Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast

Latest Episodes:

Episode 157 – The “why” of Microsoft cloud services? Dec 26, 2019

Show notes

In Episode 157, Ben and Scott go sideways and talk about Microsoft's approach to documenting not only the How but the Why of services and products that they release and how customers can obtain operational guidance today. Sponsors Opsgility - Your Cloud enablement partner to help guide your organization through all phases of Cloud migration and adoption Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox 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 Teams is getting Outlook integration, tasks support, and more "One thing I'm noticing from the #MSIgnite attendee feedback is that some "don't want to hear the opinions of others" they want MSFT to tell them what to do." https://twitter.com/_achu/status/1200593596409425922 https://twitter.com/benstegink/status/1200955121418620928 Applying for the Project Cortex Preview Program Previous Episodes Episode 114 – Answering “Why Cloud?” with Sarah Lean Episode 121 – Moving at the Speed of the Cloud Episode 143 – Adoption Change Management for Microsoft 365 with David Callaghan Episode 153 – Crafting the Story for Microsoft 365 with Stephen Rose Episode 155 – Microsoft 365 Tenant Level Services 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 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. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Everyone on your team is unique...so is SkillMeUp.com. Only Skill Me Up provides the bridge from fundamentals to certification paths to advanced skills to accelerate digital transformation with 1 subscription with 5 ways to learn. Start your free pilot today and supercharge your IT and Microsoft Azure skills. https://skillmeup.com/pilot/?src=Pod 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 156 – Microsoft Teams Problems! Dec 19, 2019

Show notes

Ben and Scott go down a deep, dark hole and discuss some issues with Microsoft Teams screen sharing on MacOS Catalina. After that, they discuss the newly announced Microsoft Team Exploratory license and some impacts to your tenant if you allow trials.

Episode 155 – Microsoft 365 Tenant Level Services Dec 12, 2019

Show notes

In Episode 155, Ben and Scott dive into a discussion around tenant-level services in Microsoft 365 and Office 365 and what you need to think about as you license users and potentially scope deployments within your tenancy to ensure your compliance with your Microsoft 365 licensing.

Episode 154 – Azure AD Security with Ramiro Calderon and Stefan van der Wiele Dec 05, 2019

Show notes

Ben and Scott sit down at Microsoft Ignite with Ramiro Calderon, Principal Program Manager - Azure Active Directory, and Stefan van der Wiele, Senior Program Manager - Azure Active Directory, to talk about Azure Active Directory and how as the core of authentication for Office 365, Azure, and Microsoft you can configure your tenancies in a secure and usable way.

Episode 153 – Crafting the Story for Microsoft 365 with Stephen Rose Nov 28, 2019

Show notes

In Episode 153, Ben sits down at Microsoft Ignite with Stephen Rose, Sr PMM, Microsoft 365 Storytelling and Branding Team, to talk about what it takes to align demos across the Microsoft 365 product suite and how to craft a great story. 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 Skill Me Up – Skill Me Up provides the bridge from fundamentals to certification paths to advanced skills to accelerate digital transformation with 1 subscription with 5 ways to learn. SaneBox – SaneBox brings sanity back to your inbox by prioritizing what’s important, removing spam/junk, grouping newsletters together, and automating tedious tasks. 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 Customer Digital Experiences How To Give A Killer Product Demo Insights on planning, crafting, delivering and enjoying a keynote 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 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. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. SaneBox brings sanity back to your inbox by prioritizing what’s important, removing spam/junk, grouping newsletters together, and automating tedious tasks. Sign up today and save $25 on any subscription! https://www.sanebox.com/allthings Everyone on your team is unique...so is SkillMeUp.com. Only Skill Me Up provides the bridge from fundamentals to certification paths to advanced skills to accelerate digital transformation with 1 subscription with 5 ways to learn. Start your free pilot today and supercharge your IT and Microsoft Azure skills. https://skillmeup.com/pilot/?src=Pod 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 152 – Using Azure DevOps to Automate Azure Deployments with Steven Murawski Nov 21, 2019

Show notes

In Episode 152, Ben and Scott sit down with Steven Murawski, Lead Cloud Ops Advocate at Microsoft, at Microsoft Ignite to talk about the power and freedom that comes from managing your infrastructure as code using tools like Azure Repos and Azure Pipelines inside of Azure DevOps. You can follow Steven on Twitter @StevenMurawski. 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 Skill Me Up - Skill Me Up provides the bridge from fundamentals to certification paths to advanced skills to accelerate digital transformation with 1 subscription with 5 ways to learn. SaneBox – SaneBox brings sanity back to your inbox by prioritizing what’s important, removing spam/junk, grouping newsletters together, and automating tedious tasks. 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 What Is Source Control? Infrastructure as code (IaC) Azure Repos Documentation Azure Pipelines Documentation Integrate Resource Manager templates with Azure Pipelines Create your first pipeline from the CLI Why Is Linting Important? And How To Use Lint Tools Using Azure DevOps for linting on GitHub Run Pester tests on Azure Pipelines Azure DevOps Services Pricing About the sponsors SaneBox brings sanity back to your inbox by prioritizing what’s important, removing spam/junk, grouping newsletters together, and automating tedious tasks. Sign up today and save $25 on any subscription! https://www.sanebox.com/allthings Everyone on your team is unique...so is SkillMeUp.com. Only Skill Me Up provides the bridge from fundamentals to certification paths to advanced skills to accelerate digital transformation with 1 subscription with 5 ways to learn. Start your free pilot today and supercharge your IT and Microsoft Azure skills. https://skillmeup.com/pilot/?src=Pod Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our 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. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. 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 151 – Microsoft Information Protection with Gagan Gulati and Adam Hall Nov 14, 2019

Show notes

In Episode 151, Ben sits down at Microsoft Ignite with Gagan Gulati, Head of Product for Azure Information Protection, and Adam Hall, Director, Microsoft Security to discuss the history of information protection at Microsoft and the material impacts of protecting your organization’s sensitive data in Office 365, including the transition from AIP to MIP (such as the upcoming move from the AIP portal the the Microsoft 365 Compliance Center). Sponsors Skill Me Up – Skill Me Up provides the bridge from fundamentals to certification paths to advanced skills to accelerate digital transformation with 1 subscription with 5 ways to learn. SaneBox – SaneBox brings sanity back to your inbox by prioritizing what’s important, removing spam/junk, grouping newsletters together, and automating tedious tasks. 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 Navigate data protection and risk in the cloud era Microsoft announces new innovations in security, compliance, and identity at Ignite What is Azure Information Protection? AIP end-user adoption guide Azure Information Protection - Deployment Acceleration Guide Azure Information Protection deployment roadmap Installation, Configuration, and Usage of the AIP Scanner Quickstart: Find what sensitive information you have in files stored on-premises Microsoft Information Protection now extends beyond Rights Management Azure Information Protection - also known as ... PDF readers that support Microsoft Information Protection 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 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. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. SaneBox brings sanity back to your inbox by prioritizing what’s important, removing spam/junk, grouping newsletters together, and automating tedious tasks. Sign up today and save $25 on any subscription! https://www.sanebox.com/allthings Everyone on your team is unique...so is SkillMeUp.com. Only Skill Me Up provides the bridge from fundamentals to certification paths to advanced skills to accelerate digital transformation with 1 subscription with 5 ways to learn. Start your free pilot today and supercharge your IT and Microsoft Azure skills. https://skillmeup.com/pilot/?src=Pod 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 150 – Azure Quantum with Julie Love Nov 07, 2019

Show notes

In Episode 150, Ben sits down at Microsoft Ignite with Julie Love, Senior Director, Quantum Computing at Microsoft, to talk all about quantum computing and the newly announced service Azure Quantum. 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 Opsgility - Your Cloud enablement partner to help guide your organization through all phases of Cloud migration and adoption 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 Quantum Blog Azure Quantum announcement Azure Quantum service Post-quantum Cryptography Microsoft quantum documentation Quantum Development Kit Quantum Development Kit samples Julie Love - Senior Director, Quantum Computing at Microsoft Quantum computing has potential for profound impact on our economic, industrial, academic and societal landscape. As director of quantum computing business development, I lead Microsoft's engagement with enterprises, startups, and developers. I have a deep technical background in quantum computing, with a Ph.D. in quantum physics from one of the leading experimental quantum computing groups in the world at Yale and a BS in Physics from MIT. I have held a variety of strategic and operational roles at Microsoft and Adobe, and served as an advisor to two quantum computing companies along the way. I leverage my deep quantum expertise with experience building big platform businesses to develop our product strategy and drive engagement with Microsoft's quantum platform. About the sponsors SaneBox brings sanity back to your inbox by prioritizing what’s important, removing spam/junk, grouping newsletters together, and automating tedious tasks. Sign up today and save $25 on any subscription! https://www.sanebox.com/allthings Everyone on your team is unique...so is SkillMeUp.com. Only Skill Me Up provides the bridge from fundamentals to certification paths to advanced skills to accelerate digital transformation with 1 subscription with 5 ways to learn. Start your free pilot today and supercharge your IT and Microsoft Azure skills. https://skillmeup.com/pilot/?src=Pod Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our 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. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. 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 149 – The End Of Acronym Soup (aka Unified Labels) Oct 31, 2019

Show notes

In Episode 149, Ben and Scott wrap up their whirlwind tour of AIP with Unified 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 SaneBox – SaneBox brings sanity back to your inbox by prioritizing what’s important, removing spam/junk, grouping newsletters together, and automating tedious tasks. Skill Me Up – Skill Me Up provides the bridge from fundamentals to certification paths to advanced skills to accelerate digital transformation with 1 subscription with 5 ways to learn. 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 Using Your YubiKey as a Smart Card in macOS Google’s ‘.new’ shortcut now works with calendar entries Episode 144 – Acronym Soup with RMS, AIP, ATP, and ATA Episode 145 – You Thought We Were Done With Acronym Soup? Azure Information Protection - also known as... Microsoft Information Protection and Unified Labeling How to migrate Azure Information Protection labels to unified sensitivity labels The client-side of Azure Information Protection Clients and services that support unified labeling Compare the labeling clients for Windows computers Deploying the Azure Information Protection scanner to automatically classify and protect files What is Azure Advanced Threat Protection? Information protection in Windows overview Use sensitivity labels to prioritize incident response Auto labeling What is Advanced Threat Analytics? Previous Episodes Episode 144 – Acronym Soup with RMS, AIP, ATP, and ATA Episode 145—You Thought We Were Done With Acronym Soup? 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 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. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Everyone on your team is unique...so is SkillMeUp.com. Only Skill Me Up provides the bridge from fundamentals to certification paths to advanced skills to accelerate digital transformation with 1 subscription with 5 ways to learn. Start your free pilot today and supercharge your IT and Microsoft Azure skills. https://skillmeup.com/pilot/?src=Pod SaneBox brings sanity back to your inbox by prioritizing what’s important, removing spam/junk, grouping newsletters together, and automating tedious tasks. Sign up today and save $25 on any subscription! https://www.sanebox.com/allthings 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 148 – Power Platform Self-Service Oct 24, 2019

Show notes

In Episode 148, Ben and Scott discuss MC193609, "Announcing self-service purchase capabilities for Power Platform products" and some of the things you'll need to think about as this new capability comes to an Office 365 tenant near you. 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 SaneBox – SaneBox brings sanity back to your inbox by prioritizing what’s important, removing spam/junk, grouping newsletters together, and automating tedious tasks. Skill Me Up - Skill Me Up provides the bridge from fundamentals to certification paths to advanced skills to accelerate digital transformation with 1 subscription with 5 ways to learn. 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 "Announcing self-service purchase capabilities for Power Platform products" (MC193609) Microsoft to enable end-users to buy Power Platform licenses without administrative approval Users can now check their sign-in history for unusual activity https://mysignins.microsoft.com/ Your Pa$$word doesn't matter Government Surplus Auctions Previous Episodes Episode 90 – Power BI and Data Democratization with Alexander Arvidsson Episode 130 – Microsoft Teams Governance Episode 139 – Azure Migrate v2 Episode 142 – Windows Server 2008 (R2) End of Support About the sponsors Everyone on your team is unique...so is SkillMeUp.com. Only Skill Me Up provides the bridge from fundamentals to certification paths to advanced skills to accelerate digital transformation with 1 subscription with 5 ways to learn. Start your free pilot today and supercharge your IT and Microsoft Azure skills. https://skillmeup.com/pilot/?src=Pod SaneBox brings sanity back to your inbox by prioritizing what’s important, removing spam/junk, grouping newsletters together, and automating tedious tasks. Sign up today and save $25 on any subscription! https://www.sanebox.com/allthings Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our 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. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. 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.

Our TOPPODCAST Picks

Follow Us

Stay Connected

Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast

Related Podcasts

Links

Stay Connected