Practical 365 Podcast - Microsoft 365, Copilot & Cybersecurity News & Discussions

On the show this week, Steve, Paul and Rich are joined by Microsoft's VP Director of Identity Security, Alex Weinert, to discuss almost all things related to securing identities. We hear about what happened behind the scenes during Storm-0558, and we discuss essential steps to protect Microsoft 365. What aren't organizations doing that they should be? What types of attacks should we expect in the future, plus more.

And we discuss the latest news in the world of Microsoft 365 - in particular we discuss the new Teams 2.1 client that recently became GA, and for those still running on-premises or Hybrid Exchange Servers, it is time to get patching.

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Join Steve Goodman & Rich Dean for this week's Practical 365 podcast, where on the show this week we talk about:

• Microsoft 365 Copilot GA, plus lots more 
• Success at The Experts Conference: What we heard
• Microsoft Ignite Registration Opened & Sold Out
• Exchange Web Services will be retired

And more

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On the show this week, Steve Goodman and Paul Robichaux discuss Storm-0558 and consider how it happened now more is known, and Microsoft are expecting you to pay attention to your Azure VMs as Cryptojacking is on the rise. New Outlook is on the way and is one of the pre-reqs for Microsoft 365 Copilot. Could resistance to using the new Outlook hold back your AI journey? Plus, we discuss Roadmap and Message center items - and talk TEC - happening in Atlanta, this week.

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On this show this week we're talking about Microsoft unbundling Microsoft Teams in response to Slack: Good or bad and how will it affect you? New features coming to Teams that are long awaited, plus Justin Kohler from SpecterOps joins us on the show to talk about his TEC conference session & give us a plethora of AD-related cybersecurity advice.

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Only a week has gone by and we're on episode 2 of season 4 - with a special episode in the run-up to TEC (The Experts Conference) where Steve is joined for the show by Practical 365 editor & Microsoft MVP, Tony Redmond. On the show Tony and Steve talk Microsoft 365 Copilot - which Tony will present on at TEC, plus we discuss on-premises and skills to learn in the future.

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In our first show in season four, new co-host Rich Dean joins Steve and Paul and we dive into one of Rich's specialist topics - identity, and we discuss how you prepare your Active Directory against compromise even after you've migrated to the cloud. We talk through new Microsoft Teams features that are arriving today but have been hotly anticipated, and Microsoft' Greg Taylor discusses the intricacies of killing of legacy tech in the cloud, how Exchange is the core of many things underpinning Microsoft 365 and how to stay relevant in tech.

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On the show this week - Entra ID is the new name for Azure AD and with that news it gets some new features. But should they be part of the identity suite? Microsoft 365 Copilot pricing is announced and we explore whether this is going to be value for money in a reasonably objective manner. Bing Chat Enterprise is somewhat harder to be objective about, but we try - and Syntex Backup and Archive are more interesting than may first appear. We discuss in detail. Plus great new features on the Roadmap are highlighted that will be coming to Microsoft 365 tenants soon.

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In this week's show, Steve and Paul discuss Microsoft's big partner conference: Inspire. Relevant to consultants and Microsoft customers alike, it signals what Microsoft feel is ready for the primetime. Microsoft Teams had a lot of new feature releases over the last few weeks - from meeting rooms, to devices to in-product features; we discuss the ones that are surprisingly useful. And lock down your Microsoft 365 tenants - malware might be incoming - we walk through cybersecurity issues that might sound bad, but can be easily avoided by following solid advice.

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On the show this week, we're delving into the Microsoft Cloud outage - which was somewhat under-reported and we consider why, and who it affected. 

Plus, another month and another Exchange Security patch - Microsoft are smashing every remaining bug in on-premises Exchange, it seems. 

We say a heartfelt goodbye to the classic Exchange Admin Center, and a big hello to new Microsoft Teams features. 

Collaborative notes arrives, and Microsoft deliver Teams meeting room features that help complete the full vision promised a little over a year ago. 

Finally we discuss new audit capabilities in To-Do, Planner and Project Online. Do you need them, and if so, will you need to pay?

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 On this week’s show, Paul and I are joined by industry veteran Mary Jo Foley, to talk about her keynote session at this year’s TEC conference this coming September – learn her view on how your priorities and Microsoft’s intersect and what value Microsoft 365 needs to deliver. Plus, we’re talking new Power Platform and Teams AI-driven features, and there’s a plethora of new Azure AD & Entra features that help secure your environment and make it easier for complex organizations to work seamlessly together. 

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