governance is here: Introducing Microsoft Purview - https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2022/04/19/the-future-of-compliance-and-data-governance-is-here-introducing-microsoft-purview/ What is Microsoft Purview? https://docs.microsoft.com/purview/purview Learn about data lifecycle management - https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/compliance/data-lifecycle-management?view=o365-worldwide Retention policies and retention labels - https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/compliance/retention?view=o365-worldwide Adaptive Scopes - https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/compliance/retention?view=o365-worldwide#adaptive-or-static-policy-scopes-for-retention Collecting the version shared in a cloud attachment (preview) - https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/compliance/advanced-ediscovery-cloud-attachments?view=o365-worldwide#collecting-the-version-shared-in-a-cloud-attachment-preview Sensitivity Labels - https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/compliance/sensitivity-labels?view=o365-worldwide About Erica Toelle Erica Toelle is a senior product marketing manager on the Microsoft Purview product team. Her focus is on growing the data lifecycle and records management business and listening to customers and partners to make our solutions better. Erica is a long-time member of the SharePoint and Microsoft 365 community, a former Microsoft MVP, a published author, and a recognized expert in the information governance area. Twitter: https://twitter.com/ericatoelle Uncovering Hidden Risks Podcast: https://www.uncoveringhiddenrisks.com/ LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/ericatoelle Compliance Books: https://t.co/awQpXn2wlY About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 293 – I have a story to share

Thu, 04 Aug 2022 12:00:51 +0000

In Episode 293, Ben and Scott talk through some weird behaviors you can encounter when you're using OneDrive for Business and Known Folder Move when it comes to PowerShell modules and then dive into some of the announcements from Microsoft Inspire. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Microsoft OneDrive to support stories, but only for friends and family | Windows Central Photo story (microsoft.com) Microsoft Defender for Individuals | Microsoft Security Installing PnP PowerShell | PnP PowerShell OneDrive Known Folders and PowerShell Module Installations - Office 365 for IT Pros (office365itpros.com) about Modules - PowerShell | Microsoft Docs Your home for Microsoft Inspire Announcing Microsoft Viva Engage - Microsoft Tech Community Introducing Viva Engage - Microsoft Tech Community The things you and your organization need to know about Viva Engage, Yammer and the Communities app (linkedin.com) Employee Experience and Engagement | Microsoft Viva Microsoft Viva Sales Microsoft simplifies Endpoint Manager enrollment for Apple updates About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 292 – Cross-region Load Balancer and Premium SSD v2

Thu, 28 Jul 2022 12:00:52 +0000

In Episode 292, Ben and Scott discuss some tips and tricks for macOS with OneDrive Known Folder Move and how to launch dedicated Microsoft Edge profiles before they get into Premium SSD v2 and Cross-region Load Balancer. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Apple silicon support in GA and KFM for macOS in Public Preview - Microsoft Tech Community Redirect and move Windows known folders to OneDrive - OneDrive | Microsoft Docs Launch Microsoft Edge Profiles Opens a specific Microsoft Edge profile by name on macOS · GitHub Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage in preview Premium SSD v2 (preview) Managed Disks pricing Generally available: Azure Gateway Load Balancer How Microsoft Azure Cross-region Load Balancer helps create region redundancy and low latency Cross-region load balancer (Preview) About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 291 – I have a bandwidth problem

Thu, 21 Jul 2022 12:00:09 +0000

In Episode 291, Ben and Scott lament the state of broadband in the US and the evil of bandwidth caps, how to wrangle permission scopes with the Microsoft Graph, and how an issue with conditional access policies can impact Windows client activation. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Comcast to impose home internet data cap of 1.2TB in more than a dozen US states next year - The Verge Which Internet Service Providers Have Data Caps? Home Assistant Two The Cloud - YouTube Find Azure AD and MSOnline cmdlets in Microsoft Graph PowerShell | Microsoft Docs Update-MgUser (Microsoft.Graph.Users) | Microsoft Docs Microsoft Graph permissions reference - Microsoft Graph | Microsoft Docs Permissions availability status | Microsoft Docs PnP PowerShell Read SharePoint List Items Using CAML Query | PnP Samples Windows 10/11 Subscription Activation Multifactor authentication Troubleshoot Windows virtual machine activation problems in Azure - Virtual Machines | Microsoft Docs About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 290 – Moving from a Microsoft 365 Admin to MSP

Thu, 14 Jul 2022 12:00:07 +0000

In Episode 290, Ben and Scott discuss how you can transition from a Microsoft 365 administrator at a single organization to becoming a managed service provider or a consultant who helps customers implement Microsoft 365. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Dynamic X and Y Axis in Power BI visuals? Yes please! Migration tools for Log Analytics Agent to Azure Monitor Agent How to Sell Microsoft 365 as a Managed Service The MSP’s Guide to Selling M365 Microsoft Partner Network Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 289 – Windows Admin Center comes to Azure

Thu, 07 Jul 2022 12:00:30 +0000

In Episode 289, Ben and Scott dive into announcements for Windows Admin Center for ARC-enabled servers, Azure Gateway Load Balancer [maybe] reaching GA, OAuth 2.0 client credential flow for POP, and IMAP and Exchange Online, and kind-of/sort-of nested groups in Azure AD. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Preview of Windows Admin Center for Azure Arc-enabled infrastructure Manage Azure Arc-enabled Servers using Windows Admin Center in Azure Gateway Load Balancer (Preview) Announcing OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials Flow support for POP and IMAP protocols in Exchange Online Use client credentials grant flow to authenticate IMAP and POP connections Microsoft identity platform and the OAuth 2.0 client credentials flow Create "nested" groups with Azure AD Dynamic Groups Group membership in a dynamic group (preview) in Azure Active Directory About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 288 – OneDrive Sync Reports and M365 PNP Assessments

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 12:00:46 +0000

In Episode 288, Ben and Scott tour the OneDrive Sync Reports preview, talk about some new assessments available from the PNP project for SharePoint 2013 Workflow discovery and SharePoint Syntex, and then close out with a preview feature in Azure Storage which allows you to provision up to 5,000 storage accounts per region per subscription. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Calling macOS Admins: OneDrive Sync Reports are in Public Preview! OneDrive sync reports in the Apps Admin Center Microsoft 365 Assessment tool SharePoint 2013 Workflow Assessment SharePoint Syntex Assessment How Microsoft Teams uses AI and machine learning to improve calls and meetings Logi Dock: First Impressions Azure DNS zone endpoints (preview) About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 287 – Power BI Field Parameters and Microsoft Entra

Thu, 23 Jun 2022 12:00:36 +0000

In Episode 287, Ben and Scott take a detour to talk about Field Parameters in Power BI before they get back on track and dive into Microsoft Entra. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Using the new amazing Power BI feature - Field Parameters Fields Parameter in Action I Practical Examples Secure access for a connected world—meet Microsoft Entra Microsoft launches Entra: A new identity and access family of products Streamlining employee onboarding: Microsoft’s response to the Great Reshuffle Introduction to Azure Active Directory Verifiable Credentials (preview) What's Permissions Management? About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 286 – Microsoft Build 2022 News and Announcements

Thu, 16 Jun 2022 12:00:51 +0000

In Episode 286, Ben and Scott run down some of their favorite announcements from Microsoft Build 2022. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Build 2022 Book of News Announcing Azure DNS Private Resolver: Now in preview What is Azure DNS Private Resolver? Raising the Baseline Security for all Organizations in the World Security defaults in Azure AD Review and remove AAD inactive users in Public Preview Create an access review of groups and applications in Azure AD License requirements Introducing Microsoft Dev Box Delivering developer velocity through the entire engineering system Build collaborative apps with new Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams collaboration controls in Power Apps Announcing Microsoft Power Pages: Build secure, low-code websites What's the difference between Power Pages and Power Apps portals? About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 285 – The new Outlook for Windows is here (for real this time)

Thu, 09 Jun 2022 12:00:45 +0000

In Episode 285, Ben and Scott have some follow-up on the deprecation of basic auth in Exchange Online, a new learning collection for CMMC, and the pilot release of the new Outlook client for Windows. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Announcing Public Folder Migration Scripts with Modern Authentication Support Understanding the Different Versions of Exchange Online PowerShell Modules and Basic Auth Get started with Microsoft Learn for CMMC Announcing Learn Collections Things to know about the new Outlook for Windows The new Outlook for Windows helps you be more productive and in control of your inbox Introducing Microsoft Viva Goals About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 284 – Take a break from basic authentication in Exchange Online

Thu, 02 Jun 2022 12:00:40 +0000

In Episode 284, Ben and Scott spend some time reminding all of you that it is time to move off Basic Authentication in Exchange Online before it goes away for good at the end of this year. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Microsoft adds unscheduled breaks to most certification exams Microsoft modern authentication deadline looms over Exchange Deprecation of Basic authentication in Exchange Online Basic Authentication Deprecation in Exchange Online – May 2022 Update Microsoft Bookings Microsoft FindTime Calendly Welcome to Scheduler for Microsoft 365 About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 283 – Azure Bicep with Andrew Connell

Thu, 26 May 2022 12:00:06 +0000

In Episode 283, Ben brings Andrew Connell out of podcast retirement to discuss Azure Bicep. They discuss why to use Bicep, how and where to go to learn it, uses cases for Bicep as well how you can use it for CICD. Finally, they wrap up by answering the question...will we see a Voitanos course on Bicep? Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Bicep Documentation - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/bicep/ What is Azure Bicep? - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/bicep/overview?tabs=bicep How to create Azure Function Apps with Bicep - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzgB3cSUdNM How to: CI/CD/IaC for Azure Function Apps and GitHub Actions - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36R1pzPuLvs Getting started with Azure Bicep - https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/itops-talk-blog/getting-started-with-azure-bicep/ba-p/3064214 Andrew Connell Andrew Connell is a web developer with a focus on Microsoft Azure & Microsoft 365, specifically SharePoint Online, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Azure, Node.js, .NET Core, and React that enjoys development, writing & teaching...if it’s a cutting-edge web you will find Andrew there! He has received Microsoft’s MVP award every year since 2005 and has helped thousands of developers through the various courses he’s authored and taught both in-person & in online courses. His training company, Voitanos (https://www.voitanos.io), is dedicated to delivering industry-leading on-demand video training for Microsoft 365 & Microsoft Azure professional developers. Throughout the years Andrew has been fortunate enough to share what he has learned at conferences like Microsoft’s TechEd, Build, Ignite & the SharePoint Conference (SPC), the European SharePoint Conference, 365EduCon (formerly SharePoint Fest), and Angular’s ngConf & AngularU among many others all around the world in North America, Europe, Asia & Australia. You can find Andrew on his popular blog (http://www.andrewconnell.com), follow him on Twitter @andrewconnell or @voitanos, check out some of the numerous projects he’s involved in on GitHub (http://www.github.com/andrewconnell), or check out his YouTube channel at https://voitanos.tv. Andrew Connell https://www.twitter.com/andrewconnell https://github.com/AndrewConnell https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewconnell Voitanos https://www.voitanos.io https://www.twitter.com/voitanos https://www.youtube.com/voitanosio https://www.facebook.com/voitanos About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 282 – Getting started with Power Query

Thu, 19 May 2022 12:00:23 +0000

In Episode 282, Scott talks to Ben about a situation he ran into at work where he wanted to automate the ingestion of data from Azure Data Explorer and Azure DevOps into Excel. They talk about how you can query data from multiple data sources using Power Query and bring that data together with relationships and visualizations. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Maxforce Quantum 0.03% Imidacloprid Ant Control Liquid Bait with 10 stations, 120 Gram Bottle Compare Outlook for PC, Outlook on the web, and Outlook for iOS & Android Share an Outlook calendar with other people What is Power Query? Getting data overview Get started with the REST APIs for Azure DevOps About Power BI integration Get webpage data by providing examples OData.Feed Microsoft Power BI Downloads About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 281 – Fast account switching comes to M365 web apps

Thu, 12 May 2022 12:00:42 +0000

In Episode 281, Ben and Scott talk through how account switching for M365 web apps works and then some updates around Azure AD and how change management for the service will work moving forward from March 2022. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Announcing account switching for Microsoft 365 web apps Azure AD: Change Management Simplified Register for Microsoft Build About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 280 – Azure Storage or SharePoint for my files?

Thu, 05 May 2022 12:00:26 +0000

In Episode 280, Ben and Scott talk through how you can think about migrating your files from on-premises to Azure Storage or to SharePoint Online. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Microsoft Windows 95 Launch with Bill Gates & Jay Leno (1995) Retro Tech by MKBHD Azure Webinar Series - Migrate Your File Data to Azure at No Cost Episode 275 – Azure File Migration program with Karl Rautenstrauch Introduction to Azure Storage Document collaboration and co-authoring About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 279 – Ben’s rant about content types in SharePoint

Thu, 28 Apr 2022 12:00:31 +0000

In Episode 279, Scott listens in as Ben discusses an issue he recently encountered with content type management and content types being pushed from a content type publishing hub. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Publish a content type from a content publishing hub What is a SharePoint hub site? Introduction to content types and content type publishing What’s changed in content type publishing About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 278 – Shared Channels in Microsoft Teams are… interesting

Thu, 21 Apr 2022 12:00:17 +0000

In Episode 278, Ben and Scott go through follow-up on the end-user experience for working with Microsoft Teams Shared Channels. To learn about what needs to be done on the admin side, listen to Episode 274 – Microsoft Teams Connect shared channels and B2B direct connect. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Microsoft Teams Public Preview Episode 274 – Microsoft Teams Connect shared channels and B2B direct connect Collaborate with external participants in a channel About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 277 – Beep Bop BYOIP with Bring Your Own IP in Azure

Thu, 14 Apr 2022 12:00:24 +0000

In Episode 277, Ben and Scott dive into the GA of "bring your own IP" (or BYOIP) in Azure, a capability that allows you to register your public IP blocks in Azure and associate public IPs that you own with public IP resources such as load balancers and virtual machines. Then they discuss the GA of the new Azure Front Door service. Finally, they close out with some tips around tracking service announcements, including tracking service retirement. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Microsoft Build Bring your own IP addresses (BYOIP) to Azure with Custom IP Prefix Custom IP address prefix (BYOIP) Manage a custom IP address prefix Introducing the new Azure Front Door: Reimagined for modern apps and content What is Azure Front Door? Azure classic storage accounts will be retired on 31 August 2024 Azure Data Lake Analytics will be retired on 29 February 2024 About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 276 – I need to lock down SharePoint but I need it to be open!

Thu, 07 Apr 2022 12:00:28 +0000

In Episode 276, Ben and Scott start the episode talking about Teams display devices, Teams phones, and complimenting the Teams app on your computer. Then we wrap up the episode by addressing a listener's question about sharing content in SharePoint with external users while also maintaining certain security and compliance requirements. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Microsoft Teams Display are smart displays designed for meetings Introducing Microsoft Teams displays Certified Teams Displays The 100 Greatest Movies of the 1980s Restrict sharing of SharePoint and OneDrive content by domain Use SharePoint as a business-to-business (B2B) extranet solution Control unmanaged device access to SharePoint and OneDrive Use sensitivity labels to protect content in Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 groups, and SharePoint sites Limit accidental exposure to files when sharing with people outside your organization Create a secure guest sharing environment About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 275 – Azure File Migration program with Karl Rautenstrauch

Thu, 31 Mar 2022 12:00:22 +0000

In Episode 275, Scott sits down with Karl Rautenstrauch, a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft to discuss the new Azure File Migration program. Karl explains how the program enables access to best of breed migration tooling which can help you easily perform managed migrations of files to Azure Storage, including Blobs, Files, and Azure NetApp Files. Sponsors ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Spot by NetApp – The cloud automation platform that makes it easy to deliver continuously optimized infrastructure at the lowest possible cost Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Migrate the critical file data you need to power your applications New Azure File Migration program streamlines unstructured data migration Migrating your files to Azure has never been easier Migration guides Migrate your files to Azure - Azure IaaS Day 2021 Migration videos – https://aka.ms/filemigrationvideos Data Dynamics - https://aka.ms/datadynamicsguide Komprise - https://aka.ms/kompriseguide Accelerate infrastructure migration with Azure Storage | Azure Storage Day 2021 Azure Marketplace links Komprise Elastic Data Migration and Analytics, offer sponsored by Microsoft Azure Data Dynamics StorageX Migration, offer sponsored by Azure Azure Storage migration overview About our guest Karl is an IT veteran with 23 years of experience. He has been a systems administrator and architect for Fortune 500 companies, a national solutions architect for NetApp and Microsoft, and now a Principal Product Manager in Azure Engineering. Karl likes to be in the thick of emerging technologies. In his 9 years with Microsoft, he has focused on Azure Storage, Backup, Disaster Recovery, Edge Computing, and High Availability. In his role as a Product Manager with the Azure Storage team, he focuses on strategic partnerships to enable any and every workload to run on Azure. You can find him on Twitter as @Kloud_Karl or connect with him on LinkedIn. About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 274 – Microsoft Teams Connect shared channels and B2B direct connect

Thu, 24 Mar 2022 12:00:17 +0000

In Episode 274, Ben and Scott dive into some of the considerations for identity and tenant configuration when you are getting started with Microsoft Teams Connect shared channels. Sponsors Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes ‘A dangerous stunt’: Reward offered for information on driver who jumped Tesla in Echo Park Microsoft to add new shared channels, encryption for calls, webinar features to Teams Microsoft Teams Connect shared channels is rolling out to public preview Overview: Cross-tenant access with Azure AD External Identities (Preview) B2B direct connect overview Microsoft Teams Public Preview github.com/hjdhjd/homebridge-unifi-protect About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 273 – On-demand capacity reservations with Site Recovery

Thu, 17 Mar 2022 12:00:04 +0000

In Episode 273, Ben and Scott talk about on-demand capacity reservations for Azure Virtual Machines and how they can be leveraged with Site Recovery services to have guaranteed compute on failover, fast account switching coming to Microsoft 365 services, and the CIS benchmark for Azure Kubernetes Service. Sponsors Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Microsoft 365 Web Apps To Get Account Switching Support Next Month Guarantee capacity access with on-demand capacity reservations—now in preview Public preview: On-demand capacity reservation with Azure Site Recovery safeguards VMs failover Azure Logic Apps - Availability Zone support is coming soon Center for Internet Security (CIS) Kubernetes benchmark The anatomy of a datacenter—how Microsoft's datacenter hardware powers the Microsoft Cloud Inside Azure Datacenter Architecture with Mark Russinovich About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 272 – SharePoint Online and Azure News

Thu, 10 Mar 2022 13:00:13 +0000

In Episode 272, Ben and Scott discuss changes that are rolling out for the new move experience in SharePoint Online, support for known folder move in the OneDrive client on macOS, cross region VM restore points for Azure VMs, and tracking resource change history through Azure Resource Graph. Sponsors Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes New file move and copy experience for OneDrive and SharePoint Move or copy files in SharePoint Apple silicon support in GA and KFM for macOS in Public Preview Updates to Files On-Demand on macOS Redirect and move Windows known folders to OneDrive Create VM restore points (Preview) Get resource changes About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 271 – Smart Home All The Things

Thu, 03 Mar 2022 13:00:59 +0000

In Episode 271, Ben and Scott take a break from Microsoft 365 and Azure talk about smart home devices, including their favorite uses for different categories of devices such as lights, locks, and even blinds/shades. If you've been thinking about building out your smart home, give it a listen. We're sure you'll learn something new. Sponsors Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Chipmaker Nvidia investigating potential cyberattack - report Isolate Your Smart Home Devices with UniFi Securing your smarthome devices – using VLANs to secure your home network Homebridge SmartThings yoolax Amazon links Lutron Caseta August Smart Locks Smart Garage Door Openers About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 270 – Microsoft Teams Phones and Azure VM Updates

Thu, 24 Feb 2022 13:00:50 +0000

In Episode 270, Ben and Scott talk about a new Microsoft Teams phone from Yealink that Ben is testing and then talk about a recently GA'd capability which impacts how resources associated with a Virtual Machine are treated on deletion of the VM. Sponsors Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Ethernet port on the TS4 or TS3 Plus does not work properly Yealink Voice Device Solutions for Microsoft Teams Yealink MP58 Teams Edition Requirements for Windows 365 Windows 365 Enterprise: February 2022 updates Delete a VM and attached resources Microsoft Stream: Generate captions and transcripts for a video uploaded to SharePoint and OneDrive About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 269 – Thunderbolt docks and Azure AD Updates

Thu, 17 Feb 2022 13:00:51 +0000

In Episode 269, Ben and Scott talk about the just released CalDigit TS4 Thunderbolt 4 dock and then get into some news and updates around Azure AD, including the public preview of certificate based authentication and proof of concept for impersonating device identities of Windows clients. Sponsors Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Thunderbolt 4 Station overview CalDigit TS4 Thunderbolt 4 Dock - 18 Ports, 98W Charging, 3x Thunderbolt 4 40Gb/s, 5 x USB-A, 3 x USB-C (10Gb/s), 2.5GbE, Single 8K or Dual 6K 60Hz Displays, Mac, PC, Chrome Compatible with 0.8m Cable Generally available: Azure Monitor Diagnostic settings for Azure Storage Azure AD Certificate-Based Authentication now in Public Preview Overview of Azure AD certificate-based authentication (Preview) Microsoft says MFA adoption remains low, only 22% among enterprise customers Stealing and faking Azure AD device identities Exam AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 268 – Getting Started with Terraform for Azure

Thu, 10 Feb 2022 13:00:02 +0000

In Episode 268, Ben takes Scott through his experience getting started with Terraform and executing complex deployments in Azure. Sponsors Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Use CART captions in a Microsoft Teams meeting (human generated captions) Terraform by HashiCorp Azure Provider Terraform State Terraform with Azure Investing deeply in Terraform on Azure Azure/generator-az-terra-module HashiCorp Terraform Get Started: Install the Azure Terraform Visual Studio Code extension Get Started: Create an Azure resource group using Terraform Terraform: Up & Running: Writing Infrastructure as Code 2nd Edition About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 267 – Microsoft 365 Compliance – Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

Thu, 03 Feb 2022 13:00:43 +0000

In Episode 267, Ben and Scott talk about some of the updates that have come to Data loss prevention (DLP) in Microsoft 365 and how you can leverage DLP to protect your sensitive data across the M365 stack and even external cloud apps like Box, Dropbox, and Salesforce. Sponsors Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Learn about data loss prevention Microsoft Information Protection in Microsoft 365 Create a DLP policy from a template Data Loss Prevention policy reference Create, test, and tune a DLP policy Data loss prevention and Microsoft Teams Using Endpoint data loss prevention Use data loss prevention policies for non-Microsoft cloud apps How DLP works between the Microsoft 365 Compliance Center and Exchange admin center About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 266 – Azure Reservations

Thu, 27 Jan 2022 13:00:40 +0000

In Episode 266, Ben and Scott spend most of the time talking about Azure Reserved Instances. What they are, when you might want to use them, and some of the services you can purchase them for. They also cover some potential things to watch out for when considering if you should purchase a reserved instance for one or more of your Azure Services. Sponsors Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Automatically stop unused Azure Data Explorer Clusters Automatic stop of inactive Azure Data Explorer clusters What are Azure Reservations? Manage Reservations for Azure resources Buy a reservation Save costs with Azure Reserved VM Instances Buy a Reserved VM Instance Self-service exchanges and refunds for Azure Reservations Optimize costs for Blob storage with reserved capacity Automatically renew reservations Renewal notification About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 265 – Azure Automation State Configuration vs Azure Policy guest configuration

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 13:00:05 +0000

In Episode 265, Ben and Scott talk about Azure Automation State Configuration and Azure Policy guest configuration for using DSC at-scale with your virtual machines in Azure. Sponsors Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Using Policy with Azure Site Recovery Azure Automation State Configuration overview Azure Automation Managed Node template Register-AzAutomationDscNode Understand the guest configuration feature of Azure Policy Quickstart: Create a policy assignment to identify non-compliant resources using Terraform About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 264 – New Settings for Managing Teams Meeting Expiration

Thu, 13 Jan 2022 13:00:00 +0000

In Episode 264, Ben and Scott kick off 2022 with some Azure CLI follow-up from 2021, and then they talk about some new settings available for managing per-user meeting expiration policies. Sponsors Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Streamline configuring Azure CLI with az init AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals Certification Course Github repo - AZ- 900 Azure Fundamentals Certification Course How to Manage Microsoft Teams Meeting Recording Auto-Expiration Meeting policies and meeting expiration in Microsoft Teams Record a meeting in Teams In development... In development for Microsoft Intune In development for Windows 365 Enterprise In development for Windows 365 Business Google search - site:https://docs.microsoft.com/ "Features in development" About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 263 – Tips and Tricks for Azure Cloud Shell

Thu, 06 Jan 2022 13:00:04 +0000

In Episode 263, Ben and Scott dive into their favorite tips and tricks for using Azure Cloud Shell and all the programs and functionality that come with it. Sponsors Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Using the Azure Cloud Shell window Persist files in Azure Cloud Shell Features & tools for Azure Cloud Shell How to Use Cloud Shell in Visual Studio Code Microsoft Azure Cloud Shell Image How to Use Cloud Shell from the Microsoft Teams Admin Center Azure Cloud Shell now available in Microsoft 365 az find Azure Cloud Shell with Oh My Zsh and Oh My Posh About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 262 – The One About AAD Connect

Thu, 30 Dec 2021 13:00:09 +0000

In Episode 262, Ben and Scott discuss a bug in one of the latest releases of Azure AD Connect and then talk about a new supported topology where you can synchronize accounts from on-premises to multiple Azure AD tenants. Sponsors Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes AAD Connect 2.0.88.0 breaks Shared Mailboxes for Exchange hybrid customers Azure AD Connect: Version release history Looking for the latest versions? What is Azure AD Connect cloud sync? Tutorial: Enable cloud sync self-service password reset writeback to an on-premises environment (preview) Topologies for Azure AD Connect Multiple Azure AD tenants About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 261 – Disconnecting from Tech

Thu, 23 Dec 2021 14:00:23 +0000

Episode 1 of this podcast was published on April 20, 2017. We've been recording and publishing weekly for almost 5 years. In that time, we've had the opportunity to talk to you about everything from Office 365 (when it was still called that) to Azure IaaS and PaaS services. Our focus has always been on the Microsoft cloud and providing you with news, tips, tricks, and deep dives on how you can leverage these technologies in your professions. Your feedback to us over the years has been invaluable in shaping the show and the types of content we deliver. Please keep it coming. You can connect with us on Discord (sign up for the newsletter to find out how!), Twitter, Facebook, and of course follow along in your podcatcher of choice. With all that being said, in Episode 261, Ben and Scott take a break from tech and talk about some of their favorite non-tech related finds from the past year, including books, TV shows, outdoor activities around the holidays, and some resources for great recipes. We hope you have a chance to disconnect and relax as we head into 2022. Sponsors Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Books we enjoyed Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone Play Dead The Wheel of Time The Caledonian Gambit: A Novel The Bayern Agenda: The Galactic Cold War, Book I The Aleph Extraction: The Galactic Cold War, Book II The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music TV Shows The Wheel of Time Get outside Find outdoor holiday activities near you Cooking 15 RECIPES TO MAKE IN YOUR DUTCH OVEN Sam the Cooking Guy SAM THE COOKING GUY - YouTube About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 260 – Getting Started with Kusto in Azure

Thu, 16 Dec 2021 13:00:10 +0000

In Episode 260, Ben and Scott talk about how to get started with KQL, or Kusto Query Language across a number of Azure and Microsoft 365 services, including Azure Monitor, Azure Data Explorer, the Azure Resources Graph, and the Microsoft 365 audit log. Sponsors Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Kusto query overview How Azure AD Kerberos Works sliding_window_counts plugin join operator Quickstart: Run your first Resource Graph query using Azure Resource Graph Explorer Starter Resource Graph query samples Advanced Resource Graph query samples Write your first query with Kusto Query Language Search the audit log in the compliance center tobiasmcvey/kusto-queries About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 259 – Kerberos and Azure AD, sitting in a tree, a-u-t-h-e-n-t-i-c-a-t-i-n-g

Thu, 09 Dec 2021 13:00:19 +0000

In Episode 259, Ben and Scott discuss some of the latest announcements involving Azure AD, including new security features in Microsoft Authenticator and a new capability that allows Azure AD to issue Kerberos tickets which allows for SMB file shares in Azure Files to be accessed without line of sight to a domain controller. Sponsor Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes New Microsoft Authenticator security features are now available! How to use number matching in multifactor authentication (MFA) notifications (Preview) - Authentication Methods Policy How to use additional context in multifactor authentication (MFA) notifications (Preview) - Authentication Methods Policy Using the location condition in a Conditional Access policy Common problems with the Microsoft Authenticator app Azure AD Kerberos authentication (Preview) Create a profile container with Azure Files and Azure Active Directory (preview) About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 258 – I’m Not Allowed To Buy Anything Until After Christmas

Thu, 02 Dec 2021 13:00:23 +0000

Ben and Scott discuss two new preview capabilities for Azure Virtual Machines - Managed Run Commands and VM Applications

Episode 257 – The Address Space Formerly Known as 127/8

Thu, 25 Nov 2021 13:00:21 +0000

Ben and Scott cover SFTP support on Azure Blob Storage, the GA of NFS v4.1 on Azure Files, and the new AZ-305 exam.

Episode 256 – Conditional Access All The Things?

Thu, 18 Nov 2021 13:00:26 +0000

In Episode 256, Ben and Scott dive into some of the new features available for Azure AD Conditional Access and Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps. Sponsors ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Azure AD Conditional Access documentation Conditional Access: Filter for devices Conditional Access: Users and groups Conditional Access: Session Conditional Access application control Deploy Conditional Access App Control for featured apps Microsoft Cloud App Security Licensing Datasheet About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 255 – What’s new in Microsoft Teams and Azure IaaS Day!

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 13:00:39 +0000

In Episode 255, Ben and Scott follow-up on announcements for Microsoft Teams from Microsoft Ignite, including private channel site management, easier access to Cloud Shell, and retention policies with adaptive scopes. Then Scott takes a few minutes to chat with Henry Yan about the upcoming Azure IaaS Day, including fives reason you should attend. Sponsors ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Join us on Azure IaaS Day: Learn to increase agility and resiliency of your infrastructure 5 reasons to attend the Azure IaaS Day digital event Azure IaaS Day agenda Register: https://aka.ms/AzureIaaSDay Manage teams in the Microsoft Teams admin center Private channel SharePoint sites Manage the life cycle of private channels in Microsoft Teams Overview of Azure Cloud Shell Azure Cloud Shell coming to Microsoft Teams Admin Center Microsoft Teams: Admins can use cloud shell from Teams admin center Teams Private Channels Gain Support for Retention Processing Microsoft Information Governance: New Ways to Govern Your Data in Microsoft Teams Announcing Adaptive Policy Scopes for Microsoft 365 Records Management About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 254 – Looping into Microsoft Ignite

Thu, 04 Nov 2021 12:00:43 +0000

In Episode 254, Ben and Scott just came out of the Microsoft Ignite keynote and sit down to discuss some of their favorite announcements and news from the event. Sponsors ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Microsoft Ignite Book of News So even in virtual experiences, people don't wear pants - but no one is having a bad hair day! #MSIgnite #MicrosoftMesh Mesh for Microsoft Teams aims to make collaboration in the ‘metaverse’ personal and fun Introducing Microsoft Loop Obsidian New orchestration mode for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets now generally available Automatic VM guest patching is now generally available Public preview: Azure Container Apps Gateway Load Balancer now in public preview What is confidential computing? Support for Azure AD joined Cloud PCs in Windows 365 Enterprise What’s new in Security and Compliance in SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams – Ignite 2021 Announcements Microsoft Viva is now generally available to help transform your hybrid work experience Microsoft Viva Topics helps unleash collective knowledge with new features at Ignite Announcing the Public Preview of Azure Chaos Studio What is Azure Chaos Studio Preview? Announcing the Public Preview of Azure Chaos Studio About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 253 – There is no “Easy” button for BCDR in the cloud

Thu, 28 Oct 2021 12:00:36 +0000

In Episode 253, Ben and Scott take a detour and talk about considerations for backup and disaster recovery in Azure. Sponsors ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Windows Subsystem for Android™️ Microsoft fixes Windows 11 AMD CPU performance issues with new update Backup and disaster recovery for Azure applications Azure Storage redundancy Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework - Reliability Automated backups - Azure SQL Database & Azure SQL Managed Instance Microsoft-managed failover Join us on Azure IaaS Day: Learn to increase agility and resiliency of your infrastructure Plan your Microsoft Azure experience at Microsoft Ignite 2021 IoT at Microsoft Ignite About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 252 – Troubleshooting Azure VMs with VM Inspector

Thu, 21 Oct 2021 12:00:36 +0000

In Episode 252, Ben and Scott talk about a new way to troubleshoot your Azure VMs with VM Inspector, a breaking change in Azure AD when using older versions of the Azure CLI and Azure PowerShell, and upcoming changes which will allow uses to delete files with retention labels. Sponsors ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Spot by NetApp – The cloud automation platform that makes it easy to deliver continuously optimized infrastructure at the lowest possible cost Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Game-changing MacBook Pro with M1 Pro and M1 Max delivers extraordinary performance and battery life, and features the world’s best notebook display Apple event recap: MacBook Pro 2021, AirPods 3, M1 Pro, M1X and all the big news Apple’s new 140W charger can fast charge a lot more than just your MacBook Pro Introducing the next generation of AirPods: The world’s most popular wireless headphones just got better VM Inspector for Azure virtual machines (Preview) manifest_content.md Use remote tools to troubleshoot Azure VM issues Azure Active Directory breaking change impacting Azure CLI and Azure PowerShell AppId Uri in single tenant applications will require use of default scheme or verified domains Why SharePoint Online Will Allow Users to Delete Files with Retention Labels Microsoft Compliance center: Information Governance: Retention label deletion behavior change in SharePoint About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Spot by NetApp helps their customers get the most out of their cloud investments by automating cloud infrastructure to ensure performance, reduce complexity, and optimize costs. Discover how leading companies, from cloud-native startups to global enterprises, are automating, simplifying, and optimizing their cloud infrastructure with Spot by NetApp.Check them out at Spot.io/msit where you can find more information, request a demo, or evenstart a free trial. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 251 – Sometimes Upgrades Aren’t Easy

Thu, 14 Oct 2021 12:00:24 +0000

In Episode 251, Ben and Scott dive into the release of Windows 11 and what it takes to upgrade to Windows 11 in Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop. Sponsors ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Spot by NetApp – The cloud automation platform that makes it easy to deliver continuously optimized infrastructure at the lowest possible cost Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Windows 11 is now generally available on Azure Virtual Desktop Deploy Azure Virtual Desktop with the getting started feature PC Health Check Application Preview WINDOWS 11 REVIEW: A FAMILIAR HOME THAT’S STILL BEING RENOVATED Windows 365 Enterprise now supports Windows 11 Convert an existing custom device image to a generation 2 virtual machine Support for generation 2 VMs on Azure Start11 launches in beta so you can change the Windows 11 Start menu About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Spot by NetApp helps their customers get the most out of their cloud investments by automating cloud infrastructure to ensure performance, reduce complexity, and optimize costs. Discover how leading companies, from cloud-native startups to global enterprises, are automating, simplifying, and optimizing their cloud infrastructure with Spot by NetApp.Check them out at Spot.io/msit where you can find more information, request a demo, or evenstart a free trial. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 250 – When Unlimited Isn’t Really Unlimited

Thu, 07 Oct 2021 12:00:32 +0000

In Episode 250, Ben and Scott talk about upcoming changes to Exchange Online archiving, updates to Azure Automation, and how to create conditional access policies using the Microsoft Graph and PowerShell. Sponsors ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Spot by NetApp – The cloud automation platform that makes it easy to deliver continuously optimized infrastructure at the lowest possible cost Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Microsoft Caps Exchange Online’s “Unlimited Archive” at 1.5 TB Az module support in Azure Automation is now available Object replication in public preview for Premium Block Blob Storage Microsoft Teams: Whiteboard is getting this huge makeover Create Conditional Access Policies using Microsoft Graph PowerShell Konnected Alarm Panel connects a wired alert system to your smart home About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Spot by NetApp helps their customers get the most out of their cloud investments by automating cloud infrastructure to ensure performance, reduce complexity, and optimize costs. Discover how leading companies, from cloud-native startups to global enterprises, are automating, simplifying, and optimizing their cloud infrastructure with Spot by NetApp.Check them out at Spot.io/msit where you can find more information, request a demo, or evenstart a free trial. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 249 – AKS Scale-down and the AKS run command

Thu, 30 Sep 2021 12:00:26 +0000

In Episode 249, Ben and Scott talk about the recent announcement of new Surface devices, the deprecation of basic authentication in Exchange Online, and AKS scale-down delete/deallocate. Sponsors ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Spot by NetApp – The cloud automation platform that makes it easy to deliver continuously optimized infrastructure at the lowest possible cost Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Surface Laptop Studio is Microsoft’s new powerful flagship laptop Surface Pro 8 Basic Authentication for All Exchange Online Tenants Stops in October 2022 Use Scale-down Mode to delete/deallocate nodes in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) (preview) General availability: AKS Run command About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Spot by NetApp helps their customers get the most out of their cloud investments by automating cloud infrastructure to ensure performance, reduce complexity, and optimize costs. Discover how leading companies, from cloud-native startups to global enterprises, are automating, simplifying, and optimizing their cloud infrastructure with Spot by NetApp.Check them out at Spot.io/msit where you can find more information, request a demo, or evenstart a free trial. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 248 – Let’s Go Passwordless!

Thu, 23 Sep 2021 12:00:19 +0000

In Episode 248, Ben and Scott dive into the recently announced capability to go passwordless for your consumer Microsoft account, the GA of AAD-join for your virtual machines in AVD host pools, and per-Power App conditional access with authentication context in Azure AD. Sponsors ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Spot by NetApp – The cloud automation platform that makes it easy to deliver continuously optimized infrastructure at the lowest possible cost Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes SpaceX - Launches Introducing password removal for Microsoft Accounts The passwordless future is here for your Microsoft account Announcing General Availability of Azure AD-joined VMs support CIS Benchmarks NIST Special Publication 800-63B Announcing General Availability of Azure AD-joined VMs support Tutorial: Create a host pool Expand an existing host pool with new session hosts Announcing co-presence in Power Automate Announcing Public Preview of Power Apps respecting Conditional Access on individual apps Authentication context (Preview) Microsoft Ignite Registration About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Spot by NetApp helps their customers get the most out of their cloud investments by automating cloud infrastructure to ensure performance, reduce complexity, and optimize costs. Discover how leading companies, from cloud-native startups to global enterprises, are automating, simplifying, and optimizing their cloud infrastructure with Spot by NetApp.Check them out at Spot.io/msit where you can find more information, request a demo, or evenstart a free trial. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 247 – Upgrading Your Remote Call Quality (Gear Talk)

Thu, 16 Sep 2021 12:00:53 +0000

In Episode 247, Ben and Scott take a break from Azure and SharePoint to talk about the gear they use for audio remote calls with Microsoft Teams and Zoom. Sponsors ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Spot by NetApp – The cloud automation platform that makes it easy to deliver continuously optimized infrastructure at the lowest possible cost Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Jabra Speak 510 Wireless Bluetooth Speaker for Softphone and Mobile Phone MOUNT-IT! Adjustable Microphone Boom Arm [3/8’’ to 5/8’’ Screw Adapter] Suspension Scissor Mic Stand, Desk Mount For Blue Snowball, Yeti, & Other Studio and Gaming Microphones (With Cable Management) NEEWER Adjustable Microphone Suspension Boom Scissor Arm Stand, Max Load 1 KG Compact Mic Stand for Radio Broadcasting, Voice-Over, Stage and TV Stations, Compatible with Blue Yeti Snowball Yeti X,etc Shotgun-Microphone, SYNCO-Mic-D2-Hyper-Cardioid-Directional-Condenser-Mic with XLR Connector, Professional Video/Audio Recording for Camcorders/Boom Poles/Tripods Audio-Technica AT2005USB Cardioid Dynamic USB/XLR Microphone Audio-Technica ATR2100x-USB Cardioid Dynamic Microphone (ATR Series) Shure SM57-LC Cardioid Instrument Microphone Rode Procaster Broadcast Dynamic Vocal Microphone Rode Microphones Wireless GO II Dual Channel Wireless Microphone System Wireless Microphones for Computer,FIFINE USB Wireless Microphone System for PC and Mac,Headset UHF Wireless System with USB Receiver,Transmitter,Headset and Clip Lavalier Lapel Mic-K031B Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 (3rd Gen) USB Audio Interface with Pro Tools MOTU M2 2x2 USB-C Audio Interface Note: We use affiliate links. If you purchase through the link, it supports the podcast. About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Spot by NetApp helps their customers get the most out of their cloud investments by automating cloud infrastructure to ensure performance, reduce complexity, and optimize costs. Discover how leading companies, from cloud-native startups to global enterprises, are automating, simplifying, and optimizing their cloud infrastructure with Spot by NetApp.Check them out at Spot.io/msit where you can find more information, request a demo, or evenstart a free trial. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 246 – Squirrels and Azure AD

Thu, 09 Sep 2021 12:00:12 +0000

In Episode 246, Scott laments about the squirrel living in Scott's roof. Then they talk about how you can now access VS Code from your browser on GitHub.com by just pressing your period key and then discuss all of the updates you should be thinking about as AADConnect and Azure AD Graph are depreciated. Sponsors ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Spot by NetApp – The cloud automation platform that makes it easy to deliver continuously optimized infrastructure at the lowest possible cost Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation One-Click VS Code in Browser from GitHub Repo ('How Did I Not Know This?') Upgrade to the latest version of Azure AD Connect before 31 August 2022 Azure AD Connect: Upgrade from a previous version to the latest Windows Server 2022 Now Generally Available Windows Server 2022 is full of new file services! Windows Server 2022 and beyond for containers Storage Innovations in Windows Server 2022 Windows 11 release date, beta, requirements and all the new features Azure AD Graph is retiring on 30 June 2022 Renew your Microsoft Certification About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Spot by NetApp helps their customers get the most out of their cloud investments by automating cloud infrastructure to ensure performance, reduce complexity, and optimize costs. Discover how leading companies, from cloud-native startups to global enterprises, are automating, simplifying, and optimizing their cloud infrastructure with Spot by NetApp.Check them out at Spot.io/msit where you can find more information, request a demo, or evenstart a free trial. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 245 – When Good Viva Topics Go Bad

Thu, 02 Sep 2021 12:00:14 +0000

In Episode 245, Ben and Scott discuss Viva Topics and some frustrations around managing topics as an end-user. Then they dive into some of the latest items that have appeared on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap. Sponsors ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Spot by NetApp – The cloud automation platform that makes it easy to deliver continuously optimized infrastructure at the lowest possible cost Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Microsoft Viva Topics overview SharePoint highlights Manage topic visibility in Microsoft Viva Topics Microsoft Teams: Auto-Expiration of Meeting Recordings stored on OneDrive and SharePoint Pairing naming convention between Teams channels and corresponding SharePoint folders Microsoft Teams: Pairing the channel and the corresponding SharePoint folder name About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Spot by NetApp helps their customers get the most out of their cloud investments by automating cloud infrastructure to ensure performance, reduce complexity, and optimize costs. Discover how leading companies, from cloud-native startups to global enterprises, are automating, simplifying, and optimizing their cloud infrastructure with Spot by NetApp.Check them out at Spot.io/msit where you can find more information, request a demo, or evenstart a free trial. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 244 – Azure Updates and Microsoft 365 Price Increase

Thu, 26 Aug 2021 12:00:07 +0000

In Episode 244, Ben tells Scott about his experience locking himself out of his Azure AD tenant and then they discuss recently GA'd features for Azure Storage including blob inventory, last access time tracking, and Archive storage events. Sponsors ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Spot by NetApp – The cloud automation platform that makes it easy to deliver continuously optimized infrastructure at the lowest possible cost Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Manage emergency access accounts in Azure AD How can I enable microphone for Teams in Windows Virtual Desktop? Azure feedback site UserVoice Pages AzureStorageFeedback@microsoft.com Automatic Extension Upgrade for VMs and Scale Sets in Azure General availability: Azure Archive Storage events for easy rehydration of archived blobs Azure Blob storage - Inventory generally availability Microsoft Teams: Auto-Expiration of Meeting Recordings stored on OneDrive and SharePoint New pricing for Microsoft 365 Microsoft to increase Microsoft 365, Office 365 commercial prices in March 2022 About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Spot by NetApp helps their customers get the most out of their cloud investments by automating cloud infrastructure to ensure performance, reduce complexity, and optimize costs. Discover how leading companies, from cloud-native startups to global enterprises, are automating, simplifying, and optimizing their cloud infrastructure with Spot by NetApp.Check them out at Spot.io/msit where you can find more information, request a demo, or evenstart a free trial. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 243 – Windows 365 Follow Up

Thu, 19 Aug 2021 12:00:18 +0000

In Episode 243, Scott listens as Ben dives into his experience with the initial setup and deployment of Windows 365 desktop. Sponsors ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Spot by NetApp – The cloud automation platform that makes it easy to deliver continuously optimized infrastructure at the lowest possible cost Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes 'Alexa, ask Azure cloud to create a Linux VM' Windows 365 Enterprise documentation Windows 365 plans and pricing What is Windows 365? Windows 365 FAQ Windows 365 vs. Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) – Comparing Two DaaS Products Windows 365 on-premises network connection overview Windows 365 device images overview Windows 365 network requirements Azure bandwidth pricing About the sponsors Spot by NetApp helps their customers get the most out of their cloud investments by automating cloud infrastructure to ensure performance, reduce complexity, and optimize costs. Discover how leading companies, from cloud-native startups to global enterprises, are automating, simplifying, and optimizing their cloud infrastructure with Spot by NetApp.Check them out at Spot.io/msit where you can find more information, request a demo, or even start a free trial. Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 242 – Microsoft Teams apps ecosystem with Rima Reyes

Thu, 12 Aug 2021 12:00:15 +0000

In Episode 242, Ben and Scott sit down with Rima Reyes, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft Teams Engineering, to chat about Microsoft Teams, apps across industry clouds, and how to express customer empathy in engineering to build a vibrant partner ecosystem. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show notes Microsoft Teams apps Microsoft Teams apps - AppSource Microsoft Teams store validation guidelines Guides and tools to design your Microsoft Teams app effectively Publish your app to the Microsoft Teams store Maintain your published Microsoft Teams app Cloud Governance is Now Available as a Microsoft Teams App Microsoft Cloud for Government Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services About our guest Rima Reyes is currently a Principal Program Manager in Microsoft Teams Engineering, being a part of the Teams Platform Ecosystem team with a focus on Partner app dev for Healthcare, Legal & WW Gov. Prior to her start in Teams Engineering in 2018, Rima had spent the first 13 years of her career building solutions in SharePoint while working at Northrop Grumman IT, Hewlett-Packard, and Microsoft Federal Consulting Services. She was also one of the founding members of the Women in SharePoint DC user group and previously worked at the White House Situation Room for 6+ years. Rima currently resides in the Washington, DC area with her Goldendoodle, Levi, and is passionate about using Virtual Reality for both fitness and work productivity. You can find her on LinkedIn and Twitter @rimazima. About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 241 – Azure News and Updates

Thu, 05 Aug 2021 12:00:49 +0000

In Episode 241, Ben is on vacation and Scott is on his own, so we're trying a new format offering some quick news and updates around Azure. Please let us know if you like this format and want shorter episodes like this in the future. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Azure Active Directory support for Azure Relay now in public preview What is Azure Relay? General availability: Better integration between Azure Monitor and Grafana Azure Monitor data source Public preview: Azure App Service Migration Assistant PowerShell-based experience Azure / App-Service-Migration-Assistant Announcing the Azure Firewall Premium general availability Azure Firewall Premium features About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 240 – SharePoint Server… Subscription Edition

Thu, 29 Jul 2021 12:00:50 +0000

In Episode 240, Scott tricks Ben into talking about the latest version of SharePoint Server (SharePoint Server Subscription Edition) that was announced this week. Sponsors ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Spot by NetApp – The cloud automation platform that makes it easy to deliver continuously optimized infrastructure at the lowest possible cost Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Florida just reported a staggering 12,647 new daily COVID positives, the most reported by the state since January 30, 2021. A new day for SharePoint Server New and improved features in SharePoint Server Subscription Edition Download SharePoint Server Subscription Edition Preview Installation overview for SharePoint Server Subscription Edition System requirements for SharePoint Server Subscription Edition Share service applications across farms in SharePoint Server SharePoint Server Subscription Edition Forum on Tech Community About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Spot by NetApp helps their customers get the most out of their cloud investments by automating cloud infrastructure to ensure performance, reduce complexity, and optimize costs. Discover how leading companies, from cloud-native startups to global enterprises, are automating, simplifying, and optimizing their cloud infrastructure with Spot by NetApp.Check them out at Spot.io/msit where you can find more information, request a demo, or evenstart a free trial. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 239 – Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop

Thu, 22 Jul 2021 12:00:43 +0000

In Episode 239, Ben and Scott take a detour to talk about Azure Resource Explorer (no, not that Azure Resource Explorer, the other one) and then dive in the recently announced Windows 365 offering. Sponsors Spot by NetApp – The cloud automation platform that makes it easy to deliver continuously optimized infrastructure at the lowest possible cost ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Introducing the Azure Az PowerShell module Azure Resource Explorer (raw) Welcome to your Windows 365 Cloud PC Microsoft reveals first Windows 365 pricing for PCs in the cloud Welcome to the Windows 365 Tech Community! Windows 365 vs. Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) – Comparing Two DaaS Products Steven Sinofsky on Twitter: "Microsoft puts PCs in the cloud with Windows 365 About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Spot by NetApp helps their customers get the most out of their cloud investments by automating cloud infrastructure to ensure performance, reduce complexity, and optimize costs. Discover how leading companies, from cloud-native startups to global enterprises, are automating, simplifying, and optimizing their cloud infrastructure with Spot by NetApp.Check them out at Spot.io/msit where you can find more information, request a demo, or evenstart a free trial. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 238 – Microsoft Teams Governance with Michal Pisarek

Thu, 15 Jul 2021 13:00:44 +0000

In Episode 238, Ben discusses trends in Microsoft Teams governance with the CEO of Orchestry - Michal Pisarek - including the challenges associated with content sprawl, multiples Teams with the same purpose in the same tenant, and how to think about adoption and ensuring your users are taking advantage of all the features Microsoft Teams has to offer. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Plan for governance in Teams How to Combine Your Intranet with Microsoft Teams How to Minimize Microsoft Teams Sprawl About our guest Michal Pisarek - CEO of Orchestry Twitter | LinkedIn Six-time Microsoft SharePoint MVP, former Co-Founder of BONZAI Intranet and Dynamic Owl Consulting, this serial entrepreneur, international speaker, Microsoft 365 thought leader and former professional chef brings the great depth of product, leadership, and user experience expertise to Orchestry, working with Fortune 500 companies to deliver maximum efficiency of their Microsoft 365 Investments. When Michal takes a day off occasionally, you will find him experimenting in the kitchen, inventing a new cocktail, or learning a new language while enjoying all that Vancouver has to offer with his wife, daughter, and furry companion. About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Spot by NetApp helps their customers get the most out of their cloud investments by automating cloud infrastructure to ensure performance, reduce complexity, and optimize costs. Discover how leading companies, from cloud-native startups to global enterprises, are automating, simplifying, and optimizing their cloud infrastructure with Spot by NetApp.Check them out at Spot.io/msit where you can find more information, request a demo, or evenstart a free trial. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 237 – AzCopy Tips and Tricks

Thu, 08 Jul 2021 12:00:48 +0000

In Episode 237, Ben and Scott dive into a customer scenario that involves copying hundreds of thousands of files from one storage account to another in Azure. Sponsors Spot by NetApp – The cloud automation platform that makes it easy to deliver continuously optimized infrastructure at the lowest possible cost ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Office 365 / Microsoft 365 Administrators Facebook Group Get started with AzCopy Object replication for block blobs Copy blobs between Azure storage accounts by using AzCopy Azure/azure-storage-azcopy Optimize the performance of AzCopy with Azure Storage AzCopy v10 configuration settings (Azure Storage) AzReplicate AzTinyCopier About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Spot by NetApp helps their customers get the most out of their cloud investments by automating cloud infrastructure to ensure performance, reduce complexity, and optimize costs. Discover how leading companies, from cloud-native startups to global enterprises, are automating, simplifying, and optimizing their cloud infrastructure with Spot by NetApp.Check them out at Spot.io/msit where you can find more information, request a demo, or evenstart a free trial. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 236 – YubiKeys and New DCs

Thu, 01 Jul 2021 12:00:48 +0000

In Episode 236, Ben and Scott discuss an interesting question about MFA and using Microsoft Authenticator on personal devices, new Azure regions coming to Arizona (West US 3) and Georgia (East US 3), and a rebranding of Windows Virtual Desktop to Azure Virtual Desktop. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Using YubiKeys with Azure MFA OATH-TOTP Passwordless authentication options for Azure Active Directory YubiKey 5 Series What are security defaults? Microsoft Azure available from new cloud regions in Arizona Expanding cloud services: Microsoft launches its sustainable datacenter region in Arizona New planned datacenter region in Georgia (East US 3) Azure Virtual Desktop: The flexible cloud VDI platform for the hybrid workplace Earn the new Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty certification with Exam AZ-140, now out of beta Exam AZ-140: Configuring and Operating Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop – Skills Measured Deliver remote desktops and apps with Azure Virtual Desktop Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate – Skills Measured About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 235 – Cortana, schedule a podcast

Thu, 24 Jun 2021 12:00:01 +0000

In Episode 235, Ben and Scott talk about the release of Scheduler, the "new" AI, Cortana-based meeting scheduling service for Microsoft 365, updates on the timelines for disabling Basic Auth in Exchange, and a preview capability in SharePoint Online that will allow you to rename your SharePoint domain name. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Scheduler for Microsoft 365 Debuts Calendar.help Scheduler, a new Microsoft 365 service, makes scheduling meetings easier and faster Scheduler and Cortana can schedule your meetings for you Welcome to Scheduler for Microsoft 365 Basic Authentication and Exchange Online – June 2021 Update Basic Authentication and Exchange Online – February 2021 Update Rename your SharePoint domain About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 234 – Microsoft 365 Defender with Chris Givens

Thu, 17 Jun 2021 12:00:42 +0000

In Episode 234, Ben sits down with Chris Givens at the Azure + AI conference (a part of DEV intersection) to talk about security in the Microsoft Cloud. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Microsoft 365 Defender Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Microsoft Defender for Identity Microsoft Cloud App Security Microsoft Defender Antivirus Azure Sentinel Azure Security Center About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 233 – JSON, JSON, JSON (Template Specs and the Graph PowerShell SDK)

Thu, 10 Jun 2021 12:00:21 +0000

In Episode 233, Ben and Scott dive into Azure Resource Manager Template Specs, the new Azure Firewall connector for Azure Logic Apps, and some of the changes coming to how you manage Azure AD with PowerShell. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Azure Resource Manager template specs Automated Detection and Response for Azure Firewall with the New Logic App Connector and Playbooks Actions supported by Firewall custom connector Azure Firewall Logic Apps connector and playbook templates Automate and manage Azure AD tasks at scale with the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK Microsoft Lays Out Future for Azure AD PowerShell Module Graph Explorer Microsoft Graph REST API v1.0 reference About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 232 – Catching Up On Microsoft Build

Thu, 03 Jun 2021 12:00:15 +0000

In Episode 232, Ben and Scott catch up on some of their favorite announcements from Microsoft Build 2021, including a quick tour of Continuous access evaluation (CAE) with Azure AD. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Microsoft Build 2021 Book of News Build cloud-native applications that run anywhere Continuous access evaluation Moving towards real time policy and security enforcement Create an access review of Azure resource roles in Privileged Identity Management Create an access review of Azure AD roles in Privileged Identity Management Power Platform - Environments overview Power Apps Developer Plan About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 231 – Let’s Talk About Calendaring Today

Thu, 27 May 2021 12:00:19 +0000

In Episode 231, Ben and Scott talk about calendar management and some options for combining calendars from multiple sources (e.g., several Exchange Online accounts from multiple tenants) and then discuss a new preview capability in Azure Storage that extends native Azure RBAC DataActions to include conditions such as blob index tags. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Share your calendar in Outlook on the web Google Calendar - Share your calendar with someone Fantastical Microsoft Build Azure Storage — Attribute-based Access Control (ABAC) now available for preview Authorize access to blobs using Azure role assignment conditions (preview) What is Azure attribute-based access control (Azure ABAC)? (preview) Assign Azure resource roles in Privileged Identity Management Understand Azure role definitions About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 230 – Considerations for Monitoring in Azure (and The Cloud™️)

Thu, 20 May 2021 12:00:53 +0000

In Episode 230, Ben and Scott discuss considerations for monitoring your workloads in the Microsoft cloud, including Azure and Microsoft 365. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Fully Vaccinated People Can Stop Wearing Masks Indoors And Outdoors, CDC Says COVID-19 Vaccines for Children and Teens Best practices for monitoring cloud applications Azure Monitor overview What is Application Insights? Monitor, diagnose, and troubleshoot Microsoft Azure Storage Fluent Bit Azure Blob connector Microsoft 365 Search the audit log in the compliance center Export, configure, and view audit log records About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 229 – IT Roadmap

Thu, 13 May 2021 12:00:19 +0000

In Episode 229, Ben and Scott answer a listener's question and get nostalgic about how they got into technology and ended up where they are in their careers today. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Apple IIe Commodore 64 TANDY 2500 SX List of TRS-80 and Tandy-branded computers HOW TO BECOME A COMPUTER ENGINEER: COMPUTER ENGINEERING DEGREES & CAREERS Bachelor's in Information Technology Program Guide About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 228 – Good Exchange Migration Gone Bad

Thu, 06 May 2021 12:00:07 +0000

In Episode 228, Scott listens in as Ben talks through the process of doing an Exchange 2010 cutover migration after an acquisition and the pitfalls of not taking the time to perform discovery of the current environment. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Ways to migrate multiple email accounts to Microsoft 365 or Office 365 Migrate email using the Exchange cutover method BitTitan MigrationWiz Add DNS records to connect your domain Mail flow best practices for Exchange Online, Microsoft 365, and Office 365 (overview) Identity synchronization and duplicate attribute resiliency Fixing problems with directory synchronization for Microsoft 365 Exchange Server hybrid deployments Register for Microsoft Build About the sponsors Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 227 – Scott Got Hacked

Thu, 29 Apr 2021 12:00:38 +0000

In Episode 227, Ben listens as Scott vents about his Q-NAP NAS was attacked with ransomware and some things you can think about doing to have a better posture for configuring and securing your NAS. Then they get into the Azure Retail Prices API, a publicly accessible API for accessing retail rates for PayGo and reservation pricing for Azure services and Operator Connect for Microsoft Teams. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Improper Authorization Vulnerability in HBS 3 Hybrid Backup Sync Removed the detected malware: MR2102 For secure data backup, here’s how to do the 3-2-1 rule right Azure Retail Prices overview Introducing Operator Connect and more Teams Calling updates About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 226 – Azure Storage Updates, Automated STIG Compliance, and PowerShell SecretManagement

Thu, 22 Apr 2021 12:00:13 +0000

In Episode 226, Ben and Scott talk through some of the latest Azure news, including the preview release of STIG VM deployments in the public cloud and GCC, 200TB 🤯. blobs in Azure storage, Azure Storage Day, and a PowerShell module called SecretManagement you can use to store your secrets to simplify your demos. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Announcing Azure STIG solution templates to accelerate compliance for DoD Deploy STIG-compliant Windows Virtual Machines (Preview) General availability: Azure Blob storage supports objects up to 200 TB in size Run high scale workloads on Blob storage with new 200 TB object sizes Multi-protocol access on Azure Data Lake Storage Azure Storage Day registration Stop typing PowerShell credentials in demos using PowerShell SecretManagement About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 225 – WVD start on connect and Azure Cloud Services (extended support)

Thu, 15 Apr 2021 12:00:41 +0000

In Episode 225, Ben and Scott spend 30 minutes talking about several preview features available to Azure subscribers - WVD start on connect and Azure Cloud Services (extended support). Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Amazon Basics Notebook Laptop Stand Arm Mount Tray [Updated Dock Version] Vertical Laptop Stand, OMOTON Double Desktop Stand Holder with Adjustable Dock (Up to 17.3 inch), Fits All MacBook/Surface/Samsung/HP/Dell/Chrome Book (Black) Public preview: Start VM on connect feature for Windows Virtual Desktop Start virtual machine on connect (preview) Tutorial: Create a host pool to validate service updates Properly Shutdown Azure VM to Save Money Virtual Machines - Deallocate Start/Stop VMs during off-hours overview OneDrive sync 64-bit for Windows now in public preview Choose between the 64-bit and 32-bit version of OneDrive Public preview: Announcing platform support migration of Azure Cloud Services (classic) to Azure Resource Manager About Azure Cloud Services (extended support) Supported configurations / migration scenarios Prerequisites for deploying Azure Cloud Services (extended support) Stunning Cockpit View! US Navy Blue Angels Team Best Parts About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 224 – Windows Hello for Business, Passwordless Authentication, and CMMC

Thu, 08 Apr 2021 12:00:22 +0000

In Episode 224, Ben and Scott go down a rabbit hole to explore Windows Hello for Business and passwordless authentication options in Windows. They also talk about how these features can be used to satisfy requirements for standards such as CMMC. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes DNS issue impacting multiple Microsoft services - Mitigated (Tracking ID GVY5-TZZ) RCA - Authentication errors across multiple Microsoft services (Tracking ID LN01-P8Z) CMMC Model and Assessment Guides NIST SP 800-171 10 Reasons to love Passwordless #1: FIDO Rocks Enable Windows 10 Multifactor Authentication with Windows Hello Multifactor Device Unlock & Microsoft Intune Windows Hello for Business Deployment Prerequisite Overview Why a PIN is better than a password Passwordless authentication options for Azure Active Directory Satisfying CMMC – Level 3 - IA.3.083 MFA requirement with Windows Hello for Business How Smart Card Sign-in Works in Windows Sign in with passwordless credential Logitech BRIO Ultra HD Webcam for Video Conferencing, Recording, and Streaming - Black Kensington VeriMark USB Fingerprint Key Reader - Windows Hello, FIDO U2F, Anti-Spoofing (K67977WW),Black About the sponsors Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 223 – State of Microsoft 365: Migration, Modernization, and Security in 2021

Thu, 01 Apr 2021 12:00:03 +0000

In Episode 223, Ben and Scott sit down with Laurent St-Pierre from ShareGate to discuss the release of their report State of Microsoft 365: Migration, Modernization, and Security in 2021. You can learn more about ShareGate at and connect with Laurent on LinkedIn and follow him on Twitter. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes State of Microsoft 365: Migration, Modernization, and Security in 2021 [Free eBook] ShareGate Products ShareGate Apricot ShareGate Blog About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 222 – Azure AD Gets Glitterbombed

Thu, 25 Mar 2021 12:00:22 +0000

In Episode 222, Ben and Scott talk about considerations for upping your presentation game with a teleprompter and Teams and then spend some time talking through the latest Azure Active Directory outage and considerations for customers when Azure AD is unavailable. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Glitterbomb Trap Catches Phone Scammer (who gets arrested) How to use Microsoft Word and Teams as a teleprompter for presentations Azure status history Microsoft Offers Preliminary Explanation for March 15 Azure AD Outage RCA - Azure Incident Communications Survey How my passion for BCDR saved my life Microsoft 365 Status on Twitter (@MSFT365Status) About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 221 – Azure Routing Preference and Trusted launch

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 12:00:22 +0000

In Episode 221, Ben and Scott talk about Ben's new M1 Mac Mini, the general availability of Routing Preference, and the introduction of Azure Trusted launch which brings support for vTPMs, trusted boot, and virtualization-based security (VBS). Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Jacksonville, Florida Apple Mac Mini with Apple M1 Chip Luna Display duet Display Glide Gear TMP100 Adjustable iPad/ Tablet/ Smartphone Teleprompter Beam Splitter 70/30 Glass w/ Carry Case No Plastic All Metal / No Assembly Required Windows 10 on ARM Insider Preview Welcome to Microsoft Edge Canary Channel Azure Routing Preference is now generally available What is routing preference? What is Routing Preference Unmetered? Trusted launch for Azure virtual machines (preview) Deploy a VM with trusted launch enabled (preview) About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 220 – All Your Meetings Are In VR Now

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 13:00:05 +0000

In Episode 220, Ben and Scott talk through follow-up post-Microsoft Ignite, some ways you can track changes to the governance plane of Azure using AzAdvertizer, and a new tool for tracking documentation changes in docs.microsoft.com with Docs Update Tracker. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Satya Nadella Keynote Microsoft Ignite Ready Player Two: A Novel (Ready Player One Book 2) Cross Region Restore What is Azure Resource Mover? AzAdvertizer Docs Update Tracker Teams in Two - Microsoft Teams About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 219 – Microsoft Ignite Spring 2021 Updates

Thu, 04 Mar 2021 13:00:57 +0000

In Episode 219, Ben and Scott discuss the announcements and news from Microsoft's Spring Ignite event for Microsoft 365 and Azure. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Teams Connect Teams Custom Webinars New Teams Presenter Features Azure Resource Mover Azure Arc Updates Azure Automanage Updates Azure Retirement Notices About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 218 – Join The Club[house]

Thu, 25 Feb 2021 13:00:35 +0000

In Episode 218, Ben and Scott talk about opportunities to interact directly with Microsoft Teams engineering, changes to the timeline for the switchover from Stream to OneDrive and SharePoint for recordings in Teams, and the future of MTA certifications. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes rolls Mic Switch On/Off (MS111) Krisp.ai I Miss My Bar Microsoft Wants to Talk About Group Sprawl (Finally) Talk with the Microsoft 365 Groups Engineering Team about Group Sprawl Sign Up for Microsoft 365 Group Sprawl Discussion! Microsoft Adjusts Switchover Plan for Teams Meeting Recordings The future of Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) certifications About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide with SharePoint and Microsoft Teams migrations as well as Teams security and management. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 217 – There’s A New Azure Region In Town

Thu, 18 Feb 2021 13:00:45 +0000

In Episode 217, Ben and Scott talk about the new regions coming to Azure in the United States, service availability by region and the availability of Availability Zones in US South Central, and improvements to recovery in Azure Files. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Microsoft will establish its next U.S. datacenter region in Georgia’s Fulton and Douglas Counties Microsoft’s newest sustainable datacenter region coming to Arizona in 2021 Products available by region Azure Availability Zones in the South Central US datacenter region add resiliency Azure geographies This is huge! Inside Microsoft Data Center Soft delete for Azure file shares is now generally available in all regions Azure Files enhances data protection capabilities About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 216 – All The Hybrid Things

Thu, 11 Feb 2021 13:00:53 +0000

In Episode 216, Ben and Scott talk through the latest news and events, including the announcement of Microsoft Viva, an overview of the IT Ops Talk All Things Hybrid event, and improvements coming to Azure AD. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Legacy APNs support deprecated Microsoft Viva This is Microsoft Viva The Massive Market Impact of Microsoft Viva Use Microsoft Search to find topics in Microsoft Viva Topics IT Ops Talk - YouTube IT Ops Talks: All Things Hybrid What is Azure AD Connect cloud sync? 99.99% uptime for Azure Active Directory Premium customers is coming April 1st, 2021 About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 215 – Talk To The Puck

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 13:00:40 +0000

In Episode 215, Ben and Scott discuss preview features coming to Azure Storage for configuring resource-specific instance access through the service level firewall. After that, it is on to Logic Apps Preview and the new runtime based on Azure Functions. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Robinhood restricts trading in GameStop, other names involved in frenzy Kensington StudioDock viozon iPad Pro Stand, Tablet Stands 360° Rotatable Aluminum Alloy Desktop Mount Stand for 7-13inch iPad Pro iPadAir iPad Mini Surface and Surface Pro (Silver General) Jabra Speak 510 Wireless Bluetooth Speaker for Softphone and Mobile Phone – Easy Setup, Portable Speaker for Holding Meetings Anywhere with Outstanding Sound Quality Resource instance rules for access to Azure Storage now in public preview Configure Azure Storage firewalls and virtual networks Logic Apps Anywhere: Networking Possibilities with Logic App Preview Overview: Azure Logic Apps Preview Create stateful and stateless workflows in the Azure portal with Azure Logic Apps Preview About the sponsors Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 214 - Dueling Backgrounds in Planner Plans Episode 214 – Dueling Backgrounds in Planner Plans

Thu, 28 Jan 2021 13:00:35 +0000

In Episode 214, Ben and Scott highlight some resources to help you administer your Microsoft 365 tenant, a new set of videos for ISVs to learn more about Azure Governance, and the release of the Microsoft Lists app on iOS. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Apple reportedly planning new MacBook Air design with MagSafe charging Designer Generates Smart Backgrounds for Planner Get the Microsoft Lists app for iOS Office 365 for IT Pros GitHub Repository 12Knocksinna/Office365itpros on GitHub Azure Governance for ISVs Azure Deployments & Governance on YouTube Get the Microsoft Lists app for iOS Get the Microsoft Lists app for iOS from the App Store Microsoft shows off 'Project Nucleus' intelligent sync technology for web apps Why do we get a different number of predefined templates in each one of #MicrosoftLists apps, despite having set all of them to be visible using PowerShell? Notifications from Yammer communities are now available in Microsoft Teams About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 213 – Canvas Apps Source Code and New Power Automate Connectors

Thu, 21 Jan 2021 13:00:13 +0000

In Episode 213, Ben and Scott discuss some preview capabilities which are available to let you unpack your Canvas apps in PowerApps and make changes outside of Power Apps Studio, new connectors for Power Automate, and the transition of Azure Automation runbook samples to GitHub. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Microsoft Ignite March 2021 Source code files for Canvas apps 11 New Connectors Released in December 2020! What are dataflows? Adobe PDF Tools (Preview) Welcome to Adobe PDF Tools API FAQ for Document Services PDF Tools API PDF Tools API Licensing Azure Automation Runbooks moving to GitHub TechNet Gallery Retirement and Closure Microsoft Archive on GitHub Azure Automation on GitHub Quickstart: Export a Jupyter Notebook project in Azure Notebooks Preview Access Reviews for guests in all Teams and Microsoft 365 Groups is now in public preview About the sponsors Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 212 – Why Is Moving Files Between SharePoint Sites So Inconsistent?

Thu, 14 Jan 2021 13:00:36 +0000

In Episode 212, Ben and Scott discuss an issue Ben has been having with moving files between SharePoint sites as well as some of the SharePoint limits when it comes to moving these fields.

Episode 211 – What-If for ARM Templates and Microsoft 365 Sensitivity Labels

Thu, 07 Jan 2021 13:00:31 +0000

In Episode 211, Ben and Scott kick off 2021 (we made it!) with a discussion around What-If support being GA'd for Azure Resource Manager template deployments and how to configure and manage sensitivity labels for Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365/Office 365 Groups. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Sign up for the Microsoft Cloud Report SolarWinds hack may have been much wider than first thought Microsoft says SolarWinds hackers viewed source code, but its defenses thwarted further access Analyzing Solorigate, the compromised DLL file that started a sophisticated cyberattack, and how Microsoft Defender helps protect customers What-If for ARM Template deployments is now Generally Available Run what-if operation Welcome to the ARM Template What-If issues repo Use sensitivity labels to protect content in Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 groups, and SharePoint sites Using Sensitivity labels with Microsoft Teams, O365 Groups and SharePoint Online sites Which licenses provide the rights for a user to benefit from the service? Tutorial: Configure Apple Business Manager for automatic user provisioning About the sponsors Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 210 – Microsoft Certification Renewal Updates

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 13:00:27 +0000

In Episode 210, Ben and Scott lament a broken Green Egg, discuss upcoming changes to the certification renewal process for Microsoft's role-based certifications, and some upcoming name changes that may impact your advanced hunting queries in Microsoft 365 Defender. Sponsors ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Big Green Egg Big Green Egg recipes Plan for Teams auto attendants and call queues Plan your call routing flow Call forwarding, call groups, and simultaneous ring in Teams Stay current with in-demand skills through free certification renewals Renew your Microsoft Certification Advanced hunting product name changes AlertInfo AlertEvidence About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 209 – There Is Still News In December

Thu, 24 Dec 2020 13:00:08 +0000

In Episode 209, Ben and Scott talk about some of the announcements from December for Microsoft Authenticator and Azure storage. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes How to get Office Insider builds on Windows How to get Office Insider builds on Mac Turn Microsoft's Authenticator Into a Password Manager Use Azure Storage blob inventory to manage blob data (preview) Recover a deleted storage account About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 208 – SharePoint Syntex Form Processing

Thu, 17 Dec 2020 13:00:36 +0000

In Episode 208, Ben and Scott continue their conversation on SharePoint Syntex and discuss "form processing", how it contrasts to "document understanding", and leverages Power Automate and AI Builder to perform extraction from structured and semi-structured documents. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Here are all the new Marvel, Star Wars, and other projects Disney announced at its investor day Episode 207 – What Is SharePoint Syntex? Introduction to Microsoft SharePoint Syntex Form processing overview Difference between document understanding and form processing models AI Builder credits AI Builder Calculator Improve business performance with AI Builder About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 207 – What Is SharePoint Syntex?

Thu, 10 Dec 2020 13:00:20 +0000

In Episode 207, Ben and Scott start digging into SharePoint Syntex by exploring “document understanding” capabilities of the service. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Introduction to Microsoft SharePoint Syntex Set up SharePoint Syntex What is SharePoint Syntex and how much does it cost? Document understanding overview Form processing overview Create a content center in Microsoft SharePoint Syntex Create a classifier in Microsoft SharePoint Syntex Introduction to explanation types About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 206 – I’m Looking To Slim My Wallet Down

Thu, 03 Dec 2020 13:00:44 +0000

In Episode 206, Ben and Scott take a break from admin portals and PowerShell and dive into some of the gadgets, software, and technology that they've found helpful over the course of the last year. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Black Friday (shopping) Jabra Speak 510 Wireless Bluetooth Speaker for Softphone and Mobile Phone – Easy Setup, Portable Speaker for Holding Meetings Anywhere with Outstanding Sound Quality Apple AirPods with Wireless Charging Case Elgato Key Light Air, Professional LED Panel With 1400 Lumens, Multi-Layer Diffusion Technology, App-Enabled, Color Temperature Adjustable for Mac/Windows/iPhone/Android Samsung 32 inch UJ59 4k monitor (LU32J590UQNXZA) - UHD, 3840 x 2160p, 60hz, 4ms, Dual monitor, laptop monitor, monitor stand / riser / mount compliant, AMD FreeSync, Gaming, HDMI, DP, Black Elgato Stream Deck - Live Content Creation Controller with 15 Customizable LCD Keys, Adjustable Stand, for Windows 10 and macOS 10.13 or late Torch Portal BRIO Ultra HD Pro Computer Webcam - 4K and 1080p Streaming Camera Widescreen Video - 2 Omni-Directional Built in Mic for Calling and Recording, for Desktop or Laptop - 5X Digital Zoom Logitech C922x Pro Stream Webcam – Full 1080p HD Camera Sony ZV-1 Camera for Content Creators, Vlogging and YouTube with Flip Screen and Microphone Blackmagic Design ATEM Mini HDMI Live Switcher Elgato Cam Link 4K — Broadcast Live, Record via DSLR, Camcorder, or Action Cam, 1080p60 or 4K at 30 Fps, Compact HDMI Capture Device, USB 3.0 New Apple MacBook Pro (16-inch, 16GB RAM, 512GB Storage) - Space Gray Software OBS Studio Deliveries Rocket Toothpicks Davinci Resolve Fanastical Parallels Desktop The Levelator Setapp WebCatalog 1Password ThermoPro TP03 Digital Instant Read Meat Thermometer Kitchen Cooking Food Candy Thermometer with Backlight and Magnet for Oil Deep Fry BBQ Grill Smoker Thermometer Fire TV Stick 4K streaming device with Alexa Voice Remote | Dolby Vision | 2018 release Zoom H6 Portable Recorder Kit with a Custom Windbuster, AD-17 AC Adapter and a 16GB SDHC Memory Card Ultra About the sponsors Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 205 – Help! I’m Not Getting Any Emails!

Thu, 26 Nov 2020 13:00:11 +0000

Today, Ben listens as Scott retells the story of how he got stepped on by a horse and then they both talk about how Exchange Online Outgoing Spam can block your externally forwarded emails.

Episode 204 – I’ve Never Heard It Referred To As The EEEU…

Thu, 19 Nov 2020 13:00:44 +0000

In Episode 204, Ben and Scott discuss the retirement timeline for Microsoft Edge Legacy and some things to be aware of with support for IE11, permission resets that might or might not be coming to a OneDrive for Business list near you, and how to get hands with Azure Arc if you don't have an on-premises machine to onboard. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Sizing up the iPhone 12 mini and 12 Pro Max Microsoft 365 apps say farewell to Internet Explorer 11 and Windows 10 sunsets Microsoft Edge Legacy Plan your deployment of Microsoft Edge Microsoft Removes EEEU Permission from OneDrive for Business Accounts Microsoft Teams multiple work-account sign-in: Not this year microsoft/azure_arc Onboard an Azure Windows Server VM with Azure Arc Onboard an Azure Linux Server VM with Azure Arc Single Node Data Exploration and ML on Azure Databricks About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 203 – A Conversation About Conversations in Microsoft Lists

Thu, 12 Nov 2020 13:00:10 +0000

In Episode 203, Ben and Scott walk through conversations for Microsoft Lists list items in Microsoft Teams, a new site to help you not have to remember the multitude of URLs for all of the admin centers for Microsoft 365 and Azure, and new scenes coming to Together Mode in Microsoft Teams. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Have a conversation about a list item in Teams After not remembering all the Microsoft Portal URLs so many times, I decided to make a list https://msportals.xyz/ Publisher verification Office 365 Government GCC is now FedRamp High Microsoft Teams new brilliant ‘scenes’ feature is arriving next month About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 202 – Mcbroken

Thu, 05 Nov 2020 13:00:44 +0000

In Episode 202, Ben and Scott talk about how you can finally track in real-time if the ice cream machine at your local McDonalds is working, another option for how you can view and rationalize your Azure Migrate Server Assessments, and new audit events in the Microsoft 365 Unified Audit Log. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes mcbroken ProductHunt I reverse engineered mcdonald's internal api and I'm currently placing an order worth $18,752 every minute at every mcdonald's in the US to figure out which locations have a broken ice cream machine You can now rent a private AMC theater for just $99 Azure Migrate and PowerBI azure-docs-powershell-samples/azure-migrate/assessment-utility/ New Crucial Audit Events Added to Office 365 Capturing Crucial Office 365 Audit Data Requires E5 Licenses Long-term retention of audit logs Modern Fluent UI controls in Power Apps (preview) Use Fluent UI controls Difference between Fluent UI and classic controls About the sponsors Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 201 – Planning Tasks in ToDo with Planner in Teams with My Tasks

Thu, 29 Oct 2020 12:00:57 +0000

In Episode 201, Ben and Scott talk through the release of the My Tasks app in Microsoft Teams and some new features coming to the Microsoft 365 Apps Admin Center. Sponsors ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Elon Musk Is Hiding Tesla Price Cuts Behind a 69 Joke Tasks in Microsoft Teams is now generally available! Use the Tasks app in Teams See Planner tasks in Microsoft To Do Manage the Tasks app for your organization in Microsoft Teams How Exchange and Microsoft Teams interact Support for Office 2010—and Office 2016 for Mac—has ended: Here’s what you need to know Office versions and connectivity to Office 365 services Now Available in Preview: Microsoft 365 Apps Admin center new inventory & monthly servicing feature Introducing new cloud-based admin capabilities to help you better service Microsoft 365 Apps New admin capabilities to modernize Office client servicing About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 200 – The One About Mailboxes

Thu, 22 Oct 2020 12:00:39 +0000

In Episode 200, Ben and Scott talk about actions you can take to save the contents of your Site Mailboxes (remember those things?!?) if you still have them, a new cross-tenant mailbox migration service that has entered Public Preview, and the introduction of continuous access evaluation. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Phishing Scams or Compromised Accounts Retirement of site mailboxes Update: Retirement of Site Mailboxes in SharePoint Online Cross-tenant mailbox migration (preview) Cross-tenant mailbox migration in now in Public Preview Continuous access evaluation Conditional Access for Office 365 Apps Now Commercially Released About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 199 – Azure AD, SDP, and Outages, Oh My!

Thu, 15 Oct 2020 12:50:11 +0000

In Episode 199, Ben and Scott talk through the latest outage for Azure and the RCA that was released for the event, Microsoft 365 Lighthouse, and some of the latest premium connectors released for Power Automate. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes RCA - Authentication errors across multiple Microsoft services and Azure Active Directory integrated applications (Tracking ID SM79-F88) Microsoft posts root cause analysis for this week’s big Microsoft 365 login issues Network connectivity in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center preview available Announcing Microsoft 365 Lighthouse for Managed Service Providers serving small & medium customers aka.ms/LighthouseNextStep Nine New Connectors Released in September 2020 – Now 400 Connectors! Azure AD Identity Protection (Preview) Microsoft 365 compliance (Preview) SharePoint Syntex Pricing About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 198 – Ignoucement Burnout

Thu, 08 Oct 2020 12:00:37 +0000

In Episode 198, Ben and Scott follow up on announcements from Microsoft Ignite, including Azure Resource Mover and SharePoint Syntex. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Second half of Microsoft Ignite will be in March 2021 What is Azure Resource Mover? Overview of Project Oakdale How are Project Oakdale and Common Data Service different? Project Oakdale Licensing SharePoint Syntex and 'Project Nucleus' Announced at Ignite What are Progressive Web Apps? Announcing SharePoint Syntex Microsoft Launches SharePoint Syntex To Automate Content Categorization And Build A Foundation For Knowledge Curation Take your communications to the next level with new offerings in Microsoft Teams New Add On: Microsoft Teams Advanced Communications About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 197 – Surface Duo with Dan Patrick

Thu, 01 Oct 2020 12:00:05 +0000

In Episode 197, Ben and Scott hop on a call with Dan Patrick (@deltadan) from Solliance to discuss the Surface Duo and where it sits in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem as a productivity device. YouTube Link - https://youtu.be/IoqID5L2aP0 Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Surface Duo Hardware First Look Surface Duo First Impressions How Google and Microsoft teamed up to try to reinvent smartphones contacts+ Microsoft Ignite North American Collaboration Summit DEVintersection Microsoft Azure+AI Conference Dan Patrick Dan is the Chief Infrastructure Architect for Solliance. He leads the DevOps and Infrastructure practice focusing on accelerating the customer's velocity to the cloud. Dan has been designated a Microsoft MVP (“Most Valuable Professional”), for Azure and is a 15-year veteran of Microsoft. About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 196 – Microsoft Ignite 2020 Ignouncements

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 12:00:52 +0000

In Episode 196, Ben and Scott talk about the announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2020 that impact Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Stream, Microsoft Seach, and Azure. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Microsoft Stream (Reimagined?) The Final Days of Office 365 Video Microsoft Teams Updates Insights and Wellbeing The Briefing email overview Follow Microsoft 365 on Social Media Microsoft Search Updates Project Cortex Twitter taught Microsoft’s AI chatbot to be a racist asshole in less than a day Azure Resource Mover Azure Orbital Azure Automanage Windows Admin Center in the Azure Portal Windows Virtual Desktop Updates About the sponsors Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 195 – New Conversation Button in Microsoft Teams?!?

Thu, 17 Sep 2020 12:00:18 +0000

In Episode 195, Ben and Scott talk about the "Conversation Button" that has (finally) come to Microsoft Teams and some things to think about in the lead up to Microsoft Ignite. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Teams Rolls Out New Conversation Button Keyboard shortcuts for Microsoft Teams The NFL will use Microsoft Teams to let fans cheer along with players when they score a touchdown The last episode of the podcast I see on Spotify is 192. Should I be seeing new episodes there? What You Need to Know about Episode Limits and Your Podcast RSS Feed Azure updates feed Storage updates Query Acceleration for Azure Data Lake Storage is now generally available Change feed support is now generally available for Azure Blob Storage Azure Blob versioning is now general available Azure Blob storage object replication is now generally available Microsoft Ignite About the sponsors Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 194 – Microsoft Lists GAs in Microsoft Teams

Thu, 10 Sep 2020 01:40:42 +0000

In Episode 194, Ben and Scott dive into the recent announcement of the GA of Microsoft Lists in Microsoft Teams. Transcript Email Download New Tab - Welcome to episode 194 of the Microsoft cloud It pro podcast, recorded live September 4th, 2020. This, is a show about Microsoft 365 and Azure, from the perspective of IT Pros and end users, where we discuss recent news or topics, and how it relates to you. In this episode, Ben and Scott dive more into Microsoft list, now that they've been recently GAID, both from the Microsoft list point of view, as well as from the app and Microsoft Teams. So, let's dive in and talk. Microsoft lists. - Yeah. - Hit the button. - All right, all of the buttons have been hit. - Excellent, I'm glad we figured that out once again. - And hopefully our video recording this time will put us back side by side, instead of flipping back and forth like last week. - I'ma yell at my producer. - You should, he's using a new camera too, `cause the camera wiggling on his desk annoyed him. But I don't know that I liked this view, I feel like it kind of looking at my nose. - Well, I mean, you're a vlogger now, right? - And that was a vlog point - I'm a vlogger. . What is that thing? - It's the Sony Z... - The Sony ZV1, ZV, ZV? - Yeah, ZV, Sony ZV1. - Yes, see you are a blogger now, that's vlogger camera. - I'm a vlogger. - Yes, we've actually been doing a lot on YouTube. I have another friend of mine that's been doing some YouTube videos too on my channel, and, he, it's interesting, `cause he comes with a different perspective. So he's in a completely different industry than us, but uses Microsoft 365. So he's been doing light more end-user type videos, that we've been putting on the Intelligenk YouTube channel, So if you're looking for like some Word, Excel, and you still a bit of a technology guy too, so he's been playing around with Power apps, but, doing a little bit more beginner videos, I've been doing a bunch more Teams' videos, but, we've been putting like two or three videos up a week on YouTube lately. - You need to get a-- - So... custom channels slug, it's what you need to do there. - I do, I have it already. It's slash Intelligenk. So it's YouTube slash Intelligenk. - You don't get it navigating just through the YouTube directory, that's an-- - You know what, yeah, and I don't know why, `cause if I go into all my settings, it is set to be my custom URL. But going through the directory doesn't get it. I, maybe if I undo it and redo it, I don't know, I blame YouTube. But yes, as a result. - As you should. - I got tired of using webcams, and for a while I was using my itune camera, my iPhone, for video, and I finally splurged and bought the Sony ZV1, and I figured I'd try it for today too. I have a bit of a goofy setup, `cause I'm actually, naturally they released their webcam software for it, for windows, but not for Mac, so I have to go out of the HDMI out, and I have one of the Blackmagic ATEM Mini HDMI switches, So it goes, HDMIO into the Blackmagic ATEM Mini, and then it shows up like that device shows up, as a webcam, so I can pick any one of my four HDMI inputs as my webcam, and my camera's one of them. So, that is what I'm doing. But then it's always like, where do you position the camera, right? `Cause I could put it over there, or I could try to put it up here, but if it's yeah... - Well, the next step is, you get the mount, that can come right over your monitor, and then come down right dead center in the monitor, so it's actually gonna be sitting in front of content on your screen, but you would be looking directly into it, like into the souls of your audience. - Right, I mean, it's small enough, I could probably get away with that, or I could just like set this tripod up, so that, `cause I have a little mini desk tripod, that I could set up, so it's right in front of the monitor, that would work too. But then I couldn't see - Your beautiful face on my monitor Scott. - Oh sure you could. You could find a way to make that happen. - Although I'm not looking at my monitor right now, I'm looking at the camera. That's the weirdest thing with all the webcams and everything, is always like not looking at everybody else, but trying to keep looking at the camera. - Yeah. I keep trying to adjust my set up, like, can I pull mine over further or move the camera, over, you know, what that looks like, and where it comes out in the middle, but-- or we just-- - The struggle is real. - Yeah, or we just need to use Teams for everything, go get ourselves some surface devices, and use the eye fixing feature. - Yeah? - That we could - Is that what's next? The Surface Duo? - No, not the Duo. Didn't we talk about this last week? Well, I didn't know if, I didn't know if you had broke down an order one yeah. - No, I have not. It's interesting to see the feedback on it. It has gotten some good feedback, because, like you said, I drastically... Misunderstood-- - who's had good feedback from? `Cause it's had one of the weirdest roll outs, that I've seen in a while. There's a dual embargo, so, the people who received - Oh calf. - You know those kids for like the first 50 devices-- - But they couldn't turn them on? - Yeah, well they could, they're just not allowed to talk about it. Which is hilarious, because if you're willing to brave Best Buy, at whatever store, the demo units are up with the software on, so you could totally go into a Best Buy or something like that, and just play with the shelf unit, with its demo mode. - Interesting. So, maybe not good reviews it hasn't been terrible, like everybody talks about the price, but they didn't, I personally didn't realize how, in line that pricing actually was with all the other foldables. Because there was another one-- - So the pricing is in line with the form factor, but if you consider other foldables, it is still not up to spec, for a bunch of different things, right? - It's a hardware, it's all apps, use hardware. Yeah, so, SOC Ram camera, all those things are behind, and even the battery is pretty small, because it's such a thin device, I think you're looking at something, it's on the order of like 35, 3,600 milli amp hours, in that battery, versus going to, you know, like something that's a larger, thicker device, like the Fold2 user things that have come out recently. - True, I was pressed by the size of the... Like some of the reviewer said, it looks super wide, like, I look like I'd have to stretch my fingers out, to actually hold it because of the width. - Yeah, not you, you'd be like a one-hander, but-- - You know, like normal people, yeah, two hands. - It was about the same height as the iPhone 11 Max, but it was definitely wider than the iPhone 11 Max. - Yes, yeah. - So. - Different devices for different things, but, we'll see. - Yes. - Again, I am probably not the target market for that, because I have no plans in buying, that or frankly, any foldable for that matter. Because I don't have a use for it. If I need something bigger, I'm gonna take my iPad. And if I want something small, yeah. And I won't have to fiddle with that. Or like, if you want to take a picture, having to take it out, like flip it all the way around to, take a forward facing picture of my kids, instead of a selfie, it's not gonna happen. - But again, that's unique to the surface, the Surface Duo, that was a design decision they made, only to have that camera on the inside, things like the Galaxy Z Flip, or the Galaxy Fold, they do not have that issue, because they have cameras on both the front and back. - Yes, although, like you said, I think those are actually, which one came out, they announced this week, it had a starting price of like $2,000. - That's the Fold2. Yeah It's a Galaxy Z Fold2, yeah. - Anyways, should we actually get into stuff we haven't talked about before, as we rehash stuff we already talked about? - Yeah, what do you wanna talk about? - What do you wanna-- - Physio, AKS... - Lists. - Lists. - That have GAID now in Teams. - You know, yes. So, Lists, I think it was announced just yesterday, so today is what? Today is November... - November? - November. - Wow. - I don't even have slug... - You're so way off in the future-- - Yeah-- - September, let go back a couple months back-- - Maybe, I'm like projecting, I'm wishing it was already in November and it's almost over, yeah. - But then you would have missed Ignite. Okay, we'll talk about that later. - I don't know, I could've gone back and watched on video. - That's okay, it's September 4. - Yeah, so on September 3rd, they announced, that all this stuff was GAing. So, Lists are GAing inside of Teams, and the interesting thing here, the part that I thought was really cool, when you think about like parody between, between the different clouds that are out there, like commercial clouds and sovereign clouds, like GCC, things like that, they actually announced-- - Yup. - That it's coming to both commercial cloud, and GCC at the same time. So awesome job, you know, congratulations lists, and Teams team, they're getting it done, but, the funnier thing is, you still might be in a tenant, that doesn't have Lists, `cause it hasn't finished its global rollout yet. - Right, `cause now it's GA well, yeah. `Cause it's GA, both Lists are GAID, and the List app and Teams is GAID. But, both of them are going through, like you said, that global rollout, so technically, you can have it in Teams, and not in SharePoint, which means it wouldn't work in Teams, or you could have it in SharePoint, but you don't have the app in Teams. I have it in both places. I was surprised how long it took me, like, I'm on the preview beta first release of everything, and, some of the stuff around lists, I didn't actually get in my preview environment, until it GAID. - Yes, yeah. ...

Episode 193 – Organize All The Things With Project Moca

Thu, 03 Sep 2020 12:00:16 +0000

In Episode 193, Ben and Scott talk about how to protect your organization with Exchange Online transport rules and prevent the forwarding of messages from other applications like Power Automate. They also talk about Project Moca and how it can be used to organize your personal information through Outlook on the web. Transcript Email Download New Tab - Welcome to episode 193 of the "Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast," recorded live, August 31st, 2020. This is a show about Microsoft 365 in Azure, from the perspective of IT pros and end users. Where we discuss a recent topic or news and how it relates to you. In this episode, Ben and Scott spend some time talking about email exfiltration and security, new features coming for Windows security, that relate to advanced threat protection, Microsoft 365 business. And then we would be remiss if we didn't talk about Moca, Project Moca that is. A new feature coming to Outlook on the web. So let's dive in. - The bites and the bits they make a difference. - They do make a difference. So should we talk about news today? We have a whole bunch of topics we've talked about that we've had, and haven't talked about, all of that. - Yeah, let's do it. - All right, take your pick. You had a few that you had on our list that we haven't talked about. So I'll let you kick it off this week. - Yeah, let's talk about email exfiltration controls for Office 365 connectors. - Perfect, I like that, anything that prevents email from going out if it shouldn't, it's a good thing right, email security? - Yes. - So what are these exfiltration filters that have been rolled out? - So you can do things now, well, they've added extra headers to messages from certain services. So you have things now, like there's an XMS mail application header. And that header might be set to a string value such as Microsoft Power Automate. So you could take something like that and create a transport rule in exchange online, which says all emails that come from Power Automate, now go through this filter chain. So maybe they can be sent to external people. So that's kind of cool and you can extend that and take it forward a little bit. There's also an XMS Mail operation type header, which will have values like forward, reply, send, things like that. So you can potentially like take either or one of those rules and either say, we're going to have rules that execute against a particular application. Like your business needs to keep sensitive information internal, and you never want a Flow in Power Automate to send an email to the outside world no matter what your users say, well, you can do that. Or you can also do things like look for purely forwarded messages going through your system and not even allow things like that. Or combine those two together. If Power Automate is logging into my mailbox and forwarding messages, stop it. Like just kill it at the edge with the transport rule. Which is kind of fun. - So with this, yeah, so this transport rule and the new headers could I now do something like if somebody clicks reply to all on a message that has 250 participants, tell them to stop doing that? - I don't think you can stop the whole thing. There's no great thing for that-- - It's not gonna stop. - buttons that vendors make and put in your mail client but really you just have to teach people better behaviors. - Yes, no amount of technology can fix certain behaviors of people. - No. - That is really nice because there's a lot, as people are using Flow and PowerApps and all of this more, I mean, even I've built stuff for my clients where it is automatically sending out information, it's logging information. Microsoft is putting those technologies in the hand of end users and they might not always realize what they're doing when they create certain Flows. So being able to put some rules in there that looks at the source of these emails, whether it be PowerApps Flow, or I don't know how many it's extended out to, or if it will start extending out to other areas. Definitely a good thing to have for email security. - Yeah, it's interesting. 'Cause it takes this SAS world where, for better or worse, we all feel like we're in less control and it puts some of that control back in, kind of that governance plane or that administrative plane for the product. I don't know that, like so yes it solves the problem of email exfiltration. It doesn't solve the problem of you having to go to your user community and continue to educate them and let them understand the rules that drive the business. Like this is not a feature that goes into Power Automate and says you can never create a Flow with a forwarding rule that goes outside your organization. Like that type of governance doesn't exist there. So now, you might go and implement something like this, but then from a user adoption plane, they could still be going out and creating all these types of things. So I would maybe want to extend that with some reporting and take a look and so if you do set up rules like this, like where are we blocking it? Who was the person or the process that sent it? So that we can go educate them and kind of have a talk and see like hey, are we meeting the needs of the business? Or, did we potentially make things worse? - Yeah, definitely. And it does, that ties in. So I actually had an experience. It wasn't with PowerApps or Flow, but this past, I think it was this past week, where I had a client come to me and say, "Hey, I just had a user set up a mail forwarding rule. "What's going on, can you look it up?" Come to find out, said user of said client clicked on some type of malicious malware that automatically went into her Outlook on the web. So this wasn't even like a Outlook on-prem rule. It was Outlook on the web. So I don't know if it was the whole, I'm signed in, in one tab, I opened it in another tab and created this Outlook on the web rule but I was able to go in through all the audit logs to create an Outlook on the web rule to automatically forward email with certain information in it to some external email address. Fortunately, we had actually set up a mail Flow rule that said, do not allow people to set up rules that forward mail externally. And it prevented this whole fiasco where certain confidential information could have been forwarded. So the nice thing is the rule worked, it caught it all. It didn't allow this rule to be forwarded. And as a result, no mail got forwarded out. But also with all of the unified audit logs, the mail tracing all of the security features available in Office 365, we could also go through and show exactly what had happened. Walk through the, get a good idea of what happened as well as verify that they indeed were protected. - Yeah, so the other thing that I've done in the past there is you, probably want to implement process, like again on top of your transport rules to do things like, just run a PowerShell script that audits everyone in your exchange org. And if they have a forwarding address set on their mailbox, let's bubble that back up and report it. 'Cause you might be killing those things, like you said, on the edge with the transport rule, but that hasn't solved the underlying problem that somebody clicked a malicious link and a grease monkey script came in and did all this stuff and set up emails to forward out. So, you've got two things. Like yeah, was there a rule there? Or was there an all up forwarder placed on the mailbox as well? And what does that look like? So that can manifest itself in a couple different ways. Like I always like just have a script that runs on a cadence and enumerates all the mailboxes and anybody who has a forwarder set to an external domain or something that's external to your organization, you wanna know about that. You don't always need to know about, the manager who picked up somebody's mailbox for the next 30 days and has a forwarding rule in place there. - Right, although in theory, should that be a fowarding rule or should that just be delegated access to the user's mailbox? - Oh, well . That all depends on how people know, how much people know about how to use email. - It is true, so another one that Microsoft actually recently announced in the middle of all of this, so while, I was dealing with this with a client, I also noticed a new message in my message center, linked to a Microsoft 365 roadmap item, where Microsoft is also adding a outbound spam policy rule to block external forwarding for select people in their organization. So this allows you to kind of, with your scenario is, if a certain user does need a forward mail externally or has an external mail forwarding rule on because there probably are some cases where that's necessary, you will now be able to use your anti-spam rules up on anti-spam policies in Office 365 advanced threat protection in their spam policies to block it at that level on a per user basis. So even more interesting announcements and features coming around blocking that mail forwarding data exfiltration. - Yeah, I mentioned this stuff kits, the Math changes a little bit with everybody being at home and any time any device kind of policies and having, you have to shut more of this stuff down at the edge this way. So it's good to see that come out as a native control and not requiring a third party or anything like that. - Right, 'cause there's, going back to the whole work from home. There's probably a lot of companies that have certain proxy filters set up, different edge devices set up for people when they're in the organization. That protect against this stuff and all of a sudden people are at home maybe may or may not be working on a company on device, may or may not be going through your company's network. And, let's be honest when people are at home,...

Episode 192 – SkyNet Is Real

Thu, 27 Aug 2020 12:00:07 +0000

In Episode 192, Ben and Scott talk about the deprecation of Internet Explorer, the impacts of Cloud Shell being open-sourced, and a new button Microsoft Teams for starting new conversations. Transcript Email Download New Tab - Welcome to episode 192 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast, recorded live, August 23rd, 2020. This is a show about Microsoft 365 and Azure from the perspective of IT pros and end users where we discuss a recent topic or news and how it relates to you. And this episode, Ben and Scott get back on track and start off the show talking about the new Microsoft Flight Simulator, as well as the latest DARPA AI project. And from there, we dive into Microsoft 365 and Azure news talking about the Microsoft Cloud Shell, about Internet Explorer 11, Microsoft Forms Pro, Microsoft Ignite, and other news and announcements related to Microsoft 365 and Azure. - I don't even know how to start. I have nothing creative. It's episode 192. A month from now, we're going to be recording 200, Scott. What are we going to do for, I feel like we should do something for 200. We didn't do anything for 100. We are very poor at celebrating our accomplishments. - What could we do? Continue to stay inside some more? - Sure. - We've gt that going for us. - Two months away, two months, it's the end of some month and the year 2020. October, it'll be like Halloween, right-ish? - So it'll only be, you know, 105, and it'll be nice and humid outside. - Yeah, maybe we can dress up since we did start doing videos, Scott. Last week's episode, I actually published, we were recording our video, I went in and marked it up a little bit. But we actually published video of us on YouTube. So if you want the whole unedited video version of the podcast, you can go find it on YouTube now. And we'll see, hopefully I can keep doing it. I need to fix my camera though. I have a standup desk that wiggles, as you can probably see in my video. - Yeah, well, we'll have to add not only a non-wiggly camera, but like a discord chat or something like that. - Oh, man, this is going to get to be a lot of work. - I know. - So do you want my random news for the day? I have two random news articles for you. Which one do you want, one or two? This one's more interesting. - Well, let's back up. So Flight Simulator came out. Have you played it yet. - No, but it has a 212-story building, you know, in a city. - It's in Melbourne, it's in Melbourne, Australia. Do you know how they got that 212-story obelisk inside the middle of the city? - You found one of my random links and I have not read it all yet, other than somebody had a typo somewhere and they scraped the data from there and that's how it got there. But I have not had a chance to read all the details. - So mapping is an interesting thing. You know, there's a lot of companies out there that potentially provide map data. There are certainly some that build their own. You think maybe about like Google or Apple, you know, driving cars around for their street views and things like that. But they're also collecting telemetry and road data. You've got navigation applications like, coming from the Tom-Toms of the world, maybe you've got Waze. So there's kind of commercial open-source things out there. And one of the things that Microsoft bases it's data, map data off of, for not only Flight Simulator, but things like potentially Bing is OpenStreetMap. And in OpenStreetMap, there's an entry for a building in Melbourne, Australia, which is two stories tall, but was inadvertently entered through a typo to be 212 stories. And when you are leveraging OpenStreetMap and kind of taking it as a source of truth, you would just say, Hey, here's a thing that we need to render on our map in realtime. So combine it with satellite imagery data and kind of do the 3D overlay on it. - And there you have it 212-story building. Have you played it yet? It looks like, I haven't seen how big it is. It's said it comes on 10 DVDs. And I watched some YouTube videos of people getting like their Microsoft unboxing kits of it with all the accessories. I won't lie, I was kind of jealous of these people getting top of the line yokes and sticks and throttle controls along with the game from Microsoft. - Yes, so I did, I don't have any of that stuff. And embarrassingly, I can't start the download this month because I live under the Comcast regime, and if I do, I will go over my data cap, because it is a massive, massive download. So it's on the order of 130 to 150 gigs just to kind of run through the pre-install for it. - Yeah, that sounds about right if it's 10 DVDs worth of data. - Yeah, so if you are a Game Pass subscriber, like a Microsoft Game Pass Ultimate subscriber, there's a version in the Windows Store that you can get through Game Pass for, quote/unquote, free, because it is part of your existing subscription. - I wonder if I can play it in a VM. - I did it and you really cannot. - Yeah, that was kind of my guess. - Yeah. That was going to be my first thing, was like loaded up inside parallels, but I actually went and stole one of my kids' laptops because it's got a newer Radeon chip in it. - That's funny. - So maybe I'll come over to your place and like just hang on the wifi and download it or something. - Perfect, well, cause I have two internet connections now. So I have two one-terabyte limits. I have a terabyte limit from AT&T and a terabyte limit from Xfinity. So we'll just pick the one that I'm the lowest on. You can download it on that one. - That's the way to do it. So Flight Simulator, that'll be the thing to do. - Alright, so my next one is along the same lines. Did you follow any of the DARPA stuff the last few days? - I have not-- - So DARPA had the alpha dogfight trials, and what this was, I should send you a link to this, is a AI competition with AI dogfights, I think that, there it goes, with AI dog fighting. So essentially a simulated dogfight between F-16s. So there were eight, I think there were eight teams. They've whittled it down over the course of, apparently this whole thing has been going on for awhile. But they whittled it down over the course of the last year or so, and then had the finals of it over the last three days where these eight teams were all having simulated dog fights all using AI, teaching their models as they were running through these simulations. And then they capped it all off with the winner of the competition flying against one of the top F-16 pilots, and it was an AI versus human dogfight in a simulated environment. And it was, I watched some of it off and on and it was fascinating to watch the AI battles, but then watching AI versus humans. And all I can say, Scott, is the human race is in trouble. We're going to get exterminated by the machines. - Skynet is real? - Skynet is real. No, it wasn't even close. Like, it was absolute domination by the AI flying the F-16 versus the human. I'm not a pilot nor have I ever been in the military, but just watching it from my perspective, a lot of it seemed to be the fact that, using the AI, once the planes got close to having them in the cone of a legitimate gunshot, the AI was able to precisely aim a lot better than the human was. Kind of like, you know, when you go play video games and if you put like any of the first-person shooters on the expert level, and those bots always seem to be able to precisely aim, it kind of felt like that in these dogfights. That aiming ability was just a lot more steady and a lot more precise than somebody's hands. - Yeah, you know, I think that was always one of the things, right? Computers don't have any, you know, they don't have any shake, they don't have any muscle memory to overcome or, you know, getting nervous in those situations. You also have to contend with, if an AI is driving the process, like say it was even a real plane that was being driven by AI, there's nothing to contend with in the way of natural physical force. So you don't have to worry about overcoming G-forces in a bank or anything like that. And as a human, right, as a bag of like meaty flesh, you are at a tactical disadvantage. - Yeah, so it was interesting. They streamed a bunch of it on YouTube. So I think that all the YouTube videos are still out there, so we can link to this article or you can go search for the alpha dog fight trials and watch some of the videos. And there's definitely a lot of it you can skip through, because there was a lot of talking but, I mean, the fun part was the AI battles. - Yeah, that's the best kind of YouTube, all the stuff that you can skip through. Maybe you just go find the alpha dog fight on TikTok and then doom scroll your way through it. - Yes, TikTok is banned in the US, Scott. No TikTok, bad TikTok. - Not yet. - We're going to make the internet great again. - It still has days left. Days, I say. - Okay, and that's all the political stuff we're getting into on this podcast. - Oh, what else? - On to news doomsday. Here's a terrible segue. Doomsday, Internet Explorer is going to meet its doom in 2021 when it comes to the Microsoft 365 apps. So I think this was, they announced it the 17th, they announced it four days ago. So earlier this week, August 17, Microsoft announced you have one year of support for Internet Explorer 11 and Microsoft Edge legacy to work or to be supported. I guess it doesn't mean it's not gonna work, but to be supported in internet Explorer 11. So come August 17, 2021, the only supported browsers for Microsoft 365 are going to be the new Edge, and then I'm going to assume, Chrome, Safari, Firefox are all going to stay supported as well. But maybe, finally, people are starting to kick IE 11 to the curb. - One can only hope. You know, it was a weird road to get to Credge. and I think some people are still put off by the way the upg

Episode 191 – Fortnite, Foldables, and Azure AD, Oh My!

Thu, 20 Aug 2020 12:00:57 +0000

In Episode 191, Ben and Scott get distracted and talk about how good Fortnite is when lawsuits are involved, new exciting world of foldables with the Surface Duo, and the preview of Azure AD role-assignments to cloud-based Azure AD groups. Transcript Email Download New Tab - Welcome to episode 191 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro podcast, recorded live on August 14th, 2020. This is a show about Microsoft 365 and Azure, from the perspective of IT pros and end users, where we discuss the topic or recent news and how it relates to you. In this episode, Ben completely derail Scott from our plan topics, by bringing up things such as lawsuits in the technology space, the Microsoft duo and the DataFlex rename. Then we wrap up the show by talking about the newly released public preview feature, assigning groups to Azure AD roles. Record, recording all the things. - All of them, all the time, - Including Scott in his Batman shirt. - That's right. - Hey Scott, should we start doing video? Should we start actually putting the video of this out on YouTube? - We could. - Or should we start live streaming this to YouTube? We've talked about this in the past, but I don't know that we've ever talked about it publicly and I just kind of suckered you in out of the blue. - We can do whatever you want Ben, I'm here to support you. - Yeah, you're here to support me. I don't know, we should come up with something to do. We should do, maybe we should start by just posting the videos. And then if we get ambitious stream because streaming always brings complications. - Yeah, we know how that goes. - Yeah. And then we can add it, although to be fair, neither one of us are probably gonna edit video. We'll just throw like an intro out on there and an outro on there and say, "Here, YouTube have fun with this." - Something like that. How better would it be, if we, could we embed a video in a video. - We could have the inception of podcasts, right? - Yeah. - I have a TV back here, maybe I can put the video of us. Oh, there, there's the TV. I could raise it up, put a video of us on there and have the whole inception effect. - I mean, most of it's gonna be just me with a coffee cup in front of my face. - Whatever, man makes it that way every once in a while too. So I have a question for you, Scott, the junior you can confuse pear logos and Apple logos. - Well, yes, if you've ever watched Nickelodeon show, you would know this. - Yeah, my kids aren't, we haven't introduced them to Nickelodeon yet. - No, it would have been like Nickelodeon when you were a kid. - Oh. And you're expecting me to remember that. I didn't have Nickelodeon when I was a kid either we didn't pay for cable. My parents are Dutch, aka cheap. So we never had cable. - Well, we played outside. - In the way back when in all Nickelodeon shows, all Apple products would have a pear logo on them. - Got it. Yeah, I don't remember that. But this is not related to Nickelodeon's pear, Apple is actually suing a company of five employees because they're green, obviously pear logo can get confused with Apple's black Apple logo. I mean we can throw a link to like the image in the screenshots. They look absolutely nothing alike and people are furious at Apple, which understandably so this is a little bit of a ridiculous lawsuit. - Yeah, I gotta pick the brands. - You gotta protect the fruit. I've actually heard Apple have sued several companies whenever somebody comes out with another fruit logo, they just sue them. I think Apple thinks they own all the fruit or something, who knows, that's my random news for the day. - That is fairly random. - We could talk about lawsuits all day long today, cause there's another interesting one that hit yesterday, that you had mentioned. - That I had mentioned? - That you had mentioned wasn't it yesterday? with Epic games is suing Apple. - Well, Epic is suing everybody. So there's a little bit of a, if you play Fortnite and lots and lots and lots of people, play Fortnite, I am very bad at Fortnite. I don't play it every day. I'm very bad at it. And you know generally go in and die quickly and then go with, this is not the game for me, but occasionally I come back to it because it's on all the devices and you know, it's a little bit of a time waster. So if you play Fortnite you're probably, you're probably aware of this, but if you don't play Fortnite, Fortnite is a super duper big game, right? It's hugely popular and it's available on all sorts of platforms, on certainly Apple's app store, it's available in Google play, it's on PC, it's on Mac. If there's a device out there with a screen that can run it, it's basically on it and ready to go. Within Fortnite, like many other games today, it's a free game to play, but you can buy virtual items within it, using virtual dollars or Vbox. And Fortnite came out with an update where they were giving a 20% discount off of Vbox, if you bought them through basically Fortnite's payment processing engine or Epic's payment processing engine over your app store of choice, so normally on both Google and Apple for in app purchases within games, you pay that 30% overhead to the app store provider. And they act as the payment processor and any kind of subscriptions or things would go through them. And ultimately not back to kind of the, you know, the company that was perhaps making the product like Epic in this case. Well, Epic, like I said, they pushed an update, which they did in a very interesting way. It wasn't an actually an update to the app. So it wasn't like you went into your app store of choice and you saw, Oh, there's new version of Fortnite, and it comes with these features. They basically shadow pushed it. So it kinda didn't go through the regular review process on either side for Apple or Google and it presented two prices. It said, "Hey, here's the price you pay in the app store, "$10 or come and buy your Vbox from us at a 20% discount." And they had both buttons in the app, so effectively you could do an online purchase through their own payment processing engine. And you know, they would still take their overhead and kind of do whatever they needed to do there. So long and short of it is that skirts a bunch of rules, whether those rules are right and wrong is kind of a whole different thing that, you know, they're not paying that 30% cut to the app store that is providing that payment processing functionality to them. So Apple removed them very quickly. So if you already have the app on your device, you still have the app on your device, but if you delete the app or if you were a new user coming in, you cannot delete the app right now. There's kind of like if you think about like Apple being able to remove things from, or kind of control distribution of apps, there's really three levers they could pull here, they could say, "Okay, I'm not gonna do anything, "and we're gonna let Epic continue forward with Fortnite "with this model that probably wasn't gonna happen." There's this second method where they can effectively remove it from the app store and remove it from search, so if somebody new is coming in, they can't download it. And now Epic cannot push any updates to the binaries for that application as well. There also would've been a third option, which is nuclear option, which would have been revoke Epic's developers certificate and then make Fortnite stop working on everyone's devices. And Apple kind of chose the middle of the road one there, Google also a couple of hours after Apple, went ahead and pulled Epic out of their store as well. So now Epic, who makes Fortnite, has filed lawsuits against both Apple and Google, that they are by all accounts, not very likely to win at all. You know, they're choosing to take this stand, which, you know, whatever you think of that, the 30% cut and everything else, you know, Epic's got a little bit of money to play with and, you know, they're willing to roll the dice on some lawsuits and things. - Yeah, it'll be interesting because Apple's also getting sued in the EU for that same 30% cut policy. - There's arguments to be made there, if you go, I don't know if you've had a chance to read through any of the, kind of the briefs around what Epic has going on, but effectively their argument in the Apple lawsuit at least boils down to the app store is anti-competitive. And they're kind of making the argument that they should be able to have their own app store on Apple devices and not just for their game. Like they don't want to just push their game out, they want to host another app store on Apple devices and make all that stuff work and come through. So obviously if Epic was able to do that, they would probably stand to make on the order of, you know, billions of dollars, if they were large enough and had enough developers, pushing apps into their store, but that also requires a bunch of platform support from someone like Apple. Like I don't think it would be possible today to just make an alternative app store without Apple's blessing, cause how would you get the app store onto your Apple device? You'd either have to download it from Apple's app store to begin with, which then it's subject called the you know, sand boxing and restrictions, or it would have to be preloaded and that just ain't gonna happen. - Yeah, it's all really interesting because it's all geared around the anti-competitive stuff, and I mean, it gets that applicant has some monopoly, but if you're going to choose to put it on iOS devices, like if you're going to choose to put something on my website or my platform, you're kind of going to have to adhere to the policies that I have for my platform. And again, you can't do another app store. You can't do in app purchases, maybe 30% is a big cut, but then just don't put it on there, I guess....

Episode 190 – Sometimes The Waveforms Lie

Thu, 13 Aug 2020 12:00:51 +0000

In Episode 190, Ben and Scott talk about the difficulties of naming human genes when Excel gets in the way, improvements coming to the automatic cleanup of deployment history within Azure Resource Manager, and the automatic enablement of App Lock in the Microsoft Authenticator app. Transcript Email Download New Tab - Welcome to episode 190 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast recorded live on August 7th, 2020. This is a show about Microsoft 365 and Azure, from the perspective of IT pros and end users, where we discuss the topic or recent news and how it relates to you. In this episode, Ben and Scott talk about Excel getting in the way of naming human genes, Azure resource manager deployment cleanup, and the Microsoft Authenticator app among other recent Microsoft Cloud news. Had to make sure it wasn't picking up my audio somewhere else because the waveforms can lie. - The wave, okay. - Well, you just kinda see the waveforms there. You don't know which mic it's coming from. - The waveforms can lie. That's gonna become my new motto mantra. - The waveforms can lie, not human genes are really dates. - This is like, super fun because we all know that Excel makes the world go round. And, - Absolutely. - Excel not only makes the world go round. I mean, it's a database, it's a defacto kind of business driver. It does so many things that people don't think about in so many industries and so many businesses to the point that it impacts the way scientists on a global scale name human genes, so that they can continue their research, which is just amazing. - I had not seen this article until you sent it to me this morning. - It's an issue with the way that Excel automatically parses data. So, I'm sure we've all been there where you paste a number into Excel, or you Paste a string that has a number on it and Excel decides it is, something else. So, some genes have alphanumeric symbols, like there'll be a mix of uppercase alphas and a number such as MARCH1, which is short for membrane associated ring-CH-type finger 1. But, Excel doesn't know that MARCH1 is membrane associated ring-CH-type finger 1. It thinks that that is the 1st of March. So, it will change it into a date column with formatting that is appropriate for what you put in, which was MARCH1. So, it'll be 1-Mar, one March, right? And you go to the next column and the next column could be one April and then one May, but that's not what you were trying to do. You were trying to do another thing. So, you would think as a rational person, you would come back and say, "Okay, auto formatting is getting in the way of me putting my gene data into Excel so that I can do whatever manipulations or visualizations of the data that I want to there." Well, Excel does not offer the option to turn off auto formatting. And the only way that you could really avoid it is to remember that you'd have to change the data type for each individual column before you went and pasted that data in there. So, that would certainly be a way around it, but you'd have to teach every scientist in the world how to do this, that uses Excel. And that might not be the most scalable thing. So, how do you fix this problem? Excel, well can't be fixed, but you can fix the way or change the way that you name things to better accommodate the tools that your users use. So therefore, the HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee or the HGNC has recently published new guidelines for gene naming, including that any symbols that affect data handling and retrieval like MARCH1, would fall into that category. They will now be renamed, so MARCH1 is gonna become MARCHF1, SEPT1, S-E-P-T-1, has become SEPTIN1 and a number of others along the way. So, as of right now, 27 genes have been renamed to accommodate this. And of course there will potentially be more. - Huh? - Yeah. - So now do they have to go back and rename all these genes and all these different databases everywhere or is it just kind of okay going forward from this date, whatever date they actually renamed them, August 6th or whatever, it's going to be the new name and everything with the old name remains the old name? - Well, like, unlike many things, you're gonna be in a period of time where you've got the old spreadsheets and the old databases and everything that have MARCH1 and MARCHF1. So, you've got to now potentially accommodate for both of them. But if you were sitting down and doing genetic research today, and you're following the guidelines from this standards body, you would go down the new path and you'd be a little bit safer. - Maybe we should just stop using Excel as a database. - Let's not be drastic. - Oh my, can you imagine being the person at Microsoft saying, "Hey, you know this update I made to Excel, I just forced everybody to rename human genes." The stories they can tell their grandkids someday. - Right? - I don't even know where to go from here. - Well, - I think my brain's still on vacation. I got back yesterday morning. I woke my kids up at 4:30 a.m. to get on the plane and come home. - Well, you made it. - We made it. Do you feel overwhelmed by trying to manage your Office 365 environment? Are you facing unexpected issues that disrupt your company's productivity? Intelligink is here to help much like you take your car to the mechanic that has specialized knowledge on how to best keep your car running, Intelligink helps you with your Microsoft Cloud environment because that's their expertise. Intelligink keeps up with the latest updates in the Microsoft Cloud to help keep your business running smoothly and ahead of the curve. Whether you are a small organization with just a few users up to an organization of several thousand employees, they want to partner with you to implement and administer your Microsoft Cloud technology. Visit them at intelligink.com/podcast. That's I-N-T-E-L-L-I-G-I-N-K .com/podcast for more information or to schedule a 30 minute call to get started with them today. Remember Intelligink focuses on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business. - Let's talk about some Azure stuff since, - Azure stuff, - Yes. - or Event stuff? - Since your brain is fine, Event stuff. - Since my brain is fine. What's event stuff? - What's event stuff? - What's event stuff? Ignite. That's about all. Ignite, it's coming. And we will not be there live in-person because there is no live in-person, which we already knew. However, it's gonna be September 22 through 24, which is three days, but it's 48 hours straight of streaming Ignite presentations. So, similar to how they did Build, jump on and just watch Ignite for 48 hours. Although I'm guessing in there, there's gonna be replays of sessions so they can get various sessions and various time zones and, all of that. So, you won't need to try to figure out how to stay up for 48 hours if you want to watch it all. - That is genuinely the intent, is not to have you, Ben, staying up for 48 hours, but providing coverage for a potentially worldwide audience. - Yes, however, we will be live from our homes where there is no lines for food and no lines for restrooms. - Yeah. - And, - I'm trying to figure out, do I broadcast from the desk or the couch? What's the optimal situation there? - See I was going for the pool. I might just go sit up by the pool, kick my feet up, listen to the waterfall trickle, in the 95 degree Florida heat. That's the disadvantage, right? Although it was gonna be in New Orleans this year. - Which also would be hot. - Which also would be hot. But unfortunately here by having it go virtual, it does not allow us to escape the heat that is usually associated with Microsoft Ignite. We are still gonna be attending Microsoft Ignite in the sweltering heat of the Southern United States. - Yeah, well, you cannot get away from that one. - All right, enough about that one. We also have GlobalCon coming up too. That was the other event I was gonna say. The Collab365 guys, Mark Jones, the whole team over there are doing GlobalCon3 that I'm doing some stuff for. There's a, Power Platform day coming up that I have a Power Platform fundamental session at, and then they're doing a full five-day conference later this year and I don't have the dates off the top of my head even though I should. - GlobalCon - Con. - 3. - is, - Yes. - September 8 through September 11. - So, my whole month of September is just pretty much gonna be conferences because Mark Rackley is still planning on doing his conference as well. Last I have heard at the end of September, shortly after Ignite. - You have not escaped conference season. - We have not. We just have escaped traveling for conference season, but that's all the conference events news I have. ♪ Tu tu tuli ♪ Yeah, most of it's all virtual. So enjoy virtual conferences from the comfort of your own home, without the flights, the lines for the bathroom, the lines for food, and sleeping in hotels. - Those are all the fun parts of conferences. - Yeah, okay. - I'm running out of conference shirts to wear. - I see you're wearing a conference shirt today, - I am. - Because that's, - the way it goes. And I've had to go back to regular T-shirts and things during the workweek and, it's getting rough. - I don't have many. Did I tell you this story when we walked past one of the Microsoft Stores a few months back when Microsoft Stores were still a thing? My daughter saw the Microsoft sign on the store and said, "Hey daddy, that's what's on all of your shirts." - Yeah. - Oops. - Yeah, we gotta get you some new shirts. - Apparently, okay. With that, should we talk Azure stuff now? - Yeah, let's, let's talk some Azure stuff. So, there are some changes potentially coming to ARM, which could be beneficial to certain types of customers. So, when I say ARM, Azure Resource Manager,...

Episode 189 – Teams Client Updates

Thu, 06 Aug 2020 12:00:55 +0000

In Episode 189, Ben and Scott discuss some of the enhancements to the Microsoft Teams client on desktop and mobile with the public rollout of pop out meetings and chats as well as the Tasks app in Teams for task management across Planner, To Do, and Outlook/Exchange Online mailboxes. Transcript Email Download New Tab - Welcome to episode 189. This is Microsoft Cloud IT Pro podcast recorded live on July 31st, 2020. This is a show about Microsoft 365 and Azure, from the perspective of our it pros and end users. Where we discuss a topic or recent news and how it leads to you. In this episode, Ben and Scott discussed some of the enhancements to the Microsoft Teams client on desktop and mobile with the public rollout of pop-out meetings and chats, as well as the Tasks app in Teams for task management across Planner, To-Do and Outlook or Exchange Online mailboxes. - So guess what I did in honor of episode 189, which means absolutely nothing. And then we're getting close to 200. Will we need to do something fancy for episode 200? - No, we'll be there right around conference season. Right around the socially distance conference season. - Yes. Although I am going to one conference there. As in person as of yet, we will see. Mark Rack. I am braving Mark Rackley's North American collaboration summit at this point in time. - Yeah. I don't know. Have you checked the news this week? I know you've been remote up there. - I am hiding from the news. - Google is officially remote until summer 2021. Microsoft, I think we're not far behind. Like nobody at Microsoft is going back until at least January 2021. CES is going virtual. Let's put it that way. - I saw that I did see CES was going virtual. - That's the point that we're at. - Though to be fair, I mean, Mark Rackley is great, but his conference also is not quite as big as CES. Because of all of it understandably so his registration dropped. So I think it's gonna be a combination of in-person and virtual and then yeah. He's doing some things, but I think because registration dropped, it's gonna be a lot easier to socially distance there. I think he's working on some things. Again, we'll have to see, 'cause there it is still a couple months away. - It'll be interesting. - It shall be. But that is not what I'd do in episode of 189. I actually pushed the button and upgraded to Big Sur. So I could not take it any longer. - So there is no upgrade to Big Sur. It's a beta. You should not be doing this. You should be playing with the mm-hmm map with Sean and I. - Sure to not tell me about the mm-hmm map. No, I've actually been surprised. It has been three or four days now. I have two apps that just don't work. They're minor ones. One of them is the bartender app that I use to help manage my menu bar. And the other one is my TripMode app that helps me control which apps are allowed to access the internet. Particularly when I'm in a hotspot, my bandwidth is limited. Neither one of them are day-to-day critical. But other than that, everything has actually been working really well. - You're a brave soul . And would you look at that. - I don't know if I'm classified as brave. Usually it comes back and I tell myself I was a stupid soul. As of right now. - On that note. - As of right now, though, it's doing okay. So yes, the icons are a little different to get used to. But they're really are kind of like people have said. Under the covers, there's a lot of changes because the whole ARM processor coming. But on the surface, other than some of those visuals, I haven't noticed much change in pretty much anything. Other than visually. - Our gardens are a great way to improve productivity and save time in the workplace. And Sperry Software has all the Add-ins you'll ever need. To Save As PDF Add-in is a best seller and it is great for project backups, legal discovery, and more. This Add-In saves the email and attachments as PDF files. It's easy to download, easy to install and Sperry Software's unparalleled customer services is always ready to help. Download a free trial at sperrysoftware.com. S-P-E-R-R-Y-S-O-F-T-W-A-R-E.com and see for yourself how great Save As PDF is. Listeners can get 20% off their order today by entering the code, cloudit. That's cloudit, C-L-O-U-D-I-T. All one word at checkout. Sperry Software; work in email, not on email. - So that's my Apple news and I have no random links for... I forgot to do it again, Scott. Find some random off-the-wall news article for you. - I got you covered. I'll put some stuff about Google in the pandemic 'cause that keeps everything going. - Everybody, Google's just gonna dissolve their company headquarters and everybody's gonna be remote for the rest of time. I wonder how many companies will do that out of all of this. That they'll just say, "you know what? We really don't need an office anymore." Or at least massively reduce the footprint of their office. - I saw a great tweet the other day. I forget who did it. I'll see if I can pull it up. And I'm gonna paraphrase it, but it was along the lines of, this pandemic has done 100 times more for the digital transformation of your company than your last five CIOs. - There is definitely some truth to that. 'Cause Microsoft has been seeing it too, right? They compared it to like four years of digital transformation in four months or a year of digital or two years in like a month. But along the same lines where I've seen a few different quotes that kind of imply the same thing. That this has caused the, I can't think of the word, but it's expedited the whole digital transformation in pretty much every company out there. - It's definitely the thing. Corey Quinn. "COVID-19 has done more to further your company's digital transformation the last dozen CIOs." There we go. Oh wait, at least I get to quote. - But the amount of conversations I've had with people that never would want to talk to me about Teams in office 365 before, cause they had no idea what it was, now like every time I run into somebody they're like, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah Teams. And I'm like, "yup." Everybody's using Teams. Teams, Teams, everywhere. - Teams, Teams everywhere. Now we just gotta teach people how to reply to conversations versus starting a new thread. Which I continue to argue is not a user issue. That is 100% a UI issue. And then we need to teach people how to share properly and understand what they're sharing. which again, I will argue is not an end user issue. It is a UI issue. There are some things in there that just need to be fixed. And if they get like little things done, it'd be so much better. - Although there are some things you could do, like not so much from the chat, but from the sharing perspective. If you really don't ever want people sharing their whole desktop, because of notifications. To be fair, you can go set up a policy to remove desktop sharing and allow them only to share applications which could help with some of that. - So the new one is, I don't know if you've played around with the latest version of Teams where you get the ability, actually, I don't know if it's on Mac yet, but it's definitely out on windows in most tenants. Except Mark Anderson's. There's the ability to have your meetings split into a new window so that your Teams client with kind of your chat and access to Teams or your apps or whatever it happens to be stays in one window. And then your meeting pops out into another window - I do have that. - Yeah so there's some weird behaviors there. Like you mentioned, app sharing. So if you share an app in the old client experience, guess the legacy client experience. When you shared an app or you shared your desktop, no matter what you shared a little window popped up and sometimes you would see it in like a desktop share. You'd see like the little window in the in the lower right hand corner of your screen, which would show that you are screen-sharing. Well now with that new pop-up mode where every chat or every meeting can be its own window, that little sharing window doesn't pop up anymore. It's very hard to figure out, how do I stop sharing? The only way to stop sharing is to find your way back to the original meeting window now, and then find the Stop sharing button there. Where in the past you would have had two places to do it. You would have had that little pop-up window that came up and was kind of persistent unless you minimized it. And you would have had the meeting window. So that's a little bit of a regression, I think. The other one that's been killing me is, if there's a chat going on in the meeting, alongside the meeting, that chat is potentially showing up in two different places. In my case, and I think for lots of us, we have multiple monitors. Or maybe you have your laptop and a monitor. You've got two screens. And if you leave the Teams window up, so it kind of the persistent Teams window with chats, access to your Teams apps, all that stuff. And you have this meeting window up now on the other side, if somebody chats you in that meeting chat and you have the chat bar in I don't know, window, pane, whatever it is, that little slider, Open for chat. You actually see that text come in in real time in two places and it's very distracting. So you go like, okay, I'm just gonna minimize the other Teams window because I don't wanna be distracted by all that other incoming stuff. Well, the other issue you run into is, because Teams is an Electron app and it is a poor citizen for following operating system conventions on any platform it's on, particularly when it comes to notifications, it responds in horrible ways. Like if I'm just a meeting participant, I'm not in DND mode, especially in DND mode like on my desktop. So I'll still be getting toast notifications for all those chats....

Episode 188 – Are You Inspired Yet?

Thu, 30 Jul 2020 12:00:16 +0000

In Episode 188, Ben and Scott discuss some of the latest announcements from Microsoft Inspire, including NFS support of Azure Blob Storage, the GA of Microsoft Lists, and the announcement of Microsoft Dataflex and Microsoft Dataflex Pro. Transcript Email Download New Tab - [Ben] Welcome to episode 188 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro podcast recorded live on July 23rd, 2020. This is a show about Microsoft 365 and Azure, from the perspective of it pros and end users, where we discuss the topic of recent news and how it relates to you. In this episode, Ben and Scott review some of the news coming out of Microsoft Inspire around Microsoft 365 and Azure, including blob storage, Data Flex, and Microsoft lists. Happy Thursday, Thursday. - [Scott] Yeah, Thursday, you made it to another one. Are you feeling inspired yet? - [Ben] I am feeling very inspired, not only by Inspire being inspiring or providing inspiration, is that what Inspire is supposed to do is provide inspiration? - [Scott] Yeah. In fact, it is, it is supposed to inspire Microsoft partners to go out and build awesome things. - [Ben] But I also just had a five-day, six-day, something like that, vacation up in Michigan on the beach, on the lake, paddle boarding and kayaking. And I barely have any cell phone signal up there. So I, frankly just pretty much ignored my phone for five days. It was also an inspiring and relaxing experience. - [Scott] Yeah, that sounds like you're living the dream. You're not missing much back here, like heat, global pandemics, all the fun things. - [Ben] Yeah, I frankly have no idea what's going on in Florida right now. And I don't care, I'll figure it out when we get back home. - [Scott] That's the spirit. - [Ben] Because now I'm back in Michigan recording on my Bose headset. So if my audio is a little off. I am hanging out at my parents for a couple more weeks, have a wedding coming up while we're here and all that. But people probably do not care so much about my inspiring personal life. They probably care more about the inspiration coming from Inspire this week, which I got back from vacation to a flood of news that I've been trying to catch up on. - [Scott] Yeah, quite a bit of news. So as Microsoft has been doing for many of their events lately, they've published their book of news. This time it didn't go out as a book, but it's a website. You get the table of contents, go ahead and browse through it. And you can take a look at all of the announcements around things like Azure, Microsoft 365, certainly business applications, or biz apps like dynamics play a large part in the partner ecosystem. So there's a specific section for that as well as security and compliance, then it wouldn't be a partner conference without partner enablement. And then some, a little bit about sustainability initiatives and things like that that are coming up or in a process now. But if you're interested in what happened at Inspire and you normally go, I shouldn't be interested in Inspire because that's the partner conference and I'm not a partner, or maybe you work for a partner and the relationship side of Microsoft and its partners isn't relevant to you day to day. A lot of these announcements, aren't about how to sell things in the partner ecosystem. They really are functionality within the platform and to a certain degree material changes in functionality. So you'll see some quite a bit of movement on the Teams and Microsoft 365 side, there was a bunch of Azure announcements from Azure stack HCI integrations and improving some of the hybrid flows that exist today. Some networking enhancements, a bunch of stuff around discs. There was a little bit around storage, even developer tooling got some announcements in there with some announcements from Hashi Corp, bringing things forward. So I would encourage you if you deal with Azure, or Microsoft 365 to at least go through, read through those sections and see what functionality A is coming, B is available today and has GA'd or C, is both been announced as coming and is available for you to play with in the form of maybe like a public preview. - [Ben] Yeah, this Inspire was interesting because I feel like, at least in previous years it has been much more partner focused news. And I felt like this year, it was almost like another mini, I don't know if I want to go so far as to say a mini Build or a mini Ignite, but there was a lot more just Microsoft 365 Azure news that really applies to everybody that came out this year, I guess more so than I felt like came out previous years around Inspire. - [Scott] Yeah, I think that's fair. And that certainly feels right. I would have to think that a lot of it has to do with the marketing engine. And if you're spinning up all this marketing for partners, why not use it to market to the broader world as well? Especially if you're lighting up features that apply to the broader world. And I think you'll potentially see more of that just during pandemic times as they don't have those opportunities to get out and about so much. - [Ben] Yeah, so definitely go check out the book of news. 'Cause there's no way we're going to talk about all of it today at the time we have, but we figured we'd go through and pick out some of our favorites. Some of the ones that are maybe most applicable to our audience, or maybe just the ones everybody is talking about after Inspire like another product rename. - [Scott] Another product name. - [Ben] Do you feel overwhelmed by trying to manage your Office 365 environment? Are you facing unexpected issues that disrupt your company's productivity? Intelligink is here to help. Much like you take your car to the mechanic that has specialized knowledge on how to best keep your car running, Intelligink helps you with your Microsoft cloud environment because that's their expertise. Intelligink keeps up with the latest updates in the Microsoft cloud to help keep your business running smoothly and ahead of the curve. Whether you were a small organization with just a few users, up to an organization of several thousand employees, they want to partner with you to implement and administer your Microsoft cloud technology. visit them at Intelligink.com/podcast. That's I-N-T-E-L-L-I-G-I-N-K .com/podcast for more information or to schedule a 30-minute call to get started with them today. Remember Intelligink focuses on the Microsoft cloud. So you can focus on your business. - [Scott] I have a feeling that we're going to spend a good amount of time on Microsoft 365 stuff. So why don't we start with a couple of the Azure announcements, 'cause those are quick hits to get through, and then we can dive into all of that product rename that you mentioned. - [Ben] Perfect, sounds good. So which Azure one would you like to start with? - [Scott] So there wasn't a ton of Azure news, like we said, news comes when news comes. So there's a couple of things that have happened in regard to migration. So specifically tooling, like Azure Migrate has been continuing to have new features added to it over time. So initially Azure Migrate started out and it could assess VMware environments and it was targeted at those and potentially bringing VMware customers over to Azure. And then they added hyper V support over the last couple of months, I believe, probably the last six months or so. They've done things like added support for importing your own inventories. So if you have a physical inventory and maybe you don't want Azure Migrate tooling to actively assess it like go out and interrogate the performance counters on my servers, things like that. You just wanted to give it a CSV file that said I've got this server with this name, it's got this much CPU, this much RAM, tell me what the equivalent or right size thing would be in Azure and how much it's going to cost me or my pricing agreement. They've added functionality like that. At Inspire, they announced the ability where they've added another kind of import mechanism. So now you can import and create assessments using uploaded configuration management database data. And they've also included support for those AVS assessments, those Azure VMware solution assessments. And then they've worked a little bit on the assessment engine itself and some of the recommend or the recommendation engine, I guess, and some of the pieces that come out of there. So you'll see that it's a little bit more holistic and able to give you a better sense of where you should land on the other side. And over time, I think you'll continue to see improvements in there. Another thing that was announced very recently, I believe this one was pre Inspire, but they did mention it at Inspire, again is Microsoft has support for shared discs with virtual machines now. So you can do things like spin up a disc in Azure that now you can attach to or mount multiple virtual machines at the same time, which enables you to do things that you haven't been able to do in the past. Like maybe a traditional fail over cluster because it required that cluster shared volume. Some of those workloads are now ready to go and they would have support natively in the operating system. And you're not doing any weird workarounds on the backend to fake having a shared disc. It's just a native capability and ready to go. - [Ben] Interesting, so I missed this one. This one is not then spinning up like an Azure file share or creating a disc and doing a traditional SMB share of it. But it's having a, say physical virtual disc, you essentially have that virtual disc file. And you can attach that virtual disc straight to two different VMs in Azure. - [Scott] Correct. Yeah, so this was originally talked about like in the way back when, it went into preview, like early in 2020, but I don't know that, like you said,...

Episode 187 – AAD Alternate Login ID and Sensitive by Default in SharePoint

Thu, 23 Jul 2020 12:00:18 +0000

In Episode 187, Ben and Scott discuss the newly announced preview for alternate login IDs in Azure Active Directory, enabling "sensitive by default" labels with DLP in SharePoint Online, and the GA of the new Microsoft Secure Score. Transcript Email Download New Tab - Welcome to Episode 187 of the Microsoft Cloud IT pro podcast, recorded live on July 14 2020. This is a show about Microsoft 365 and Azure from the perspective of IT pros and end users. Where we discuss the topic or recent news and how it relates to you. In this episode, Ben and Scott covers some recent Microsoft 365 News, including Azure AD alternate login ID, sensitive by default in SharePoint and OneDrive and some other security related news. It's Wednesday, this has me all thrown off my game, cause I'm going on vacation, and I'm not-- - It's not even Wednesday, it's only Tuesday. - Yeah, see, I told you. Tuesday has me all turned off my game. Cause I am going on vacation to a remote cottage in Michigan to enjoy the sun and the sand and the water in social isolation from everyone, including a cell phone signal. - You think it's gonna be done. - Yes, I'm actually looking forward to it. My parents have a cottage up there, I have not seen it yet. So they got it like a year ago and I have not been up there to visit or to see the cottage because the last time we were up there it was winter. And just you don't go up there in the winter. Well, you could, but my kids would not have enjoyed it as much as I would have. - I think it's safe to say one does not go to Michigan in the winter, let alone to the cottage, the remote cottage at Michigan. - At Michigan, one absolutely goes to Michigan because there's snow to play in. - Yeah. - Then well billing to be had, sledding to be done, snowboarding. All of the fun winter sports. - Yeah, and you can almost go find yourself a real mountain. - I could, I could just go to Denver instead or to Utah or Montana, Canada. All of the above definitely have better skiing. But they're also-- - The northeast. - All the more expensive and I don't have family there. - The Northwest, little bit of Europe, bring the family with you. - I have always wanted to go to the Alps, to go skiing. My brother has done it, I have not. - I will not discourage you. - Perfect. - You should live your dreams. - Now I just have to convince my family. I need to get all my kids skiing. Do you know how hard it is to teach kids to ski and snowboard in Florida? - I do as I've been flying my mind around too, to do the same thing. - Yeah, once they get a little older, we'll teach them. We'll get them and then I'll go to Switzerland and-- - I'm gonna teach them how to ride the one wheel cause that's not like snowboarding, but it's close. - How close is it? Because I believe you have had the privilege of riding a one wheel a lot. - I bought one so yeah, now I gotta get my money's worth out of it. - Yes well, but do you get to ride it or have your kids hijacked it? - No, I ride it. - Okay. Is it like snowboarding then? - Not quite with the stock tire that comes on it. I think you need a different tire to make it feel a little bit more like that. But it is super fun. It's definitely a thing that you can get into with potentially like a deeper carve than a longboard. It's different than skateboarding or snowboarding or skiing, or any of those things, but it's definitely fun. It's addicting. - I might have to add that to my Christmas list, birthday list when I stopped buying LEGO sets. are a great way to improve productivity and save time in the workplace and Sperry software has all the add ins you'll ever need. The Save as PDF add in is a best seller and it's great for project backups, legal discovery and more. This add in saves the email and attachments as PDF files, it's easy to download, easy to install and Sperry software's unparalleled Customer service is always ready to help. Download a free trial at Sperry software.com. S-P-E-R-R-Y-S-O-F-T-W-A-R-E.com and see for yourself how great Save as PDF is. Listeners can get 20% off their order today by entering the code "CloudIT". That's cloud IT, C-L-O-U-D-I-T all one word at check out. Sperry software work in email, not on email. - So, in other news, should we talk about cloud news? - Yeah, - We could just turn into the rambling guys podcast. - No, there's been a bunch of fun stuff with Azure AD. - There has been. So this was when, I think it came out yesterday. So it came out Monday, July 13 cause I saw it right before I crawled in bed last night. In this one is that, using some PowerShell now, you can go in and enable user friendly sign in to Azure AD with email as an alternate login to an ID. As an alternate login ID, which is normally your UPN. So this is interesting because I still talk to clients that just assume they're always using their email cause they don't realize email and UPN are 99% of the time, the exact same in Office 365 but in reality, your UPN and your email, do not have to match up one for one. And Microsoft just, I would say they encourage you to keep the same because it does tend to lead to less confusion for people, when your UPN and your email address are the same thing. - True story. So now with this one, you don't have to do that which can come in handy, especially when it comes to, some of those cases where you have trusted domains because I was thinking through this last night and making sure that it all made sense in my head is, a lot of times you may have two different domains you have, well, two different domains, you can't have the same UPN suffix in the two different domains. So people run into problems because of how Azure AD sync works. You can only put it on one server, you have to trust your domain. You have to sync all your users up and then they end up with different UPNs or different email addresses. Now you could in theory, sync two different domains with two different UPNs, set the same email address for all the users and let them use that single email address as their login ID. Instead of having separate UPNs from separate domains. Did I think through all that properly? - I'm still confused as to why you'd want to, you'd be losing the ability for per user resolution, like if every user had the same email address, and you turn this on, what user would it resolve to when they log in? - Sorry, I probably phrased that wrong, not the same user, but users from two different domains with two different UPN all having the same email domain. So think your UPN is user one at Company A, and then you have user B at company two, but they could both have user one at parent company.com and user two at parent company.com as their email address and now use that to log in, even though their primary UPN suffix is different. - Correct, and it should still resolve back, so I haven't turned this one on yet, but it looks like what it's using is any addresses that resolve in the proxy addresses attribute. So as long as you've got that in there, you'd be cleared and ready to go. So it certainly helps out in situations like that. I've worked with a number of organizations where sign in IDs do not equate to email addresses in any way, shape or form. Like every law firm, I've worked for almost 99% of the time, my login for Active Directory was just employee ID, lots of financial institutions were that way. So you'd be a number to log into your computer and then you'd have your email address and all the other things on the other side, which led to all those customizations of like you said, swapping in email address and sending it up as the UPN attribute through AD Connect and weirdness ensues, because users have two different login names and everything else. So effectively with this, you can still keep your UPN, your users still resolve to their UPN. But theoretically, anything that's a match within a proxy addresses attribute should go ahead and get them through. But certainly you wouldn't wanna end up in that situation where multiple users have the same email address and proxy addresses cause I don't know how it would resolve. Does the first one win, does a random one win, that could be a little weird. - Yes, I misspoke there. When I was talking about users with the same email addresses. I meant just users with the same domain. - I totally get where you're going. - But you're still gonna have some weird user behavior, I think with this one cause you're logging in with the email address and effectively what you're doing is, you're using that address for Home RAM discovery, and then relying on things like synced passwords and Azure AD to go ahead and pick things up. So this isn't gonna work if you have ADFS. Cause well, you'd still be redirected through Home RAM discovery or HAD to your ADFS server. But then in ADFS, you're gonna have to use your real login and password. This is you sync your passwords and do password hash synchronization and all that stuff to Azure AD. And you're relying on that as a login mechanism. And then once you've logged in with your email address, you're still resolving to your UPN. So, if you log in with Ben.Stegink, but you're B Stegink is your actual username. That's still what's gonna show up inside of the sweep bar and things like that when you go to your profile. - Yes, and it does look like, like you were saying, it can be any proxy address. So it's not just your primary SMTP but in theory, if I had B Stegink as my UPN and I had an email address that was Ben Stegink and Ben and B Steg and all of those I could in theory use any of those email addresses to login. But you're right, I have not turned this on and tried it yet. I should definitely do that. Because why wouldn't I want to try something that just came out in preview in my primary tenant? - I thought that's what your primary tenant was there for? ...

Episode 186 – Azure Synapse, Cognitive Search, and Forms Recognizer

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 12:00:53 +0000

In Episode 186, Ben and Scott talk through several scenarios around the use of Azure Synapse, Forms Recognizer, and Azure Cognitive Search. Transcript Email Download New Tab - Welcome to Episode 186 of the "Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast," recorded live on July 9th, 2020. This is a show about Microsoft 365 and Azure, from the perspective of IT pros and end users, where we discuss a topic or recent news and how it relates to you. In this episode, Ben and Scott dive into some work Ben has been doing lately, involving Azure Synapse, Cognitive Search and Forms Recognizer. I don't know how many of our listeners follow American football. Did you see the news from the American Football League or the NFL? Technically the National Football League, but they only play in America, so I don't really know why it's national, although, international, I don't know. Anyhu, did you hear the news from them yesterday? - I did not. - NFL teams will be forbidden from post-game interactions within six feet of each other and jersey exchanges between players will be prohibited during the 2020 season. The reaction from the NFL fan or NFL players, "Aren't we going to be touching each other's jerseys "during the game?" Kind of pointless to prohibit interactions and jersey exchanges after the game. Or this is a perfect example of the NFL thinking in a nutshell. Players can go engage in a full-contact game and do it safely, however it is deemed unsafe for them to exchange jerseys after the game. - Yeah. - Let that one sink in, because you hear stories about what happens in those games. I'm sure those players are getting spit on and get spit in their face when they're under those piles. My random tidbit for the day. - Yeah, I don't know what to tell you about that one. Just a little bit of just logic that does not flow through that app. - Yeah. Okay, so there's my random tidbit for the day. We'll keep it short, we won't go on a 10-minute side topic. We've been doing that the last few weeks, only about Max stuff. - Oh, we could keep going about Max stuff. - We could keep going about Max stuff. We could turn into the "Microsoft 365 Apple Podcast." - Yeah, we could talk about how apps crash and eat up the GPU in wrong ways and just all sorts of things. - Or we could talk about running betas. - We could talk about running betas and things that go on there as well. No one should run a beta on their daily driver, but here you and I are. But you go further than I do, you do the operating systems on your laptop and PCs as well. I'm not that brave. - Yes, I have not done my operating system yet on this go around. I have learned my lesson after the last two or three. I'll probably wait another week or two. - But you did your watch. - I did my watch. - Why? - It's like, 'cause what harm can it do on a watch? - What harm can it do? Let's go back and pull up the thread. Hey Scott, isn't it annoying how I can never update the watch 'cause I have to reset it every time? What harm could it possibly do? Pushing two and a half gigs over a crappy Bluetooth LE connection, yeah. - It only takes four hours to update and then once it updates, it doesn't have enough space to install the next update. - You should not do that. Your phone, your iPad, sure, you can back up and restore those. That's your other problem with your watch, is you have to take it in for service if you wanna step back in an iOS version. - Or if you wanna go backwards. True - Yes. - I can always do a restart though after I upgrade, once I reset it, just to go to the next beta version. All right. - That is one way to live your life, for sure. - On the edge, or being very patient while my watch updates. I mean, I figured with my watch, what do I? It really has to keep time. If I get different notifications, all of that, to me my watch was less risky because there's really nothing I could lose on my watch. I mean, I suppose I could break it, but I'm not gonna incur data loss if a beta version on the watch goes bad. - Yeah, but you won't be able to track how many times you've stood up. - See, I don't stand up. Like this is me sitting and this is me standing up. My watch can't really tell, 'cause I stay the same height, no matter what. For all of you that are listening on audio and couldn't see the video. - I am trying to help you out here and you just refuse, you're obstinate. - I am. Other people have told me that, or I'm just stubborn. I'm a firstborn, I am stubborn. As IT professionals in the cloud era, sometimes it feels like we don't speak the same language as the rest of the organization. So when stakeholders from finance or other departments start asking about a specific project or teams that Azure costs, they don't always realize how much work is involved in obtaining that information, sifting through cluttered CSVs and a complex, massive metadata in order to manually create custom views and reports. It's a real headache. On top of helping you understand and reduce your organization's overall Azure spend, ShareGate Overcast lets you group resources into meaningful CostHubs and map them to real world business scenarios. This way, you can track costs in the way that makes most sense with your corporate structure, whether it's by-product, business unit, team or otherwise. It's a flexible, intuitive and business-friendly way of tracking Azure infrastructure costs. And it's only available in ShareGate's Overcast. Find out more on sharegate.com/itpro. So back to cloud news, Azure. Should I talk about Azure? I was doing an interesting project this last week 'cause I was looking for projects, and this one popped up and I figured, kind of like my Apple beta watch, why not? What could go wrong? - Yeah, what could happen here? - I'm a modern desktop guy, what could go wrong if I start doing something related to development in Azure? Under the story, it's all working, absolutely nothing. But I spent a week. And by a week, I mean like a full week, like Monday I worked on it from 8:00 a.m. until 4:30 a.m. I almost worked on this for 24 hours, and then I slept for a while. But I got to play with Azure Synapse Analytics, which, in parentheses, formerly SQL data warehouse with a question mark. Oh no, that was the what is, it's the beginning of a, apparently I should have slept more last night. Anyways, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Cognitive Search, some of the different features in Cognitive Search, and then I tied that in with an Azure function, with Forms Recognizer, and kind of built out a demo lab-type scenario, leveraging all of those different tools. And actually, it was really interesting. I think part of the interesting thing about this one for me, is it's looking at all these Azure services, which under the covers, you're like, "Oh, that's modern desktop stuff. "They just rebranded it and made it user-friendly." - Sure, that's one way to think about it. - At least for some of it. So should I walk through the scenario that I built and then we can kind of talk about some of the tools? - Yeah. - Okay, so this is how it worked. I took some Azure Blob storage. So first of all, we have a storage account, Azure Blob storage. We've talked a lot about that. So I didn't include that in the whole line of processing, but in this Azure Blob storage, I created just Blob storage, upload some invoices to it, so some PDF invoices. And Cognitive Search has the ability to go index this Blob storage, so I set up the Cognitive Search, goes and indexes this. And you can do some different things with Cognitive Search in terms of how you extend that indexing process to pick up different data. So the way I did it is when the index ran, it incorporated a custom skill set which actually went off and called an Azure function. So upload invoices, run an index, call an Azure function with this custom skillset and this Azure function passed over the necessary information for Cognitive, or, not for Cognitive Search, for Forms Recognizer to be able to pick up these PDFs as they were getting indexed. So Forms Recognizer picked up the PDFs, did a bunch of processing and these PDFs doing Form Recognizer to pull out things like prices and invoice numbers and quantity and the total amount of data, so all that information you may wanna pull off an invoice. And then another part of the whole kind of search is knowledge store. So you can take these pieces of metadata and actually shove them out to enrich your search results or, in my case, I stored them as JSON files back in my Blob storage that you just go in and pick and choose key pieces of information. So I was saving like five different pieces of information pulled off of these forms via that custom skillset to JSON files in Blob storage. I think I ended up setting it just to once a day. My pipeline ran in Azure Synapse, that actually went in, picked up these JSON files via a data flow in my Synapse pipeline, pulled out the key pieces of metadata, did a little bit more data manipulation, did some string cleanup, did some converting from strings to integers or to decimals, and then pushed them into a SQL database or the Azure SQL pool that was in Azure Synapse. So end of the day, it didn't do a lot of the data warehouse aspects of Synapse or some of the analytics. This was kind of part of a bigger solution as well, that incorporated a bunch more into Synapse. And there's a bunch of things you could go do with that in Synapse from there, but that was kind of the gist of how all of those tools ended up tying together in the solution. - Yeah, I think it kind of speaks to that ability to link services together and kind of build out the glue wherever you did it. And then you have a bunch of extensibility in there as well, right? Just to cross that stack to be able to, the thing you said you're not using potentially Synapse as a true d

Episode 185 – Microsoft Teams for Personal Life

Thu, 09 Jul 2020 12:00:29 +0000

In Episode 185, Ben and Scott discuss the new features that are coming to Microsoft Teams for personal accounts including group chats and task management. Transcript Email Download New Tab - Welcome to Episode 185 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast recorded live on July 1 2020. This is a show about Microsoft 365 and Azure from the perspective of IT pros and end users, where we discuss the topic or recent news and how it relates to you. In this episode, Ben and Scott diverge from some of the business and enterprise features available in Microsoft Teams and talk about recent updates to the mobile client that allows you to use it for personal chats and group chats, task management and other personal group collaboration both with family as well as friends. - Woo hoo. - Woo hoo? Why are you excited? Because it's July 2, and you know what that means? - That it's almost July 3. - Yeah, it really means absolutely nothing to you and I. Means that today's tech... or tomorrow is technically a vacation, so we're recording on Thursday instead of Friday because someone wants to sleep in here. - Who? Your wife- - Someone not being me. - Your wife and my wife? - No, are you kidding me? My kids get us up way too early. I haven't slept-in in a long time, and my youngest has figured out how to climb out of his crib, so he just comes wandering into our bedroom at random times during the morning now. - Ah huh, that's always fun. - Yes, he is not saying anything or nor can understand that he has to stay in his bedroom until a certain time so he just climbs out and wanders around the house till he finds somebody. - Well, I just hope he finds you before he finds the mess in the kitchen or whatever else... - Yeah, well so we had- - Parent's mind. - We have a two story house so we have gates upstairs, so as long as we remember to shut the gates he can't get downstairs, he'll just stand at the top and grab it and rattle it, if he can't find us upstairs. Usually we're still upstairs and he finds us in bed. I think this morning he walked over to his brother's bed and was like ah trying to wake him up to get someone to play with him or something. - Perfect. - Yes, fun times. - Always fun. - That's all you got. - That's all you got? - Do you feel overwhelmed by trying to manage your office 365 environment? Are you facing unexpected issues that disrupt your company's productivity? Intelligink is here to help. Much like you take your car to the mechanic that has specialized knowledge on how to best keep your car running, Intelligink helps you with your Microsoft Cloud environment, because that's their expertise. Intelligink keeps up with the latest updates in the Microsoft Cloud to help keep your business running smoothly and ahead of the curve. Whether you're a small organization with just a few users up to an organization of several thousand employees, they want to partner with you to implement and administer your Microsoft Cloud Technology. visit them at Intelligink.com/podcast, that's Intelligink.com/podcast for more information or to schedule a 30 minute call to get started with them today. Remember Intelligink focuses on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business. - I got a new toy. - Oh, you did get a new toy, that's what July two means, it means your new toy came yesterday. - Yes it does. - What's your new toy? I already know what it is. - Yeah, well I'm getting on that Intel Mac train cause it's a good time to do it, right? - Right before it pulls out of the station, - Yeah, yeah. - Never to be seen again. - B&H had some good discounts on MacBook Pros the other day and I've wanted to get back to the Mac for a while, so this was an opportunity to pick one up so I just did some little things, massive, it weighs about a million pounds, you lied to me. 16 inch MacBook Pro. - Very nice. - Just the base model because I don't computer the way you computer. - I will say you will be happy with it. And frankly, who cares if it's a beast and weighs a ton because realistically, where are you gonna take it right now? From the bedroom to the kitchen? Cause for the last four months, that's about all the further you've been traveling. - Yeah, yeah, I know, but it is massive. It's really nice, like I forgot how nice Mac hardware is. Keyboard's great; I didn't have to go with that crappy whatever keyboard they- - The Vendored keyboard? - Or whatever thing they had before, trackpad's awesome. I really missed Mac trackpads and gestures and tools like BetterTouchTool, which everyone should buy because it's awesome. - Yes, BetterTouchTool magnet. - Uh, what's magnet? - Oh, you're missing out, go find magnet in the App Store, or you're gonna turn it into the Apple podcast. Sorry for all of our fellow Microsoft people that don't use Mac's.... - Yeah, they all should. - So did you get used to the window snapping on Windows where you can like drag it and let it snap to the top, or the right side, or all of that? - Yes, that's what better snap tool is for. - Yeah, so you can do better snap tool, I like... IOS is not the correct link. - I already- - It's in the App Store. - Yeah. I already did better snap tool. - So I had better snap tool, and I tend to like magnet better. - What do you like about magnet better? - Looks a little bit more like power toys, than better snap tool is. - So I don't know do I have... And it honestly may have just been that I started using it first and I get used to how I had magnet organized. Does better snap tools let you like double click on the top bar to get your full screen and can you replicate all of the windows 10 snap functionality in BetterTouchTools? - As far as I know, yeah, I can double click to go big or go small and drag to corners. So snap to top, snap to left, snap to top left, bottom left all those kinds of things. - I can't remember what there... there was something that I ended up on magnet over a better snap tool, but I have no idea what it was. - And you can do custom snap areas, like make custom zoom areas and all those things. - Yap, and I have keyboard shortcuts for mine too. I use keyboard shortcuts a lot to snap them to different parts of the screen. - Yep, better snap tool does all that too. - Yeah, who knows? I have no idea at this point in time, but I actually own both of them and I have BetterTouchTool and Alfred - Yeah, I'm gonna try and go with just the regular launcher for now, which I know is a dumb idea but... - Yeah, it really is, you gonna go by Alfred. - So I actually bought all this stuff a long time ago and still have it, and it's the beauty of the Mac App Store although I don't know how developers make money there since I can just go download all my old things. - Well, that's not a whole lot different than Windows, right? - Well, it is different than Windows cause I would never buy software in the Windows. - Buy software for Windows? - Well, no, you buy software for Windows just not in the Windows Store. So there is a difference there. So yeah, I get that going, Parallels was on sale yesterday, and just been setting things up, Reader, it's nice to have life back. - Oh, here's another one of my new favorite tools that I've used for a while. But they're going to subscription model which kind of irritated me. Have you ever gotten another separate clipboard manager? - So I've used a Pastebot in the past, was thinking about going back to that. - Okay, so I have just... There's a Paste clipboard manager. So it's not Pastebot it's just Paste and it does... like as a whole clipboard manager, but then it also has apps for all the other ones. So the same clipboard manager links and clipboard are on all your devices. So natively in Mac you can just copy and paste from one to the other, this does the whole copy but then you have the whole clipboard manager history on every single device. - That's a Windows thing right there. - That is yeah, copy link. Okay, there you go, there's my clipboard manager that I use. - Yeah, that's- - That let's you categorize links and all of that. So I have links like my business address, that are just saved in their own categories so whenever I need it, I just have all of that stuff handy in different categories. - Hmm, Gotcha. - Yeah. - That was my new fun thing which led to a whole... Yeah. An evening of me being locked away from my wife, well, she's like, "What are you doing?" "Setting up the new computer." The FedEx guy was funny too- - Priorities. - It was set for my sign for delivery- - Ah huh. - Not a problem to be home for delivery, but the FedEx guy came and knocked on the door. So I go and open the door and he's standing there with his pad and I'm looking at him and I ask, I said, "Do you want me to sign?" and he looks at me and he goes, "Scott?" I said, "Yes" He goes "Nah we're good." I was like, "Huh?" Well, "Oh, okay." "Got it." - Have you ordered any pizza since the whole lockdown for delivery? - No, but we have done delivery from a couple different places. - So we just got like Papa John's the other day, and it's interesting cause same type of thing, like they'll come up to your door and... We have a Nest doorbell so we can kind of watch some of the stuff. Like they pull the pizza out of the pizza carrier that's keeping it warm, they put the pizza carrier on the ground in front of your door, put your pizzas on it, and then like back up six, eight, 10 feet from... or ring the doorbell and then they back up like six or eight, 10 feet from the door and you open it and they're like "There's your pizza, and you can reach down and pick it up." And it's like this awkward wave of "Hi I can't even really come close to you so it's a good thing I gave you a tip on the credit card otherwise I just have to kinda throw money on the ground for you." And then you close the door and they come back and pick up

Episode 184 – OneDrive for Business Shortcuts

Thu, 02 Jul 2020 12:00:20 +0000

In Episode 184, Ben and Scott get into Scott's inability to dive headfirst into iOS 14 and some of the announcements from WWDC and then discuss some new functionality coming to OneDrive for Business. Transcript Email Download New Tab - Welcome to Episode 184 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. Recorded live on June 26th, 2020. This is a show about Microsoft 365 and Azure from the perspective of IT Pros and end-users, where we discuss the topic or recent news and how it relates to you. In this episode, Ben and Scott kind of diverge from the Azure and Microsoft 365 news and spend the first 15 minutes talking about various tidbits from Apple's WWDC conference. So if you don't care about their thoughts on apples, skip the first 15 minutes and jump to the second half of the episode where they discuss some recent SharePoint in OneDrive news. - My brain is still on vacation. - Yeah, It's still stuck in the mountains of North Carolina. - It is Georgia, we didn't go to North Carolina-- - We stuck to Georgia. It was almost North Carolina. - Did you stick to Georgia, did Georgia stick on you? It's a little muggy this time of year. - You know what? It was actually really nice. - 'Cause you go into the mountains. - ' Cause we were in the mountains, like we'd wake up in the morning and it was like 55, 60 degrees and it was beautiful. So we took hikes, let my kids go play in the streams and throw rocks and naturally, because it was cool, we didn't take swimsuits or they weren't wearing swimsuits, so we just let them soak their clothes and they had fun. And then the very last day it was hot so we spent the day playing in the pool that was there on the beach and in boats and social distancing in boats, canoes and kayaks and all that. - Nice! - So it was, it was a good break. - Well, I mean, if you ever do it again and you want, you can always borrow the paddleboards. I have inflatable paddleboards, those are fun. - I do, so they had some paddleboards there that we could use too and I did not try one. I thought about trying to get my kids on one with me, but I have not actually paddleboarded before. - All right, let's do a quick thought experiment. You're in a chair, yes? - So if I can sit in a chair, you're saying I can paddleboard? - No, quite the opposite. If you can stand up out of the chair and stand without putting your hand on the chair to hold you up, you're probably pretty good. - I'm pretty good. Well, see I could snowboard and ski and all that, so I could probably do it just fine, but I also wasn't sure how well the paddleboards, like, have you ever put a kid on your paddleboard with you? - Yeah, kid, yep. - Okay, I tried the dogs. - Yeah. - I See, so yeah, I probably could have done it. I guess we'll have to go do it again, an the excuse to go on another vacation. - There you go. - Outlook Add-ins are a great way to improve productivity and save time in the workplace. And Sperry software has all the add- ins you'll ever need. The Save as PDF add-in is a best seller and is great for project backups, legal discovery, and more. This add-in saves the email and attachments as PDF files. It's easy to download, easy to install and Sperry software's unparalleled customer service is always ready to help. Download a free trial at "sperrysoftware.com", S-P-E-R-R-Y-S-O-F-T-W-A-R-E.com. and see for yourself how great Save as PDF is. Listeners can get 20% off their order today by entering the code "CloudIT". That's CloudIT, C-L-O-U-DIT, all One word at checkout. Sperry software work in email, not on email. - So Scott, how has iOS 14? - A completely unrelated Cloud news? - I can't pull the trigger, I've got the profile. - Oh, you haven't done it yet? - No, I haven't done it yet. 'Cause all my devices are daily drivers. - Oh yeah, that's right. - Every single one of them and I'm not as brave as you are. - I though this time your tweets, that you had actually pulled the trigger on at least a device. - I'm sure I will at some points, I don't know. My biggest concern at this point isn't programs not working, like I would think most of the apps that I need are available as websites anyway. So that's fine. - Except for Mario Kart. - No, I don't play Mario Kart. - Not, not . - Mario Kart is my only broken app. - I don't even know why you play that on an iPhone, get a Switch. - I don't have a Switch that's why I play it on the iPhone. - Yeah, like that stuff's all fine and fine, okay? But I am also on a set of managed devices. So they're all joined to Intune and things like that. I don't know how Intune is gonna react when it sees iOS 14. And if it considers that an iOS version number, it doesn't know about and then all of a sudden I'm jailbroken and it's a big pain to go backwards and, you know, get a backup, do the IPSW restore and all that kind of stuff. - It's true. Yes, I was forgetting about the fact that the whole Intune management and that actually cares about build numbers and-- - Who knows if it does, or if it doesn't--- - It doesn't, scientists don't want to be the one to try it. So I'll probably try it with the public beta when it's an even worse time to do it and . - Yeah, that's what all the companies start locking it down when the public beta is actually out and all of their employees could go do it just easily. - But public betas aren't too bad. They're usually a dev release or two behind. So the expectation would be that in another week or two, you go from dev beta one to dev beta two. And that takes us into July and then at some point in July, public beta one comes out, but public beta one is really the same build as dev beta two or dev beta three. And then they track behind a little bit from there. - I feel like there's a company though, it's chart trying to lock it down more once they hit public beta, because you're gonna get a lot more people that go install it once it hits public beta. With dev beta, you're not gonna get as many people that are gonna go try it. - Well, you're gonna get. - I don't know, you're gonna get crazy people like you and I, that don't do any type of development on Apple, like I'm not building or releasing iOS apps or Mac apps, but we're paying to be in the dev program. So that we can have access to beta profiles. - Because we just don't have any patience when it comes to shiny new toys. - That's it GIF MIC. You know what all I want is my live tiles and my full convergence of iOS, Android, and web iOS. That's all I need. - I don't like, there's some stuff here. This can cause some controversy, I did not see anything, so I watched the key, well, I did not watch the keynote. I had the keynote playing in the background for WWDC, I did not see anything that was innovative in that entire keynote up until the last 30 minutes. Everything else I looked at and I was like, they ripped that off from Windows phone, from Android, from something else. And then the only, in my opinion, the only really innovative thing or groundbreaking thing they started talking about was their plan to switch from Intel to ARM and to go to all of their own silicone chips. That was the most innovative thing I saw in the entire, however many hours they talked about all of the stuff they're doing. - Yeah, I mean, we're in the point in the cycle where innovation is tough, but everybody can refine and riff on a series of ideas. - Right. - Which I'm totally fine with, like, people complain that like, "Oh, Apple took that from Android "or it came from Web iOS or," whatever it was. Like, yeah certainly there's inspiration to be found there but quite often the Apple way of doing it for better or worse is more refined. Or if it's not more refined, like way more people are gonna use it. Both my parents have Android phones, they don't even know what widgets on the home screen are, but I guarantee you that every single person who has an iPhone, once they figure out widgets are there, they're gonna be lit up and be a thing. - Right. - And that's the power of that ecosystem. - I don't have a problem with that. Like again, I'm loved the widgets, I like the idea. It's not that I'm expecting them to be innovative, I think it's the fact that I feel like a lot of times they sell it as being innovative. And it's this magical new experience of this beautiful thing and-- - Well, that's the job of marketing. That's a different conversation. - Oh yes. - You can be like yoga in Spaceballs, it's just merchandising, merchandising, merchandising. - Yes. - It's fine. Go do it and do it better and get more people to adopt it and make it simpler but don't sell it as a brand new idea. That's all it is we're making iOS better and you do not need a keynote that long to cover what they did. But anyways, that has absolutely nothing to do with cloud news, that's just me ranting. - Yes, I mean, there's some fun stuff there and it's kind of exciting. And so you mentioned Apple silicon, so that's gonna bring ARM into the mainstream as well, like today there's all sorts of ARM devices out there. You've got things like iOS devices or iPad iOS devices. So iPhones and iPads and things like that. There's a slew of Andrew tablets like all the, you know, Fire HD tablets, Microsoft has a Surface Pro X or it's an extra 10 underneath, I think it's the X. - I don't know, - And so, but that's the ARM-based Surface Pro tablet. So that has been kicking around for a while. But again, it's gonna be kind of Apple potentially bringing it mainstream and lighting some of that up. So that's gonna be exciting as well, like to have kind of a new, fun convergence thing going on. - Right at least-- - But it's gonna be all locked down in the apply kind of ways. So good luck installing customer OSS and all the things that you're using. - As soon as I, until it comes to installing my Windows VM on an arm based Mac,...

Episode 183 – Microsoft 365 Network Monitoring Goodness

Thu, 25 Jun 2020 12:00:50 +0000

In Episode 183, Ben and Scott go through some of the recent announcements for network performance recommendations and the general availability of Azure Files AD DS authentication. Transcript Email Download New Tab - [Ben] Welcome to episode 183 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast recorded live on June 12th, 2020. This is a show about Microsoft 365 and Azure, from the perspective of it pros and end users, where we discuss a topic or recent news, and how that relates to you. In this episode, Ben and Scott, jump back into Microsoft 365 land, to talk about recent announcements around network performance recommendations from Microsoft, as it relates to Microsoft 365. They also spend some time in Azure talking about Azure files and active directory authentication. - [Ben] How was week one? You are one week in the books as a blue badge. - [Scott] I survived it. - [Ben] Remotely, so you survived it. What is the first week kind of like a first week, anywhere else where you just, I think I saw it. You were just watching a bunch of videos, and doing a bunch of learning and figuring out where everything is, and what you're supposed to do, and where you're supposed to find that and all that. - [Scott] Yeah. Yeah, I mean, you go to a new company, you get to learn the way they do things. - [Ben] Yep, exactly. And now, since you're in the Eastern time zone, and they're in the Pacific time zone, are your hours like 11 to eight? - [Scott] No. No, I'm primarily in my hours so far. - [Ben] You're just sticking your hours so far. - [Scott] So far, mostly. - [Ben] Perfect. All right. So essentially, we're now a blue badge. I have a question for you that I ran across on Facebook. I'm going to not say who it is or not say which Facebook group I saw it in, so said person could remain nameless. But I have a question for you, Scott. Do you know, or the question was anyone, does anyone know what is the best way to add WordPress plugins, for creating their own design in SharePoint 2019? - [Scott] Step one, uninstall SharePoint 2019 step-- - [Ben] install WordPress. - [Scott] Step two, install WordPress, yes. PHP and.net and com are not compatible. - [Ben] They don't work together, it made me laugh. - [Scott] You could certainly write your, well I dunno, maybe like your SPFx thingamajiggers and put them in I-frames or something. And those could be in WordPress right? - [Ben] And then pull in a WordPress site. Just put WordPress in an I-frame in SharePoint, in teams. - [Scott] . - [Ben] Bingo. - [Scott] It's all just code somewhere. - [Ben] Inception for Office 365 and WordPress. Now I was making breakfast this morning and I saw that, and it just gave me a chuckle. - [Scott] Indeed, yeah well. - [Ben] Yeah, I don't have anything else, I'm tired. It's been a long week, I'm going on vacation next week. - [Scott] Yeah. - [Ben] Yeah. - [Scott] Disney's open again. - [Ben] No, We are actually going up. We're going North now, we're going up to Georgia. - [Scott] Georgia is not North, it's still in the South. - [Ben] It is North for me. - [Scott] very true. - [Ben] As is just about everything. - [Scott] There we go, very true. - [Ben] Yeah, so we're taking out for a week and just getting away with the whole family. Some of my in-laws us, we rented a house and we're gonna go social distance somewhere in the woods, in Georgia. - [Scott] Excellent, we're thinking about doing the same, but we'll do it closer to when the leaves change. 'Cause Palm tree leaves don't really change color, but if you do go to Georgia or North Carolina or South Carolina, you start to get into leaves. That actually changed, so we're gonna do that more in like October, November. - [Ben] Got it, nice, I think we might, well, it's not a might actually later this year, we aren't gonna brave the airports too and fly up to Michigan to see my family. We bought plane tickets the other day. They were cheap. Nice thing is it's a direct flight from one small airport to another small airport with no layovers, no Atlanta, no anything. So we shall see how that goes. I will let you know how the airports are later the summer. - [Scott} Basket up. - [Ben] Yup. Well, so it was interesting when I booked the flights, they actually give you a, they put a disclaimer on there that based on how many plane tickets we're gonna sell, we may not be able to adhere to social distancing guidelines on the plane. And then they give you a check box. Do you want to be notified when this flight is over like 60% sold? So you can book these flights and then get notified if your plane is gonna be really full and if you can adhere to social distancing. And I'm assuming they'd let you cancel or reschedule if you're uncomfortable with a over 60% full flight, which just seems weird because the last time I was on a flight that had that few people. I don't remember the last time I was on a flight that had that few people. - [Scott] Yeah, that'd be a pretty interesting thing. - [Ben] So, I will let you know on that other news I'm just full of random tidbits of news. - [Ben] As IT professionals and the cloud era. Sometimes it feels like we don't speak the same language as the rest of the organization. So when stakeholders from finance or other departments start asking about a specific project or teams that Azure costs, they don't always realize how much work is involved in obtaining that information. Sifting through cluttered CSVs and a complex, massive metadata in order to manually create custom views and reports. It's a real headache. On top of helping you understand and reduce your organization's overall Azure spend ShareGate Overcast, lets you group resources into meaningful cost hubs and map them to real world business scenarios. This way you can track costs in the way that makes most sense with your corporate structure, whether it's byproduct business unit, team, or otherwise. It's a flexible, intuitive and business friendly way of tracking Azure infrastructure costs. And it's only available in ShareGate Overcast. Find out more on sharegate.com/it pro. - [Ben] So I'm trying something else. I'm gonna do some self promotion. Could I do some self promotion at the beginning of our podcast. I'm I allowed to do that? - [Scott] Sure. As long as it's shameless self promotion. - [Ben] As long as it's shameless. So July 9, I'm gonna try something new, I'm gonna actually do a one day workshop, like all in teams for 20 people. And it's gonna be a combination of some videos. We'll have some live calls, some office hours, some resources people can download and it will be within teams from 7:00 a.m Eastern to 7:00 p.m Eastern time. And... - [Scott] 12 hours. - [Ben] 12 hours. But it's not gonna be that you have to be there for 12 hours. So 77 bucks, you can go sign up. I'm limiting it to 20 people. So I have enough time to give everybody attention and you can come in, watch the videos work through like challenges that I'm gonna have in your team in terms of configuring teams policies, and some of the team settings and messaging policies and all of that. And then you'll have resources you can download. And during those 12 hours I'll be available for chat for office hour type calls for some one on one calls and then you'll have access to everything for like 30 days after that. But I won't be actively monitoring that team's channel anymore - [Scott] Gotcha. - [Ben] So there is going to be a registration in the show notes because I need to make sure I have the URL, right? So go look at the show notes 'Cause I'm still getting the registration all set up and configured. But if you are interested in learning all about teams policies in a one day workshop and then have a bunch of resources to go take and do at your your own tenant and, or threaten your own tenant, Go click the registration link in the show notes and find out more. - [Scott] Very cool. - [Ben] And then maybe I'll do more. If people like it and I fill up, I can always do more workshops for 20 people, or I may expand it out and do one day or two day or three days on different topics. So if this isn't your cup of tea, let me know and we'll see what other workshops we can do. - [Scott] Just like that. You're so accommodating. - [Ben] Just like that. I am, I do it for the people Scott. All about the people. - [Scott] All about them, huh. - [Ben] Okay. All about, yes, Okay. We're gonna stop. Now we'll get into some real news. Do you wanna talk about, well that's real news. Do you wanna talk about other news? That's not my news. - [Scott] Yeah, how about network assessments? You wanna start there? - [Ben] Network assessments. So this one was interesting. And if you have been paying attention to conferences, this was actually initially announced back getting night. As I went back and dug through it. And I really hadn't seen anything else about it. And then Jeff Teper has recorded a keynote that has been playing at a few of the conferences going around. It was at the virtual marathon that I took part in. I think there was... What was the one in Europe? There was one in Europe, I think this past week. - [Scott] The European Collaboration Summit. - [Ben] Yeah. I thought they had a different name. But I know it's the... - [Scott] ECS. - [Ben] ECS, Okay. So there was that one, I think there was one other one. And then there's the Collab365 Summit that is their global Cantu. That's actually gonna be going on when this comes out. But in there Jeff Teper and I can't remember who else. Somebody else joined him for the keynote, but he talked about a network performance tool. And as you have, it's tied to Office or Office 365, Microsoft 365. And as you set up your offices in different locations, this tool can tell you about network performance in these different locations around the world or around whatever country you're in and what t

Episode 182 – Hands-On Kubernetes on Azure with Nills Franssens

Thu, 18 Jun 2020 12:00:08 +0000

In Episode 182, Ben and Scott sit down with Nills Franssens, a Senior Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft to talk about his new Kubernetes book, "Hands-On Kubernetes on Azure". Transcript Email Download New Tab - Welcome to Episode 182 of the Microsoft cloud IT Pro Podcast recorded live on June 12th of 2020. This is a show about Microsoft 365 and Azure, from the perspective of it pros and end users, where we discuss a topic or recent news and how it relates to you. In this episode, Ben and Scott hop on a call with Nills, a Senior Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft and the author of "Hands-On Kubernetes on Azure," which is currently available for free on azure.com. We have another interview episode for everyone today, I'm excited to go through this one. So we have a guest who I've done some work with in the past, through a couple of Microsoft projects that I've been involved with and some community programs over there, like OpenHack. And yeah, he just recently wrote a book too, which having participated and written some technical materials before I very much feel the pain and we can commiserate about that if you want to as well, but Nills, why don't you go ahead and introduce yourself here real quick. - Hi, my name is Nills, I'm a Senior Cloud Solution Architect with Microsoft based in San Jose, California. And as Scott said, I recently wrote and published a book on running Kubernetes on Azure, which was a very fun experience of writing the book outside of Kubernetes. My main area of expertise within Azure is everything related to infrastructure, networking, storage and the general automation of the platform. And I'm actually very happy to be here and talk to Ben and Scott 'cause I'm a listener of the podcast as well. - Alright, well, good to hear it. And did you actually say you had fun writing the book? I think you're the first person that I've ever talked to, that wrote a technical book that actually said it was fun. - It definitely there're periods where it was not as fun, but I think the overall experience was a good experience. It took a lot of time and a lot of nights and weekends, 'cause I think the one thing that I didn't realize when I signed up was I knew Microsoft had a moonlighting policy. So I couldn't write anything during business hours and what I didn't realize was exactly how much time was required to write the book. But if I look back on the process, I find that might not have been the right word, but it's actually a really nice process that I went through. And it's fun to actually have the physical book in my hands right now. And I learned a ton just during the process, both technically and about becoming a better writer as well. - Got it, I can see that, so I've never written a book. I think Scott has helped out on some, but I'm like, it would be, I think from my perspective, it would be interesting to go through the process. And I feel like you've learned a lot 'cause obviously you want the book to be correct and you wanna really cover everything. And I feel like once you actually had that book in your hand, like you said, it would be really rewarding knowing that you went through all of that and wrote it. - Yes, and I think you're absolutely correct and you learn a ton and I think when you're writing a book, you actually need to go back and take a beginner's mindset about the technology that you're writing about 'cause once you're dealing with something and you've been working with something for a couple of years, certain basic things, you don't even consider them and you don't even think about what's underneath those basics. And then once you actually start writing a book, you need to go back to basics and figure some things out. And what I found important was using the right words and the right terminology to describe certain things. And just as a stupid example in Kubernetes, there's this thing called an ingress that you can use to do some layer-7 load balancing. So basically do routing based on the host name that you send. And there's an ingress and an ingress controller, and like I always drew both terms together and I didn't even realize what the difference was between an ingress and an ingress controller. I just mixed the words and when writing the book, I was like, what I'm writing this I actually want to use the correct terminology. And that was some of the things that I researched and learned because when you write a book, you actually want to be factually correct. You just don't just want to be, yeah, it works. You actually want to be correct in what you say. - If you're a good author, yes, that's the way to go. So I make that mistake all the time. I tend to use those two synonymously as well. It's not something that I would very much think about along the way 'cause usually once you're down to the nitty gritty, you're like, what do I actually need to do? I need to set up a deployment for an ingress controller so I can actually get that software or that construct, whatever that thing is out there. So we can start routing traffic for me, now . - One of the things that helped as well for me when I was writing this was I had somebody from the publisher 'cause the book is in self published. I worked with Packt as a publisher and I had... I don't know what the actual term is of the person, but I had somebody working with me who reviewed everything that I wrote. And she wasn't a Kubernetes expert, which was actually perfect because when I wrote something and something didn't make sense to her, she could actually ask a lot of clarifying questions, which I then had to research myself 'cause something's just seems so common sense when you're dealing with something for a couple of years that you don't realize, and then having somebody writing or working with you that actually points out to you, "Hey, why do you use this term and not that term?" Worked, helped me a lot in just tuning my own knowledge and sharpening my own knowledge. - Oh, you should get on board that train. - I am not a Kubernetes guy at all, well, I probably should. So does this book take it from, let's say someone of my level who literally knows just a little bit about Kubernetes from what Scott and I have talked about on the podcast to someone, to your level Nils, where you're like a complete and total expert on Kubernetes, or should you have some Kubernetes experience going into this? What does that level of the book and what is the, I guess the journey or the path that the book will take you through as you work through it or read through it? - The book itself doesn't require you to have any prior knowledge of Kubernetes itself. The main focus on the book is by itself is "Hands-On Kubernetes on Azure." So the book is very practical with a lot of examples in it. And if I think about how we laid it out, there's three sections in the book itself. One is just simple basics where we cover what's Docker what's containers. What's this thing called Kubernetes and why do we even need it to setting up the cluster on Azure, which are like the absolute basics. Then there's a second section, which covers more of the Kubernetes' constructs that you need to know, like deploying the parts, deploying services, doing some ingress folk, how you could potentially secure certain things. So that's section two, which focuses more Kubernetes itself. And it touches on Kubernetes on Azure in a couple of places, for instance, with a cluster autoscaler that needs to interact a little with Azure, but it's that section. I think 90% of that section you could do on an Azure Kubernetes cluster, as well as on a Kubernetes cluster anywhere, let's say you run them, run it on your own laptop, or even on GCP or AWS. I think 90% of that content is pretty neutral. And then there's a third section on the book where we actually cover some more of the in-depth Azure integrations, where we describe how you can integrate with some past services. There's a chapter on Event Hubs, there's a chapter on my SQL databases, there's another chapter where we actually run Azure functions with KEDA which is a pretty new project. As your functions with KEDA on an Azure Kubernetes cluster, you don't have to have any prior knowledge if you wanna start reading the book. And if you actually have no prior knowledge, this is a good way to get you started from level 100 to level 300. The book itself doesn't make you a in-depth experts 'cause there's too much in the Kubernetes ecosystem to fit in one book I believe. But I think if you have no knowledge of it, it's a good way to get started and to get a good understanding of what it takes to build and run applications on Kubernetes. - As IT professionals and the Cloud era. Sometimes it feels like we don't speak the same language as the rest of the organization. So when stakeholders from finance or other departments start asking about a specific project or teams that Azure costs, they don't always realize how much work is involved in obtaining that information. Sifting through cluttered CSVs is a complex massive metadata in order to manually create custom views and reports. It's a real headache on top of helping you understand and reduce your organization's overall Azure spend, ShareGate Overcast, lets you group resources into meaningful cost hubs and map them to real world business scenarios. This way you can track costs in the way that makes most sense with your corporate structure, whether it's byproduct, business unit, team, or otherwise. It's a flexible, intuitive and business friendly way of tracking Azure infrastructure costs. And it's only available in ShareGate Overcast, find out more on sharegate.com/ITPro - Yeah, I think there's a lot that goes into the Kubernetes and that ecosystem. And then there's AKS, which is Kubernetes, kind of,...

Episode 181 – Deep[er] Dive on Azure Sentinel

Thu, 11 Jun 2020 12:00:03 +0000

In Episode 181, Ben and Scott go deeper into Azure Sentinel, discussing considerations for the design and segmentation of your Sentinel workspaces. Transcript Email Download New Tab - [Ben] Welcome to episode 181 of the Microsoft Cloud IT pro podcast recorded live on June 5, 2020. This is a show about Microsoft 365 and Azure, from the perspective of IT pros and end users where we discuss the topic or recent news and how it relates to you. In this episode, Scott and Ben take a little bit deeper dive into Azure Sentinel and what you can do with it. And here we are, Scott. A Friday, but not just any Friday. This Friday is unique from all other Fridays. - [Scott] It is, is it? - [Ben] Every Friday is unique technically, right? Every Friday is not like the other. One of these things is not on, no don't get me started. - [Scott] No, stop the madness. No, this is your last day, which means we may have to update our intro. We need to talk about that but why might we have to intro, update our intro, Scott? - [Scott] I am going to go out into the wider world and live one of my adult dreams. I'm gonna become a blue badge. - [Ben] Look at you. - [Scott] Look at me. - [Ben] You are moving up. You are leaving me. No, you're not leaving me. We're gonna still keep doing the podcast, you're just changing jobs, which is exciting. I know I've talked to a bunch and this is something you have been trying for wanting to do for a long time. So it's exciting for me to be excited for you because I do know how excited you have been to do this. - [Scott] Yeah, I think it will be very interesting. So I'm gonna be living in a little bit of a different life. I am joining the Azure storage product team as a product manager within a Cogs group. So I'll primarily be working with customers around Azure blob storage, which storage is kinda the backbone of, just about everything that you do in the cloud. At the end of the day, if you think about Azure, it's really a bunch of compute. It's a big hypervisor and then stuff that's running in storage, which tends to be blobs, that could be virtual machine disks, could be something you upload for a workload, could be like data lakes all run in blob storage, things like that. So I think it'd be very exciting to be a little bit closer to kinda the core and backend of everything that drives Azure. - [Ben] Got it, very cool. You are gonna be focused then explicitly on just blob storage because storage has all those other things like you have your blobs and your Azure file shares and all of those that function differently and do different things and you are not Azure storage but you are Azure blob storage. - [Scott] That's my understanding of it. I'll let you know more as it evolves. - [Bob] As it develops when you start here in a few more days. - [Scott] Yes. - [Bob] So you already, how was starting a new job in this world of quarantine? - [Scott] It's very interesting. I think like lots of employers, Microsoft isn't probably too unique in trying to figure out how to onboard employees remotely. I remember when I was a virtual TSP, when back when they used to have like purple badges at Microsoft and your badge came with, your picture and all those things, just usually a normal bad but also your clients certificate for CACing into things. And you weren't allowed to just say, "Hi, I'm Scott" and somebody would send you a badge with a CAC and they'd give you your password in plain text over email and you go like, "Ooh, look at me, I'm on the network." There was a little bit more, a little bit more involved with that. You had to go to a Microsoft location and see somebody in person. So there's certainly things like that. I think it's even interesting for hiring practices like in the United States, you have to prove that you're eligible to work in the United States. So you have to provide documentation such as your passport or your driver's license and your social security card. There's this whole combination of documents that you need to provide that you're allowed to work in the country. And I think lots of countries are like that in the same vein but typically those need to be verified in person. So in the US that is certainly a thing, the IRS says, "Hey, you have to verify these documents in person "as an employer." They've waived all those rules for right now and they're letting employers do virtual verification. But even for that, at some point, like they're very explicit and it calls out in hiring documentation that once things open back up again and we can be non-virtual, you're gonna have to show up at an office with this documentation and make sure we know who you are. - [Ben] Okay, got it, interesting. It's just so bizarre, all of that. I was talking to somebody too, that said banks are struggling with the same thing, not so much from hiring but in terms of opening new accounts and doing the same type of verification. - [Scott] I would imagine it hits lots and lots and lots of different places. - [Ben] Yes, but now I don't know. We haven't figured this out yet. We'll have to figure this out because we are recording this on our typical Friday, which means by the time you will, people will hear this or you, the listeners will be hearing this, you will have been a Microsoft employee for four days. So we still need to figure out what kind of intro I need to put at the beginning of this, that these are your opinions and not the opinions of Microsoft and that disclaimery type stuff or if we even need that. - [Scott] Yeah, we'll get all that stuff sorted. - [Ben] We'll figure it out. - [Scott] Yes, fun times. - [Ben] Do you feel overwhelmed by trying to manage your Office 365 environment? Are you facing unexpected issues that disrupt your company's productivity. Intelligink is here to help, much like you take your car to the mechanic that has specialized knowledge on how to best keep your car running, Intelligink helps you with your Microsoft cloud environment because that's their expertise. Intelligink keeps up with the latest updates in the Microsoft cloud to keep your business running smoothly and ahead of the curve. Whether you are a small organization with just a few users up to an organization of several thousand employees, they want to partner with you to implement and administer your Microsoft cloud technology. Visit them at intelligink.com/podcast. That's I-N-T-E-L-L-I-G-I-N-K.com/podcast, for more information or to schedule a 30-minute call to get started with them today. Remember Intelligink focuses on the Microsoft cloud, so you can focus on your business. - [Ben] So should we dive into our topic now today? - [Scott] Yeah, absolutely. - [Ben] It has nothing to do with what you're gonna be doing, but it has to do with what you are presenting on here shortly. - [Scott] It does. I think one of the interesting things about my current role is potentially the variety of offerings that come along with them. And so we've been doing, and you've been helping out as a coach in a big bootcamp that Microsoft has been putting on this week. So they had their first virtual partner bootcamp. There was a select group of partners that were invited to this event. I think we had about 1700 attendees signed up, which was pretty good for like an internal, very partner driven event, but all 300 plus level content for four days across a bunch of different tracks, AppDev, Infra, Teams, Versatrack, which is what you're participating in. So in my tracking infrastructure, we've been doing deep dives on arm, including Azure resource manager templates. We've also done as we talked about last week, a bunch of Kubernetes stuff. Like I was talking about some of the heartburn with just Jason and things like that, that was all born out of putting together all this content around Kubernetes. And then my last one, my last session today is on Azure Sentinel. - [Bob] This is an interesting one. We actually had, we did an episode a while back when Sentinel first came out and then we recently had somebody ask too they're like, "Hey, could you dive a little bit deeper to Sentinel? "You did like an overview, but can we dive deeper?" So you're like, "Hey, Scott just wrote a bunch of "three, 400 level content on Sentinel. "Someone asked about Sentinel. "Maybe we should do a Sentinel episode." - [Scott] Yeah, it's totally doable. - [Ben] Yes, so if people, and there may be people that have not heard our intro episode. So should we just start really briefly by what Sentinel is if people have not heard of it or didn't listen to that episode or are just curious, what is Sentinel? - [Scott[ Sentinel is Microsoft's cloud based SIM. So it's an event collector that allows you to do not just collection, but also analysis of security events and logs that you might store across your environments, all in the cloud. So you're leveraging cloud for not only the storage of your logs, but also for the compute and really for the, I think that beauty of computational machine learning and things like that, to help you understand all of those logs as they're aggregated together. So if you think about most environments that you probably have today, let's say you run in Azure. That means you have an Azure subscription, which means you have an activity log you monitor, it means you have Azure AD. And it also means that you have all these workloads that you run off plate. Even if you turn up a VM, that VM has a windows event log or if you're doing Linux, you might be doing Swisslog, something like that. So there's operational events coming from those you're probably a little bit on prem. So maybe you have some clients or servers on prem that are doing things. Like if I have a windows server, it probably has a firewall turned on and that's generating telemetry and logging....

Episode 180 – JSON All The Things!

Thu, 04 Jun 2020 12:00:15 +0000

In Episode 180, Ben and Scott talk through a recent experience Scott had when working with service principals in Azure AD for use with Azure Kubernetes Service. They also get into some of the fun that can be had with parsing JSON from the command line with jq and JMESPath. Transcript Email Download New Tab - [Ben] Welcome to Episode 180 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast recorded live on May 29 2020. This is a show about Microsoft 365 and Azure from the perspective of IT pros and end users where we discuss the topic or recent news and how it relates to you. In this episode, Scott and Ben talked through a recent experience Scott had when working with service principals in Azure AD for use with Azure Kubernetes Service and then wrap up talking a little bit about Parsing JSON in the command line. Hey, Scott, we're recording Episode 180 today. - [Scott] 180, amazing. - [Ben] It really is. And you know what other mark we crossed recently, 'cause we don't talk about this much. 400,000 downloads over the lifetime of the podcast. - [Scott] Nice, I gotta go update the About page. - [Ben] You should. We should actually make some updates around that. So we have, it has been going on three years now. Because we record extra at events. I can't remember when we started this, but it was about this time three years ago. Which means I have talked to you every week for three years. - [Scott] And you're better for it. I keep telling you that, but you don't believe me. - [Ben] I would not be the same man I am today had it not been for you, Scott. - [Scott] Boy, let's see if I can teach you some stuff today. Maybe you too could teach me some stuff. - [Ben] If we talk about AKS, like you have suggested you would like to because you have been living in the world of AKS. Not to be confused with ACKS when you're talking about networking. Bad joke. - [Scott] No, there's a TCP joke in there somewhere. - [Ben] Yes, you will probably be teaching me more because AKS is not something that I have done much with or have much knowledge in. So would you like to talk AKS today, Scott? - [Scott] Yeah, we can talk about AKS. I have a bit of a personal question first though. So my wife and I have been going back and forth on this one. Do you ever have dreams about work? Like, do you get so involved in your work that you go to bed at night and you dream about it? - [Ben] Not a lot. I think I've done it once or twice, but it is not a regular occurrence. However, based on your Facebook status, I thought that was a joke. So is your Facebook status actually happened to you the other night? It was at twitter. - [Scott] It's been happening to me on the regular lately. So I am either far too close to my work, or my brain is just warping in a very strange way. So last night, I was watching TV and fell asleep on the couch. And I'd been spending a little bit of time in the morning running through and playing within AKS deployment. And one of the things you end up doing in AKS quite a bit after it's deployed or heck even, while it's deploying, especially when you're working with Azure CLI or things like that is you're gonna be playing a lot with JSON objects. When you're in bash, you want to find better ways to play with JSON. Because you don't wanna be potentially just manipulating raw strings or not having things like access to logical operators for doing selects of given nodes in a JSON document or anything like that, right? You just need a way to like prettify it and make it usable to you, so that you can query within it and kind of figure things out. So one of the tools that I found that I like to do that is jq. So that's a lightweight and flexible command line JSON processor. Think like I said for JSON data. And, you're on the right path for what it does. Certainly, there's a lot of tooling built into other things like Azure CLI supports queries with JMESPath. If you're looking like I was doing a bunch of stuff with, like you said, AKS over the last couple weeks. One of the things you end up doing there is using kube-control or kube-cuddle, whatever you want to call it, quite a bit to, you're always querying for services, deployments, nodes, pods, things like that. And there's an operator where you can either get your output back from kube-control as JSON, or you can use what they've built in for JSONPaths, which uses a query language that's like what's in JMESPath, but not all the way there, which is like what's in jq, but not all the way there. So my brains been really worked around these things. So I spent, I don't know, maybe like 30-45 minutes in the morning, trying to figure out this one jq query or I would have been happy if it was a JSONPath query or anything else that I could have gotten it into. When you're in Kubernetes, and you're doing something like, say you do kube-control, get nodes or describe nodes, whatever you wanna do to get your data back. Some providers like Microsoft, when they do things like label a node or label a pod with their annotations, they'll go ahead and label them in a way that some JSON parsers, particularly like jq don't like. They will have characters in them that just can't be parsed from a bash command line without a bunch of escaping, or other things otherwise. So something like a forward slash, or an equal sign, just weird things through bash off in general, and then you end up in string processing land and all these kinds of things. - [Ben] So what you're saying is, Microsoft did not follow conventions around something that has been a standard. Not to bash on Microsoft. - [Scott] So jq is totally an external tool. - [Ben] So they don't follow certain standards. Microsoft's not just ignoring standards here. - [Scott] I can't say that I love that, a million of their annotations have things like forward slashes in them which some parsers treat as a new node and not part of just a key value pair, things like that. - [Ben] Got it. So is there a standard around how this should all be laid out when you go look at these parsers and stuff, not to go down a rabbit hole? - [Scott] Well, I mean, it's just JSON. So they should be able to parse JSON. But now then you get into, I'm trying to parse from bash, or just a Linux shell. So whether it was zsh, ksh, or bash, whatever it happened to be, they all have their own rules for string processing from the command line, and then you're trying to figure out the right way to pass strings into things to get it all wired up and where it needs to be. Anyway, I was doing some stuff trying to get down to, I was just trying to write a simple query that retrieved nodes in a node pool. And it gave me the node pool name 'cause it's a cluster with a bunch of different node pools, and then I needed an annotation off of there for the failure domains. So when you create multiple node pools within AKS, you can also take those node pools and push them out to availability zones if you want to. So you can have each node in an AZ. So really the way to figure out where your node sits, is doing something like querying for the failure domain. So it's failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/zone, and then that'll give you the name of the zone you're in. And then you can pull out the node name or metadata.labels.agentpool gives you the node name and things like that. So you end up doing all this weird stuff. All I wanted to do was, I wanted. Well, I was first trying to just do a select statement. So with most selects, and you go look at jq's documentation, you're like, all right, select equals this. That makes sense, right? As a nice operator to do equality tax. It also does greater than and less than, but I didn't want to do any of those things, I wanted to do basically a like, or a match, like you might be used to inside of PowerShell. Or you do like, Where clause with a wildcard or something like that. - [Ben] So, essentially, like in CONTAINS. - [Scott] Yeah, exactly. But it took 45 minutes for CONTAINS to click in my head. So I was diving through the jq documentation, which isn't like the greatest thing, hey, it's okay. but I'm sitting there like, "All right, so there's not a practical example "for the one thing I wanna do." And I should have just rung you up, 'cause you would have said, "Hey, you're trying to do a CONTAINS," and then I would have just done a find on the operator page, and the function page and said, "Look, there's a CONTAINS function." That will help me a whole bunch and bring it back. So I've been living like this weird nightmare of JSON and CLI and all sorts of fun things like that. - [Ben] So to bring that full circle that you actually dream about that then last night while you were sleeping on the couch? - [Scott] Yeah, no, totally had a dream about browsing through the jq documentation. And looking for select and then it was just awesome. - [Ben] We need to find you some hobbies or we need to get you doing more work so that you're way more tired when you go to bed and you don't dream about it. - [Scott] Yeah, no, it's, I agree something to do there. - [Ben] As IT professionals in the Cloud era, sometimes that feels like we don't speak the same language as the rest of the organization. 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Episode 179 – Azure Static Web Apps != Azure Static Websites

Thu, 28 May 2020 12:00:31 +0000

In Episode 179, Ben and Scott discuss some of their favorite announcements from Microsoft Build 2020 including Azure Static Web Apps, Microsoft Lists, improvements to Teams, and more! Transcript Email Download New Tab - [Ben] Welcome to Episode 179 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast recorded live on May 22 2020. This is a show about Microsoft 365 and Azure from the perspective of IT pros and end users. Where we discuss the topic or recent news and how it relates to you. In this episode, despite focusing on IT pros, Ben and Scott talk Build 2020 News, including Azure Static Web Apps, Microsoft List improvements to Teams and more. - [Ben] Now we're supposed to come up with some intro, we've ruined it. - [Scott] So... - [Ben] So build was this week. - [Scott] Build was this week. There was some fun stuff at Build. - [Ben] What do you say about them apples? How about them List? Or how about them Static Websites and Azure App Services. - [Scott] So those are actually pretty cool. - [Ben] They are spun one up the other day. - [Scott] Yeah? - [Ben] There were some, cool Build stuff. So we figured, why not talk about cool Build stuff? Because that's what all the cool kids are doing right now, right? - [Scott] There you go. Well, that's it. Why be trend setters when you can be trend followers? - [Ben] Exactly. It's way more easier to be followers. It's a lot less work. - [Scott] It is less work to be a follower. It's hard to gain followers. - [Ben] Although we've managed to do a decent job I think! - [Scott] There's always next week. - [Ben] There is always next week. I'm sure we could bomb it pretty quick. Kinda like that thing with your grades, right? You fail one test and your grade like drops in half and then it takes forever to recover. I bet you could do the same thing with followers. - [Scott] You could. Although I think grades are a little bit easier right now. I don't know how you're all handling it with homeschooling? But it seems like from what I've seen with my kids, and certainly my wife's school, they're kinda at the point where, I mean it's end of the year anyway. So, all grades were due last week that kinda thing. But it's really hit just that point where everybody has been doing this remote thing for a while, and you could have potentially had, like a month and a half to two months of a child that never showed up online, but they still turned in their work and did things, right? They never showed up to any of the online meetings or whatever it was. So what do you do like with those kids? They do the work, but was the meeting the participation? What does that look like? And how does that come through for grades? And it's a very interesting thing. So some of it's like, "They turned in the work. "Here's an A." Right. - [Scott] "At least they opened it up, that's a B. "They didn't look at it, they didn't turn it in. "Well, still kinda put 'em through, so that's a C." - [Ben] Yeah. So we've been talking to a bunch of our friends, 'cause we have friends in the neighborhood, friends from church, all of that, that their kids go to school and they're like, "I could never home-school." And, frankly, we don't envy them. Like the situation, you guys found yourselves in, is way more challenging than what we were in. Because my wife's been working with my kids all year, she knows exactly where they are, she has it all planned out, it doesn't really change anything. She's just continuing to work with them, and she knew exactly what place they all were and what they had to do to finish up and she can make sure there's the participation there 'cause she also wasn't working. Her work was her four kids and homeschooling, where you guys it's like, well we both still have to work, We have to try to help our kids keep learning, but yet we have absolutely no idea what our kids were necessarily doing in school or what the participation looked like. And you guys just kinda got thrown into the middle of it. That is like 100 times harder. - [Scott] Yeah, but I think-- - [Ben] I will stick to my opinion. - [Scott] Yeah, but I think compared to some households, like at least ours, we're pretty lucky. My wife's a teacher and she teaches grade school. So she's pretty close to the work that my kids are doing, 'cause I have one in grade school and one in middle school. Even for the middle schooler, 'cause my wife used to teach Middle School, she's got a lot of that kind of in her back pocket as well. So I've kind of made it through unscathed. - [Ben] I'm sure with your wife being a teacher, my wife and I got a good kick out of this. Again, not even with our kids in school, the CDC's recommendations for when kids go back to school this fall? - [Scott] No, what are their recommendations? - [Ben] Talk about something else I'm gonna have to find-- - [Scott] Oh, are you talking about that Venn diagram? The 123? - [Ben] No, like they literally CDC published a List of recommendations for going back to school. And it was absolutely absurd. Like you look through it and you're like, obviously the people that wrote this for the CDC have never been in a school before. It was like, no, I mean, it had things on there from their recommendations like, "No eating in the cafeteria. "Everybody eats lunch at their own desk. "All the hallways have to be one way hallways. "All the desks in the classrooms have to be at least "six feet apart." It was, here it is. I found it. I delayed enough while I was talking. - [Scott] "Considerations For Schools." - [Ben] Oh, this doesn't actually have the List though. I am going down that link rabbit trail of one link to the next link, but it stays in the same site, never actually gets you to the source. But yes, it is... Like you read through it and you're like, "Maybe you could get high schoolers to follow that?" But, like Grade school, Elementary school, I don't see how you can ever manage to do that in a school. - [Scott] I think they'll have to come up with some interesting, like workarounds. And ultimately, they're gonna have to do things that businesses are doing too. Potentially considers staggered days, so, maybe, as child in a class where you might have gone five days a week, you might only go two days a week to that class in person, because they're staggering through the rest of the school or whatever it happens to be. And certainly a lot of that stuff will change with lunchtimes, where you do your work, how much you're at your desk versus just randomly roaming the halls and things like that. And then the consideration becomes, certainly age and things like that. You're probably not gonna get a, two year old to wear a mask all day. But once you're into some of those grade schoolers, and certainly up from there, it's not so much about, "Can they do it?" It's like, you're just gonna have to do it. - [Ben] Yeah, it'll definitely be interesting. Maybe they can use Microsoft Lists to track everything that is going on. - [Scott] Maybe they could use-- - [Ben] That was a terrible segue. How was that for a horrible segue? - [Scott] Maybe they could use Microsoft. What is Microsoft List? - [Ben] What is Microsoft List? So apparently, I thought Microsoft Lists were just an improvement on SharePoint Lists. You dropped a bombshell on me this morning, saying, "I watched a 20 minute YouTube video, "that is the source of all things truth, "and Microsoft Lists or not SharePoint Lists. - [Scott] Well, that's not what I said. I said, "So Microsoft Lists are really just SharePoint Lists "when it's not telling anybody." - [Ben] Oh, is that what it was? - [Scott] That's what I said. - [Ben] I misheard. I need more coffee. - [Scott] Yeah, and there was pre-coffee, so. - [Ben] That was pre-coffee? Okay. That makes sense, I get that. That yes, they're SharePoint Lists. - [Scott] Except I think they announced it in a very confusing way, 'cause they don't really talk it. They talk about how it's the evolution of SharePoint Lists, but at no point do they actually say it's SharePoint on the back end, but then you start to go and look at the way things are created and you go, "Huh, that's interesting." Like, I got to create a new List and it asked me to pick a site to put that List in. And then all of a sudden, it's, "Hey, let's go use that List in SharePoint "or use it in Microsoft Teams, "and we're back to just a List," Which is cool. I've always thought Lists were very powerful things. And certainly it's better to have more functionality and more UI and things like that. I was a little confused when I saw an article on The Verge, about Microsoft Lists and it talks about how, "Hey, this is this great new thing." But it's not SharePoint anymore. And it's more like Airtable and I was like, "Hold on, dial it back." - [Ben] Okay. - [Scott] You read what the marketing folks gave you. - [Ben] Right. I was gonna say, so the first problem here was you went to The Verge and do you read. Those two things, I went to the Microsoft website, and I looked at pictures. And I didn't get any of that because I looked at pictures. There was was like, "Oh, it's just new SharePoint Lists." So I missed all the dramatization around it, because I was just looking at pictures and like you said when you look at it, and when you're looking at the pictures and diving into it, it like to me I just kind of was like, "Oh, it's a SharePoint Lists." Because it has all the same buttons, it has all the same... It does have an updated look and feel and it has some new functionality. But if you've been doing SharePoint Lists for long enough, it's a SharePoint List With new lipstick on it. - [Scott] Interesting, now that you've got Lists directly integrated into Teams, now Teams is not only your hub for chats and tasks and kinda yammer all the things they've been putting in there, now,...

Episode 178 – Securing remote work using M365

Thu, 21 May 2020 12:00:39 +0000

In Episode 178, Ben and Scott dive into what you should think about when securing Microsoft 365 at a high level and run down the areas you'll want to focus on first. Transcript Email Download New Tab - [Ben] Welcome to Episode 178 of the Microsoft Cloud IT pro podcast, recorded live on May 15 2020. This is a show about Microsoft 365 and Azure from the perspective of IT pros and end users. Where we discuss the topic or recent news and how it relates to you. Is this episode Scott and Ben take a high level approach and rundown what you should consider when securing your Microsoft 365 environment, based on recently published recommendations from Microsoft. - [Scott] Mic check one, two, three. - [Ben] Mic sir? - [Scott] Sure. - [Ben] Are we checking for Mic? - [Scott] Why not, let's do it. - [Ben] We're gonna get zoom bombed by mic. - [Scott] That's how your weeks gone huh? I say my, I say mic check and you're gonna make mic jokes. - [Ben] I'm gonna make mic jokes. You know what I got a lot of sleep last night after not sleeping the night before. So that may affect my sense of humor. - [Scott] So either way you would have been grogging out of it. Love it. - [Ben] Yeah, pretty much. However, I did make an upgrade to our home network today. - [Scott] Oh, yeah? - [Ben] Yes, I now have. - [Scott] You renamed the WiFi from FBI surveillance fan to stay away there's COVID - [Ben] No, but that would be kind of funny. I now have redundant internet coming to our house. It was even more nerdy than renaming the WiFi. - [Scott] Oh, cool. So you run everything into a router that's gonna support that failover for you then? - [Ben] Yep, I have a unifi USG, and it has a LAN. Well, so it has a LAN and WAN, and then a LAN slash WAN. So you can use it for whatever you want to. So right now it is set up as two LANs and I have a AT&T going into one way LAN, Comcast going into another LAN. And if one of them drops, it automatically fails over. - [Scott] Perfect, can you bond those connections together and use them both at the same time? Or is just one strictly there for failover. - [Ben] So technically, I could. - [Scott] Technically. - [Ben] Technically I could do. - [Scott] I could have even more bandwidth. Like I can see you like the Infinity Gauntlet in your hand, you're just squeezing. - [Ben] Yeah, I could do lots of things. So I did test it, I actually like reached over and just turned off my Comcast modem. And AT&T picked right up and turned it back on, it flipped over, I could see it in all the logs where it switches your primary way in connection, however, what I think I'm going to do. So Dan Patrick, over at CES Alliance wrote an article about this on the Build Five Nines site. And he and I were actually talking about this and trying to figure out some of the routing, I think I'm going to stick a bunch of my family and streaming devices on one way in connection, and keep the other one for work stuff now as all of that- [Scott] Gotcha. - [Ben] All right? - [Scott] Well, yeah, you might wanna just like separate them and keep them all on one and potentially do the failover thing, right? 'Cause then if you put one on one and one on the other, if one goes down then stuff. - [Ben] So I think and I need to go through Dan's article and probably talk to him a little bit more about how he did it, is you can do both, where it still works as a failover. And you can have them on both VNet. So it's essentially like two VNets that, you can do policy based routing, but then it still will fail over when it fails over. I need to dig through all of it a little more. - [Scott] Gotcha. Yeah, it's a little bit of a setup to do what he was doing. 'Cause yes, he was doing a couple things with like policy based routing on his USG user. - [Ben] Yes, exactly. So I'm gonna go through that. I may try to do that because it would also help with my other problem is that Xfinity limits you to so much bandwidth a month. - [Scott] Not right now, they don't. - [Ben] Not right now they don't. But when they do go back, so I've been paying for extra because I have a tendency to go over my allocated bandwidth. - [Scott] I do the same thing you do. Yeah, we're limited to one terabyte and. everybody says, how do you go through a terabyte? Well try having two kids at home who are streaming everything all the time? My job requires streaming like, what was I doing today? Oh, yeah, just doing some deployments and trying to test them locally meant downloading, not just a bunch of ISOs and doing installs, but full VHDs for environments. So those really don't like zip up and compress very well. So it's easy to blow through, 20 gigs in a small download. And then you kind of do that every day a couple times. And it adds up quick. - [Ben] Yeah. So see, what you can do is you can get redundant internet. Because now you're paying almost the exact same amount. And it's like five or $10 more to have a second internet connection. Technically, now, instead of paying $50 for unlimited, I just have two of them, and I have a two terabytes which I don't know that I've ever gone over two terabytes. - [Scott] Only if you split your traffic the right way. - [Ben] Right, so that comes back into some of those policy based, if I can split all my streaming over one, and all my work over another, I might be able to get away with dropping my unlimited internet and putting that money towards my redundant internet. - [Scott] Interesting. I guess that works if you live in one of those magical places, so people internationally are laughing at us 'cause they're like, what do you mean magical place? Well, one of those magical places where you can have two internet providers. The neighborhood I live in is one of those magical places where it is Comcast or Bust. - [Ben] I'm sorry. - [Scott] Oh, well, I could get AT&T like DSL, but it's really, really, really slow. It's not worth it. I miss my days at firehouse, let's put it that way. - [Ben] Fair enough. I like my Comcast, so I have the Comcast one gig. That's my plain one. And that also helps you go over your internet in a hurry when you can transfer data at a gigabit per second. You can blow through a terabyte really quickly. And then my AT&T is like 50 Megs, so that is most definitely my backup. And I don't know if it'll work for streaming we'll have to see. But that is my non Cloud related not news for the week. - [Scott] Good for you. I'm glad You're geeking out in all the right ways over there. - [Ben] Yes, I do. Outlook add-ins are a great way to improve productivity and save time in the workplace. And Sperry Software has all the add-ins you'll ever need. The Save as PDF add-in is a best seller, and is great for project backups legal discovery and more. This add-in saves the email and attachments as PDF files. It's easy to download, easy to install, and Sperry Software's unparalleled Customer service is always ready to help. Download a free trial at SperrySoftware.com, S-P-E-R-R-Y-S-O-F-T-W-A-R-E.com, and see for yourself how great Save as PDF is. Listeners can get 20% off their order today by entering the code, Cloud IT. That's Cloud IT, C-L-O-U-D-I-T, all one word at checkout. Sperry Software work in email, not on email. So should we get on to our topic or do you have any not news you wanna talk about? Any Build sessions we should pay attention to now that schedules out? - [Scott] So I haven't looked at the schedule for Build, but I did go through my Build attendee box and hang my lanyard up with all my other lanyards. I think there's gonna be in general, I think Build will be a little bit more developer oriented this year. It looks like it has less kind of market texture sessions. Like certainly there's the keynote and things in the beginning. But there's a pretty wide variety of sessions out there, wait, I think I saw in the catalog, they even have a couple of sessions on, like, dedicated to Rust. They're going in a certain way. If you are signed up for build, awesome, go take a look at the catalog. If you are not signed up for Build, go register and put that in and or go view any of the videos or things afterwards. It looks like they're limiting session registrations. So some sessions are filling up, which I find funny. - [Ben] You know what I just realized, Build's gonna be over by the time people hear this, I think. - [Scott] Yeah, well, well they can go watch the video soon. - [Ben] Go watch the videos. - [Scott] They will all be recorded. - [Ben] Yes, if you're listening to this sorry you missed Build go find videos. - [Scott] It'll come back around again. It'll be there someday. - [Ben] Yes exactly. I did not get a Build box, I was not on the, I was not quick enough, I was too slow. Because it looks like they only sent those out to like the first few thousand attendees. I don't know how many the first few thousand is, but I was most definitely not in the box list. And I think I've seen some others that were not in the box list as well. - [Scott] Gotcha. Yeah, I was so it was a, what was it? It was like a bamboo lunch box. It was some stickers, some socks, a lanyard and kind of a welcome to, oh welcome to Build card so. - [Ben] Got it. - [Scott] So it was a nice thing to get. But it's not like you're missing out on a free surface go or something like that. - [Ben] Well, I kind of wanted the socks. But other than that, I'm fine. However, if you are listening to this, and you missed out on the Build bikes and you want swag, let us know via Twitter or Facebook or some way, go to the podcast, leave a comment. Because we have a ton of stickers that we don't have anywhere to give out because life has been canceled. And we will send you stickers because I have like 500 of them in my office and nowhere to go with them. So it does not Build swag, but we have swag, if you want it,...

Episode 177 – Friends Should Let Friends Buy Microsoft 365 Business Premium

Thu, 14 May 2020 12:00:33 +0000

In Episode 177, Ben and Scott break down the changes in Microsoft 365 Business Premium and how it compares against Office 365 Enterprise Plans including the Office 365 E3. Transcript Email Download New Tab - [Ben] Welcome to episode 177 of the Microsoft cloud IT pro podcast recorded live on May eight 2020. This is a show about Microsoft 365 with Azure from the perspective of IT pros and its users where we discuss the topic or recent news and how it relates to you. In this episode, Scott and Ben take a more detailed look at the recently renamed and improved Microsoft 365 business plans and discuss with these updates, should friends now let friends by business? Everybody now his kids and dogs and all sorts of things or people or animals making noise in the background to their meetings. - [Scot] Yeah, I think we're all getting better at it though, so maybe for those who haven't been doing the remote thing now that they've had a couple of weeks to not necessarily settle in to it, but experience it and recognizing that for some of us it's going to be coming for a long time. I think especially for technology companies, I mean Facebook announced that through the rest of 2020 just go for it. - [Ben] Really, I missed that. - [Scot] Yep, yep, go forth and do it. Amazon is at least October, Microsoft still has their campus effectively shut down. So it's gonna be a thing for a while and I think for us, like in this segment and this area, we're going to continue to experience it. - [Ben] Yeah, although to be fair, I've been experiencing it for like 10 years now. - [Scot] Yes. - [Ben] My kids literally don't know what it's like for me to have to leave the house for work. They get upset when I have to leave to go to work. They're like, "Why do you have to leave?" Some people do these everyday guys. - [Scot] You've done it again. - [Ben] Yes. They just don't know what it's like to have daddy actually leave every day to go to work. - [Scot] Man, you know, they'll have to figure out their own lives at some point, you know, let them grow up in flutter and all those things. - [Ben] What it is. Yes, they'll realize it. Maybe, who knows? Maybe everybody will work for home for the rest of their lives. I think you are gonna see a lot more people or companies staying open to remote work 'cause this is forced everybody to figure it out. I know there's some people I've talked to that they're like, "This just does not work for us. "We're not as productive." All of that, we need to be at the same spot. But I think there's a lot of companies that are also realizing, "Hey, this isn't as unproductive "or as bad or as prohibitive to our daily activities "as we thought it was." - [Scot] Yeah, interestingly, I also think lots of folks are gonna have to figure out the burnout factor and really starting it and mass in this time is a different thing then all of a sudden a company you phasing into remote work or just easing your way into it and figuring out what that balance is for, what is productivity at home? I think a lot of folks who are potentially looking at their teams and saying, "Well, we can't work remotely," oh, that's not attitude 'cause you're gonna have to figure out a way to do that in a lot of cases. And also by saying you can't, you're automatically throwing up a barrier to being successful there, but being able to align those times and boundaries between work and home life and recognizing that, yeah, this other thing is going on in the outside. - [Ben] Yeah, it's interesting and there's definitely a difference between being forced to work remotely and like you said, having that gradual roll and have it being an option. I would say there's more challenges with the way it happened this way. Well, it has opened up a lot of eyes. It also is a lot more challenging when you do it this way. Than if it, like you said, it's a gradual roll in a gradual rollout, you start with options and just do it a little bit at a time. Doing it this way definitely has brought a whole set of challenges. - [Scot] So one of the little things that gets me, is I have an established place to do work every day. I have my desk, it has my monitors, there's a nice warning ring on the desk where my coffee cup goes. There's a place for the keyboard, a place for my mouse, microphone, all those kinds of things. And my wife potentially transitioning to a remote role as a teacher. She's kind of settled on just one or two different places in the house to work in. And I've offered, like last night she's been working on an extra class and trying to do all these recordings for her students and things so she can put them up. So she came into the office and was sitting at my desk, which I'm normally on a laptop, but then it's just in clamshell plugged into all these monitors and she brought her laptop stand-in. She brought her keyboard in, brought her mouse in and she sat, stood up, it's a standing desk. So she stood up at the desk and I said all we gotta do is pull that little USBC cable out of my laptop and we can put it into yours and you could at least have the keyboard. And if you don't want the keyboard, keep using your keyboard 'cause that's all Bluetooth, that's fine. I get, you don't wanna use somebody else's mouse 'cause everybody's kind of partial to things like that, but you can totally use your keyboard and just all of a sudden have these screens like go ahead, have the 34-inch monitor and things like that. And she looked at me like I was crazy just like I couldn't be productive like that. I'm like, I couldn't be productive on a single screen. - [Ben] Yeah, it's everybody figuring out how they work best. As IT professionals in the cloud era, sometimes it feels like we don't speak the same language as the rest of the organization. So when stakeholders from finance or other departments start asking about a specific project or Teams Azure costs, they don't always realize how much work is involved in obtaining that information. Sifting through cluttered CSVs and complex massive metadata in order to manually create custom views and reports. It's a real headache. On top of helping you understand and reduce your organization's overall Azure spend. ShareGate Overcast lets you group resources into meaningful cost hubs and map them to real-world business scenarios. This way you can track costs in the way that makes most sense with your corporate structure, whether it's by product, business unit, team or otherwise. It's a flexible, intuitive and business-friendly way of tracking Azure infrastructure costs and it's only available in ShareGate Overcast. Find out more on sharegate.com/itpro. So we have an interesting topic. This topic today, speaking of working came up probably about a month ago now. I think this has been out and I saw some articles about it and we kind of put some notes together and were like, "We should record this at some point in time." So today is your lucky day Scot. - [Scot] Every day is my lucky day when I get to talk to you, Ben. - [Ben] Aw, that's so sweet. That was a little weird. Now you got me all thrown off. It's been a long week. So we recorded an episode a while back. I don't even remember which episode it was where we said, "Friends do not let friends by business "when it comes to office 365," and we had a whole list of reasons why. About a month ago, Microsoft made some announcements that we talked about, about renaming the business 365 skews. And as a part of that, one of the, I would say new skews with some added features to it is you can now get Microsoft 365 business premium, which includes Windows 10, office 365... well no, that'd be Microsoft 365 business standard, I believe it's one of the Microsoft 365 business skews as well as essentially EMS. You're getting Azure active directory premium. So you get all three of those for $20 a month, which is the exact same price as a office 365 E3 plan. So a lot of people have been asking, "Why would I buy office 365 E3 for $20 "when I can get Microsoft 365 E3 "or Microsoft 365 business premium for $20 a month?" Why would I not get that one with all these other features, Windows 10, Azure active directory premium, it's essentially all the EMS stuff. Although we're gonna talk about, it's not all of that. So do friends still not let friends buy business or have they changed this enough that Microsoft 365 business premium is actually a very solid option now where you're not quite as handicapped as maybe you were before. So we figured we'd dive in, discuss that. There was also a blog article that came out around securing remote work, tying into our intro to using Microsoft 365 business premium. - [Scot] And then that article really piggybacks and the concepts there piggyback kinda whole cons the licensing construct where they added Azure AD premium P1 to those licenses. So having access to conditional access I think ups the game and changes it a little bit. 'Cause that's one of those differentiators between those two skews. - [Ben] It really is. And before it was always an Add-on and now all of a sudden it has come bundled. So we decided this episode, we're just gonna talk about Microsoft 365 business premium and where it actually does make some sense now. I think my opinion, we'll see what Scott thinks. As well as scenarios where frankly it still doesn't make sense even though there's more features to it as opposed to like the E3 plan. - [Scot] Yeah, let's get into it. - [Ben] Alright, so where do you wanna kick it off? How do you wanna kick it off? - [Scot] So I tend to look at it from one of those clear differentiators between those business plans and the enterprise plans is the number of users that you can bring into those skews. So having a hard cap on the number of users, like if I was gonna build out a decision tree to say,...

Episode 176 – April Showers Bring May Microsoft 365 Updates

Thu, 07 May 2020 12:00:28 +0000

In Episode 176, Ben and Scott dive into the April announcements around feature updates to Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Threat Protection, and Azure Active Directory. Transcript Email Download New Tab - Welcome to Episode 176 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast, recorded live on May 1, 2020. This is the show about Microsoft 365 and Azure from the perspective of IT pros and end users. Where we discuss a topic or recent news and how it relates to you. In this episode, Scott and Ben discuss some of the recent news from the month of April, including some upcoming conferences, Azure AD Security, and Microsoft Teams. - I feel like April was never going to end. - Well, it has, I mean, it's still might not have, but officially on the calendar it has. In our brains and collective consciousness it may have not. - Yes, but the good news is, at least here in Florida, we are slowly starting to open back up. The question is, are you going to go out and do anything, now that it's opened back up? - Well, we chose to open on our day of highest deaths. So my personal approach is to stay home a little bit while longer. - You've already had it, you're immune. - We'll see, I'm thinking about paying the 120 bucks to get the test, just to find out. - Are you just to find out if you had it or not? - Yeah, some of the labs are starting to get it. So Quest has one. - Got it, interesting. - And less little antibody test. - I saw the mall, town center is going to open Monday, I think is what I saw. So yeah, stores, restaurants, I think they said are gonna open, but they have to be at 20% capacity. I think it was or 25% capacity. - Yep, 25 here. - So, we'll see. We haven't gone out and done a whole lot. We've started to see a few more people. I'm getting kind of stir-crazy and I don't know, like, I feel like we've flattened the curve and we don't need to talk about this too long 'cause we have other topics to talk about. But it's like at what point in time do you just have to start going out? Because obviously vaccines are gonna be a long way off. It feel like the curve is starting to flatten out. So I'm kind of getting close to that approach of, "All right, it's time to start getting out, "seeing some people doing some normal activities again." So yeah, my two cents. - Slowly but surely, like get back out, see family, things like that, where you can and where it makes sense. - And that's what we did. My wife's family came over the other day and they didn't even come inside. We actually just sat outside at the picnic tables, in the park next to our house. And it was her sister's birthday, so it was fun. It was fun to see them, we hadn't seen them in like a month. So all good, but there's some other events coming up now too, that are free. So there's some silver lining in all of this. There are some free events coming up that people can participate in. - Nice, what type of free events are coming? - Yes, what type of free events? So as an IT pro and as an IT pro-ish podcast, one may or may not appeal to a bunch of our audience, but Build, I have never been to a Build. This year I'm going to Build Scott, virtually because it's free and it's virtual. So that is one of the events coming up. I think you registered for it the other day. I registered for it last night. So I am going to try to keep some of the sessions. Sometimes there's some interesting things that come out of Build, especially around late Visual Studio Code or some of the PowerShell or source control stuff that I use with my PowerShell. There's always stuff that comes out around Azure and things that, well, we may not go Build applications. They still can be applicable to IT pros in terms of how you manage what developers may try to do to your environment based on new capabilities being released. So even though I'm not a developer, I still try to keep track of some of those developer-ish type conferences. - Yeah, so I think there's some exciting things that they have planned this year, if anything, just in the delivery model that they're going to use for it. So not only is registration open and certainly you should go register because it is a free event. I think there's some constraints there for a lot of us. Like one of the things I love about, you know, going to conferences, isn't just the networking. Like that's certainly valuable. But if you are going to go to sessions, you're there and it's much easier to go and not be distracted by work. So I think lots of people are gonna be potentially competing for work over May 19 and 20 while this goes on, but it's gonna be a 48-hour event and it's gonna be running for 48 hours straight, which means you're going to have coverage in geographies, which would typically feel like they would have to miss out on an event like this, just due to time of day. So if you think about folks over in Australia, and APAC, and certainly Europe and things like that, everybody is going to be able to get in on the fun. - Yeah, it should be good. And there's another one coming up that will be short. Let me think, it'll be the day after this recording goes live. Office 365 Nashville is doing a virtual one. So Daniel Glenn is kinda spearheading that one and that one is going to be on May 8. So this episode should come out May 7. I think registration will still be open, but it's a free virtual event that you can go sign up for. I'm actually speaking at that one because it was virtual and enabled me to speak at that one. So that one's coming up, we'll put a link in that one, if you wanna go register there. And then there's also one that Joel Oleson is doing. I can't remember the name of it right now, but we'll put it in the show notes. - Yeah, My 365 something or on there. - Yeah, it was gonna be like the virtual Olympics and then they ran into like some trademark issues because apparently Olympics is trademarked. Imagine that, who saw that one coming? Marathon, Virtual Marathon, I think is what it is. But it's another Microsoft 365 free Virtual Marathon. I think that one's like 36 hours straight. And I've seen like, he's trying to get 900 live sessions over the course of 36 hours. - That's gonna be quite a bit. - Yes, we will find the link for that and put that in the show notes as well. - Outlook add-ins are a great way to improve productivity and save time in the workplace. And Sperry Software has all the add-ins you'll ever need. The Save As PDF add-in is a best seller and is great for project backups, legal discovery, and more. This add-in saves the email and attachments as PDF files. It's easy to download, easy to install, and Sperry Software's unparalleled customer service is always ready to help. Download a free trial at SperrySoftware.com. S-P-E-R-R-Y-S-O-F-T-W-A-R-E.com and see for yourself how great Save As PDF is. Listeners can get 20% off their order today by entering the code cloudIT. That's cloudIT, C-L-O-U-D-I-T all one word at checkout. Sperry Software, work in email, not on email. - Those are all the events I have. Do you have any other ones that I didn't think of? - No, we did just have the Virtual Azure Global Bootcamp, which passed. But lots of these sessions for that were recorded. So if anybody did miss the 2020 Azure Virtual Bootcamp, just hop on YouTube and search around for some of those videos and things that came out from all the wonderful speakers who put their time into it. - All right, sounds good. Yeah, we didn't do much here because it was all virtual. So who knows if they do kind of an in person one later this year, maybe we'll try to jump on, maybe we'll just have to wait for round two and come back to it in 2021. - It'll still be there. - Yep, it will, hopefully I'll in person again. So there was also some news that came out these past few weeks, different things around Azure, some office 365 stuff, some Azure AD stuff, some that spans all of them like Windows Virtual Desktop. So we decided we'd just dive into some of these news articles that have our news announcements that have come out over the last few days. Take your pick. Which one would you like to start with? - Let's see, I always like the identity stuff. I think they've done some good things there for customers, especially as some of the licensing has opened up like bringing Azure AD Premium P1 to the Microsoft 365 business here and things like that. And they're starting to open up the platform more and more for all customers. Which is always nice to see, especially in these times when everyone is working at home or remotely, or if anything, just on the go more than they are. I think that whole Zero Trust Model around identity and securing your identities and gating your access to all these resources, is super important. So one of the things they've done there is they've extended the ability to use Azure AD single sign-on for an unlimited number of cloud apps at no extra cost. And that's across every SKUs. So now in the past, you would have been limited in the number of cloud apps that you could add to a user. And then also the number that you could potentially perform SSO against your Azure Active Directory with. So this is using SSO with Azure AD, whether you're federated or unfederated. And like I said, it's available across all of the pricing tiers or SKUs of Azure AD, even Azure Active Directory free. - Perfect, 'cause this used to be, I think the limit used to be 10, right? I think it was 10 apps. - 10 apps, yeah but you were even limited within SKUs by how many apps you could have and some could have 10 cloud apps, but not SSO. And others could have 10 cloud apps with SSO. So now it's just open across the board, which is much nicer. I mean, it's more consumable. So you make those things more readily available and hopefully people actually use them. You know, that would be the next step is going out and get

Episode 175 – File Shares for Clients in the Cloud with Azure Files

Thu, 30 Apr 2020 12:00:48 +0000

In Episode 175, Ben and Scott talk about using Azure Files as a remote file share in the cloud for client devices and the things you'll want to think about to get everything up and running. Transcript Email Download New Tab - Welcome to Episode 175 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast recorded live on April 24, 2020. This is a show about Microsoft 365 and Azure from the perspective of IT pros and end users, where we discuss the topic or recent news and how it relates to you. In this episode, Ben and Scott discuss Azure file shares for client devices, domain controllers, Azure AD networking and other cloud services and how they all fit together. - The thunder is never done, all the tornadoes rolling through. It was nasty last night. - You know what? I did not hear a thing. I may or may not have been up until like, 2:30 the night before working on stuff and then I crawled in bed at like 12:30 last night. I was so tired, I passed out and I woke up when one of my kids came in our bedroom at some time, 4:00 a.m. and my wife was like, "Did the thunder wake them up?" I was like, "Was it thundering?" I never heard a thing. - Man, corona times have not been kind to my sleep schedule. It's turned into like, aah, let's watch a movie and then the movies over and it's aah, maybe I would like just one TV show or let me read this book for a little while or whatever it happens to be. So I think last night, I was up until... Last night, I was late, it was 3:00 a.m., hence, my coffee brewing slowly this morning. So I heard that whole storm all through and the whole thing. I was sitting in my kitchen, it was awesome coming through, it was a good one. I like a good storm. - So I woke up and I was actually bummed it didn't wake me up 'cause I'm the same way, I love a good thunderstorm, especially at night. For whatever reason, those night thunderstorms and the lightning lights up the whole house and the thunder just rolls. I don't know, it's cathartic for some strange reason, as long as there's not a tornado blowing my house down. - Yeah, well, there's that whole thing, but it was definitely a good thunder and lightning storm and it was tornadoes and stuff farther to the north, but not so much for us. So, it was just a good rain event. - Yes, I will say not growing up in Jacksonville, I have been impressed with the geographic surrounding of Jacksonville and how it seems to deter most storms from hitting us. Like we never really seem to get tornadoes or really bad storms from the west because of the river and because we're sitting just down low enough. I think the Gulf of Mexico messes up a lot of them and then the way Jacksonville's kind of set in on the coast if you're going up the Florida coast and up in the Georgia and South Carolina, it seems to deter any hurricanes from really having a direct hit on Jacksonville. - Yes, it is the farthest point west on the East Coast. Like when you think about that dip in, so it's not just Florida to Georgia and all that, like pull out a map and look all the way up, it is the farthest point west, from Maine all the way down to us. - What about the Keys? Don't the Keys loop back into the west? - They do, but they're sitting actually like-- - They're just sitting in the middle of the ocean. - They are, right? But they're all the way down at that eastern tip of Florida is, think about like going down to Miami and you're pretty much a straight line down to the Keys from there. So they are still farther east than we are, but as a chain of islands, they stretch pretty far over, but at that point, they're underwater anyway . - Got it. - So as a landmass with too big bodies of water like you talked about, between the ocean and the river, being a pretty substantial river, but at least nice and wide, it's good enough to pick up a lot of the weather that comes through here. - I remember that growing up in Michigan too. I mean, like Michigan is significantly bigger than the river but Michigan was spared at least a lot of the bad thunderstorms and tornadoes and all of that because of like Michigan. They would hit Wisconsin, the lake would break it all up before it hit Michigan. I went and spent a week in Wisconsin. It was like tornadoes every day. Don't go to Wisconsin. - Don't go to-- - Sorry to anybody that's from Wisconsin that's listening. I much prefer Michigan to Wisconsin. - You're gonna start a fight or something. - Probably. I have some good stories about Wisconsin and Michigan, but we don't need to talk about those today. - As IT professionals in the cloud era, sometimes it feels like we don't speak the same language as the rest of the organization. So when stakeholders from finance or other departments start asking about a specific project or Teams Azure costs, they don't always realize how much work is involved in obtaining that information, sifting through cluttered CSVs and a complex mess of metadata in order to manually create custom views and reports. It's a real headache. On top of helping you understand and reduce your organization's overall Azure spend. ShareGate Overcast lets you group resources into meaningful cost tabs and map them to real world business scenarios. This way you can track costs in the way that makes most sense with your corporate structure, whether it's by product, business unit, team or otherwise. It's a flexible, intuitive and business friendly way of tracking Azure infrastructure costs and it's only available in ShareGates Overcast. Find out more on sharegate.com/itpro. - Should we talk about what I was staying up late playing with today? - Yeah, it sounds like you were staying up late doing things that I was not. While I was watching, crappy movies and contributing to Netflix viewing hours, you were doing real work, supposedly. - Well, so supposedly 'cause it all started with a client question which led to me playing with this, with my own domain and Azure tenants 'cause I don't wanna break anything. So, to set this up, Azure Files with... So Azure Files has been able to do SMB for a while. You can use the like storage account name and the private key to actually map a network drive to Azure Files, all of this. They have recently and I think it's still certain aspects of this are still in preview. - Yes, they are. - They rolled out the ability to do Azure Files over SMB, leveraging either Active Directory or Active Directory Domain Services to authenticate users to the file shares, rather than using a storage name and a key so that all of those NTFS type permissions can be used or supported through a mapped Azure file share. But there are a ton of restrictions and requirements and prerequisites around doing that, which could lead to the question that we were actually debating before we started recording of should you actually do this and if you do this, what all do you need to think about? Because this has led me down a massive rabbit hole of VNets and DNS and AD and AD DS and all of that. - Yes and you're leveraging preview services, which is even, well preview functionality I guess, which makes it even more interesting. So, when you initially came and you had asked me the question of, okay, I'm trying to stand up a file share and I'm doing the domain authentication thing and it's really a pain and in the back of my head, I'm thinking isn't that relatively new and probably in preview and my first question back would be, well, why do the preview functionality, right? Especially, if it's for a customer. Like typically, we don't wanna take customers into preview stuff, even if it's public preview, because if we just consider Azure life cycle, there's no guarantee that a preview service ever actually goes GA'd. So obviously, Azure Files is GA'd and all that kind of stuff and it's sitting there ready to go, but Microsoft could look at this feature where they're doing SMB file shares with AD, with Azure AD rather, and with on-prem AD and they can say like, "Yeah, I don't wanna do on-prem AD anymore, "I'm only gonna do AD "because that's an easier scenario to support." - Well, but it's not just AAD, it's AAD DS. It doesn't support AAD. - Yeah. - Remember? We gotta clarify these two. - I get my storage confused because there actually are parts of storage, like blobs and containers which do support Azure Active Directory for role based access controls and things. So you can totally do AAD authentication there. Anybody who thinks Azure Storage isn't a confusing service being that it's a storage account, but it's not just a storage, it's blobs, its files, it's tables, its queues, its disks, it's-- - Right, it's got sub services. - It's static websites, it's like 10 other different things, it's amazing. - Azure Files are gonna be like the Teams of Office 365 or everything's just gonna get sucked into the storage fortex. - Well, if you think about it, storage is kind of important, right? In the grand scheme of things and the overall fabric because what is Azure? It's a bunch of hosts who are running hypervisors and it's a bunch of file servers that are pulling configuration off of storage controllers and things like that, right? So, at the end of the day, storage is what makes-- - Storage is important. - It makes the world go round. - Which is digressing. So, this whole storage authentication thing, I'm not gonna say it's just Azure AD DS. Should I go through the prerequisites and what I found and then we can keep talking through this scenario? - Sure, just to lay out the scenario, what you're trying to do is you're trying to stand up a file share in Azure that is available to clients, not to other servers that exist out there. - Yeah, so you're not going to a server. - But to individual clients and you require per user authentication from each of those clients to the file share, right? Okay. - Right. So,...

Episode 174 – Azure Web App for Containers

Thu, 23 Apr 2020 12:00:39 +0000

In Episode 174, Ben and Scott dive into Azure App Service for Linux and Azure Web App for Containers as a hosting option for microservices and more. Transcript Email Download New Tab - [Ben] Welcome to episode 174 of the Microsoft cloud IT Pro podcast recorded live on April, 16, 2020. This is the show about Microsoft 365 and Azure from the perspective of IT Pros and end users. Where we discuss the topic or recent news and how it relates to you. In this episode, we talk about Azure services for Linux and Azure Web Apps for containers as a hosting option for microservices. - [Scott] You've made it to another Friday. - [Ben] Is that what day it is? - [Scott] It is, as Rebecca Black, do you remember that song Friday? - [Ben] Oh no, please, please - [Scott] Yes, no. - [Ben] No, no!!! - [Scott] I asked her, Well hold on. As she taught us, Friday is the day that comes after Thursday, right? Yesterday was Thursday, Thursday, today it is Friday, Friday partying, boom. - [Ben] But that would assume that I knew that yesterday was Thursday. - [Scott] Yeah, well, I'm just telling you like, "Hey, Rebecca Black could help you get through COVID-19." - [Ben] No, it hurts. - [Scott] Just to throw, Just to throw that out there for you. - [Ben] Well, we're almost through it, we have our escape plan now right? As of yesterday? - [Scott] Yeah. - [Ben] Although there's no timeline on our escape plan, it's just a plan. This is how we're going to escape at some point on time. - [Scott] Well It's phased and it's gated. It's very devopsy. They got that going for them, - [Ben] Yes. - [Scott] But, you know beaches are reopening today. We got that going for us. - [Ben] They are. But only for a few hours right? Cause I saw they're opening today at five but then it was like five to 8 p.m. And then 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. - [Scott] Yes, yeah. - [Ben] Which means-- - [Scott] Six hours a day. - [Ben] They are essentially trying to avoid people going out and hanging out all day because let's face it in Jacksonville nobody goes to the beach from eight till eleven, unless you're gonna go for a walk or run or something like that. And same thing from five to eight. It's hey, you can go take a walk, you can go take a run, you can go exercise, but you're not gonna go lay out and party at the beach all day. - [Scott] Yeah, no, it's one of those I go kinda like two ways about it. Cause you know people are gonna abuse it. - [Ben] Right. - [Scott] No matter what. There's gonna be lawn chairs and things out there now people have to patrol it and all those kinds of things but I am genuinely looking forward to just going back to the beach and being able to like stick my feet in the ocean again. Like that's one of the advantages of living here. - [Ben] Right. - [Scott] And being close to all of that, so... Yeah, I'm sad I can't take a lawn chair with me, but I'm not gonna be one of those people. But I am totally gonna go stick my feet in the ocean. - [Ben] Oh did they say no lawn chairs too? - [Scott] Yeah, they don't want you, like you said, congregating or any kind of chance of that going on. - [Ben] I missed that part. It was interesting though because of the-- - [Scott] It was in like the Sheriff's webcast about it. - [Ben] Okay. - [Scott] So it's not in the official thing but they did call it out in the Sheriff's one so I think they're gonna be kinda going by and talking to people. - [Ben] So did you read the whole article, this made me laugh. Primarily because it's so interesting to me. I have family in other states and everybody has their different definition of essential activities when they put these stay at home orders in place. It's like, hey you can only go on the beach for essential activities. And in Florida, based on governor, the governor's executive order, essential activities include, participating in recreational activities consistent with social distancing guidelines such as walking, biking, hiking, fishing, running, swimming, taking care of pets and surfing. - [Ben] So if you're in Florida, surfing, swimming, I mean I get some of it's exercise based but then you look at places like Michigan where they're not even allowed to do any residential or commercial construction projects. Those are considered nonessential. In Florida surfing is essential. - [Scott] As it should be. I have a weather reporting app. So I don't surf but I go out and go paddle boarding, and the weather reporting app follows all the cameras up and down the beaches and the inner coastal here just so, sometimes it's not about even like wind speed or tide or things like that, it's really just about how calm it is out there cause there's some parts of the inner coastal and things that are-- - [Ben] Do you ever go paddle boarding in like six foot waves? - [Scott] You know sometimes I would, but my paddle boards and inflatables so just so its a little bit more implorable for me to get around. And it needs to be like really calm and really flat in the ocean, just to kinda keep the stability needed. It's not a paddle board that you wouldn't necessarily surf in on - [Ben] Got it. - [Scott] You know if I went out and bought like an eleven foot board that was a hard deck, then I could do some different things, but, yeah. I'm looking forward to having the ability to have just at least one extra option for something to do. - [Ben] Yeah. No I get it, like, I totally wish we lived closer and who knows. If this goes on much longer we may just drive out there some morning just to let the kids go run around and walk on the beach for a little bit. Because we are starting to get a little stir crazy. - [Scott] Just bring your bikes, you park at my house, you make the kids ride their bikes to the beach and then make them ride back and they're all good and tired, you know. - [Ben] Oh, except then they fall asleep in the car on the way home, and then they don't want to take a nap. - [Scott] Well it just means you get to drive the car around longer. It needs to be run anyway, you know, it's not like you're going out every day anymore. - [Ben] We were talking the other day, we couldn't even remember the last time we put gas in the car. - [Scott] It's been a while so I had to run an errand yesterday or at least I thought I had to run an errand, where I was just gonna go pick up my dog's medication, like flea and tick stuff right, we were in and out. - [Ben] Yep. - [Scott] And so I was walking out of the house and my wife said, oh don't worry about it. I've got to go out later to pick up groceries so I'll go do it. And I thought to myself, you know, I'm already like halfway out the door. I put my keys in my pocket you know, I got like my wallet in my pocket, this hasn't happened in a long time, this is oh exciting. So I kinda stood there in the garage with the garage door open, looking at my car and I said, all right well I'm just gonna start it up, cause it's gotta be started anyway. And then that turned into, well I should really just drive it around the neighborhood. So one friend I used to like lazy roll, just kinda like basically around the long block which you know takes like 10 minutes to drive around the neighborhood and do all that. And I was like yeah, I got to drive a car today. That was crazy. - [Ben] Did you put your seat back, roll down your windows and crank up your music too? - [Scott] No, I really should have though. You know everybody likes to see that Malibu rolling through. - [Ben] You know you gotta show it off. Oh here is your new quote Scott, this came from Michigan's governor. Speaking of quotes from governors, ''It is better to be six feet apart right now than six feet under.'' - [Scott] Yes. True statement, your outlook on things, yes, that is absolutely true. - [Ben] All things that make us laugh. Yeah I have all kinds of those. I will say the memes out of all this have been great. So, with all of that, all that said, should we talk about other stuff, like cloudy, cloudy stuff - [Scott] Yeah. - [Ben] Since its, is it cloudy today? It supposed to be raining this week. That's the only downside of the beaches opening it's supposed to rain all weekend. - [Scott] I will make do. - [Ben] All right, take an umbrella. - [Ben] Outlook Add-Ins are a great way to improve productivity and save time in the workplace. And Sperry Software has all the Add-Ins you'll ever need. The save as PDF Add-In is the a best seller and is great for project back ups, legal discovery and more. This Add-In saves the email and attachment as PDF files. It's easy to download, easy to install and Sperry Software's unparalleled customer service is always ready to help. Download a free trial at sperrysoftware.com, s-p-e-r-r-y-s-o-f-t-w-a-r-e.com and see for yourself how great save as PDF is. Listeners can get 20% off their order today by entering the code cloudIT. That's cloudit, C-L-O-U-D-I-T, all one word at checkout. Sperry Software work in email not on email. - [Ben] So Azure Web Apps, its something you said you have been working on recently. And you said we should talk about it. - [Scott] Yes, that is in fact true. So I have been doing a fun little project at work. It's a little bit of a transformational project of taking an existing series of microservices that are all hosted in Azure Kubernetes service today. And seeing if we can't break those microservices out, and potentially host them in another hosting container or another provider that's gonna allow us to run those Web Apps. And do it with the same performance characteristics and monitoring kinda operational insights we need, but at a much cheaper cost. So if you think about something like AKS, you know you stand up a cluster and typically you want some kind of a HA because it's a cluster, so you gonna want multiple things like multiple nodes in a node pool. You've got an AKS,...

Episode 173 – Zoom, Teams, and Slack, Oh My!

Thu, 16 Apr 2020 12:00:35 +0000

In Episode 173, Ben and Scott talk about their experiences with online meeting platforms such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Slack as all of us continue to cope with remote work. Transcript Email Download New Tab - Welcome to Episode 173 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro podcast recorded live on April 9, 2020. This is a show about Microsoft 365 and Azure from the perspective of IT pros and end users, where we discuss a topic or recent news and how it relates to you. In this episode, with the recent uptake in usage of Microsoft Teams, Zoom and Slack, Ben and Scott compare the tools and discuss why people should stop pitting these tools against each other. This is not our sleepy Scott and Ben. This is our wide awake Scott and Ben. I don't know if that would be better or worse. - Tell you what, it would be something. - It would be something. - Oh, so. - Here we are, week 534 of staying at home. - Of Isolation. - I no longer know what day it is. I no longer know what month it is. It's just another day. I was thinking of "Groundhog Day." Remember the movie, "Groundhog Day?" - Do I remember it? I've been watching it lately. Yes, it's an excellent movie. - It is we're reliving "Groundhog Day". We just wake up and it's always today. It's never tomorrow. - Yeah. If you're looking for another fun Bill Murray movie, in this time of isolation and sitting back and you've never seen it, you should go check out, "What about Bob?" - What about, I remember "What about Bob?" - "What about Bob?" is one of those classics that just holds up over time. - You know what? - So well. Baby steps. - I need to go watch it again. It has been a long time. I think I only watched it once. - It's time to get back in. And have you finished up, "Tiger King" yet? - I have not started and I refuse to start. - Oh, c'mon! Don't be that way. We can have a whole discussion about whether Carol actually killed her husband. What did Joe do? Oh man, we gotta get you into it. - No, I have talked to people and everybody is like, it is absolutely terrible but I guess, then, I watched the whole thing cause I just had to see the train wreck. - Yeah, you know we tried to stop after episode one but then you know they auto play so quick. I swear the vendor searches starting things quicker now. I've noticed on both Netflix and Prime, you're sitting there, Prime is really fast. Prime Video, it's three seconds and the next thing starts, the next episode, and you're going whoa, hold on! I didn't even have time to grab the remote, so yeah. - That's funny. Yeah, it's funny that's what I keep hearing from people. They're like, I watched the first episode or I watched first episode and a half and it was so terrible I was gonna turn it off but I couldn't. Isn't that the epitome then, of a great, a great job by the writers or something? To create something that everybody thinks is so terrible they wanna stop watching it but they can't. - Yeah, I will tell you. It was shot in an excellent way. The team that shot it and made the documentary, they're great at getting the shot. They have some of just shocking conversations with people. You don't even know how they got them on video to the point where you think it's a movie but then, you recognize that these people are just that dumb to say these things on camera. Or maybe they're that cerebral and that smart? I really don't know. Just some of the things, like you watch through the B-roll they have is great through the whole thing and they weave an excellent story. If you're looking to waste 5 hours of your life, it is there. - There is always that. As IT professionals, in the cloud era, sometimes it feels like we don't speak the same language as the rest of the organization. So, when stakeholders from Finance or other departments start asking about a specific project or Teams Azure cost, they don't always realize how much work is involved in obtaining that information. Sifting through cluttered CSVs and a complex mess of metadata in order to manually custom views and reports. It's a real headache. On top of helping you understand and reduce your organizations overall Azure spend, ShareGate Overcast, let's you group resources into meaningful cost tops and map them to real world business scenarios. This way, you track costs in the way that makes most sense with your corporate structure whether it's by product, business unit, team or otherwise. It's a flexible, intuitive and business friendly way of tracking Azure infrastructure costs. And it's only available in ShareGate Overcast. Find out more on sharegate.com/ITpro. So, with a terrible segue, should we move from talking about video on Netflix and Amazon and all the fun video we've watched to video on meetings. And some of the discussion that's happened in the last couple of weeks around different web conferencing platforms, and I've may even pull some other platforms in here because it's been interesting. As everybody has gone and started working from home to see this whole, really a battle, is what I would call it between specifically Teams and between Zoom. - Yeah, let's get in to it. I'm excited. - And just some of interesting things too, you've noticed. You said you've noticed there's some Teams with edu. But I will say I had an update. So, transparency, I use Zoom every week. We use Zoom for the podcast. We're using it right now. And if anybody wants to join, our meeting code is, no, I'm not gonna do that. But I could. - C'mon, you could though. - I could though. Because I've installed a couple Zoom updates. Zoom has been throwing out updates daily, over the last week or so. I don't know when this update happened. Because in all fairness, we last used Zoom when we recorded six days ago. And I haven't started another Zoom meeting since then. But you used to click on our link for our podcast that would let you right in. You could do all of that. Today, you went to join and it said, you have to wait for Ben to start the meeting. And then, I started the meeting and you joined. And then, I got a pop up that you were waiting in the, I don't know, if they call it the lobby or whatever, you were waiting and I had to admit you. - I did not make, I just thought your Zoom OPSEC was getting that much better and you were trying to annoy me, in all the wrong ways. - Yes and I didn't. I have not updated. Well, I did update the meeting invite. It may have gone and pull out some different settings. But I did not update any settings or anything around our meeting. Other than, I did have to reschedule it cause we're recording on Thursday instead of Friday. And all of this stuff just got turned on by default for a pre-existing scheduled meeting. So, I am not doing any better at my Zoom OPSEC. Apparently, Zoom is and rightly or wrongly, they just went and enabled all of the stuff on my meetings that I already had scheduled. I had no idea. Who knew? So, one piece of advice, if you are using Zoom and you want some of these settings at the way they were originally, you may wanna go look at your settings. You may have to make some changes or people might not be able to get into your meeting until you get there. - I think there's somethings like that. Yeah, they have just been pushing out all these updates and it's like every other day, I've seen an update to the Zoom client, locally. But there have been some good blogs other there from folks like Liam Cleary had a really good one: Still using Zooms for meetings; Wanna still keep using Zoom for meetings; here are somethings that you might wanna take a look at. Just to make sure that you are maybe positioned the right way and that you have setup some of this settings in a manner that actually puts you in a better place. - Yeah and they did add a security tab at the bottom now, too. So, I have a separate tab now where I can just click security and I can go do it, go in and do things like enable that waiting room or lock the meeting and choose what I want to allow participants to do. So, there's some really nice updates that have come out of this. I think, getting on my soapbox for a minute, the part that bugged me about all of this, when all of this came out was, I'm not gonna call anybody out by name, there were some people that were non-Microsofties, there were some Microsoft people that I saw saying this is everybody all of a sudden jumped on, Zoom is terrible. Go use Teams because Zoom has horrible security. It was instilling this sense of fear in a bunch of people that used Zoom. Saying that it was terrible-- - Ah yes, the FUD. - Right. Saying it was this terrible, insecure platform. Stop using it all together. And yes, there were obviously some security things that have come out of this. There's been some security things about the whole end-to-end encryption and where it's sending data. But at the end of the day, even before all of this, I have used Zoom for years. There were certain settings you can enable. You have always been able to password protect meetings. You've always been able to set different 10 digit invitation URLs. They've had those 10 digit URLs forever. There were ways you could protect it. And I genuinely was not worried about using Team or Zoom when all of this stuff start coming out. My daughter was using Zoom meetings for other stuff. I was like, you know what, I know the people running the meetings. I'm sitting here, I'm seeing the meetings, I'm seeing how they have it set-up. You could secure your meetings fairly well if you knew what you were doing, made the right settings, made the right adjustments. I will give them that, yes, it's not as secure as Teams. If you look at the URL to join a Teams meeting, it is significantly longer. There is more security around Teams. But at the end of the day, I felt like Zoom got a little bit of a bad rap from some people in terms of how

Episode 172 – Office 365 for Small and Medium Business Rebranding

Thu, 09 Apr 2020 12:00:20 +0000

In Episode 172, Ben and Scott break down some announced changes around the rebranding of several Office 365 for Business SKUs to Microsoft 365. Sponsors ShareGate – ShareGate’s industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox Office365AdminPortal.com – Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink – We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes New Microsoft 365 offerings for small and medium-sized businesses Name change for Office 365 ProPlus Introducing the new Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscriptions Microsoft 365 Business Voice for SMB now available worldwide, Up to 300 users Microsoft Teams Cloud Telephony single SKU Understanding Microsoft Teams Calling Plans About the sponsors Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 171 – Working from home with Sarah Lean

Thu, 02 Apr 2020 12:00:59 +0000

In Episode 171, Ben and Scott are joined by Sarah Lean, Microsoft Cloud Advocate, to talk about working from home and some ways to adapt to remote presentations. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Focus Assist Present PowerPoint in Microsoft Teams and still see the chat Homeworkers rejoice: Microsoft Teams’ customized background feature hides distractions at the press of a button Episode 114 – Answering “Why Cloud?” with Sarah Lean What is Azure Cost Management and Billing? Collab365: GlobalCon 2 About Sarah Lean Sarah fell in love with technology at an early age and has made it her career. She has a deep and wide-ranging knowledge of a variety of best-in-breed technologies. In recent years she has started to focus and specialize in all things Cloud, especially Microsoft Azure. Sarah joined Microsoft as a Cloud Solution Architect in January 2018 and her focus is on helping organizations with their Data Center Transformations. Within her role, she gets to combine her 13+ years’ experience of managing and designing on-premises environments and her passion for Azure, helping customers start their cloud journey is an ideal role for her. Sarah is a STEM Ambassador and is hopeful that sharing her story can help inspire the next generation into a STEM career. In February 2017 Sarah founded the Glasgow Azure User Group, which is a community group that meets every two months and aims to bring together people who are looking to learn and network with their peers. As well as running a user group Sarah loves to attend other groups and speak at them as well. Sarah can be found on Twitter @techielass, GitHub at https://github.com/weeyin83, and her blog at https://www.techielass.com. About the sponsors Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 170 – Azure Resource Manager All The Things!

Thu, 26 Mar 2020 12:00:06 +0000

In Episode 170, Ben and Scott are joined by Alex Neihaus to talk about Azure Resource Manager Templates, PowerShell, and the Azure CLI. Sponsors ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Alex's Blog The mother of all Azure SQL Database ARM templates Azure/aks-engine AzureRM cmdlets return an object with a JSON-like format Azure Building Blocks: Simplifying Resource Deployment Windows activation fails in forced tunneling scenario About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 169 – Working From Home

Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:00:32 +0000

In Episode 169, Ben and Scott take a break from the cloud and talk about the current situation with COVID-19 and how it's impacting many of us with work from home policies that have been put in place to maintain social distancing. Sponsors ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Opsgility - Your Cloud enablement partner to help guide your organization through all phases of Cloud migration and adoption Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Get Your Mass Gatherings or Large Community Events Ready Global Azure and COVID-19 Current crowds at the Magic Kingdom for tonight's showing of Happily Ever After... #DisneyWorld Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19): The epidemic and the challenges. Suddenly working at home? We’ve done it for 22 years—and have advice 8 Tips To Make Working From Home Work For You Custom Teams/Zoom backgrounds stevesi/backgrounds MSAdministrator/awesome-video-chat-backgrounds Found some more video chat backgrounds - @SoniaCuff Software duet Display Luna Display About the sponsors Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 168 – Live from Collab365 GlobalCon1!

Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:00:52 +0000

In Episode 168, Ben and Scott come to you live from Collab365 GlobalCon1 (well, really the comfort of their homes) and talk about Universal Print coming to Azure, the announcement that org-wide teams are coming to Office 365 for tenants with less than 5,000 users, and the GA of PowerShell 7.0. Sponsors ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Opsgility - Your Cloud enablement partner to help guide your organization through all phases of Cloud migration and adoption Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Announcing Universal Print: a cloud-based print solution What’s New in Microsoft Teams | February 2020 Microsoft’s Bad Idea to Create an Org-Wide Team for New Office 365 Tenants - Office 365 for IT Pros Create an org-wide team in Microsoft Teams Free Office 365 E1 Trial for 6 months in response to COVID-19 Manage the Office 365 E1 Trial Manage the Microsoft Teams Exploratory license Announcing PowerShell 7.0 About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 167 – Azure Certification Updates!

Thu, 05 Mar 2020 13:00:26 +0000

In Episode 167, Ben and Scott discuss some updates that allow you to deploy resources in Azure to scopes above a resource group and then break down some big changes coming to the Azure certifications. Sponsors ShareGate – ShareGate’s industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox Intelligink – We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Office365AdminPortal.com – Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Show Notes String functions for Azure Resource Manager templates uniqueString() Did you know you can deploy ARM templates to any scope in Azure now? #AzureRm Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Tools Azure/Azure-Lighthouse-samples Updates to Several Azure and Data & AI Certifications are Coming Soon Updates to Azure certification exams announced in January 2020 About the sponsors Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 166 – Gear and Tech

Thu, 27 Feb 2020 13:00:26 +0000

In Episode 166, Ben and Scott take a break from talking about the cloud and get into some of the gear and software they've picked up over the last few months. Sponsors ShareGate – ShareGate’s industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox Intelligink – We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Office365AdminPortal.com – Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Show Notes Yamaha MG12 12-Input 4-Bus Mixer Focusrite Scarlett 18i8 (3rd Gen) USB Audio Interface with Pro Tools HyperDrive GEN2: Next Generation USB-C Hub. 2X Speed & Power HDCP 4K HDMI cables: How to cut through the marketing lingo and figure out what you actually need Blackmagic Design ATEM Mini HDMI Live Switcher New Apple MacBook Pro (16-Inch, 16GB RAM, 1TB Storage, 2.3GHz Intel Core i9) gfxCardStatus Logitech Spotlight Presentation Remote - Advanced Digital Highlighting with Bluetooth, Universal Presenter Clicker, 30M Range and Quick Charging Macbook Pro 13" 2020 Rumors https://twitter.com/_rogame/status/1230397536579604484 Rumor: 2020 13-inch MacBook Pro rates 10nm Intel Ice Lake processor Here’s our first look at Apple’s brand new rack-mounted Mac Pro Apple Mac Pro Rack - Unboxing and Observations from a Music Professional Using the magic that is PowerShell implicit remoting we updated Import-Module with -UseWindowsPowerShell About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 165 – Power Virtual Agents

Thu, 20 Feb 2020 13:00:48 +0000

In Episode 165, Ben and Scott run through Power Virtual Agents, a feature of Power Platform that allows you to create and manage "no-code" (or to be more realistic - "low-code") bots. Sponsors ShareGate – ShareGate’s industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox Intelligink – We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Office365AdminPortal.com – Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Show Notes Update to Microsoft Search in Bing through Office 365 ProPlus "wowzy, 1000 dollar per month for Power Virtual Agents? No 'included in O365' license available?" Microsoft Power Virtual Agents Microsoft Power Virtual Agents Pricing Billing unit and billing sessions Power Virtual Agents overview Assign licenses and manage access to Power Virtual Agents Key concepts - Enhanced authoring in Power Virtual Agents Key Concepts - Publish your bot About the sponsors Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 164 – Certificates are hard

Thu, 13 Feb 2020 13:00:18 +0000

In Episode 164, Ben and Scott dive in and discuss some new features that are coming to the Office 365 Admin Center and Azure Lighthouse that are going to make your life easier if you manage more than one tenant. Sponsors Skill Me Up – Only Skill Me Up provides the bridge from fundamentals to certification paths to advanced skills to accelerate digital transformation in 1 subscription with 5 ways to learn. Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate – ShareGate’s industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Intelligink – We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Office365AdminPortal.com – Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Show Notes LEGO Masters on Fox Can't access Microsoft Teams - TM202916 New organization switcher in the Microsoft 365 admin center Introducing Conditional Access for the Office 365 suite! Azure Active Directory Conditional Access settings reference New Azure Lighthouse features are now generally available What is Azure Lighthouse? View and manage service providers Deploy Azure Policy to delegated subscriptions at scale About the sponsors Everyone on your team is unique...so is SkillMeUp.com. Only Skill Me Up provides the bridge from fundamentals to certification paths to advanced skills to accelerate digital transformation with 1 subscription with 5 ways to learn. Start your free pilot today and supercharge your IT and Microsoft Azure skills. https://skillmeup.com/pilot/?src=Pod Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 163 – So… what is Power Platform?

Thu, 06 Feb 2020 13:00:12 +0000

In Episode 163, Ben and Scott dive in Power Platform and the PL-900 Power Platform Fundamentals exam. Along the way, they discuss what makes up Power Platform and how you can approach learning about Power Platform. Sponsors ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Opsgility - Your Cloud enablement partner to help guide your organization through all phases of Cloud migration and adoption Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Exam PL-900: Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals (beta) Exam PL-900 Exam Skills Outline Microsoft Power Platform Power Apps Power Automate Power BI Power Virtual Agents Announcing changes to Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations Security concepts in Common Data Service Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals Learning Path About the sponsors Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info. Everyone on your team is unique...so is SkillMeUp.com. Only Skill Me Up provides the bridge from fundamentals to certification paths to advanced skills to accelerate digital transformation with 1 subscription with 5 ways to learn. Start your free pilot today and supercharge your IT and Microsoft Azure skills. https://skillmeup.com/pilot/?src=Pod

Episode 162 – Bing, Office 365 ProPlus, and Microsoft Search – Oh My!

Wed, 29 Jan 2020 13:00:43 +0000

In Episode 162, Ben and Scott discuss one of the latest bad moves out of Redmond - forcefully installing the Microsoft Search in Bing extension in Google Chrome. Sponsors Skill Me Up – Only Skill Me Up provides the bridge from fundamentals to certification paths to advanced skills to accelerate digital transformation in 1 subscription with 5 ways to learn. ShareGate – ShareGate’s industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inboxOffice365AdminPortal.com – Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink – We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Extension of Microsoft Search in Bing to be installed to Office 365 ProPlus customers Microsoft Search in Bing and Office 365 ProPlus How to exclude the extension for Microsoft Search in Bing from being installed How to remove the extension after it’s been installed The Day Microsoft Office Turned into Malware Office 365 ProPlus to change Chrome's default search engine to Bing in upcoming update Change to Bing Search for ProPlus should be opt-in only Google’s Five-Year Plan For GCP Has Funding Strings Attached: Report About the sponsors Everyone on your team is unique...so is SkillMeUp.com. Only Skill Me Up provides the bridge from fundamentals to certification paths to advanced skills to accelerate digital transformation with 1 subscription with 5 ways to learn. Start your free pilot today and supercharge your IT and Microsoft Azure skills. https://skillmeup.com/pilot/?src=Pod Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 161 – Office 365 News

Thu, 23 Jan 2020 13:00:06 +0000

In Episode 161, Ben and Scott discuss the updated timeline for the migration from Office 365 to Microsoft Stream and some new functionality coming to Office 365 and Outlook on the web that will make it easier to import personal calendars from Outlook.com, Live.com, and Google. Sponsors ShareGate – ShareGate’s industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox Skill Me Up – Only Skill Me Up provides the bridge from fundamentals to certification paths to advanced skills to accelerate digital transformation in 1 subscription with 5 ways to learn. Office365AdminPortal.com – Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink – We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Microsoft Ignite 2020 Pre-registration Join Ben at North American Collaboration Summit and save $50 off full conference pass or workshops using coupon code "Stegink" Office 365 Video transition to Microsoft Stream overview Office 365 Video migration timing setting Microsoft Stream and Office 365 Video feature comparison Teams cloud meeting recording Where your meeting recordings are stored Which regions does Microsoft Stream host my data in? Add a calendar in Outlook on the web Download the new Microsoft Edge based on Chromium About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Everyone on your team is unique...so is SkillMeUp.com. Only Skill Me Up provides the bridge from fundamentals to certification paths to advanced skills to accelerate digital transformation with 1 subscription with 5 ways to learn. Start your free pilot today and supercharge your IT and Microsoft Azure skills. https://skillmeup.com/pilot/?src=Pod Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 160 – Office Cloud Policy Service

Thu, 16 Jan 2020 13:00:14 +0000

In Episode 160, Ben and Scott dive into the Office Cloud Policy Service, part of the Office Admin Center and talk through how to manage the user configuration for your Office clients all in the cloud without GPOs. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox Skill Me Up – Only Skill Me Up provides the bridge from fundamentals to certification paths to advanced skills to accelerate digital transformation in 1 subscription with 5 ways to learn. ShareGate – ShareGate’s industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com – Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink – We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Pepsi Generation Security Baseline recommendations now available in Office Cloud Policy Service Office Admin Center Overview of the Office cloud policy service for Office 365 ProPlus Requirements for using the Office cloud policy service Security baseline for Office 365 ProPlus (v1908, Sept 2019) - FINAL Office What’s New Management Preview Updates Now Available Office‎ What's New management Preview About the sponsors Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Everyone on your team is unique...so is SkillMeUp.com. Only Skill Me Up provides the bridge from fundamentals to certification paths to advanced skills to accelerate digital transformation with 1 subscription with 5 ways to learn. Start your free pilot today and supercharge your IT and Microsoft Azure skills. https://skillmeup.com/pilot/?src=Pod Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 159 – Azure Spot VMs and Azure AD Cloud Provisioning

Thu, 09 Jan 2020 13:00:20 +0000

In Episode 159, Ben and Scott kick off 2020 with a discussion about the deprecation of Low Priority VMs in Azure and the introduction of Spot VMs and then they talk about a new feature available in Azure AD that can help you synchronize users and groups from disconnected domains. Sponsors ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Opsgility - Your Cloud enablement partner to help guide your organization through all phases of Cloud migration and adoption Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Azure Spot Virtual Machines Preview: Deploy Spot VMs using the Azure portal Bring identities from disconnected ADs into Azure AD with just a few clicks! What is Azure AD Connect cloud provisioning? How is Azure AD Connect cloud provisioning different from Azure AD Connect sync? Azure AD Connect cloud provisioning new agent configuration Previous Episodes Episode 129 – The Latest and Greatest in Azure and Office 365 Episode 137 – Azure and Office 365 News Episode 152 – Using Azure DevOps to Automate Azure Deployments with Steven Murawski Episode 154 – Azure AD Security with Ramiro Calderon and Stefan van der Wiele About the sponsors Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Everyone on your team is unique...so is SkillMeUp.com. Only Skill Me Up provides the bridge from fundamentals to certification paths to advanced skills to accelerate digital transformation with 1 subscription with 5 ways to learn. Start your free pilot today and supercharge your IT and Microsoft Azure skills. https://skillmeup.com/pilot/?src=Pod Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 158 – What are security defaults?

Thu, 02 Jan 2020 13:00:25 +0000

In Episode 158, Ben and Scott dive into a change that is going to impact all Microsoft Partners and their security posture in Azure Active Directory. Sponsors ShareGate – ShareGate’s industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs\ Opsgility – Your Cloud enablement partner to help guide your organization through all phases of Cloud migration and adoption Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox Office365AdminPortal.com – Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink – We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Airing of Grievances Partner Security Requirements Replacement of baseline policies with security defaults What are security defaults? Episode 74 – Securing Office 365 (Part 1) Past Episodes Episode 120 – All Of The Portals Episode 126 – Privileged Accounts In Azure AD The Right Way Episode 151 – Microsoft Information Protection with Gagan Gulati and Adam Hall Episode 154 – Azure AD Security with Ramiro Calderon and Stefan van der Wiele Episode 155 – Microsoft 365 Tenant Level Services About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Everyone on your team is unique...so is SkillMeUp.com. Only Skill Me Up provides the bridge from fundamentals to certification paths to advanced skills to accelerate digital transformation with 1 subscription with 5 ways to learn. Start your free pilot today and supercharge your IT and Microsoft Azure skills. https://skillmeup.com/pilot/?src=Pod Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 157 – The “why” of Microsoft cloud services?

Thu, 26 Dec 2019 13:00:24 +0000

In Episode 157, Ben and Scott go sideways and talk about Microsoft's approach to documenting not only the How but the Why of services and products that they release and how customers can obtain operational guidance today. Sponsors Opsgility - Your Cloud enablement partner to help guide your organization through all phases of Cloud migration and adoption Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Microsoft Teams is getting Outlook integration, tasks support, and more "One thing I'm noticing from the #MSIgnite attendee feedback is that some "don't want to hear the opinions of others" they want MSFT to tell them what to do." https://twitter.com/_achu/status/1200593596409425922 https://twitter.com/benstegink/status/1200955121418620928 Applying for the Project Cortex Preview Program Previous Episodes Episode 114 – Answering “Why Cloud?” with Sarah Lean Episode 121 – Moving at the Speed of the Cloud Episode 143 – Adoption Change Management for Microsoft 365 with David Callaghan Episode 153 – Crafting the Story for Microsoft 365 with Stephen Rose Episode 155 – Microsoft 365 Tenant Level Services About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Everyone on your team is unique...so is SkillMeUp.com. Only Skill Me Up provides the bridge from fundamentals to certification paths to advanced skills to accelerate digital transformation with 1 subscription with 5 ways to learn. Start your free pilot today and supercharge your IT and Microsoft Azure skills. https://skillmeup.com/pilot/?src=Pod Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 156 – Microsoft Teams Problems!

Thu, 19 Dec 2019 13:00:06 +0000

Ben and Scott go down a deep, dark hole and discuss some issues with Microsoft Teams screen sharing on MacOS Catalina. After that, they discuss the newly announced Microsoft Team Exploratory license and some impacts to your tenant if you allow trials.

Episode 155 – Microsoft 365 Tenant Level Services

Thu, 12 Dec 2019 13:13:31 +0000

In Episode 155, Ben and Scott dive into a discussion around tenant-level services in Microsoft 365 and Office 365 and what you need to think about as you license users and potentially scope deployments within your tenancy to ensure your compliance with your Microsoft 365 licensing.

Episode 154 – Azure AD Security with Ramiro Calderon and Stefan van der Wiele

Thu, 05 Dec 2019 13:00:17 +0000

Ben and Scott sit down at Microsoft Ignite with Ramiro Calderon, Principal Program Manager - Azure Active Directory, and Stefan van der Wiele, Senior Program Manager - Azure Active Directory, to talk about Azure Active Directory and how as the core of authentication for Office 365, Azure, and Microsoft you can configure your tenancies in a secure and usable way.

Episode 153 – Crafting the Story for Microsoft 365 with Stephen Rose

Thu, 28 Nov 2019 13:00:42 +0000

In Episode 153, Ben sits down at Microsoft Ignite with Stephen Rose, Sr PMM, Microsoft 365 Storytelling and Branding Team, to talk about what it takes to align demos across the Microsoft 365 product suite and how to craft a great story. Sponsors ShareGate – ShareGate’s industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Skill Me Up – Skill Me Up provides the bridge from fundamentals to certification paths to advanced skills to accelerate digital transformation with 1 subscription with 5 ways to learn. SaneBox – SaneBox brings sanity back to your inbox by prioritizing what’s important, removing spam/junk, grouping newsletters together, and automating tedious tasks. Office365AdminPortal.com – Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink – We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Customer Digital Experiences How To Give A Killer Product Demo Insights on planning, crafting, delivering and enjoying a keynote About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. SaneBox brings sanity back to your inbox by prioritizing what’s important, removing spam/junk, grouping newsletters together, and automating tedious tasks. Sign up today and save $25 on any subscription! https://www.sanebox.com/allthings Everyone on your team is unique...so is SkillMeUp.com. Only Skill Me Up provides the bridge from fundamentals to certification paths to advanced skills to accelerate digital transformation with 1 subscription with 5 ways to learn. Start your free pilot today and supercharge your IT and Microsoft Azure skills. https://skillmeup.com/pilot/?src=Pod Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 152 – Using Azure DevOps to Automate Azure Deployments with Steven Murawski

Thu, 21 Nov 2019 13:00:46 +0000

In Episode 152, Ben and Scott sit down with Steven Murawski, Lead Cloud Ops Advocate at Microsoft, at Microsoft Ignite to talk about the power and freedom that comes from managing your infrastructure as code using tools like Azure Repos and Azure Pipelines inside of Azure DevOps. You can follow Steven on Twitter @StevenMurawski. Sponsors ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Skill Me Up - Skill Me Up provides the bridge from fundamentals to certification paths to advanced skills to accelerate digital transformation with 1 subscription with 5 ways to learn. SaneBox – SaneBox brings sanity back to your inbox by prioritizing what’s important, removing spam/junk, grouping newsletters together, and automating tedious tasks. Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes What Is Source Control? Infrastructure as code (IaC) Azure Repos Documentation Azure Pipelines Documentation Integrate Resource Manager templates with Azure Pipelines Create your first pipeline from the CLI Why Is Linting Important? And How To Use Lint Tools Using Azure DevOps for linting on GitHub Run Pester tests on Azure Pipelines Azure DevOps Services Pricing About the sponsors SaneBox brings sanity back to your inbox by prioritizing what’s important, removing spam/junk, grouping newsletters together, and automating tedious tasks. Sign up today and save $25 on any subscription! https://www.sanebox.com/allthings Everyone on your team is unique...so is SkillMeUp.com. Only Skill Me Up provides the bridge from fundamentals to certification paths to advanced skills to accelerate digital transformation with 1 subscription with 5 ways to learn. Start your free pilot today and supercharge your IT and Microsoft Azure skills. https://skillmeup.com/pilot/?src=Pod Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 151 – Microsoft Information Protection with Gagan Gulati and Adam Hall

Thu, 14 Nov 2019 13:00:32 +0000

In Episode 151, Ben sits down at Microsoft Ignite with Gagan Gulati, Head of Product for Azure Information Protection, and Adam Hall, Director, Microsoft Security to discuss the history of information protection at Microsoft and the material impacts of protecting your organization’s sensitive data in Office 365, including the transition from AIP to MIP (such as the upcoming move from the AIP portal the the Microsoft 365 Compliance Center). Sponsors Skill Me Up – Skill Me Up provides the bridge from fundamentals to certification paths to advanced skills to accelerate digital transformation with 1 subscription with 5 ways to learn. SaneBox – SaneBox brings sanity back to your inbox by prioritizing what’s important, removing spam/junk, grouping newsletters together, and automating tedious tasks. ShareGate – ShareGate’s industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com – Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink – We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Navigate data protection and risk in the cloud era Microsoft announces new innovations in security, compliance, and identity at Ignite What is Azure Information Protection? AIP end-user adoption guide Azure Information Protection - Deployment Acceleration Guide Azure Information Protection deployment roadmap Installation, Configuration, and Usage of the AIP Scanner Quickstart: Find what sensitive information you have in files stored on-premises Microsoft Information Protection now extends beyond Rights Management Azure Information Protection - also known as ... PDF readers that support Microsoft Information Protection About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. SaneBox brings sanity back to your inbox by prioritizing what’s important, removing spam/junk, grouping newsletters together, and automating tedious tasks. Sign up today and save $25 on any subscription! https://www.sanebox.com/allthings Everyone on your team is unique...so is SkillMeUp.com. Only Skill Me Up provides the bridge from fundamentals to certification paths to advanced skills to accelerate digital transformation with 1 subscription with 5 ways to learn. Start your free pilot today and supercharge your IT and Microsoft Azure skills. https://skillmeup.com/pilot/?src=Pod Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 150 – Azure Quantum with Julie Love

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 13:00:32 +0000

In Episode 150, Ben sits down at Microsoft Ignite with Julie Love, Senior Director, Quantum Computing at Microsoft, to talk all about quantum computing and the newly announced service Azure Quantum. Sponsors ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Opsgility - Your Cloud enablement partner to help guide your organization through all phases of Cloud migration and adoption Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Microsoft Quantum Blog Azure Quantum announcement Azure Quantum service Post-quantum Cryptography Microsoft quantum documentation Quantum Development Kit Quantum Development Kit samples Julie Love - Senior Director, Quantum Computing at Microsoft Quantum computing has potential for profound impact on our economic, industrial, academic and societal landscape. As director of quantum computing business development, I lead Microsoft's engagement with enterprises, startups, and developers. I have a deep technical background in quantum computing, with a Ph.D. in quantum physics from one of the leading experimental quantum computing groups in the world at Yale and a BS in Physics from MIT. I have held a variety of strategic and operational roles at Microsoft and Adobe, and served as an advisor to two quantum computing companies along the way. I leverage my deep quantum expertise with experience building big platform businesses to develop our product strategy and drive engagement with Microsoft's quantum platform. About the sponsors SaneBox brings sanity back to your inbox by prioritizing what’s important, removing spam/junk, grouping newsletters together, and automating tedious tasks. Sign up today and save $25 on any subscription! https://www.sanebox.com/allthings Everyone on your team is unique...so is SkillMeUp.com. Only Skill Me Up provides the bridge from fundamentals to certification paths to advanced skills to accelerate digital transformation with 1 subscription with 5 ways to learn. Start your free pilot today and supercharge your IT and Microsoft Azure skills. https://skillmeup.com/pilot/?src=Pod Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 149 – The End Of Acronym Soup (aka Unified Labels)

Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:00:41 +0000

In Episode 149, Ben and Scott wrap up their whirlwind tour of AIP with Unified Labels. Sponsors ShareGate – ShareGate’s industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs SaneBox – SaneBox brings sanity back to your inbox by prioritizing what’s important, removing spam/junk, grouping newsletters together, and automating tedious tasks. Skill Me Up – Skill Me Up provides the bridge from fundamentals to certification paths to advanced skills to accelerate digital transformation with 1 subscription with 5 ways to learn. Office365AdminPortal.com – Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink – We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Using Your YubiKey as a Smart Card in macOS Google’s ‘.new’ shortcut now works with calendar entries Episode 144 – Acronym Soup with RMS, AIP, ATP, and ATA Episode 145 – You Thought We Were Done With Acronym Soup? Azure Information Protection - also known as... Microsoft Information Protection and Unified Labeling How to migrate Azure Information Protection labels to unified sensitivity labels The client-side of Azure Information Protection Clients and services that support unified labeling Compare the labeling clients for Windows computers Deploying the Azure Information Protection scanner to automatically classify and protect files What is Azure Advanced Threat Protection? Information protection in Windows overview Use sensitivity labels to prioritize incident response Auto labeling What is Advanced Threat Analytics? Previous Episodes Episode 144 – Acronym Soup with RMS, AIP, ATP, and ATA Episode 145—You Thought We Were Done With Acronym Soup? About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Everyone on your team is unique...so is SkillMeUp.com. Only Skill Me Up provides the bridge from fundamentals to certification paths to advanced skills to accelerate digital transformation with 1 subscription with 5 ways to learn. Start your free pilot today and supercharge your IT and Microsoft Azure skills. https://skillmeup.com/pilot/?src=Pod SaneBox brings sanity back to your inbox by prioritizing what’s important, removing spam/junk, grouping newsletters together, and automating tedious tasks. Sign up today and save $25 on any subscription! https://www.sanebox.com/allthings Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 148 – Power Platform Self-Service

Thu, 24 Oct 2019 12:00:23 +0000

In Episode 148, Ben and Scott discuss MC193609, "Announcing self-service purchase capabilities for Power Platform products" and some of the things you'll need to think about as this new capability comes to an Office 365 tenant near you. Sponsors ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs SaneBox – SaneBox brings sanity back to your inbox by prioritizing what’s important, removing spam/junk, grouping newsletters together, and automating tedious tasks. Skill Me Up - Skill Me Up provides the bridge from fundamentals to certification paths to advanced skills to accelerate digital transformation with 1 subscription with 5 ways to learn. Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes "Announcing self-service purchase capabilities for Power Platform products" (MC193609) Microsoft to enable end-users to buy Power Platform licenses without administrative approval Users can now check their sign-in history for unusual activity https://mysignins.microsoft.com/ Your Pa$$word doesn't matter Government Surplus Auctions Previous Episodes Episode 90 – Power BI and Data Democratization with Alexander Arvidsson Episode 130 – Microsoft Teams Governance Episode 139 – Azure Migrate v2 Episode 142 – Windows Server 2008 (R2) End of Support About the sponsors Everyone on your team is unique...so is SkillMeUp.com. Only Skill Me Up provides the bridge from fundamentals to certification paths to advanced skills to accelerate digital transformation with 1 subscription with 5 ways to learn. Start your free pilot today and supercharge your IT and Microsoft Azure skills. https://skillmeup.com/pilot/?src=Pod SaneBox brings sanity back to your inbox by prioritizing what’s important, removing spam/junk, grouping newsletters together, and automating tedious tasks. Sign up today and save $25 on any subscription! https://www.sanebox.com/allthings Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 147 – All Things Microsoft Ignite with Anna Chu

Thu, 17 Oct 2019 12:00:26 +0000

Episode 146 – Azure Resource Manager Templates

Thu, 10 Oct 2019 12:00:02 +0000

In Episode 146, Ben and Scott start to break down Azure Resource Manager templates and some of the tooling and benefits to managing your Azure infrastructure (and yes, that includes PaaS services!) as code. Sponsors ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs SaneBox – SaneBox brings sanity back to your inbox by prioritizing what’s important, removing spam/junk, grouping newsletters together, and automating tedious tasks. Skill Me Up - Skill Me Up provides the bridge from fundamentals to certification paths to advanced skills to accelerate digital transformation with 1 subscription with 5 ways to learn. Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes The ultimate Azure cost optimization checklist for cloud teams Infrastructure as code Azure Resource Manager overview Visual Studio Code (VS Code) Azure Resource Manager Tools Azure/azure-quickstart-templates Single and multi-resource export to a template in Azure portal Azure Resource Manager templates Past Episodes Episode 145 - You Thought We Were Done With Acronym Soup? Episode 135 - Speaking at Microsoft Ignite! with Anna Chu Episode 143 - Adoption Change Management for Microsoft 365 with David Callaghan Episode 144 - Acronym Soup with RMS, AIP, ATP, and ATA Episode 142 - Windows Server 2008 (R2) End of Support Episode 141 - Microsoft Cloud News - Hurricane Dorian Edition About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Everyone on your team is unique...so is SkillMeUp.com. Only Skill Me Up provides the bridge from fundamentals to certification paths to advanced skills to accelerate digital transformation with 1 subscription with 5 ways to learn. Start your free pilot today and super charge your IT and Microsoft Azure skills. https://skillmeup.com/pilot/?src=Pod SaneBox brings sanity back to your inbox by prioritizing what’s important, removing spam/junk, grouping newsletters together, and automating tedious tasks. Sign up today and save $25 on any subscription! https://www.sanebox.com/allthings Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 145 – You Thought We Were Done With Acronym Soup?

Thu, 03 Oct 2019 12:00:12 +0000

In Episode 145, Ben and Scott break out their soup bowls and continue digging into their acronym soup with Azure Information Protection labels and their various flavors - unified labels, sensitivity labels, and retention labels. Sponsors Opsgility - Your Cloud enablement partner to help guide your organization through all phases of Cloud migration and adoption SaneBox – SaneBox brings sanity back to your inbox by prioritizing what’s important, removing spam/junk, grouping newsletters together, and automating tedious tasks. ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes iPhone 11 Pro Max beats Huawei Mate 30 Pro and Galaxy Note 10+ in battery life test Episode 144 – Acronym Soup with RMS, AIP, ATP, and ATA Azure Information Protection Pricing Azure Information Protection licensing datasheet Overview of sensitivity labels How sensitivity labels work with existing Azure Information Protection labels Overview of retention labels How long it takes for retention labels to take effect How to migrate Azure Information Protection labels to unified sensitivity labels Previous Episodes Episode 137 - Azure and Office 365 News Episode 136 - Azure SQL Managed Instance Episode 139 - Azure Migrate v2 Episode 141 - Microsoft Cloud News - Hurricane Dorian Edition Episode 144 - Acronym Soup with RMS, AIP, ATP, and ATA About the sponsors As the leading global brand for enabling the Microsoft Cloud, Opsgility’s global Microsoft MVP and multi-certified Cloud Solutions Architect team has authored over twenty MOC Courses, the Microsoft Press Book Implementing Azure Solutions 70-533 and numerous Microsoft Cloud Practice Playbooks for Microsoft Partners. And for a limited time, you can get your team certified in the most exciting cloud business today with a 25% discount off instructor-led training prep courses for Azure and Microsoft 365! Visit https://opsgility.com/MicrosoftCloud to learn more. SaneBox brings sanity back to your inbox by prioritizing what’s important, removing spam/junk, grouping newsletters together, and automating tedious tasks. Sign up today and save $25 on any subscription! https://www.sanebox.com/allthings Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 144 – Acronym Soup with RMS, AIP, ATP, and ATA

Thu, 26 Sep 2019 12:00:29 +0000

Ben and Scott dive into Microsoft Information Protection solutions such as Azure Information Protection and Azure Rights Management Service.

Episode 143 – Adoption Change Management for Microsoft 365 with David Callaghan

Thu, 19 Sep 2019 12:00:26 +0000

Ben and Scott sit down with David Callaghan, Head of Business Change at FITTS, to talk about Adoption Change Management (or ACM) for Microsoft 365.

Episode 142 – Windows Server 2008 (R2) End of Support

Thu, 12 Sep 2019 12:00:10 +0000

We discuss Logitech's latest MX Master mouse and discuss some of the drivers for upgrading legacy workloads and operating systems on-premises and in Microsoft Azure.

Episode 141 – Microsoft Cloud News – Hurricane Dorian Edition

Thu, 05 Sep 2019 12:00:45 +0000

In Episode 141, Ben and Scott discuss some of the new features coming to Intune for iOS 13 and macOS Catalina with their upcoming releases this fall. Then they talk about some of the latest announcements around Microsoft Azure including the announced new regions in Switzerland and some of the changes coming to the behavior of SNAT with Azure Load Balancer. Sponsors ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Opsgility - Your Cloud enablement partner to help guide your organization through all phases of Cloud migration and adoption SaneBox - SaneBox brings sanity back to your inbox by prioritizing what's important, removing spam/junk, grouping newsletters together, and automating tedious tasks. Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Intune Day Zero support for new settings and updates in iOS 13 and macOS 10.15 Turn on iOS supervised mode Microsoft Intune announces the general availability of administrative templates Use Windows 10 templates to configure group policy settings in Microsoft Intune Policy CSP Microsoft Azure available from new cloud regions in Switzerland Azure Load Balancer becomes more efficient Managing SNAT (PAT) port exhaustion The Azure Security Lab - Dedicated cloud hosts for security researchers to test attacks Microsoft Azure Bounty Program Request an Azure Security Lab VM Previous Episodes Episode 133 - We Still Have All Of Our Fingers Episode 136 - Azure SQL Managed Instance Episode 137 - Azure and Office 365 News Episode 138 - Slaying PowerShell Dragons Episode 139 - Azure Migrate v2 About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. As the leading global brand for enabling the Microsoft Cloud, Opsgility’s global Microsoft MVP and multi-certified Cloud Solutions Architect team has authored over twenty MOC Courses, the Microsoft Press Book Implementing Azure Solutions 70-533 and numerous Microsoft Cloud Practice Playbooks for Microsoft Partners. And for a limited time, you can get your team certified in the most exciting cloud business today with a 25% discount off instructor-led training prep courses for Azure and Microsoft 365! Visit https://opsgility.com/MicrosoftCloud to learn more. SaneBox brings sanity back to your inbox by prioritizing what's important, removing spam/junk, grouping newsletters together, and automating tedious tasks. Sign up today and save $25 on any subscription! https://www.sanebox.com/allthings Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 140 – Preparing For The End Of Skype For Business

Thu, 29 Aug 2019 12:00:32 +0000

The impacts of moving from Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams outside of enabling licenses and training your users.

Episode 139 – Azure Migrate v2

Thu, 22 Aug 2019 12:00:37 +0000

In Episode 139, Ben and Scott talk about Azure Migrate v2 and how you can use the new Azure Migrate hub to integrate both Microsoft and ISV tooling into a single pane of glass for executing migrations to Azure. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Opsgility - Your Cloud enablement partner to help guide your organization through all phases of Cloud migration and adoption Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Deepfake of Bill Hader doing an impression of Tom Cruise will make your brain hurt About Azure Migrate Azure Migrate Server Assessment Migrate to Azure App Service Azure Migrate - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Prepare for Windows Server 2008 end of support Previous Episodes Episode 89 - Azure Migrate with Jeremy Winter Episode 129 - The Latest and Greatest in Azure and Office 365 Episode 136 - Azure SQL Managed Instance Episode 137 - Azure and Office 365 News Episode 138 - Slaying PowerShell Dragons About the sponsors Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/to learn more. As the leading global brand for enabling the Microsoft Cloud, Opsgility’s global Microsoft MVP and multi-certified Cloud Solutions Architect team has authored over twenty MOC Courses, the Microsoft Press Book Implementing Azure Solutions 70-533 and numerous Microsoft Cloud Practice Playbooks for Microsoft Partners. And for a limited time, you can get your team certified in the most exciting cloud business today with a 25% discount off instructor-led training prep courses for Azure and Microsoft 365! Visit https://opsgility.com/MicrosoftCloud to learn more. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 138 – Slaying PowerShell Dragons

Thu, 15 Aug 2019 12:00:14 +0000

In Episode 138, Ben and Scott discuss an issue Scott ran into with PowerShell, scheduled tasks, and PowerShell jobs. They then talk about a preview capability in Azure AD for custom roles, some announced changes for Office 365 and support for legacy TLS versions. Sponsors ShareGate – ShareGate’s industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Opsgility – Your Cloud enablement partner to help guide your organization through all phases of Cloud migration and adoption Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox Office365AdminPortal.com – Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink – We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Start-Job/Start-ThreadJob Instagram bans ad partner for secretly tracking user locations, saving Stories, more Custom roles for app registration management are now in public preview! Custom administrator roles in Azure Active Directory (preview) Application registration subtypes and permissions in Azure Active Directory Preparing for TLS 1.2 in Office 365 and Office 365 GCC Enable TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 support in SharePoint Server 2016 Enable TLS and SSL support in SharePoint 2013 Enable TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 support in SharePoint Server 2010 Exchange Server TLS guidance, part 1: Getting Ready for TLS 1.2 Invoke-SPOSiteSwap Previous Episodes Episode 99 – Office 365 PowerShell with Vlad Catrinescu Episode 128 - Automating SharePoint Online with Flow, PowerShell, and Azure Episode 129 - The Latest and Greatest in Azure and Office 365 Episode 132 - Why Friends Don't Let Friends Buy Office 365 Business Episode 137 - Azure and Office 365 News About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT As the leading global brand for enabling the Microsoft Cloud, Opsgility’s global Microsoft MVP and multi-certified Cloud Solutions Architect team has authored over twenty MOC Courses, the Microsoft Press Book Implementing Azure Solutions 70-533 and numerous Microsoft Cloud Practice Playbooks for Microsoft Partners. And for a limited time, you can get your team certified in the most exciting cloud business today with a 25% discount off instructor-led training prep courses for Azure and Microsoft 365! Visit https://opsgility.com/MicrosoftCloud to learn more. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 137 – Azure and Office 365 News

Thu, 08 Aug 2019 12:00:40 +0000

In Episode 137, Ben and Scott dive into the latest Azure and Office 365 news, including the public preview of Azure Dedicated Host, the announced end-of-life for Skype for Business Online, and Private Channels in Microsoft Teams. Sponsors Opsgility – Your Cloud enablement partner to help guide your organization through all phases of Cloud migration and adoption Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate – ShareGate’s industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com – Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink – We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Collab365 SharePoint Summit (3 days) Azure Dedicated Host Introducing Azure Dedicated Host Introducing proximity placement groups Skype for Business Online to Be Retired in 2021 Microsoft FastTrack Microsoft Teams Private Channels Office 365 Roadmap ID 50588 Private Channels in Microsoft Teams: Facts vs. Fiction Create a private channel in Teams UserVoice - Support for Private Channels Episode 135 – Speaking at Microsoft Ignite! with Anna Chu Previous Episodes Episode 126 - Privileged Accounts In Azure AD The Right Way Episode 127 - SharePoint Conference 2019 Announcements Episode 128 - Automating SharePoint Online with Flow, PowerShell, and Azure Episode 129 - The Latest and Greatest in Azure and Office 365 Episode 132 - Why Friends Don't Let Friends Buy Office 365 Business About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT As the leading global brand for enabling the Microsoft Cloud, Opsgility’s global Microsoft MVP and multi-certified Cloud Solutions Architect team has authored over twenty MOC Courses, the Microsoft Press Book Implementing Azure Solutions 70-533 and numerous Microsoft Cloud Practice Playbooks for Microsoft Partners. And for a limited time, you can get your team certified in the most exciting cloud business today with a 25% discount off instructor-led training prep courses for Azure and Microsoft 365! Visit https://opsgility.com/MicrosoftCloud to learn more. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 136 – Azure SQL Managed Instance

Thu, 01 Aug 2019 12:00:07 +0000

Ben and Scott go through some of the high-level features of Azure SQL Managed Instance.

Episode 135 – Speaking at Microsoft Ignite! with Anna Chu

Thu, 25 Jul 2019 12:00:11 +0000

A chat with Anna Chu discussing what is involved with becoming a speaker at Microsoft Ignite 2019.

Episode 134 – Change Is Afoot For Microsoft Partners

Thu, 18 Jul 2019 12:00:29 +0000

Ben and Scott discuss some of the upcoming changes to the Microsoft Partner program.

Episode 133 – We Still Have All Of Our Fingers

Thu, 11 Jul 2019 12:00:41 +0000

Tips and tricks for Azure Active Directory Conditional Access, a new "jump box" service from Microsoft for Azure-hosted virtual machines called Azure Bastion, and improvements coming to OneDrive consumer accounts.

Episode 132 – Why Friends Don’t Let Friends Buy Office 365 Business

Thu, 04 Jul 2019 12:00:37 +0000

Why friends shouldn't let friends buy Office 365 Business plans by comparing Office 365 Business Premium to Office 365 Enterprise E3.

Episode 131 – Microsoft Teams Governance (Part 2)

Thu, 27 Jun 2019 12:00:28 +0000

Episode 131 is part 2 of their conversation from last week on Microsoft Teams governance.

Episode 130 – Microsoft Teams Governance

Thu, 20 Jun 2019 12:00:03 +0000

A session Ben Stegink delivered at the Microsoft Teams Virtual Summit on Microsoft Teams governance.

Episode 129 – The Latest and Greatest in Azure and Office 365

Thu, 13 Jun 2019 12:00:33 +0000

Ben and Scott talk about the ability to login to your Linux virtual machines in Azure with Azure AD.

Episode 128 – Automating SharePoint Online with Flow, PowerShell, and Azure

Thu, 06 Jun 2019 12:00:12 +0000

Episode 128 dives into Microsoft Flow, Azure Logic Apps, and Azure Automation. The hosts discuss how you can integrate all of these tools to build rich Office 365 automation solutions.

Episode 127 – SharePoint Conference 2019 Announcements

Thu, 30 May 2019 12:00:01 +0000

The latest announcements from SharePoint Conference 2019.

Episode 126 – Privileged Accounts In Azure AD The Right Way

Thu, 23 May 2019 12:00:12 +0000

How to handle privileged accounts in Azure Active Directory and its associated workloads such as Office 365.

Episode 125 – Right Back Where We Started //BUILD 2019

Thu, 16 May 2019 12:00:48 +0000

The pre and post-//BUILD 2019 announcements.

Episode 124 – Everything Came Back Up

Thu, 09 May 2019 12:00:51 +0000

A discussion about the latest outage to hit Microsoft cloud services like Azure and Office 365 and then get into the announced retirement of the US Gov Iowa region for GCC customers.

Episode 123 – SharePoint admin center updates and Office 365 Cloud Policy Service

Thu, 02 May 2019 12:00:21 +0000

The latest news around Azure and Office 365, including updates to the SharePoint Online Admin Center and the Office cloud policy service.

Episode 122 – Saving Money on Compute in Azure

Thu, 25 Apr 2019 12:00:47 +0000

In Episode 122, Ben and Scott talk about strategies for saving money on virtual machines in Azure by stopping them when they’re not needed, right-sizing your workloads, and techniques for horizontal scaling with Azure autoscale. Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Sperry Software - Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox Opsgility - Your Cloud enablement partner to help guide your organization through all phases of Cloud migration and adoption Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Start/Stop VMs during off-hours solution in Azure Automation Virtual machines lifecycle and states Properly Shutdown Azure VM to Save Money Overview of autoscale in Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines, Cloud Services, and Web Apps Webhooks: Integrating Microsoft Azure Automation with Slack Azure Autoscale Sizes for Windows virtual machines in Azure Sizes for Linux virtual machines in Azure Azure products available by region Azure Global Bootcamp Locations Related Episodes Episode 17-Azure Automation Episode 105 - From AzureRm to Az in Azure Powershell About the sponsors Mover is a cloud migration company that specializes in moving your company’s files from file servers or cloud storage like Box, Dropbox, and Google, into Office 365. Their patented technology makes Mover the fastest OneDrive file migrator in the world. Moving dozens of terabytes of data a day is a breeze. Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Visit mover.io for more info. As the leading global brand for enabling the Microsoft Cloud, Opsgility’s global Microsoft MVP and multi-certified Cloud Solutions Architect team has authored over twenty MOC Courses, the Microsoft Press Book Implementing Azure Solutions 70-533 and numerous Microsoft Cloud Practice Playbooks for Microsoft Partners. And for a limited time, you can get your team certified in the most exciting cloud business today with a 25% discount off instructor-led training prep courses for Azure and Microsoft 365! Visit https://opsgility.com/MicrosoftCloud to learn more. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 121 – Moving at the Speed of the Cloud

Thu, 18 Apr 2019 12:00:07 +0000

In Episode 121, Ben and Scott walk through some of the latest announcements for Azure Storage and Azure AD. Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Sperry Software - Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox Opsgility - Your Cloud enablement partner to help guide your organization through all phases of Cloud migration and adoption Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Home realm discovery during sign-in for Microsoft 365 services Home realm discovery for Azure Active Directory sign-in pages Advanced Threat Protection for Azure Storage is now available Security Center pricing Azure Premium Block Blob Storage is now generally available Greater storage capacity and performance with new Azure Disks SKU Larger, more powerful Managed Disks for Azure Virtual Machines Microsoft Flow US Government is generally available AzCopy Preview now supports Amazon Web Services S3 as a data source Transfer data with AzCopy v10 (Preview) Copy from AWS S3 About the sponsors Mover is a cloud migration company that specializes in moving your company’s files from file servers or cloud storage like Box, Dropbox, and Google, into Office 365. Their patented technology makes Mover the fastest OneDrive file migrator in the world. Moving dozens of terabytes of data a day is a breeze. Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Visit mover.io for more info. As the leading global brand for enabling the Microsoft Cloud, Opsgility’s global Microsoft MVP and multi-certified Cloud Solutions Architect team has authored over twenty MOC Courses, the Microsoft Press Book Implementing Azure Solutions 70-533 and numerous Microsoft Cloud Practice Playbooks for Microsoft Partners. And for a limited time, you can get your team certified in the most exciting cloud business today with a 25% discount off instructor-led training prep courses for Azure and Microsoft 365! Visit https://opsgility.com/MicrosoftCloud to learn more. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 120 – All Of The Portals

Thu, 11 Apr 2019 12:00:03 +0000

Ben and Scott dive into some of the latest announcements around Teams and Kaizala.

Episode 119 – Technology Is Easy

Thu, 04 Apr 2019 12:00:51 +0000

Ben and Scott dive into consulting in the cloud.

Episode 118 – Lots Of News

Thu, 28 Mar 2019 12:00:58 +0000

Ben and Scott dive into the slew of announcements from the last week, including upcoming changes to Microsoft Defender, Windows Virtual Desktop in Azure, and updates for Microsoft Teams.

Episode 117 – Azure Enterprise Scaffold

Thu, 21 Mar 2019 12:00:22 +0000

Ben and Scott dive into a set of listener questions about Azure subscription and resource governance.

Episode 116 – Azure Sentinel

Thu, 14 Mar 2019 12:00:25 +0000

Ben and Scott dive into Azure Sentinel, a new cloud-native, security information event management (SIEM) and security orchestration automated response (SOAR) solution from Microsoft.

Episode 115 – That’s One Way To Kill Your Own Product

Thu, 07 Mar 2019 16:00:47 +0000

Ben and Scott start their day trying to understand the psychology of Microsoft and their latest marketing efforts for Office on the desktop and then they discuss the recent outages in Microsoft Teams and alerts in Azure Monitor.

Episode 114 – Answering “Why Cloud?” with Sarah Lean

Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:00:56 +0000

Ben and Scott have a chat with Sarah Lean, a Cloud Solution Architect from Microsoft about why you should be looking at the cloud and how to govern your Azure environments.

Episode 113 – Megatastic

Thu, 21 Feb 2019 13:00:55 +0000

Ben and Scott dive into the latest Office 365 and SharePoint Online updates, including access to mega menus in Hub sites and new options for footers in Communication sites, new options for security baselines in InTune, and how to use the Graph Security API with Azure Logic Apps, Flow, and PowerApps.

Episode 112 – Azure Front Door (aka Having Honey With Your Pizza)

Thu, 14 Feb 2019 13:00:15 +0000

Scott and Ben talk all things Azure Front Door, a Layer 7 service which can be used to optimize web applications for best performance, instant global failover, and application layer security.

Episode 111 – Calling in the Cloud

Thu, 07 Feb 2019 13:00:03 +0000

Ben schools Scott on calling in the cloud, including options for inter-org communication, chat, voice, and other traditional phone features that are available in Office 365.

Episode 110 – Cloud Concepts

Thu, 31 Jan 2019 13:00:25 +0000

In Episode 110, Ben and Scott start having a discussion about new Azure Fundamentals exam from Microsoft and how it focuses on core concepts of the cloud. In this episode, they get started at the beginning with cloud concepts, such as the differences between IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Sperry Software - Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox Opsgility - Your Cloud enablement partner to help guide your organization through all phases of Cloud migration and adoption Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes ecobee4 Smart Thermostat with Built-In Alexa, Room Sensor Included (Affiliate link) Exam AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Principles of cloud computing Align requirements with cloud types and service models in Azure Design for availability and recoverability in Azure Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (Edx) About the sponsors Mover is a cloud migration company that specializes in moving your company’s files from file servers or cloud storage like Box, Dropbox, and Google, into Office 365. Their patented technology makes Mover the fastest OneDrive file migrator in the world. Moving dozens of terabytes of data a day is a breeze. Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Visit mover.io for more info. Opsgility is your Cloud enablement partner to help guide your organization through all phases of Cloud migration and adoption. As the leading global brand for enabling the Microsoft Cloud, their Microsoft MVP and Multi-Certified Cloud Architect Solutions team has authored over twenty MOC Courses, the Microsoft Press Book Implementing Azure Solutions 70-533 and several Microsoft Cloud Practice Playbooks for Microsoft Partners. Opsgility is the official learning partner for Microsoft, GitHub, Chef, Puppet, Databricks, Ansible, Red Hat and many more technologies across the Cloud ecosystem. Learn more about their Advisory Services and how they can help you reach and exceed your 2019 transformation goals at https://www.opsgility.com/Home/AdvisoryServices Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 109 – Fitness Trackers for Work

Thu, 24 Jan 2019 13:00:56 +0000

Ben and Scott talk about some of the recent updates to MyAnalytics and the availability of the analytics suite being expanded outside of Office 365 E5 SKUs. They also get into some announcements around containers in Azure, including the depreciation of the Azure Container Service (ACS) and how to think about migrating over to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

Episode 108 – Backup and Recovery in Office 365

Thu, 17 Jan 2019 13:00:04 +0000

Scott and Matthew McDermott discuss how you can rationalize data backup and recovery features that are native to the Office 365 platform from both an admin (operations) and end-user perspective.

Episode 107 – What’s New in Office 365

Thu, 10 Jan 2019 13:00:44 +0000

Ben and Scott discuss what's new in Office 365, including the re-introduction of custom tags on OneNote, new voice features and admin roles in Microsoft Teams, and a slew of updates to SharePoint web parts.

Episode 106 – History of OneDrive

Thu, 03 Jan 2019 13:00:40 +0000

In Episode 106, Ben sits down with Jason Moore, Head of OneDrive Product, Partner Group Program Manager at Microsoft and Stephen Rose Sr Product Marketing Manager- OneDrive at Live! 360 Orlando. They take a walk down memory lane and discuss the history of OneDrive and how and the components and functionality of previous products make up OneDrive today. Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Sperry Software - Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox Opsgility - Your Cloud enablement partner to help guide your organization through all phases of Cloud migration and adoption Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Follow Jason on Twitter Follow Stephen on Twitter OneDrive History (Wikipedia) Groove Networks (Wikipedia) Microsoft SharePoint Workspace (Wikipedia) eBook: Get started with OneDrive Share OneDrive files and folders Sync files with the OneDrive sync client on Mac OS X Can I work offline? Network utilization planning for the OneDrive sync client Using Office Online in OneDrive Learn about OneDrive Files On-Demand Configure Files On-Demand for Mac Feature Suggestions for OneDrive OneDrive on Twitter Related Episodes Episode 61: Cloud File Shares Episode 66: OneDrive for Business with Stephen Rose Episode 72: SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business with Omar Shahine About the sponsors Mover is a cloud migration company that specializes in moving your company’s files from file servers or cloud storage like Box, Dropbox, and Google, into Office 365. Their patented technology makes Mover the fastest OneDrive file migrator in the world. Moving dozens of terabytes of data a day is a breeze. Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Visit mover.io for more info. Opsgility is your Cloud enablement partner to help guide your organization through all phases of Cloud migration and adoption. As the leading global brand for enabling the Microsoft Cloud, their Microsoft MVP and Multi-Certified Cloud Architect Solutions team has authored over twenty MOC Courses, the Microsoft Press Book Implementing Azure Solutions 70-533 and several Microsoft Cloud Practice Playbooks for Microsoft Partners. Opsgility is the official learning partner for Microsoft, GitHub, Chef, Puppet, Databricks, Ansible, Red Hat and many more technologies across the Cloud ecosystem. Learn more about their Advisory Services and how they can help you reach and exceed your 2019 transformation goals at https://www.opsgility.com/Home/AdvisoryServices Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 105 – From AzureRm to Az in Azure PowerShell

Thu, 27 Dec 2018 13:00:37 +0000

In Episode 105, Ben and Scott get into the news around the latest release of Azure PowerShell and the transition from AzureRm to Az and the impacts it has on existing PowerShell-based automation for Azure. They also get into how you can protect your IaaS SQL Servers that are hosted in Azure using Azure Backup and a Recovery Services vault. Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Sperry Software - Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Azure PowerShell ‘Az’ Module version 1.0 How to migrate from AzureRM to Az in Azure PowerShell Support Tip: Azure AD updating IP Addresses in Mid-January Office 365 IP Address and URL Web service Azure Backup can automatically protect SQL databases in Azure VM through auto-protect Back up SQL Server databases to Azure Related Episodes Episode 17: Azure Automation Episode 60: Azure Cloud Shell (or 30 Minutes About A Text Box) About the sponsors Mover is a cloud migration company that specializes in moving your company’s files from file servers or cloud storage like Box, Dropbox, and Google, into Office 365. Their patented technology makes Mover the fastest OneDrive file migrator in the world. Moving dozens of terabytes of data a day is a breeze. Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Visit mover.io for more info. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 104 – SharePoint Teams with Mark Kashman

Thu, 20 Dec 2018 13:00:43 +0000

Scott sits down with Mark Kashman to talk about SharePoint team sites, Microsoft Teams, and how you can approach the lifecycle of collaborative content

Episode 103 – Enterprise Mobility with Simon Binder

Thu, 13 Dec 2018 13:00:10 +0000

In Episode 103, Scott sits down with Simon Binder from the Knee Deep in Tech podcast to talk about Enterprise Mobility. They discuss device management, mobile application management, and how to manage user adoption when you're moving at the pace of the cloud. Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Sperry Software - Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes What's New with Microsoft Intune and System Center Configuration Manager: #MSIgnite 2018 Edition About Simon Bender As an Enterprise Mobility MVP and Principal Solution Architect, Simon inspires customers, partners, and colleagues to create the best possible workplace for their users. His main focus is the Windows platform – but today's workplace consists of so much more than that. As an MCT he is passionate about teaching and sharing knowledge. He’s a frequent speaker, blogger, and podcaster – as well as a penguin fanatic. You can find him on Twitter at @Bindertech. Related Episodes Episode 3: Yes MAM, No MAM Episode 71: Accessing Office 365 on Mobile Devices Episode 81: Microsoft Intune and Mobile Device Management About the sponsors Mover is a cloud migration company that specializes in moving your company’s files from file servers or cloud storage like Box, Dropbox, and Google, into Office 365. Their patented technology makes Mover the fastest OneDrive file migrator in the world. Moving dozens of terabytes of data a day is a breeze. Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Visit mover.io for more info. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 102 – Azure AD Goes Down (Again?)

Thu, 06 Dec 2018 13:00:50 +0000

In Episode 102, Ben and Scott discuss what’s been happening with Azure AD MFA and how to have fun with nested virtualization in Azure. Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Office365Mon.com - How do you know what's going on with the health of your Office 365 tenant? With Office365Mon! Sperry Software - Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes VIZIO E70-E3 70-Inch 4K UHD HDR LED Smart TV Fireplace TV Mount with Horizontal and Vertical Adjust - Aeon 50310 Apple TV 4K (64GB, Latest Model) Collab365 Microjobs Azure status history 11/27 - Multi-Factor Authentication 11/19 - RCA - Issues connecting to Azure resources in Europe, Asia, and the Americas regions using Multi-Factor Authentication 9/5 - RCA - Azure Active Directory - Multiple Regions All Deployments: Investigating reports of Azure CA Authentication Failures Manage emergency-access administrative accounts in Azure AD How to enable nested virtualization in an Azure VM About the sponsors Mover is a cloud migration company that specializes in moving your company’s files from file servers or cloud storage like Box, Dropbox, and Google, into Office 365. Their patented technology makes Mover the fastest OneDrive file migrator in the world. Moving dozens of terabytes of data a day is a breeze. Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Visit mover.io for more info. "How do I know what’s going on with the health of my Office 365 tenant?" When there's a problem with your tenant you need to know what’s going on before your users. Office365Mon helps you understand not only when your tenant goes down, but how well it's performing. When you do have a problem, where do you start looking? Is it your network? Is it your tenant? Is it some feature inside Office 365? Our network analysis features can help pinpoint performance issues and help you figure out where those bottlenecks are. Sign up for a FREE 90-day trial today at Office365Mon.com. Stay in the Know, and Stay in Control with Office365Mon.com. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 101 – Excited About Office 365 with Jason Himmelstein

Thu, 29 Nov 2018 13:00:33 +0000

In Episode 101, Scott sits down at Microsoft Ignite with Jason Himmelstein from the BIFOCAL podcast. They talk about some of the hidden gems in the SharePoint keynote and some of the exciting end-user enhancements coming to Office 365, SharePoint, and OneDrive for Business. Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Office365Mon.com - How do you know what's going on with the health of your Office 365 tenant? With Office365Mon! Sperry Software - Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes New innovations in SharePoint & Microsoft 365 deliver power and simplicity for content collaboration What’s new in security, compliance, & administration for SharePoint & OneDrive from Microsoft Ignite Reinventing SharePoint business process at Ignite 2018 Elevate organizational knowledge with Microsoft Content Services at Ignite 2018 SharePoint powers teamwork in Office 365 – Ignite 2018 announcements Build your modern intranet with SharePoint in Office 365 – Ignite 2018 announcements About Jason Himmelstein Jason Himmelstein is a Microsoft MVP & the Director of Technical Strategy & Strategic Alliances for Rackspace. With more than 20 years of experience working with Microsoft and related technologies and a strong passion for technology, Jason has spent the past 11 years dedicated to SharePoint & Office 365. Jason has successfully architected solutions for customers of all sizes and maintains an active speaking schedule, addressing conferences around the world. He also is an organizers/advisor of multiple Users Groups and SharePoint Saturdays, co-host of the BIFocal.show podcast, and has served as the SharePoint/Office 365 Track Chair for several national conferences. You can find him on Twitter at @jasehimm. About the sponsors Mover is a cloud migration company that specializes in moving your company’s files from file servers or cloud storage like Box, Dropbox, and Google, into Office 365. Their patented technology makes Mover the fastest OneDrive file migrator in the world. Moving dozens of terabytes of data a day is a breeze. Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Visit mover.io for more info. "How do I know what’s going on with the health of my Office 365 tenant?" When there's a problem with your tenant you need to know what’s going on before your users. Office365Mon helps you understand not only when your tenant goes down, but how well it's performing. When you do have a problem, where do you start looking? Is it your network? Is it your tenant? Is it some feature inside of Office 365? Our network analysis features can help pinpoint performance issues and help you figure out where those bottlenecks are. Sign up for a FREE 90-day trial today at Office365Mon.com. Stay in the Know, and Stay in Control with Office365Mon.com. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 100 – SHAZAM!

Thu, 22 Nov 2018 13:00:57 +0000

In Episode 100, Ben and Scott discuss some of the most recent happenings in Office 365 including the GA of group-based licensing and the "worldwide" release of Microsoft Kaizala, and how to track tasks in Microsoft Word. Save $500 on your Live! 360 Orlando registration with the code OSPK45 Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Office365Mon.com - How do you know what's going on with the health of your Office 365 tenant? With Office365Mon! Sperry Software - Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Rachio 3 WiFi Smart Lawn Sprinkler Controller, Works with Alexa, 8-Zone Arlo Q - 1080p HD Security Camera | 2-way audio | Indoor only | Works with Alexa (VMC3040) Arlo Q Plus - 1080p HD Security Camera | 2-way audio | PoE/AC Adapter powered | Indoor only | Works with Alexa (VMC3040S) Azure AD group-based license management is now generally available! Assign licenses to users by group membership in Azure Active Directory Microsoft Kaizala Kaizala regional availability Coordinate work across dynamic networks of people using Microsoft Kaizala Kaizala management portal Stream Adds Intelligent Features for All Office 365 Commercial Users Microsoft Word is getting a to-do feature to help people manage documents About the sponsors Mover is a cloud migration company that specializes in moving your company’s files from file servers or cloud storage like Box, Dropbox, and Google, into Office 365. Their patented technology makes Mover the fastest OneDrive file migrator in the world. Moving dozens of terabytes of data a day is a breeze. Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Visit mover.io for more info. "How do I know what’s going on with the health of my Office 365 tenant?" When there's a problem with your tenant you need to know what’s going on before your users. Office365Mon helps you understand not only when your tenant goes down, but how well it's performing. When you do have a problem, where do you start looking? Is it your network? Is it your tenant? Is it some feature inside Office 365? Our network analysis features can help pinpoint performance issues and help you figure out where those bottlenecks are. Sign up for a FREE 90-day trial today at Office365Mon.com. Stay in the Know, and Stay in Control with Office365Mon.com. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 99 – Office 365 PowerShell with Vlad Catrinescu

Tue, 20 Nov 2018 13:00:55 +0000

In Episode 99, Scott sits down with Vlad Catrinescu from Valo Intranet to talk about interacting with Office 365 from PowerShell - Exchange Online, Skype for Business Online, SharePoint Online - and more! Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Office365Mon.com - How do you know what's going on with the health of your Office 365 tenant? With Office365Mon! Sperry Software - Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes PowerShell Gallery Connect to Exchange Online PowerShell Connect to Exchange Online PowerShell using multi-factor authentication Manage SharePoint Online with Office 365 PowerShell Getting started with SharePoint Online Management Shell SharePoint PNP PowerShell Cmdlets PowerShell Cmdlets for PowerApps and Flow creators and administrators Microsoft Teams PowerShell Azure Active Directory PowerShell for Graph Related Episodes Episode 10 - PowerShell for Office 365 Episode 17 - Azure Automation About Vlad Catrinescu Vlad is a SharePoint and Office 365 Consultant specializing in SharePoint and SharePoint Online deployments as well as hybrid scenarios. As a Pluralsight Author, Microsoft Certified Trainer and recognized international speaker, Vlad has helped thousands of users and IT Pros across the globe to better understand and to get the most out of SharePoint. Vlad is also a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in SharePoint since 2013 and has his own blog at www.absolute-sharepoint.com and he often shares his knowledge by speaking at local conferences and community events. Vlad also blogs at CMSWire as well as Computerworld and is often featured in other Microsoft sites such as Redmond Channel Partner. You can find Vlad on Twitter @vladcatrinescu and see his Pluralsight courses at https://www.pluralsight.com/authors/vlad-catrinescu. About the sponsors Mover is a cloud migration company that specializes in moving your company’s files from file servers or cloud storage like Box, Dropbox, and Google, into Office 365. Their patented technology makes Mover the fastest OneDrive file migrator in the world. Moving dozens of terabytes of data a day is a breeze. Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Visit mover.io for more info. "How do I know what’s going on with the health of my Office 365 tenant?" When there's a problem with your tenant you need to know what’s going on before your users. Office365Mon helps you understand not only when your tenant goes down, but how well it's performing. When you do have a problem, where do you start looking? Is it your network? Is it your tenant? Is it some feature inside of Office 365? Our network analysis features can help pinpoint performance issues and help you figure out where those bottlenecks are. Sign up for a FREE 90-day trial today at Office365Mon.com. Stay in the Know, and Stay in Control with Office365Mon.com. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 98 – Catching Up On Office 365 News

Thu, 15 Nov 2018 13:00:28 +0000

In Episode 98, Ben and Scott get into the latest Office 365 and cover the release of the Office Customization Tool, some of the new enhancements to Intune licensing, and talk about some of the latest resources to help you create engaging SharePoint sites. Save $500 when you sign up for Live! 360 Orlando and a 5-day all-access Best Value Conference package when you use code OSPK45 or OSPK87. http://bit.ly/OSPK45Reg http://bit.ly/OSPK87Reg Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Office365Mon.com - How do you know what's going on with the health of your Office 365 tenant? With Office365Mon! Sperry Software - Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Office Customization Tool Overview of the Office Customization Tool Outlook for Mac adds administrative controls Set preferences for Outlook for Mac Conditional Access in Outlook on the web for Exchange Online Microsoft Intune announces device-based subscription for shared resources New resource center page to help build your modern intranet on SharePoint in Office 365 Build your modern intranet on SharePoint in Office 365 New SharePoint view formatting samples now available Microsoft 365 Resource Center Other Episodes related to this topic Episode 3 - Yes MAM, No MAM Episode 51 - An Introduction to Microsoft 365 Episode 81 - Microsoft Intune and Mobile Device Management About the sponsors Mover is a cloud migration company that specializes in moving your company’s files from file servers or cloud storage like Box, Dropbox, and Google, into Office 365. Their patented technology makes Mover the fastest OneDrive file migrator in the world. Moving dozens of terabytes of data a day is a breeze. Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Visit mover.io for more info. "How do I know what’s going on with the health of my Office 365 tenant?" When there's a problem with your tenant you need to know what’s going on before your users. Office365Mon helps you understand not only when your tenant goes down, but how well it's performing. When you do have a problem, where do you start looking? Is it your network? Is it your tenant? Is it some feature inside of Office 365? Our network analysis features can help pinpoint performance issues and help you figure out where those bottlenecks are. Sign up for a FREE 90-day trial today at Office365Mon.com. Stay in the Know, and Stay in Control with Office365Mon.com. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 97 – Azure Stack with Michael Wells

Tue, 13 Nov 2018 13:00:54 +0000

In Episode 97, Scott sits down with Michael Wells from Dell/EMC to discuss all things Azure Stack. Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Office365Mon.com - How do you know what's going on with the health of your Office 365 tenant? With Office365Mon! Sperry Software - Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes What is Azure Stack? How to buy Azure Stack Dell EMC Azure Stack Azure Resource Manager Azure Stack PowerShell Key features and concepts in Azure Stack Azure Stack Operator documentation Azure Stack User documentation Azure Stack roadmap About Michael Wells With the Azure Stack Product Group at Dell EMC. Michael Wells on LinkedIn Michael Wells on Twitter About the sponsors Mover is a cloud migration company that specializes in moving your company’s files from file servers or cloud storage like Box, Dropbox, and Google, into Office 365. Their patented technology makes Mover the fastest OneDrive file migrator in the world. Moving dozens of terabytes of data a day is a breeze. Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Visit mover.io for more info. "How do I know what’s going on with the health of my Office 365 tenant?" When there's a problem with your tenant you need to know what’s going on before your users. Office365Mon helps you understand not only when your tenant goes down, but how well it's performing. When you do have a problem, where do you start looking? Is it your network? Is it your tenant? Is it some feature inside of Office 365? Our network analysis features can help pinpoint performance issues and help you figure out where those bottlenecks are. Sign up for a FREE 90-day trial today at Office365Mon.com. Stay in the Know, and Stay in Control with Office365Mon.com. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 96 – SharePoint Announcements and Listener Questions

Thu, 08 Nov 2018 13:00:32 +0000

In Episode 96, Ben and Scott respond to a listener question around discoverability of documents hosted in Office 365 on mobile devices and dive into the latest announcements for SharePoint Online and Office 365. Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Office365Mon.com - How do you know what's going on with the health of your Office 365 tenant? With Office365Mon! Sperry Software - Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes SharePoint mobile app updates – find and discover people, content, and answers while on the go Branding SharePoint: The New Normal SharePoint intranets in-a-box report 2019 Announcing new file template management for document library content types Announcing availability of SharePoint Online Management Shell from PowerShell Gallery About the sponsors Mover is a cloud migration company that specializes in moving your company’s files from file servers or cloud storage like Box, Dropbox, and Google, into Office 365. Their patented technology makes Mover the fastest OneDrive file migrator in the world. Moving dozens of terabytes of data a day is a breeze. Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Visit mover.io for more info. "How do I know what’s going on with the health of my Office 365 tenant?" When there's a problem with your tenant you need to know what’s going on before your users. Office365Mon helps you understand not only when your tenant goes down, but how well it's performing. When you do have a problem, where do you start looking? Is it your network? Is it your tenant? Is it some feature inside of Office 365? Our network analysis features can help pinpoint performance issues and help you figure out where those bottlenecks are. Sign up for a FREE 90-day trial today at Office365Mon.com. Stay in the Know, and Stay in Control with Office365Mon.com. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 95 – SharePoint Announcements from Ignite with Joanne Klein

Tue, 06 Nov 2018 13:00:55 +0000

In Episode 95, Scott sits down with Joanne Klein from NexNovus to talk about the latest announcements for content services and ECM in SharePoint Online and Office 365. Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Office365Mon.com - How do you know what's going on with the health of your Office 365 tenant? With Office365Mon! Sperry Software - Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes JoanneCKlein.com Elevate organizational knowledge with Microsoft Content Services at Ignite 2018 Reinventing SharePoint business process at Ignite 2018 Build your modern intranet with SharePoint in Office 365 – Ignite 2018 announcements About Joanne Klein Joanne is SharePoint and Office 365 specialist who attributes her professional success to sharing her technical expertise and real-world SharePoint and Office 365 experience with organizations from small to large. She's also the owner of her own consulting company, NexNovus Consulting, and a Microsoft MVP in Office Apps and Services. You can find her on Twitter at @joannecklein. About the sponsors Mover is a cloud migration company that specializes in moving your company’s files from file servers or cloud storage like Box, Dropbox, and Google, into Office 365. Their patented technology makes Mover the fastest OneDrive file migrator in the world. Moving dozens of terabytes of data a day is a breeze. Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Visit mover.io for more info. "How do I know what’s going on with the health of my Office 365 tenant?" When there's a problem with your tenant you need to know what’s going on before your users. Office365Mon helps you understand not only when your tenant goes down, but how well it's performing. When you do have a problem, where do you start looking? Is it your network? Is it your tenant? Is it some feature inside of Office 365? Our network analysis features can help pinpoint performance issues and help you figure out where those bottlenecks are. Sign up for a FREE 90-day trial today at Office365Mon.com. Stay in the Know, and Stay in Control with Office365Mon.com. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 94 – Get Microsoft Cloud Certified

Thu, 01 Nov 2018 12:00:41 +0000

In Episode 94, Ben and Scott talk about the latest Azure and Microsoft 365 certifications and what it means to you if you're getting started today or transitioning an existing certification. Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Office365Mon.com - How do you know what's going on with the health of your Office 365 tenant? With Office365Mon! Sperry Software - Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Microsoft Cloud Certification Updates Webinar Replay Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate Exam AZ-100: Microsoft Azure Infrastructure and Deployment Exam AZ-101: Microsoft Azure Integration and Security Exam AZ-102: Microsoft Azure Administrator Certification Transition Microsoft Certified Azure Developer Associate Exam AZ-200: Microsoft Azure Developer Core Solutions Exam AZ-201: Microsoft Azure Developer Advanced Solutions Exam AZ-202: Microsoft Azure Developer Certification Transition Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Exam AZ-300: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies Exam AZ-301: Microsoft Azure Architect Design Exam AZ-302: Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Certification Transition Microsoft Certified Azure DevOps Engineer Expert Exam AZ-400: Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions (beta) Microsoft 365 Certified Modern Desktop Administrator Associate Microsoft 365 Certified Enterprise Administrator Expert About the sponsors Mover is a cloud migration company that specializes in moving your company’s files from file servers or cloud storage like Box, Dropbox, and Google, into Office 365. Their patented technology makes Mover the fastest OneDrive file migrator in the world. Moving dozens of terabytes of data a day is a breeze. Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Visit mover.io for more info. "How do I know what’s going on with the health of my Office 365 tenant?" When there's a problem with your tenant you need to know what’s going on before your users. Office365Mon helps you understand not only when your tenant goes down, but how well it's performing. When you do have a problem, where do you start looking? Is it your network? Is it your tenant? Is it some feature inside of Office 365? Our network analysis features can help pinpoint performance issues and help you figure out where those bottlenecks are. Sign up for a FREE 90-day trial today at Office365Mon.com. Stay in the Know, and Stay in Control with Office365Mon.com. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 93 – Office 365 Backup and Recovery with Daivat Dholakia

Tue, 30 Oct 2018 12:00:25 +0000

In Episode 93, Ben sits down with Daivat Dholakia, Director of Products at Spanning. They have a discussion around Office 365 backup and recovery, starting with what Office 365 does for you and where you may need to look for additional features and functionality outside of Office 365. Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Office365Mon.com - How do you know what's going on with the health of your Office 365 tenant? With Office365Mon! Sperry Software - Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes What’s new in security, compliance, & administration for SharePoint & OneDrive from Microsoft Ignite About Daivat Dholakia As Director of Products, Daivat brings years of hands-on experience in product management. He is responsible for product management, product design and technical marketing across all of Spanning's products. In his previous roles, he has helped grow multi-sided online marketplaces from the ground up as a Product Owner. You can find him on LinkedIn and Twitter at @daivatd. About the sponsors Mover is a cloud migration company that specializes in moving your company’s files from file servers or cloud storage like Box, Dropbox, and Google, into Office 365. Their patented technology makes Mover the fastest OneDrive file migrator in the world. Moving dozens of terabytes of data a day is a breeze. Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Visit mover.io for more info. "How do I know what’s going on with the health of my Office 365 tenant?" When there's a problem with your tenant you need to know what’s going on before your users. Office365Mon helps you understand not only when your tenant goes down, but how well it's performing. When you do have a problem, where do you start looking? Is it your network? Is it your tenant? Is it some feature inside of Office 365? Our network analysis features can help pinpoint performance issues and help you figure out where those bottlenecks are. Sign up for a FREE 90-day trial today at Office365Mon.com. Stay in the Know, and Stay in Control with Office365Mon.com. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 92 – “Modern” Intranets with Adam Levithan

Thu, 25 Oct 2018 12:00:25 +0000

In Episode 92, Scott sits down with Adam Levithan from Withum Digital to talk all things modern SharePoint - Intranets, Hub Sites, Communication Sites, and how to inflict value on your users. Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Office365Mon.com - How do you know what's going on with the health of your Office 365 tenant? With Office365Mon! Sperry Software - Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Build your modern intranet with SharePoint in Office 365 – Ignite 2018 announcements SharePoint powers teamwork in Office 365 – Ignite 2018 announcements Withum Collaboration Solutions About Adam Levithan Adam is a Principal of Product Management at Withum Digital and a Microsoft MVP advocating for collaboration by connecting business needs with the right technology. He has been supporting Microsoft 365 for several years as a Product Manager for Migration at a market leading ISV and a Practice Lead for Office 365 in a cutting-edge Microsoft Consulting firm. Over the last decade, Adam has been responsible for moving customers to the cloud, designing and building technology solutions, hands-on delivery of information architecture (SharePoint Farm and content) and increasing user adoption. Adam is an ongoing member of the SharePoint Saturday DC coordinating committee and an active speaker at many national events. You can find Adam on Twitter @collabadam. About the sponsors Mover is a cloud migration company that specializes in moving your company’s files from file servers or cloud storage like Box, Dropbox, and Google, into Office 365. Their patented technology makes Mover the fastest OneDrive file migrator in the world. Moving dozens of terabytes of data a day is a breeze. Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Visit mover.io for more info. "How do I know what’s going on with the health of my Office 365 tenant?" When there's a problem with your tenant you need to know what’s going on before your users. Office365Mon helps you understand not only when your tenant goes down, but how well it's performing. When you do have a problem, where do you start looking? Is it your network? Is it your tenant? Is it some feature inside of Office 365? Our network analysis features can help pinpoint performance issues and help you figure out where those bottlenecks are. Sign up for a FREE 90-day trial today at Office365Mon.com. Stay in the Know, and Stay in Control with Office365Mon.com. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 91 – Azure Virtual WAN with Sony Kogin

Thu, 18 Oct 2018 12:00:51 +0000

In Episode 91, Scott sits down at Ignite with Sony Kogin from Citrix to talk about Azure Virtual WAN, Azure Front Door, and how to think about implementing network controls for end-user experience when accessing cloud services. Also, join Scott and I at Live!360 in Orlando. Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Office365Mon.com - How do you know what's going on with the health of your Office 365 tenant? With Office365Mon! Sperry Software - Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes What is Azure Virtual WAN? An update on Azure Virtual WAN and why it’s important New Citrix ADC Solution Provides Intranet Domain Traffic Management and Unlocks the Power of Hybrid Cloud New Collaboration between Citrix and Microsoft Makes it Easy for You to Succeed in the Cloud and Power Your Digital Transformations Don’t ignore Microsoft’s O365 connectivity guidelines! Azure Front Door Service Announcing public preview of Azure Front Door Services About Sony Kogin A specialist in telecom, Sony has spent over 15 years collaborating with service providers globally in their continuing transformations to the digital era. With Citrix, Sony brings a unique and diverse experience in the areas of software-defined networking, virtualization, hybrid-cloud and the internet of things. Sony is based in Santa Clara, California, where the sun always shines. You can connect with Sony on LinkedIn. About the sponsors Mover is a cloud migration company that specializes in moving your company’s files from file servers or cloud storage like Box, Dropbox, and Google, into Office 365. Their patented technology makes Mover the fastest OneDrive file migrator in the world. Moving dozens of terabytes of data a day is a breeze. Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Visit mover.io for more info. "How do I know what’s going on with the health of my Office 365 tenant?" When there's a problem with your tenant you need to know what’s going on before your users. Office365Mon helps you understand not only when your tenant goes down, but how well it's performing. When you do have a problem, where do you start looking? Is it your network? Is it your tenant? Is it some feature inside of Office 365? Our network analysis features can help pinpoint performance issues and help you figure out where those bottlenecks are. Sign up for a FREE 90-day trial today at Office365Mon.com. Stay in the Know, and Stay in Control with Office365Mon.com. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 90 – Power BI and Data Democratization with Alexander Arvidsson

Tue, 16 Oct 2018 12:00:58 +0000

In Episode 90, Scott sits down with Alexander Arvidsson from the Knee Deep in Tech podcast to talk about Power BI and how you can approach designing and sharing data within Office 365. Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Office365Mon.com - How do you know what's going on with the health of your Office 365 tenant? With Office365Mon! Sperry Software - Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes "Getting Started with Office 365" webinar Knee-Deep in Tech Podcast Power BI updates: Fusing AI and data visualization | Microsoft Ignite 2018 About Alexander Arvidsson Alexander is a principal solutions architect at Atea in Linköping, Sweden. Nobody really knows what that means to be a principal solutions architect, but he spends his days helping clients of all shapes and sizes to take better care of their data. He has spent the last 20 years toying with databases and related infrastructure services such as storage, networking, and virtualization, occasionally emerging from the technical darkness to attend a Star Wars convention somewhere in the world. He is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, frequent international speaker, podcaster, Pluralsight author, blogger, and a Microsoft Certified Trainer, focusing on SQL Server, Azure and Power BI. You can find him on Twitter at @arcticdba and on Pluralsight at https://www.pluralsight.com/authors/-alexander-arvidsso. About the sponsors Mover is a cloud migration company that specializes in moving your company’s files from file servers or cloud storage like Box, Dropbox, and Google, into Office 365. Their patented technology makes Mover the fastest OneDrive file migrator in the world. Moving dozens of terabytes of data a day is a breeze. Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Visit mover.io for more info. "How do I know what’s going on with the health of my Office 365 tenant?" When there's a problem with your tenant you need to know what’s going on before your users. Office365Mon helps you understand not only when your tenant goes down, but how well it's performing. When you do have a problem, where do you start looking? Is it your network? Is it your tenant? Is it some feature inside of Office 365? Our network analysis features can help pinpoint performance issues and help you figure out where those bottlenecks are. Sign up for a FREE 90-day trial today at Office365Mon.com. Stay in the Know, and Stay in Control with Office365Mon.com. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 89 – Azure Migrate with Jeremy Winter

Thu, 11 Oct 2018 12:00:23 +0000

In Episode 89, Scott sits down with Jeremy Winter, Director of Azure Management, to talk about Azure Migrate and how to approach the migration lifecycle of Assess, Migrate, Optimize, Secure, and Manage. Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Office365Mon.com - How do you know what's going on with the health of your Office 365 tenant? With Office365Mon! Sperry Software - Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Now is the time to migrate all your apps, data, and infrastructure to Azure Prepare for SQL Server and Windows Server 2008 end of support Azure vs. AWS Windows Server 2008 costs Azure Migrate Azure Migration Center Three reasons Azure SQL Database is best for SQL Server migrations Azure Database Migration Service and tool updates – Ignite 2018 Expanding the Azure Data Box family Azure Cost Management Documentation Azure Blueprints Documentation Scenario-based Migration Guides About Jeremy Winter Jeremy Winter is Director of Azure Management, responsible for areas such as Azure Governance, Policy, Configuration, PowerShell, Disaster Recovery, Azure Migrate and the Azure Portal Experiences from within Azure Compute. The modernization of management solutions and IT is an exciting space of cloud computing that he's incredibly passionate about and happy to be a part of. Jeremy has been with Microsoft since 1997 and has spent time in multiple engineering disciplines (development, operations, and program management). He started my early career as a dev, transitioned to operations running large scale services and in 2012 switched to a program management leadership position. For the last 5 years, he has been leading the development of Azure-related services centered around enterprise management. Find more from Jeremy on the Azure blog. About the sponsors Mover is a cloud migration company that specializes in moving your company’s files from file servers or cloud storage like Box, Dropbox, and Google, into Office 365. Their patented technology makes Mover the fastest OneDrive file migrator in the world. Moving dozens of terabytes of data a day is a breeze. Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Visit mover.io for more info. "How do I know what’s going on with the health of my Office 365 tenant?" When there's a problem with your tenant you need to know what’s going on before your users. Office365Mon helps you understand not only when your tenant goes down, but how well it's performing. When you do have a problem, where do you start looking? Is it your network? Is it your tenant? Is it some feature inside of Office 365? Our network analysis features can help pinpoint performance issues and help you figure out where those bottlenecks are. Sign up for a FREE 90-day trial today at Office365Mon.com. Stay in the Know, and Stay in Control with Office365Mon.com. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 88 – Advanced Data Governance with Erica Toelle

Tue, 09 Oct 2018 12:00:08 +0000

In Episode 88, Scott sits down with Erica Toelle from RecordPoint where they discuss labeling and classification in Office 365, applying retention, and what to look for as you implement data governance with Office 365 and other SaaS services. Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Office365Mon.com - How do you know what's going on with the health of your Office 365 tenant? With Office365Mon! Sperry Software - Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Live!360 Orlando What’s new in security, compliance & administration for SharePoint & OneDrive from Microsoft Ignite SharePoint and OneDrive Security and Compliance About Erica Toelle Erica Toelle has been an internationally recognized speaker on Enterprise Content Management, Compliance, and End User Adoption since 2004, with a focus on SharePoint and Office 365. As a Product Evangelist at RecordPoint, Erica shares best practices, and real-world experiences through conferences, workshops, webinars, and online publications. Erica is a sought-after expert and has been hired by over 50 Fortune 500 companies, including Microsoft’s SharePoint and Microsoft Teams Product Groups, and Microsoft IT. You can find Erica on Twitter at @EricaToelle. About the sponsors Mover is a cloud migration company that specializes in moving your company’s files from file servers or cloud storage like Box, Dropbox, and Google, into Office 365. Their patented technology makes Mover the fastest OneDrive file migrator in the world. Moving dozens of terabytes of data a day is a breeze. Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Visit mover.io for more info. "How do I know what’s going on with the health of my Office 365 tenant?" When there's a problem with your tenant you need to know what’s going on before your users. Office365Mon helps you understand not only when your tenant goes down, but how well it's performing. When you do have a problem, where do you start looking? Is it your network? Is it your tenant? Is it some feature inside of Office 365? Our network analysis features can help pinpoint performance issues and help you figure out where those bottlenecks are. Sign up for a FREE 90-day trial today at Office365Mon.com. Stay in the Know, and Stay in Control with Office365Mon.com. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 87 – The Business of Azure Blockchain with Paul Swider

Thu, 04 Oct 2018 12:00:00 +0000

In Episode 87, Scott sits down for a cup of coffee with Paul Swider. They discuss the business case for blockchain, including use cases and Paul's work with healthcare institutions as well as how to get started with Azure Blockchain. Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Office365Mon.com - How do you know what's going on with the health of your Office 365 tenant? With Office365Mon! Sperry Software - Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Paul Swider - RealActivity From Farm to Blockchain: Walmart Tracks Its Lettuce Azure Blockchain Building with blockchain on Azure Introducing Enterprise Smart Contracts About Paul Swider Paul J. Swider is a known international speaker and the CEO of RealActivity an organization focused on streamlining healthcare and research using a proprietary blockchain based exchange technology. He has over 25 years of proven computer science and healthcare technology experience. Paul is an accomplished author of several books, speaks internationally and still finds time to teach a programming class when he can. Paul is currently based out of the Boston area and occasionally gets to chase the tides and winds as an avid boater and sailor at home in Puerto Rico. You can find Paul on LinkedIn and @pswider on Twitter. About the sponsors Mover is a cloud migration company that specializes in moving your company’s files from file servers or cloud storage like Box, Dropbox, and Google, into Office 365. Their patented technology makes Mover the fastest OneDrive file migrator in the world. Moving dozens of terabytes of data a day is a breeze. Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Visit mover.io for more info. "How do I know what’s going on with the health of my Office 365 tenant?" When there's a problem with your tenant you need to know what’s going on before your users. Office365Mon helps you understand not only when your tenant goes down, but how well it's performing. When you do have a problem, where do you start looking? Is it your network? Is it your tenant? Is it some feature inside of Office 365? Our network analysis features can help pinpoint performance issues and help you figure out where those bottlenecks are. Sign up for a FREE 90-day trial today at Office365Mon.com. Stay in the Know, and Stay in Control with Office365Mon.com. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 86 – What Microsoft 365 Admins Need to Know about Azure (Live from Microsoft Ignite)

Sat, 29 Sep 2018 12:00:01 +0000

In Episode 86, Ben and Scott come to you live from Microsoft Ignite in Orlando (or via the magic of delayed time travel up to a week later). In this episode, they discuss some of the new features that have been announced in Azure and where they will impact existing Office 365 and Microsoft 365 administrators. Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Office365Mon.com - How do you know what's going on with the health of your Office 365 tenant? With Office365Mon! Sperry Software - Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Passwordless phone sign-in with the Microsoft Authenticator app (public preview) Secure your hybrid-cloud environments with Azure AD Identity Protection and Azure ATP What is Azure Advanced Threat Protection? What is Azure Active Directory Identity Protection? What's New with Microsoft Intune and System Center Configuration Manager: #MSIgnite 2018 Edition What’s new with Microsoft Cloud App Security - MS Ignite edition 2018 Announcing availability of information protection capabilities to help protect your sensitive data Flow vs Azure Logic Apps About the sponsors Mover is a cloud migration company that specializes in moving your company’s files from file servers or cloud storage like Box, Dropbox, and Google, into Office 365. Their patented technology makes Mover the fastest OneDrive file migrator in the world. Moving dozens of terabytes of data a day is a breeze. Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Visit mover.io for more info. "How do I know what’s going on with the health of my Office 365 tenant?" When there's a problem with your tenant you need to know what’s going on before your users. Office365Mon helps you understand not only when your tenant goes down, but how well it's performing. When you do have a problem, where do you start looking? Is it your network? Is it your tenant? Is it some feature inside of Office 365? Our network analysis features can help pinpoint performance issues and help you figure out where those bottlenecks are. Sign up for a FREE 90-day trial today at Office365Mon.com. Stay in the Know, and Stay in Control with Office365Mon.com. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 85 – Ignite Stories with Sean Bugler

Thu, 27 Sep 2018 12:00:58 +0000

In Episode 85, Ben sits down to talk with Sean Bugler to talk about how Office 365 has been rolled out in a GCC tenant, including the trials and tribulations of maintaining an Office 365 tenant and building a vision for aligning Office 365 and other cloud services to the needs of the business. Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Office365Mon.com - How do you know what's going on with the health of your Office 365 tenant? With Office365Mon! Sperry Software - Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Office 365 Adoption Guide Microsoft FastTrack Deploy Hybrid Exchange Hybrid identity and Microsoft's identity solutions Activity Reports in the Office 365 admin center Managing Change in Office 365 When To Use What In Office 365 - 2toLead About Sean Sean Bugler is a Cloud Solutions Architect for the Bay Area Metropolitan Transportation Commission. Previously working as a technology consultant and trainer, Sean has worked with startups and Fortune 500 companies alike to build, optimize, and reimagine what collaboration and productivity looks like. You can find him on LinkedIn or @sbglr on Twitter. About the sponsors Mover is a cloud migration company that specializes in moving your company’s files from file servers or cloud storage like Box, Dropbox, and Google, into Office 365. Their patented technology makes Mover the fastest OneDrive file migrator in the world. Moving dozens of terabytes of data a day is a breeze. Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Visit mover.io for more info. "How do I know what’s going on with the health of my Office 365 tenant?" When there's a problem with your tenant you need to know what’s going on before your users. Office365Mon helps you understand not only when your tenant goes down, but how well it's performing. When you do have a problem, where do you start looking? Is it your network? Is it your tenant? Is it some feature inside of Office 365? Our network analysis features can help pinpoint performance issues and help you figure out where those bottlenecks are. Sign up for a FREE 90-day trial today at Office365Mon.com. Stay in the Know, and Stay in Control with Office365Mon.com. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 84 – Ignite 2018 Announcements!

Mon, 24 Sep 2018 14:00:14 +0000

In Episode 84, Ben and Scott talk about the latest announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2018. There are so many things we could talk about, but we've focused on Office 365, the Microsoft security stack, and some of the newest services coming in Azure IaaS. Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Office365Mon.com - How do you know what's going on with the health of your Office 365 tenant? With Office365Mon! Sperry Software - Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes AI and Data Office Ideas Unified Search across Microsoft 365 Security Microsoft Threat Protection Password-free Sign-in for Org Accounts Office 365 Secure Score is now Microsoft Secure Score Azure Azure Ultra SSD Managed Disks Public Preview Azure Standard SSD Managed Disks General Availability Azure Virtual WAN General Availability Azure Firewall General Availability Azure Front Door Service (AFD) Preview Azure ExpressRoute Direct Public Preview Azure ExpessRoute Global Reach Public Preview Azure Blueprints Public Preview About the sponsors Mover is a cloud migration company that specializes in moving your company’s files from file servers or cloud storage like Box, Dropbox, and Google, into Office 365. Their patented technology makes Mover the fastest OneDrive file migrator in the world. Moving dozens of terabytes of data a day is a breeze. Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Visit mover.io for more info. "How do I know what’s going on with the health of my Office 365 tenant?" When there's a problem with your tenant you need to know what’s going on before your users. Office365Mon helps you understand not only when your tenant goes down, but how well it's performing. When you do have a problem, where do you start looking? Is it your network? Is it your tenant? Is it some feature inside of Office 365? Our network analysis features can help pinpoint performance issues and help you figure out where those bottlenecks are. Sign up for a FREE 90-day trial today at Office365Mon.com. Stay in the Know, and Stay in Control with Office365Mon.com. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 83 – Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches with Iain Foulds

Thu, 20 Sep 2018 12:00:13 +0000

In Episode 83, Ben and Scott talk with Iain Foulds about his new book, Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches and how it can help those that are just getting started with Azure or the cloud get up to speed in just a month! Tweet @msclouditpro with the hashtag #azurebook to enter for a chance to win a free copy of Iain's book! Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Office365Mon.com - How do you know what's going on with the health of your Office 365 tenant? With Office365Mon! Sperry Software - Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches Use code podmiccloud18 for 40% off all formats Create a free Azure account Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches Github repo Azure Quickstart Templates Github repo Install Azure CLI 2.0 Azure DevOps Utilities Azure Cosmos DB About Iain Iain Foulds is a senior content developer at Microsoft, currently writing technical documentation for Azure container services, virtual machines, and virtual machine scale sets. Previously, Iain was a premier field engineer with Microsoft for virtualization technologies such as Azure, Hyper-V, and System Center Virtual Machine Manager. With over 15 years of experience in IT, most of it in operations and services, Iain embraced virtualization early with VMware and has helped build and teach others about cloud computing for years. You can follow Iain on Twitter @fouldsy. About the sponsors Mover is a cloud migration company that specializes in moving your company’s files from file servers or cloud storage like Box, Dropbox, and Google, into Office 365. Their patented technology makes Mover the fastest OneDrive file migrator in the world. Moving dozens of terabytes of data a day is a breeze. Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Visit mover.io for more info. "How do I know what’s going on with the health of my Office 365 tenant?" When there's a problem with your tenant you need to know what’s going on before your users. Office365Mon helps you understand not only when your tenant goes down, but how well it's performing. When you do have a problem, where do you start looking? Is it your network? Is it your tenant? Is it some feature inside of Office 365? Our network analysis features can help pinpoint performance issues and help you figure out where those bottlenecks are. Sign up for a FREE 90-day trial today at Office365Mon.com. Stay in the Know, and Stay in Control with Office365Mon.com. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 82 – Microsoft Teams with Karuana Gatimu

Thu, 13 Sep 2018 12:00:41 +0000

In Episode 82, Ben and Scott are joined by Karuana Gatimu, Principal PM Manager in the Insights and Outreach team in Microsoft Engineering, where they discuss the latest happenings with Microsoft Teams - convergence with Skype for Business, Microsoft Teams governance, and the Office 365 Champions program. Don't forget to stop by and visit us at Microsoft Ignite when we record! Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Office365Mon.com - How do you know what's going on with the health of your Office 365 tenant? With Office365Mon! Sperry Software - Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Microsoft Teams tips & tricks SuccessWithTeams.com Coffee in the Cloud on YouTube Microsoft Teams Blog Plan for governance in Teams Microsoft Teams Help Center Office 365 Champions Program Driving Adoption on Microsoft Tech Community Agile Service Management: Delivering Enterprise-Ready Cloud Services About Karuana Karuana runs the Insights and Outreach team in Microsoft Engineering. As an enterprise adoption specialist, she helps companies get business results from Office 365 with a special focus on teamwork and business process automation. You can find her at Microsoft Ignite O365 Adoption pre-day or on the expo floor in the Microsoft Teams area. Feel free to connect to Karuana on LinkedIn or via @Karuana on Twitter. About the sponsors Mover is a cloud migration company that specializes in moving your company’s files from file servers or cloud storage like Box, Dropbox, and Google, into Office 365. Their patented technology makes Mover the fastest OneDrive file migrator in the world. Moving dozens of terabytes of data a day is a breeze. Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Visit mover.io for more info. "How do I know what’s going on with the health of my Office 365 tenant?" When there's a problem with your tenant you need to know what’s going on before your users. Office365Mon helps you understand not only when your tenant goes down, but how well it's performing. When you do have a problem, where do you start looking? Is it your network? Is it your tenant? Is it some feature inside of Office 365? Our network analysis features can help pinpoint performance issues and help you figure out where those bottlenecks are. Sign up for a FREE 90-day trial today at Office365Mon.com. Stay in the Know, and Stay in Control with Office365Mon.com. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 81 – Microsoft Intune and Mobile Device Management

Thu, 06 Sep 2018 12:00:27 +0000

In Episode 81, Ben and Scott dive into Microsoft Intune and mobile device management (MDM). Also, we'll be at Ignite, so don't forget to come by and say "Hi!". Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Office365Mon.com - How do you know what's going on with the health of your Office 365 tenant? With Office365Mon! Sperry Software - Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Introduction to Microsoft Intune in the Azure portal Microsoft Intune service description Set up Intune Device Management What is device enrollment? What is Microsoft Intune device management? Get started with device compliance policies in Intune What are Microsoft Intune device profiles? Mobile Application Management What is Microsoft Intune app management? Conditional Access What's conditional access? Compare Intune vs. AirWatch MDM POD1014 - Microsoft Cloud IT Pro podcast Related Episodes Episode 3 – Yes MAM, No MAM Episode 13 – Identity and Authentication in Office 365 Episode 74 – Securing Office 365 (Part 1) Episode 80 – Hybrid Azure Active Directory Join About the sponsors Mover is a cloud migration company that specializes in moving your company’s files from file servers or cloud storage like Box, Dropbox, and Google, into Office 365. Their patented technology makes Mover the fastest OneDrive file migrator in the world. Moving dozens of terabytes of data a day is a breeze. Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Visit mover.io for more info. "How do I know what’s going on with the health of my Office 365 tenant?" When there's a problem with your tenant you need to know what’s going on before your users. Office365Mon helps you understand not only when your tenant goes down, but how well it's performing. When you do have a problem, where do you start looking? Is it your network? Is it your tenant? Is it some feature inside of Office 365? Our network analysis features can help pinpoint performance issues and help you figure out where those bottlenecks are. Sign up for a FREE 90-day trial today at Office365Mon.com. Stay in the Know, and Stay in Control with Office365Mon.com. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info or sign up for our latest FREE webinar at https://intg.ink/office365webinar.

Episode 80 – Hybrid Azure Active Directory Join

Thu, 30 Aug 2018 12:00:22 +0000

Today we dive into a listener question from Steve about EMS, Hybrid Azure AD joined devices and other fun topics around joining devices to Azure AD/Office 365. Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes https://shell.azure.com Expose EditorZoom (used by ctrl + mouse wheel) in API Enterprise Mobility + Security Pricing Options Introduction to device management in Azure Active Directory Azure AD Join vs Azure AD Device Registration AAD Join Enrollment Overview of Windows Autopilot Bulk enrollment for Windows devices Join a new Windows 10 device with Azure AD during a first run Hybrid AAD Join Enrollment Tutorial: Configure hybrid Azure Active Directory join for managed domains Tutorial: Configure hybrid Azure Active Directory join for federated domains Tutorial: Configure hybrid Azure Active Directory joined devices manually Join a new Windows 10 device with Azure AD during a first run How to control the hybrid Azure AD join of your devices About the sponsors Mover is a cloud migration company that specializes in moving your company’s files from file servers or cloud storage like Box, Dropbox, and Google, into Office 365. Their patented technology makes Mover the fastest OneDrive file migrator in the world. Moving dozens of terabytes of data a day is a breeze. Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Visit mover.io for more info. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 79 – Azure Application Gateway

Thu, 23 Aug 2018 12:00:33 +0000

In Episode 79, Ben and Scott get Azure Application Gateway - a layer 7 load-balancer offering from Microsoft. Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Show Notes What is Azure Application Gateway? Session Affinity Overview of end-to-end SSL with Application Gateway Web application firewall (WAF) Azure Application Gateway URL path based routing overview Application Gateway redirect overview Create a custom probe for Application Gateway by using the portal Application Gateway pricing About the sponsors Mover is a cloud migration company that specializes in moving your company’s files from file servers or cloud storage like Box, Dropbox, and Google, into Office 365. Their patented technology makes Mover the fastest OneDrive file migrator in the world. Moving dozens of terabytes of data a day is a breeze. Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Visit mover.io for more info. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 78 – Azure Firewall and Azure Virtual WAN

Thu, 16 Aug 2018 12:00:52 +0000

In Episode 78, Ben and Scott talk about two exciting new Azure offerings - Azure Virtual WAN and Azure Firewall. Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Getting started with Scripting for Office 365 Webinar Show Notes Announcing public preview of Azure Virtual WAN and Azure Firewall Azure Virtual WAN What is Azure Virtual WAN? (Preview) Citrix SD-WAN with Microsoft Azure Virtual WAN Improves Workspace Experience and Productivity Another Big Step Towards Bringing Networking Into the Cloud Era Azure Firewall What is Azure Firewall? Enable the Azure Firewall public preview About the sponsors Mover is a cloud migration company that specializes in moving your company’s files from file servers or cloud storage like Box, Dropbox, and Google, into Office 365. Their patented technology makes Mover the fastest OneDrive file migrator in the world. Moving dozens of terabytes of data a day is a breeze. Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Visit mover.io for more info. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 77 – Catching up on SharePoint and Office 365

Thu, 09 Aug 2018 12:00:00 +0000

In Episode 77, Ben and Scott run down some of the latest announcements for SharePoint Online and Office 365. Sponsors Mover.io – Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck – with Mover! Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Getting started with Scripting for Office 365 Webinar Show Notes Structure your intranet – page metadata coming to SharePoint in Office 365 SharePoint UserVoice Updates to SharePoint self-service site creation Idle-Session Timeout Policy in SharePoint Online & OneDrive is now Generally Available Announcing availability of the Page Diagnostics Tool for SharePoint About the sponsors Mover is a cloud migration company that specializes in moving your company’s files from file servers or cloud storage like Box, Dropbox, and Google, into Office 365. Their patented technology makes Mover the fastest OneDrive file migrator in the world. Moving dozens of terabytes of data a day is a breeze. Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Visit mover.io for more info. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 76 – All the 2019 Previews!

Thu, 02 Aug 2018 12:00:18 +0000

In Episode 76, Ben and Scott run through the latest announcements for SharePoint 2019, Skype for Business 2019, and Exchange 2019. Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Getting started with Scripting for Office 365 Webinar SharePoint 2019 Public Preview Now Available SharePoint Server 2019 Reviewer’s Guide SharePoint Server 2019 Quick Start Guide for Single Server Farms Announcing the Skype for Business Server 2019 Preview! Exchange Server 2019 Public Preview Microsoft matches Slack with a free version of its Teams chat app Get Microsoft Teams for free Inside the Free Version of Teams What’s new in Microsoft Teams – July Roundup About the sponsors Mover is a cloud migration company that specializes in moving your company’s files from file servers or cloud storage like Box, Dropbox, and Google, into Office 365. Their patented technology makes Mover the fastest OneDrive file migrator in the world. Moving dozens of terabytes of data a day is a breeze. Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Visit mover.io for more info. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Episode 75 – Securing Office 365 (Part 2)

Thu, 26 Jul 2018 12:00:46 +0000

In Episode 75, Ben and Scott continue the conversation on Office 365 security, celebrate the reappearance of the Office 365 Service Descriptions. Sponsors Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Office 365 Service Descriptions Office Customization Tool for Click-to-Run (Preview) Enable Microsoft 365 usage analytics Introducing the Office 365 Secure Score Microsoft Trust Center | Security | Office 365 Office 365 Threat Intelligence Attack Simulator in Office 365 Running your first Simulated Office 365 Attack: Brute Force Password (Dictionary Attack) Running your first Simulated Office 365 Attack: Spear Phishing Running your first Simulated Office 365 Attack: Password Spray Attack Azure AD Conditional Access support for blocking legacy auth is in Public Preview! What is conditional access in Azure Active Directory? Azure Active Directory B2B collaboration licensing guidance

Episode 74 – Securing Office 365 (Part 1)

Thu, 19 Jul 2018 12:00:31 +0000

In Episode 74, Ben and Scott lament the disappearance of the Office 365 Service Descriptions and then dive into securing Office 365. Sponsors Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes The Firewall of the Future Is Identity Building Zero Trust networks with Microsoft 365 Set up multi-factor authentication for Office 365 users Manage emergency-access administrative accounts in Azure AD Baseline security policy for Azure AD admin accounts in public preview! Connect to Exchange Online PowerShell using multi-factor authentication Start using Azure AD Privileged Identity Management Use a resource dashboard to perform an access review Azure AD Password Protection and Smart Lockout are now in Public Preview!

Episode 73 – Azure Government

Thu, 12 Jul 2018 12:00:45 +0000

In Episode 73, Ben and Scott talk about Azure Government - what it is, who can use it, and some of the considerations when you do. Sponsors Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Azure Government Cloud Computing How to buy Azure Government Available Services in Azure Government Products available by region Announcing new Azure Government capabilities for classified mission-critical workloads Business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR): Azure Paired Regions Security and Compliance Blueprints on Azure

Episode 72 – SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business with Omar Shahine

Thu, 05 Jul 2018 12:00:38 +0000

In Episode 72, Ben and Scott interview Microsoft's Omar Shahine, Director of Program Management, OneDrive and SharePoint. It is an "around-the-world" tour of the program management process at Microsoft, SharePoint Spaces, and how customers interact directly with the product teams to drive features and functionality in the Office 365 product suite. Sponsors Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes SharePoint Spaces Sign-up Omar Shahine Omar runs Product for SharePoint and OneDrive consumer and business services in Office 365. He has worked on OneDrive since August 2010 when he led a multi-year change in strategy and capability for OneDrive. Today he leads a team of Program Managers who deliver OneDrive and SharePoint across a range of devices and is integrated into thousands of products. He been at Microsoft since 1998 and worked on various products and services. He lives in Seattle with his wife and two kids. You can follow Omar on Twitter @OmarShahine.

Episode 71 – Accessing Office 365 on Mobile Devices

Thu, 28 Jun 2018 12:00:23 +0000

In Episode 71, Ben and Scott get you off your desktop, out of your browser and discuss accessing Office 365 from a mobile device. Sponsors Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Microsoft Authenticator Microsoft Authenticator on Google Play Microsoft Authenticator on Apple App Store What is the access panel? Mobile app support My Apps for Android My Apps for iPhone and iPad Office 365 Admin app Office 365 Admin on Apple App Store Office 365 Admin on Google Play Outlook for iOS and Android Help Center Set up email in the Outlook for Android app Set up email in Outlook for iOS mobile app SharePoint Mobile app Use a mobile device to work with SharePoint Online sites SharePoint mobile app for iOS SharePoint mobile app for Android OneDrive Use OneDrive on Android Use OneDrive on iOS Add OneDrive for Business in Android Use OneDrive for Business in iOS Help for Skype for Business on a mobile device Install Skype for Business on iOS Install Skype for Business on Android Microsoft Teams on Mobile Devices Microsoft Teams on the Apple App Store Microsoft Teams on Google Play Episode 3: Yes MAM, No MAM

Episode 70 – Catching up on Office 365 News

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 12:00:44 +0000

In Episode 70, Scott and Ben crawl out of their holes to bring you the latest and greatest happenings in Office 365. Sponsors Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Microsoft to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion Here’s what GitHub developers really think about Microsoft’s acquisition Hyperfish acquired by LiveTiles About the Office 365 admin center About Office 365 admin roles What you can do in the Office apps on an Android, iOS, or Windows mobile device with an Office 365 subscription Updates to Adobe Document Cloud bring integrated PDF services to Office 365 Adobe Help - Configuring Office 365 SharePoint OneDrive Power and simplicity—updates to the Office 365 user experience Microsoft to give Office 365, Office.com apps a makeover PowerShell Cmdlets for PowerApps and Flow creators and administrators SharePoint Admin Survey from Recore

Episode 69 – PowerApps with Laura Rogers

Thu, 14 Jun 2018 12:00:12 +0000

In Episode 69, Ben sits down with Laura Rogers from IW Mentor at SharePoint Conference 2018. Laura shares her experience with SharePoint Swoop and provides insights on the PowerApps landscape. Sponsors Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes SharePoint Swoop – the intranet makeover show Microsoft PowerApps Overview of connectors for PowerApps Customize a SharePoint list form using PowerApps PowerApps Studio for the Web is Generally Available for Production Use Production PowerApp: Legislative Tracking PowerApps Posts on Laura's Blog Generate an app from within SharePoint using PowerApps From Insights to Action with the Power Apps custom visual Long live SharePoint Server! – SP2019 TAP Enrich your SharePoint Content with Intelligence and Automation PowerApps Live Online in June Laura Rogers Laura Rogers is a SharePoint expert, speaker, author, and educator. She is well-versed in helping organizations make the most of their SharePoint environments using out-of-box functionalities such as workflows, web parts, and PowerApps. She is the owner of IW Mentor, a SharePoint training company. Laura’s technical expertise also includes over 12 years of experience working with Microsoft’s messaging and collaboration systems. She has been named a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for the past seven years. Laura runs the Birmingham (AL) SharePoint User Group. She has contributed to several books on SharePoint over the past eight years. You can read more about Laura’s experiences on her blog, www.wonderlaura.com You can follow Laura on Twitter @WonderLaura and on her blog at https://wonderlaura.com.

Episode 68 – SharePoint spaces and SharePoint 2019 with Bill Baer

Thu, 07 Jun 2018 12:00:28 +0000

In Episode 68, Ben sits down with Bill Baer to talk about the latest announcements from SharePoint Conference 2018 and the SharePoint Virtual Summit! They touch on everything from the latest announcements with SharePoint spaces to the functionality and release timelines for SharePoint 2019. Sponsors Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Watch the SharePoint Virtual Summit SharePoint innovations transform content collaboration with mixed reality and AI SharePoint spaces Microsoft is bringing the SharePoint work environment to virtual reality headsets Microsoft announces SharePoint Server 2019 with modern team sites, communication sites, and more Welcome to SharePoint Server 2019, a modern platform for choice and flexibility New Capabilities for OneDrive Announced Today at SharePoint Conference North America Multi-Geo Capabilities in OneDrive and SharePoint Online in Office 365 Bill Baer Bill Baer is a Senior Technical Product Manager and Microsoft Certified Master for SharePoint in the SharePoint product group at Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, Washington; previously a Hewlett-Packard Technology Solutions Group MVP with a background in infrastructure engineering and enterprise deployments of SharePoint Products and Technologies. Bill Baer has deep industry experience having worked for Apple Computer Corporation, First Data Corporation, Digital Equipment Corporation, Compaq Computer Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, and Microsoft Corporation. You can follow Bill on Twitter at @williambaer and on his blog at https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/wbaer/.

Episode 67 – The Year of the List with Adam Harmetz

Thu, 31 May 2018 12:00:04 +0000

In Episode 67, Ben and Scott are joined by Adam Harmetz where they discuss the latest updates and announcements from SharePoint Conference 2018, including SharePoint spaces, improvements to the Modern UI, SharePoint Lists, and AI. Sponsors Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Watch the SharePoint Virtual Summit SharePoint innovations transform content collaboration with mixed reality and AI SharePoint spaces What's new for your intranet in Office 365 Stream innovations at the SharePoint Conference showcase AI in video Adam Harmetz Adam is a twelve year veteran of the SharePoint Engineering team. Today, he runs the product team responsible for developing the user experience and development platform for SharePoint (in Office 365 and on-premises) - including Team Sites, Comm Sites, Publishing Sites & Portals, Biz Apps (w/Microsoft Flow and Power App integration), the SharePoint mobile apps (download today!), and the SharePoint Framework. You can follow Adam on Twitter @AdamHarmetz.

Episode 66 – OneDrive for Business with Stephen Rose

Tue, 29 May 2018 12:00:43 +0000

In Episode 66, Ben and Scott are joined by Stephen Rose where they discuss the latest updates and announcements from SharePoint Conference 2018, including OneDrive for Business multi-geo support, improvements to the sharing experience, and reporting. Sponsors Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Watch the SharePoint Virtual Summit SharePoint innovations transform content collaboration with mixed reality and AI New Capabilities for OneDrive Announced Today at SharePoint Conference North America OneDrive Uservoice OneDrive for Business - Office 365 Roadmap Stephen Rose Stephen is the Senior Product Marketing Manager for OneDrive for Business at Microsoft. In addition to speaking at various conferences around the globe, he is a regular contributor to the Office and OneDrive TechCenter blogs and engages with over 160k Twitter followers on all topics tech. Stephen holds 15 technical certifications and has been an MCT (Microsoft Certified Trainer) and MCSE (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer) since Windows NT. In 2015, he was awarded the Microsoft 2015 Circle of Excellence Platinum Club award. You can follow Stephen on Twitter @stephenlrose.

Episode 65 – Live from SharePoint Conference 2018 with Mark Kashman

Fri, 25 May 2018 19:15:02 +0000

In Episode 65, Ben and Scott are joined by Mark Kashman where they discuss the latest updates and announcements from SharePoint Conference 2018. Sponsors Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Watch the SharePoint Virtual Summit SharePoint innovations transform content collaboration with mixed reality and AI The Intrazone – a new SharePoint podcast from Microsoft The Intrazone Subscribe to The Intrazone on Apple Podcasts What's new for your intranet in Office 365 Enrich your SharePoint Content with Intelligence and Automation Overview of the "Connect to new Office 365 group" feature Mark Kashman Mark is a Senior Product Manager on the SharePoint team focused primarily on SharePoint Online, the mobile and intelligent intranet, and Delve & the Microsoft Graph. He has worked at MSFT since 2000. He started working with SharePoint building a digital asset management (DAM) solution built on top of SharePoint 2007 (IMM, the Interactive Media Manager) before moving to the SharePoint team. He lives in the Sammamish, WA area and enjoys kayaking, biking, hiking, ballet/soccer/science club/swimming (all the Dad duties), and quiet-bird-chirping moments for reading and writing books - when not playing that darned addictive Bejeweled. You can follow Mark on Twitter at @Mkashman and on the Microsoft Tech Community.

Episode 64 – SQL, Coffee, and Rotary Phones

Thu, 24 May 2018 13:00:20 +0000

In Episode 64, Ben and Scott lost the rails, found the rails, and then fell off of them again. Sponsors Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes What is Microsoft SQL Operations Studio (preview)? Download and install SQL Operations Studio (preview) Office 365 Support Options #AzureTrivia on Twitter Ember: The World's First Temperature Control Mug Microsoft’s Surface Hub 2 is designed for an office of the future

Episode 63 – Ding, Dong, Skype for Business ACP Is Dead

Thu, 17 May 2018 12:00:56 +0000

In Episode 63, Ben and Scott lament the end of life announcement for the integration of third-party audio conferencing providers (ACP) with Skype for Business. Sponsors Join Ben and Scott at SharePoint Conference North America. Register today at sharepointna.com with the code SHOAG and save $50 on your registration. Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes End of life program for the integration of Skype for Business with third-party audio conferencing providers On Meeting Solutions - Microsoft Teams Country and region availability for Audio Conferencing and Calling Plans Setting up the Meeting Migration Service (MMS) Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams Capabilities Roadmap Communication Credits

Episode 62 – Catching Up On Azure, Microsoft Teams, and SharePoint

Thu, 10 May 2018 12:00:14 +0000

In Episode 62, Ben and Scott take a walk through the latest news in the Microsoft world. Sponsors Join Ben and Scott at SharePoint Conference North America. Register today at sharepointna.com with the code SHOAG and save $50 on your registration. Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Region expansion: Global VNet Peering Announcing the new Microsoft Teams & Skype for Business Admin Center Updated roadmap for bringing Skype for Business capabilities to Microsoft Teams Teams On Air Q&A roundup: Teams + SharePoint for document sharing, storage and collaboration Planner tab in Microsoft Teams now includes the Schedule view and Charts view Manage the IW trial offer for Microsoft Teams Overview of retention policies The Intrazone – a new SharePoint podcast from Microsoft Introducing "Request sign-off" - an approval flow that requires no set up In June 2018, we're making changes to the native social capabilities in SharePoint Online Rolling out: tenant admin tools to connect existing SharePoint team sites to new Office 365 Groups SharePoint Modernization scanner Set up and manage access requests

Episode 61 – Cloud File Shares

Thu, 03 May 2018 12:00:51 +0000

In Episode 61, Scott and Ben dive into a listener question on the various options for cloud-based file shares, including SharePoint Online and Azure Files. Sponsors Join Ben and Scott at SharePoint Conference North America. Register today at sharepointna.com with the code SHOAG and save $50 on your registration. Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Increase in SharePoint Online storage allocation Announcing New OneDrive for Business feature: Files Restore SharePoint Online Limits Introduction to Azure Files Frequently asked questions about Azure Files Azure File Sync On-premises Access Share Snapshots Azure Files Pricing Billing and Pricing FAQ

Episode 60 – Azure Cloud Shell (or 30 Minutes About A Text Box)

Thu, 26 Apr 2018 12:00:16 +0000

In Episode 60, Scott and Ben spend 30 minutes talking about a magical text box that runs in the cloud - Azure Cloud Shell. Sponsors Join Ben and Scott at SharePoint Conference North America. Register today at sharepointna.com with the code SHOAG and save $50 on your registration. Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Azure Cloud Shell Features Azure Cloud Shell Overview Quickstart for Bash in Azure Cloud Shell Features & tools for Bash in Azure Cloud Shell Quickstart for PowerShell in Azure Cloud Shell (Preview) Features & tools for PowerShell in Azure Cloud Shell (Preview) Embedded Shell Persist files in Azure Cloud Shell Install Azure Building Blocks in Azure Cloud Shell Installing the Office 365 CLI in Azure Cloud Shell Azure Tips and Tricks Part 49 - Add Azure Cloud Shell to Visual Studio Code Azure Portal goes Native on iOS and Android

Episode 59 – Azure Network Security

Thu, 19 Apr 2018 12:00:52 +0000

In Episode 59, Ben and Scott dive into Azure Network Security and walk through the concept of an Azure Virtual Datacenter. Sponsors Join Ben and Scott at SharePoint Conference North America. Register today at sharepointna.com with the code SHOAG and save $50 on your registration. Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Global Azure Bootcamp Global Azure Bootcamp - Jacksonville Location Who Needs a Virtual Data Center? Azure Virtual Datacenter Microsoft Azure and Software Defined Networking Filter network traffic with network security groups Azure Load Balancer overview Load Balancer SKU comparison Overview of Application Gateway Web application firewall (WAF) Network Virtual Appliances Deploy highly available network virtual appliances Introduction to flow logging for Network Security Groups Back-end health, diagnostic logs, and metrics for Application Gateway Virtual Network Service Endpoints

Episode 58 – SharePoint Conference 2018 with Bill Baer

Thu, 12 Apr 2018 12:00:49 +0000

In Episode 58, Scott and Ben sat down (virtually) with Bill Baer to discuss SPC18! We reminisce about past SharePoint Conference and what Microsoft is bringing back from past conference and new aspects will be coming to SPC18 that you can forward to. Sponsors Join Ben and Scott at SharePoint Conference North America. Register today at sharepointna.com with the code SHOAG and save $50 on your registration. Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes SharePoint Conference Conference Agenda The SharePoint Monkey - or 10,000 SharePoint Monkeys?! Bands Parties SharePints Round Tables Lots of great sessions Workshops Updates to the SharePoint Migration Tool More updates to the migration tool SharePoint Admin Center Updates Machine Learning and Intelligence solutions infused into SharePoint We also talk about the type of news to look forward to (besides seeing Bill, Scott and I of course)...SharePoint 2019, SharePoint Hybrid and the future of SharePoint. Since most of the news is still under embargo, we couldn't go into a lot of details, but there are some hints about the direction SharePoint is going. Bill Baer Bill Baer is a Senior Technical Product Manager and Microsoft Certified Master for SharePoint in the SharePoint product group at Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, Washington; previously a Hewlett-Packard Technology Solutions Group MVP with a background in infrastructure engineering and enterprise deployments of SharePoint Products and Technologies. Bill Baer has deep industry experience having worked for Apple Computer Corporation, First Data Corporation, Digital Equipment Corporation, Compaq Computer Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, and Microsoft Corporation.

Episode 57 – News and Updates for Azure and Office 365

Thu, 05 Apr 2018 12:00:07 +0000

In Episode 57, Scott and Ben are back with your monthly dose of cloud news. This month, it's all about Azure and Office 365, including updates to Microsoft Teams, some exciting announcements around Azure resiliency, and much more. Sponsors Join Ben and Scott at SharePoint Conference North America. Register today at sharepointna.com with the code SHOAG and save $50 on your registration. Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Notes Update management, inventory, and change tracking in Azure Automation now generally available Episode 48 – Azure Log Analytics: Change Tracking and Update Management PowerApps Studio for the Web is Generally Available for Production Use Microsoft Planner is getting Guest Access support, UWP app also in the works Office 365 Groups created from Microsoft Teams will be hidden from Outlook by default Office 365 Group Expiration Policy Azure AD Expiration Policy for Office 365 Groups is Generally Available Retention policies for Microsoft Teams Organize your intranet with SharePoint hub sites Create a hub site in SharePoint Online Office 365 CLI - spo hubsite connect Virtual Machine Serial Console access General availability: Global VNet Peering General availability: Zone-redundant storage General availability: Azure Availability Zones in select regions

Episode 56 – An Overview of Azure Security Center

Thu, 29 Mar 2018 12:00:42 +0000

In Episode 56, Ben learns all about Azure Security Center from Scott. Azure Security Center Azure Security Center Pricing What is Azure Security Center? Tutorial: Define and assess security policies Tutorial: Protect your resources with Azure Security Center Quickstart: Onboard your Azure subscription to Security Center Standard

Episode 55 – Visio Online

Thu, 22 Mar 2018 12:00:20 +0000

In Episode 55, Ben and Scott break down Visio Online. Visio Online Compare Visio options Visio Online Service Description Visio Online: Frequently Asked Questions Supported scenarios for installing different versions of Office, Visio, and Project on the same computer Visio Viewer for iOS

Episode 54 – Microsoft 365 Government with Brian Levenson

Thu, 15 Mar 2018 12:00:54 +0000

In Episode 54, Scott and Ben are back with an interview with Brian Levenson (@brian_levenson), the Microsoft 365 US Government Product Marketing Manager. Announcing Microsoft 365 for US Government New Apps and Services in Office 365 US Government Office 365 US Government Service Description Office 365 Government Community Cloud Service Description Office 365 GCC High and Department of Defense Service Description Microsoft CityNext Defense Innovation Unit Experimental Microsoft Tech Community Office 365 Episode 51 – An Introduction to Microsoft 365 About Brian Levenson Brian Levenson started in the technology world as the child of a software engineering growing up in Silicon Valley. Since testing computer games as a four-year-old, Brian has managed a university help desk, helped enterprises and governments deploy and use software solutions, and supported early cloud adopters through BPOS, Office 365, and now Microsoft 365. As the Microsoft 365 US Government product marketing manager, he is responsible for Microsoft’s secure collaboration and intelligent productivity services designed for US Government, defense industry, aerospace, and government contractors. Brian travels the world talking about enabling a modern workplace and transforming business and government services with technology, and he frequently delivers Office 365 product overviews as one of Microsoft’s top presenters in the Executive Briefing Center.

Episode 53 – The Latest in Microsoft Teams

Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:00:19 +0000

In Episode 53, Scott and Ben give a rundown of the latest updates and enhancements in Microsoft Teams. What’s new in Microsoft Teams – February update Collaborate securely with anyone in Microsoft Teams Intelligent Communications takes the next step with calling in Teams Quick start guide: Configuring Calling Plans in Microsoft Teams Access Plans from Microsoft Teams in Planner apps Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams Capabilities Roadmap Teams on Air YouTube Playlist Coffee in the Cloud Teams on Air Podcast Microsoft Teams Blog

Episode 52 – Office 365 News for February 2018

Thu, 01 Mar 2018 13:00:00 +0000

52. That's quite a number. It's not the number of updates we have to talk about in this episode, but it is the number of episodes we've released. With that being said, Episode 52 is all about news for the month of February 2018. We have updates in Azure, the Microsoft Search experience for Teams and SharePoint, and a number of updates to Azure Active Directory. General availability: Virtual Network Service Endpoints for Azure SQL Database Private Teams now shows up in Search New ways to govern access of external users are coming to Office 365 "In SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business, sharing resources (files, folders, sites, etc.) with external users is accomplished by sending an invitation to the users directly, or adding them to groups and granting appropriate access levels. As a result, an external user would only see the content that has been shared with the user or with groups to which the user belongs.After March 23, 2018, external users will no longer see content that has been shared with Everyone, All Authenticated Users, or All Forms Users. Only a small number of tenancies use this permissions model to grant access to their specific external invited guests. Content that has been permissioned to these groups will, by default, be visible only to your users within your organization's tenancy." External user permission changes Working with Administrative Units Azure AD Naming Policy for Office 365 groups is now in Public Preview Centralized Deployment for Outlook add-ins will now be available in preview Find what you want, discover what you need with personalized intelligent search across Microsoft 365

Episode 51 – An Introduction to Microsoft 365

Thu, 22 Feb 2018 13:00:45 +0000

In Episode 51, Ben schools Scott on Microsoft 365. Introducing Microsoft 365 “A complete, intelligent solution, including Office 365, Windows 10, and Enterprise Mobility + Security, that empowers everyone to be creative and work together, securely.” Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise & Education Compare Windows 10 editions Windows 10 Enterprise E3 in CSP "Deploy on up to five devices. For each user covered by the license, you can deploy Windows 10 Enterprise edition on up to five devices." Microsoft 365 Business “Customers who wish to run Microsoft 365 Business in their organization must be running Windows 7, 8.1, or 10 Pro* on their current desktops and do not rely on a domain controller for their organization. Customers who use on-premises Active Directory must switch to cloud identity and management as part of their deployment.” Microsoft 365 Enterprise Enterprise Mobility + Security Pricing Options Compare More Office 365 for Business Plans Microsoft 365 Enterprise Firstline

Episode 50 – The Office 365 CLI with Waldek Mastykarz

Thu, 15 Feb 2018 13:00:29 +0000

In Episode 50, Ben and Scott sit down with Waldek Mastykarz to talk about the Office 365 CLI - why it exists, how to get started, what's available today, and how to keep up-to-date as the project grows. https://aka.ms/o365cli Waldek's Blog About Waldek Waldek Mastykarz is a Product Owner at Rencore, where he designs and builds market-leading solutions that help SharePoint and Office 365 customers to minimize risks from customizing SharePoint. As a member of the SharePoint PnP Core team, Waldek helps SharePoint developers get the most out of SharePoint’s extensibility capabilities. For his contributions to the technical Microsoft communities as blogger, speaker, and developer, Waldek is a 9-time recipient of the Microsoft MVP title.

Episode 49 – Office 365 News for January 2018

Thu, 08 Feb 2018 13:00:08 +0000

Ben and Scott are back again in Episode 49 with a recap of your Office 365 news for January 2018. This month it is all about Yammer, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and Azure Active Directory. Seen Counts in Yammer Manage Yammer users across their life cycle from Office 365 Define Your Yammer Group's Purpose Ignite Session: Yammer Roadmap Move conversations in Yammer Restore your OneDrive Support Tip: Conditional Access policies for Intune will now be available in Azure Active Directory Azure Active Directory conditional access what if tool - preview Old Intune Portal Being Retired Microsoft Forms is out of Preview - enough said Now – move files anywhere in Office 365, SharePoint and OneDrive General Availability of the SharePoint Migration Tool & SharePoint Migration Assessment Tool Updates SharePoint and OneDrive Management, Migration, and Security Updates Bulk edit SharePoint metadata Microsoft Teams new Who bot is available in preview

Episode 48 – Azure Log Analytics: Change Tracking and Update Management

Thu, 01 Feb 2018 13:00:42 +0000

Episode 48 Scott and Ben jump back into Azure to discuss Azure Log Analytics: Change Tracking and Update Management. As you start to move workloads into Azure IaaS, this is something you'll definitely want to take a look at for better management of your Azure servers. Preview: Update management, inventory, and change tracking in Azure Automation What is Azure Log Analytics? Azure Security Center frequently asked questions (FAQ) Add Azure Log Analytics management solutions to your workspace Track software changes in your environment with the Change Tracking solution Inventory Management Update Management solution in OMS Tuesdays with Corey - Managing your Azure VM Infrastructure

Episode 47 – Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection

Thu, 25 Jan 2018 13:00:13 +0000

In Episode 47, Ben and Scott walk through Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) and all of the ways it can help you improve your security posture in Office 365 for both Exchange Online and SharePoint Online (including OneDrive for Business and Microsoft Teams!). Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection - Marketing Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection - Support Office 365 ATP safe attachments Office 365 ATP safe links Learn more about spoof intelligence View reports for Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection Threat protection status report ATP Message Disposition report ATP File Types report Office 365 ATP for SharePoint, OneDrive, and Microsoft Teams

Episode 46 – UI Text Design with Tom Resing

Thu, 18 Jan 2018 13:00:00 +0000

In Episode 46, Ben interviews Tom Resing while Scott is out on vacation. We talk about UI Text Design, SharePoint, and life at Microsoft. Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone Tom Resing's Collaboration Blog About Tom Resing Tom Resing (Blog/LinkedIn) is a SharePoint content developer focused on the modern support experience. As a writer on the production team, he works in UI Text Design, help and training.

Episode 45 – Looking Back at 2017 and Forward to 2018

Thu, 11 Jan 2018 13:00:34 +0000

In Episode 45, Scott and Ben look back on 2017 and put on their binoculars to peer into 2018. Episode 1 – Microsoft Teams Episode 29 – Ignite Live Show: Deep Dive on Microsoft Teams Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast Ignite Episodes Roadmap for Skype for Business capabilities coming to Microsoft Teams now available

Episode 44 – Office 365 News for December 2017

Thu, 04 Jan 2018 13:00:50 +0000

In Episode 44, Scott and Ben tear through the Office 365 news for December 2017. One would think it would be slow at the end of the year, but no, we're jam-packed with the latest updates. Read and write Managed Metadata in SharePoint lists, append to arrays, and a new connector Introducing Flow Launch Panel in SharePoint Lists and Libraries Announcing Microsoft Flow Analytics Microsoft OneDrive recognized as a Forrester Wave Leader in Enterprise File Sync and Share SharePoint Online: create news from SharePoint home in Office 365 Create News posts from the SharePoint Online Homepage SharePoint site design and site script overview Search for words in your images in Office 365 Engage employees in your intelligent social intranet with Yammer and SharePoint Set up the Standard or Targeted release options in Office 365 We're moving TechNet to https://docs.microsoft.com Set up Microsoft Forms Manage your Office 365 tenant on any platform with the Office 365 CLI The new Azure AD sign-in and “Keep me signed in” experiences rolling out now! Update on Focused Inbox and our plans for Clutter

Episode 43 – An Overview of Azure Storage

Thu, 28 Dec 2017 13:00:46 +0000

In Episode 43, Scott and Ben give an overview of the storage options in Azure, touching on everything from blobs to tables and queues. Azure Storage Introduction to Azure Storage Deciding when to use Azure Blobs, Azure Files, or Azure Disks Azure Storage Blobs Pricing Introduction to Azure Files Azure Table storage overview Introduction to Queues High-performance Premium Storage and managed disks for VMs

Episode 42 – Microsoft Flow with John Liu

Thu, 21 Dec 2017 13:00:18 +0000

In Episode 42, Scott has a fireside chat with Microsoft MVP John Liu about Microsoft Flow. John Liu .NET SharePoint/PnP-PowerShell Administration and ALM best practices for PowerApps, Microsoft Flow, and the Common Data Service Understand on-premises data gateways for Microsoft Flow Microsoft Blog - Flow Microsoft Flow & SharePoint: how to escalate approvals Upload and Run an One Premises Powershell Script From Microsoft Flow About John Liu John is a Microsoft Office Services MVP and Senior SharePoint Consultant for SharePoint Gurus, based in Sydney, Australia. Originally from a technical background in ASP.NET, he made the jump and has worked on numerous SharePoint projects since MOSS 2007. He specializes in custom development, Microsoft Flow, workflows and InfoPath, and blogs frequently on client-side scripting. John loves to find ways to bring the latest ASP.NET and client-side technologies to the SharePoint world, to apply the latest web developments to extend SharePoint’s capabilities. John is a frequent speaker at SharePoint Conference, SharePoint Saturday events around Australia, and helps to organize the Sydney SharePoint User Group (e.g., consuming all the pizza).

Episode 41 – Getting Started with Office 365 (Part 1 of ?)

Thu, 14 Dec 2017 13:00:11 +0000

In Episode 41, Ben and Scott respond to listener feedback and start the first of a who-knows-how-many series on how to onboard into Office 365. Episode 5 – Office 365 SKUs & Licensing Episode 6 – Office 365 License Management (For Real This Time) Network planning and performance tuning for Office 365 Office 365 Service Description Episode 13 – Identity and Authentication in Office 365 Add a domain and users to Office 365 Episode 20 – Getting Started with Skype for Business Online Episode 22 – Introduction to Exchange Online Episode 9 – SharePoint Online Administration

Episode 40 – Office 365 News for November 2017

Thu, 07 Dec 2017 13:00:37 +0000

In Episode 40, Scott and Ben review the latest Office 365 news for November 2017, including SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Exchange Online, and Microsoft Teams. New and updated web parts rolling out to SharePoint in Office 365 New features for SharePoint list and library preview web parts Hybrid Self-Service Site Creation Now Available in SharePoint Server 2016 Microsoft Flow integration in OneDrive for Business and new connector actions Announcing availability of custom forms, multi-value choice and read-only attachments support for SharePoint with PowerApps Updated feature: PowerApps and Flow integration in modern lists and libraries New Feature: Idle Session Timeout Preview Available in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business New feature: Client Access Rules for Exchange Online What’s new in Microsoft Teams - November Update Microsoft Teams Launches UK Data Residency, other geos coming soon... Triggers for Microsoft Planner, actions for SharePoint attachments, and other connector improvements

Episode 39 – Azure IaaS: VMs and Storage

Thu, 30 Nov 2017 13:00:40 +0000

In Episode 39, Ben and Scott provide an overview of onboarding into Azure Virtual Machines and the associated Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) components of Azure. Azure Virtual Machines Create a Windows virtual machine with the Azure portal Create a Windows virtual machine from an ARM Template Azure Quickstart Templates Overview of Azure PowerShell Use the Azure CLI to manage Azure resources and resource groups Azure Resource Manager Overview About disks storage for Azure Windows VMs

Episode 38 – Being successful as an Office 365 Architect

Thu, 23 Nov 2017 13:00:47 +0000

In Episode 38 Scott and Ben discuss how roles within IT have changed and evolved with move to the cloud. What does it take to be successful as an Office 365 Architect? How as the Admin's role changed with the move to Office 365? For everyone from SharePoint Admins to Exchange Admins to Skype for Business Admins, your role is changing. We'll discuss at a higher level how the IT Pro's mindset and approach to administration needs to change when diving into Office 365. SharePoint Hybrid - Interview with Matt McDermott Administering Azure AD Licensing Episode 5 - SKUs and Licensing Episode 6 - Office 365 License Management The Office 365 Roadmap Office 365 Message Center Office 365 Service Health Dashboard Interested in sponsoring the podcast? Contact us here!

Episode 37 – Office 365 and Azure Monitoring with Steve Peschka

Thu, 16 Nov 2017 13:00:57 +0000

In Episode 37, Ben interviews Steve Peschka of Office365Mon where they discuss what you can monitor in Office 365 and Azure and most importantly - what you'll want to consider when it comes to monitoring the service health of your cloud-based platforms. About Steve Peschka Steve Peschka is one of the founders of Office365Mon and an 18 year veteran of Microsoft. At Microsoft, he spent the last dozen years working almost exclusively with the SharePoint, Office 365 and Office 365 Dedicated teams. That included significant work helping some of the largest enterprises, governments, and military organizations design, deploy and develop on different versions of SharePoint going all the way back to pre-release versions of SharePoint 2001. In 2015 Steve left Microsoft to help start-up Office365Mon.Com, which is now a market leader in monitoring for Office 365, as well as a new sister service called AzureServiceMon for monitoring Azure. Office365Mon now has over 2000 customers and growing and Steve is the CEO. Steve was a frequent speaker at a variety of Microsoft events over the years and still continues to share thoughts at the SamlMan blog at https://samlman.wordpress.com/.

Episode 36 – Office 365 News for October 2017

Thu, 09 Nov 2017 13:00:13 +0000

In Episode 36, Ben and Scott cover Office 365 news for October 2017, including the Skype to Microsoft Teams transition roadmap Roadmap for Skype for Business capabilities coming to Microsoft Teams now available Skype for Business to Teams Capabilities Roadmap.pdf Office 365 Roadmap - Teams Features Changes to the previous OneDrive sync client (Groove.exe) in Office 2016 Click-to-Run Update to forms in Modern Lists, including custom forms with PowerApps - coming soon! See files shared with you in OneDrive Announcing our Microsoft Content Services white paper New feature: Create and Manage Groups in Outlook for iOS & Android Insiders can now try Outlook’s all-new search experience How Office 365 validates the From address to prevent phishing RFC 5322 Outlook for iOS end of support for iOS 9 Migrate your public folders to Office 365 Groups

Episode 35 – All Over The Map With Yammer

Thu, 02 Nov 2017 12:00:31 +0000

In Episode 35, Ben and Scott tackle Yammer, Microsoft's Enterprise Social Network available in Office 365. Say hello to Yammer Yammer Overview Yammer Enterprise stand-alone plan to retire by January 2017 Yammer admin guide Enforce Office 365 identity for Yammer users Compliance Framework for Industry Standards and Regulations - Customer Guidance Microsoft Online Services Data Center Map Microsoft Teams, Office 365 Groups, SharePoint, Yammer… What Should I Use, and When?

Episode 34 – PowerApps, Flow, the Common Data Service (CDS) and Poetry?

Thu, 26 Oct 2017 12:00:53 +0000

PowerApps, Flow, the Common Data Service (CDS) and Poetry? Scott and Ben walk you through getting started building solutions in Office 365 leveraging these three technologies. PowerApps Modify SharePoint forms with PowerApps PowerApps pricing and skus Flows Pricing for Microsoft Flow Common Data Service (CDS) introduction Use Cases: Paul Culmsee The (new current) best way to update SharePoint document metadata using Flow PowerApps, Flow and Managed Metadata fields–part 1 PowerApps, Flow and Managed Metadata fields–part 2 PowerApps, Flow and Managed Metadata fields–part 3 John Liu Flow Admin Center - Do a spring cleaning of your Flows All the PowerApps updates and sessions from Microsoft Ignite

Episode 33 – SharePoint News Around Microsoft Ignite

Thu, 19 Oct 2017 12:00:39 +0000

In Episode 33, Ben and Scott review all (well most of) the SharePoint-specific news from around Microsoft Ignite. Updating content management for the cloud SharePoint & OneDrive Security & Compliance Updates from Microsoft Ignite Security you can trust, control you can count on with SharePoint and OneDrive (Ignite News) Changes to SharePoint Pages Introducing the new SharePoint Admin Center SharePoint hub sites new in Office 365

Episode 32 – Office 365 News for September 2017

Thu, 12 Oct 2017 12:00:38 +0000

In this episode, Scott and Ben update you on the latest Office 365 news for September that was NOT from Microsoft Ignite. We talk mostly about news that was announced pre-ignite that you may have missed or glossed over with the flurry of news during Ignite. Fewer login prompts: The new “Keep me signed in” experience for Azure AD is in preview Changes to the Token Lifetime Default in Azure Active Directory September Updates to Office 365: Verify Domain with email, Automated Domain Delete, Guess User Icon New feature: Advanced Threat Protection Safe Links Additional Features - White list domains The GigJam preview is retiring New feature: Default link permission Updated feature: Support for # and % in SharePoint Online and OneDrive <- Enabled by Default Updated feature: List view for OneDrive and SharePoint - Compact Version Updated feature: Outlook on Android Add-ins Important news about FindTime <- Spoiler: It's being retired New feature: Yammer desktop app is available to all! Updated feature: Office 365 App launcher is changing (Again)

Episode 31 – Ignite Special: Microsoft Teams Interview with Wictor Wilén

Tue, 10 Oct 2017 12:00:49 +0000

In our final Microsoft Ignite special, Scott has a Microsoft Teams Interview with Wictor Wilén. They talk at a high level about Microsoft Teams and then dive into extending Teams using the Yeoman Generator from Wictor. Microsoft Teams Microsoft Teams Yeoman Generator Microsoft Teams Development Center Getting Started with Bots Getting started with Connectors Getting Started with Tabs Wictor's Blog About Wictor Wilén Wictor Wilén is a Group Manager and SharePoint Architect working at Avanade. Wictor has achieved the Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA) - SharePoint 2010, Microsoft Certified Solutions Master (MCSM) - SharePoint and Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) - SharePoint 2010 certifications. He has also been awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) since 2010. Wictor is specialised in SharePoint Solution Architecture and has been involved in the SharePoint industry since the birth of SharePoint. He is also heavily involved in the SharePoint community and is co-founder of the Swedish SharePoint User Group, SSUG. Wictor is the author of SharePoint 2010 Web Parts in Action and co-author of Inside Microsoft SharePoint 2013.

Episode 30 – Ignite Special: Office 365 Usage Analytics with Anne and Shilpi

Fri, 06 Oct 2017 12:00:03 +0000

In this special episode from Microsoft Ignite, Ben interviews Anne and Shilpi from Microsoft all new announcements around Office 365 Usage Analytics. Including announcements around: New Usage Report, Usage Score and Advanced Usage Analytics in Office 365. Usage and Reporting Announcements from Ignite BRK2039: Introducing Advanced Usage Reporting Tools Anne Michels Anne Michels is a Sr. Product Marketing Manager for Office 365 at Microsoft Corporation where she focuses on leading marketing initiatives around the administration, reporting and configuration experience for Office 365 to make the lives of IT Professionals easier. Anne started her career in Germany; after working as journalist for local radio stations, she joined Vok Dams, one of the leading corporate events planning agencies in Germany. In 2009, she migrated to the tech industry when she became Audience Marketing Manager at Microsoft Germany to educate and excite students about the Microsoft platform. She holds a master degree in Media Studies from the University of Bonn and is fluent in German, English and Spanish. Anne is a passionate snowboarder and runner and is still trying to make sense of JavaScript, HTML&CSS. Shilpi Sinha Shilpi is a Principal Program Manager on the Office 365 team. She is primarily focused on providing Office 365 commercial customers actionable insights into service level usage and has delivered the Office 365 Admin Usage reports as well as the Office 365 Adoption content pack in Power BI

Episode 29 – Ignite Live Show: Deep Dive on Microsoft Teams

Thu, 05 Oct 2017 12:00:09 +0000

Live from Microsoft Ignite! In Episode 29, Ben and Scott discuss the architecture of Microsoft Teams, how it is deployed and managed by Microsoft, and how organizations can enable themselves for a successful deployment in light of the announcement that Skype for Business will be built into Microsoft Teams. YouTube Video BRK3071 - Get an overview of Microsoft Teams architecture

Episode 28 – Ignite Special: Azure Updates with Corey Sanders

Fri, 29 Sep 2017 12:45:31 +0000

In Episode 28, Scott and Ben sit down with Corey Sanders, Director of Azure Compute, to discuss the latest updates to the Azure platform announced at Microsoft Ignite. Topics include compute, networking, and security. Azure Blog Tuesdays With Corey on Channel 9

Episode 27 – Ignite Special: Holistic SharePoint with Dan Holme

Wed, 27 Sep 2017 19:25:55 +0000

In this episode, we had the opportunity to sit down with Microsoft's own Dan Holme and talk to him about the SharePoint ecosystem, where it's been, and where it is now. We also jump into some of the new announcements from Microsoft Ignite and how they continue to move SharePoint forward as the hub of collaborative services in Office 365. SharePoint Hub Sites SharePoint Communication Sites Intelligent Search & Bing for Business SharePoint Migration Tool About Dan Holme With a career spanning more than 20 years, Dan Holme, Director of Product Marketing (SharePoint), a native of Colorado and graduate of Yale, earned a reputation as one of the world’s most respected consultants, authors, thought leaders, and experts on Microsoft technologies. In April of 2016, Dan joined Microsoft as the Director of Product Marketing. New to Seattle after ten years on Maui, Hawaii, Dan is passionate about nature, the performing arts, and the Olympic Games. Dan has served as the Microsoft Technologies Consultant for NBC Sports for the broadcast of the Olympics in Rio, Sochi, London, Vancouver, Beijing, and Torino. Follow Dan to learn more.

Episode 26 – Ignite Special: SharePoint Compliance with Anthony Woodward

Wed, 27 Sep 2017 17:00:36 +0000

In Episode 26, Ben has a chat with Anthony Woodward, the CTO of RecordPoint, where they discuss records management and compliance in SharePoint. About Anthony Woodward Anthony Woodward is the CTO of RecordPoint. As one of the original founders, Anthony has a vast amount of experience in the ECM features of SharePoint and the Microsoft stack. He has worked with hundreds of organizations around the world delivering compliant records management solutions. Anthony is originally from Australia but is now based in Seattle overseeing global operations and product strategy & support. About RecordPoint Reducing complexity, standardizing the underlying technology platform and reducing the total cost of ownership are all key goals for organizations. RecordPoint supports these goals as it is entirely built into the Microsoft platform and leverages your existing investments in SharePoint or Office 365.RecordPoint together with SharePoint is the complete solution for information management and governance. Available for both on-premises and in the cloud, RecordPoint for SharePoint offers a globally standard compliant, rules-based records management solution that solves the complexity of record management for SharePoint and Office 365.

Episode 25 – Ignite Special: Data Platform with JG Chirapurath

Tue, 26 Sep 2017 20:27:53 +0000

In episode 25, Scott sits down with John "JG" Chirapurath, General Manager of Microsoft's data platform business to chat about how customers can approach Microsoft's data platform offerings in Azure and enable new workloads in the cloud. Azure data and analytics platform

Episode 24 – Ignite Special: The Keynote Overview

Mon, 25 Sep 2017 13:15:37 +0000

Scott and I do something different. On our drive down to Microsoft Ignite, we record our take on the announcements coming out of the keynote at Microsoft Ignite. We give our thoughts on the announcements based on our knowledge of the topics the day before the keynote. We’ll talk about Microsoft 365, Bing, LinkedIn, Dynamics, Skype for Businesss, Microsoft Teams as well as Scott trying to kick me out of the car. We’ll be releasing a bunch of these short episodes during the week, hopefully at least one a day as well as tweeting from the conference. Also, don’t forget our live show on Thursday, September 28 from 1pm - 2pm ET. If your at Ignite come by and watch in person, if you’re not, catch us live on YouTube here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1toevFcS5o

Episode 23 – Microsoft Planner

Thu, 21 Sep 2017 12:00:23 +0000

In Episode 23, Ben and Scott cover Microsoft Planner, Microsoft’s work management solution for Office 365. Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast at Ignite! YouTube Channel Microsoft Planner Product Page Microsoft Planner Microsoft Planner Limitations Office 365 Planner FAQ

Episode 22 – Introduction to Exchange Online

Thu, 14 Sep 2017 12:00:54 +0000

This week it's time to look at another pillar in the Office 365 stack. This week is an Introduction to Exchange Online! Exchange online could easily take several episodes if you go into any great depth, so we'll start off with just a high level overview. Expect some future episodes to dive into more detail and as always, let us know if there is anything you want to hear more about or a specific area you want us to dive deeper into. Exchange Online Plans and Service Description Office365SD.com Deployment for Exchange Online Limits and Boundaries Exchange Online Archive Resources: Room and Equipment Lists Contacts/GAL Reporting Exchange Online Add-Ons Exchange Online Protection (EOP) Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) User Deactivation and Mailbox Deletion

Episode 21 – Office 365 News for August 2017

Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:00:17 +0000

We're back with your Microsoft Cloud news for August 2017. This month we've got some exciting updates on Microsoft Ignite, where Microsoft stands in the collaboration space, and a bunch of platform updates! Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast Live from Ignite! Microsoft OneDrive recognized as a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Content Collaboration Platforms New numbers show how Microsoft’s biggest businesses are really doing in the cloud era New admin controls for apps in Teams Now available: Outlook add-in to schedule meetings in Microsoft Team Improving SharePoint Links and Announcements lists New site theming options for SharePoint sites in Office 365 Allow/Block guest access to Office 365 groups The new Azure AD Signin Experience is now in Public Preview New feature: Microsoft Forms Public Preview OneDrive 9.1 for iOS now available Shared status indicator in OneDrive Allow or restrict the ability to embed content on SharePoint pages Configure Office 365 groups expiration (preview)

Episode 20 – Getting Started with Skype for Business Online

Thu, 31 Aug 2017 12:00:43 +0000

Episode 20, Scott and I are already approaching 6 months of our podcast! To celebrate the big two-zero, we wanted to do an episode on getting started with Skype for Business Online. In this episode, we walk through getting up and running on Skype for Business, things to be aware of, various features and functionality within the Skype for Business platform and wrap it all up nicely with some of the boundaries and limitations to be aware of. Skype for Business Online Tune Skype for Business Online performance Skype for Business bandwidth calculator Allow Skype for Business Online users to communicate with external users Skype for Business Online Security and Archiving Voice Calling Cloud PBX PSTN Calling Call Queues Auto Attendant Devices Skype for Business Online limits P.S. Make sure you tune in next week for some exciting news and a chance to see us recording the podcast live! It might just happen to be related to Microsoft Ignite. If you aren't signed up for our mailing list, make sure you sign up there as well so we can keep you updated on additional details in the coming weeks!

Episode 19 – The Office 365 Adoption Content Pack

Thu, 24 Aug 2017 12:00:06 +0000

This week Scott and Ben tackle the Office 365 Content Adoption Pack. It's available for free, uses Power BI, and is an invaluable tool in your toolbox. Announcing the public preview of the Office 365 adoption content pack in Power BI Office Support - Office 365 Content Adoption Pack Working with the reports in the Office 365 Adoption content pack Customize the Office 365 Adoption content pack Office 365 adoption content pack data model Office 365 Management APIs overview

Episode 18: SharePoint Hybrid with Matt McDermott

Thu, 17 Aug 2017 12:00:06 +0000

In this episode we have our first guest on the show! Scott and Ben interview Matt McDermott about SharePoint hybrid. You'll get an overview of the what exactly is SharePoint Hybrid and why you would want to do it. Then we jump into what may be some deal breakers when it comes to deploying hybrid. We also talk about how to get start configuring it and some of the "marketing hype" around SharePoint hybrid. Finally we wrap up talking about how to decide which workloads to deploy and which ones are easy and others that may be a little harder. Episode Guest: Matt McDermott Matt's Blog Reach out to Matt on Twitter Matt on YouTube Aptillon Courses and Classes Configuring Hybrid Workloads For SharePoint And Office 365 - Online Class Upgrading Your Farm to SharePoint 2016 - Pluralsight Course SharePoint 2013 Search Back To Front - Pluralsight Course Show Notes: SharePoint Hybrid What are the big wins in Hybrid? Why do I care? Reduced On-Prem Footprint Better access from everywhere with all devices Massive Scale Access to cloud features What are the deal breakers? No User Sync - Episode 13 - Identity and Authentication in Office 365 Poor Performing Network - Network planning and performance tuning for Office 365 Poor Governance Patch Level What is the marketing hype? Sites Modern Attachments Profile Redirect B2B Extranet What is easy and what is hard (or what can we do now and what requires planning)? Easy - OneDrive, Sites Harder - Taxonomy Hard - Search

Episode 17 – Azure Automation

Thu, 10 Aug 2017 12:00:51 +0000

In Episode 17, Ben and Scott review Azure Automation, Microsoft's cloud-based automation platform. Azure Automation Overview Azure Automation Integration Modules Variable assets in Azure Automation Credential assets in Azure Automation Runbook execution in Azure Automation Checkpoints in PowerShell Workflow Azure Automation: Reliable, Fault-Tolerant Runbook Execution Using Checkpoints Automate resources in your data center or cloud with Hybrid Runbook Worker Azure Automation Pricing

Episode 16 – Office 365 News for July 2017

Thu, 03 Aug 2017 12:00:01 +0000

Time for another Office 365 news update! In episode 16 Scott and Ben cover Office 365 news from July 17 around Skype for Business, SharePoint, PowerBI, PowerApps, Flow, Groups and more! Microsoft Pulse is now available in Skype Meeting Broadcast Skype for Business integration in Yammer Yammer Desktop App Office 365 Secure Score Sharepoint Online - Exit classic experience Column creation in modern SharePoint lists and libraries Improved search and auto detection of image types in OneDrive SharePoint Online Site Collection Admin Audit Log Skype for Business Call Analytics Preview Embed Power BI tiles in PowerApps Flow -> Grow up to Azure Logic Apps John Liu's Blog for more Flow fun! Latest PowerApps update adds the ability to Import/Export apps Import Power BI Desktop files into Azure Analysis Services New Collaboration Features in Teams Mobile App Get Started with the Getting Started Sample App for Microsoft Teams Office 365 Groups Owners Limit Increased

Episode 15 – Getting Started with Azure

Thu, 27 Jul 2017 12:00:08 +0000

In this episode Scott and I meander away from Office 365 into Azure. You may or may not know you automatically get an AzureAD instance tied to an Azure subscription as soon as you sign up for Office 365. There are also lots of additional ways Azure and Office 365 can work together allowing you to get even more out of Office 365. So, in this episode we walk you through getting started with Azure so you can get started expanding the Microsoft Cloud capabilities within your organization. Getting Started with Azure Understanding Office 365 identity and Azure Active Directory Azure subscription limits and constraints Azure Trial Purchase an Azure Subscription What is Azure IaaS? Getting Started with Azure and Service Documentation Azure Pricing, Calculator and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Azure Reference Architectures Azure Service by Region Matrix Getting Started with the Azure Management Portal (Video) Azure Weekly Newsletter Build Azure Microsoft Virtual Academy Opsgility Pluralsight

Episode 14 – Office 365 and Office 2016 Release Cycles

Thu, 20 Jul 2017 12:00:29 +0000

This week, Ben and Scott get together to talk about fireworks, how you can gain access to Office 365 before the rest of the world, and how you manage your Office 2016 release schedules. Set up the Standard or First Release options in Office 365 Office 365 Roadmap Want to Get a Look at the New Communication Sites? Here’s a Trick! Message center in Office 365 Overview of update channels for Office 365 ProPlus Overview of the Office 2016 Deployment Tool Office 2016 Administrative Template files (ADMX/ADML) and Office Customization Tool Office 365 ProPlus Configuration XML Editor

Episode 13 – Identity and Authentication in Office 365

Thu, 13 Jul 2017 12:00:40 +0000

This week, you intrepid hosts take you through the ins and outs of Office 365 Identity and Azure Active Directory. Understanding Office 365 identity and Azure Active Directory What is Azure Active Directory? Windows Azure Active Directory vs. Windows Server Active Directory The difference/relationship between Azure Active Directory and “Normal” Active Directory Azure Active Directory Domain Services Azure Active Directory Editions How to use SMTP matching to match on-premises user accounts to Office 365 user accounts for directory synchronization How to prepare a non-routable domain (such as .local domain) for directory synchronization What is application access and single sign-on with Azure Active Directory?

Episode 12 – Office 365 News for June 2017

Thu, 06 Jul 2017 12:00:34 +0000

In this episode, Scott and Ben discuss the Office 365 news for the month of June 2017. Microsoft Teams: New Cloud Storage Option SharePoint Online Filter Panes: Lists and Libraries Custom Markup Script Disabled in Calculated Fields New feature: SharePoint Communication sites New feature: Microsoft Forms Preview - Enterprise Tenants The New Intune and Conditional Access Admin Consoles are GA Updated Android Company Portal App New feature: Exchange Online Remove-CalendarEvents New Service: Visio Online Important information about Docs.com end of service

Episode 11 – Microsoft Stream and Office 365 Video

Thu, 29 Jun 2017 12:00:33 +0000

In this week's episode, Ben and Scott break down Microsoft Stream and Office 365 Video. Microsoft Stream General Availability Introducing the new enterprise video service - Microsoft Stream What is Microsoft Stream? Overview of groups & channels Stream Pricing Licensing overview

Episode 10 – PowerShell for Office 365

Thu, 22 Jun 2017 15:07:01 +0000

We made it to Episode 10! We're officially into double digits! We mentioned PowerShell is some of our previous episodes, but in this episode, we dive headfirst into PowerShell for Office 365. This includes PowerShell for Azure AD, SharePoint, Exchange Online and Skype for Business. We could easily come back and do a deep dive on PowerShell for each of topics, but this will at least whet your appetite. Getting Started with PowerShell for Office 365 Protection Center Connect to the Security and Compliance Center with PowerShell Security and Compliance Center cmdlets Azure AD MSOnline - Azure AD PowerShell V1 Additional Documentation and Install Instructions AzureAD - Azure AD PowerShell V2 Install Using Install-Module SharePoint Online Introduction to the SharePoint Online Management Shell Office 365 PowerShell for SharePoint Online - TechNet PowerShell Command Builder (SharePoint Online and MSOL - Azure AD V1) Module Installer Download Dev PnP PowerShell cmdlets Exchange Online User PowerShell with Exchange Online - TechNet Connect to Exchange Online - Remote Sessions Connect to Exchange Online with MFA - EXO Module Skype for Business Online Using PowerShell to Manage Skype for Business Online Downloading and Installing the Skype for Business Online Module - TechNet Guide Module Download Other Azure Rights Management Credential Management

Episode 9 – SharePoint Online Administration

Thu, 15 Jun 2017 12:00:09 +0000

In episode 9, Scott and Ben wade into the world of SharePoint Online Administration. We discuss some of the difference between SharePoint On-Premises and SharePoint Online as well as things that are the same in both environments. We talk about limits to be aware of and other points of consideration when rolling out and administering SharePoint Online. From there we make our way into talking about PowerShell and managing SharePoint Online with PowerShell. We wrap up by talking about various site collections that are created in SharePoint Online, specifically around the Content Type Hub and Microsoft Groups and Teams. Limits and Boundaries in SharePoint Online SharePoint Online PowerShell Module Dev PnP SharePoint PowerShell Module Azure AD PowerShell v2 and Microsoft Online PowerShell Module Managing the SharePoint Online Content Type Hub Content Type Hub "Access Denied" Issue and Work Around Note: This was recorded pre SharePoint Summit 2017, as such, some of the new administration features that were announced (but not yet released) aren't covered in this episode. If you want to here are take on the announcements from the SharePoint Summit, you can go back and listen to Episode 7.

Episode 8 – Office 365 News for May 2017

Thu, 08 Jun 2017 12:04:01 +0000

In this episode, Scott and Ben discuss the Office 365 news for the month of May 2017. Planner App for iOS and Android released Planner Connector for Flow Microsoft Flow Community Blog Microsoft Teams Connector for Flow PowerBI Adoption Reports for Office 365 now in public preview New Power BI SKUs and Features The Azure AD Admin Console in the new Azure Portal is now GA New Features in the eDiscovery Service and Advanced eDiscovery MileIQ included with E3 and E5 Plans as well as Business Premium Longer Paths with OneDrive for Business and Team Sites and fewer Illegal Character limitations Modern classroom collaboration with Office 365 for Education

Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast

Episode 437: Nasuni and AI-Ready Unstructured Data with Nick Burling

Episode 436: Finding the Entra Tenants You Didn’t Know You Had

Episode 435: Power BI Meets Git and MCP

Episode 434: Reading the Spec Sheet on Microsoft’s Agentic SOC

Episode 433: Passkeys, Passwords, and the End of SMS MFA

Episode 432: AI-Era Consulting Billing for Microsoft Cloud Delivery

Episode 431: Agent Governance Is the New App Governance

Episode 430: Scouting out Microsoft Scout

Episode 429: Getting started with LLM Wikis

Episode 428: Migrating Group Policy to Microsoft Intune

Show Notes

Episode 427: Copilot Cowork Hands-On Experiences

Episode 426: Claude Cowork vs Microsoft 365 Copilot Cowork

Episode 425 – Exploring Collaboration and Governance at the MVP Summit with Joy Apple

Episode 424 – A new frontier for Microsoft 365 with E7

Episode 423 – Non-Human Identities in Microsoft Entra with Eric Woodruff and Chris Brumm

Episode 422: Back to the Terminal: The Rise of AI CLI Interfaces

Episode 421: Microsoft 365 Mergers and Divestitures with Frank Lesniak

Episode 420 – Ben convinces Scott to buy a 3D printer

Episode 419 – Security and AI: Security Store, Security Copilot, and Agents

Episode 418 – An Anti-AI Adventure with Cat Schneider: SharePoint, Power Automate, and Conference Shenanigans

Episode 417 – Workplace Ninjas US, Zero Trust, and Conditional Access!

Episode 416 – Microsoft Sentinel, Security, and Ignite with Henrik Wojcik

Episode 415 – Diving Into Ignite 2025 for IT Pros and AI Agent Management

Episode 414 – When the Cloud Falls: Understanding the AWS and Azure Outages of October 2025

Episode 413 – Simplifying Azure Files with a new file share-centric management model

Episode 412 – Microsoft Sentinel Gets a Data Lake

Episode 411 – Securing AI with Microsoft Purview: Data Security Posture Management for AI

Episode 410 – Joy and Jay take over and talk Change Management

Episode 409 – Preparing for Copilot​- Securing Your Microsoft 365 Data and Beyond​

Episode 408 – Model Context Protocol (MCP) Part 2: Getting the Most Out of MCP Servers

Episode 407 – Model Context Protocol (MCP) Part 1: The USB Port of AI Communications

Episode 406 – Agents of Insight: Copilot in Action and Sentinel on the Move

Episode 405 – Loop, Loop Workspaces, Loop Pages, Copilot Pages, Copilot Notebooks, Copilot Notebooks in OneNote Notebooks

Episode 404: The Microsoft 365 Landing Page Shake-Up

Episode 403 – Catching up on all the news from Microsoft Build 2025

Episode 402 – Declarative Agents with Andrew Connell

Episode 401 – Zero Trust in Microsoft 365

Episode 400 – Microsoft 365 Copilot Declarative Agents and Copilot Studio Agent Builder

Episode 399 – Azure Infrastructure as Code with Greg Suttie

Episode 398 – PowerShell and Intune with Harm Veenstra

Episode 397 – Local LLMs: Why Every Microsoft 365 & Azure Pro Should Explore Them

Episode 396 – Lessons from a real-life ransomware attack

Episode 395 – Getting Started with VDI in Azure with Azure Virtual Desktop

Episode 394 – Prepare your Microsoft 365 Tenant for Copilot Success

Episode 393 – Microsoft Teams Meeting Room Solutions with Alex Mooney

Episode 392 – Building Confidence In Your Microsoft Copilot Deployment with AvePoint CTO John Peluso

Episode 391 – Remote Desktop and Application Delivery with Kamal Srinivasan from Parallels

Episode 390: Microsoft Ignite 2024: Windows 365 Link

Episode 389: Microsoft Ignite 2024: Redefining AI, Productivity, and Edge Computing

Episode 388 – Getting Started with Azure Bicep: Infrastructure as Code with a Domain Specific Language

Episode 387 – Windows on ARM: Physical Hardware vs Virtual Machines, App Compatibility, and Other Considerations

Episode 386 – Exploring DevOps Tools: Maester, Pester, and SCUBA

Episode 385 – Microsoft Sentinel: Deployment, Management, and Cost Optimization

Episode 384 – Securing Azure: Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Episode 383 – Securing Azure: Monitoring and observing your Azure estate

Episode 382 – Securing the Modern Workplace: Exploring Microsoft Entra ID Security Defaults, Conditional Access Policies, and Microsoft Secure Score

Episode 381 – Microsoft Graph Data Connect

Episode 380 – The future of AD FS is cloudy

Episode 379 – Azure Verified Modules

Episode 378 – Azure Compute Fleet

Episode 377 – Microsoft Copilot for Security

Episode 376 – Catching up on the Microsoft 365 Community Conference

Episode 375 – Securing Your Digital World: An Intro to Global Secure Access

Episode 374 – Azure Trusted Launch Virtual Machines

Episode 373 – Microsoft Intune (Part Trois)

Episode 372 – Microsoft Intune (Part Deux) – App

Episode 371 – Microsoft Intune (Part Une) – Devices

Episode 370 – Revisiting Microsoft 365 Copilot

Episode 369 – Microsoft 365 Backup and Archive

Episode 368 – Loop vs Notion vs Confluence vs OneNote – use the right tool for the job

Episode 367 – Azure Files vs a Server with an SMB Share

Episode 366 – Old Man Yells At Cloud

Episode 365 – Still looking for gift ideas

Episode 364 – Microsoft Designer, Azure Updates, and Enterprise IoT Security changes

Episode 363 – Hibernation is for more than bears

Episode 362 – The Flustration of Microsoft Ignite

Episode 361 – TLS updates in Azure

Episode 360 – Who owns your data in Azure?

Episode 409 – Preparing for Copilot- Securing Your Microsoft 365 Data and Beyond