Microsoft Cloud It Pro Podcast

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

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. Vis

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

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

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 Te

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 p

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 Mi

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: MacB

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

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 makeov

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 ava

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-j

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 M

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

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 chann

In Episode 244, Ben tells Scott about his experience locking himself out of his Azure AD tenant and then they discuss recently GA'd features for Azure Storage including blob inventory, last access time tracking, and Archive storage events. Sponsors ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Spot by NetApp – The cloud automation platform that makes it easy to deliver continuously optimized infrastructure at the lowest possible cost Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Manage emergency access accounts in Azure AD How can I enable microphone for Teams in Windows Virtual Desktop? Azure feedback site UserVoice Pages AzureStorageFeedback@microsoft.com Automatic Extension

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