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Let's Talk Azure!
By Alan Armstrong & Sam FootTechnology
Let's Talk Azure! episodes
- S5E21 - Microsoft updates May - new products and features released
This week, Alan and Sam talk about new features and services that have gone into Public Preview or General Available status in the last month. We dive into a couple of these updates that peaked our interest.
Some of the Microsoft product features and update we covered:
- Build + RSA Updates
- key Microsoft Entra and Defender features and updates
- Lots of Azure changes and new features
What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form, Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right corner of our site.
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47 min - S5E20 - MDE Device Discovery - Find those unknown devices
Alan and Sam talk about why it is important to monitor your network for connected devices. Alan runs us through the benefits of doing it with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. Here are a few areas we covered:
- Why is it important to monitor your network?
- How can you find devices using Microsoft solutions?
- What are the benefits of devices being discovered and searchable in the Defender XDR Portal
- How is it licensed
What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form, Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right corner of our site.
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45 min - S5E19 - Azure AI Search - Cloud-based, AI-enhanced search for applications.
This week Alan and Sam discuss Azure AI Search. It is a robust, cloud-based search service provided by Microsoft that leverages artificial intelligence to enhance search functionalities within applications. It allows developers to create rich, full-text search experiences with features like natural language processing, semantic search, and cognitive search capabilities, which can extract insights from various data sources. The service is scalable, ensuring efficient handling of large volumes of data and queries, and integrates seamlessly with other Azure services, providing a comprehensive solution for building intelligent and responsive search-driven applications.
- What problems is Azure AI search aiming to solve?
- What does it integrate with?
- What are some of the use cases for the solution?
- How much does it cost?
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50 min - S5E18 - Managing macOS with Microsoft
Alan and Sam discuss the management of macOS and how it is a little different to other operating systems. Alan guides through what can be configured and the reasons why. Here are a few things we covered:
- How is macOS different to other operating systems to manage?
- What Microsoft tooling can you use to manage them
- What licences do you need
What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form, Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right corner of our site.
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47 min - S5E17 - Azure Data Box - move big data to Azure efficiently
This week Alan and Sam discuss Azure Data Box. It is a ruggedised appliance designed to simplify the process of transferring large volumes of data to Azure cloud storage, offering high-speed data transfer and secure encryption. It enables organisations to overcome bandwidth limitations and easily migrate large datasets, ensuring efficient and reliable data transfer.
- What is Azure Data Box?
- What can you back up with it?
- How does the process work?
- How much does it cost?
What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form, Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right corner of our site.
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40 min - S5E16 - Microsoft updates April - new products and features released
This week, Alan and Sam talk about new features and services that have gone into Public Preview or General Available status in the last month. We dive into a couple of these updates that peaked our interest.
Some of the Microsoft product features and update we covered:
- FIDO2 authentication & Keypass
- Security group provisioning to Active Directory using cloud sync
- Unified security operations platform
- New API Manager v2
- App Service v1 and v2 environments retirement
What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form, Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right corner of our site.
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31 min - S5E15 - Entra Global Secure Access - An Identity-Centric Security Service Edge
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?
What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form, Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right corner of our site.
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53 min - S5E14 - Azure Backup - utilise Azure to manage and store your backups
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?
What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form, Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right corner of our site.
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55 min - S5E13 - Microsoft Cloud PKI - deploy your user and device certificates from the cloud
Alan and Sam discuss Microsoft's new Cloud PKI service, which enables the management and deployment of device and user certificates through Intune.
Below are some key points we addressed:- What are user and device certificates and how are they used
- How would you normally manage PKI services
- What is Microsoft’s Cloud PKI
- How much does it cost?
What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form, Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right corner of our site.
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36 min - S5E12 - Microsoft updates April - new products and features released
This week, Alan and Sam talk about new features and services that have gone into Public Preview or General Available status in the last month. We dive into a couple of these updates that peaked our interest.
Some of the Microsoft product features and update we covered:
- Copilot for Security and M365
- Syslog and CEF AMA connector for Microsoft Sentinel
- Lots of Azure changes, new features and retirements!
What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form, Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right corner of our site.
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About Let's Talk Azure!
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Listen with Alan Armstrong and Sam Foot as we talk about all things Microsoft Azure! We are both technical consultants working with Azure day in, day out. Alan focuses on Identity and Security…
automation while Sam is a .NET developer deploying PaaS and SaaS solutions on Azure. Each episode we have a topic we cover and we highlight some key news that we are interested in. No fluff, sales or products here, just two technical people having a light hearted chat.
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