Microsoft Cloud It Pro Podcast

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!

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

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

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 c

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

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 partne

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

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 techn

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

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