Microsoft Cloud It Pro Podcast

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.

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 t

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

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 pro

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 m

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 clou

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 Intel

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 So

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 admin

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 th

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 th

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.