Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast

In Episode 40, Scott and Ben review the latest Office 365 news for November 2017, including SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Exchange Online, and Microsoft Teams.

New and updated web parts rolling out to SharePoint in Office 365

New features for SharePoint list and library preview web parts

Hybrid Self-Service Site Creation Now Available in SharePoint Server 2016

Microsoft Flow integration in OneDrive for Business and new connector actions

Announcing availability of custom forms, multi-value choice and read-only attachments support for SharePoint with PowerApps

Updated feature: PowerApps and Flow integration in modern lists and libraries

New Feature: Idle Session Timeout Preview Available in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business

New feature: Client Access Rules for Exchange Online

What’s new in Microsoft Teams – November Update

Microsoft Teams Launches UK Data Residency, other geos coming soon…

Triggers for Microsoft Planner, actions for SharePoint attachments, and other connector improvements

In Episode 39, Ben and Scott provide an overview of onboarding into Azure Virtual Machines and the associated Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) components of Azure.

Azure Virtual Machines

Create a Windows virtual machine with the Azure portal

Create a Windows virtual machine from an ARM Template

Azure Quickstart Templates

Overview of Azure PowerShell

Use the Azure CLI to manage Azure resources and resource groups

Azure Resource Manager Overview

About disks storage for Azure Windows VMs

In Episode 38 Scott and Ben discuss how roles within IT have changed and evolved with move to the cloud.  What does it take to be successful as an Office 365 Architect? How as the Admin’s role changed with the move to Office 365?  For everyone from SharePoint Admins to Exchange Admins to Skype for Business Admins, your role is changing. We’ll discuss at a higher level how the IT Pro’s mindset and approach to administration needs to change when diving into Office 365.

SharePoint Hybrid – Interview with Matt McDermott

Administering Azure AD

Licensing

Episode 5 – SKUs and Licensing

Episode 6 – Office 365 License Management

The Office 365 Roadmap

Office 365 Message Center

Office 365 Service Health Dashboard

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In Episode 37, Ben interviews Steve Peschka of Office365Mon where they discuss what you can monitor in Office 365 and Azure and most importantly – what you’ll want to consider when it comes to monitoring the service health of your cloud-based platforms.

Steve Peschka is one of the founders of Office365Monand an 18 year veteran of Microsoft. At Microsoft, he spent the last dozen years working almost exclusively with the SharePoint, Office 365 and Office 365 Dedicated teams. That included significant work helping some of the largest enterprises, governments, and military organizations design, deploy and develop on different versions of SharePoint going all the way back to pre-release versions of SharePoint 2001. In 2015 Steve left Microsoft to help start-up Office365Mon.Com, which is now a market leader in monitoring for Office 365, as well as a new sister service called AzureServiceMon for monitoring Azure. Office365Mon now has over 2000 customers and growing and Steve is the CEO. Steve was a frequent speaker at a variety of Microsoft events over the years and still continues to share thoughts at the SamlMan blog at https://samlman.wordpress.com/.

In Episode 36, Ben and Scott cover Office 365 news for October 2017, including the Skype to Microsoft Teams transition roadmap

Roadmap for Skype for Business capabilities coming to Microsoft Teams now available

Skype for Business to Teams Capabilities Roadmap.pdf

Office 365 Roadmap – Teams Features

Changes to the previous OneDrive sync client (Groove.exe) in Office 2016 Click-to-Run

Update to forms in Modern Lists, including custom forms with PowerApps – coming soon!

See files shared with you in OneDrive

Announcing our Microsoft Content Services white paper

New feature: Create and Manage Groups in Outlook for iOS & Android

Insiders can now try Outlook’s all-new search experience

How Office 365 validates the From address to prevent phishing

RFC 5322

Outlook for iOS end of support for iOS 9

Migrate your public folders to Office 365 Groups

In Episode 35, Ben and Scott tackle Yammer, Microsoft’s Enterprise Social Network available in Office 365.

Say hello to Yammer

Yammer Overview

Yammer Enterprise stand-alone plan to retire by January 2017

Yammer admin guide

Enforce Office 365 identity for Yammer users

Compliance Framework for Industry Standards and Regulations – Customer Guidance

Microsoft Online Services Data Center Map

Microsoft Teams, Office 365 Groups, SharePoint, Yammer… What Should I Use, and When?

PowerApps, Flow, the Common Data Service (CDS) and Poetry? Scott and Ben walk you through getting started building solutions in Office 365 leveraging these three technologies.

PowerApps

Modify SharePoint forms with PowerApps

PowerApps pricing and skus

Flows

Pricing for Microsoft Flow

Common Data Service (CDS) introduction

Use Cases:

Paul Culmsee

The (new current) best way to update SharePoint document metadata using Flow

PowerApps, Flow and Managed Metadata fields–part 1

PowerApps, Flow and Managed Metadata fields–part 2

PowerApps, Flow and Managed Metadata fields–part 3

John Liu

Flow Admin Center – Do a spring cleaning of your Flows

In Episode 33, Ben and Scott review all (well most of) the SharePoint-specific news from around Microsoft Ignite.

Updating content management for the cloud

SharePoint & OneDrive Security & Compliance Updates from Microsoft Ignite

Security you can trust, control you can count on with SharePoint and OneDrive (Ignite News)

Changes to SharePoint Pages

Introducing the new SharePoint Admin Center

SharePoint hub sites new in Office 365

In this episode, Scott and Ben update you on the latest Office 365 news for September that was NOT from Microsoft Ignite.  We talk mostly about news that was announced pre-ignite that you may have missed or glossed over with the flurry of news during Ignite.

Fewer login prompts: The new “Keep me signed in” experience for Azure AD is in preview

Changes to the Token Lifetime Default in Azure Active Directory

September Updates to Office 365: Verify Domain with email, Automated Domain Delete, Guess User Icon

New feature: Advanced Threat Protection Safe Links Additional Features – White list domains

The GigJam preview is retiring

New feature: Default link permission

Updated feature: Support for # and % in SharePoint Online and OneDrive <- Enabled by Default

Updated feature: List view for OneDrive and SharePoint – Compact Version

Updated feature: Outlook on Android Add-ins

Important news about FindTime <- Spoiler: It’s being retired

New feature: Yammer desktop app is available to all!

Updated feature: Office 365 App launcher is changing (Again)

In our final Microsoft Ignite special, Scott has a Microsoft Teams Interview with Wictor Wilén.  They talk at a high level about Microsoft Teams and then dive into extending Teams using the Yeoman Generator from Wictor.

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams Yeoman Generator

Microsoft Teams Development Center

Getting Started with Bots

Getting started with Connectors

Getting Started with Tabs

Wictor’s Blog

Wictor Wilén is a Group Manager and SharePoint Architect working at Avanade. Wictor has achieved the Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA) – SharePoint 2010, Microsoft Certified Solutions Master (MCSM) – SharePoint and Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) – SharePoint 2010 certifications. He has also been awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) since 2010.

Wictor is specialised in SharePoint Solution Architecture and has been involved in the SharePoint industry since the birth of SharePoint. He is also heavily involved in the SharePoint community and is co-founder of the Swedish SharePoint User Group, SSUG. Wictor is the author of SharePoint 2010 Web Parts in Action and co-author of Inside Microsoft SharePoint 2013.