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 discuss a new item on the roadmap – explicit recording consent for Teams Meetings. Next up they get into IPv6 support coming to conditional access in March 2023 and some changes coming to Azure reservations now that Savings plans for compute are here. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Office 365 Roadmap Watch https://feeds.feedburner.com/Office365RoadmapWatcher Azure Timeline Microsoft ..read more

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 health states with Virtual Machine Scale Sets, the Azure Automation extension for VS Code, and the latest preview of change tracking and inventory management with the Azure Monitor Agent. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Latest Defender Update KB2267602 Bug Deletes Shortcuts Security intelligence updates for Microsoft Defender Antivirus and other Microsoft antimalware Using Application He ..read more

In Episode 317, Ben walks Scott through some of his trials and tribulations with migrating contents to and from Microsoft 365 Groups (Conversations) mailboxes. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Perform a Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) migration to Microsoft 365 or Office 365 BitTitan MigrationWiz Office 365 Groups vs. Shared Mailboxes Microsoft 365 Group to Microsoft 365 Group Mailbox (Conversations) Migration Guide Export Content search results Exporting individual messages or PST files Use network upload to import your orga ..read more

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 and CircleCI. Then they get into their topic of the day – Azure DevOps or GitHub and which one they prefer for different tasks. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Rackspace: Ransomware attack caused by zero-day exploit Microsoft Exchange Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability More than 200 million Twitter users’ email addresses leaked by hackers LastPass – Notice of Recent Security I ..read more

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 what tools they are using for personal work task management. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Microsoft Loop: Flexible Canvas App First things to know about Loop components Use Loop components in Word for the web Microsoft Whiteboard set to get Copy/Paste support for Loop Components Jira Work Management About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Micro ..read more

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 Exchange Online, do it now), a post-mortem that was published on the Azure PowerShell and PowerShell 7.3 compatibility issue that cropped up in Nov, and then discuss Microsoft Teams Preview. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Hosted Exchange Issues Episode 313 – Pour one out for the SREs at Rackspace Post-mortem: Azure PowerShell and PowerShell 7.3 compatibility issue Update to the latest version o ..read more

In Episode 313, Ben and Scott discuss the ongoing fallout from the ransomware attack that took down the hosted Exchange environment at Rackspace in December. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Hosted Exchange Disruption Rackspace blames ransomware attack for ongoing Exchange outage Rackspace Cloud Office suffers destructive security breach Episode 108 – Backup and Recovery in Office 365 About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on t ..read more

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 coming up, we cover some of our favorite tech toys for our desks and travel. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes uBlock Origin extension (Edge/Chrome) Elgato Stream Deck Elgato Stream Deck+ Elgato Stream Deck MK.2 Elgato Stream Deck XL Elgato Stream Deck Mini Elgato Stream Deck Pedal Episode 299 – Scott’s Ode to the Stream Deck Macro Pads on Amazon Aviator cables Keyboards NuPhy Air7 ..read more

In Episode 311, Ben and Scott discuss some of the latest announcements around Microsoft Entra including the GA of Workload identities and upcoming changes to the Entra and Azure AD portal experiences. They close out with some tips for how to quickly access multiple portal landing pages and management experiences using [cmd.ms]. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Microsoft Entra Workload Identities Microsoft Entra Workload Identities now generally available What are workload identities? Workload identity federation New Admin Center Uni ..read more

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 discuss shareable links in Azure Bastion and how they can be created, managed, and the user experience for them. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Microsoft Edge Freezes in Office 365 Outlook With Overlays – Mac OS Clear Session Chrome Extension Azure Quota Service API Create a shareable link for Bastion – preview About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for th ..read more