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-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and unders...
Sep 09, 2021•40 min
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, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Spot by NetApp – The cloud automation platform that makes it easy to ...
Sep 02, 2021•35 min
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 business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Spot by NetApp – The cloud automat...
Aug 26, 2021•41 min
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 Spot by NetApp – The cloud automation platform that makes it easy to deliver continuously optimized infrastructure at the lowest possible cost Office...
Aug 19, 2021•32 min
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 even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their busines...
Aug 12, 2021•35 min
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 manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or Shar...
Aug 05, 2021•14 min
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 understand their Azure usage & costs Spot by NetApp – The cloud automation platform that makes it easy to deliver continuously optimized infrastruct...
Jul 29, 2021•33 min
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 ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate the...
Jul 22, 2021•37 min
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 offer. 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 ...
Jul 15, 2021•47 min
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 products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understan...
Jul 08, 2021•31 min
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 life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate thei...
Jul 01, 2021•33 min
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 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 ...
Jun 24, 2021•38 min
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 professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & ...
Jun 17, 2021•31 min
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 ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Of...
Jun 10, 2021•38 min
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-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and un...
Jun 03, 2021•32 min
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 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 indu...
May 27, 2021•41 min
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 worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Offic...
May 20, 2021•36 min
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 help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azu...
May 13, 2021•37 min
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 inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automa...
May 06, 2021•32 min
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 services and Operator Connect for Microsoft Teams. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re ...
Apr 29, 2021•36 min
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 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...
Apr 22, 2021•30 min
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 industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and...
Apr 15, 2021•34 min
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 too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office...
Apr 08, 2021•36 min
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 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 wo...
Apr 01, 2021•44 min
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 easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their bus...
Mar 25, 2021•36 min
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 too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 3...
Mar 18, 2021•37 min
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 even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business ...
Mar 11, 2021•29 min
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 migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPo...
Mar 04, 2021•44 min
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 if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to t...
Feb 25, 2021•31 min
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 to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or Sha...
Feb 18, 2021•35 min
