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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 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.

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.

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)? 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.

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 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.      

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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 😱 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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.  

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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 Video https://youtu.be/FMaWDNYt7a8 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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/mPI0A-ZHcmg 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In Episode 328, Ben and Scott talk through the upcoming deprecation of remote PowerShell sessions (RPS) for Exchange Online, some changes to how you'll get to Azure AD using Entra in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center, and how to enable the new Microsoft Teams client. Then Scott brings Ben up to speed on strategies to make sure you're getting notified of service retirements and deprecations for Azure. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Announcing Deprecation of Remote PowerShell (RPS) Protocol in Exchange Online PowerShell Deprecation of Remote PowerShell in Exchange Online - Re-enabling or Extending RPS support Azure AD Admin Center Moves to Microsoft Entra Admin Center Enable the new Microsoft Teams toggle for your organization The new Microsoft Teams desktop client Try the new Microsoft Teams Classic subscription administrator roles Video https://youtu.be/K0uzCqz2p_I 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 [email protected] 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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,

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.

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.

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?

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.

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,

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.

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,

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,

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.

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 a...

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 f...

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.

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.

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...

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 nece...

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.

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.

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,

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 throug...

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,

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,

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.  

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.  

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.  

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  

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.  

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.  

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.  

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In Episode 147, Ben and Scott have a chat with Anna Chu, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Microsoft for the Microsoft Tech Community where they discuss Microsoft Ignite 2019 and all of the exciting announcements coming. The session catalog is out and you'll want to listen for tips and tricks around how to get into the "must-see" sessions. 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 Just took a look at the #MSIgnite #Unconference reservations and our first Unconference that is at capacity and has a full waitlist is ... @ciphertxt's session! Achieving zero downtime deployments with Azure DevOps and Kubernetes Microsoft Ignite 2019 Session Catalog Microsoft Ignite 2019 Session Builder tyGraph Microsoft Ignite Session Browser @givenscj's MVP Twitter Lists Introducing Your Microsoft Ignite Community Reporters! Community Reporters 2019 Twitter List About Anna As Microsoft 365 Product Marketing Manager, Anna is responsible for working across the Microsoft Tech Community (Launched Sept 1, 2016) and MVP communities to engage with the IT Pro audience. This involves driving partnerships between engineering and marketing that influence product roadmaps and leading community strategy to enable best practice sharing between customers – in turn facilitating a natural feedback loop between the people who build Microsoft Office products and services and the people who implement them. She is also the Community Strategy Lead for major Microsoft events such as Microsoft Ignite and Microsoft Ignite | The Tour. Follow Anna on Twitter @_achu and LinkedIn. A previous episode with Anna Episode 135 – Speaking at Microsoft Ignite! with Anna Chu 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

The latest announcements from SharePoint Conference 2019.

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

The pre and post-//BUILD 2019 announcements.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Ben and Scott dive into consulting in the cloud.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 em...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 t...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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!

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

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.

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  

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

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.

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/.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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  

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 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

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

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.

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

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

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

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).

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

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

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

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!

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/.

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

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?

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

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

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)

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.

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

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