Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast

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Episode 147 – All Things Microsoft Ignite with Anna Chu Oct 17, 2019

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Episode 146 – Azure Resource Manager Templates Oct 10, 2019

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In Episode 146, Ben and Scott start to break down Azure Resource Manager templates and some of the tooling and benefits to managing your Azure infrastructure (and yes, that includes PaaS services!) as code. 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 The ultimate Azure cost optimization checklist for cloud teams Infrastructure as code Azure Resource Manager overview Visual Studio Code (VS Code) Azure Resource Manager Tools Azure/azure-quickstart-templates Single and multi-resource export to a template in Azure portal Azure Resource Manager templates Past Episodes Episode 145 - You Thought We Were Done With Acronym Soup? Episode 135 - Speaking at Microsoft Ignite! with Anna Chu Episode 143 - Adoption Change Management for Microsoft 365 with David Callaghan Episode 144 - Acronym Soup with RMS, AIP, ATP, and ATA Episode 142 - Windows Server 2008 (R2) End of Support Episode 141 - Microsoft Cloud News - Hurricane Dorian Edition 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 super charge 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 145 – You Thought We Were Done With Acronym Soup? Oct 03, 2019

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In Episode 145, Ben and Scott break out their soup bowls and continue digging into their acronym soup with Azure Information Protection labels and their various flavors - unified labels, sensitivity labels, and retention labels. Sponsors Opsgility - Your Cloud enablement partner to help guide your organization through all phases of Cloud migration and adoption 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 iPhone 11 Pro Max beats Huawei Mate 30 Pro and Galaxy Note 10+ in battery life test Episode 144 – Acronym Soup with RMS, AIP, ATP, and ATA Azure Information Protection Pricing Azure Information Protection licensing datasheet Overview of sensitivity labels How sensitivity labels work with existing Azure Information Protection labels Overview of retention labels How long it takes for retention labels to take effect How to migrate Azure Information Protection labels to unified sensitivity labels Previous Episodes Episode 137 - Azure and Office 365 News Episode 136 - Azure SQL Managed Instance Episode 139 - Azure Migrate v2 Episode 141 - Microsoft Cloud News - Hurricane Dorian Edition Episode 144 - Acronym Soup with RMS, AIP, ATP, and ATA About the sponsors As the leading global brand for enabling the Microsoft Cloud, Opsgility’s global Microsoft MVP and multi-certified Cloud Solutions Architect team has authored over twenty MOC Courses, the Microsoft Press Book Implementing Azure Solutions 70-533 and numerous Microsoft Cloud Practice Playbooks for Microsoft Partners. And for a limited time, you can get your team certified in the most exciting cloud business today with a 25% discount off instructor-led training prep courses for Azure and Microsoft 365! Visit https://opsgility.com/MicrosoftCloud 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 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 144 – Acronym Soup with RMS, AIP, ATP, and ATA Sep 26, 2019

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Ben and Scott dive into Microsoft Information Protection solutions such as Azure Information Protection and Azure Rights Management Service.

Episode 143 – Adoption Change Management for Microsoft 365 with David Callaghan Sep 19, 2019

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Ben and Scott sit down with David Callaghan, Head of Business Change at FITTS, to talk about Adoption Change Management (or ACM) for Microsoft 365.

Episode 142 – Windows Server 2008 (R2) End of Support Sep 12, 2019

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We discuss Logitech's latest MX Master mouse and discuss some of the drivers for upgrading legacy workloads and operating systems on-premises and in Microsoft Azure.

Episode 141 – Microsoft Cloud News – Hurricane Dorian Edition Sep 05, 2019

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In Episode 141, Ben and Scott discuss some of the new features coming to Intune for iOS 13 and macOS Catalina with their upcoming releases this fall. Then they talk about some of the latest announcements around Microsoft Azure including the announced new regions in Switzerland and some of the changes coming to the behavior of SNAT with Azure Load Balancer. 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 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 Intune Day Zero support for new settings and updates in iOS 13 and macOS 10.15 Turn on iOS supervised mode Microsoft Intune announces the general availability of administrative templates Use Windows 10 templates to configure group policy settings in Microsoft Intune Policy CSP Microsoft Azure available from new cloud regions in Switzerland Azure Load Balancer becomes more efficient Managing SNAT (PAT) port exhaustion The Azure Security Lab - Dedicated cloud hosts for security researchers to test attacks Microsoft Azure Bounty Program Request an Azure Security Lab VM Previous Episodes Episode 133 - We Still Have All Of Our Fingers Episode 136 - Azure SQL Managed Instance Episode 137 - Azure and Office 365 News Episode 138 - Slaying PowerShell Dragons Episode 139 - Azure Migrate v2 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. As the leading global brand for enabling the Microsoft Cloud, Opsgility’s global Microsoft MVP and multi-certified Cloud Solutions Architect team has authored over twenty MOC Courses, the Microsoft Press Book Implementing Azure Solutions 70-533 and numerous Microsoft Cloud Practice Playbooks for Microsoft Partners. And for a limited time, you can get your team certified in the most exciting cloud business today with a 25% discount off instructor-led training prep courses for Azure and Microsoft 365! Visit https://opsgility.com/MicrosoftCloud 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 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 140 – Preparing For The End Of Skype For Business Aug 29, 2019

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The impacts of moving from Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams outside of enabling licenses and training your users.

Episode 139 – Azure Migrate v2 Aug 22, 2019

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In Episode 139, Ben and Scott talk about Azure Migrate v2 and how you can use the new Azure Migrate hub to integrate both Microsoft and ISV tooling into a single pane of glass for executing migrations to Azure. Sponsors 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 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 Deepfake of Bill Hader doing an impression of Tom Cruise will make your brain hurt About Azure Migrate Azure Migrate Server Assessment Migrate to Azure App Service Azure Migrate - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Prepare for Windows Server 2008 end of support Previous Episodes Episode 89 - Azure Migrate with Jeremy Winter Episode 129 - The Latest and Greatest in Azure and Office 365 Episode 136 - Azure SQL Managed Instance Episode 137 - Azure and Office 365 News Episode 138 - Slaying PowerShell Dragons About the sponsors 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 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. As the leading global brand for enabling the Microsoft Cloud, Opsgility’s global Microsoft MVP and multi-certified Cloud Solutions Architect team has authored over twenty MOC Courses, the Microsoft Press Book Implementing Azure Solutions 70-533 and numerous Microsoft Cloud Practice Playbooks for Microsoft Partners. And for a limited time, you can get your team certified in the most exciting cloud business today with a 25% discount off instructor-led training prep courses for Azure and Microsoft 365! Visit https://opsgility.com/MicrosoftCloud 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 138 – Slaying PowerShell Dragons Aug 15, 2019

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In Episode 138, Ben and Scott discuss an issue Scott ran into with PowerShell, scheduled tasks, and PowerShell jobs. They then talk about a preview capability in Azure AD for custom roles, some announced changes for Office 365 and support for legacy TLS versions. 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 Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox 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 Start-Job/Start-ThreadJob Instagram bans ad partner for secretly tracking user locations, saving Stories, more Custom roles for app registration management are now in public preview! Custom administrator roles in Azure Active Directory (preview) Application registration subtypes and permissions in Azure Active Directory Preparing for TLS 1.2 in Office 365 and Office 365 GCC Enable TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 support in SharePoint Server 2016 Enable TLS and SSL support in SharePoint 2013 Enable TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 support in SharePoint Server 2010 Exchange Server TLS guidance, part 1: Getting Ready for TLS 1.2 Invoke-SPOSiteSwap Previous Episodes Episode 99 – Office 365 PowerShell with Vlad Catrinescu Episode 128 - Automating SharePoint Online with Flow, PowerShell, and Azure Episode 129 - The Latest and Greatest in Azure and Office 365 Episode 132 - Why Friends Don't Let Friends Buy Office 365 Business Episode 137 - Azure and Office 365 News 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 As the leading global brand for enabling the Microsoft Cloud, Opsgility’s global Microsoft MVP and multi-certified Cloud Solutions Architect team has authored over twenty MOC Courses, the Microsoft Press Book Implementing Azure Solutions 70-533 and numerous Microsoft Cloud Practice Playbooks for Microsoft Partners. And for a limited time, you can get your team certified in the most exciting cloud business today with a 25% discount off instructor-led training prep courses for Azure and Microsoft 365! Visit https://opsgility.com/MicrosoftCloud 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.

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