Microsoft Mechanics Podcast
392 episodes - English - Latest episode: 12 days ago - ★★★★ - 18 ratingsMade for tech enthusiasts and IT professionals. Expanded coverage of your favorite technologies across Microsoft; including Office, Azure, Windows and Data Platforms. We'll even bring you broader topics such as device innovation with Surface, machine learning, and predictive analytics.
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Managing Office with SCCM (2019)
July 25, 2019 17:26 - 8 minutes - 41.9 MB VideoFifth video in our series on employing SCCM to prepare for Office deployment. On this episode, you'll get the steps to keep your managed Office apps up to date, learn when to install Office on top of an existing Office install, and how to troubleshoot day-to-day issues.
Deploying Office with SCCM (2019)
July 25, 2019 17:22 - 7 minutes - 28.7 MB VideoFourth video in our series on employing SCCM to prepare for Office deployment. On this episode, you'll get the steps to create and configure an Office package: your options to define the experience for users, and the tools you'll want to know about along the way.
Compatibility for Office upgrades using SCCM (2019)
July 25, 2019 17:18 - 5 minutes - 28.9 MB VideoThird video in our series on employing SCCM to prepare for Office deployment. On this episode, we'll cover the rest of the preparation steps for Office deployment and management, inventory and readiness, add-in and macro compatibility, and more. You'll also learn the configuration prerequisites that you need to be aware of, as part of your Office deployment and management.
Prerequisites for Office upgrades using SCCM (2019)
July 25, 2019 17:14 - 8 minutes - 38.1 MB VideoSecond video in our series on employing SCCM to prepare for Office deployment. On this episode and the next, you'll see what's different and how to plan for your Office deployment. You'll learn what to do and what not to do, and how to make sure any Office add-ins or macros will be compatible. You'll also learn which prerequisites you'll want to set up prior to creating your Office packages.
Microsoft Office for IT using SCCM: Series intro (2019)
July 25, 2019 16:45 - 3 minutes - 25.1 MB VideoFirst video in our series to help you prepare, upgrade, and manage Office in your organization. The primary focus is to move you from an older version of Office to a current release and how to stay up to date.
HSBC's PayMe for Business app | How we built it in Azure
July 24, 2019 17:31 - 19 minutes - 137 MB VideoTips to innovate with the cloud in a highly-regulated industry. Alessio Basso, Chief Architect of PayMe from HSBC will show you how they built an intelligent, secure and analytics rich, digital payment platform for their PayMe for Business App in Hong Kong on Azure. Check out the PayMe app here: https://payme.hsbc.com.hk To build tech like this with HSBC. Go to https://www.hsbc.com/techcareers
Windows Virtual Desktop how-to | Step 3: Optimize
July 23, 2019 16:21 - 12 minutes - 48.8 MB VideoStep three (optimize) in our how-to series for preparing, deploying, and optimizing Windows Virtual Desktop. You'll get everything you need to know on optimizing your Windows Virtual Desktop deployment. At the heart of optimization is performance, and on this last of the series, we focus on user experience and storage as well as scaling. For this video, you should already have your Windows Virtual Desktop tenant, as well as your first host pool running. And if you haven't already, please c...
Windows Virtual Desktop how-to | Step 2: Deploy
July 23, 2019 16:15 - 11 minutes - 36.6 MB VideoStep two (deploy) in our how-to series for preparing, deploying, and optimizing Windows Virtual Desktop. You'll get the steps and decisions to get to your first host pool and get that running. We'll look at how to build our host pool, then move on to provisioning both full desktop and apps for users. To get started, you'll need to have taken the pre-requisite steps to set up your initial WVD tenant. If you haven't, check out our first episode on preparing for Windows Virtual Desktop at aka...
Windows Virtual Desktop how-to | Step 1: Prepare
July 23, 2019 15:13 - 9 minutes - 44.3 MB VideoStep one (prepare) in our how-to series for preparing, deploying, and optimizing Windows Virtual Desktop. You'll get the prerequisite steps to take in the Azure Portal, along with steps for connecting to your existing directory service, before you deploy your Windows Virtual Desktop virtual machines. You'll also get the exact steps in PowerShell cmdlets that you're going to need to run for the Windows Virtual Desktop preview. Keep watching this playlist (www.aka.ms/wvdplaylist) or continue...
Windows Virtual Desktop Essentials | Intro and full tour
July 23, 2019 15:07 - 9 minutes - 63.9 MB VideoFirst video in our series on Microsoft's Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) Solution on Microsoft Azure. If your organization is looking for a more efficient, productive, and secure approach to desktop virtualization, this series will walk you through the full solution. WVD offers a fully managed desktop virtualization solution in the cloud and it works with all your apps and devices as you can expect. Including full-featured native client support for Windows Mac iOS and Android as well as ...
Microsoft Teams: Code free ways to optimize your experience
July 18, 2019 19:37 - 13 minutes - 83.9 MB VideoAutomate repeated tasks and extend Microsoft Teams to the field with code-free business apps using Microsoft Flow and PowerApps. Aya Tange returns the show to demonstrate what's possible integrating Flow and PowerApps with Microsoft Teams. Get more information at https://aka.ms/TeamsFlowPowerApps Watch more shows on Microsoft teams at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXtHYVsvn_b8FEycz7VsKnljYFmtYxnEv
Quantum Development Kit | Now open source + updates (2019)
July 11, 2019 22:29 - 9 minutes - 50.7 MB VideoNow open source, see the latest updates to the Microsoft Quantum Development Kit. Including how it's easier for you to jump into Quantum programming with self-paced learning exercises called Quantum Katas; the new samples for Numerics and Chemistry that give you examples of quantum programming and algorithms; the enterprise-grade development environment that integrates with Visual Studio and several new chemistry packages including a new release with 1Qubit for intermediate-scale Quantum sol...
What is Azure SQL Database Hyperscale?
July 09, 2019 19:49 - 17 minutes - 100 MB VideoRun your most demanding workloads with near-limitless growth capacity using Azure SQL Database Hyperscale. Industry expert, Kevin Farlee shows you how you can easily update your existing databases to hyperscale without rearchitecting your apps. We demo the major advantages from super-fast data backup and restore times, and the flexibility that comes from independently and fluidly scaling compute and data replicas. To learn more on Azure SQL Database Hyperscale, go to https://aka.ms/SQLDB_H...
Azure Monitor | Bridge to DevOps
July 09, 2019 19:32 - 8 minutes - 53.1 MB VideoFind and fix any issue with the health and performance of your workload. Watch Shankar Sivadasan, Senior Product Manager at Microsoft Azure, review the benefits of using end-to-end full-stack monitoring, advanced analytics and machine learning capabilities of Azure Monitor. If you are running complex workloads on Azure or embracing DevOps you need that single monitoring tool that gives you a 360-degree view across the application code, infrastructure, and network and allow teams and individu...
Multi-Geo in Office 365 - Steps and details on setup
June 13, 2019 16:34 - 7 minutes - 57.3 MB VideoOperate a single global Office 365 tenant with pinpoint control in locations all around the world. Administer where each user's content is stored at rest, and where future content will be stored. If your organization is subject to requirements around where your data is stored, in just a few minutes, you'll see the steps and details around setting up Multi-Geo capabilities in Office 365. You will learn how to manage your diverse, organization-wide data residency needs making it easy for use...
Symantec’s zero downtime migration to Azure Cosmos DB for its threat management services
June 04, 2019 15:18 - 17 minutes - 131 MB VideoSee how Symantec shifted from a complex self-managed database infrastructure to a geographically dispersed and low-latency database solution using Azure Cosmos DB. All with minimal code changes and no downtime. You’re also going to see how this was accelerated with their work into insights-driven DevOps and that model for continuous iteration and threat detection services. Joined Symantec technical architect, Michael Shavell in a special edition of “How We Built It” on Microsoft Mechanics, f...
SharePoint Online and OneDrive Multi-Geo to control where your data resides
May 22, 2019 16:07 - 8 minutes - 27.7 MB VideoConfigure where SharePoint's site data is stored and where individual users' OneDrive files reside with Multi-Geo capabilities in Office 365 SharePoint Online, now generally available. If you already use Office 365 Multi-Geo, you'll learn how to make content moves and get details on its updates. Multi-Geo in Office 365 is all about controlling data residency in regions or countries of your choice. In SharePoint on-premises Multi-Geo deployments are typically extensive and a resource-intens...
Windows Autopilot: white glove & updates since 1809
May 22, 2019 15:58 - 6 minutes - 17.9 MB VideoA look at the new Windows Autopilot capability called white glove. Whether you run IT for an organization or you're a vendor providing IT service, white glove, allows you to pre-provision applications, policies, and settings for a Windows 10 device, so users can be up and running on a new Windows 10 computer in a few moments. Also, the latest Windows 10 Autopilot features that we've delivered in Windows 10 1809 and beyond.
Monitor inappropriate communication through Microsoft 365
May 16, 2019 22:17 - 6 minutes - 20 MB VideoJoin us for a quick look at the new and improved Supervision policies in Microsoft 365. Learn how to create policies to help enforce corporate communications policies, monitor risk management, and meet regulatory compliance requirements. Use custom and intelligent policy conditions, such as the offensive language data model, to capture and flag all email and Microsoft Teams communications. Learn how to easily review and classify captured messages with the new management and reporting experie...
Knowledge mining with Azure Search
May 14, 2019 20:40 - 13 minutes - 99 MB VideoWatch the latest in Azure Search capabilities. Leverage hosted AI Services to quickly index unstructured data in any format so you can knowledge mine untapped information inside your organization. Principal Program Manager for Microsoft, Cindy Noteboom, walks you through a real-world example to demonstrate the steps you take to make previously idle data fully searchable. You'll see how to search, discover and visualize relationships across your data and add custom AI models and classifiers...
System Center Configuration Manager SCCM updates for Windows and Office deployment (2019)
May 14, 2019 20:29 - 17 minutes - 80.3 MB VideoStay ahead of Windows and Office deployments and updates with Configuration Manager. See what's new, explanation on your desktop deployment options, and proven guidance for automating the process to move forward from older versions of Windows and Office. Microsoft 365 Director Jeremy Chapman runs it all down - from app delivery updates, to networking enhancements, deeper tool integration and better user experiences.
Azure DevOps updates
May 06, 2019 16:35 - 17 minutes - 83.7 MB VideoThe latest on Microsoft's customizable platform for running DevOps in your organization or on any tech platform or cloud. Abel Wang, Principal Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft, shows you how Azure DevOps can be used with your preferred language, tools, and processes while taking advantage of new first-party GitHub integration for your open source projects. You'll see turn-key, cloud-hosted code versioning, and automated approval workflows plus learn to build and release CI/CD process wi...
How to use Microsoft Teams, a demo tutorial (2019)
April 30, 2019 16:06 - 15 minutes - 36.4 MB VideoLearn everything you need to know about using Microsoft Teams in 15 minutes. Aya Tange from Microsoft Teams walks through the end-to-end user experiences with a full demo tutorial: from chat and collaboration to online meetings and calling capabilities. If you're in IT, we also cover the core set of admin controls for managing Microsoft Teams. This show was recorded at Microsoft Ignite | The Tour in Amsterdam. To learn more, check out: http://aka.ms/SuccessWithTeams Have more questions...
Serverless automation with Python and PowerShell
April 23, 2019 16:33 - 5 minutes - 36.3 MB VideoEvent-driven automation using new Python and PowerShell language support for serverless compute, using Azure Functions. This allows you to bring your automation scripts to the cloud and run them automatically when needed, at minimal cost and exponentially more scale.
What is the Surface Hub 2S?
April 22, 2019 16:14 - 13 minutes - 44.5 MB VideoComplete details, demo and specifications of the Surface Hub 2S, an all-in-one collaboration device that’s built for teamwork – delivering a digital whiteboard, meetings platform, and fully integrated Windows 10 computing experience in one device. In this show, Dave Kearney from the Surface Hub engineering team shows you how the light and mobile design of Surface Hub 2S allows you to turn any space into a teamwork space. We'll give you a tour of the built-in features, from the 4K camera, t...
Management Groups, Policy, and Blueprints in Azure Governance
April 08, 2019 18:59 - 14 minutes - 88.3 MB VideoThe latest on governing Azure subscriptions for Cloud Architects or Ops Managers. Satya Vel, from the Azure Governance Team, demonstrates Microsoft's approach to Azure Governance overall, which now includes more granular control of policy across different apps and departments in your organization with management groups. You'll also see the new Azure Blueprint templates that simplify setting up your environment to meet specific compliance requirements such as ISO, as well as easier tracking o...
Hybrid enterprise serverless in Microsoft Azure
April 03, 2019 21:33 - 9 minutes - 46.9 MB VideoApply serverless compute securely and confidently to any workload with new enterprise capabilities. Jeff Hollan, Sr. Program Manager from the Azure Serverless team, demonstrates how you can turn on managed service identities and protect secrets with Key Vault integration, control virtual network connectivity for both Functions and Logic apps, build apps that integrate with systems inside your virtual network using serverless capabilities and set cost thresholds to control how much you want t...
Virtual node autoscaling and Azure Dev Spaces in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
April 03, 2019 15:30 - 11 minutes - 45.9 MB VideoRecent updates to the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) for developers and ops. Join Ria Bhatia, Program Manager for Azure Kubernetes Service, as she shows you the new autoscaling options using virtual nodes as well as how you can use Azure Dev Spaces to test your AKS apps without simulating dependencies. Also, check out the and new ways to troubleshoot and monitor your Kubernetes apps with Azure Monitor. For more information on AKS virtual nodes: https://aka.ms/virtualnode For more informat...
Hybrid networking in Microsoft Azure
April 02, 2019 15:22 - 10 minutes - 29.7 MB VideoSee your options for connecting your on-premises data center and workloads to Azure. Principal Product Manager for Microsoft Azure, Reshmi Yandapalli, will show you how you can establish connectivity with Azure Virtual Network to connect your general workloads, including the protection of your resources with Azure Firewall. Then we'll take things to the next level with a look at establishing your own resilient and secure private connection to Azure from your main sites with ExpressRoute, inc...
Azure Stack hybrid scaling
April 02, 2019 15:18 - 6 minutes - 17.8 MB VideoSee how to use Azure and Azure Stack to dynamically scale applications between your data center and the public cloud while keeping all of your data on premises and handling massive, unexpected increases in traffic. Senior Program Manager of Azure Stack, Anjay Ajodha, gives you an overview on how Azure Stack is Microsoft's hybrid cloud platform that gives you the flexibility to run some or all of your Azure-based infrastructure within your data center.
Hybrid security management across your data center, Microsoft Azure and other Clouds
April 02, 2019 15:12 - 4 minutes - 14.5 MB VideoSee hybrid security management across your data centers and cloud environments with Azure Security Center. Sr. Director of Azure Security, Scott Woodgate, will show you how we've designed Azure Security Center to be your central hub for monitoring the security status of your resources and to protect against threats across your Azure hybrid on-premises and multi-cloud environments.
Azure Stack for hybrid compute and disconnected scenarios
April 02, 2019 15:07 - 10 minutes - 42.9 MB VideoLatest updates to hybrid compute using the power of Microsoft's Azure cloud on-premises with Azure Stack. Partner Director Program Manager, Natalia Mackevicius will show you how to run hybrid apps and process data between Azure Stack and your data center and in the Azure public cloud to meet your regulatory and policy requirements. Plus, see how you can use Azure Stack as a powerful control plane for disconnected scenarios to harness insights from your IoT devices running on the Edge.
New Windows 10 and Office 365 management and user experiences (2019)
April 01, 2019 16:19 - 16 minutes - 49.2 MB VideoMicrosoft CVP, Brad Anderson, takes you through the latest updates to support modern experiences across devices with Windows 10 and Office 365. In this show, Brad demonstrates cold-booting his personal, highly-managed and secured Windows 10 device in under 20 seconds. We'll also show you new options to get to managed remote Windows sessions and apps across devices using the new Windows Virtual Desktop. And we show new streamlined management experiences for Microsoft 365 administrators as w...
What is Windows Virtual Desktop?
April 01, 2019 16:11 - 12 minutes - 31.4 MB VideoOn this show, we’ll take a closer look at Windows Virtual Desktop, now in public preview. See how you can give your users the only Windows 10 multi-session experience virtualized in the cloud and available on any device. Scott Manchester demonstrates how WVD delivers the best Office experience with multi-session virtual scenarios that virtualize persistent storage in a multi-session environment. Keep watching for a sneak peak of the next generation admin experience for WVD in the Microsoft A...
Windows Server 2019 + Microsoft Azure = hybrid management updates
March 11, 2019 19:59 - 14 minutes - 50.7 MB VideoSee updates to Windows Admin Center and Windows Server 2019 that line up practical hybrid management scenarios with Microsoft Azure. Windows Server, Principal Program Manager, Jeff Woolsey starts you off with Azure File Sync. Sync your local files to the cloud with virtually unlimited storage and fast, secure access. Next, he'll go over Azure Network Adapter for streamlined and encrypted connectivity from your Windows Server environment to Azure. See how to use your existing hardware, and ho...
Microsoft Teams updates for Firstline Workers
March 11, 2019 15:06 - 14 minutes - 36.9 MB VideoA close look at the Microsoft Teams updates for Firstline Workers and their managers across industries. Microsoft Teams' Product Manager, Keara James, reviews the new mobile features relevant to Firstline Workers such as a new smart camera, the ability to record and share audio, your location, and much more. You'll also see the Shifts capability that enables managers to easily build shift schedules, share daily goals, corporate content, and also enables employees to easily review shifts and ...
Information Protection updates in Microsoft 365
March 05, 2019 23:33 - 7 minutes - 43.8 MB VideoMicrosoft Information Protection is a family of complementary solutions to help you to discover, classify, protect and monitor your sensitive information, wherever it lives. Whether its on-premises, on devices, or in the Cloud. Whether you are concerned about protecting the security and privacy of your company data due to regulatory requirements or need to protect specific intellectual property, watch as Gagan Gulati from the Information Protection engineering team at Microsoft demonstrate...
Early look at Microsoft Threat Protection
March 04, 2019 18:30 - 11 minutes - 85.3 MB VideoHarnesses trillions of threat signals from the Microsoft Intelligent Security Graph to secure your workplace using Microsoft Threat Protection. Security CVP Rob Lefferts shows you the unified single consul for visibility of security threats across your identities, endpoints, email, user data, SaaS apps, infrastructure and more. See how this helps build and investigate a connected account of what's going on in your environment. This includes built-in protections and how new AI-powered securit...
Introducing Microsoft Azure Sentinel
February 28, 2019 17:50 - 7 minutes - 19.7 MB VideoMicrosoft Azure Sentinel is a new Cloud native SIEM service with built-in AI for analytics that removes the cost and complexity of achieving a central and focused near real-time view of the active threats in your environment. Koby Koren from the Azure Sentinel engineering team walks through the entire solution with an end-to-end demonstration from how to set it up, perform queries, investigations and more. Azure Sentinel is in preview today. Follow the link to try for yourself https://aka....
Introducing Progressive Web Apps and the new Office app (PWA)
February 20, 2019 19:15 - 16 minutes - 108 MB VideoExplore Progressive Web Apps (PWA), a new class of apps that deliver native platform experiences to enhance performance, resilience, installation, and engagement with apps. Aaron Gustafson, Principal Program Manager from the Microsoft Edge browser team, tells you what PWAs are, shows you where to find them, and explains how to build them. You'll also get a look at the most recent PWA addition: the brand new Office app.
Introducing the modern data warehouse solution pattern with Azure SQL Data Warehouse
February 07, 2019 16:39 - 16 minutes - 132 MB VideoA deep look at the robust foundation for all enterprise analytics, spanning SQL queries to machine learning and AI. Charles Feddersen, Principal Program Mgr. for Azure SQL Data Warehouse, starts you off by looking at the core updates to Azure's SQL Data Warehouse, ranging from improvements to query performance to new capabilities with row-level security and workload importance. And finally, you'll learn how the Modern Data Warehouse Solution pattern, comprised of Data Factory, Data Lake Stor...
Now do more with Advanced eDiscovery in Microsoft 365
January 31, 2019 20:17 - 7 minutes - 17 MB VideoLead engineer Iram Arras takes you on a demo-rich tour of updates to Advanced eDiscovery capabilities for Microsoft 365. See how we’ve streamlined and automated organizational search with a central built-in eDiscovery solution. This allows you to hold, search, and review data as you conduct investigations of any type.
Deploying Office apps with ConfigMgr (2019) + new MDM-less policy management
January 09, 2019 15:39 - 9 minutes - 18.1 MB VideoWhat’s changed for Office client deployment, with Click-to-Run, now the only installation option for Office. See what gets better with the new Office Client Policy Service and the Office Customization Tool...including fast and predictable removal of previously installed MSI packages and how combined with System Center Configuration Manager you get a greatly improved and single integrated process for Office deployment with Click-to-Run. If you’ve deployed Office client for your organization i...
User Communications and Training - Step 8 of Modern Desktop Deployment
January 01, 2019 13:31 - 7 minutes - 42.4 MB VideoThis is step 8 in the desktop deployment process - ensuring that your users are informed, ready and able to benefit from updates to Windows, Office and more. In this step, you'll learn about best practices for communicating to users, phased deployment to move at a measurable pace and pre-built user training for Office 365 via FastTrack's free Productivity Library. Applies to Windows 10, Office 365 ProPlus, System Center Configuration Manager and related enterprise deployment tools. More ...
Windows and Office-as-a-Service - Step 7 of Modern Desktop Deployment
January 01, 2019 13:30 - 7 minutes - 34.8 MB VideoThis is step 7 in the desktop deployment process - staying up-to-date with Windows-as-a-Service and Office-as-a-Service. In this step you'll learn about and assess the differences between your current software update management approach and how that changes with the introduction of Semi Annual Channel feature updates. In this video, we explore the update types for Windows 10 and Office 365 ProPlus - including Feature Updates and monthly Cumulative Updates with security, bug and quality fix...
OS Deployment and Feature Updates - Step 6 of Modern Desktop Deployment
December 30, 2018 19:08 - 7 minutes - 34.6 MB VideoThis is step 6 after you've started preparing and validating your apps and devices for compatibility, have your directory and networking infrastructure ready, a plan for migrating user files and settings and have assessed security solutions and their impact on your modern desktop. In this step, we look at Bare Metal, PC Refresh and PC Replacement tools and options, how to build images, automate task sequence-based installation and look at new options with Windows Autopilot. Applies to Win...
Security and Compliance Considerations - Step 5 of Modern Desktop Deployment
December 30, 2018 19:07 - 7 minutes - 36.9 MB VideoThis is step 5 in the desktop deployment process - your considerations for security and compliance configurations and tools as part of your desktop deployment. In this step you'll assess your existing security solutions across disk encryption, antivirus, policy and more, then make sure you have improved security once you are running Windows 10 and Office 365 ProPlus. This step covers the apps and services that run on the local computer - like AV and encryption - as well as cloud delivered ...
User Files and Settings - Step 4 in Modern Desktop Deployment
December 29, 2018 13:49 - 5 minutes - 28.3 MB VideoWhen refreshing or replacing PCs, save time by automating user state backup and restore. New options for cloud file sync allow you to enforce per user sync of Desktop, Documents and Pictures folders to OneDrive for seamless file access from new Windows installs. More resources: Modern Desktop Deployment Center: www.aka.ms/howtoshift Modern Desktop Deployment Essentials on Mechanics: www.aka.ms/watchhowtoshift Modern Desktop Deployment Labs: www.aka.ms/howtoshiftlabs Learn about ...
Office and LOB (Line of Business) App Delivery - Step 3 of Modern Desktop Deployment
December 27, 2018 14:23 - 6 minutes - 30.7 MB VideoThis is step 3 in the desktop deployment process - ensuring you can automate app installation and configuration as part of your desktop deployment. This step applies not only to bare metal, refresh and PC replacement scenarios, but can also apply to Windows upgrades using task sequence-based installation. In this step, we look application packaging and deployment options for MSI and EXE packaged apps, as well as how Office 365 ProPlus Click-to-Run packages are configured and distributed us...
Directory and Network Readiness - Step 2 of Modern Desktop Deployment
December 27, 2018 14:23 - 9 minutes - 44.6 MB VideoStep 2 in your desktop deployment process helps prepare your infrastructure for deployment. Cloud-connected services in Office 365 ProPlus and new deployment options like Windows Autopilot require Azure Active Directory. Your network and connectivity are also important areas to plan when moving Windows images, apps, drivers and related files to your PCs. Learn how new tools and deployment options reduce and streamline network traffic. More resources: Modern Desktop Deployment Center: ww...