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S6E1 - Microsoft updates December - new products and features released Jan 17, 2025

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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

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S5E33 - Azure VM Image Builder - A managed Azure service to handle VM image building Sep 13, 2024

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This week Alan and Sam discuss Azure VM Image Builder which is a service that simplifies the creation, customisation, and management of virtual machine images in Azure, automating tasks like software installation, configuration, and patching for consistent deployments. Here is what we covered:

What are Virtual Machine images? And how they are used in Azure.
What are the challenges with image creation?
What is Azure VM builder and how does it help?
How much does the service cost?

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S4E23 - Ignite 2023 Recap - Seattle and what is hot off the press! Nov 17, 2023

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This week talk all things Microsoft Ignite 2023! Microsoft Ignite is an annual conference hosted by Microsoft, centred around technology trends, product innovations, and announcements concerning Microsoft's cloud services, enterprise solutions, and developer tools. The event usually gathers IT professionals, developers, business leaders, and technology enthusiasts in one place.

Alan is out at Ignite in person, we covered:

The latest announcements at Ignite
Alan and Sam’s favourite announcements
The in person Ignite experience
What MVP related activities has Alan been up to?

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S4E22 - Microsoft Training - What’s new in certifications and the new applied skills accreditation Nov 10, 2023

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Alan and Sam have a discussion around Microsoft accreditations and how they have recently changes. Here are a few things we covered:

What are Microsoft accreditations?
What has change recently around the exams for certifications?
What are the new applied skills accreditation?
Where do you start your Microsoft skills accreditation journey?

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S4E16 - Intune - Modern Management for Windows Sep 29, 2023

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Alan and Sam discuss how Microsoft Intune can help manage your Windows 10/11 estate from anywhere that has an internet connection. Alan goes through the capabilities and how it can help organisations.

Here are a few things we covered:

How has Windows endpoints traditionally been managed?
What is Intune?
How can Modern management help an organisation?
What is the process to move to Intune to manage your Windows 10/11 endpoints?
How is Intune licenced?

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S4E15 - Purview Insider Risk Management - Minimise internal risks to data security Sep 22, 2023

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This week we discussed Purview Insider Risk Management. Insider Risk Management is a compliance solution that enables organisations to discover, track and manage insider risk. Insider risks can be introduced to an organisation in a multitude of ways, understanding and correlating these activities is complex and needs to be automated, this is where Insider Risk Management shines. Sam takes the lead with providing insights such as:

What are insider risks and why organisations manage these risks
What is insider risk management
Which systems can monitored
How insider risk management allows organisations to take actions on identified risks

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S4E9 - Microsoft Dev Box - Azure hosted development environments Aug 11, 2023

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This week we discussed Microsoft Dev Box. Dev Box allows development teams to create development environments for their projects in the cloud. This enables development teams to utilise infrastructure in Azure that scales past their local machines to build effectively. Microsoft provides the infrastructure and management plane, developers and platform engineers can work together to build repeatable environments bespoke to each project to give developers the tool they need. Sam takes the lead with providing insights such as:

What Microsoft Dev Box is and why teams may want to consider it
How Dev Boxes are configured and deployed
How developers can access Dev Boxes
How Dev Boxes are managed and monitored
Costs

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S4E7 - Azure Automation - Deploy automation across Azure and non-Azure environments Jul 28, 2023

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This week we discussed Azure Automation. Azure automations allows you develop processes in PowerShell and Python and deploy this content to Azure to manage and orchestrate. Azure automations can run in Azure or other non Azure resources. Highly connected and flexible, Azure automation provides a great amount of value for organisations to use automation to boost productivity and reduce repeatable tasks being carried out manually. Sam takes the lead with providing insights such as:

What automation is and why it’s important for organisations.
How Azure Automation can help.
How it develop and deploy automations.
Integrations and networking
Costs

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S3E17 - Azure Load Testing - Load test your APIs and Web Applications with ease Apr 28, 2023

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Alan and Sam discuss how Azure Load Testing can streamlined you load testing QA process. Bring your JMeter scripts, configure the service and let Azure and Microsoft take care of the rest. Sam runs us through the why load testing is important, what the service can do and how simple it is to configure.

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S3E12 - Microsoft Intune Suite - New SKUs are in town! Mar 24, 2023

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Alan and Sam discuss the new Intune licences that have recently been released. Alan goes through the new functionality that is coming to Intune and why they help manage and support your endpoints.

MS Blogpost

MS Intune Plans and Pricing

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