Episode 186 – Azure Synapse, Cognitive Search, and Forms Recognizer

07/16/20 • 39 min

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,

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Episode 185 – Microsoft Teams for Personal Life

In Episode 185, Ben and Scott discuss the new features that are coming to Microsoft Teams for personal accounts including group chats and task management. Transcript Email Download New Tab - Welcome to Episode 185 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast recorded live on July 1 2020. This is a show about Microsoft 365 and Azure from the perspective of IT pros and end users, where we discuss the topic or recent news and how it relates to you. In this episode, Ben and Scott diverge from some of the business and enterprise features available in Microsoft Teams and talk about recent updates to the mobile client that allows you to use it for personal chats and group chats, task management and other personal group collaboration both with family as well as friends. - Woo hoo. - Woo hoo? Why are you excited? Because it's July 2, and you know what that means? - That it's almost July 3. - Yeah, it really means absolutely nothing to you and I. Means that today's tech... or tomorrow is technically a vacation, so we're recording on Thursday instead of Friday because someone wants to sleep in here. - Who? Your wife- - Someone not being me. - Your wife and my wife? - No, are you kidding me? My kids get us up way too early. I haven't slept-in in a long time, and my youngest has figured out how to climb out of his crib, so he just comes wandering into our bedroom at random times during the morning now. - Ah huh, that's always fun. - Yes, he is not saying anything or nor can understand that he has to stay in his bedroom until a certain time so he just climbs out and wanders around the house till he finds somebody. - Well, I just hope he finds you before he finds the mess in the kitchen or whatever else... - Yeah, well so we had- - Parent's mind. - We have a two story house so we have gates upstairs, so as long as we remember to shut the gates he can't get downstairs, he'll just stand at the top and grab it and rattle it, if he can't find us upstairs. Usually we're still upstairs and he finds us in bed. I think this morning he walked over to his brother's bed and was like ah trying to wake him up to get someone to play with him or something. - Perfect. - Yes, fun times. - Always fun. - That's all you got. - That's all you got? - Do you feel overwhelmed by trying to manage your office 365 environment? Are you facing unexpected issues that disrupt your company's productivity? Intelligink is here to help. Much like you take your car to the mechanic that has specialized knowledge on how to best keep your car running, Intelligink helps you with your Microsoft Cloud environment, because that's their expertise. Intelligink keeps up with the latest updates in the Microsoft Cloud to help keep your business running smoothly and ahead of the curve. Whether you're a small organization with just a few users up to an organization of several thousand employees, they want to partner with you to implement and administer your Microsoft Cloud Technology. visit them at Intelligink.com/podcast, that's Intelligink.com/podcast for more information or to schedule a 30 minute call to get started with them today. Remember Intelligink focuses on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business. - I got a new toy. - Oh, you did get a new toy, that's what July two means, it means your new toy came yesterday. - Yes it does. - What's your new toy? I already know what it is. - Yeah, well I'm getting on that Intel Mac train cause it's a good time to do it, right? - Right before it pulls out of the station, - Yeah, yeah. - Never to be seen again. - B&H had some good discounts on MacBook Pros the other day and I've wanted to get back to the Mac for a while, so this was an opportunity to pick one up so I just did some little things, massive, it weighs about a million pounds, you lied to me. 16 inch MacBook Pro. - Very nice.

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Episode 187 – AAD Alternate Login ID and Sensitive by Default in SharePoint

In Episode 187, Ben and Scott discuss the newly announced preview for alternate login IDs in Azure Active Directory, enabling "sensitive by default" labels with DLP in SharePoint Online, and the GA of the new Microsoft Secure Score. Transcript Email Download New Tab - Welcome to Episode 187 of the Microsoft Cloud IT pro podcast, recorded live on July 14 2020. This is a show about Microsoft 365 and Azure from the perspective of IT pros and end users. Where we discuss the topic or recent news and how it relates to you. In this episode, Ben and Scott covers some recent Microsoft 365 News, including Azure AD alternate login ID, sensitive by default in SharePoint and OneDrive and some other security related news. It's Wednesday, this has me all thrown off my game, cause I'm going on vacation, and I'm not-- - It's not even Wednesday, it's only Tuesday. - Yeah, see, I told you. Tuesday has me all turned off my game. Cause I am going on vacation to a remote cottage in Michigan to enjoy the sun and the sand and the water in social isolation from everyone, including a cell phone signal. - You think it's gonna be done. - Yes, I'm actually looking forward to it. My parents have a cottage up there, I have not seen it yet. So they got it like a year ago and I have not been up there to visit or to see the cottage because the last time we were up there it was winter. And just you don't go up there in the winter. Well, you could, but my kids would not have enjoyed it as much as I would have. - I think it's safe to say one does not go to Michigan in the winter, let alone to the cottage, the remote cottage at Michigan. - At Michigan, one absolutely goes to Michigan because there's snow to play in. - Yeah. - Then well billing to be had, sledding to be done, snowboarding. All of the fun winter sports. - Yeah, and you can almost go find yourself a real mountain. - I could, I could just go to Denver instead or to Utah or Montana, Canada. All of the above definitely have better skiing. But they're also-- - The northeast. - All the more expensive and I don't have family there. - The Northwest, little bit of Europe, bring the family with you. - I have always wanted to go to the Alps, to go skiing. My brother has done it, I have not. - I will not discourage you. - Perfect. - You should live your dreams. - Now I just have to convince my family. I need to get all my kids skiing. Do you know how hard it is to teach kids to ski and snowboard in Florida? - I do as I've been flying my mind around too, to do the same thing. - Yeah, once they get a little older, we'll teach them. We'll get them and then I'll go to Switzerland and-- - I'm gonna teach them how to ride the one wheel cause that's not like snowboarding, but it's close. - How close is it? Because I believe you have had the privilege of riding a one wheel a lot. - I bought one so yeah, now I gotta get my money's worth out of it. - Yes well, but do you get to ride it or have your kids hijacked it? - No, I ride it. - Okay. Is it like snowboarding then? - Not quite with the stock tire that comes on it. I think you need a different tire to make it feel a little bit more like that. But it is super fun. It's definitely a thing that you can get into with potentially like a deeper carve than a longboard. It's different than skateboarding or snowboarding or skiing, or any of those things, but it's definitely fun. It's addicting. - I might have to add that to my Christmas list, birthday list when I stopped buying LEGO sets. are a great way to improve productivity and save time in the workplace and Sperry software has all the add ins you'll ever need. The Save as PDF add in is a best seller and it's great for project backups, legal discovery and more. This add in saves the email and attachments as PDF files, it's easy to download,