Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast

In Episode 186, Ben and Scott talk through several scenarios around the use of Azure Synapse, Forms Recognizer, and Azure Cognitive Search. Transcript Email Download New Tab - Welcome to Episode 186 of the "Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast," recorded live on July 9th, 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 this episode, Ben and Scott dive into some work Ben has been doing lately, involving Azure Synapse, Cognitive Search and Forms Recognizer. I don't know how many of our listeners follow American football. Did you see the news from the American Football League or the NFL? Technically the National Football League, but they only play in America, so I don't really know why it's national, although, international, I don't know. Anyhu, did you hear the news from them yesterday? - I did not. - NFL teams will be forbidden from post-game interactions within six feet of each other and jersey exchanges between players will be prohibited during the 2020 season. The reaction from the NFL fan or NFL players, "Aren't we going to be touching each other's jerseys "during the game?" Kind of pointless to prohibit interactions and jersey exchanges after the game. Or this is a perfect example of the NFL thinking in a nutshell. Players can go engage in a full-contact game and do it safely, however it is deemed unsafe for them to exchange jerseys after the game. - Yeah. - Let that one sink in, because you hear stories about what happens in those games. I'm sure those players are getting spit on and get spit in their face when they're under those piles. My random tidbit for the day. - Yeah, I don't know what to tell you about that one. Just a little bit of just logic that does not flow through that app. - Yeah. Okay, so there's my random tidbit for the day. We'll keep it short, we won't go on a 10-minute side topic. We've been doing that the last few weeks, only about Max stuff. - Oh, we could keep going about Max stuff. - We could keep going about Max stuff. We could turn into the "Microsoft 365 Apple Podcast." - Yeah, we could talk about how apps crash and eat up the GPU in wrong ways and just all sorts of things. - Or we could talk about running betas. - We could talk about running betas and things that go on there as well. No one should run a beta on their daily driver, but here you and I are. But you go further than I do, you do the operating systems on your laptop and PCs as well. I'm not that brave. - Yes, I have not done my operating system yet on this go around. I have learned my lesson after the last two or three. I'll probably wait another week or two. - But you did your watch. - I did my watch. - Why? - It's like, 'cause what harm can it do on a watch? - What harm can it do? Let's go back and pull up the thread. Hey Scott, isn't it annoying how I can never update the watch 'cause I have to reset it every time? What harm could it possibly do? Pushing two and a half gigs over a crappy Bluetooth LE connection, yeah. - It only takes four hours to update and then once it updates, it doesn't have enough space to install the next update. - You should not do that. Your phone, your iPad, sure, you can back up and restore those. That's your other problem with your watch, is you have to take it in for service if you wanna step back in an iOS version. - Or if you wanna go backwards. True - Yes. - I can always do a restart though after I upgrade, once I reset it, just to go to the next beta version. All right. - That is one way to live your life, for sure. - On the edge, or being very patient while my watch updates. I mean, I figured with my watch, what do I? It really has to keep time. If I get different notifications, all of that,

In Episode 275, Scott sits down with Karl Rautenstrauch, a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft to discuss the new Azure File Migration program. Karl explains how the program enables access to best of breed migration tooling which can help you easily perform managed migrations of files to Azure Storage, including Blobs, Files, and Azure NetApp Files. 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 Spot by NetApp – The cloud automation platform that makes it easy to deliver continuously optimized infrastructure at the lowest possible cost 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 Migrate the critical file data you need to power your applications New Azure File Migration program streamlines unstructured data migration Migrating your files to Azure has never been easier Migration guides Migrate your files to Azure - Azure IaaS Day 2021 Migration videos – https://aka.ms/filemigrationvideos Data Dynamics - https://aka.ms/datadynamicsguide Komprise - https://aka.ms/kompriseguide Accelerate infrastructure migration with Azure Storage | Azure Storage Day 2021 Azure Marketplace links Komprise Elastic Data Migration and Analytics, offer sponsored by Microsoft Azure Data Dynamics StorageX Migration, offer sponsored by Azure Azure Storage migration overview About our guest Karl is an IT veteran with 23 years of experience. He has been a systems administrator and architect for Fortune 500 companies, a national solutions architect for NetApp and Microsoft, and now a Principal Product Manager in Azure Engineering. Karl likes to be in the thick of emerging technologies. In his 9 years with Microsoft, he has focused on Azure Storage, Backup, Disaster Recovery, Edge Computing, and High Availability. In his role as a Product Manager with the Azure Storage team, he focuses on strategic partnerships to enable any and every workload to run on Azure. You can find him on Twitter as @Kloud_Karl or connect with him on LinkedIn. About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

Live from Microsoft Ignite! In Episode 29, Ben and Scott discuss the architecture of Microsoft Teams, how it is deployed and managed by Microsoft, and how organizations can enable themselves for a successful deployment in light of the announcement that Skype for Business will be built into Microsoft Teams. YouTube Video BRK3071 - Get an overview of Microsoft Teams architecture

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 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 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. 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 Microsoft Ignite 2020 Pre-registration Join Ben at North American Collaboration Summit and save $50 off full conference pass or workshops using coupon code "Stegink" Office 365 Video transition to Microsoft Stream overview Office 365 Video migration timing setting Microsoft Stream and Office 365 Video feature comparison Teams cloud meeting recording Where your meeting recordings are stored Which regions does Microsoft Stream host my data in? Add a calendar in Outlook on the web Download the new Microsoft Edge based on Chromium About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our 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. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Everyone on your team is unique...so is SkillMeUp.com. Only Skill Me Up provides the bridge from fundamentals to certification paths to advanced skills to accelerate digital transformation with 1 subscription with 5 ways to learn. Start your free pilot today and supercharge your IT and Microsoft Azure skills. https://skillmeup.com/pilot/?src=Pod Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

In 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 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 adoption SaneBox - SaneBox brings sanity back to your inbox by prioritizing what's important, removing spam/junk, grouping newsletters together, and automating tedious tasks. 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 Intune Day Zero support for new settings and updates in iOS 13 and macOS 10.15 Turn on iOS supervised mode Microsoft Intune announces the general availability of administrative templates Use Windows 10 templates to configure group policy settings in Microsoft Intune Policy CSP Microsoft Azure available from new cloud regions in Switzerland Azure Load Balancer becomes more efficient Managing SNAT (PAT) port exhaustion The Azure Security Lab - Dedicated cloud hosts for security researchers to test attacks Microsoft Azure Bounty Program Request an Azure Security Lab VM Previous Episodes Episode 133 - We Still Have All Of Our Fingers Episode 136 - Azure SQL Managed Instance Episode 137 - Azure and Office 365 News Episode 138 - Slaying PowerShell Dragons Episode 139 - Azure Migrate v2 About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our 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. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. As the leading global brand for enabling the Microsoft Cloud, Opsgility’s global Microsoft MVP and multi-certified Cloud Solutions Architect team has authored over twenty MOC Courses, the Microsoft Press Book Implementing Azure Solutions 70-533 and numerous Microsoft Cloud Practice Playbooks for Microsoft Partners. And for a limited time, you can get your team certified in the most exciting cloud business today with a 25% discount off instructor-led training prep courses for Azure and Microsoft 365! Visit https://opsgility.com/MicrosoftCloud to learn more. SaneBox brings sanity back to your inbox by prioritizing what's important, removing spam/junk, grouping newsletters together, and automating tedious tasks. Sign up today and save $25 on any subscription! https://www.sanebox.com/allthings Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.