Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast

Welcome to Episode 380 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode we discuss some of the latest security breaches that you should be on the lookout for and then we get into AD FS migrations and if you should consider it.

AT&T says criminals stole phone records of ‘nearly all’ customers in new data breach

Largest password database leak exposes nearly 10M credentials

Post-Breach Fixes: Snowflake Adds Mandatory MFA

What Is Identity Theft Insurance?

Move to cloud authentication with the AD FS migration tool!

Use AD FS application migration to move AD FS apps to Microsoft Entra ID

Migrate from AD FS to Microsoft Entra ID for identity management

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Microsoft ordered employees in China to only use iPhones due to security threats

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Welcome to Episode 379 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode, Ben and Scott take a look at Azure Verified Modules, a new initiative from Microsoft to consolidate and set the standards for what a good Bicep and/or Terraform module looks like.

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Azure Verified Modules

What, Why, How

Module Indexes

Module Support

Terraform Modules

Community Calls

John Savill – Azure Verified Modules Overview

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Welcome to Episode 378 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode we discuss Azure Compute Fleet, a new Preview service announced at Microsoft Build 2024. Azure Compute Fleet is a new Azure infrastructure service that lets you deploy Azure compute capacity across different virtual machine SKUs, availability zones, and pricing models. It’s all about acquiring VM capacity at scale. If you’re familiar with AWS EC2 and Spot fleet, this is effectively the equivalent in Azure.

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EC2 Fleet – Manage Thousands of On-Demand and Spot Instances with One Request

Azure Compute Fleet PREVIEW

Announcing the Public Preview of Azure Compute Fleet

Build 2024: Microsoft Announces New Azure Virtual Machines for AI and Cloud-Native Workloads

What is Azure Compute Fleet? (Preview)

FAQ for Azure Compute Fleet

Deploying Azure Compute Fleet virtual machines – YouTube

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Welcome to Episode 377 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode, Ben and Scott talk about a recent incident at Google Cloud where one of their customer accounts was completely wiped out without notice. Then they dive into Microsoft Copilot for Security. Ben has been getting hands on with it and it is expensive. They discuss pricing for Copilot for Security, how to think about approaching the multiple embedded experiences in it, and how to think about building a corpus of knowledge and truly leveraging it as an assistant and accelerator for upping your security game in your Microsoft cloud.

A joint statement from UniSuper CEO Peter Chun, and Google Cloud CEO, Thomas Kurian

What was the recent outage caused by?

Microsoft Copilot for Security

Microsoft Security Copilot to be available April 1 as a capacity-based service

Microsoft Copilot for Security – Pricing

Manage usage of security compute units in Copilot for Security

What is Microsoft Copilot for Security?

Microsoft Copilot for Security experiences

Copilot for Security prompting tips – Create effective prompts

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Welcome to Episode 376 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode. Ben and Scott discuss some of the announcements from the Microsoft 365 Community Conference.

Microsoft 365 Community Conference

Microsoft launches SharePoint eSignature integration with Adobe and Docusign

SharePoint eSignature

Set up SharePoint eSignature

Securely digitize document workflows with eSignature in Microsoft 365 | OD17

Unveiling the Newest OneDrive Capabilities

OneDrive Adds New Offline Capabilities

Work with OneDrive web app when offline

The Intrazone – Add to OneDrive

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Welcome to Episode 375 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast, where we discuss Microsoft’s Global Secure Access offering. We explain how Global Secure Access brings identity, network, and endpoint access together under one service and how it combines with Defender for Cloud Apps and is built around the capacity of the Microsoft WAN. Join us as we take a deep dive into the world of digital security and learn how Global Secure Access can help you secure your digital world.

What is Global Secure Access (preview)?

Global Secure Access clients

Global Secure Access client for Windows (preview)

Global Secure Access (preview) traffic forwarding profiles

Learn about Microsoft Entra Private Access

Learn about Microsoft Entra Internet Access for all apps

How to use the Global Secure Access (preview) enriched Microsoft 365 logs

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Welcome to Episode 374 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast where Ben and Scott break down Azure Trusted launch virtual machines – what they are, how they’re different from Gen 1 Azure VMs, and how you can enable them for your new and existing workloads.

Trusted launch for Azure virtual machines

Supported SKUs

Enable Trusted launch on existing Azure VMs

Deploy a VM with trusted launch enabled

Enable Trusted launch on existing Azure VMs

Trusted Launch FAQ

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Welcome to Episode 373 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast where Ben and Scott close out their review of Microsoft Intune and its third pillar – Endpoint security. They discuss the core components of Endpoint security, including antivirus, disk encryption, and firewall configuration. Ben also takes Scott on a tour of some more hidden gems in Endpoint security, including managed installers along with endpoint detection and response policies.

Microsoft Intune troubleshooting

Manage endpoint security in Microsoft Intune

Manage BitLocker policy for Windows devices with Intune

Use FileVault disk encryption for macOS with Intune

Monitor device encryption with Intune

Endpoint security firewall rule migration tool overview

Enforce compliance for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint with Conditional Access in Intune

Endpoint detection and response policy for endpoint security in Intune

Manage approved apps for Windows devices with App Control for Business policy and Managed Installers for Microsoft Intune

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Welcome to Episode 372 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast, where we’ll be discussing more of Microsoft Intune, one of the most powerful tools for managing your organization’s devices, apps, and endpoint security. In this episode, we continue our discussion on the three pillars of Intune – Devices, Apps, and Endpoint Security – with Apps. We’ll cover App protection policies, touch on the management experience, how MDM and MAM come into play, and how App protection policies protect your corporate data.

Overview of Windows Autopilot

App protection policies overview

App configuration policies for Microsoft Intune

Policies for Office apps

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Welcome to Episode 371 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast, where we’ll be discussing Microsoft Intune, one of the most powerful tools for managing your organization’s devices, apps, and endpoint security. In this episode, we’ll start exploring the three pillars of Intune: Devices, Apps, and Endpoint Security. We’ll cover what devices you can enroll, how to onboard them, and what configurations are available.

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Microsoft Intune plans and pricing

Microsoft Intune licensing

Device-only licenses

Microsoft Intune planning guide

Get started with your Microsoft Intune deployment

Supported operating systems and browsers in Intune

Manage endpoint security policies on devices onboarded to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Import custom ADMX and ADML administrative templates into Microsoft Intune (public preview)

Create a Settings Catalog policy using your imported GPOs in Microsoft Intune (public preview)

Password and account lockout policies on Microsoft Entra Domain Services managed domains

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.