Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast

In Episode 340, Ben and Scott talk about some of the takeaways from the recent DDoS attacks on the Azure Portal, a (new to them) Terraform module for working with Azure AD, and how to start preparing your Microsoft 365 tenant for Microsoft Copilot.

Microsoft Response to Layer 7 Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks

AzCopy – Use multiple clients to run jobs in parallel

Azure AD intro with Terraform examples

Terraform on Azure June Update

How to prepare for Microsoft 365 Copilot

Overview of update channels for Microsoft 365 Apps

Semantic Index for Copilot: Explained by Microsoft

How Microsoft 365 Copilot works

Microsoft AI help & learning

Microsoft Viva and Glint

https://youtu.be/15ueLjgBESA

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.

In Episode 339, Ben and Scott get side railed with the current Redditt drama around their paid API and some of their favorite apps going away. They also cover and update on Azure AD Graph Retirement before they move on to some new sample scripts from the Intune team that demonstrate how to work with Intune and Microsoft Graph. Finally, they close out discussing the new public preview of collaborative notes in Microsoft Teams.

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman isn’t backing down

Google Domains shutting down, assets sold and being migrated to Squarespace

Google just killed Google Domains: Just kidding, it got sold

Google Domains shutting down, assets sold and being migrated to Squarespace

Important: Azure AD Graph Retirement and Powershell Module Deprecation

Update to Microsoft Intune PowerShell example script repository on GitHub

Now in public preview: Collaborative notes in Microsoft Teams Meetings

Amazon’s server outage broke fast food apps like McDonald’s and Taco Bell

https://youtu.be/r8orEAt34eY

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.

In Episode 338, Ben comes back from vacation which prompts Scott to start a discussion on mailbox management tips before they move on to some changes in the Apple Developer Program that could impact your users. Then they close out with some Azure announcements for AKS.

One Email Rule – Have a separate Inbox and an Inbox CC to reduce email stress. Guaranteed.

End meetings early or start late

Support Tip: iOS/iPadOS 17 Beta with Microsoft Intune

iOS 17 developer beta is open to anyone – here’s how to download it now

Classic Exchange admin center in Exchange Online

Final Deprecation of Classic Exchange Admin Center (EAC) in Exchange Online

Introducing the Azure Linux container host for AKS

Transforming containerized applications with Azure Container Storage-now in preview

What is Azure Container Storage? Preview

https://youtu.be/0zXgEOs7Z40

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.

In Episode 337, Ben and Scott through recommendations for securing your Office 365 tenants and admin accounts. They also address a listener question on how you can address the disparities in logging and metrics collections when you’re using multiple SaaS products.

CollabCon Conference 2023

Manage emergency access accounts in Azure AD

Securing privileged access for hybrid and cloud deployments in Azure AD

Conditional Access authentication strength is now Generally Available!

Learn about data loss prevention

Microsoft Sentinel data connectors

Hybrid Cloud with AWS

https://youtu.be/TMKm9lcaQE0

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.

In Episode 336, Ben and Scott discuss some of the marquee announcements from Microsoft Build 2023.

Build Book of News

Full Keynote | Satya Nadella at Microsoft Build 2023

Microsoft’s Azure AI Studio lets developers build their own AI ‘copilots’

Copilot in Power BI technical preview

Introducing Microsoft Fabric and Copilot in Microsoft Power BI

Microsoft Fabric licenses

Microsoft launches Fabric, a new end-to-end data and analytics platform

What is Microsoft Fabric?

Microsoft Fabric terminology

https://youtu.be/0ml2d1OutRE

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.

In Episode 335, Ben and Scott discuss some of the trials and tribulations of Office 365 and Microsoft 365 licensing. Specifically, some intricacies around Microsoft Defender for Office 365.

Vague documentation on licensing #12003

Manage who can create Microsoft 365 Groups

Get started using Attack simulation training

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 service description – Licensing terms

Retiring the AWS Documentation on GitHub

Preview: Automatic Scaling for App Service Web Apps

Testing reachability of Azure Load Balancer frontend IPv4 address with ping

https://youtu.be/oOqXXVX-1Z4

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.

In Episode 334, Ben and Scott take a detour into automating your home video devices/security cameras with Scrypted and then get back on track with some enhancements in Azure AD authentication methods and Microsoft Intune.

Scrypted

Google’s new Pixel Tablet is a $500 slate for the home

Azure Active Directory Gets ‘Converged’ Management for Authentication Methods

Modernizing Authentication Management

Microsoft Intune: iOS Web enrollment

Enrollment guide: Enroll iOS and iPadOS devices in Microsoft Intune

https://youtu.be/MjMJSIFRUFs

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.

In Episode 333, Ben and Scott talk about some more strange choices coming from the Microsoft Edge team before they discuss the new preview of Azure AD LAPS (with and without Intune).

Microsoft Teams Plans to Make Users Open Links in Edge

Arc is coming to Windows in 2023

THE BROWSER COMPANY IS BUILDING A SWIFT DEVELOPMENT TOOLCHAIN FOR WINDOWS

Android vs. Apple Market Share: Leading Mobile Operating Systems (OS) (May 2023)

Compare Power BI Desktop and the Power BI service

Get started with Windows LAPS and Azure Active Directory

Using Microsoft Intune for Local Administrator Password Management

Windows LAPS supported platforms and Azure AD LAPS preview status

Microsoft Intune support for Windows LAPS

Azure AD Certificate-Based Authentication (CBA) on Mobile now Generally Available!

Everything New In Home Assistant 2023.5!

https://youtu.be/ctrSyu-4TTg

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.

In Episode 332, Ben and Scott dive into the recent announcements around Microsoft 365 Copilot and its impending integration into the entirety of the Microsoft 365 product suite.

Bluesky Social

Microsoft Posts In-Product Ads in SharePoint Online

Stop in product messaging (Microsoft Conference)

Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot—A whole new way to work

What is the #CollabTalk TweetJam?

How to build your first app using Power Apps | Automatically with Copilot or from scratch

GitHub Copilot for the Windows systems administrator

AI Made this VLOG

Amazon CodeWhisperer

Dangers of AI Hallucinations: How Wrong Answers Can Lead to Legal Liability and Mitigate Them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZahDzG8KVC8

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.

In Episode 331, Ben and Scott dive into the announcement of the retirement of SharePoint 2013 Workflows and the release of SharePoint Workflow Manager for SharePoint Server 2013, 2016, 2019 and Subscription Edition.

Starship Flight Test

Move SharePoint Designer Workflows to Power Automate

SharePoint 2013 workflow retirement

Guidance: Migrate from classic workflows to Power Automate flows in SharePoint

Nintex unveils Workflow plan amid Microsoft retiring product

Microsoft 365 Assessment tool

Announcing the release of SharePoint Workflow Manager for SharePoint Server

Install and configure workflow for SharePoint Server

Announcing the release of SharePoint Workflow Manager for SharePoint Server

What is an on-premises data gateway?

https://youtu.be/cFizTtGcWV0

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.