Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast

In Episode 210, Ben and Scott lament a broken Green Egg, discuss upcoming changes to the certification renewal process for Microsoft’s role-based certifications, and some upcoming name changes that may impact your advanced hunting queries in Microsoft 365 Defender.

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

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

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

Big Green Egg

Big Green Egg recipes

Plan for Teams auto attendants and call queues

Plan your call routing flow

Call forwarding, call groups, and simultaneous ring in Teams

Stay current with in-demand skills through free certification renewals

Renew your Microsoft Certification

Advanced hunting product name changes

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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 209, Ben and Scott talk about some of the announcements from December for Microsoft Authenticator and Azure storage.

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

How to get Office Insider builds on Windows

How to get Office Insider builds on Mac

Turn Microsoft’s Authenticator Into a Password Manager

Use Azure Storage blob inventory to manage blob data (preview)

Recover a deleted storage account

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 208, Ben and Scott continue their conversation on SharePoint Syntex and discuss “form processing”, how it contrasts to “document understanding”, and leverages Power Automate and AI Builder to perform extraction from structured and semi-structured documents.

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

Here are all the new Marvel, Star Wars, and other projects Disney announced at its investor day

Episode 207 – What Is SharePoint Syntex?

Introduction to Microsoft SharePoint Syntex

Form processing overview

Difference between document understanding and form processing models

AI Builder credits

AI Builder Calculator

Improve business performance with AI Builder

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 207, Ben and Scott start digging into SharePoint Syntex by exploring “document understanding” capabilities of the service.

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

Introduction to Microsoft SharePoint Syntex

Set up SharePoint Syntex

What is SharePoint Syntex and how much does it cost?

Document understanding overview

Form processing overview

Create a content center in Microsoft SharePoint Syntex

Create a classifier in Microsoft SharePoint Syntex

Introduction to explanation types

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 206, Ben and Scott take a break from admin portals and PowerShell and dive into some of the gadgets, software, and technology that they’ve found helpful over the course of the last year.

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

Black Friday (shopping)

Jabra Speak 510 Wireless Bluetooth Speaker for Softphone and Mobile Phone – Easy Setup, Portable Speaker for Holding Meetings Anywhere with Outstanding Sound Quality

Apple AirPods with Wireless Charging Case

Elgato Key Light Air, Professional LED Panel With 1400 Lumens, Multi-Layer Diffusion Technology, App-Enabled, Color Temperature Adjustable for Mac/Windows/iPhone/Android

Samsung 32 inch UJ59 4k monitor (LU32J590UQNXZA) – UHD, 3840 x 2160p, 60hz, 4ms, Dual monitor, laptop monitor, monitor stand / riser / mount compliant, AMD FreeSync, Gaming, HDMI, DP, Black

Elgato Stream Deck – Live Content Creation Controller with 15 Customizable LCD Keys, Adjustable Stand, for Windows 10 and macOS 10.13 or late

Torch Portal

BRIO Ultra HD Pro Computer Webcam – 4K and 1080p Streaming Camera Widescreen Video – 2 Omni-Directional Built in Mic for Calling and Recording, for Desktop or Laptop – 5X Digital Zoom

Logitech C922x Pro Stream Webcam – Full 1080p HD Camera

Sony ZV-1 Camera for Content Creators, Vlogging and YouTube with Flip Screen and Microphone

Blackmagic Design ATEM Mini HDMI Live Switcher

Elgato Cam Link 4K — Broadcast Live, Record via DSLR, Camcorder, or Action Cam, 1080p60 or 4K at 30 Fps, Compact HDMI Capture Device, USB 3.0

New Apple MacBook Pro (16-inch, 16GB RAM, 512GB Storage) – Space Gray

Software

OBS Studio

Deliveries

Rocket

Toothpicks

Davinci Resolve

Fanastical

Parallels Desktop

The Levelator

Setapp

WebCatalog

1Password

ThermoPro TP03 Digital Instant Read Meat Thermometer Kitchen Cooking Food Candy Thermometer with Backlight and Magnet for Oil Deep Fry BBQ Grill Smoker Thermometer

Fire TV Stick 4K streaming device with Alexa Voice Remote | Dolby Vision | 2018 release

Zoom H6 Portable Recorder Kit with a Custom Windbuster, AD-17 AC Adapter and a 16GB SDHC Memory Card Ultra

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

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.

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 205, Ben listens as Scott retells the story of how he got stepped on by a horse and then they both talk about how Exchange Online Outgoing Spam can block your externally forwarded emails if you don’t pay attention to your mail flow and spam protection rules.

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

Control automatic external email forwarding in Microsoft 365

Configure outbound spam filtering in EOP

Using Priority Accounts in Microsoft 365

Differentiated protection for Priority accounts in Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Focusing on your most visible and targeted users

Intelligink Workshops

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 204, Ben and Scott discuss the retirement timeline for Microsoft Edge Legacy and some things to be aware of with support for IE11, permission resets that might or might not be coming to a OneDrive for Business list near you, and how to get hands with Azure Arc if you don’t have an on-premises machine to onboard.

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

Sizing up the iPhone 12 mini and 12 Pro Max

Microsoft 365 apps say farewell to Internet Explorer 11 and Windows 10 sunsets Microsoft Edge Legacy

Plan your deployment of Microsoft Edge

Microsoft Removes EEEU Permission from OneDrive for Business Accounts

Microsoft Teams multiple work-account sign-in: Not this year

microsoft/azure_arc

Onboard an Azure Windows Server VM with Azure Arc

Onboard an Azure Linux Server VM with Azure Arc

Single Node Data Exploration and ML on Azure Databricks

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 203, Ben and Scott walk through conversations for Microsoft Lists list items in Microsoft Teams, a new site to help you not have to remember the multitude of URLs for all of the admin centers for Microsoft 365 and Azure, and new scenes coming to Together Mode in Microsoft Teams.

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

Have a conversation about a list item in Teams

After not remembering all the Microsoft Portal URLs so many times, I decided to make a list

https://msportals.xyz/

Publisher verification

Office 365 Government GCC is now FedRamp High

Microsoft Teams new brilliant ‘scenes’ feature is arriving next month

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 202, Ben and Scott talk about how you can finally track in real-time if the ice cream machine at your local McDonalds is working, another option for how you can view and rationalize your Azure Migrate Server Assessments, and new audit events in the Microsoft 365 Unified Audit Log.

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

ProductHunt

I reverse engineered mcdonald’s internal api and I’m currently placing an order worth $18,752 every minute at every mcdonald’s in the US to figure out which locations have a broken ice cream machine

You can now rent a private AMC theater for just $99

Azure Migrate and PowerBI

azure-docs-powershell-samples/azure-migrate/assessment-utility/

New Crucial Audit Events Added to Office 365

Capturing Crucial Office 365 Audit Data Requires E5 Licenses

Long-term retention of audit logs

Modern Fluent UI controls in Power Apps (preview)

Use Fluent UI controls

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

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.

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 201, Ben and Scott talk through the release of the My Tasks app in Microsoft Teams and some new features coming to the Microsoft 365 Apps Admin Center.

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

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

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

Elon Musk Is Hiding Tesla Price Cuts Behind a 69 Joke

Tasks in Microsoft Teams is now generally available!

Use the Tasks app in Teams

See Planner tasks in Microsoft To Do

Manage the Tasks app for your organization in Microsoft Teams

How Exchange and Microsoft Teams interact

Support for Office 2010—and Office 2016 for Mac—has ended: Here’s what you need to know

Office versions and connectivity to Office 365 services

Now Available in Preview: Microsoft 365 Apps Admin center new inventory & monthly servicing feature

Introducing new cloud-based admin capabilities to help you better service Microsoft 365 Apps

New admin capabilities to modernize Office client servicing

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.