Ctrl+Alt+Azure

By Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi RoineBusiness Technology

Ctrl+Alt+Azure episodes

October 29, 2025 314 - Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2025
This week, we review the Microsoft Digital Defense report 2025. We did the same for 2024 and 2023, so this time we'll look at what's interesting in the report and what to focus on from a security perspective.
(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:40) - Show content starts.
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- Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2025
- Ctrl+Alt+Azure: Episode 275: Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2024
- Ctrl+Alt+Azure: Episode 210: Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2023
- HackTheBox

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38 min
October 22, 2025 313 - Microsoft Tech Updates
In this week's episode, we look at recent Microsoft Tech updates. By popular request, we're expanding the scope beyond just Azure to include Microsoft 365, Power Platform, and similar Microsoft platforms and capabilities. What's new? What's interesting? What's retiring?
(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(04:40) - Show content starts.
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- Public preview: VM Customization in Azure: Disable Multithreading & Constrained Cores
- Containerization Assist (GitHub)
- Microsoft Azure Migration Hub
- Private Link service Direct Connect

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28 min
October 15, 2025 312 - Avoiding identity mistakes using IdentityProxy with Stephan van Rooij
Today, we talk about identity mistakes, with our guest, Stephan van Rooij. We learn about OWASP top 10, his project IdentityProxy and things to avoid when building custom solutions that revolve around identities.
(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(02:50) - Show content starts.
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- Blog: https://svrooij.io
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/stephanvanrooij
- IdentityProxy: https://github.com/svrooij/identityproxy
- OWASP Top 10
- GitHub servers being migrated to Azure

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36 min
October 08, 2025 311 - The three must-have alert types for your Azure tenant
Today, we go through the three recommended and must-have alerts you should configure in all of your Azure tenants. We touch upon FinOps, security, a bit of WAF and CAF, and find out if we're using these recommendations ourselves.
(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:20) - Show content starts.
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- Azure Quota Alerts (Preview): Still overlooked, but incredibly useful | Microsoft Community Hub

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32 min
October 01, 2025 310 - Stepping away from the cloud to reflect on Microsoft PowerToys in 2025
In this week's episode, we take a tour of Microsoft PowerToys in 2025. What's in there? What's new? Do we actually use these tools, or are they just gimmicks?
(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(06:44) - Show content starts.
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- Microsoft PowerToys

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23 min
September 24, 2025 309 - Goodbye, Project Online and SharePoint 2013 Workflows
In this week's episode, we talk about our experiences with SharePoint and Project. Now that Project Online is going away, as well as SharePoint 2013-style Workflows, we discuss the options for moving to more modern capabilities, and why these are still very valid tools.
(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:58) - Show content starts.
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- Project Online is retiring
- SharePoint 2013 Workflow retirement
- SharePoint 2013 Workflow Assessment Tool
- SharePoint Workflow Manager

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31 min
September 17, 2025 308 - Running AI workloads at home
In this week's episode, we share ideas, experiences and lessons learned running AI workloads at home. On a laptop, in a custom-built AI rig, and everything in between!
(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:37) - Show content starts.
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- HuggingFace
- Ollama & Open WebUI
- LMStudio
- Azure AI Foundry Local

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31 min
September 10, 2025 307 - Microsoft Security Updates
This week, we dive deep into security-focused updates from Microsoft. As we've done with more generic tech updates, this time we'll focus on the interesting security updates from Microsoft.
(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(04:29) - Show content starts.
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- RETIREMENT: Migration from Azure China CDN to Azure Front Door
- PREVIEW: Custom block response codes and body for Application Gateway WAF
- PREVIEW: Azure Bastion now supports connectivity to private AKS clusters via tunneling
- PREVIEW: Workspace-level Private Link for Microsoft Fabric workspaces
- GA: AKS Security Dashboard
- WAF: CAPTCHA, and JS challenge

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26 min
September 03, 2025 306 - Azure Storage Discovery
Today, we take a look at Azure Storage Discovery. It's a new preview feature that gives you insights and actionable items across all your Storage Accounts. We discuss our experience using it and how to properly test its capabilities.
(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:25) - Show content starts.
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- Azure Storage Demo Populator tool (GitHub)
- Azure Storage Discovery
- Pricing

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29 min
August 27, 2025 305 - Finally here – Group Source of Authority in the cloud
Today, we'll take a look at something that is of the essence for anyone working with identities and the shift to the cloud. What is Group SOA, and why should you care? We reflect on the dependencies of Active Directory, the five stages of transformation, and what this capability will help you achieve.
(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(05:20) - Show content starts.
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- Group SOA

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29 min

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