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Regular Microsoft Cloud information featuring Azure and Office365 with Microsoft MVP Robert Crane - A mix of current Microsoft cloud news, analysis and industry expert chat.
Episodes
Monday Nov 11, 2024
Monday Nov 11, 2024
Microsoft Ignite is just around the corner but still plenty of updates coming from Microsoft prior to their big tech event. Listen and stay up to date with everything that is happening in the Microsoft Cloud.
Resources
Streamline collaboration with the new chat and channels experience in Microsoft Teams
How to manage false positives – Microsoft Defender for Office 365
Get started with false negative investigations in Microsoft Defender for Office 365
How to investigate email messages in Microsoft Defender for Office 365
How to use the Alert page – Microsoft Defender XDR
Defender XDR Monthly news – November 2024
How Microsoft Defender for Office 365 innovated to address QR code phishing attacks
Skill up to strengthen your organizations cybersecurity posture
Manage Microsoft Entra ID role assignments with Microsoft Entra ID Governance
Announcing General Availability of Inbound SMTP DANE with DNSSEC for Exchange Online
Coming in December: SC-5004: Defend against cyberthreats with Microsoft Defender XDR
What’s new in Copilot Studio: November
New Copilot agents: Supercharge Microsoft 365 Copilot
A strategic approach to assessing your AI readiness
Supercharge productivity with Microsoft 365 Copilot
AI safety first: Protecting your business and empowering your people
Microsoft 365 Copilot — Small Business Guide to Set Up Copilot
Quick actions with Copilot now at your fingertips in OneNote
Stay focused in an action-packed meeting with Microsoft 365 Copilot in Teams
How to prepare for Windows 10 end of support by moving to Windows 11 today
A year of innovation- and feedback-driven features in Microsoft Word
Updated management features roll out for Microsoft Intune Suite
Afterhours
Monday Oct 28, 2024
Monday Oct 28, 2024
Microsoft announced last week new agents that can be created with Copilot studio to automate tasks using AI capabilities. Also in this episode you'll find a great new tool from CISA called Scubagear that will allow you to check the baseline security of your Microsoft 365 environment. Plenty more updates and information from the Microsoft Cloud, so listen along.
AI Tour Demo: Copilot Studio and Pre-built Agents
Scale your team with new autonomous agents
Unlocking autonomous agent capabilities with Microsoft Copilot Studio
Reimagine business process with Copilot and agents
Unlock Autonomous Agent Capabilities with Copilot Studio
Microsoft 365 Copilot drove up to 353% ROI for small and medium businesses—new study
Favorite Microsoft 365 Copilot Prompts
Enhancing Security with CISA’s ScubaGear Baselines for M365
Phish, Click, Breach: Hunting for a Sophisticated Cyber Attack
Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2024
New macOS vulnerability, “HM Surf”, could lead to unauthorized data access
Demystify potential data leaks with Insider Risk Management insights in Defender XDR
Increase productivity with Copilot in OneNote for iPad and Mac for commercial customers
Unleash your creativity with new pen tools in OneNote
What’s new in Microsoft Intune October 2024
Monday Oct 14, 2024
Monday Oct 14, 2024
It's OneDrive's turn in the spotlight. After a recent dedicated OneDrive event I have all the latest about updates and improvements that have been announced. Of course, there is plenty of other news also around security and Copilot as well as improvements to the new Outlook that you should check out. Thanks again for listening.
Resources
Welcome to the New Era of Microsoft OneDrive: AI, Productivity, and Memories at Your Fingertips
Get to know Copilot in OneDrive
Introducing Copilot in OneDrive: Now Generally Available
What's New In Copilot | September 2024
New Copilot enhancements help small and medium-sized businesses innovate
Introducing Copilot Labs and Copilot Vision
New experiences coming to Copilot+ PCs and Windows 11
Create desktop flows using the AI Recorder
Token theft protection with Microsoft Entra, Intune, Defender XDR & Windows
Use community queries to hunt more effectively across email and collaboration threats
What’s new in Microsoft Entra – September 2024
What is Microsoft Entra (and why use it)?
Research Threat intelligence Microsoft Defender XDR Business email compromise
Improved user experience for Dictate in new Outlook for Windows and Outlook for the web
Getting started with the new Outlook for Windows
Learn about the new Outlook for Windows
Level Up Your Security Skills with the New Microsoft Sentinel Ninja Training!
Microsoft Defender XDR Monthly news - October 2024
Windows 11, version 24H2 security baseline
Windows 11, version 24H2: What’s new for IT pros
Security settings management is available for multi-tenant environments in Microsoft Defender XDR
Implementing a secure by default approach with Microsoft Purview and address oversharing
Microsoft Intune support for Apple Intelligence
Microsoft is named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Protection Platforms
Monday Sep 30, 2024
Monday Sep 30, 2024
Microsoft has announced updates to Copilot for Microsoft 365 which they are calling Wave 2. IN this episode I cover off some of these changes and what I feel will be most useful for people. A number of other products from Microsoft have also become generally available so listen alone for all the new on that plus everything happening at Microsoft for SMB.
Resources
Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2: Pages, Python in Excel, and agents
The next phase of Microsoft 365 Copilot innovation
Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2: AI Innovations in SharePoint and OneDrive
Microsoft 365 Copilot | Copilot Pages
Announcing Copilot Pages for multiplayer collaboration
Copilot pages for IT Admins – Sep 2024 update
New Copilot enhancements help small and medium-sized businesses innovate
Microsoft 365 Copilot – Small Business Guide to Prepare your Data for Search
Update on Recall security and privacy architecture
Introducing Copilot in OneDrive: Now Generally Available
Microsoft Intune support for Apple Intelligence
Microsoft Entra Internet Access now generally available
The art and science behind Microsoft threat hunting: Part 3
Saturday Aug 31, 2024
Saturday Aug 31, 2024
Some Copilot and Security updates this week as well as some handy information about Microsoft OneNote and Loop, plus a whole lot more. Listen for all the latest cloud news from Microsoft.
Resources
The art and science behind Microsoft threat hunting: Part 3
North Korean threat actor Citrine Sleet exploiting Chromium zero-day
Peach Sandstorm deploys new custom Tickler malware in long-running intelligence gathering operations
Microsoft Announces Windows Endpoint Security Ecosystem Summit With CrowdStrike on September 10
What’s new: Multi-tenancy in the unified security operations platform experience in Public Preview
Harnessing the power of KQL Plugins for enhanced security insights with Copilot for Security
Critical Cloud Assets: Identifying and Protecting the Crown Jewels of your Cloud
What’s new in Microsoft Intune August 2024
Support Tip: Enforcement of multifactor authentication for Intune admin center sign-in coming soon
What’s New in Copilot | August 2024
Getting started with LLM prompt engineering
How to draft an email with Copilot – New Outlook for Windows
OneNote Copilot now supports inked notes
OneNote as a Second Brain (What You’re Missing)
Introducing SharePoint design ideas
Loop overview Almost everything you need to know to start with Microsoft Loop
Level up your project management with Loop
Sunday Aug 18, 2024
Sunday Aug 18, 2024
You are going to need to update any global administrator account that doesn't have MFA enabled soon. Failing to do so will cause you some pain when you visit the Azure, EntraID or Intune portal. See the included article for more details. This and lots of Microsoft cloud news in this episode including some great improvements to Microsoft Teams.
Resources
Announcing mandatory multi-factor authentication for Azure sign-in
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint’s Safe Deployment Practices
Updates to Microsoft Copilot to bring enterprise data protection to more organizations
Reimagining content management at Microsoft with SharePoint Premium
Give a custom name to the General channel in Microsoft Teams
Enhanced presenter and attendee experience with the expanded gallery view in Teams
Face Check is now generally available
Show or hide the Discover feed in Microsoft Teams
Exploring the latest AI features in Clipchamp
Professional project management with Microsoft Planner
How Microsoft and NIST are collaborating to advance the Zero Trust Implementation
Detect compromised RDP sessions with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Enhancements to the Outbound Messages in Transit Security Report
Sunday Aug 04, 2024
Sunday Aug 04, 2024
Along with all the news and updates from the Microsoft Cloud I muse on the fact that the new Microsoft 365 Backup service may have been partially created to solve the storage issues of deleted data in Microsoft 365 environments. Just a theory, but listen along if you like to hear my thoughts.
Resources
Microsoft 365 Insider Round Up
Microsoft Defender XDR - Monthly news - August 2024
Windows 365 at three years: Customer-centric solutions for security, management and productivity
New Windows 365 features help provide a more secure workspace
Windows 365 GPU-enabled Cloud PCs now generally available
Supercharge Your Business: Simplify communications with AI in Microsoft Teams and Teams Phone
Microsoft Announces General Availability of Microsoft 365 Backup and Microsoft 365 Backup Storage
SharePoint roadmap pitstop: July 2024
What’s new in Copilot | July 2024
What’s New in Microsoft Teams | July 2024
Looking back on FY24: from Copilots empowering human achievement to leading AI Transformation
Use WinGet 1.8 to download Microsoft Store apps
Monitoring Microsoft Sentinel Reports with Dashboard Hub & Power BI
Announcing quarantine release integration in MDO hunting experience!!
Windows Security best practices for integrating and managing security tools
Microsoft Purview Data Governance will be generally available September 1, 2024
Migrate ADAL apps to MSAL with enhanced insights
Public Preview: New Azure Monitor Auxiliary Logs Plan
Onyx Sleet uses array of malware to gather intelligence for North Korea
Zero Trust in the Age of AI: Join our online event to learn how to strengthen your security posture
Try out the new Copilot in Planner (preview) today in the new Microsoft Planner in Teams
OneDrive in-depth: Learning content
The Microsoft Copilot Dashboard is now included with Copilot for Microsoft 365
Prompts to try in Copilot for Microsoft 365
Sunday Jul 21, 2024
Sunday Jul 21, 2024
The Crowdstrike issue has been the dominant news item recently and I have some information as well as my own thoughts on this which I share. As always the news and updates from Microsoft continue and I share with you what I feel is most relevant including a number of handy videos on various Copilots, so listen along and enjoy. As always love to hear your thoughts and feedback.
Resources
Helping our customers through the CrowdStrike outage
Microsoft Bookings | Your Appointment Scheduling Solution
Announcing Public Preview of Inbound SMTP DANE with DNSSEC for Exchange Online
Guest sharing now available in Microsoft Loop
Make OT security a core part of your SOC strategy with Microsoft Defender XDR
Perfect your prompt with Copilot for Microsoft 365
Build a great prompt with Copilot for Microsoft 365
New Outlook for Windows | How to use Coaching by Copilot
Copilot Learning Hub: Your Gateway to Mastering Microsoft Copilot
Turn PDFs into editable documents in Word for iOS
How to secure access for your workforce with Microsoft Entra Suite
Microsoft Entra Internet Access Overview
Microsoft Security Service Edge now generally available
Introducing dynamic watermarking for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
SharePoint roadmap pitstop: June 2024
What’s New in Microsoft Teams | June 2024
Dealing with Unsatisfactory Responses
File menu improvements in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for the web
Saturday Jul 06, 2024
Saturday Jul 06, 2024
Latest news and updates from the Microsoft Cloud. Global Secure Access pricing has been announced but not a lot of details published on this as yet, hopefully soon. Updates for both Entra and Copilot that you should take a look at. Also a great video demonstrating the use of Microsoft technology in a modern classroom. Thanks again for listening.
Resources
Microsoft Entra certificate-based authentication enhancements
OneNote Copilot now supports inked notes
What’s new in Microsoft Entra – June 2024
Intro to Config Refresh – a refreshingly new MDM feature
Why AI sometimes gets it wrong — and big strides to address it
More Threat Intelligence Content in MDTI, TA Enables Better Security Outcomes
What’s new in Copilot | June 2024
Driving Copilot for Microsoft 365 adoption with an assist from Microsoft Viva
Introducing the Microsoft Entra PowerShell module
Mitigating Skeleton Key, a new type of generative AI jailbreak technique
A basic demo of an AI crescendo [VIDEO]
Copilot for Security TI Embedded Experience in Defender XDR is now GA
User insights: Analyze customer identity data
How to start transforming your business with AI | AI at work with Microsoft’s Jared Spataro [VIDEO]
Inside UNSW's State-of-the-Art Digital Teaching Studio - Microsoft Teams Rooms
Sunday Jun 23, 2024
Sunday Jun 23, 2024
Lots of news an updates after being a few weeks since last episode. Fear not however, they are all linked below. Plenty of really detailed and helpful articles from Microsoft of late, especially around security. All of which I highly recommend you spend time working through and implementing the recommendations. Also plenty of new features and products to cover so dive in and take a look.
Resources
Granular RBAC permissions for endpoint security workloads
How to break the token theft cyber-attack chain
Microsoft Incident Response lessons on preventing cloud identity compromise
How Copilot for Microsoft 365 Works
From pixels to presence: new features coming to Microsoft Mesh
How to unlock new experiences on your Copilot+ PC
Introduction to Cross-Tenant Mailbox Migrations
Copilot is now available in classic Outlook for Windows
Microsoft Incident Response tips for managing a mass password reset
Set default organization version limits for new document libraries and OneDrive accounts (Preview)
The guide to Microsoft Intune resources
Email Protection Basics in Microsoft 365: Bulk Email
Data security in Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365
Moving from AI experimentation to business breakthrough
Update on the Recall preview feature for Copilot+ PCs
Secure your business: Four ways Microsoft 365 for Business can help
The new Microsoft Planner is here! Streamline the planning, management, and execution of work
Announcing new Windows Autopilot onboarding experience for government and commercial customers
AI jailbreaks: What they are and how they can be mitigated
How Russia is trying to disrupt the 2024 Paris Olympic Games
Microsoft is again named the overall leader in the Forrester Wave for XDR
What’s New in Copilot | May 2024
Exploring Copilot for Security to Automate Incident Triage
Demystifying Microsoft Entra ID, Tenants and Azure Subscriptions
Moonstone Sleet emerges as new North Korean threat actor with new bag of tricks
Automatic attack disruption in Microsoft Defender XDR
Introducing Team Copilot
Missing devices in Windows Update for Business reports?