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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.
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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.
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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?
Monday Jun 03, 2024
Monday Jun 03, 2024
All the latest from Microsoft Build along with the new from the hardware and Ai run just prior. Unsurprisingly, the news is full of more Ai and the latest GPT-4o features coming to Copilot on the desktop. The focus of unlocking AI in a business is around Copilot studio but Build also gave us news about security updates and some other interesting thing to pay attention to. Listen in for the latest.
Resources
Microsoft Build 2024 book of news
New agent capabilities in Microsoft Copilot unlock business value
Microsoft Copilot Studio: Building copilots with agent capabilities
New Windows 11 security features are designed for hybrid work
You’re wrong about Windows Recall — How Microsoft keeps your data safe on Copilot+ PCs
Microsoft Edge for Business: Revolutionizing your business with AI, security and productivity
Demystifying Microsoft Entra ID, Tenants and Azure Subscriptions
Windows deployment with the next generation of Windows Autopilot
Monday May 20, 2024
Monday May 20, 2024
Lots of Ai and security news since the last episode. We are also on the cusp of Microsoft Build so we expect even more shortly. Although I'm a tad under the weather (apologies for sounding a bit nasal) but I felt I needed to get this episode out before the deluge of information we expect shortly from build. I think the OpenAI announcements along with those from Google are the most worthy to pay attention to here but I'm sure there should be something to interest everyone here. Listen on and enjoy!
Resources
Project Astra: our Vision of the Future of AI assistance
Security above all else—expanding Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative
RSA news: What’s new in Defender XDR?
Respond to trending threats and adopt zero-trust with Exposure Management
Public preview: Expanding passkey support in Microsoft Entra ID
Microsoft introduces passkeys for consumer accounts
Public preview: External authentication methods in Microsoft Entra ID
Teams enhancements to the Presenter window while screensharing
Email Protection Basics in Microsoft 365 Part Five: Mastering Overrides
Protect your data and recover from insider data sabotage
SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: April 2024
What’s New in Microsoft Teams | April 2024
What’s new in Microsoft Intune: April 2024
Sunday Apr 21, 2024
Sunday Apr 21, 2024
I've now had a chance to play with Copilot for Security and can recommend it but to ensure that costs don't spiral out of control for SMB, it needs to used in an ad hoc manner. Listen along for my thoughts and a walk through of resources available for you. Also news of updates of Exchange email threshold limits being changed as well as improvements for Microsoft Mesh, Loop and more. Listen in for the latest updates.
Resources
Microsoft Copilot for Security
Microsoft Copilot for Security Intune Plugin Overview
How to Become a Microsoft Copilot for Security Ninja: The Complete Level 400 Training
Copilot for Security – The low down for SMB
Public Preview: High Volume Email for Microsoft 365
Exchange Online to introduce External Recipient Rate Limit
Hunting for QR Code AiTM Phishing and User Compromise
Microsoft Mesh: A new way to connect
Realigning global licensing for Microsoft 365
Improved task list components in Loop
Bringing the latest capabilities to Copilot for Microsoft 365 customers
Saturday Mar 30, 2024
Saturday Mar 30, 2024
It is only a matter of days now before we get our hands on Copilot for Security. Listen along for the latest information on this exciting new service from Microsoft. You'll also hear about the new Security Exposure Management and lots more announcements from Microsoft.
Resources
Here’s what you missed from Microsoft Secure
Microsoft Copilot for Security generally available on April 1
Microsoft Copilot for Security is generally available on April 1, 2024, with new capabilities
Microsoft Copilot for Security: AI-Powered Security for All
Introducing Microsoft Security Exposure Management
Microsoft introduces a preview of Copilot in Intune
Advancing the new era of work with Copilot, Windows, and Surface
Introducing Microsoft Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 for Business
Collect information like a pro – New Microsoft Lists forms experience
The new Planner in Teams is now in Public Preview
Troubleshoot and Manage Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention for your Endpoint Devices
Introducing Restricted SharePoint Search to help you get started with Copilot for Microsoft 365
What is Global Secure Access (preview)?