Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast

In Episode 240, Scott tricks Ben into talking about the latest version of SharePoint Server (SharePoint Server Subscription Edition) that was announced this week.

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

Florida just reported a staggering 12,647 new daily COVID positives, the most reported by the state since January 30, 2021.

A new day for SharePoint Server

New and improved features in SharePoint Server Subscription Edition

Download SharePoint Server Subscription Edition Preview

Installation overview for SharePoint Server Subscription Edition

System requirements for SharePoint Server Subscription Edition

Share service applications across farms in SharePoint Server

SharePoint Server Subscription Edition Forum on Tech Community

Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our 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. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more.

Spot by NetApp helps their customers get the most out of their cloud investments by automating cloud infrastructure to ensure performance, reduce complexity, and optimize costs. Discover how leading companies, from cloud-native startups to global enterprises, are automating, simplifying, and optimizing their cloud infrastructure with Spot by NetApp.Check them out at Spot.io/msit where you can find more information, request a demo, or evenstart a free trial.

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 239, Ben and Scott take a detour to talk about Azure Resource Explorer (no, not that Azure Resource Explorer, the other one) and then dive in the recently announced Windows 365 offering.

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

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

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

Introducing the Azure Az PowerShell module

Azure Resource Explorer (raw)

Welcome to your Windows 365 Cloud PC

Microsoft reveals first Windows 365 pricing for PCs in the cloud

Welcome to the Windows 365 Tech Community!

Windows 365 vs. Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) – Comparing Two DaaS Products

Steven Sinofsky on Twitter: “Microsoft puts PCs in the cloud with Windows 365

Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our 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. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more.

Spot by NetApp helps their customers get the most out of their cloud investments by automating cloud infrastructure to ensure performance, reduce complexity, and optimize costs. Discover how leading companies, from cloud-native startups to global enterprises, are automating, simplifying, and optimizing their cloud infrastructure with Spot by NetApp.Check them out at Spot.io/msit where you can find more information, request a demo, or evenstart a free trial.

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 238, Ben discusses trends in Microsoft Teams governance with the CEO of Orchestry – Michal Pisarek – including the challenges associated with content sprawl, multiples Teams with the same purpose in the same tenant, and how to think about adoption and ensuring your users are taking advantage of all the features Microsoft Teams has to offer.

Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox

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

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

Plan for governance in Teams

How to Combine Your Intranet with Microsoft Teams

How to Minimize Microsoft Teams Sprawl

Michal Pisarek – CEO of Orchestry

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Six-time Microsoft SharePoint MVP, former Co-Founder of BONZAI Intranet and Dynamic Owl Consulting, this serial entrepreneur, international speaker, Microsoft 365 thought leader and former professional chef brings the great depth of product, leadership, and user experience expertise to Orchestry, working with Fortune 500 companies to deliver maximum efficiency of their Microsoft 365 Investments.

When Michal takes a day off occasionally, you will find him experimenting in the kitchen, inventing a new cocktail, or learning a new language while enjoying all that Vancouver has to offer with his wife, daughter, and furry companion.

Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our 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. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more.

Spot by NetApp helps their customers get the most out of their cloud investments by automating cloud infrastructure to ensure performance, reduce complexity, and optimize costs. Discover how leading companies, from cloud-native startups to global enterprises, are automating, simplifying, and optimizing their cloud infrastructure with Spot by NetApp.Check them out at Spot.io/msit where you can find more information, request a demo, or evenstart a free trial.

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 237, Ben and Scott dive into a customer scenario that involves copying hundreds of thousands of files from one storage account to another in Azure.

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

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

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

Office 365 / Microsoft 365 Administrators Facebook Group

Get started with AzCopy

Object replication for block blobs

Copy blobs between Azure storage accounts by using AzCopy

Azure/azure-storage-azcopy

Optimize the performance of AzCopy with Azure Storage

AzCopy v10 configuration settings (Azure Storage)

AzReplicate

AzTinyCopier

Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our 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. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more.

Spot by NetApp helps their customers get the most out of their cloud investments by automating cloud infrastructure to ensure performance, reduce complexity, and optimize costs. Discover how leading companies, from cloud-native startups to global enterprises, are automating, simplifying, and optimizing their cloud infrastructure with Spot by NetApp.Check them out at Spot.io/msit where you can find more information, request a demo, or evenstart a free trial.

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 236, Ben and Scott discuss an interesting question about MFA and using Microsoft Authenticator on personal devices, new Azure regions coming to Arizona (West US 3) and Georgia (East US 3), and a rebranding of Windows Virtual Desktop to Azure Virtual Desktop.

Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox

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

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

Using YubiKeys with Azure MFA OATH-TOTP

Passwordless authentication options for Azure Active Directory

YubiKey 5 Series

What are security defaults?

Microsoft Azure available from new cloud regions in Arizona

Expanding cloud services: Microsoft launches its sustainable datacenter region in Arizona

New planned datacenter region in Georgia (East US 3)

Azure Virtual Desktop: The flexible cloud VDI platform for the hybrid workplace

Earn the new Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty certification with Exam AZ-140, now out of beta

Exam AZ-140: Configuring and Operating Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop – Skills Measured

Deliver remote desktops and apps with Azure Virtual Desktop

Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate – Skills Measured

Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our 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. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more.

Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT

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 235, Ben and Scott talk about the release of Scheduler, the “new” AI, Cortana-based meeting scheduling service for Microsoft 365, updates on the timelines for disabling Basic Auth in Exchange, and a preview capability in SharePoint Online that will allow you to rename your SharePoint domain name.

Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox

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

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

Calendar.help

Scheduler, a new Microsoft 365 service, makes scheduling meetings easier and faster

Scheduler and Cortana can schedule your meetings for you

Welcome to Scheduler for Microsoft 365

Basic Authentication and Exchange Online – June 2021 Update

Basic Authentication and Exchange Online – February 2021 Update

Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our 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. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more.

Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT

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 234, Ben sits down with Chris Givens at the Azure + AI conference (a part of DEV intersection) to talk about security in the Microsoft Cloud.

Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox

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

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

Microsoft 365 Defender

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Microsoft Defender for Office 365

Microsoft Defender for Identity

Microsoft Cloud App Security

Microsoft Defender Antivirus

Azure Sentinel

Azure Security Center

Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our 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. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more.

Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT

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 233, Ben and Scott dive into Azure Resource Manager Template Specs, the new Azure Firewall connector for Azure Logic Apps, and some of the changes coming to how you manage Azure AD with PowerShell.

Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox

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

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

Azure Resource Manager template specs

Automated Detection and Response for Azure Firewall with the New Logic App Connector and Playbooks

Actions supported by Firewall custom connector

Azure Firewall Logic Apps connector and playbook templates

Automate and manage Azure AD tasks at scale with the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK

Microsoft Lays Out Future for Azure AD PowerShell Module

Graph Explorer

Microsoft Graph REST API v1.0 reference

Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our 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. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more.

Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT

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 232, Ben and Scott catch up on some of their favorite announcements from Microsoft Build 2021, including a quick tour of Continuous access evaluation (CAE) with Azure AD.

Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox

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

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

Microsoft Build 2021 Book of News

Build cloud-native applications that run anywhere

Continuous access evaluation

Moving towards real time policy and security enforcement

Create an access review of Azure resource roles in Privileged Identity Management

Create an access review of Azure AD roles in Privileged Identity Management

Power Platform – Environments overview

Power Apps Developer Plan

Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our 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. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more.

Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT

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 231, Ben and Scott talk about calendar management and some options for combining calendars from multiple sources (e.g., several Exchange Online accounts from multiple tenants) and then discuss a new preview capability in Azure Storage that extends native Azure RBAC DataActions to include conditions such as blob index tags.

Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox

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

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

Share your calendar in Outlook on the web

Google Calendar – Share your calendar with someone

Fantastical

Microsoft Build

Azure Storage — Attribute-based Access Control (ABAC) now available for preview

Authorize access to blobs using Azure role assignment conditions (preview)

What is Azure attribute-based access control (Azure ABAC)? (preview)

Assign Azure resource roles in Privileged Identity Management

Understand Azure role definitions

Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our 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. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more.

Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT

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.