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Episode 37 – Office 365 and Azure Monitoring with Steve Peschka Nov 16, 2017

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In Episode 37, Ben interviews Steve Peschka of Office365Mon where they discuss what you can monitor in Office 365 and Azure and most importantly - what you'll want to consider when it comes to monitoring the service health of your cloud-based platforms. About Steve Peschka Steve Peschka is one of the founders of Office365Mon and an 18 year veteran of Microsoft. At Microsoft, he spent the last dozen years working almost exclusively with the SharePoint, Office 365 and Office 365 Dedicated teams. That included significant work helping some of the largest enterprises, governments, and military organizations design, deploy and develop on different versions of SharePoint going all the way back to pre-release versions of SharePoint 2001. In 2015 Steve left Microsoft to help start-up Office365Mon.Com, which is now a market leader in monitoring for Office 365, as well as a new sister service called AzureServiceMon for monitoring Azure. Office365Mon now has over 2000 customers and growing and Steve is the CEO. Steve was a frequent speaker at a variety of Microsoft events over the years and still continues to share thoughts at the SamlMan blog at https://samlman.wordpress.com/.

Episode 36 – Office 365 News for October 2017 Nov 09, 2017

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In Episode 36, Ben and Scott cover Office 365 news for October 2017, including the Skype to Microsoft Teams transition roadmap Roadmap for Skype for Business capabilities coming to Microsoft Teams now available Skype for Business to Teams Capabilities Roadmap.pdf Office 365 Roadmap - Teams Features Changes to the previous OneDrive sync client (Groove.exe) in Office 2016 Click-to-Run Update to forms in Modern Lists, including custom forms with PowerApps - coming soon! See files shared with you in OneDrive Announcing our Microsoft Content Services white paper New feature: Create and Manage Groups in Outlook for iOS & Android Insiders can now try Outlook’s all-new search experience How Office 365 validates the From address to prevent phishing RFC 5322 Outlook for iOS end of support for iOS 9 Migrate your public folders to Office 365 Groups

Episode 35 – All Over The Map With Yammer Nov 02, 2017

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In Episode 35, Ben and Scott tackle Yammer, Microsoft's Enterprise Social Network available in Office 365. Say hello to Yammer Yammer Overview Yammer Enterprise stand-alone plan to retire by January 2017 Yammer admin guide Enforce Office 365 identity for Yammer users Compliance Framework for Industry Standards and Regulations - Customer Guidance Microsoft Online Services Data Center Map Microsoft Teams, Office 365 Groups, SharePoint, Yammer… What Should I Use, and When?

Episode 34 – PowerApps, Flow, the Common Data Service (CDS) and Poetry? Oct 26, 2017

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PowerApps, Flow, the Common Data Service (CDS) and Poetry? Scott and Ben walk you through getting started building solutions in Office 365 leveraging these three technologies. PowerApps Modify SharePoint forms with PowerApps PowerApps pricing and skus Flows Pricing for Microsoft Flow Common Data Service (CDS) introduction Use Cases: Paul Culmsee The (new current) best way to update SharePoint document metadata using Flow PowerApps, Flow and Managed Metadata fields–part 1 PowerApps, Flow and Managed Metadata fields–part 2 PowerApps, Flow and Managed Metadata fields–part 3 John Liu Flow Admin Center - Do a spring cleaning of your Flows All the PowerApps updates and sessions from Microsoft Ignite

Episode 33 – SharePoint News Around Microsoft Ignite Oct 19, 2017

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In Episode 33, Ben and Scott review all (well most of) the SharePoint-specific news from around Microsoft Ignite. Updating content management for the cloud SharePoint & OneDrive Security & Compliance Updates from Microsoft Ignite Security you can trust, control you can count on with SharePoint and OneDrive (Ignite News) Changes to SharePoint Pages Introducing the new SharePoint Admin Center SharePoint hub sites new in Office 365

Episode 32 – Office 365 News for September 2017 Oct 12, 2017

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In this episode, Scott and Ben update you on the latest Office 365 news for September that was NOT from Microsoft Ignite. We talk mostly about news that was announced pre-ignite that you may have missed or glossed over with the flurry of news during Ignite. Fewer login prompts: The new “Keep me signed in” experience for Azure AD is in preview Changes to the Token Lifetime Default in Azure Active Directory September Updates to Office 365: Verify Domain with email, Automated Domain Delete, Guess User Icon New feature: Advanced Threat Protection Safe Links Additional Features - White list domains The GigJam preview is retiring New feature: Default link permission Updated feature: Support for # and % in SharePoint Online and OneDrive

Episode 31 – Ignite Special: Microsoft Teams Interview with Wictor Wilén Oct 10, 2017

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In our final Microsoft Ignite special, Scott has a Microsoft Teams Interview with Wictor Wilén. They talk at a high level about Microsoft Teams and then dive into extending Teams using the Yeoman Generator from Wictor. Microsoft Teams Microsoft Teams Yeoman Generator Microsoft Teams Development Center Getting Started with Bots Getting started with Connectors Getting Started with Tabs Wictor's Blog About Wictor Wilén Wictor Wilén is a Group Manager and SharePoint Architect working at Avanade. Wictor has achieved the Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA) - SharePoint 2010, Microsoft Certified Solutions Master (MCSM) - SharePoint and Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) - SharePoint 2010 certifications. He has also been awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) since 2010. Wictor is specialised in SharePoint Solution Architecture and has been involved in the SharePoint industry since the birth of SharePoint. He is also heavily involved in the SharePoint community and is co-founder of the Swedish SharePoint User Group, SSUG. Wictor is the author of SharePoint 2010 Web Parts in Action and co-author of Inside Microsoft SharePoint 2013.

Episode 30 – Ignite Special: Office 365 Usage Analytics with Anne and Shilpi Oct 06, 2017

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In this special episode from Microsoft Ignite, Ben interviews Anne and Shilpi from Microsoft all new announcements around Office 365 Usage Analytics. Including announcements around: New Usage Report, Usage Score and Advanced Usage Analytics in Office 365. Usage and Reporting Announcements from Ignite BRK2039: Introducing Advanced Usage Reporting Tools Anne Michels Anne Michels is a Sr. Product Marketing Manager for Office 365 at Microsoft Corporation where she focuses on leading marketing initiatives around the administration, reporting and configuration experience for Office 365 to make the lives of IT Professionals easier. Anne started her career in Germany; after working as journalist for local radio stations, she joined Vok Dams, one of the leading corporate events planning agencies in Germany. In 2009, she migrated to the tech industry when she became Audience Marketing Manager at Microsoft Germany to educate and excite students about the Microsoft platform. She holds a master degree in Media Studies from the University of Bonn and is fluent in German, English and Spanish. Anne is a passionate snowboarder and runner and is still trying to make sense of JavaScript, HTML&CSS. Shilpi Sinha Shilpi is a Principal Program Manager on the Office 365 team. She is primarily focused on providing Office 365 commercial customers actionable insights into service level usage and has delivered the Office 365 Admin Usage reports as well as the Office 365 Adoption content pack in Power BI

Episode 29 – Ignite Live Show: Deep Dive on Microsoft Teams Oct 05, 2017

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Live from Microsoft Ignite! In Episode 29, Ben and Scott discuss the architecture of Microsoft Teams, how it is deployed and managed by Microsoft, and how organizations can enable themselves for a successful deployment in light of the announcement that Skype for Business will be built into Microsoft Teams. YouTube Video BRK3071 - Get an overview of Microsoft Teams architecture

Episode 28 – Ignite Special: Azure Updates with Corey Sanders Sep 29, 2017

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In Episode 28, Scott and Ben sit down with Corey Sanders, Director of Azure Compute, to discuss the latest updates to the Azure platform announced at Microsoft Ignite. Topics include compute, networking, and security. Azure Blog Tuesdays With Corey on Channel 9

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