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Let’s Talk Azure!

Listen with Alan Armstrong and Sam Foot as we talk about all things Microsoft Azure! We are both technical consultants working with Azure day in, day out. Alan focuses on Identity and Security automation while Sam is a .NET developer deploying PaaS and SaaS solutions on Azure. Each episode we have a topic we cover and we highlight some key news that we are interested in. No fluff, sales or products here, just two technical people having a light hearted chat.

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Latest Episodes:

S7E9 - May News Jun 05, 2026

Show notes

This week, Alan and Sam talk about new features and services that have gone into Public Preview or General Available status in the last month. We dive into a couple of these updates that peaked our interest.

Some of the Microsoft product features and update we covered:

Key Microsoft Entra, Intune and Defender features and updates
Lots of Azure changes and new features

What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form, Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right corner of our site.

S7E8 - April News May 15, 2026

Show notes

This week, Alan and Sam talk about new features and services that have gone into Public Preview or General Available status in the last month. We dive into a couple of these updates that peaked our interest.

Some of the Microsoft product features and update we covered:

Key Microsoft Entra, Intune and Defender features and updates
Lots of Azure changes and new features

What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form, Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right corner of our site.

S7E7 - March News Apr 10, 2026

Show notes

This week, Alan and Sam talk about new features and services that have gone into Public Preview or General Available status in the last month. We dive into a couple of these updates that peaked our interest.

Some of the Microsoft product features and update we covered:

Key Microsoft Entra, Intune and Defender features and updates
Lots of Azure changes and new features

What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form, Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right corner of our site.

S7E6 - ITDR - A must in all organisations Mar 20, 2026

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Alan and Sam discuss the importance of monitoring identities across all systems. Alan goes through wat ITDR is, why it is important and the benefit. Here are a few areas we covered:

Why is it important to monitory your identities
what is Identity Threat Detect and Response (ITDR)
How does Microsoft provide ITDR
How is it licensed

What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form, Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right corner of our site.

S7E5 - February News Mar 13, 2026

Show notes

This week, Alan and Sam talk about new features and services that have gone into Public Preview or General Available status in the last month. We dive into a couple of these updates that peaked our interest.

Some of the Microsoft product features and update we covered:

Key Microsoft Entra, Intune and Defender features and updates
Lots of Azure changes and new features

What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form, Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right corner of our site.

S7E4 - Unified Tenant Configuration Management APIs Feb 27, 2026

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Alan and Sam dive into configuration drift with M365 and assessment against security baselines. Here are a few things we covered:

What is configuration drift, and why a security baseline is important.
Microsoft’s new Unified Tenant Configuration Management APIs for managing drifts.
How to get it set up and advice for authentication.
What’s covered, the limitations and how it works.

What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form, Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right corner of our site.

S7E03 - January News Feb 13, 2026

Show notes

This week, Alan and Sam talk about new features and services that have gone into Public Preview or General Available status in the last month. We dive into a couple of these updates that peaked our interest.

Some of the Microsoft product features and update we covered:

Key Microsoft Entra, Intune and Defender features and updates
Lots of Azure changes and new features

What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form, Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right corner of our site.

S7E02 - Entra Account Recovery - Next Level Self Service Jan 30, 2026

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Alan and Sam dive into the next level of self-service for Entra accounts. Alan takes us through what Entra Account Recovery is and how it is different to Self-Service Password Reset. Here are a few things we covered:

Impacts on helpdesks when users have to call in to get their account recovered.
What Self-Service Password Reset it
What Entra Account Recovery
How to setup Entra Account Recovery

What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form, Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right corner of our site.

S7E01 - December News Jan 16, 2026

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This week, Alan and Sam Introduce season 7 and talk about new features and services that have gone into Public Preview or General Available status in the last month. We dive into a couple of these updates that peaked our interest.

Some of the Microsoft product features and update we covered:

Key Microsoft Entra, Intune and Defender features and updates
Lots of Azure changes and new features

What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form, Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right corner of our site.

S2E6 - Microsoft Entra – Securing and Managing Cloud Identities Aug 12, 2022

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Alan and Sam discuss how Azure AD, part of the Microsoft Entra family can secure your identity in the cloud. Alan takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains his viewpoint of the product and why we should consider the premium features within Azure AD to secure and manage cloud identity.

What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form, Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right corner of our site.

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