

Let's Talk Azure!
Alan Armstrong & Sam Foot
Listen with Alan Armstrong and Sam Foot as we talk about all things Microsoft Azure!
We are both technical consultants working with Azure day in, day out. Alan focuses on Identity and Security automation while Sam is a .NET developer deploying PaaS and SaaS solutions on Azure.
Each episode we have a topic we cover and we highlight some key news that we are interested in. No fluff, sales or products here, just two technical people having a light hearted chat.
We are both technical consultants working with Azure day in, day out. Alan focuses on Identity and Security automation while Sam is a .NET developer deploying PaaS and SaaS solutions on Azure.
Each episode we have a topic we cover and we highlight some key news that we are interested in. No fluff, sales or products here, just two technical people having a light hearted chat.
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Sep 23, 2022 • 0sec
S2E12 - Microsoft Purview Information Protection – Classify and Secure Your data
Alan and Sam discuss how Microsoft Purview Information Protection can help label, classify and protect your data in Office 365 . Alan takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains how you can easily start labelling document, as well as encrypt them to protect data leaving your organisation.
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Sep 16, 2022 • 1h 6min
S2E11 - Microsoft Purview Data Governance Portal
Alan and Sam discuss how the Microsoft Purview – Data Governance Portal can help you to manage and govern your organisations data. Sam takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains the 'Train the Trainer' event that he participated in with Microsoft and gives an overview of the product.
Link to the Microsoft Purview Workshop: https://github.com/tayganr/purviewlab
Many thanks to the team at Microsoft for their time to take us through the workshop and give get guidance to all participants.
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Sep 9, 2022 • 39min
S2E10 - Microsoft Entra – Azure AD – Identity Governance
Alan and Sam discuss how Identity Governance within Azure AD, part of Microsoft's Entra family of identity products can help with your user lifecycle. Alan takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains how Entitlement Management, Access Reviews and Privileged Access can secure, review, and give access.
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Sep 2, 2022 • 45min
S2E9 - Microsoft Entra Permission Management - First Look
Alan and Sam take a first look at Microsoft Entra permissions management. Sam takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains how the product allows you to discover and remediate permissions creep in your multi-cloud environments.
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Aug 26, 2022 • 51min
S2E8 - Securing Multi-Cloud environments with Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Alan and Sam discuss securing multi-cloud environments with Microsoft Defender for Cloud, focusing on visibility, protection workloads, remediation tasks, and cost-saving strategies. They explore the evolution of Defender for Cloud, protective workloads in cloud security, and permissions management in multi-cloud environments under the Entra brand.

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Aug 19, 2022 • 58min
S2E7 - Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure
Sam, an expert in The Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure, discusses the benefits of cloud adoption, challenges in workload migration, naming conventions, and securing multi-cloud environments with Microsoft Defender for Cloud.

Aug 12, 2022 • 1h 6min
S2E6 - Microsoft Entra – Securing and Managing Cloud Identities
Alan and Sam discuss how Azure AD, part of the Microsoft Entra family can secure your identity in the cloud. Alan takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains his viewpoint of the product and why we should consider the premium features within Azure AD to secure and manage cloud identity.
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Aug 5, 2022 • 58min
S2E5 - Managing Compliance with Azure Policy
Alan and Sam discuss all things Azure Policy, a way to manage Azure compliance at scale. Sam takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains his viewpoint of the product/tooling and why it can help organisations to track their compliance level and enforce policies in Azure.
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Jul 29, 2022 • 53min
S2E4 - Modern Device Management with Microsoft Endpoint Manager
Alan and Sam discuss how Microsoft Endpoint Manager (MEM) can simplify device management whilst making it easy to secure them. Alan takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains his viewpoint of the product and why we should adopt MEM in our organisation.
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Jul 22, 2022 • 51min
S2E3 - Terraform - Deploy your Infrastructure as Code
Alan and Sam discuss Terraform, a popular choice in the Infrastructure as Code space. Sam takes the role of 'Expert' and explains his viewpoint of the product and why we should be utilising Terraform in our organisation and recommending it to our customers.
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