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S5E15 - Entra Global Secure Access - An Identity-Centric Security Service Edge Apr 26, 2024

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Alan and Sam discuss Microsoft Entra Global Secure Access. A identity-centric Security Service Edge (SSE) solution that helps secure user's internet and on-premises access. Here are a few things we covered:

What is a Security Service Edge ?
What is Microsoft Entra Global Secure Access?
How does Entra Internet access for Microsoft 365 help secure and prevent data leakage?
What is Entra Internet Access and Private Access?

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S5E14 - Azure Backup - utilise Azure to manage and store your backups Apr 19, 2024

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This week Alan and Sam discuss Azure Backup. It is a comprehensive solution offered by Microsoft Azure for safeguarding data across cloud and on-premises environments, providing seamless backup and recovery capabilities. It enables users to protect critical workloads, applications, and files with automated backups and flexible retention policies.

What is Azure backup?
What can you back up with it?
How can you secure your backups?
How much does it cost?

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S5E11 - Azure Keyvault - A managed key, certificate and secret storage solution Mar 29, 2024

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Alan and Sam discuss Azure Key Vault, it is a centralized cloud service designed for securely storing and managing cryptographic keys, certificates, and secrets used by cloud applications and services. It offers robust access control, encryption, and auditing capabilities to safeguard sensitive information and streamline key management processes.

What is Azure Key Vault?
What are the common use cases for Azure Key Vault?
What does it integrate with?
How much does it cost?

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S5E10 - Microsoft Customer Connection Programs (CCP) Mar 22, 2024

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Alan and Sam talk about the Microsoft Connection Program (CCP). A Community of Technical professional from Customers, to Partners and MVPs that interacts with Microsoft Product groups around new features.. Here are a few things we covered:

What is the Customer Connection Program?
What are the benefits of being in the CCP?
What is my experience being in the various CCPs?
How do you get involved?

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S5E8 - Azure Event Grid - Managed event routing service for event-driven architectures. Mar 01, 2024

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Alan and Sam discuss Azure Event Grid. It simplifies event-driven architectures by providing a fully managed service for routing events from various sources to multiple destinations in near real-time, enhancing agility and scalability in cloud-based applications. It enables seamless communication between Azure services, custom applications, and external sources while offering features like event filtering, routing, and dead-lettering for reliable event handling at scale.

What is Azure Event Grid?
What are the common use cases for Azure Event Grid?
How can you get started?
What are the licensing options?

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S5E4 - Microsoft Defender for Endpoint - An integrated AV and EDR solution Feb 02, 2024

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Alan and Sam discuss all things Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE). Alan goes through the history of MDE, what its capabilities are, and the platforms it covers. Here are a few other areas we cover:

What capabilities does MDE provide.
How is it different from other AV and EDR solutions.
How is it licensed.

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S5E2 - Microsoft Defender XDR - A unified portal for all your security needs Jan 19, 2024

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Alan and Sam discuss Microsoft Defender XDR, a unified portal to manage you incidents across your MS Defender suite. Alan dives into the Extended Detect and Response (XDR) concepts and how it's beneficial to have all products in the same system.

Here are few other areas we covered:

What is XDR?
What is Microsoft Defender XDR?
What Microsoft solutions feed into Defender XDR?
How is it licensed?

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S3E10 - Power Platform - Managing your application lifecycle with Solutions Mar 10, 2023

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Alan and Sam discuss how Power Platform solutions can help manage your lo-code/no-code application lifecycle. Alan runs through what a solution can be used for and what can be managed in Power Platform.

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S2E16 - Microsoft Ignite 2022 - The In-Person Experience Oct 21, 2022

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Alan and Sam discuss Microsoft Ignite 2022, the announcements and how the in-person experience vs remote was. Sam quizzes Alan on his experience in Seattle and ignite.

Link to the Ignite 2022 Book of News - Here

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S1E4 - Learning and Accreditations for Azure/O365 Jul 15, 2020

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In this episode we cover many aspects of the learning and accreditation process within the ecosystem of Microsoft. We wanted to give a high level overview of the structure of learning and what you can expect from the exam process, Alan gives us some insight into his own experience of the exams he has taken in the past. If you want to start your learning journey with Microsoft a good place to start is: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/ the Microsoft Learn site has loads of free content to get you started. Also, check out the certification area of the learn site: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/certifications/ this website covers all of the various exams and accreditations you can work towards.

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