Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast

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. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. 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.

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. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. 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.

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. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In Episode 270, Ben and Scott talk about a new Microsoft Teams phone from Yealink that Ben is testing and then talk about a recently GA’d capability which impacts how resources associated with a Virtual Machine are treated on deletion of the VM. Sponsors Intelligink – We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Ethernet port on the TS4 or TS3 Plus does not work properly Yealink Voice Device Solutions for Microsoft Teams Yealink MP58 Teams Edition Requirements for Windows 365 Windows 365 Enterprise: February 2022 updates Delete a VM and attached resources Microsoft Stream: Generate captions and transcripts for a video uploaded to SharePoint and OneDrive 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.

In Episode 269, Ben and Scott talk about the just released CalDigit TS4 Thunderbolt 4 dock and then get into some news and updates around Azure AD, including the public preview of certificate based authentication and proof of concept for impersonating device identities of Windows clients. Sponsors Intelligink – We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Thunderbolt 4 Station overview CalDigit TS4 Thunderbolt 4 Dock – 18 Ports, 98W Charging, 3x Thunderbolt 4 40Gb/s, 5 x USB-A, 3 x USB-C (10Gb/s), 2.5GbE, Single 8K or Dual 6K 60Hz Displays, Mac, PC, Chrome Compatible with 0.8m Cable Generally available: Azure Monitor Diagnostic settings for Azure Storage Azure AD Certificate-Based Authentication now in Public Preview Overview of Azure AD certificate-based authentication (Preview) Microsoft says MFA adoption remains low, only 22% among enterprise customers Stealing and faking Azure AD device identities Exam AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions 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.