Need to Know podcast–Episode 308

Join me for a look at all the latest news and updates from the Microsoft Cloud as well as my thoughts on why developing a learning practice is a critical components of staying relevant in the even changing world of the Microsoft Cloud.

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Don’t forget to give the show a rating as well as send me any feedback or suggestions you may have for the show.

This episode was recorded using Microsoft Teams and produced with Camtasia 2023.

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Need to Know podcast–Episode 307

All the news and announcements from Microsoft Inspire plus Azure AD getting renamed to Entra as well as some recent security news you should be across. Lots in this episode so listen along and let me know what you think.

You can listen directly to this episode at:

https://ciaops.podbean.com/e/episode-307-news-from-inspire/

Subscribe via iTunes at:

https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/ciaops-need-to-know-podcasts/id406891445?mt=2

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Don’t forget to give the show a rating as well as send me any feedback or suggestions you may have for the show.

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Furthering our AI ambitions – Announcing Bing Chat Enterprise and Microsoft 365 Copilot pricing – The Official Microsoft Blog

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Azure AD is Becoming Microsoft Entra ID – Microsoft Community Hub

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Compromised Microsoft Key: More Impactful Than We Thought | Wiz Blog

Techwerks 20

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CIAOPS Techwerks returns to Melbourne CBD on Friday the 11th of August.

The course is limited to 20 people and you can sign up and reserve your place now! You reserve a place by completing this form:

http://bit.ly/ciaopsroi

or by sending me an email (director@ciaops.com) expressing your interest.

The content of these all day face to face workshops is driven by the attendees. That means we cover exactly what people want to see and focus on doing hands on, real world scenarios. Attendees can vote on topics they’d like to see covered prior to the day and we continue to target exactly what the small group of attendees wants to see. Thus, this is an excellent way to get really deep into the technology and have all the questions you’ve been dying to know answered. Typically, the event produces a number of best practice take aways for each attendee. So far, the greatest votes are for deeper dives into the Microsoft Cloud including Microsoft 365, Azure, Intune, Defender for Endpoint, security such as Azure Sentinel and PowerShell configuration and scripts, with a focus on enabling the technology in SMB businesses.

Recent testimonial – “I just wanted to say a big thank you to Robert for the Brisbane Techworks day. It is such a good format with each attendee asking what matters them and the whole interactive nature of the day. So much better than death by PowerPoint.” – Mike H.

The cost to attend is:

Gold Enterprise Patron = Free

Gold Patron = $33 inc GST

Silver Patron = $99 inc GST

Bronze Patron = $176 inc GST

Non Patron = $399 inc GST

I hope to see you there.

IoT motor connectivity

Although I had completed a project using a servo motor with the Sparkfun ThingPlus ESP32-S2 Wroom here:

New IoT device with a servo motor

turns out that to drive any motor more serious you’ll need a dedicated motor driver board and a separate power supply just for the motors. Luckily Adafruit has just such a board available:

https://core-electronics.com.au/dc-motor-stepper-featherwing-add-on-for-all-feather-boards.html

with the details here:

https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-stepper-dc-motor-featherwing

This board will allow you to drive up to 4 independent motors.

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which you connect to M1, M2, M3 or M4 shown above.

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Flipping the board over, you’ll also find the connection for the external power (5-12V DC) required to actually drive the motors. I decided to use 4 x AA batteries in a separate holder with an on/off switch:

https://core-electronics.com.au/4-x-aa-battery-holder-with-on-off-switch.html

4 x AA Battery Holder with On/Off Switch

I also got a Mini Robot Rover chassis kit:

https://littlebirdelectronics.com.au/products/mini-robot-rover-chassis-kit-2wd-with-dc-motors

Mini Robot Rover Chassis Kit - 2WD with DC Motors

that, as you can from the above, includes 2 x DC motors.

I connected these to M1 and M2 on the motor driver board, as well as also connecting up the external power for the motors.

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I then needed to connect 3.3V and GND to the motor driver board which are shown above and in more detail here:

The final piece of the puzzle is to connect the SDA and SCL pins from the Sparkfun ThingPlus ESP32-S2 Wroom to the SDA and SCL pins on the motor driver so they can communicate.

To talk to the motor driver board you’ll need to use the Adafruit motor shield v2 library. I’ll cover off some of the code I’ve created in an upcoming post.

When you apply the power supply for the motors to this board a green LED is lit just under the power connector as shown above. I wasted a few hours with this until I discovered a fault solder joint that was the cause of my issues.

So my wiring looks like:

with the two motors for the drive wheels connected to M1 and M2 as mentioned above and whole thing sitting on the mini robot rover chasis.

I now have a mobile device I can command to move about the room. Next step is actually writing the code to make it work, which I’ll cover off in an upcoming post, so stay tuned. However, here’s a sneak peak of what I managed to do:

Need to Know podcast–Episode 306

Join me for an update of the Microsoft Cloud news as well as some thoughts around the features I don’t see used enough in Microsoft 365.

You can listen directly to this episode at:

https://ciaops.podbean.com/e/episode-305-logs/

Subscribe via iTunes at:

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Don’t forget to give the show a rating as well as send me any feedback or suggestions you may have for the show.

This episode was recorded using Microsoft Teams and produced with Camtasia 2023.

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MVP 2023-24

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I can happily confirm that I have again be recognised by Microsoft again as an Most Valued Professional (MVP) in the Office 365 Apps and Services category for 2023 – 2024.

As always, I’m humbled by the recognition and thank Microsoft for awarding this to me and also making the program available. This is my 12 consecutive year as an MVP and I am very proud of that achievement, given the rapid pace of change with technology and especially the Microsoft 365 platform.

Being an MVP allows me to better share my knowledge of the M365 service with others. It provides me the ability to interact with s skilful set of peers who are also MVPs as well as with people at Microsoft directly. That is very beneficial to getting even more to grips with what M365 can do and the change it can make for businesses, especially small businesses.

I look forward to continuing to doing my best into the future around helping people understand M365 through mediums such as this blog, my podcast and YouTube channel. The core of being an MVP is that you love to help others with Microsoft technology so if you have a question, I’m all ears.

Again, I thank Microsoft for the recognition and I look forward to sharing even more going forward..