Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast

In Episode 280, Ben and Scott talk through how you can think about migrating your files from on-premises to Azure Storage or to SharePoint Online.

Microsoft Windows 95 Launch with Bill Gates & Jay Leno (1995)

Retro Tech by MKBHD

Azure Webinar Series – Migrate Your File Data to Azure at No Cost

Episode 275 – Azure File Migration program with Karl Rautenstrauch

Introduction to Azure Storage

Document collaboration and co-authoring

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 279, Scott listens in as Ben discusses an issue he recently encountered with content type management and content types being pushed from a content type publishing hub.

Publish a content type from a content publishing hub

What is a SharePoint hub site?

Introduction to content types and content type publishing

What’s changed in content type publishing

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 278, Ben and Scott go through follow-up on the end-user experience for working with Microsoft Teams Shared Channels. To learn about what needs to be done on the admin side, listen to Episode 274 – Microsoft Teams Connect shared channels and B2B direct connect.

Microsoft Teams Public Preview

Episode 274 – Microsoft Teams Connect shared channels and B2B direct connect

Collaborate with external participants in a channel

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 277, Ben and Scott dive into the GA of “bring your own IP” (or BYOIP) in Azure, a capability that allows you to register your public IP blocks in Azure and associate public IPs that you own with public IP resources such as load balancers and virtual machines. Then they discuss the GA of the new Azure Front Door service. Finally, they close out with some tips around tracking service announcements, including tracking service retirement.

Microsoft Build

Bring your own IP addresses (BYOIP) to Azure with Custom IP Prefix

Custom IP address prefix (BYOIP)

Manage a custom IP address prefix

Introducing the new Azure Front Door: Reimagined for modern apps and content

What is Azure Front Door?

Azure classic storage accounts will be retired on 31 August 2024

Azure Data Lake Analytics will be retired on 29 February 2024

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 276, Ben and Scott start the episode talking about Teams display devices, Teams phones, and complimenting the Teams app on your computer. Then we wrap up the episode by addressing a listener’s question about sharing content in SharePoint with external users while also maintaining certain security and compliance requirements.

Microsoft Teams Display are smart displays designed for meetings

Introducing Microsoft Teams displays

Certified Teams Displays

The 100 Greatest Movies of the 1980s

Restrict sharing of SharePoint and OneDrive content by domain

Use SharePoint as a business-to-business (B2B) extranet solution

Control unmanaged device access to SharePoint and OneDrive

Use sensitivity labels to protect content in Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 groups, and SharePoint sites

Limit accidental exposure to files when sharing with people outside your organization

Create a secure guest sharing environment

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 275, Scott sits down with Karl Rautenstrauch, a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft to discuss the new Azure File Migration program. Karl explains how the program enables access to best of breed migration tooling which can help you easily perform managed migrations of files to Azure Storage, including Blobs, Files, and Azure NetApp Files.

ShareGate – ShareGate’s industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs

Spot by NetApp – The cloud automation platform that makes it easy to deliver continuously optimized infrastructure at the lowest possible cost

Office365AdminPortal.com – Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully

Intelligink – We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business

Migrate the critical file data you need to power your applications

New Azure File Migration program streamlines unstructured data migration

Migrating your files to Azure has never been easier

Migration guides

Migrate your files to Azure – Azure IaaS Day 2021

Migration videos – https://aka.ms/filemigrationvideos

Data Dynamics – https://aka.ms/datadynamicsguide

Komprise – https://aka.ms/kompriseguide

Accelerate infrastructure migration with Azure Storage | Azure Storage Day 2021

Azure Marketplace links

Komprise Elastic Data Migration and Analytics, offer sponsored by Microsoft Azure

Data Dynamics StorageX Migration, offer sponsored by Azure

Azure Storage migration overview

Karl is an IT veteran with 23 years of experience. He has been a systems administrator and architect for Fortune 500 companies, a national solutions architect for NetApp and Microsoft, and now a Principal Product Manager in Azure Engineering. Karl likes to be in the thick of emerging technologies. In his 9 years with Microsoft, he has focused on Azure Storage, Backup, Disaster Recovery, Edge Computing, and High Availability. In his role as a Product Manager with the Azure Storage team, he focuses on strategic partnerships to enable any and every workload to run on Azure. You can find him on Twitter as @Kloud_Karl or connect with him on LinkedIn.

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 274, Ben and Scott dive into some of the considerations for identity and tenant configuration when you are getting started with Microsoft Teams Connect shared channels.

‘A dangerous stunt’: Reward offered for information on driver who jumped Tesla in Echo Park

Microsoft to add new shared channels, encryption for calls, webinar features to Teams

Microsoft Teams Connect shared channels is rolling out to public preview

Overview: Cross-tenant access with Azure AD External Identities (Preview)

B2B direct connect overview

Microsoft Teams Public Preview

github.com/hjdhjd/homebridge-unifi-protect

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 273, Ben and Scott talk about on-demand capacity reservations for Azure Virtual Machines and how they can be leveraged with Site Recovery services to have guaranteed compute on failover, fast account switching coming to Microsoft 365 services, and the CIS benchmark for Azure Kubernetes Service.

Microsoft 365 Web Apps To Get Account Switching Support Next Month

Guarantee capacity access with on-demand capacity reservations—now in preview

Public preview: On-demand capacity reservation with Azure Site Recovery safeguards VMs failover

Azure Logic Apps – Availability Zone support is coming soon

Center for Internet Security (CIS) Kubernetes benchmark

The anatomy of a datacenter—how Microsoft’s datacenter hardware powers the Microsoft Cloud

Inside Azure Datacenter Architecture with Mark Russinovich

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 272, Ben and Scott discuss changes that are rolling out for the new move experience in SharePoint Online, support for known folder move in the OneDrive client on macOS, cross region VM restore points for Azure VMs, and tracking resource change history through Azure Resource Graph.

New file move and copy experience for OneDrive and SharePoint

Move or copy files in SharePoint

Apple silicon support in GA and KFM for macOS in Public Preview

Updates to Files On-Demand on macOS

Redirect and move Windows known folders to OneDrive

Create VM restore points (Preview)

Get resource changes

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 271, Ben and Scott take a break from Microsoft 365 and Azure talk about smart home devices, including their favorite uses for different categories of devices such as lights, locks, and even blinds/shades. If you’ve been thinking about building out your smart home, give it a listen. We’re sure you’ll learn something new.

Chipmaker Nvidia investigating potential cyberattack – report

Isolate Your Smart Home Devices with UniFi

Securing your smarthome devices – using VLANs to secure your home network

Homebridge

SmartThings

yoolax

Amazon links

Lutron Caseta

August Smart Locks

Smart Garage Door Openers

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.