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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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S6E11 - Insights into Microsoft Secure 2025 Apr 25, 2025

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This week, Alan and Sam talk about new features and services that have been announced at Microsoft Secure 2025

Some of the Microsoft product features and update we covered:

Security Copilot Agents
Data Security Investigations
Innovations in Microsoft Entra
Detection and protection for emerging AI threats

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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S5E42 - Season 5 Finale! Dec 13, 2024

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In this episode, we wrap up the season, where we explore our favourite episode of the season. We also talk about the what happened in 2024, and how the podcast has grown in terms of listenership and engagement.

As we bid farewell to the season, we also reveal our future plans for the next season, which will start on January 2025.

This episode is a great way to end the season and to look forward to the next one. We thank our listeners for their support and feedback, and invite them to stay tuned for more updates and announcements. We wish everyone a happy and healthy holiday season, and promise to return with more amazing content in the new year.

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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S5E24 - Microsoft updates June - new products and features released Jul 12, 2024

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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 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.

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S5E19 - Azure AI Search - Cloud-based, AI-enhanced search for applications. May 24, 2024

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This week Alan and Sam discuss Azure AI Search. It is a robust, cloud-based search service provided by Microsoft that leverages artificial intelligence to enhance search functionalities within applications. It allows developers to create rich, full-text search experiences with features like natural language processing, semantic search, and cognitive search capabilities, which can extract insights from various data sources. The service is scalable, ensuring efficient handling of large volumes of data and queries, and integrates seamlessly with other Azure services, providing a comprehensive solution for building intelligent and responsive search-driven applications.

What problems is Azure AI search aiming to solve?
What does it integrate with?
What are some of the use cases for the solution?
How much does it cost?

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S5E5 - Microsoft updates Feb- new products and features released Feb 09, 2024

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Some of the Microsoft product features and update we covered:

Microsoft Defender XDR
MDA / MDI / Defender for Cloud
Azure API Center
Azure Containers Apps Multiple Ports
Azure API Management
Azure Gen1 to Gen 2 Migration
Azure Arc Visual Studio Code Extension

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S4E13 - Azure Lighthouse - Large scale multi-tenant management within Azure Sep 08, 2023

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This week we discussed Azure Lighthouse. Lighthouse allow organisations and partners access and manage resources and services in multiple tenants at scale. Lighthouse allows management of access, provides a simplified control plane to reduce operation burden allow your organisation to better collaborate internally at scale over multiple tenants or partners to manage and collaborate multiple customers securely and simply.

Sam takes the lead with providing insights such as:

How multi-tenant management is used
How are organisation using Lighthouse internally
How partners use Lighthouse with their customers

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S3E5 - Confidential Computing in Azure - Apply Zero Trust Principles to your IaaS and PaaS Workloads Feb 03, 2023

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Alan and Sam discuss how Confidential Computing can be used to add additional zero trust principle layers to workloads running in Azure. Confidential Computing gives administrators multiple levels to layers of confidentiality in Azure. Sam takes us through what can be achieved and the impact this can have within your organisation.

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.

S2E2 - Microsoft Entra - First Look Jul 15, 2022

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Alan and Sam discuss all things Entra, a 'new' product offering by Microsoft. Alan takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains his initial viewpoint of the product and why we should all be excited about this new product family from Microsoft. Entra is very new at the time of recording, and we give our first impressions on the product family and give you a high level overview of it's functionality

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.

S1E5 - Security Center Aug 04, 2020

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In this episode we look at Azure Security Center and the features and benefits that it can bring to a range of different teams working with assets in Azure. We highlight some of the vast range of features, how we use it day to day and introduce how you can get started using it right away.

A good place to start is the Security Center Community on GitHub here -> https://github.com/Azure/Azure-Security-Center or on Docs -> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/identify-threats-with-azure-security-center/

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.

S1E3 - The Rise of the Citizen Developer Jun 26, 2020

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In this episode we discuss the changing nature of who builds applications and systems on Azure/o365.

In recent years, with the proliferation of low/no code platforms, we have seen a rise in people within the business building solutions to their problems without the need for traditional development and project practices.

We cover who these people are, where they have come from and how we, as IT professional can help to promote and support transformation, directly in the teams that need these solutions.

We also recap the news over the past few weeks.

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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