Episode 86 – What Microsoft 365 Admins Need to Know about Azure (Live from Microsoft Ignite)

Episode 86 – What Microsoft 365 Admins Need to Know about Azure (Live from Microsoft Ignite)

In Episode 86, Ben and Scott come to you live from Microsoft Ignite in Orlando (or via the magic of delayed time travel up to a week later). In this episode, they discuss some of the new features that have been announced in Azure and where they will impact existing Office 365 and Microsoft 365 administrators.

Sponsors

  • Mover.io – Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck – with Mover!
  • Office365Mon.com – How do you know what’s going on with the health of your Office 365 tenant? With Office365Mon!
  • 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

Show Notes

About the sponsors

Mover is a cloud migration company that specializes in moving your company’s files from file servers or cloud storage like Box, Dropbox, and Google, into Office 365. Their patented technology makes Mover the fastest OneDrive file migrator in the world. Moving dozens of terabytes of data a day is a breeze.
Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck – with Mover! Visit mover.io for more info.
“How do I know what’s going on with the health of my Office 365 tenant?” When there’s a problem with your tenant you need to know what’s going on before your users. Office365Mon helps you understand not only when your tenant goes down, but how well it’s performing. When you do have a problem, where do you start looking? Is it your network? Is it your tenant? Is it some feature inside of Office 365? Our network analysis features can help pinpoint performance issues and help you figure out where those bottlenecks are. Sign up for a FREE 90-day trial today at Office365Mon.com. Stay in the Know, and Stay in Control with Office365Mon.com.
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.
Episode 85 – Ignite Stories with Sean Bugler

Episode 85 – Ignite Stories with Sean Bugler

In Episode 85, Ben sits down to talk with Sean Bugler to talk about how Office 365 has been rolled out in a GCC tenant, including the trials and tribulations of maintaining an Office 365 tenant and building a vision for aligning Office 365 and other cloud services to the needs of the business.

Sponsors

  • Mover.io – Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck – with Mover!
  • Office365Mon.com – How do you know what’s going on with the health of your Office 365 tenant? With Office365Mon!
  • 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

Show Notes

About Sean

Sean Bugler is a Cloud Solutions Architect for the Bay Area Metropolitan Transportation Commission. Previously working as a technology consultant and trainer, Sean has worked with startups and Fortune 500 companies alike to build, optimize, and reimagine what collaboration and productivity looks like. You can find him on LinkedIn or @sbglr on Twitter.

About the sponsors

Mover is a cloud migration company that specializes in moving your company’s files from file servers or cloud storage like Box, Dropbox, and Google, into Office 365. Their patented technology makes Mover the fastest OneDrive file migrator in the world. Moving dozens of terabytes of data a day is a breeze.
Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck – with Mover! Visit mover.io for more info.
“How do I know what’s going on with the health of my Office 365 tenant?” When there’s a problem with your tenant you need to know what’s going on before your users. Office365Mon helps you understand not only when your tenant goes down, but how well it’s performing. When you do have a problem, where do you start looking? Is it your network? Is it your tenant? Is it some feature inside of Office 365? Our network analysis features can help pinpoint performance issues and help you figure out where those bottlenecks are. Sign up for a FREE 90-day trial today at Office365Mon.com. Stay in the Know, and Stay in Control with Office365Mon.com.
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.
Episode 85 – Ignite Stories with Sean Bugler

Episode 84 – Ignite 2018 Announcements!

In Episode 84, Ben and Scott talk about the latest announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2018. There are so many things we could talk about, but we’ve focused on Office 365, the Microsoft security stack, and some of the newest services coming in Azure IaaS.

Sponsors

  • Mover.io – Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck – with Mover!
  • Office365Mon.com – How do you know what’s going on with the health of your Office 365 tenant? With Office365Mon!
  • 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

Show Notes

  • AI and Data
    • Office Ideas
    • Unified Search across Microsoft 365
  • Security
  • Azure
    • Azure Ultra SSD Managed Disks Public Preview
    • Azure Standard SSD Managed Disks General Availability
    • Azure Virtual WAN General Availability
    • Azure Firewall General Availability
    • Azure Front Door Service (AFD) Preview
    • Azure ExpressRoute Direct Public Preview
    • Azure ExpessRoute Global Reach Public Preview
    • Azure Blueprints Public Preview

About the sponsors

Mover is a cloud migration company that specializes in moving your company’s files from file servers or cloud storage like Box, Dropbox, and Google, into Office 365. Their patented technology makes Mover the fastest OneDrive file migrator in the world. Moving dozens of terabytes of data a day is a breeze.
Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck – with Mover! Visit mover.io for more info.
“How do I know what’s going on with the health of my Office 365 tenant?” When there’s a problem with your tenant you need to know what’s going on before your users. Office365Mon helps you understand not only when your tenant goes down, but how well it’s performing. When you do have a problem, where do you start looking? Is it your network? Is it your tenant? Is it some feature inside of Office 365? Our network analysis features can help pinpoint performance issues and help you figure out where those bottlenecks are. Sign up for a FREE 90-day trial today at Office365Mon.com. Stay in the Know, and Stay in Control with Office365Mon.com.
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.
Episode 83 – Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches with Iain Foulds

Episode 83 – Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches with Iain Foulds

In Episode 83, Ben and Scott talk with Iain Foulds about his new book, Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches and how it can help those that are just getting started with Azure or the cloud get up to speed in just a month!

Tweet @msclouditpro with the hashtag #azurebook to enter for a chance to win a free copy of Iain’s book!

Sponsors

  • Mover.io – Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck – with Mover!
  • Office365Mon.com – How do you know what’s going on with the health of your Office 365 tenant? With Office365Mon!
  • 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

Show Notes

About Iain

Iain Foulds is a senior content developer at Microsoft, currently writing technical documentation for Azure container services, virtual machines, and virtual machine scale sets. Previously, Iain was a premier field engineer with Microsoft for virtualization technologies such as Azure, Hyper-V, and System Center Virtual Machine Manager. With over 15 years of experience in IT, most of it in operations and services, Iain embraced virtualization early with VMware and has helped build and teach others about cloud computing for years. You can follow Iain on Twitter @fouldsy.

About the sponsors

Mover is a cloud migration company that specializes in moving your company’s files from file servers or cloud storage like Box, Dropbox, and Google, into Office 365. Their patented technology makes Mover the fastest OneDrive file migrator in the world. Moving dozens of terabytes of data a day is a breeze.
Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck – with Mover! Visit mover.io for more info.
“How do I know what’s going on with the health of my Office 365 tenant?” When there’s a problem with your tenant you need to know what’s going on before your users. Office365Mon helps you understand not only when your tenant goes down, but how well it’s performing. When you do have a problem, where do you start looking? Is it your network? Is it your tenant? Is it some feature inside of Office 365? Our network analysis features can help pinpoint performance issues and help you figure out where those bottlenecks are. Sign up for a FREE 90-day trial today at Office365Mon.com. Stay in the Know, and Stay in Control with Office365Mon.com.
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.
Episode 82 – Microsoft Teams with Karuana Gatimu

Episode 82 – Microsoft Teams with Karuana Gatimu

In Episode 82, Ben and Scott are joined by Karuana Gatimu, Principal PM Manager in the Insights and Outreach team in Microsoft Engineering, where they discuss the latest happenings with Microsoft Teams – convergence with Skype for Business, Microsoft Teams governance, and the Office 365 Champions program.

Don’t forget to stop by and visit us at Microsoft Ignite when we record!

Sponsors

  • Mover.io – Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck – with Mover!
  • Office365Mon.com – How do you know what’s going on with the health of your Office 365 tenant? With Office365Mon!
  • 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

Show Notes

About Karuana

Karuana runs the Insights and Outreach team in Microsoft Engineering. As an enterprise adoption specialist, she helps companies get business results from Office 365 with a special focus on teamwork and business process automation. You can find her at Microsoft Ignite O365 Adoption pre-day or on the expo floor in the Microsoft Teams area. Feel free to connect to Karuana on LinkedIn or via @Karuana on Twitter.

About the sponsors

Mover is a cloud migration company that specializes in moving your company’s files from file servers or cloud storage like Box, Dropbox, and Google, into Office 365. Their patented technology makes Mover the fastest OneDrive file migrator in the world. Moving dozens of terabytes of data a day is a breeze.
Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck – with Mover! Visit mover.io for more info.
“How do I know what’s going on with the health of my Office 365 tenant?” When there’s a problem with your tenant you need to know what’s going on before your users. Office365Mon helps you understand not only when your tenant goes down, but how well it’s performing. When you do have a problem, where do you start looking? Is it your network? Is it your tenant? Is it some feature inside of Office 365? Our network analysis features can help pinpoint performance issues and help you figure out where those bottlenecks are. Sign up for a FREE 90-day trial today at Office365Mon.com. Stay in the Know, and Stay in Control with Office365Mon.com.
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.