In Episode 246, Scott laments about the squirrel living in Scott's roof. Then they talk about how you can now access VS Code from your browser on GitHub.com by just pressing your period key and then discuss all of the updates you should be thinking about as AADConnect and Azure Read More

In Episode 245, Ben and Scott discuss Viva Topics and some frustrations around managing topics as an end-user. Then they dive into some of the latest items that have appeared on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap. Sponsors ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Read More

In Episode 244, Ben tells Scott about his experience locking himself out of his Azure AD tenant and then they discuss recently GA'd features for Azure Storage including blob inventory, last access time tracking, and Archive storage events. Sponsors ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their Read More

In Episode 243, Scott listens as Ben dives into his experience with the initial setup and deployment of Windows 365 desktop. 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 Read More

In Episode 242, Ben and Scott sit down with Rima Reyes, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft Teams Engineering, to chat about Microsoft Teams, apps across industry clouds, and how to express customer empathy in engineering to build a vibrant partner ecosystem. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your Read More

In Episode 241, Ben is on vacation and Scott is on his own, so we're trying a new format offering some quick news and updates around Azure. Please let us know if you like this format and want shorter episodes like this in the future. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Read More

In Episode 240, Scott tricks Ben into talking about the latest version of SharePoint Server (SharePoint Server Subscription Edition) that was announced this week. 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 Read More

In Episode 239, Ben and Scott take a detour to talk about Azure Resource Explorer (no, not that Azure Resource Explorer, the other one) and then dive in the recently announced Windows 365 offering. Sponsors Spot by NetApp – The cloud automation platform that makes it easy to deliver continuously optimized Read More

In Episode 238, Ben discusses trends in Microsoft Teams governance with the CEO of Orchestry - Michal Pisarek - including the challenges associated with content sprawl, multiples Teams with the same purpose in the same tenant, and how to think about adoption and ensuring your users are taking advantage of Read More

In Episode 237, Ben and Scott dive into a customer scenario that involves copying hundreds of thousands of files from one storage account to another in Azure. Sponsors Spot by NetApp – The cloud automation platform that makes it easy to deliver continuously optimized infrastructure at the lowest possible cost ShareGate Read More

In Episode 236, Ben and Scott discuss an interesting question about MFA and using Microsoft Authenticator on personal devices, new Azure regions coming to Arizona (West US 3) and Georgia (East US 3), and a rebranding of Windows Virtual Desktop to Azure Virtual Desktop. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins Read More

In Episode 235, Ben and Scott talk about the release of Scheduler, the "new" AI, Cortana-based meeting scheduling service for Microsoft 365, updates on the timelines for disabling Basic Auth in Exchange, and a preview capability in SharePoint Online that will allow you to rename your SharePoint domain name. Sponsors Read More

In Episode 234, Ben sits down with Chris Givens at the Azure + AI conference (a part of DEV intersection) to talk about security in the Microsoft Cloud. 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 - Read More

In Episode 233, Ben and Scott dive into Azure Resource Manager Template Specs, the new Azure Firewall connector for Azure Logic Apps, and some of the changes coming to how you manage Azure AD with PowerShell. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even Read More

In Episode 232, Ben and Scott catch up on some of their favorite announcements from Microsoft Build 2021, including a quick tour of Continuous access evaluation (CAE) with Azure AD. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage Read More

In Episode 231, Ben and Scott talk about calendar management and some options for combining calendars from multiple sources (e.g., several Exchange Online accounts from multiple tenants) and then discuss a new preview capability in Azure Storage that extends native Azure RBAC DataActions to include conditions such as blob index Read More

In Episode 230, Ben and Scott discuss considerations for monitoring your workloads in the Microsoft cloud, including Azure and Microsoft 365. 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 Read More

In Episode 229, Ben and Scott answer a listener's question and get nostalgic about how they got into technology and ended up where they are in their careers today. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your Read More

In Episode 228, Scott listens in as Ben talks through the process of doing an Exchange 2010 cutover migration after an acquisition and the pitfalls of not taking the time to perform discovery of the current environment. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy Read More

In Episode 227, Ben listens as Scott vents about his Q-NAP NAS was attacked with ransomware and some things you can think about doing to have a better posture for configuring and securing your NAS. Then they get into the Azure Retail Prices API, a publicly accessible API for accessing Read More