

Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast
Ben Stegink, Scott Hoag
Your Microsoft Cloud News from a couple of IT Pros
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May 5, 2022 • 34min
Episode 280 – Azure Storage or SharePoint for my files?
In Episode 280, Ben and Scott talk through how you can think about migrating your files from on-premises to Azure Storage or to SharePoint Online.
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Show Notes
Microsoft Windows 95 Launch with Bill Gates & Jay Leno (1995)
Retro Tech by MKBHD
Azure Webinar Series - Migrate Your File Data to Azure at No Cost
Episode 275 – Azure File Migration program with Karl Rautenstrauch
Introduction to Azure Storage
Document collaboration and co-authoring
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.

Apr 28, 2022 • 33min
Episode 279 – Ben’s rant about content types in SharePoint
In Episode 279, Scott listens in as Ben discusses an issue he recently encountered with content type management and content types being pushed from a content type publishing hub.
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Show Notes
Publish a content type from a content publishing hub
What is a SharePoint hub site?
Introduction to content types and content type publishing
What’s changed in content type publishing
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.

Apr 21, 2022 • 32min
Episode 278 – Shared Channels in Microsoft Teams are… interesting
In Episode 278, Ben and Scott go through follow-up on the end-user experience for working with Microsoft Teams Shared Channels. To learn about what needs to be done on the admin side, listen to Episode 274 – Microsoft Teams Connect shared channels and B2B direct connect.
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Show Notes
Microsoft Teams Public Preview
Episode 274 – Microsoft Teams Connect shared channels and B2B direct connect
Collaborate with external participants in a channel
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.

Apr 14, 2022 • 35min
Episode 277 – Beep Bop BYOIP with Bring Your Own IP in Azure
In Episode 277, Ben and Scott dive into the GA of "bring your own IP" (or BYOIP) in Azure, a capability that allows you to register your public IP blocks in Azure and associate public IPs that you own with public IP resources such as load balancers and virtual machines. Then they discuss the GA of the new Azure Front Door service. Finally, they close out with some tips around tracking service announcements, including tracking service retirement.
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Show Notes
Microsoft Build
Bring your own IP addresses (BYOIP) to Azure with Custom IP Prefix
Custom IP address prefix (BYOIP)
Manage a custom IP address prefix
Introducing the new Azure Front Door: Reimagined for modern apps and content
What is Azure Front Door?
Azure classic storage accounts will be retired on 31 August 2024
Azure Data Lake Analytics will be retired on 29 February 2024
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.

Apr 7, 2022 • 45min
Episode 276 – I need to lock down SharePoint but I need it to be open!
In Episode 276, Ben and Scott start the episode talking about Teams display devices, Teams phones, and complimenting the Teams app on your computer. Then we wrap up the episode by addressing a listener's question about sharing content in SharePoint with external users while also maintaining certain security and compliance requirements.
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Show Notes
Microsoft Teams Display are smart displays designed for meetings
Introducing Microsoft Teams displays
Certified Teams Displays
The 100 Greatest Movies of the 1980s
Restrict sharing of SharePoint and OneDrive content by domain
Use SharePoint as a business-to-business (B2B) extranet solution
Control unmanaged device access to SharePoint and OneDrive
Use sensitivity labels to protect content in Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 groups, and SharePoint sites
Limit accidental exposure to files when sharing with people outside your organization
Create a secure guest sharing environment
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.

Mar 31, 2022 • 37min
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.
Sponsors
ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs
Spot by NetApp – The cloud automation platform that makes it easy to deliver continuously optimized infrastructure at the lowest possible cost
Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully
Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business
Show Notes
Migrate the critical file data you need to power your applications
New Azure File Migration program streamlines unstructured data migration
Migrating your files to Azure has never been easier
Migration guides
Migrate your files to Azure - Azure IaaS Day 2021
Migration videos – https://aka.ms/filemigrationvideos
Data Dynamics - https://aka.ms/datadynamicsguide
Komprise - https://aka.ms/kompriseguide
Accelerate infrastructure migration with Azure Storage | Azure Storage Day 2021
Azure Marketplace links
Komprise Elastic Data Migration and Analytics, offer sponsored by Microsoft Azure
Data Dynamics StorageX Migration, offer sponsored by Azure
Azure Storage migration overview
About our guest
Karl is an IT veteran with 23 years of experience. He has been a systems administrator and architect for Fortune 500 companies, a national solutions architect for NetApp and Microsoft, and now a Principal Product Manager in Azure Engineering. Karl likes to be in the thick of emerging technologies. In his 9 years with Microsoft, he has focused on Azure Storage, Backup, Disaster Recovery, Edge Computing, and High Availability. In his role as a Product Manager with the Azure Storage team, he focuses on strategic partnerships to enable any and every workload to run on Azure. You can find him on Twitter as @Kloud_Karl or connect with him on LinkedIn.
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.

Mar 24, 2022 • 37min
Episode 274 – Microsoft Teams Connect shared channels and B2B direct connect
In Episode 274, Ben and Scott dive into some of the considerations for identity and tenant configuration when you are getting started with Microsoft Teams Connect shared channels.
Sponsors
Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business
Show Notes
‘A dangerous stunt’: Reward offered for information on driver who jumped Tesla in Echo Park
Microsoft to add new shared channels, encryption for calls, webinar features to Teams
Microsoft Teams Connect shared channels is rolling out to public preview
Overview: Cross-tenant access with Azure AD External Identities (Preview)
B2B direct connect overview
Microsoft Teams Public Preview
github.com/hjdhjd/homebridge-unifi-protect
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.

Mar 17, 2022 • 36min
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.
Sponsors
Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business
Show Notes
Microsoft 365 Web Apps To Get Account Switching Support Next Month
Guarantee capacity access with on-demand capacity reservations—now in preview
Public preview: On-demand capacity reservation with Azure Site Recovery safeguards VMs failover
Azure Logic Apps - Availability Zone support is coming soon
Center for Internet Security (CIS) Kubernetes benchmark
The anatomy of a datacenter—how Microsoft's datacenter hardware powers the Microsoft Cloud
Inside Azure Datacenter Architecture with Mark Russinovich
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.

Mar 10, 2022 • 36min
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.
Sponsors
Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business
Show Notes
New file move and copy experience for OneDrive and SharePoint
Move or copy files in SharePoint
Apple silicon support in GA and KFM for macOS in Public Preview
Updates to Files On-Demand on macOS
Redirect and move Windows known folders to OneDrive
Create VM restore points (Preview)
Get resource changes
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.

Mar 3, 2022 • 34min
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.
Sponsors
Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business
Show Notes
Chipmaker Nvidia investigating potential cyberattack - report
Isolate Your Smart Home Devices with UniFi
Securing your smarthome devices – using VLANs to secure your home network
Homebridge
SmartThings
yoolax
Amazon links
Lutron Caseta
August Smart Locks
Smart Garage Door Openers
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.