Microsoft Cloud It Pro Podcast

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

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

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

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 Hy

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 co

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 Announc

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

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

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

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 Az

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 free

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 th

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 pol

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 Engagemen

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 o