Let's Talk Azure!

This week we discussed Microsoft Dev Box. Dev Box allows development teams to create development environments for their projects in the cloud. This enables development teams to utilise infrastructure in Azure that scales past their local machines to build effectively. Microsoft provides the infrastructure and management plane, developers and platform engineers can work together to build repeatable environments bespoke to each project to give developers the tool they need. Sam takes the lead with providing insights such as: What Microsoft Dev Box is and why teams may want to consider it How Dev Boxes are configured and deployed How developers can access Dev Boxes How Dev Boxes are managed and monitored Costs What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form, Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right corner of our site.Read transcript

Alan and Sam discuss how Zero-Touch deployments can help organisation reduce the effort needed to build devices. Alan goes through some of the scenarios and the benefits. Here are a few things we covered: What are zero-touch deployments What are the business and it department benefits What is supported in Microsoft Intune How easy is it to get started? What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form, Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right corner of our site. Update: A listener pointed out that you can now manually add iOS devices onto ABM via a Mac and iPhone https://support.apple.com/sv-se/guide/apple-configurator/welcome/iosRead transcript

This week we discussed Azure Automation. Azure automations allows you develop processes in PowerShell and Python and deploy this content to Azure to manage and orchestrate. Azure automations can run in Azure or other non Azure resources. Highly connected and flexible, Azure automation provides a great amount of value for organisations to use automation to boost productivity and reduce repeatable tasks being carried out manually. Sam takes the lead with providing insights such as: What automation is and why it’s important for organisations. How Azure Automation can help. How it develop and deploy automations. Integrations and networking Costs What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form, Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right corner of our site.Read transcript

Alan and Sam discuss how passwordless authentication can help organisations to improve their authentication health and increase their security posture. Alan explains the concept and the solutions available. Alan also covers the rebrand of Azure AD to Microsoft Entra ID. Some of the areas we cover: What is passwordless authentication. What are the benefits of introducing passwordless to your organisation. What does Microsoft Entra ID provide for passwordless authentication. What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form, Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right corner of our site.Read transcript

Alan and Sam discuss how Azure Confidential Ledger can help organisations to create private tamper proof stores of data. Sam explains the features of the solution and the benefits that it can bring: Why would an organisation need a tamper proof data store? What is Azure Confidential Ledger? How can Microsoft / Azure be kept out of the data store? What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form, Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right corner of our site.Read transcript

Alan and Sam discuss why it is important to have a Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) solution in place. Alan explains the benefits of CSPM, and dives into Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Topics that we covered are: What is Cloud Security Posture Management and why it is important What is Microsoft Defender for Cloud’s approach to CSPM What is the Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark What are the pricing tiers for CSPM What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form, Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right corner of our site.Read transcript

This week we discuss Azure Functions. Azure Functions allows you to build serverless applications on top of Azure. Serverless functions allow you to bring your code and let Azure handle the hosting and management of infrastructure. Functions typically deal with one business case at a time, allowing for a microservices architecture to be used, potentially improving interoperability and collaboration. Sam takes the lead with providing insights such as: What Azure Functions are The advantages of server less applications Which languages are supported Integrations and networking Hosting options Costs What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form, Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right corner of our site.Read transcript

This week we discuss how to manage Bring Your Own Devices (BYOD) securely in an organisation. With hybrid working on the rise, more flexibility is needed to reduce costs, but not as the compromise of security. Alan takes the lead, providing insights such as: What is BYOD What the challenges of adopting BYOD How Microsoft technologies can help secure BYOD App Protection Policies Session Control Conditional Access The license's needed to use the technologies discussed Read transcript

This week we discuss Defender for DevOps. It gives you visibility of your security posture within your CI/CD processes. Improves your threat protection and hardening of your Infrastructure-as-code (IaC) resources. Fully integrated with Defender for Cloud, Defender for DevOps is simple to roll out and provides a wealth of security insight. Sam takes the lead with providing insights such as: What DevOps is Why DevSecOps and SecDevOps are important Which platforms are supported What security insights can be shown How to configure Defender for DevOps How it integrates with your processes How to monitor it How much it costs What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form, Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right corner of our site.Read transcript

It's the Season 3 Finale! Where has the time gone! Alan and Sam discuss the season, what their favorite episode were. They discuss some of the announcements at Microsoft Build 2023 that peaked their interest. Microsoft Build 2023 Book of News What did you think of this episode and season? Give us some feedback via our contact form, Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right corner of our site.Read transcript