Episode 324 – Have your cake and it eat too with VMSS Flex

Episode 324 – Have your cake and it eat too with VMSS Flex

In Episode 324, Ben and Scott talk through some more fun with ChatGPT and how it can point you in the wrong direction even for code snippets. Then they dive into Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets and orchestration modes including VMSS Flex.

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Episode 323 – Managed Identities, Azure Automation, and the Microsoft Graph

Episode 323 – Managed Identities, Azure Automation, and the Microsoft Graph

In Episode 323, Ben walks Scott through a recent customer project with Microsoft Graph, Azure Automation, and Logic Apps. It turns out that working with Microsoft Graph and Managed Identities gets a little confusing once you start throwing delegated vs application permissions into the mix.

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Episode 322 – The communities, they are a changin’

Episode 322 – The communities, they are a changin’

In Episode 322, Ben and Scott talk about the announced rebranding of Yammer to Viva Engage, a new admin center for Viva Engage, and the retirement of Run-As accounts. Oh, and please reach out to Ben and congratulate him on his newly minted MVP status! 🎉

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Episode 321 – ChapGPT comes to Bing

Episode 321 – ChapGPT comes to Bing

In Episode 321, Ben takes Scott through his current experience with the new Bing experience and ChatGPT integration. Then they talk about a quirk in the retirement/not retirement for free Teams business users and close out with the recently announced support for Multimedia Redirection (MMR) on Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 Cloud PC.

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Episode 319 – Taking a peek at the Microsoft 365 roadmap

Episode 319 – Taking a peek at the Microsoft 365 roadmap

In Episode 319, Ben and Scott talk through a fun new way to keep up with updates to the Microsoft 365 roadmap using Office 365 Roadmap watch and them discuss a new item on the roadmap – explicit recording consent for Teams Meetings. Next up they get into IPv6 support coming to conditional access in March 2023 and some changes coming to Azure reservations now that Savings plans for compute are here.

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Episode 318 – Application Health Extension and Azure Automation in VS Code

Episode 318 – Application Health Extension and Azure Automation in VS Code

In Episode 318, Ben and Scott talk about the Defender debacle from last week and then get into some new Azure previews, including rich application health states with Virtual Machine Scale Sets, the Azure Automation extension for VS Code, and the latest preview of change tracking and inventory management with the Azure Monitor Agent.

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Episode 316 – Azure DevOps or GitHub?

Episode 316 – Azure DevOps or GitHub?

In Episode 316, Ben and Scott talk about the continued fallout from the Rackspace ransomware attack as well as some other recent hacks from LastPass and CircleCI. Then they get into their topic of the day – Azure DevOps or GitHub and which one they prefer for different tasks.

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Episode 315 – Loop makes me loopy

Episode 315 – Loop makes me loopy

In Episode 315, Ben takes Scott on a tour of Microsoft Loop and how it is working across Teams, Outlook and Word. Then they close out the episode with what tools they are using for personal work task management.

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