Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast
378 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 59 ratingsYour Microsoft Cloud News from a couple of IT Pros
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Episode 177 – Friends Should Let Friends Buy Microsoft 365 Business Premium
May 14, 2020 12:00 - 33 minutes - 23.1 MBIn Episode 177, Ben and Scott break down the changes in Microsoft 365 Business Premium and how it compares against Office 365 Enterprise Plans including the Office 365 E3. Transcript Email Download New Tab - [Ben] Welcome to episode 177 of the Microsoft cloud IT pro podcast recorded live on May eight 2020. This is a show about Microsoft 365 with Azure from the perspective of IT pros and its users where we discuss the topic or recent news and how it relates to you. ...
Episode 176 – April Showers Bring May Microsoft 365 Updates
May 07, 2020 12:00 - 30 minutes - 20.6 MBIn Episode 176, Ben and Scott dive into the April announcements around feature updates to Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Threat Protection, and Azure Active Directory. Transcript Email Download New Tab - Welcome to Episode 176 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast, recorded live on May 1, 2020. This is the show about Microsoft 365 and Azure from the perspective of IT pros and end users. Where we discuss a topic or recent news and how it relates to you. In this episode,...
Episode 175 – File Shares for Clients in the Cloud with Azure Files
April 30, 2020 12:00 - 57 minutes - 39.2 MBIn Episode 175, Ben and Scott talk about using Azure Files as a remote file share in the cloud for client devices and the things you'll want to think about to get everything up and running. Transcript Email Download New Tab - Welcome to Episode 175 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast recorded live on April 24, 2020. This is a show about Microsoft 365 and Azure from the perspective of IT pros and end users, where we discuss the topic or recent news and how it rela...
Episode 174 – Azure Web App for Containers
April 23, 2020 12:00 - 35 minutes - 24.2 MBIn Episode 174, Ben and Scott dive into Azure App Service for Linux and Azure Web App for Containers as a hosting option for microservices and more. Transcript Email Download New Tab - [Ben] Welcome to episode 174 of the Microsoft cloud IT Pro podcast recorded live on April, 16, 2020. This is the show about Microsoft 365 and Azure from the perspective of IT Pros and end users. Where we discuss the topic or recent news and how it relates to you. In this episode, we ...
Episode 173 – Zoom, Teams, and Slack, Oh My!
April 16, 2020 12:00 - 34 minutes - 23.7 MBIn Episode 173, Ben and Scott talk about their experiences with online meeting platforms such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Slack as all of us continue to cope with remote work. Transcript Email Download New Tab - Welcome to Episode 173 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro podcast recorded live on April 9, 2020. This is a show about Microsoft 365 and Azure from the perspective of IT pros and end users, where we discuss a topic or recent news and how it relates to you. In ...
Episode 172 – Office 365 for Small and Medium Business Rebranding
April 09, 2020 12:00 - 28 minutes - 19.3 MBIn Episode 172, Ben and Scott break down some announced changes around the rebranding of several Office 365 for Business SKUs to Microsoft 365. 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 Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your i...
Episode 171 – Working from home with Sarah Lean
April 02, 2020 12:00 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MBIn Episode 171, Ben and Scott are joined by Sarah Lean, Microsoft Cloud Advocate, to talk about working from home and some ways to adapt to remote presentations. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox 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 the...
Episode 170 – Azure Resource Manager All The Things!
March 26, 2020 12:00 - 41 minutes - 37.9 MBIn Episode 170, Ben and Scott are joined by Alex Neihaus to talk about Azure Resource Manager Templates, PowerShell, and the Azure CLI. 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 Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox O...
Episode 169 – Working From Home
March 19, 2020 12:00 - 37 minutes - 25.7 MBIn Episode 169, Ben and Scott take a break from the cloud and talk about the current situation with COVID-19 and how it's impacting many of us with work from home policies that have been put in place to maintain social distancing. 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 Opsgility - Your Cloud enablement ...
Episode 168 – Live from Collab365 GlobalCon1!
March 12, 2020 12:00 - 48 minutes - 33.3 MBIn Episode 168, Ben and Scott come to you live from Collab365 GlobalCon1 (well, really the comfort of their homes) and talk about Universal Print coming to Azure, the announcement that org-wide teams are coming to Office 365 for tenants with less than 5,000 users, and the GA of PowerShell 7.0. 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...
Episode 167 – Azure Certification Updates!
March 05, 2020 13:00 - 39 minutes - 27.2 MBIn Episode 167, Ben and Scott discuss some updates that allow you to deploy resources in Azure to scopes above a resource group and then break down some big changes coming to the Azure certifications. 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 Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your...
Episode 166 – Gear and Tech
February 27, 2020 13:00 - 32 minutes - 22.5 MBIn Episode 166, Ben and Scott take a break from talking about the cloud and get into some of the gear and software they've picked up over the last few months. 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 Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy t...
Episode 165 – Power Virtual Agents
February 20, 2020 13:00 - 29 minutes - 20.1 MBIn Episode 165, Ben and Scott run through Power Virtual Agents, a feature of Power Platform that allows you to create and manage "no-code" (or to be more realistic - "low-code") bots. 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 Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy ...
Episode 164 – Certificates are hard
February 13, 2020 13:00 - 29 minutes - 20.2 MBIn Episode 164, Ben and Scott dive in and discuss some new features that are coming to the Office 365 Admin Center and Azure Lighthouse that are going to make your life easier if you manage more than one tenant. Sponsors Skill Me Up – Only Skill Me Up provides the bridge from fundamentals to certification paths to advanced skills to accelerate digital transformation in 1 subscription with 5 ways to learn. Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy e...
Episode 163 – So… what is Power Platform?
February 06, 2020 13:00 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MBIn Episode 163, Ben and Scott dive in Power Platform and the PL-900 Power Platform Fundamentals exam. Along the way, they discuss what makes up Power Platform and how you can approach learning about Power Platform. 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 Opsgility - Your Cloud enablement partner to help g...
Episode 162 – Bing, Office 365 ProPlus, and Microsoft Search – Oh My!
January 29, 2020 13:00 - 29 minutes - 20.1 MBIn Episode 162, Ben and Scott discuss one of the latest bad moves out of Redmond - forcefully installing the Microsoft Search in Bing extension in Google Chrome. Sponsors Skill Me Up – Only Skill Me Up provides the bridge from fundamentals to certification paths to advanced skills to accelerate digital transformation in 1 subscription with 5 ways to learn. ShareGate – ShareGate’s industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePo...
Episode 161 – Office 365 News
January 23, 2020 13:00 - 32 minutes - 22.2 MBIn Episode 161, Ben and Scott discuss the updated timeline for the migration from Office 365 to Microsoft Stream and some new functionality coming to Office 365 and Outlook on the web that will make it easier to import personal calendars from Outlook.com, Live.com, and Google. 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 usa...
Episode 160 – Office Cloud Policy Service
January 16, 2020 13:00 - 31 minutes - 21.9 MBIn Episode 160, Ben and Scott dive into the Office Cloud Policy Service, part of the Office Admin Center and talk through how to manage the user configuration for your Office clients all in the cloud without GPOs. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox Skill Me Up – Only Skill Me Up provides the bridge from fundamentals to certification paths to advanced skills to accelerate digital transfor...
Episode 159 – Azure Spot VMs and Azure AD Cloud Provisioning
January 09, 2020 13:00 - 31 minutes - 21.9 MBIn Episode 159, Ben and Scott kick off 2020 with a discussion about the deprecation of Low Priority VMs in Azure and the introduction of Spot VMs and then they talk about a new feature available in Azure AD that can help you synchronize users and groups from disconnected domains. 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 u...
Episode 158 – What are security defaults?
January 02, 2020 13:00 - 31 minutes - 21.5 MBIn Episode 158, Ben and Scott dive into a change that is going to impact all Microsoft Partners and their security posture in Azure Active Directory. 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\ Opsgility – Your Cloud enablement partner to help guide your organization through all phases of Cloud migration and...
Episode 157 – The “why” of Microsoft cloud services?
December 26, 2019 13:00 - 35 minutes - 24.1 MBIn Episode 157, Ben and Scott go sideways and talk about Microsoft's approach to documenting not only the How but the Why of services and products that they release and how customers can obtain operational guidance today. Sponsors Opsgility - Your Cloud enablement partner to help guide your organization through all phases of Cloud migration and adoption Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareG...
Episode 156 – Microsoft Teams Problems!
December 19, 2019 13:00 - 33 minutes - 24 MBBen and Scott go down a deep, dark hole and discuss some issues with Microsoft Teams screen sharing on MacOS Catalina. After that, they discuss the newly announced Microsoft Team Exploratory license and some impacts to your tenant if you allow trials.
Episode 155 – Microsoft 365 Tenant Level Services
December 12, 2019 13:13 - 33 minutes - 23.1 MBIn Episode 155, Ben and Scott dive into a discussion around tenant-level services in Microsoft 365 and Office 365 and what you need to think about as you license users and potentially scope deployments within your tenancy to ensure your compliance with your Microsoft 365 licensing.
Episode 154 – Azure AD Security with Ramiro Calderon and Stefan van der Wiele
December 05, 2019 13:00 - 37 minutes - 26.6 MBBen and Scott sit down at Microsoft Ignite with Ramiro Calderon, Principal Program Manager - Azure Active Directory, and Stefan van der Wiele, Senior Program Manager - Azure Active Directory, to talk about Azure Active Directory and how as the core of authentication for Office 365, Azure, and Microsoft you can configure your tenancies in a secure and usable way.
Episode 153 – Crafting the Story for Microsoft 365 with Stephen Rose
November 28, 2019 13:00 - 39 minutes - 27.2 MBIn Episode 153, Ben sits down at Microsoft Ignite with Stephen Rose, Sr PMM, Microsoft 365 Storytelling and Branding Team, to talk about what it takes to align demos across the Microsoft 365 product suite and how to craft a great story. 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 Skill Me Up – Skill Me Up pro...
Episode 152 – Using Azure DevOps to Automate Azure Deployments with Steven Murawski
November 21, 2019 13:00 - 32 minutes - 22.3 MBIn Episode 152, Ben and Scott sit down with Steven Murawski, Lead Cloud Ops Advocate at Microsoft, at Microsoft Ignite to talk about the power and freedom that comes from managing your infrastructure as code using tools like Azure Repos and Azure Pipelines inside of Azure DevOps. You can follow Steven on Twitter @StevenMurawski. Sponsors ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their ...
Episode 151 – Microsoft Information Protection with Gagan Gulati and Adam Hall
November 14, 2019 13:00 - 33 minutes - 23.2 MBIn Episode 151, Ben sits down at Microsoft Ignite with Gagan Gulati, Head of Product for Azure Information Protection, and Adam Hall, Director, Microsoft Security to discuss the history of information protection at Microsoft and the material impacts of protecting your organization’s sensitive data in Office 365, including the transition from AIP to MIP (such as the upcoming move from the AIP portal the the Microsoft 365 Compliance Center). Sponsors Skill Me Up – Skill Me Up provides the b...
Episode 150 – Azure Quantum with Julie Love
November 07, 2019 13:00 - 29 minutes - 20.2 MBIn Episode 150, Ben sits down at Microsoft Ignite with Julie Love, Senior Director, Quantum Computing at Microsoft, to talk all about quantum computing and the newly announced service Azure Quantum. 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 Opsgility - Your Cloud enablement partner to help guide your organi...
Episode 149 – The End Of Acronym Soup (aka Unified Labels)
October 31, 2019 12:00 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MBIn Episode 149, Ben and Scott wrap up their whirlwind tour of AIP with Unified Labels. 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 SaneBox – SaneBox brings sanity back to your inbox by prioritizing what’s important, removing spam/junk, grouping newsletters together, and automating tedious tasks. Skill Me Up...
Episode 148 – Power Platform Self-Service
October 24, 2019 12:00 - 32 minutes - 22.6 MBIn Episode 148, Ben and Scott discuss MC193609, "Announcing self-service purchase capabilities for Power Platform products" and some of the things you'll need to think about as this new capability comes to an Office 365 tenant near you. 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 SaneBox – SaneBox brings san...
Episode 147 – All Things Microsoft Ignite with Anna Chu
October 17, 2019 12:00 - 35 minutes - 32.1 MBIn Episode 147, Ben and Scott have a chat with Anna Chu, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Microsoft for the Microsoft Tech Community where they discuss Microsoft Ignite 2019 and all of the exciting announcements coming. The session catalog is out and you'll want to listen for tips and tricks around how to get into the "must-see" sessions. Sponsors ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, aut...
Episode 146 – Azure Resource Manager Templates
October 10, 2019 12:00 - 31 minutes - 21.7 MBIn Episode 146, Ben and Scott start to break down Azure Resource Manager templates and some of the tooling and benefits to managing your Azure infrastructure (and yes, that includes PaaS services!) as code. 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 SaneBox – SaneBox brings sanity back to your inbox by prior...
Episode 145 – You Thought We Were Done With Acronym Soup?
October 03, 2019 12:00 - 31 minutes - 21.9 MBIn Episode 145, Ben and Scott break out their soup bowls and continue digging into their acronym soup with Azure Information Protection labels and their various flavors - unified labels, sensitivity labels, and retention labels. Sponsors Opsgility - Your Cloud enablement partner to help guide your organization through all phases of Cloud migration and adoption SaneBox – SaneBox brings sanity back to your inbox by prioritizing what’s important, removing spam/junk, grouping newsletters tog...
Episode 144 – Acronym Soup with RMS, AIP, ATP, and ATA
September 26, 2019 12:00 - 30 minutes - 20.9 MBBen and Scott dive into Microsoft Information Protection solutions such as Azure Information Protection and Azure Rights Management Service.
Episode 143 – Adoption Change Management for Microsoft 365 with David Callaghan
September 19, 2019 12:00 - 33 minutes - 31 MBBen and Scott sit down with David Callaghan, Head of Business Change at FITTS, to talk about Adoption Change Management (or ACM) for Microsoft 365.
Episode 142 – Windows Server 2008 (R2) End of Support
September 12, 2019 12:00 - 37 minutes - 25.7 MBWe discuss Logitech's latest MX Master mouse and discuss some of the drivers for upgrading legacy workloads and operating systems on-premises and in Microsoft Azure.
Episode 141 – Microsoft Cloud News – Hurricane Dorian Edition
September 05, 2019 12:00 - 34 minutes - 24 MBIn Episode 141, Ben and Scott discuss some of the new features coming to Intune for iOS 13 and macOS Catalina with their upcoming releases this fall. Then they talk about some of the latest announcements around Microsoft Azure including the announced new regions in Switzerland and some of the changes coming to the behavior of SNAT with Azure Load Balancer. Sponsors ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or ...
Episode 140 – Preparing For The End Of Skype For Business
August 29, 2019 12:00 - 30 minutes - 21.1 MBThe impacts of moving from Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams outside of enabling licenses and training your users.
Episode 139 – Azure Migrate v2
August 22, 2019 12:00 - 34 minutes - 31.5 MBIn Episode 139, Ben and Scott talk about Azure Migrate v2 and how you can use the new Azure Migrate hub to integrate both Microsoft and ISV tooling into a single pane of glass for executing migrations to Azure. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automat...
Episode 138 – Slaying PowerShell Dragons
August 15, 2019 12:00 - 35 minutes - 32.4 MBIn Episode 138, Ben and Scott discuss an issue Scott ran into with PowerShell, scheduled tasks, and PowerShell jobs. They then talk about a preview capability in Azure AD for custom roles, some announced changes for Office 365 and support for legacy TLS versions. 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 Op...
Episode 137 – Azure and Office 365 News
August 08, 2019 12:00 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MBIn Episode 137, Ben and Scott dive into the latest Azure and Office 365 news, including the public preview of Azure Dedicated Host, the announced end-of-life for Skype for Business Online, and Private Channels in Microsoft Teams. Sponsors Opsgility – Your Cloud enablement partner to help guide your organization through all phases of Cloud migration and adoption Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ...
Episode 136 – Azure SQL Managed Instance
August 01, 2019 12:00 - 30 minutes - 21.2 MBBen and Scott go through some of the high-level features of Azure SQL Managed Instance.
Episode 135 – Speaking at Microsoft Ignite! with Anna Chu
July 25, 2019 12:00 - 35 minutes - 24.7 MBA chat with Anna Chu discussing what is involved with becoming a speaker at Microsoft Ignite 2019.
Episode 134 – Change Is Afoot For Microsoft Partners
July 18, 2019 12:00 - 33 minutes - 22.8 MBBen and Scott discuss some of the upcoming changes to the Microsoft Partner program.
Episode 133 – We Still Have All Of Our Fingers
July 11, 2019 12:00 - 33 minutes - 23.3 MBTips and tricks for Azure Active Directory Conditional Access, a new "jump box" service from Microsoft for Azure-hosted virtual machines called Azure Bastion, and improvements coming to OneDrive consumer accounts.
Episode 132 – Why Friends Don’t Let Friends Buy Office 365 Business
July 04, 2019 12:00 - 37 minutes - 26 MBWhy friends shouldn't let friends buy Office 365 Business plans by comparing Office 365 Business Premium to Office 365 Enterprise E3.
Episode 131 – Microsoft Teams Governance (Part 2)
June 27, 2019 12:00 - 33 minutes - 23.2 MBEpisode 131 is part 2 of their conversation from last week on Microsoft Teams governance.
Episode 130 – Microsoft Teams Governance
June 20, 2019 12:00 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBA session Ben Stegink delivered at the Microsoft Teams Virtual Summit on Microsoft Teams governance.
Episode 129 – The Latest and Greatest in Azure and Office 365
June 13, 2019 12:00 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MBBen and Scott talk about the ability to login to your Linux virtual machines in Azure with Azure AD.
Episode 128 – Automating SharePoint Online with Flow, PowerShell, and Azure
June 06, 2019 12:00 - 35 minutes - 24.1 MBEpisode 128 dives into Microsoft Flow, Azure Logic Apps, and Azure Automation. The hosts discuss how you can integrate all of these tools to build rich Office 365 automation solutions.