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Let's Talk Azure!S6E29 - Ignite 2025 Recap - San Fran and what's hot off the pressThis week, Alan and Sam talk about last weeks Microsoft Ignite event and the announcements that came out of it. Alan dives into the in-person experience in San Francisco. They dive into a couple of the announcements that peaked their interest.
Some of the Microsoft product features and updates we covered:
M365 Copilot
Purview
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Defender XDR
Azure
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2025-11-281h 03
Let's Talk Azure!S6E26 - Classify and protect your data using Purview sensitivity labelsIn this episode, Alan and Sam drive into the importance of classifying data in an organisation. Alan goes through the capability in Purview to tag files and encrypt them. Here are a few things we covered in this episode:
Why is it important to classify data in an organisation
How can Purview help with the applying labels to data
How to get started and the process for getting users to adopt the process
How is the Purview capability licensed
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2025-10-3140 min
Let's Talk Azure!S6E20 - Unified SecOps Platform - Sentinel integrationAlan and Sam discuss the integration of Microsoft Sentinel into the Defender XDR portal. Alan goes through the benefits of the integration and thing to watch out for when starting the migration. Here are a few things we covered:
What is Microsoft’s Unified SecOps Platform?
What are the announcements around Microsoft Sentinel’s interface moving?
What are the benefits of the integration of Microsoft Sentinel?
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2025-08-2246 min
Let's Talk Azure!S6E16 - Monitor and Protect Generative AI services using Microsoft ToolingAlan and Sam discuss the topic of Generative AI usage and it should be monitored by organisations. Alan talks about some of the Microsoft tooling that can help monitor these services and protect data being consumed.
The importance of monitoring Generative AI usage.
How Microsoft tooling can help monitor and protect Gen AI usage
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2025-06-2055 min
Let's Talk Azure!S6E13 - Security Copilot - Your Security Analyst's AssistantAlan and Sam discuss the benefits and use cases of Security Copilot. Alan Dives into how Security Pilot works and what some of the capabilities are. Here are a few things we covered:
What is Generative AI
What is Security Copilot
What are Agents
How much does it cost?
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2025-05-161h 08
Let's Talk Azure!S6E9 - Monitor your OAuth Apps using Defender for Cloud AppsThis episode Alan and Sam dive into the issues around OAuth apps and understanding how they are being used. Alan discusses the issues organisations are facing when any user could consent to application and the cleansing process that needs to take place. He also goes into how App Governance in Defender for Cloud Apps can help. Here are the areas they covered:
What are OAuth Apps?
What is Defender for Cloud Apps?
How can Defender for Cloud Apps help review consented apps?
What policies can you deploy?
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2025-03-2838 min
Let's Talk Azure!S6E6 - Protect your servers with Defender for ServerAlan and Sam dive into Defender for Cloud's Protective workload for server. Alan goes through the different plans available and the features that are available. Here are a few things we covered:
What is the Defender for Server Protective workload
What features does it provide
How easy is it to enable
How much does it cost
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2025-02-2149 min
Let's Talk Azure!S6E3 - How can CSPM help fortify your defencesAlan and Sam discuss why it is important to have Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) solutions in place. Alan goes through the general benefits of CSPM, enhancements since its release and dives into Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Topics that are covered are:
What is Cloud Security Posture Management and why it is important
What is Microsoft Defender for Cloud’s approach to CSPM
What is Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark
what are the pricing tiers for CSPM
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2025-01-3149 min
Let's Talk Azure!S5E41 - Manage your patching processes using Azure Update Manager and HotpatchAlan and Sam discuss the process organisations go through to manage patches. Alan dives into some of the tooling and covers:
Why is patch management important and what are some of the issues you can run into
what tooling can help with patch management for servers
What is Azure update manager
What is hotpatch for Windows servers
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2024-12-0636 min
Let's Talk Azure!S5E40 - Microsoft updates November - New features and updates from Ignite 2024This week, Alan and Sam talk about the Microsoft Ignite event and the announcements that came out of it. Alan dives into the in-person experience in Chicago. They dive into a couple of the announcements that peaked their interest.
Some of the Microsoft product features and updates we covered:
M365 Copilot
Purview
Defender XDR
Azure
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2024-11-2957 min
Let's Talk Azure!S5E37 - Monitor and secure OAuth applications using App GovernanceThis week Alan and Sam discuss OAuth applications and their potential risks. Alan goes into how App Governance can give you the visibility of OAuth app and their usage. Here are a few things we covered:
What are OAuth Apps?
What are they typically used for?
why is it important to monitor them
How can App Governance help monitor and protect from OAuth App attacks?
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2024-10-2536 min
Let's Talk Azure!S5E32 - Microsoft updates August- new products and features releasedThis week, Alan and Sam talk about new features and services that have gone into Public Preview or General Available status in the last month. We dive into a couple of these updates that peaked our interest.
Some of the Microsoft product features and update we covered:
Key Microsoft Entra, Intune and Defender features and updates
Lots of Azure changes and new features
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2024-09-0638 min
Let's Talk Azure!S5E31 - Microsoft Security Exposure ManagementAlan and Sam dive into Microsoft's Security Exposure Management platform. Alan takes us through the various components and the benefits on using this platform. Here are a few things we covered:
What is Microsoft Security Exposure Management?
What components make up the platform?
Who benefits from the platform?
What integrations does the platform have?
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2024-08-3035 min
Let's Talk Azure!S5E30 - Azure Container Storage - Native container volume management in AzureThis week Alan and Sam discuss Azure Container Storage which is a volume management service built natively for containers, which enables cost-effective performance scaling and simplified management of volumes for stateful container applications.
What are containers and their storage requirements?
Why Azure Container Storage is useful
How do you create storage? What are the configuration options?
How much does the service cost?
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2024-08-2339 min
Let's Talk Azure!S5E29 - External Attack Surface Management - Identify your digital assets.Alan and Sam talk about External Attack Surface Management (EASM) and how Microsoft's Defender EASM helps discover and monitor your digital assets. Here are a few things we covered:
What is External Attack Surface Management?
What is Defender EASM and how can it help identify your risks?
How do you setup Defender EASM?
how much does it cost?
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2024-08-1628 min
Let's Talk Azure!S5E28 - Azure Storage Accounts - Scalable, secure cloud storage for data objectsThis week Alan and Sam discuss Azure Storage Accounts which provide scalable, secure, and highly available cloud storage for various data types, including blobs, files, queues, and tables. It serves as a foundational service in Microsoft Azure, enabling applications to store and retrieve data efficiently across multiple redundancy options and access tiers, here is what we covered:
What is Azure Storage accounts and why are they useful?
What types of data do they support?
How do you create them? What are the configuration options?
How much do they cost?
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2024-08-0954 min
Let's Talk Azure!S5E27 - Microsoft updates July - new products and features releasedThis week, Alan and Sam talk about new features and services that have gone into Public Preview or General Available status in the last month. We dive into a couple of these updates that peaked our interest.
Some of the Microsoft product features and update we covered:
Key Microsoft Entra and Defender features and updates
Lots of Azure changes and new features
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2024-08-0231 min
Let's Talk Azure!S5E26 - Microsoft's Unified Security Operations PlatformAlan and Sam dive into Microsoft's Unified Security Operations Platform and how it can benefit SOC analysts in their day to day. Here are a few things we covered:
What is a Security Operations Centre (SOC)?
What is the new Microsoft Unified Security Operations Platform?
What are the benefits of the new platform?
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2024-07-2642 min
Let's Talk Azure!S5E25 - Azure Storage Actions - Serverless storage actions across your storage accountsThis week Alan and Sam discuss Azure Storage Actions a serverless framework currently in preview that allows users to perform common data operations on millions of objects across multiple Azure Storage accounts without needing additional compute resources. It involves creating storage tasks with defined conditions, operations, and assignments. Users can monitor and manage these tasks, which run asynchronously, via metrics and reports. Azure Storage Actions is integrated with Azure Event Grid for event handling, and is supported in several regions, here is what we covered:
What is Azure Storage Actions and why are they useful?
How do you...
2024-07-1935 min
Let's Talk Azure!S5E24 - Microsoft updates June - new products and features releasedThis week, Alan and Sam talk about new features and services that have gone into Public Preview or General Available status in the last month. We dive into a couple of these updates that peaked our interest.
Some of the Microsoft product features and update we covered:
Key Microsoft Entra and Defender features and updates
Lots of Azure changes and new features
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2024-07-1228 min
Let's Talk Azure!S5E23 - Managed Identities for Azure Resources - Remove the need for secretsAlan and Sam talk about the use of Managed Identities for Azure resources. Alan takes us through the methods used for programmatic access to Azure resources and the risks of some of the options. Here are a few things we covered:
What is programmatic access?
What methods are usually used to gain programmatic access?
What are Managed Identities for Azure resources, and how they can be used.
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2024-06-2833 min
Let's Talk Azure!S5E22 - Data API builder - Rapidly build CRUD APIsThis week Alan and Sam discuss Data API builder. It is a powerful tool designed to streamline the process of creating and deploying APIs for data-driven applications. It facilitates the rapid development of secure, scalable, and high-performance APIs that can seamlessly interact with various data sources, including databases, file systems, and third-party services. By automating much of the setup and configuration, Data API builder reduces the complexity and time required to bring data APIs to production, allowing developers to focus on building features and functionality rather than managing infrastructure. This tool is particularly beneficial for organizations looking to enhance...
2024-06-1443 min
Let's Talk Azure!S5E21 - Microsoft updates May - new products and features releasedThis week, Alan and Sam talk about new features and services that have gone into Public Preview or General Available status in the last month. We dive into a couple of these updates that peaked our interest.
Some of the Microsoft product features and update we covered:
Build + RSA Updates
key Microsoft Entra and Defender features and updates
Lots of Azure changes and new features
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2024-06-0746 min
Let's Talk Azure!S5E20 - MDE Device Discovery - Find those unknown devicesAlan and Sam talk about why it is important to monitor your network for connected devices. Alan runs us through the benefits of doing it with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. Here are a few areas we covered:
Why is it important to monitor your network?
How can you find devices using Microsoft solutions?
What are the benefits of devices being discovered and searchable in the Defender XDR Portal
How is it licensed
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2024-05-3144 min
Let's Talk Azure!S5E19 - Azure AI Search - Cloud-based, AI-enhanced search for applications.This week Alan and Sam discuss Azure AI Search. It is a robust, cloud-based search service provided by Microsoft that leverages artificial intelligence to enhance search functionalities within applications. It allows developers to create rich, full-text search experiences with features like natural language processing, semantic search, and cognitive search capabilities, which can extract insights from various data sources. The service is scalable, ensuring efficient handling of large volumes of data and queries, and integrates seamlessly with other Azure services, providing a comprehensive solution for building intelligent and responsive search-driven applications.
What problems is Azure AI search aiming to...
2024-05-2449 min
Let's Talk Azure!S5E18 - Managing macOS with MicrosoftAlan and Sam discuss the management of macOS and how it is a little different to other operating systems. Alan guides through what can be configured and the reasons why. Here are a few things we covered:
How is macOS different to other operating systems to manage?
What Microsoft tooling can you use to manage them
What licences do you need
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2024-05-1746 min
Let's Talk Azure!S5E17 - Azure Data Box - move big data to Azure efficientlyThis week Alan and Sam discuss Azure Data Box. It is a ruggedised appliance designed to simplify the process of transferring large volumes of data to Azure cloud storage, offering high-speed data transfer and secure encryption. It enables organisations to overcome bandwidth limitations and easily migrate large datasets, ensuring efficient and reliable data transfer.
What is Azure Data Box?
What can you back up with it?
How does the process work?
How much does it cost?
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2024-05-1039 min
Let's Talk Azure!S5E16 - Microsoft updates April - new products and features releasedThis week, Alan and Sam talk about new features and services that have gone into Public Preview or General Available status in the last month. We dive into a couple of these updates that peaked our interest.
Some of the Microsoft product features and update we covered:
FIDO2 authentication & Keypass
Security group provisioning to Active Directory using cloud sync
Unified security operations platform
New API Manager v2
App Service v1 and v2 environments retirement
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2024-05-0330 min
Let's Talk Azure!S5E15 - Entra Global Secure Access - An Identity-Centric Security Service EdgeAlan and Sam discuss Microsoft Entra Global Secure Access. A identity-centric Security Service Edge (SSE) solution that helps secure user's internet and on-premises access. Here are a few things we covered:
What is a Security Service Edge ?
What is Microsoft Entra Global Secure Access?
How does Entra Internet access for Microsoft 365 help secure and prevent data leakage?
What is Entra Internet Access and Private Access?
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2024-04-2652 min
Let's Talk Azure!S5E14 - Azure Backup - utilise Azure to manage and store your backupsThis week Alan and Sam discuss Azure Backup. It is a comprehensive solution offered by Microsoft Azure for safeguarding data across cloud and on-premises environments, providing seamless backup and recovery capabilities. It enables users to protect critical workloads, applications, and files with automated backups and flexible retention policies.
What is Azure backup?
What can you back up with it?
How can you secure your backups?
How much does it cost?
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2024-04-1954 min
Let's Talk Azure!S5E13 - Microsoft Cloud PKI - deploy your user and device certificates from the cloudAlan and Sam discuss Microsoft's new Cloud PKI service, which enables the management and deployment of device and user certificates through Intune.
Below are some key points we addressed:
What are user and device certificates and how are they used
How would you normally manage PKI services
What is Microsoft’s Cloud PKI
How much does it cost?
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2024-04-1235 min
Let's Talk Azure!S5E12 - Microsoft updates April - new products and features releasedThis week, Alan and Sam talk about new features and services that have gone into Public Preview or General Available status in the last month. We dive into a couple of these updates that peaked our interest.
Some of the Microsoft product features and update we covered:
Copilot for Security and M365
Syslog and CEF AMA connector for Microsoft Sentinel
Lots of Azure changes, new features and retirements!
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2024-04-0534 min
Let's Talk Azure!S5E11 - Azure Keyvault - A managed key, certificate and secret storage solutionAlan and Sam discuss Azure Key Vault, it is a centralized cloud service designed for securely storing and managing cryptographic keys, certificates, and secrets used by cloud applications and services. It offers robust access control, encryption, and auditing capabilities to safeguard sensitive information and streamline key management processes.
What is Azure Key Vault?
What are the common use cases for Azure Key Vault?
What does it integrate with?
How much does it cost?
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2024-03-2948 min
Let's Talk Azure!S5E10 - Microsoft Customer Connection Programs (CCP)Alan and Sam talk about the Microsoft Connection Program (CCP). A Community of Technical professional from Customers, to Partners and MVPs that interacts with Microsoft Product groups around new features.. Here are a few things we covered:
What is the Customer Connection Program?
What are the benefits of being in the CCP?
What is my experience being in the various CCPs?
How do you get involved?
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2024-03-2232 min
Let's Talk Azure!S5E9 - Microsoft updates March - new products and features releasedThis week, Alan and Sam talk about new features and services that have gone into Public Preview or General Available status in the last month. We dive into a couple of these updates that peaked our interest.
Some of the Microsoft product features and update we covered:
Dark Mode in Defender XDR
Cloud PKI
Improvements in Azure Key Vault
Configuration-as-code customizations in Microsoft Dev Box
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2024-03-0829 min
Let's Talk Azure!S5E8 - Azure Event Grid - Managed event routing service for event-driven architectures.Alan and Sam discuss Azure Event Grid. It simplifies event-driven architectures by providing a fully managed service for routing events from various sources to multiple destinations in near real-time, enhancing agility and scalability in cloud-based applications. It enables seamless communication between Azure services, custom applications, and external sources while offering features like event filtering, routing, and dead-lettering for reliable event handling at scale.
What is Azure Event Grid?
What are the common use cases for Azure Event Grid?
How can you get started?
What are the licensing options?
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2024-03-0140 min
Let's Talk Azure!S5E7 - Vulnerability Management - Reducing risk of compromise in your organisationAlan and Sam discuss what vulnerability management is, and why it is important to an organisation. Alan dives into how Microsoft security solutions help identify weaknesses and monitor their remediation. Here are a few areas we covered:
What are vulnerabilities?
why should you monitoring, priorities and resolve them?
How can Microsoft Solutions help manage your vulnerabilities?
What Microsoft licenses do you need to get started?
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2024-02-2348 min
Let's Talk Azure!S5E5 - Microsoft updates Feb- new products and features releasedThis week, Alan and Sam talk about new features and services that have gone into Public Preview or General Available status in the last month. We dive into a couple of these updates that peaked our interest.
Some of the Microsoft product features and update we covered:
Microsoft Defender XDR
MDA / MDI / Defender for Cloud
Azure API Center
Azure Containers Apps Multiple Ports
Azure API Management
Azure Gen1 to Gen 2 Migration
Azure Arc Visual Studio Code Extension
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2024-02-0940 min
Let's Talk Azure!Microsoft Defender for Endpoint - An integrated AV and EDR solutionAlan and Sam discuss all things Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE). Alan goes through the history of MDE, what its capabilities are, and the platforms it covers. Here are a few other areas we cover:
What capabilities does MDE provide
How is it different from other AV and EDR solutions
How is it licensed.
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2024-02-0257 min
Let's Talk Azure!S5E4 - Microsoft Defender for Endpoint - An integrated AV and EDR solutionAlan and Sam discuss all things Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE). Alan goes through the history of MDE, what its capabilities are, and the platforms it covers. Here are a few other areas we cover:
What capabilities does MDE provide.
How is it different from other AV and EDR solutions.
How is it licensed.
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2024-02-0257 min
Let's Talk Azure!S5E2 - Microsoft Defender XDR - A unified portal for all your security needsAlan and Sam discuss Microsoft Defender XDR, a unified portal to manage you incidents across your MS Defender suite. Alan dives into the Extended Detect and Response (XDR) concepts and how it's beneficial to have all products in the same system.
Here are few other areas we covered:
What is XDR?
What is Microsoft Defender XDR?
What Microsoft solutions feed into Defender XDR?
How is it licensed?
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2024-01-1945 min
Let's Talk Azure!S5E1 - Microsoft updates Jan - new products and features releasedThis week, Alan and Sam talk about new features and services that have gone into Public Preview or General Available status in the last couple of months. We dive into a couple of these updates and peeked our interest.
Some of the Microsoft product features and update we covered:
Microsoft Entra Internet Access Public Preview
Defender for Cloud Apps - GenAI categories for cloud discovery
Defender for Endpoint Updates (User Contain, Simplified connectivity, WSL plugin)
Fee tier manage SQL instance
New Chaos Studio faults for service bus
DICOM on data lake preview
Azure App Configuration Snapshots
2024-01-1246 min
Let's Talk Azure!S4E25 - Microsoft’s Copilot solutions - First look at generative AI at your fingertipsAlan and Sam discuss Microsoft's Copilot solutions. Alan talks about Generative AI and how it is being used in the world today.
Here are a few things we covered:
What Generative AI?
What are the various versions of Microsoft Copilot?
How can Copilot help users be more productive?
How are they licensed?
Ignite Keynote on Microsoft Copilot
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2023-12-0156 min
Let's Talk Azure!S4E23 - Ignite 2023 Recap - Seattle and what is hot off the press!This week talk all things Microsoft Ignite 2023! Microsoft Ignite is an annual conference hosted by Microsoft, centred around technology trends, product innovations, and announcements concerning Microsoft's cloud services, enterprise solutions, and developer tools. The event usually gathers IT professionals, developers, business leaders, and technology enthusiasts in one place.
Alan is out at Ignite in person, we covered:
The latest announcements at Ignite
Alan and Sam’s favourite announcements
The in person Ignite experience
What MVP related activities has Alan been up to?
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2023-11-1752 min
Let's Talk Azure!S4E22 - Microsoft Training - What’s new in certifications and the new applied skills accreditationAlan and Sam have a discussion around Microsoft accreditations and how they have recently changes. Here are a few things we covered:
What are Microsoft accreditations?
What has change recently around the exams for certifications?
What are the new applied skills accreditation?
Where do you start your Microsoft skills accreditation journey?
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2023-11-1038 min
Let's Talk Azure!S4E20 - Microsoft Entra ID - A single cloud identity to rule them all.Alan and Sam the concept discuss cloud identities and how cloud identity providers like Microsoft Entra ID can help manage and secure those identities.
Here are a few things we covered:
What is a cloud Identity?
What capabilities does Microsoft Entra ID have?
Can you bring your on-premises ID up to the cloud?
How can it integrate into SaaS application?
What security features are available?
How is it licensed.
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2023-10-2748 min
Let's Talk Azure!S4E18 - Microsoft Entra External ID - Provide access for external identities to your application or tenantAlan and Sam discuss how Microsoft Entra External ID can help organisations collaborate and provide identity to their services. Alan goes through the B2B and B2C options and their scenarios.
Here are a few things we covered:
What are B2B and B2C identities
How are these identities used
What is an Microsoft Entra Multi-tenant organisation
How is Microsoft Entra External ID licenced
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2023-10-1345 min
Let's Talk Azure!S4E16 - Intune - Modern Management for WindowsAlan and Sam discuss how Microsoft Intune can help manage your Windows 10/11 estate from anywhere that has an internet connection. Alan goes through the capabilities and how it can help organisations.
Here are a few things we covered:
How has Windows endpoints traditionally been managed?
What is Intune?
How can Modern management help an organisation?
What is the process to move to Intune to manage your Windows 10/11 endpoints?
How is Intune licenced?
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2023-09-2942 min
Let's Talk Azure!S4E14 - Monitor Active Directory with Microsoft Defender for IdentityAlan and Sam discuss how Microsoft Defender for Identity monitors and detects unusual behavior's and attacks on Active Directory:
Here are a few things we covered:
What is Active Directory
Why do we need to monitor authentication on-premises
What is Microsoft Defender for Identity (MDI)
How is MDI licenced
How do you deploy MDI
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2023-09-1545 min
Let's Talk Azure!S4E12 - Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps - Your SSPM and CASB solutionAlan and Sam discuss how Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps can help monitor and secure access to your SaaS applications. Here are a few things we covered:
What is Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
How do we discover shadow IT?
How to monitor activity and files in SaaS Apps
What is App Governance
How can we secure sessions to SaaS applications
How is it licenced.
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2023-09-0148 min
Let's Talk Azure!S4E10 - Microsoft Entra - Global Secure Access First LookAlan and Sam discuss Microsoft Entra ID Global Secure Access. A feature that was announced with the rebrand of Azure AD to Microsoft Entra ID. Here are a few things we covered:
What is Microsoft Entra Internet Access
What is Microsoft Entra Private Access
How do these features help secure access to the internet and to SaaS and internal applications?
Do we know how it is licenced yet?
How to add MFA and conditional access to legacy applications and protocols that are unable to support it.
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2023-08-1845 min