Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast
379 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsYour Microsoft Cloud News from a couple of IT Pros
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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.
Episode 127 – SharePoint Conference 2019 Announcements
May 30, 2019 12:00 - 38 minutes - 26.2 MBThe latest announcements from SharePoint Conference 2019.
Episode 126 – Privileged Accounts In Azure AD The Right Way
May 23, 2019 12:00 - 33 minutes - 23.3 MBHow to handle privileged accounts in Azure Active Directory and its associated workloads such as Office 365.
Episode 125 – Right Back Where We Started //BUILD 2019
May 16, 2019 12:00 - 30 minutes - 20.9 MBThe pre and post-//BUILD 2019 announcements.
Episode 124 – Everything Came Back Up
May 09, 2019 12:00 - 34 minutes - 23.6 MBA discussion about the latest outage to hit Microsoft cloud services like Azure and Office 365 and then get into the announced retirement of the US Gov Iowa region for GCC customers.
Episode 123 – SharePoint admin center updates and Office 365 Cloud Policy Service
May 02, 2019 12:00 - 28 minutes - 19.3 MBThe latest news around Azure and Office 365, including updates to the SharePoint Online Admin Center and the Office cloud policy service.
Episode 122 – Saving Money on Compute in Azure
April 25, 2019 12:00 - 35 minutes - 24.1 MBIn Episode 122, Ben and Scott talk about strategies for saving money on virtual machines in Azure by stopping them when they’re not needed, right-sizing your workloads, and techniques for horizontal scaling with Azure autoscale. Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Sperry Software - Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox Opsgility - Your Cloud enablement partner to...
Episode 121 – Moving at the Speed of the Cloud
April 18, 2019 12:00 - 30 minutes - 20.9 MBIn Episode 121, Ben and Scott walk through some of the latest announcements for Azure Storage and Azure AD. Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Sperry Software - Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox Opsgility - Your Cloud enablement partner to help guide your organization through all phases of Cloud migration and adoption Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing a...
Episode 120 – All Of The Portals
April 11, 2019 12:00 - 34 minutes - 24.1 MBBen and Scott dive into some of the latest announcements around Teams and Kaizala.
Episode 119 – Technology Is Easy
April 04, 2019 12:00 - 32 minutes - 22.6 MBBen and Scott dive into consulting in the cloud.
Episode 118 – Lots Of News
March 28, 2019 12:00 - 34 minutes - 23.7 MBBen and Scott dive into the slew of announcements from the last week, including upcoming changes to Microsoft Defender, Windows Virtual Desktop in Azure, and updates for Microsoft Teams.
Episode 117 – Azure Enterprise Scaffold
March 21, 2019 12:00 - 37 minutes - 26.2 MBBen and Scott dive into a set of listener questions about Azure subscription and resource governance.
Episode 116 – Azure Sentinel
March 14, 2019 12:00 - 34 minutes - 24 MBBen and Scott dive into Azure Sentinel, a new cloud-native, security information event management (SIEM) and security orchestration automated response (SOAR) solution from Microsoft.
Episode 115 – That’s One Way To Kill Your Own Product
March 07, 2019 16:00 - 33 minutes - 23.5 MBBen and Scott start their day trying to understand the psychology of Microsoft and their latest marketing efforts for Office on the desktop and then they discuss the recent outages in Microsoft Teams and alerts in Azure Monitor.
Episode 114 – Answering “Why Cloud?” with Sarah Lean
February 28, 2019 13:00 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MBBen and Scott have a chat with Sarah Lean, a Cloud Solution Architect from Microsoft about why you should be looking at the cloud and how to govern your Azure environments.
Episode 113 – Megatastic
February 21, 2019 13:00 - 33 minutes - 23 MBBen and Scott dive into the latest Office 365 and SharePoint Online updates, including access to mega menus in Hub sites and new options for footers in Communication sites, new options for security baselines in InTune, and how to use the Graph Security API with Azure Logic Apps, Flow, and PowerApps.
Episode 112 – Azure Front Door (aka Having Honey With Your Pizza)
February 14, 2019 13:00 - 34 minutes - 23.7 MBScott and Ben talk all things Azure Front Door, a Layer 7 service which can be used to optimize web applications for best performance, instant global failover, and application layer security.
Episode 111 – Calling in the Cloud
February 07, 2019 13:00 - 36 minutes - 25 MBBen schools Scott on calling in the cloud, including options for inter-org communication, chat, voice, and other traditional phone features that are available in Office 365.
Episode 110 – Cloud Concepts
January 31, 2019 13:00 - 37 minutes - 26.1 MBIn Episode 110, Ben and Scott start having a discussion about new Azure Fundamentals exam from Microsoft and how it focuses on core concepts of the cloud. In this episode, they get started at the beginning with cloud concepts, such as the differences between IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Sperry Software - Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your ...
Episode 109 – Fitness Trackers for Work
January 24, 2019 13:00 - 34 minutes - 23.7 MBBen and Scott talk about some of the recent updates to MyAnalytics and the availability of the analytics suite being expanded outside of Office 365 E5 SKUs. They also get into some announcements around containers in Azure, including the depreciation of the Azure Container Service (ACS) and how to think about migrating over to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
Episode 108 – Backup and Recovery in Office 365
January 17, 2019 13:00 - 38 minutes - 26.7 MBScott and Matthew McDermott discuss how you can rationalize data backup and recovery features that are native to the Office 365 platform from both an admin (operations) and end-user perspective.
Episode 107 – What’s New in Office 365
January 10, 2019 13:00 - 32 minutes - 22.6 MBBen and Scott discuss what's new in Office 365, including the re-introduction of custom tags on OneNote, new voice features and admin roles in Microsoft Teams, and a slew of updates to SharePoint web parts.
Episode 106 – History of OneDrive
January 03, 2019 13:00 - 35 minutes - 24.8 MBIn Episode 106, Ben sits down with Jason Moore, Head of OneDrive Product, Partner Group Program Manager at Microsoft and Stephen Rose Sr Product Marketing Manager- OneDrive at Live! 360 Orlando. They take a walk down memory lane and discuss the history of OneDrive and how and the components and functionality of previous products make up OneDrive today. Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Sperry Software - Powerful Outlook Add-ins deve...
Episode 105 – From AzureRm to Az in Azure PowerShell
December 27, 2018 13:00 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MBIn Episode 105, Ben and Scott get into the news around the latest release of Azure PowerShell and the transition from AzureRm to Az and the impacts it has on existing PowerShell-based automation for Azure. They also get into how you can protect your IaaS SQL Servers that are hosted in Azure using Azure Backup and a Recovery Services vault. Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Sperry Software - Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make...
Episode 104 – SharePoint Teams with Mark Kashman
December 20, 2018 13:00 - 32 minutes - 22.5 MBScott sits down with Mark Kashman to talk about SharePoint team sites, Microsoft Teams, and how you can approach the lifecycle of collaborative content
Episode 103 – Enterprise Mobility with Simon Binder
December 13, 2018 13:00 - 20 minutes - 14 MBIn Episode 103, Scott sits down with Simon Binder from the Knee Deep in Tech podcast to talk about Enterprise Mobility. They discuss device management, mobile application management, and how to manage user adoption when you're moving at the pace of the cloud. Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Sperry Software - Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox Office365Admi...
Episode 102 – Azure AD Goes Down (Again?)
December 06, 2018 13:00 - 32 minutes - 22.3 MBIn Episode 102, Ben and Scott discuss what’s been happening with Azure AD MFA and how to have fun with nested virtualization in Azure. Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Office365Mon.com - How do you know what's going on with the health of your Office 365 tenant? With Office365Mon! Sperry Software - Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox Office365AdminPortal.co...
Episode 101 – Excited About Office 365 with Jason Himmelstein
November 29, 2018 13:00 - 26 minutes - 18.2 MBIn Episode 101, Scott sits down at Microsoft Ignite with Jason Himmelstein from the BIFOCAL podcast. They talk about some of the hidden gems in the SharePoint keynote and some of the exciting end-user enhancements coming to Office 365, SharePoint, and OneDrive for Business. Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Office365Mon.com - How do you know what's going on with the health of your Office 365 tenant? With Office365Mon! Sperry Softw...
Episode 100 – SHAZAM!
November 22, 2018 13:00 - 33 minutes - 23.4 MBIn Episode 100, Ben and Scott discuss some of the most recent happenings in Office 365 including the GA of group-based licensing and the "worldwide" release of Microsoft Kaizala, and how to track tasks in Microsoft Word. Save $500 on your Live! 360 Orlando registration with the code OSPK45 Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Office365Mon.com - How do you know what's going on with the health of your Office 365 tenant? With Office36...
Episode 99 – Office 365 PowerShell with Vlad Catrinescu
November 20, 2018 13:00 - 29 minutes - 20.3 MBIn Episode 99, Scott sits down with Vlad Catrinescu from Valo Intranet to talk about interacting with Office 365 from PowerShell - Exchange Online, Skype for Business Online, SharePoint Online - and more! Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Office365Mon.com - How do you know what's going on with the health of your Office 365 tenant? With Office365Mon! Sperry Software - Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy ...
Episode 98 – Catching Up On Office 365 News
November 15, 2018 13:00 - 34 minutes - 23.7 MBIn Episode 98, Ben and Scott get into the latest Office 365 and cover the release of the Office Customization Tool, some of the new enhancements to Intune licensing, and talk about some of the latest resources to help you create engaging SharePoint sites. Save $500 when you sign up for Live! 360 Orlando and a 5-day all-access Best Value Conference package when you use code OSPK45 or OSPK87. http://bit.ly/OSPK45Reg http://bit.ly/OSPK87Reg Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Rep...
Episode 97 – Azure Stack with Michael Wells
November 13, 2018 13:00 - 24 minutes - 17 MBIn Episode 97, Scott sits down with Michael Wells from Dell/EMC to discuss all things Azure Stack. Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Office365Mon.com - How do you know what's going on with the health of your Office 365 tenant? With Office365Mon! Sperry Software - Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge a...
Episode 96 – SharePoint Announcements and Listener Questions
November 08, 2018 13:00 - 32 minutes - 22.3 MBIn Episode 96, Ben and Scott respond to a listener question around discoverability of documents hosted in Office 365 on mobile devices and dive into the latest announcements for SharePoint Online and Office 365. Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Office365Mon.com - How do you know what's going on with the health of your Office 365 tenant? With Office365Mon! Sperry Software - Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email lif...
Episode 95 – SharePoint Announcements from Ignite with Joanne Klein
November 06, 2018 13:00 - 23 minutes - 16.4 MBIn Episode 95, Scott sits down with Joanne Klein from NexNovus to talk about the latest announcements for content services and ECM in SharePoint Online and Office 365. Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Office365Mon.com - How do you know what's going on with the health of your Office 365 tenant? With Office365Mon! Sperry Software - Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage you...
Episode 94 – Get Microsoft Cloud Certified
November 01, 2018 12:00 - 36 minutes - 25.6 MBIn Episode 94, Ben and Scott talk about the latest Azure and Microsoft 365 certifications and what it means to you if you're getting started today or transitioning an existing certification. Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Office365Mon.com - How do you know what's going on with the health of your Office 365 tenant? With Office365Mon! Sperry Software - Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re...
Episode 93 – Office 365 Backup and Recovery with Daivat Dholakia
October 30, 2018 12:00 - 16 minutes - 11.9 MBIn Episode 93, Ben sits down with Daivat Dholakia, Director of Products at Spanning. They have a discussion around Office 365 backup and recovery, starting with what Office 365 does for you and where you may need to look for additional features and functionality outside of Office 365. Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Office365Mon.com - How do you know what's going on with the health of your Office 365 tenant? With Office365Mon! S...
Episode 92 – “Modern” Intranets with Adam Levithan
October 25, 2018 12:00 - 28 minutes - 20.1 MBIn Episode 92, Scott sits down with Adam Levithan from Withum Digital to talk all things modern SharePoint - Intranets, Hub Sites, Communication Sites, and how to inflict value on your users. Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Office365Mon.com - How do you know what's going on with the health of your Office 365 tenant? With Office365Mon! Sperry Software - Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’r...
Episode 91 – Azure Virtual WAN with Sony Kogin
October 18, 2018 12:00 - 32 minutes - 22.6 MBIn Episode 91, Scott sits down at Ignite with Sony Kogin from Citrix to talk about Azure Virtual WAN, Azure Front Door, and how to think about implementing network controls for end-user experience when accessing cloud services. Also, join Scott and I at Live!360 in Orlando. Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Office365Mon.com - How do you know what's going on with the health of your Office 365 tenant? With Office365Mon! Sperry Softw...
Episode 90 – Power BI and Data Democratization with Alexander Arvidsson
October 16, 2018 12:00 - 18 minutes - 12.9 MBIn Episode 90, Scott sits down with Alexander Arvidsson from the Knee Deep in Tech podcast to talk about Power BI and how you can approach designing and sharing data within Office 365. Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Office365Mon.com - How do you know what's going on with the health of your Office 365 tenant? With Office365Mon! Sperry Software - Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too b...
Episode 89 – Azure Migrate with Jeremy Winter
October 11, 2018 12:00 - 26 minutes - 18.7 MBIn Episode 89, Scott sits down with Jeremy Winter, Director of Azure Management, to talk about Azure Migrate and how to approach the migration lifecycle of Assess, Migrate, Optimize, Secure, and Manage. Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Office365Mon.com - How do you know what's going on with the health of your Office 365 tenant? With Office365Mon! Sperry Software - Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy e...
Episode 88 – Advanced Data Governance with Erica Toelle
October 09, 2018 12:00 - 23 minutes - 16.2 MBIn Episode 88, Scott sits down with Erica Toelle from RecordPoint where they discuss labeling and classification in Office 365, applying retention, and what to look for as you implement data governance with Office 365 and other SaaS services. Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Office365Mon.com - How do you know what's going on with the health of your Office 365 tenant? With Office365Mon! Sperry Software - Powerful Outlook Add-ins d...
Episode 87 – The Business of Azure Blockchain with Paul Swider
October 04, 2018 12:00 - 23 minutes - 16.4 MBIn Episode 87, Scott sits down for a cup of coffee with Paul Swider. They discuss the business case for blockchain, including use cases and Paul's work with healthcare institutions as well as how to get started with Azure Blockchain. Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Office365Mon.com - How do you know what's going on with the health of your Office 365 tenant? With Office365Mon! Sperry Software - Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed ...
Episode 86 – What Microsoft 365 Admins Need to Know about Azure (Live from Microsoft Ignite)
September 29, 2018 12:00 - 32 minutes - 22.8 MBIn Episode 86, Ben and Scott come to you live from Microsoft Ignite in Orlando (or via the magic of delayed time travel up to a week later). In this episode, they discuss some of the new features that have been announced in Azure and where they will impact existing Office 365 and Microsoft 365 administrators. Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Office365Mon.com - How do you know what's going on with the health of your Office 365 tenan...
Episode 85 – Ignite Stories with Sean Bugler
September 27, 2018 12:00 - 29 minutes - 20.8 MBIn Episode 85, Ben sits down to talk with Sean Bugler to talk about how Office 365 has been rolled out in a GCC tenant, including the trials and tribulations of maintaining an Office 365 tenant and building a vision for aligning Office 365 and other cloud services to the needs of the business. Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Office365Mon.com - How do you know what's going on with the health of your Office 365 tenant? With Office36...
Episode 84 – Ignite 2018 Announcements!
September 24, 2018 14:00 - 33 minutes - 23.4 MBIn Episode 84, Ben and Scott talk about the latest announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2018. There are so many things we could talk about, but we've focused on Office 365, the Microsoft security stack, and some of the newest services coming in Azure IaaS. Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Office365Mon.com - How do you know what's going on with the health of your Office 365 tenant? With Office365Mon! Sperry Software - Powerful Outl...
Episode 83 – Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches with Iain Foulds
September 20, 2018 12:00 - 36 minutes - 25.5 MBIn Episode 83, Ben and Scott talk with Iain Foulds about his new book, Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches and how it can help those that are just getting started with Azure or the cloud get up to speed in just a month! Tweet @msclouditpro with the hashtag #azurebook to enter for a chance to win a free copy of Iain's book! Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Office365Mon.com - How do you know what's going on with the health of your Off...
Episode 82 – Microsoft Teams with Karuana Gatimu
September 13, 2018 12:00 - 34 minutes - 24 MBIn Episode 82, Ben and Scott are joined by Karuana Gatimu, Principal PM Manager in the Insights and Outreach team in Microsoft Engineering, where they discuss the latest happenings with Microsoft Teams - convergence with Skype for Business, Microsoft Teams governance, and the Office 365 Champions program. Don't forget to stop by and visit us at Microsoft Ignite when we record! Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Office365Mon.com - Ho...
Episode 81 – Microsoft Intune and Mobile Device Management
September 06, 2018 12:00 - 32 minutes - 22.8 MBIn Episode 81, Ben and Scott dive into Microsoft Intune and mobile device management (MDM). Also, we'll be at Ignite, so don't forget to come by and say "Hi!". Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Office365Mon.com - How do you know what's going on with the health of your Office 365 tenant? With Office365Mon! Sperry Software - Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox...
Episode 80 – Hybrid Azure Active Directory Join
August 30, 2018 12:00 - 33 minutes - 23.4 MBToday we dive into a listener question from Steve about EMS, Hybrid Azure AD joined devices and other fun topics around joining devices to Azure AD/Office 365. Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! 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 https://shell.azure.com Expose EditorZoom (...
Episode 79 – Azure Application Gateway
August 23, 2018 12:00 - 28 minutes - 20.2 MBIn Episode 79, Ben and Scott get Azure Application Gateway - a layer 7 load-balancer offering from Microsoft. Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Show Notes What is Azure Application Gateway? Session Affinity Overview of end-to-end SSL with Applica...