In 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 Read More
In 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 Read More
In 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 Read More
In 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. Read More
In 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, Read More
In 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 Read More
Ben 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.
In 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.
Ben 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 Read More
In 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 Read More
In 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 Read More
In 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 Read More
In 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, Read More
In 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 Read More
In 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 Read More
In 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 Read More
In 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 Read More
In 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 Read More
