Cloud IT Podcasts

In Episode 258, Ben and Scott discuss two new preview capabilities for Azure Virtual Machines – Managed Run Commands and VM Applications. Then they talk about a use case for Conditional Access Policies to secure service principals in Azure AD. Sponsors Intelligink – We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Previe…

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 Azure Files, and the new AZ-305 exam that has been released in beta. Sponsors Office365AdminPortal.com – Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink – We focus …

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. 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 thei…

In Episode 255, Ben and Scott follow-up on announcements for Microsoft Teams from Microsoft Ignite, including private channel site management, easier access to Cloud Shell, and retention policies with adaptive scopes. Then Scott takes a few minutes to chat with Henry Yan about the upcoming Azure IaaS Day, including fives reason you should attend. S…

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 the event. 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…

In Episode 253, Ben and Scott take a detour and talk about considerations for backup and disaster recovery in Azure. 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 Office3…

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 versions of the Azure CLI and Azure PowerShell, and upcoming changes which will allow uses to delete files with retention labels. Sponsors ShareGate – ShareGate’s industry-leading products help IT profe…

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. 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…

In Episode 250, Ben and Scott talk about upcoming changes to Exchange Online archiving, updates to Azure Automation, and how to create conditional access policies using the Microsoft Graph and PowerShell. Sponsors ShareGate – ShareGate’s industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint…

In Episode 249, Ben and Scott talk about the recent announcement of new Surface devices, the deprecation of basic authentication in Exchange Online, and AKS scale-down delete/deallocate. Sponsors ShareGate – ShareGate’s industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their O…

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 for your virtual machines in AVD host pools, and per-Power App conditional access with authentication context in Azure AD.Sponsors ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professional…

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 and Zoom.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 underst…

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 on GitHub.com by just pressing your period key and then discuss all of the updates you should be thinking about as AADConnect and Azure AD Graph are depreciated.Sponsors ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-lead…

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 latest items that have appeared on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap.Sponsors ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint,…

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 for Azure Storage including blob inventory, last access time tracking, and Archive storage events.Sponsors ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their busine…

In Episode 243, Scott listens as Ben dives into his experience with the initial setup and deployment of Windows 365 desktop.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 …

In Episode 242, Ben and Scott sit down with Rima Reyes, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft Teams Engineering, to chat about Microsoft Teams, apps across industry clouds, and how to express customer empathy in engineering to build a vibrant partner ecosystem.Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy…

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. Please let us know if you like this format and want shorter episodes like this in the future.Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to…

In Episode 240, Scott tricks Ben into talking about the latest version of SharePoint Server (SharePoint Server Subscription Edition) that was announced this week.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…

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 in the recently announced Windows 365 offering.Sponsors Spot by NetApp – The cloud automation platform that makes it easy to deliver continuously optimized infrastructure at the lowest possible cost S…

In Episode 238, Ben discusses trends in Microsoft Teams governance with the CEO of Orchestry - Michal Pisarek - including the challenges associated with content sprawl, multiples Teams with the same purpose in the same tenant, and how to think about adoption and ensuring your users are taking advantage of all the features Microsoft Teams has to off…

In Episode 237, Ben and Scott dive into a customer scenario that involves copying hundreds of thousands of files from one storage account to another in Azure.Sponsors Spot by NetApp – The cloud automation platform that makes it easy to deliver continuously optimized infrastructure at the lowest possible cost ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading…

In Episode 236, Ben and Scott discuss an interesting question about MFA and using Microsoft Authenticator on personal devices, new Azure regions coming to Arizona (West US 3) and Georgia (East US 3), and a rebranding of Windows Virtual Desktop to Azure Virtual Desktop.Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email …

In Episode 235, Ben and Scott talk about the release of Scheduler, the "new" AI, Cortana-based meeting scheduling service for Microsoft 365, updates on the timelines for disabling Basic Auth in Exchange, and a preview capability in SharePoint Online that will allow you to rename your SharePoint domain name.Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outloo…

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 Cloud.Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT prof…

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 the changes coming to how you manage Azure AD with PowerShell.Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareG…

In Episode 232, Ben and Scott catch up on some of their favorite announcements from Microsoft Build 2021, including a quick tour of Continuous access evaluation (CAE) with Azure AD.Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-…

In Episode 231, Ben and Scott talk about calendar management and some options for combining calendars from multiple sources (e.g., several Exchange Online accounts from multiple tenants) and then discuss a new preview capability in Azure Storage that extends native Azure RBAC DataActions to include conditions such as blob index tags.Sponsors Sperry…

In Episode 230, Ben and Scott discuss considerations for monitoring your workloads in the Microsoft cloud, including Azure and Microsoft 365.Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals w…

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 in their careers today.Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products h…

In Episode 228, Scott listens in as Ben talks through the process of doing an Exchange 2010 cutover migration after an acquisition and the pitfalls of not taking the time to perform discovery of the current environment.Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your i…

In Episode 227, Ben listens as Scott vents about his Q-NAP NAS was attacked with ransomware and some things you can think about doing to have a better posture for configuring and securing your NAS. Then they get into the Azure Retail Prices API, a publicly accessible API for accessing retail rates for PayGo and reservation pricing for Azure service…

In Episode 226, Ben and Scott talk through some of the latest Azure news, including the preview release of STIG VM deployments in the public cloud and GCC, 200TB 🤯. blobs in Azure storage, Azure Storage Day, and a PowerShell module called SecretManagement you can use to store your secrets to simplify your demos.Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful O…

In Episode 225, Ben and Scott spend 30 minutes talking about several preview features available to Azure subscribers - WVD start on connect and Azure Cloud Services (extended support).Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's indust…

In Episode 224, Ben and Scott go down a rabbit hole to explore Windows Hello for Business and passwordless authentication options in Windows. They also talk about how these features can be used to satisfy requirements for standards such as CMMC.Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re…

In Episode 223, Ben and Scott sit down with Laurent St-Pierre from ShareGate to discuss the release of their report State of Microsoft 365: Migration, Modernization, and Security in 2021. You can learn more about ShareGate at and connect with Laurent on LinkedIn and follow him on Twitter.Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed…

In Episode 222, Ben and Scott talk about considerations for upping your presentation game with a teleprompter and Teams and then spend some time talking through the latest Azure Active Directory outage and considerations for customers when Azure AD is unavailable.Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life …

In Episode 221, Ben and Scott talk about Ben's new M1 Mac Mini, the general availability of Routing Preference, and the introduction of Azure Trusted launch which brings support for vTPMs, trusted boot, and virtualization-based security (VBS).Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re t…

In Episode 220, Ben and Scott talk through follow-up post-Microsoft Ignite, some ways you can track changes to the governance plane of Azure using AzAdvertizer, and a new tool for tracking documentation changes in docs.microsoft.com with Docs Update Tracker.Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy e…

In Episode 219, Ben and Scott discuss the announcements and news from Microsoft's Spring Ignite event for Microsoft 365 and Azure.Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide mi…

In Episode 218, Ben and Scott talk about opportunities to interact directly with Microsoft Teams engineering, changes to the timeline for the switchover from Stream to OneDrive and SharePoint for recordings in Teams, and the future of MTA certifications.Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even …

In Episode 217, Ben and Scott talk about the new regions coming to Azure in the United States, service availability by region and the availability of Availability Zones in US South Central, and improvements to recovery in Azure Files.Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy t…

In Episode 216, Ben and Scott talk through the latest news and events, including the announcement of Microsoft Viva, an overview of the IT Ops Talk All Things Hybrid event, and improvements coming to Azure AD.Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox Share…

In Episode 215, Ben and Scott discuss preview features coming to Azure Storage for configuring resource-specific instance access through the service level firewall. After that, it is on to Logic Apps Preview and the new runtime based on Azure Functions.Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even i…

In Episode 214, Ben and Scott highlight some resources to help you administer your Microsoft 365 tenant, a new set of videos for ISVs to learn more about Azure Governance, and the release of the Microsoft Lists app on iOS.Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage you…

In Episode 213, Ben and Scott discuss some preview capabilities which are available to let you unpack your Canvas apps in PowerApps and make changes outside of Power Apps Studio, new connectors for Power Automate, and the transition of Azure Automation runbook samples to GitHub.Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make y…

In Episode 212, Ben and Scott discuss an issue Ben has been having with moving files between SharePoint sites as well as some of the SharePoint limits when it comes to moving these fields.By Ben Stegink, Scott Hoag

In Episode 211, Ben and Scott kick off 2021 (we made it!) with a discussion around What-If support being GA'd for Azure Resource Manager template deployments and how to configure and manage sensitivity labels for Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365/Office 365 Groups.Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life…

In Episode 210, Ben and Scott lament a broken Green Egg, discuss upcoming changes to the certification renewal process for Microsoft's role-based certifications, and some upcoming name changes that may impact your advanced hunting queries in Microsoft 365 Defender.Sponsors ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worl…

In Episode 209, Ben and Scott talk about some of the announcements from December for Microsoft Authenticator and Azure storage.Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migra…