Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast

In Episode 320, Ben and Scott get a little sidetracked and talk about their monitor setups, frustrations with Twitter and where we are on Mastodon, and then close out on Teams Premium.

Learn Live: Azure Core IaaS Study Hall

Apple 2021 iPad Mini (Wi-Fi, 64GB) – Space Gray

LG 28MQ780-B 28 Inch SDQHD (2560 x 2880) Nano IPS DualUp Monitor with Ergo Stand, DCI-P3 98% (Typ.) HDR10, USB Type-C (90W PD) – Black

LG C2 Series 42-Inch Class OLED evo Gallery Edition Smart TV OLED42C2PUA, 2022 – AI-Powered 4K, Alexa Built-in

Dell UltraSharp U4320Q 42.5″ 4K UHD LED LCD Monitor – 16:9 – Black

Nuphy Air 75 – Get 10% off any order from Nuphy

Why Twitter users are upset about the platform’s latest change

Twitter replaces its free API with a paid tier in quest to make more money

Follow us on Mastodon:

https://techhub.social/@BenStegink

https://mastodon.social/@ciphertxt

https://techhub.social/@msclouditpro

Microsoft Teams Premium: Cut costs and add AI-powered productivity

The better way to meet—Microsoft Teams Premium

Microsoft Teams Premium licensing

Microsoft Teams Premium – Overview for administrators

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 319, Ben and Scott talk through a fun new way to keep up with updates to the Microsoft 365 roadmap using Office 365 Roadmap watch and them discuss a new item on the roadmap – explicit recording consent for Teams Meetings. Next up they get into IPv6 support coming to conditional access in March 2023 and some changes coming to Azure reservations now that Savings plans for compute are here.

Office 365 Roadmap Watch

https://feeds.feedburner.com/Office365RoadmapWatcher

Azure Timeline

Microsoft Teams: Explicit Recording Consent for Teams meetings

Azure AD IPv6 Support Comes in March 2023

IPv6 Support in Azure Active Directory

General Availability: 5 GB Put Blob

Self-service exchanges and refunds for Azure Reservations

What is Azure savings plans for compute?

Episode 305 – Azure Savings Plans for compute

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 318, Ben and Scott talk about the Defender debacle from last week and then get into some new Azure previews, including rich application health states with Virtual Machine Scale Sets, the Azure Automation extension for VS Code, and the latest preview of change tracking and inventory management with the Azure Monitor Agent.

Latest Defender Update KB2267602 Bug Deletes Shortcuts

Security intelligence updates for Microsoft Defender Antivirus and other Microsoft antimalware

Using Application Health extension with Virtual Machine Scale Sets

Public Preview of Azure Automation extension for Visual Studio Code

Runbook authoring through VS Code in Azure Automation

Overview of change tracking and inventory using Azure Monitoring Agent (Preview)

Migrate to Azure Monitor Agent from Log Analytics agent

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 317, Ben walks Scott through some of his trials and tribulations with migrating contents to and from Microsoft 365 Groups (Conversations) mailboxes.

Perform a Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) migration to Microsoft 365 or Office 365

BitTitan MigrationWiz

Office 365 Groups vs. Shared Mailboxes

Microsoft 365 Group to Microsoft 365 Group Mailbox (Conversations) Migration Guide

Export Content search results

Exporting individual messages or PST files

Use network upload to import your organization’s PST files to Microsoft 365

Folders and Rules Support for Microsoft 365 Groups in Outlook

Manage Folders and Rules feature in Microsoft 365 Groups

Windows Defender – ASRFalsely blocking and removing applications

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 316, Ben and Scott talk about the continued fallout from the Rackspace ransomware attack as well as some other recent hacks from LastPass and CircleCI. Then they get into their topic of the day – Azure DevOps or GitHub and which one they prefer for different tasks.

Rackspace: Ransomware attack caused by zero-day exploit

Microsoft Exchange Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

More than 200 million Twitter users’ email addresses leaked by hackers

LastPass – Notice of Recent Security Incident

CircleCI security alert: Rotate any secrets stored in CircleCI (Updated Jan 6)

’;–have i been pwned?

Azure DevOps documentation

GitHub documentation

Microsoft acquires GitHub

New year, new GitHub: Announcing unlimited free private repos and unified Enterprise offering

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 315, Ben takes Scott on a tour of Microsoft Loop and how it is working across Teams, Outlook and Word. Then they close out the episode with what tools they are using for personal work task management.

Microsoft Loop: Flexible Canvas App

First things to know about Loop components

Use Loop components in Word for the web

Microsoft Whiteboard set to get Copy/Paste support for Loop Components

Jira Work Management

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 314, Ben and Scott have a quick follow-up on the Rackspace Hosted Exchange ransomware attack (TL;DR; if you haven’t migrated to Exchange Online, do it now), a post-mortem that was published on the Azure PowerShell and PowerShell 7.3 compatibility issue that cropped up in Nov, and then discuss Microsoft Teams Preview.

Hosted Exchange Issues

Episode 313 – Pour one out for the SREs at Rackspace

Post-mortem: Azure PowerShell and PowerShell 7.3 compatibility issue

Update to the latest version of Microsoft Edge on macOS

Microsoft Teams Premium preview now available

Microsoft Makes 30-Day Test Licenses Available for Teams Premium

Microsoft Teams Premium licensing

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 313, Ben and Scott discuss the ongoing fallout from the ransomware attack that took down the hosted Exchange environment at Rackspace in December.

Hosted Exchange Disruption

Rackspace blames ransomware attack for ongoing Exchange outage

Rackspace Cloud Office suffers destructive security breach

Episode 108 – Backup and Recovery in Office 365

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 312, Ben and Scott take a break from Azure and Office 365 to talk about gifts that you can get for the geek in your life. With the holidays coming up, we cover some of our favorite tech toys for our desks and travel.

uBlock Origin extension (Edge/Chrome)

Elgato Stream Deck

Elgato Stream Deck+

Elgato Stream Deck MK.2

Elgato Stream Deck XL

Elgato Stream Deck Mini

Elgato Stream Deck Pedal

Episode 299 – Scott’s Ode to the Stream Deck

Macro Pads on Amazon

Aviator cables

Keyboards

NuPhy Air75

Logitech MX Mechanical Mini Wireless

Keychron K2

Logitech MX Master 3S

Power adapters

Universal Travel Power Adapter- EPICKA All in One Worldwide International Wall Charger AC Plug Adaptor with Smart Power USB for USA EU UK AUS Cell Phone Laptop (4 USB + Type C – White + Grey)

Anker power banks

CalDigit Thunderbolt 4 hubs

OWC USB-C Travel Dock E

Books

One Second After

One Year After

The Final Day

Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager

Engineering Management for the Rest of Us

Webcams

insta360 Link

Elgato Facecam

Elgato Facecam Pro

Continuity camera mounts

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 311, Ben and Scott discuss some of the latest announcements around Microsoft Entra including the GA of Workload identities and upcoming changes to the Entra and Azure AD portal experiences. They close out with some tips for how to quickly access multiple portal landing pages and management experiences using [cmd.ms].

Microsoft Entra Workload Identities

Microsoft Entra Workload Identities now generally available

What are workload identities?

Workload identity federation

New Admin Center Unifies Azure AD with Other Identity and Access Products

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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.