Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast

In Episode 330, Ben and Scott talk about Home Assistant and how it fits into their home automation workflows.

How to Create a Home Assistant Dashboard

Wall Mounted Dashboard for Home Assistant! (Fire Tablet + Fully Kiosk)

Home Assistant Community Store (HACS)

Inovelli SMART 2-1 SWITCH (ON/OFF OR DIMMER)

Lutron Caséta Wireless Smart Lighting Dimmer Switch and Remote Kit | P-PKG1W-WH

https://youtu.be/_eMm-RBc3Uo

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 329, Ben and Scott talk about some old (but new to them) enhancements to Microsoft Intune that allow for the import of ADMX and ADML administrative templates, availability of Windows 365 Cloud PC preview for Frontline workers, and avatars for Teams coming to public preview.

UniFi Gateway – WAN Load Balancing and Failover

Flux Keyboard

Windows 365 offers flexibility from the office or home to the frontline

Import custom ADMX and ADML administrative templates into Microsoft Intune (public preview)

Windows 365 Frontline available in public preview

Avatars for Microsoft Teams in Public Preview

https://youtu.be/DBdTc05VqWQ

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 328, Ben and Scott talk through the upcoming deprecation of remote PowerShell sessions (RPS) for Exchange Online, some changes to how you’ll get to Azure AD using Entra in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center, and how to enable the new Microsoft Teams client. Then Scott brings Ben up to speed on strategies to make sure you’re getting notified of service retirements and deprecations for Azure.

Announcing Deprecation of Remote PowerShell (RPS) Protocol in Exchange Online PowerShell

Deprecation of Remote PowerShell in Exchange Online – Re-enabling or Extending RPS support

Azure AD Admin Center Moves to Microsoft Entra Admin Center

Enable the new Microsoft Teams toggle for your organization

The new Microsoft Teams desktop client

Try the new Microsoft Teams

Classic subscription administrator roles

https://youtu.be/K0uzCqz2p_I

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 327, Ben and Scott talk through the new Microsoft Loop app which has entered public preview.

Learn how to enable the Microsoft Loop app, now in Public Preview

Use Loop components in Outlook

You can now try Microsoft Loop, a Notion competitor with futuristic Office documents

https://twitter.com/benstegink/status/1639074039850479616?s=20

https://twitter.com/EricaToelle/status/1638766066745888769?s=20

SharePoint Online Admin cannot access the Content Type Hub

Microsoft Loop is coming to OneNote “very soon”

https://youtu.be/-m5hkg3vadM

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 326, Ben and Scott take on a listener question about ways to run study groups using Microsoft Teams to study for certifications (or really anything else you’d get a group together to learn). Next, they tackle the newly announced Microsoft 365 Copilot service.

Build5Nines/exam-assessments

MicrosoftLearning/AZ-104-MicrosoftAzureAdministrator

MicrosoftLearning/AZ-104-MicrosoftAzureAdministrator

Microsoft Azure Master Class v2

Learn Azure app

[Modern Work (Microsoft 365) Technical Skilling Content Survey Needs YOUR Input!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEy_TflMavA&list=PL8WaWxH3wgceHcNpUcqXJguLbwIXzzQW5 target=)

Mentimeter

Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work

Raspberry Pi Brings ChatGPT AI to Clippy

Explaining the Microsoft 365 Copilot System

Introducing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Copilot, the world’s first copilot in both CRM and ERP, that brings next-generation AI to every line of business

Hallucinations Could Blunt ChatGPT’s Success OpenAI says the problem’s solvable, Yann LeCun says we’ll see

Microsoft lays off team that taught employees how to make AI tools responsibly

https://youtu.be/liKGHwQMGJo

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 325, Ben and Scott talk through their experiences with Loop as it approaches its impending public preview and then dive into a question about how to approach a migration from SharePoint Online to Azure blob storage.

Overview of Loop components in Teams

Microsoft Loop App to Launch in Public Preview This Month

Manage Loop experiences (Loop app and Loop components) in SharePoint

Copy file from SharePoint Online

How To Call Logic App Synchronously From Azure Data Factory

Transfer Files from SharePoint To Blob Storage with Azure Logic Apps

Copy large files from SharePoint to Azure Blob Storage using Power Automate

Episode 128 – Automating SharePoint Online with Flow, PowerShell, and Azure

Episode 280 – Azure Storage or SharePoint for my files?

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 324, Ben and Scott talk through some more fun with ChatGPT and how it can point you in the wrong direction even for code snippets. Then they dive into Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets and orchestration modes including VMSS Flex.

Microsoft has been secretly testing its Bing chatbot ‘Sydney’ for years

Introducing the AI Mirror Test, which very smart people keep failing

Orchestration modes for Virtual Machine Scale Sets in Azure

FAQ for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets

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 323, Ben walks Scott through a recent customer project with Microsoft Graph, Azure Automation, and Logic Apps. It turns out that working with Microsoft Graph and Managed Identities gets a little confusing once you start throwing delegated vs application permissions into the mix.

Using the Microsoft Graph SDK for PowerShell with Azure Automation

Microsoft Graph throttling guidance

Get-MgUserPresence

Tutorial: Access Microsoft Graph from a secured .NET app as the app

Microsoft Graph permissions reference

AzureAD/MSAL.PS

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 322, Ben and Scott talk about the announced rebranding of Yammer to Viva Engage, a new admin center for Viva Engage, and the retirement of Run-As accounts. Oh, and please reach out to Ben and congratulate him on his newly minted MVP status! 🎉

Build connections with Games for Work, a new Microsoft Teams app

Neat Frame

Microsoft Dumps Yammer Brand

Introducing Microsoft Viva Engage

M365 Changelog: Multiple Yammer Networks Within Single Tenant No Longer Supported (1:Many Mode)

Introducing OneDrive customer office hours

New Admin Center for Viva Engage

How Microsoft Security wants to help you take your fandom and turn it into global influence!

Ben’s a MVP!

Microsoft Retires Azure Automation Run As Accounts in September 2023

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 321, Ben takes Scott through his current experience with the new Bing experience and ChatGPT integration. Then they talk about a quirk in the retirement/not retirement for free Teams business users and close out with the recently announced support for Multimedia Redirection (MMR) on Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 Cloud PC.

Windows 10 Home and Pro

Tune in today: Learn Live experts are ready to accelerate your skilling

Learn Live: Azure Core IaaS Study Hall

Hands-on with the new Bing: Microsoft’s step beyond ChatGPT

ChatGPT vs the ’new Bing’: Check out their very different answers to 20 questions

GitHub Copilot

Get Started with GitHub Copilot with VSCode and Python Extension

Microsoft will wipe free Teams business users’ data if they don’t upgrade to a paid tier

Say goodbye to Microsoft Teams Free (classic) and hello to Microsoft Teams (free)

Announcing General Availability of Multimedia Redirection (MMR) on Azure Virtual Desktop

Multimedia Redirection (MMR) on Windows 365 general availability

Understanding multimedia redirection for Azure Virtual Desktop

Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable latest supported downloads

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.