by Ben | Mar 1, 2018 | Podcast
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52. That’s quite a number. It’s not the number of updates we have to talk about in this episode, but it is the number of episodes we’ve released.
With that being said, Episode 52 is all about news for the month of February 2018. We have updates in Azure, the Microsoft Search experience for Teams and SharePoint, and a number of updates to Azure Active Directory.
- General availability: Virtual Network Service Endpoints for Azure SQL Database
- Private Teams now shows up in Search
- New ways to govern access of external users are coming to Office 365
- “In SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business, sharing resources (files, folders, sites, etc.) with external users is accomplished by sending an invitation to the users directly, or adding them to groups and granting appropriate access levels. As a result, an external user would only see the content that has been shared with the user or with groups to which the user belongs.After March 23, 2018, external users will no longer see content that has been shared with Everyone, All Authenticated Users, or All Forms Users. Only a small number of tenancies use this permissions model to grant access to their specific external invited guests. Content that has been permissioned to these groups will, by default, be visible only to your users within your organization’s tenancy.”
- External user permission changes
- Working with Administrative Units
- Azure AD Naming Policy for Office 365 groups is now in Public Preview
- Centralized Deployment for Outlook add-ins will now be available in preview
- Find what you want, discover what you need with personalized intelligent search across Microsoft 365
by Ben | Feb 22, 2018 | Podcast
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In Episode 51, Ben schools Scott on Microsoft 365.
- Introducing Microsoft 365
- “A complete, intelligent solution, including Office 365, Windows 10, and Enterprise Mobility + Security, that empowers everyone to be creative and work together, securely.”
- Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise & Education
- Compare Windows 10 editions
- Windows 10 Enterprise E3 in CSP
- “Deploy on up to five devices. For each user covered by the license, you can deploy Windows 10 Enterprise edition on up to five devices.”
- Microsoft 365 Business
- “Customers who wish to run Microsoft 365 Business in their organization must be running Windows 7, 8.1, or 10 Pro* on their current desktops and do not rely on a domain controller for their organization. Customers who use on-premises Active Directory must switch to cloud identity and management as part of their deployment.”
- Microsoft 365 Enterprise
- Enterprise Mobility + Security Pricing Options
- Compare More Office 365 for Business Plans
- Microsoft 365 Enterprise Firstline
by Ben | Feb 15, 2018 | Podcast
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In Episode 50, Ben and Scott sit down with Waldek Mastykarz to talk about the Office 365 CLI – why it exists, how to get started, what’s available today, and how to keep up-to-date as the project grows.
About Waldek

Waldek Mastykarz is a Product Owner at Rencore, where he designs and builds market-leading solutions that help SharePoint and Office 365 customers to minimize risks from customizing SharePoint. As a member of the SharePoint PnP Core team, Waldek helps SharePoint developers get the most out of SharePoint’s extensibility capabilities. For his contributions to the technical Microsoft communities as blogger, speaker, and developer, Waldek is a 9-time recipient of the Microsoft MVP title.
by Ben | Feb 8, 2018 | Podcast
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Ben and Scott are back again in Episode 49 with a recap of your Office 365 news for January 2018. This month it is all about Yammer, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and Azure Active Directory.
by Ben | Feb 1, 2018 | Podcast
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Episode 48 Scott and Ben jump back into Azure to discuss Azure Log Analytics: Change Tracking and Update Management. As you start to move workloads into Azure IaaS, this is something you’ll definitely want to take a look at for better management of your Azure servers.