Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast

In Episode 290, Ben and Scott discuss how you can transition from a Microsoft 365 administrator at a single organization to becoming a managed service provider or a consultant who helps customers implement Microsoft 365.

Dynamic X and Y Axis in Power BI visuals? Yes please!

Migration tools for Log Analytics Agent to Azure Monitor Agent

How to Sell Microsoft 365 as a Managed Service

The MSP’s Guide to Selling M365

Microsoft Partner Network

Cloud Solution Provider (CSP)

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 289, Ben and Scott dive into announcements for Windows Admin Center for ARC-enabled servers, Azure Gateway Load Balancer [maybe] reaching GA, OAuth 2.0 client credential flow for POP, and IMAP and Exchange Online, and kind-of/sort-of nested groups in Azure AD.

Preview of Windows Admin Center for Azure Arc-enabled infrastructure

Manage Azure Arc-enabled Servers using Windows Admin Center in Azure

Gateway Load Balancer (Preview)

Announcing OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials Flow support for POP and IMAP protocols in Exchange Online

Use client credentials grant flow to authenticate IMAP and POP connections

Microsoft identity platform and the OAuth 2.0 client credentials flow

Create “nested” groups with Azure AD Dynamic Groups

Group membership in a dynamic group (preview) in Azure Active Directory

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 288, Ben and Scott tour the OneDrive Sync Reports preview, talk about some new assessments available from the PNP project for SharePoint 2013 Workflow discovery and SharePoint Syntex, and then close out with a preview feature in Azure Storage which allows you to provision up to 5,000 storage accounts per region per subscription.

Calling macOS Admins: OneDrive Sync Reports are in Public Preview!

OneDrive sync reports in the Apps Admin Center

Microsoft 365 Assessment tool

SharePoint 2013 Workflow Assessment

SharePoint Syntex Assessment

How Microsoft Teams uses AI and machine learning to improve calls and meetings

Logi Dock: First Impressions

Azure DNS zone endpoints (preview)

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 287, Ben and Scott take a detour to talk about Field Parameters in Power BI before they get back on track and dive into Microsoft Entra.

Using the new amazing Power BI feature – Field Parameters

Fields Parameter in Action I Practical Examples

Secure access for a connected world—meet Microsoft Entra

Microsoft launches Entra: A new identity and access family of products

Streamlining employee onboarding: Microsoft’s response to the Great Reshuffle

Introduction to Azure Active Directory Verifiable Credentials (preview)

What’s Permissions 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 286, Ben and Scott run down some of their favorite announcements from Microsoft Build 2022.

Build 2022 Book of News

Announcing Azure DNS Private Resolver: Now in preview

What is Azure DNS Private Resolver?

Raising the Baseline Security for all Organizations in the World

Security defaults in Azure AD

Review and remove AAD inactive users in Public Preview

Create an access review of groups and applications in Azure AD

License requirements

Introducing Microsoft Dev Box

Delivering developer velocity through the entire engineering system

Build collaborative apps with new Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams collaboration controls in Power Apps

Announcing Microsoft Power Pages: Build secure, low-code websites

What’s the difference between Power Pages and Power Apps portals?

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 285, Ben and Scott have some follow-up on the deprecation of basic auth in Exchange Online, a new learning collection for CMMC, and the pilot release of the new Outlook client for Windows.

Announcing Public Folder Migration Scripts with Modern Authentication Support

Understanding the Different Versions of Exchange Online PowerShell Modules and Basic Auth

Get started with Microsoft Learn for CMMC

Announcing Learn Collections

Things to know about the new Outlook for Windows

The new Outlook for Windows helps you be more productive and in control of your inbox

Introducing Microsoft Viva Goals

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 284, Ben and Scott spend some time reminding all of you that it is time to move off Basic Authentication in Exchange Online before it goes away for good at the end of this year.

Microsoft adds unscheduled breaks to most certification exams

Microsoft modern authentication deadline looms over Exchange

Deprecation of Basic authentication in Exchange Online

Basic Authentication Deprecation in Exchange Online – May 2022 Update

Microsoft Bookings

Microsoft FindTime

Calendly

Welcome to Scheduler for Microsoft 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 283, Ben brings Andrew Connell out of podcast retirement to discuss Azure Bicep. They discuss why to use Bicep, how and where to go to learn it, uses cases for Bicep as well how you can use it for CICD. Finally, they wrap up by answering the question…will we see a Voitanos course on Bicep?

Bicep Documentation – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/bicep/

What is Azure Bicep? – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/bicep/overview?tabs=bicep

How to create Azure Function Apps with Bicep – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzgB3cSUdNM

How to: CI/CD/IaC for Azure Function Apps and GitHub Actions – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36R1pzPuLvs

Getting started with Azure Bicep – https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/itops-talk-blog/getting-started-with-azure-bicep/ba-p/3064214

Andrew Connell is a web developer with a focus on Microsoft Azure & Microsoft 365, specifically SharePoint Online, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Azure, Node.js, .NET Core, and React that enjoys development, writing & teaching…if it’s a cutting-edge web you will find Andrew there! He has received Microsoft’s MVP award every year since 2005 and has helped thousands of developers through the various courses he’s authored and taught both in-person & in online courses. His training company, Voitanos (https://www.voitanos.io), is dedicated to delivering industry-leading on-demand video training for Microsoft 365 & Microsoft Azure professional developers.

Throughout the years Andrew has been fortunate enough to share what he has learned at conferences like Microsoft’s TechEd, Build, Ignite & the SharePoint Conference (SPC), the European SharePoint Conference, 365EduCon (formerly SharePoint Fest), and Angular’s ngConf & AngularU among many others all around the world in North America, Europe, Asia & Australia. You can find Andrew on his popular blog (http://www.andrewconnell.com), follow him on Twitter @andrewconnell or @voitanos, check out some of the numerous projects he’s involved in on GitHub (http://www.github.com/andrewconnell), or check out his YouTube channel at https://voitanos.tv.

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https://www.voitanos.io

https://www.twitter.com/voitanos

https://www.youtube.com/voitanosio

https://www.facebook.com/voitanos

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 282, Scott talks to Ben about a situation he ran into at work where he wanted to automate the ingestion of data from Azure Data Explorer and Azure DevOps into Excel. They talk about how you can query data from multiple data sources using Power Query and bring that data together with relationships and visualizations.

Maxforce Quantum 0.03% Imidacloprid Ant Control Liquid Bait with 10 stations, 120 Gram Bottle

Compare Outlook for PC, Outlook on the web, and Outlook for iOS & Android

Share an Outlook calendar with other people

What is Power Query?

Getting data overview

Get started with the REST APIs for Azure DevOps

About Power BI integration

Get webpage data by providing examples

OData.Feed

Microsoft Power BI 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.

In Episode 281, Ben and Scott talk through how account switching for M365 web apps works and then some updates around Azure AD and how change management for the service will work moving forward from March 2022.

Announcing account switching for Microsoft 365 web apps

Azure AD: Change Management Simplified

Register for Microsoft Build

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.