Episode 275 – Azure File Migration program with Karl Rautenstrauch

Episode 275 – Azure File Migration program with Karl Rautenstrauch

In Episode 275, Scott sits down with Karl Rautenstrauch, a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft to discuss the new Azure File Migration program. Karl explains how the program enables access to best of breed migration tooling which can help you easily perform managed migrations of files to Azure Storage, including Blobs, Files, and Azure NetApp Files. (more…)

Episode 273 – On-demand capacity reservations with Site Recovery

Episode 273 – On-demand capacity reservations with Site Recovery

In Episode 273, Ben and Scott talk about on-demand capacity reservations for Azure Virtual Machines and how they can be leveraged with Site Recovery services to have guaranteed compute on failover, fast account switching coming to Microsoft 365 services, and the CIS benchmark for Azure Kubernetes Service. (more…)

Episode 272 – SharePoint Online and Azure News

Episode 272 – SharePoint Online and Azure News

In Episode 272, Ben and Scott discuss changes that are rolling out for the new move experience in SharePoint Online, support for known folder move in the OneDrive client on macOS, cross region VM restore points for Azure VMs, and tracking resource change history through Azure Resource Graph. (more…)

Episode 271 – Smart Home All The Things

Episode 271 – Smart Home All The Things

In Episode 271, Ben and Scott take a break from Microsoft 365 and Azure talk about smart home devices, including their favorite uses for different categories of devices such as lights, locks, and even blinds/shades. If you’ve been thinking about building out your smart home, give it a listen. We’re sure you’ll learn something new. (more…)

Episode 269 – Thunderbolt docks and Azure AD Updates

Episode 269 – Thunderbolt docks and Azure AD Updates

In Episode 269, Ben and Scott talk about the just released CalDigit TS4 Thunderbolt 4 dock and then get into some news and updates around Azure AD, including the public preview of certificate based authentication and proof of concept for impersonating device identities of Windows clients. (more…)

Episode 267 – Microsoft 365 Compliance – Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

Episode 267 – Microsoft 365 Compliance – Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

In Episode 267, Ben and Scott talk about some of the updates that have come to Data loss prevention (DLP) in Microsoft 365 and how you can leverage DLP to protect your sensitive data across the M365 stack and even external cloud apps like Box, Dropbox, and Salesforce. (more…)

Episode 266 – Azure Reservations

Episode 266 – Azure Reservations

In Episode 266, Ben and Scott spend most of the time talking about Azure Reserved Instances. What they are, when you might want to use them, and some of the services you can purchase them for. They also cover some potential things to watch out for when considering if you should purchase a reserved instance for one or more of your Azure Services.
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