

Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast
Ben Stegink, Scott Hoag
Your Microsoft Cloud News from a couple of IT Pros
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Dec 1, 2022 • 32min
Episode 310 – Azure Quota API and Bastion shareable links
In Episode 310, Ben and Scott discuss the preview of a new API for managing your Azure resource quotas using the Azure Quota Service API. They also discuss shareable links in Azure Bastion and how they can be created, managed, and the user experience for them.
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Show Notes
Microsoft Edge Freezes in Office 365 Outlook With Overlays - Mac OS
Clear Session Chrome Extension
Azure Quota Service API
Create a shareable link for Bastion - preview
About the sponsors
Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Nov 24, 2022 • 32min
Episode 309 – Cross-tenant migrations for Exchange and OneDrive
In Episode 309, Ben and Scott talk through some of the difficulties with the customer adoption and training aspects of Microsoft Teams, the GA of PowerShell 7.3 and some rough edges you might encounter with Azure PowerShell cmdlets, and then close with a discussion on cross-tenant migration for Exchange Online and OneDrive for Business.
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Show Notes
Microsoft Teams Tools for Driving Adoption
Teams adoption flipbook
Teams Customer Success Kit
PowerShell 7.3 General Availability
GenericArguments[0] ... violates the constraint of type 'T' error since PowerShell 7.3.0.5 preview #18721
Cross-tenant User Data Migration is Now Generally Available
Cross-tenant OneDrive migration
Cross-tenant mailbox migration
ShareGate: Microsoft Teams Migration
About the sponsors
Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Nov 17, 2022 • 33min
Episode 308 – Microsoft Purview In-place Data Share for Azure Storage with Priya Shetty
In Episode 308, Priya Shetty - Principal Product Manager - Azure Storage - joins Scott to talk all things Microsoft Purview In-place Data Share for Azure Storage. They cover data share use cases and scenarios for Azure Storage, data share feature capabilities, how it fits into Microsoft Purview, and describe the experience and how to deploy your first data share.
New to Microsoft Purview? Check out our previous episodes:
Episode 294 – Microsoft Purview with Erica Toelle
Episode 295 – The artist formerly known as Azure Purview
Episode 296 – Microsoft Purview data loss prevention
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Show Notes
Azure Storage in-place data sharing with Microsoft Purview (preview)
Deployment and configuration demo
Quickstart: Share and receive Azure Storage data in-place with Microsoft Purview Data Sharing (preview)
Microsoft Ignite session: No data silos with Azure Blob Storage
About our guest
Priya Shetty (LinkedIn) is a Principal Product Manager with Azure Storage. She is passionate about all things data and empowering customers’ data-driven journeys on Blob and Data Lake Storage.
About the sponsors
Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Nov 10, 2022 • 32min
Episode 307 – Office connections to online services FUD
In Episode 307, Ben and Scott talk about some more deprecations starting with the deprecation of converting DLs to M365 Groups, changes to the support matrix for Office clients when it comes to connecting to online services, and the retirement of Azure MFA Server.
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Show Notes
Deprecating Conversion of Distribution Lists to Microsoft 365 Groups
Office and Microsoft 365 Apps Deployment & Update Management 2022
Microsoft Spreads FUD on Office Connections to Microsoft 365 Services
Office versions and connectivity to Microsoft 365 services
Windows and Office configuration support matrix
Azure Multi-Factor Authentication Server will be deprecated 30 September 2024
Migrate from MFA Server to Azure AD Multi-Factor Authentication
About the sponsors
Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Nov 3, 2022 • 32min
Episode 306 – Testing Azure Arc using Azure VMs
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In Episode 306 Ben and Scott talk about Azure Arc and how you can get started testing it using Azure VMs - either regular VMs with minimal customization or using the Azure Arc Jumpstart project to kickstart your learning all of the Arc-enabled services.
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Show Notes
MS Cloud IT Pro Podcast fundraiser for Girls Who Code
Passwordless authentication options for Azure Active Directory
Yubico - YubiKey 5C NFC - Two Factor Authentication USB and NFC Security Key, Fits USB-C Ports and Works with Supported NFC Mobile Devices - Protect Your Online Accounts with More Than a Password
Automation Hybrid Runbook Worker overview
Evaluate Azure Arc-enabled servers on an Azure virtual machine
Azure Arc Jumpstart
Jumpstart ArcBox - Overview
HYPER-V NESTED VMS IN AZURE
About the sponsors
Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Oct 27, 2022 • 37min
Episode 305 – Azure Savings Plans for compute
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In Episode 305, Ben and Scott dive into Azure Savings Plans for compute and how they differ from compute reservations.
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Show Notes
MS Cloud IT Pro Podcast fundraiser for Girls Who Code
What are Azure savings plans for compute?
Azure Hybrid Benefit
Not sure if this is allowed to post but I’m looking for some help with OneDrive. Details are below.. thanks in advance for any guidance!
SharePoint limits
Restrictions and limitations in OneDrive and SharePoint
About the sponsors
Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Oct 20, 2022 • 38min
Episode 304 – Coming down from the Ignite high
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In Episode 304, Ben and Scott catch up some news from Ignite, talk about the announced retirement of the Azure Service Manager (classic) APIs, some upcoming breaking changes to the Azure CLI and Azure PowerShell, and then get a little ranty as they talk about the Office --> Microsoft rebranding that was recently announced.
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Show Notes
MS Cloud IT Pro Podcast fundraiser for Girls Who Code
Microsoft Ignite
Microsoft Ignite 2023
Microsoft Cloud and AI chief Scott Guthrie on what's new and next for Microsoft Cloud customers
Azure classic resource providers will be retired on 31 August 2024
Azure CLI Ignite 2022 Announcements Blog
Azure PowerShell Ignite 2022 announcements
Microsoft Office will become Microsoft 365 in major brand overhaul
Microsoft Office is changing to Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 is NOT Office 365
Conditional Access: Require an authentication strength for external users
Conditional Access authentication strength (preview)
About the sponsors
Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Oct 13, 2022 • 40min
Episode 303 – We don’t talk about Viva
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In Episode 303, Ben and Scott run through some pre-Ignite service retirement announcements for Unmanaged Disks and Azure Load Balancer Basic. Then they get into Microsoft Viva and do a quick review of some of the new features announced at Power Platform Conference.
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Show Notes
MS Cloud IT Pro Podcast fundraiser for Girls Who Code
Azure unmanaged disks will be retired on 30 September 2025
Azure Basic Load Balancer will be retired on 30 September 2025—upgrade to Standard Load Balancer
Azure Firewall Basic now in preview
What is Azure Firewall Manager?
Employee Experience and Engagement | Viva
Announcing Answers in Microsoft Viva
Episode 245 – When Good Viva Topics Go Bad
People in Microsoft Viva – Putting people at the center of the employee experience.
Why Google kills its own products
Google is shutting down Stadia
About the sponsors
Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Oct 6, 2022 • 35min
Episode 302 – Picking the right Azure VM
In Episode 302, Ben and Scott follow up on Microsoft Dev Box pricing from the latest Two the Cloud stream before diving into how to decipher Azure VM naming and pick the VMs to run your workloads in Azure.
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Show Notes
Microsoft Dev Box Pricing
Windows 365 Enterprise Plans and Pricing
What is Azure Virtual Desktop?
Sizes for virtual machines in Azure
Azure virtual machine sizes naming conventions
Azure compute unit (ACU)
Microsoft Azure VM Selector
Best Practice: Right-size VMs
About the sponsors
Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Sep 29, 2022 • 39min
Episode 301 – Git comes to Power Apps
In Episode 301, Ben and Scott talk through some of the announcements from the Microsoft Power Platform Conference, including native co-authoring for canvas apps using Git repositories and named formulas in Power Fx.
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Show Notes
Hurricane Ian
Power Apps brings collaboration to center stage with 3 big announcements
The new sidebar in Microsoft Edge helps you multitask smarter
🎈✨Setup co-authoring using Git for Power Apps
Co-authoring in canvas apps (experimental)
What is Microsoft Power Fx?
Power Fx: Introducing Named Formulas
About the sponsors
Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.