Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast
Episodes
Episode 327 – The Loop app is not enabled in your organization
30 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 327, Ben and Scott talk through the new Microsoft Loop app which has entered public preview. Like what ...
Episode 326 – Using Microsoft Teams to run study groups
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 326, Ben and Scott take on a listener question about ways to run study groups using Microsoft Teams to study for certifications (or really ...
Episode 325 – How do I migrate from SharePoint Online to Azure blob storage?
16 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 325, Ben and Scott talk through their experiences with Loop as it approaches its impending public preview and then dive into a question abo...
Episode 324 – Have your cake and it eat too with VMSS Flex
09 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 324, Ben and Scott talk through some more fun with ChatGPT and how it can point you in the wrong direction even for code snippets. Then the...
Episode 323 – Managed Identities, Azure Automation, and the Microsoft Graph
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 323, Ben walks Scott through a recent customer project with Microsoft Graph, Azure Automation, and Logic Apps. It turns out that working wi...
Episode 322 – The communities, they are a changin’
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 322, Ben and Scott talk about the announced rebranding of Yammer to Viva Engage, a new admin center for Viva Engage, and the retirement of ...
Episode 321 – ChapGPT comes to Bing
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 321, Ben takes Scott through his current experience with the new Bing experience and ChatGPT integration. Then they talk about a quirk in t...
Episode 320 – Teams Premium is here
09 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 320, Ben and Scott get a little sidetracked and talk about their monitor setups, frustrations with Twitter and where we are on Mastodon, an...
Episode 319 – Taking a peek at the Microsoft 365 roadmap
02 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 319, Ben and Scott talk through a fun new way to keep up with updates to the Microsoft 365 roadmap using Office 365 Roadmap watch and them ...
Episode 318 – Application Health Extension and Azure Automation in VS Code
26 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 318, Ben and Scott talk about the Defender debacle from last week and then get into some new Azure previews, including rich application hea...
Episode 317 – Microsoft 365 Groups (Conversations) Migration Pain
19 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 317, Ben walks Scott through some of his trials and tribulations with migrating contents to and from Microsoft 365 Groups (Conversations) m...
Episode 316 – Azure DevOps or GitHub?
12 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 316, Ben and Scott talk about the continued fallout from the Rackspace ransomware attack as well as some other recent hacks from LastPass a...
Episode 315 – Loop makes me loopy
05 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 315, Ben takes Scott on a tour of Microsoft Loop and how it is working across Teams, Outlook and Word. Then they close out the episode with...
Episode 314 – Microsoft Teams Premium Preview
29 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 314, Ben and Scott have a quick follow-up on the Rackspace Hosted Exchange ransomware attack (TL;DR; if you haven’t migrated to Excha...
Episode 313 – Pour one out for the SREs at Rackspace
22 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 313, Ben and Scott discuss the ongoing fallout from the ransomware attack that took down the hosted Exchange environment at Rackspace in De...
Episode 312 – Gift ideas for the geek in your life
15 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 312, Ben and Scott take a break from Azure and Office 365 to talk about gifts that you can get for the geek in your life. With the holidays...
Episode 311 – Entra all the things
08 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 311, Ben and Scott discuss some of the latest announcements around Microsoft Entra including the GA of Workload identities and upcoming cha...
Episode 310 – Azure Quota API and Bastion shareable links
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 310, Ben and Scott discuss the preview of a new API for managing your Azure resource quotas using the Azure Quota Service API. They also di...
Episode 309 – Cross-tenant migrations for Exchange and OneDrive
24 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 309, Ben and Scott talk through some of the difficulties with the customer adoption and training aspects of Microsoft Teams, the GA of Powe...
Episode 308 – Microsoft Purview In-place Data Share for Azure Storage with Priya Shetty
17 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 308, Priya Shetty – Principal Product Manager – Azure Storage – joins Scott to talk all things Microsoft Purview In-place...
Episode 307 – Office connections to online services FUD
10 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 307, Ben and Scott talk about some more deprecations starting with the deprecation of converting DLs to M365 Groups, changes to the support...
Episode 306 – Testing Azure Arc using Azure VMs
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 305 – Azure Savings Plans for compute
27 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 304 – Coming down from the Ignite high
20 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 303 – We don’t talk about Viva
13 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It is Techtober and we’re fundraising for Girls Who Code. Go to https://give.girlswhocode.com/msclouditpro and donate today to help ensure girls...
Episode 302 – Picking the right Azure VM
06 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 302, Ben and Scott follow up on Microsoft Dev Box pricing from the latest Two the Cloud stream before diving into how to decipher Azure VM ...
Episode 301 – Git comes to Power Apps
29 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 301, Ben and Scott talk through some of the announcements from the Microsoft Power Platform Conference, including native co-authoring for c...
Episode 300 – Friends don’t let friends buy M365 from GoDaddy
22 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 300, Ben and Scott dive into why you might want to reconsider purchasing your M365 licenses and tenant from GoDaddy. Like what you hear and...
Episode 299 – Scott’s Ode to the Stream Deck
15 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 299, Ben lets Scott tell him all about his love of the Stream Deck and how he uses it to make remote work easier. Like what you hear and wa...
Episode 298 – Clearing the deck for Ignite
08 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 298, Ben and Scott talk through some of the recent GA announcements, including Change Analysis, Managed Grafana, and Ampere Altra processor...
Episode 297 – Microsoft Teams, Planner, and PowerApps Rough Edges
01 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 297, Ben and Scott talk about some of the rough edges with Planner, Teams, and Microsoft PowerApps before they transition to some PowerShel...
Episode 296 – Microsoft Purview data loss prevention
25 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 296, Ben and Scott continue their whirlwind tour of Microsoft Purview by turning their attention to the data loss prevention capabilities t...
Episode 295 – The artist formerly known as Azure Purview
18 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 295, Ben and Scott follow up last weeks episode on Microsoft Purview and dive into the Azure side of it – Data Map, Data Catalog, In-...
Episode 294 – Microsoft Purview with Erica Toelle
11 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 294, Ben sits down for a chat with Erica Toelle about Microsoft Purview. They start out by discussing Information Governance and Data Lifec...
Episode 293 – I have a story to share
04 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 293, Ben and Scott talk through some weird behaviors you can encounter when you’re using OneDrive for Business and Known Folder Move ...
Episode 292 – Cross-region Load Balancer and Premium SSD v2
28 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 292, Ben and Scott discuss some tips and tricks for macOS with OneDrive Known Folder Move and how to launch dedicated Microsoft Edge profil...
Episode 291 – I have a bandwidth problem
21 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 291, Ben and Scott lament the state of broadband in the US and the evil of bandwidth caps, how to wrangle permission scopes with the Micros...
Episode 290 – Moving from a Microsoft 365 Admin to MSP
14 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 290, Ben and Scott discuss how you can transition from a Microsoft 365 administrator at a single organization to becoming a managed service...
Episode 289 – Windows Admin Center comes to Azure
07 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 289, Ben and Scott dive into announcements for Windows Admin Center for ARC-enabled servers, Azure Gateway Load Balancer [maybe] reaching G...
Episode 288 – OneDrive Sync Reports and M365 PNP Assessments
30 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 288, Ben and Scott tour the OneDrive Sync Reports preview, talk about some new assessments available from the PNP project for SharePoint 20...
Episode 287 – Power BI Field Parameters and Microsoft Entra
23 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 287, Ben and Scott take a detour to talk about Field Parameters in Power BI before they get back on track and dive into Microsoft Entra. Li...
Episode 286 – Microsoft Build 2022 News and Announcements
16 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 286, Ben and Scott run down some of their favorite announcements from Microsoft Build 2022. Like what you hear and want to support the show...
Episode 285 – The new Outlook for Windows is here (for real this time)
09 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 285, Ben and Scott have some follow-up on the deprecation of basic auth in Exchange Online, a new learning collection for CMMC, and the pil...
Episode 284 – Take a break from basic authentication in Exchange Online
02 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 284, Ben and Scott spend some time reminding all of you that it is time to move off Basic Authentication in Exchange Online before it goes ...
Episode 283 – Azure Bicep with Andrew Connell
26 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 283, Ben brings Andrew Connell out of podcast retirement to discuss Azure Bicep. They discuss why to use Bicep, how and where to go to lear...
Episode 282 – Getting started with Power Query
19 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 282, Scott talks to Ben about a situation he ran into at work where he wanted to automate the ingestion of data from Azure Data Explorer an...
Episode 281 – Fast account switching comes to M365 web apps
12 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 281, Ben and Scott talk through how account switching for M365 web apps works and then some updates around Azure AD and how change manageme...
Episode 280 – Azure Storage or SharePoint for my files?
05 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 280, Ben and Scott talk through how you can think about migrating your files from on-premises to Azure Storage or to SharePoint Online. Lik...
Episode 279 – Ben’s rant about content types in SharePoint
28 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 279, Scott listens in as Ben discusses an issue he recently encountered with content type management and content types being pushed from a ...
Episode 278 – Shared Channels in Microsoft Teams are… interesting
21 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 278, Ben and Scott go through follow-up on the end-user experience for working with Microsoft Teams Shared Channels. To learn about what ne...
Episode 277 – Beep Bop BYOIP with Bring Your Own IP in Azure
14 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 277, Ben and Scott dive into the GA of “bring your own IP” (or BYOIP) in Azure, a capability that allows you to register your p...
Episode 276 – I need to lock down SharePoint but I need it to be open!
07 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 276, Ben and Scott start the episode talking about Teams display devices, Teams phones, and complimenting the Teams app on your computer. T...
Episode 275 – Azure File Migration program with Karl Rautenstrauch
31 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 275, Scott sits down with Karl Rautenstrauch, a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft to discuss the new Azure File Migration program. Kar...
Episode 274 – Microsoft Teams Connect shared channels and B2B direct connect
24 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 274, Ben and Scott dive into some of the considerations for identity and tenant configuration when you are getting started with Microsoft T...
Episode 273 – On-demand capacity reservations with Site Recovery
17 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 273, Ben and Scott talk about on-demand capacity reservations for Azure Virtual Machines and how they can be leveraged with Site Recovery s...
Episode 272 – SharePoint Online and Azure News
10 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 272, Ben and Scott discuss changes that are rolling out for the new move experience in SharePoint Online, support for known folder move in ...
Episode 271 – Smart Home All The Things
03 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 271, Ben and Scott take a break from Microsoft 365 and Azure talk about smart home devices, including their favorite uses for different cat...
Episode 270 – Microsoft Teams Phones and Azure VM Updates
24 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 270, Ben and Scott talk about a new Microsoft Teams phone from Yealink that Ben is testing and then talk about a recently GA’d capabi...
Episode 269 – Thunderbolt docks and Azure AD Updates
17 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 269, Ben and Scott talk about the just released CalDigit TS4 Thunderbolt 4 dock and then get into some news and updates around Azure AD, in...
Episode 268 – Getting Started with Terraform for Azure
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 268, Ben takes Scott through his experience getting started with Terraform and executing complex deployments in Azure. Sponsors Intelligin...
Episode 267 – Microsoft 365 Compliance – Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
03 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 267, Ben and Scott talk about some of the updates that have come to Data loss prevention (DLP) in Microsoft 365 and how you can leverage DL...
Episode 266 – Azure Reservations
27 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 266, Ben and Scott spend most of the time talking about Azure Reserved Instances. What they are, when you might want to use them, and some ...
Episode 265 – Azure Automation State Configuration vs Azure Policy guest configuration
20 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 265, Ben and Scott talk about Azure Automation State Configuration and Azure Policy guest configuration for using DSC at-scale with your vi...
Episode 264 – New Settings for Managing Teams Meeting Expiration
13 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 264, Ben and Scott kick off 2022 with some Azure CLI follow-up from 2021, and then they talk about some new settings available for managing...
Episode 263 – Tips and Tricks for Azure Cloud Shell
06 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 263, Ben and Scott dive into their favorite tips and tricks for using Azure Cloud Shell and all the programs and functionality that come wi...
Episode 262 – The One About AAD Connect
30 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 262, Ben and Scott discuss a bug in one of the latest releases of Azure AD Connect and then talk about a new supported topology where you c...
Episode 261 – Disconnecting from Tech
23 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 1 of this podcast was published on April 20, 2017. We’ve been recording and publishing weekly for almost 5 years. In that time, we’...
Episode 260 – Getting Started with Kusto in Azure
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 260, Ben and Scott talk about how to get started with KQL, or Kusto Query Language across a number of Azure and Microsoft 365 services, inc...
Episode 259 – Kerberos and Azure AD, sitting in a tree, a-u-t-h-e-n-t-i-c-a-t-i-n-g
09 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 259, Ben and Scott discuss some of the latest announcements involving Azure AD, including new security features in Microsoft Authenticator ...
Episode 258 – I’m Not Allowed To Buy Anything Until After Christmas
02 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 258, Ben and Scott discuss two new preview capabilities for Azure Virtual Machines – Managed Run Commands and VM Applications. Then t...
Episode 257 – The Address Space Formerly Known as 127/8
25 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 257, Ben and Scott cover some of the news coming out of Azure IaaS Day including SFTP support on Azure Blob Storage, the GA of NFS v4.1 on ...
Episode 256 – Conditional Access All The Things?
18 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 256, Ben and Scott dive into some of the new features available for Azure AD Conditional Access and Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps. Spo...
Episode 255 – What’s new in Microsoft Teams and Azure IaaS Day!
11 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 255, Ben and Scott follow-up on announcements for Microsoft Teams from Microsoft Ignite, including private channel site management, easier ...
Episode 254 – Looping into Microsoft Ignite
04 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 254, Ben and Scott just came out of the Microsoft Ignite keynote and sit down to discuss some of their favorite announcements and news from...
Episode 253 – There is no “Easy” button for BCDR in the cloud
28 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 253, Ben and Scott take a detour and talk about considerations for backup and disaster recovery in Azure. Sponsors ShareGate – Share...
Episode 252 – Troubleshooting Azure VMs with VM Inspector
21 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 252, Ben and Scott talk about a new way to troubleshoot your Azure VMs with VM Inspector, a breaking change in Azure AD when using older ve...
Episode 251 – Sometimes Upgrades Aren’t Easy
14 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 251, Ben and Scott dive into the release of Windows 11 and what it takes to upgrade to Windows 11 in Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop....
Episode 250 – When Unlimited Isn’t Really Unlimited
07 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 250, Ben and Scott talk about upcoming changes to Exchange Online archiving, updates to Azure Automation, and how to create conditional acc...
Episode 249 – AKS Scale-down and the AKS run command
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 249, Ben and Scott talk about the recent announcement of new Surface devices, the deprecation of basic authentication in Exchange Online, a...
Episode 248 – Let’s Go Passwordless!
23 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 248, Ben and Scott dive into the recently announced capability to go passwordless for your consumer Microsoft account, the GA of AAD-join f...
Episode 247 – Upgrading Your Remote Call Quality (Gear Talk)
16 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 247, Ben and Scott take a break from Azure and SharePoint to talk about the gear they use for audio remote calls with Microsoft Teams a...
Episode 246 – Squirrels and Azure AD
09 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 o...
Episode 245 – When Good Viva Topics Go Bad
02 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 lat...
Episode 244 – Azure Updates and Microsoft 365 Price Increase
26 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 243 – Windows 365 Follow Up
19 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 243, Scott listens as Ben dives into his experience with the initial setup and deployment of Windows 365 desktop. Sponsors ShareGate ...
Episode 242 – Microsoft Teams apps ecosystem with Rima Reyes
12 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 242, Ben and Scott sit down with Rima Reyes, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft Teams Engineering, to chat about Microsoft Teams...
Episode 241 – Azure News and Updates
05 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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. Pl...
Episode 240 – SharePoint Server… Subscription Edition
29 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 240, Scott tricks Ben into talking about the latest version of SharePoint Server (SharePoint Server Subscription Edition) that was annou...
Episode 239 – Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop
22 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 238 – Microsoft Teams Governance with Michal Pisarek
15 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 238, Ben discusses trends in Microsoft Teams governance with the CEO of Orchestry – Michal Pisarek – including the challenge...
Episode 237 – AzCopy Tips and Tricks
08 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 237, Ben and Scott dive into a customer scenario that involves copying hundreds of thousands of files from one storage account to anothe...
Episode 236 – YubiKeys and New DCs
01 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 236, Ben and Scott discuss an interesting question about MFA and using Microsoft Authenticator on personal devices, new Azure regions comi...
Episode 235 – Cortana, schedule a podcast
24 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 235, Ben and Scott talk about the release of Scheduler, the “new” AI, Cortana-based meeting scheduling service for Microsoft...
Episode 234 – Microsoft 365 Defender with Chris Givens
17 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 C...
Episode 233 – JSON, JSON, JSON (Template Specs and the Graph PowerShell SDK)
10 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 th...
Episode 232 – Catching Up On Microsoft Build
03 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 232, Ben and Scott catch up on some of their favorite announcements from Microsoft Build 2021, including a quick tour of Continuous ac...
Episode 231 – Let’s Talk About Calendaring Today
27 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 231, Ben and Scott talk about calendar management and some options for combining calendars from multiple sources (e.g., several Exchange ...
Episode 230 – Considerations for Monitoring in Azure (and The Cloud™️)
20 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 230, Ben and Scott discuss considerations for monitoring your workloads in the Microsoft cloud, including Azure and Microsoft 365. Spon...
Episode 229 – IT Roadmap
13 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 228 – Good Exchange Migration Gone Bad
06 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 228, Scott listens in as Ben talks through the process of doing an Exchange 2010 cutover migration after an acquisition and the pitf...