Episode 362 – The Flustration of Microsoft Ignite

Episode 362 – The Flustration of Microsoft Ignite

In Episode 362, Ben and Scott get sidetracked with some of the announcements coming out of Microsoft Ignite.

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Episode 361 – TLS updates in Azure

Episode 361 – TLS updates in Azure

In Episode 361, Ben and Scott discuss how Ben solved a data analysis problem with Azure Data Explorer and Scott shares some tips and tricks for Kusto.

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Episode 360 – Who owns your data in Azure?

Episode 360 – Who owns your data in Azure?

In Episode 360, Ben laments about a change in the data processing for Azure Sentinel and Scott contributes some suggestions around Microsoft’s data processing policies and how customers can keep up to date on them along with some suggestions for how to manage your personal data in Log Analytics and Application Insights. Then they close out the show talking about how to track resource ownership over time for your Azure resources.

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Episode 359 – Microsoft Applied Skills and Azure Bastion Developer SKU

Episode 359 – Microsoft Applied Skills and Azure Bastion Developer SKU

In Episode 359, Ben and Scott discuss Microsoft Applied Skills – a new skilling platform for Microsoft customers to get hands-on in a live, on-demand lab environment to validate their skills in a specific area and how Applied Skills compares to the existing role-based certification exams. Next up, it’s a quick review of an upcoming roadmap item that impacts Microsoft-managed conditional access policies and how to monitor and keep up to date with Message Center messages that are applicable to your tenant. Then it’s time to wrap up with a Developer SKU that was recently launched for Azure Bastion, offering lower cost to Bastion at the expense of some of the bells and whistles in the Basic and Standard SKUs.

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Episode 358 – Amazon spends $1 billion on Microsoft 365

Episode 358 – Amazon spends $1 billion on Microsoft 365

In Episode 358, Ben and Scott talk about Ben’s new Teams-certified Poly Sync, a new teleprompter Scott ordered, and Amazon’s investment in Microsoft 365.

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Episode 357 – Community galleries for Azure Compute Gallery

Episode 357 – Community galleries for Azure Compute Gallery

In Episode 357, Ben and Scott run through the recently announced Community gallery capability that has been added to the Azure Compute Gallery service. They also take a few minutes to discuss the public preview of table-level RBAC read-access controls for your Log Analytics workspaces.

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Episode 356 – The ROI of Microsoft 365 Copilot

Episode 356 – The ROI of Microsoft 365 Copilot

In Episode 356, Ben and Scott revisit the ROI of Microsoft 365 Copilot, discuss some methods for bulk restores from the SharePoint Online Recycle bin, and some upcoming changes to default outbound internet access for your Azure VMs.

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Episode 355 – SharePoint Framework On-premises is a Moving Target (with Andrew Connell)

Episode 355 – SharePoint Framework On-premises is a Moving Target (with Andrew Connell)

In Episode 355, Ben and Scott sit down with SharePoint developer extraordinaire Andrew Connell from Voitanos to talk about SharePoint Server Subscription Edition and some changes in SharePoint Framework (SPFX) support. You’ll definitely want to listen in to make sure that you’re falling into the “Pit of Success” for developing SPFX solutions for your on-premises installations of SharePoint.

`Note: We get into the weeds with things like version numbers between SharePoint Server Subscription Edition and the SharePoint Framework. You can use the links below to follow along.

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Episode 354 – Splunk and Cisco sitting in a tree

Episode 354 – Splunk and Cisco sitting in a tree

In Episode 354, Ben and Scott catch up on news and the latest announcements starting with Cisco and Splunk merging. Then they discuss the Surface and AI event where we saw the latest Surface hardware and learned about the straight to GA release of Microsoft 365 and Windows Copilot.

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Episode 353 – Microsoft Ignite is coming. Prepare thyself.

Episode 353 – Microsoft Ignite is coming. Prepare thyself.

In Episode 353, Scott talks to Ben about how he’s using Portainer for container management on his home network and some tips and tricks for managing apps on your Mac (sorry Windows users). Then they pivot to Microsoft’s largest conference of the year – Microsoft Ignite – coming Nov 14-17, 2023 for in-person attendees and November 15-16, 2023 for virtual attendees.

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