Need to Know Podcast–Episode 130

Marc and I have some brief news and cloud updates for you and then we are straight into our guest for this episode. I speak with MVP Alan Burchill all about his upcoming Microsoft Ignite presentations:

Using Edge in the Enterprise

Microsoft Edge is one of the most secure and web standards compatible browsers on the market. See how the new management features in Windows 10 can help IT Professional to provide support for legacy web sites while still allowing users to access web sites with the latest web standards.

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Resources

Office 365 German datacenters

Microsoft tech days online

Microsoft tech summit – Birmingham

Need to Know Podcast–Episode 129

Marc and I give our usual Office 365 and Azure update. We then speak with John Liu about his upcoming presentation at Microsoft Ignite Australia:

Serverless in Office 365 – Build Services with Azure Functions

There was a time when it was the good old days – we ran SharePoint on-premises, and business always wanted more customizations, and so we built them and delivered great value. Now, it seems as everything is moving towards Office 365, and there are fewer and fewer customizations we can do. To the business, it seems more and more we have to say no – we can’t do that. Code has to run somewhere. Suddenly, we are in the realm of hosting our own webjob, we may even have to find or buy a VM. We are left to wonder if we need to learn Docker too. Thank goodness – in 2016 we saw the rise of a new buzzword #Serverless – it promises a solution to many of these problems and lets us focus on what we do best again – creating solutions. Without having to worry so much about where or how to run it. This session is about introducing Azure Functions, and various amazing scenarios we can apply it to SharePoint and Office 365. Whether you are a new, veteran or even front-end developer, or if you are an IT Pro well versed in Powershell. This session is for you.

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https://ciaops.podbean.com/e/episode-129-john-liu/

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Resources

Microsoft Cloud run rate

OneDrive and Officelens updates

Dynamics 365 roadmap

Need to Know Podcast–Episode 128

Marc and I are joined by a returning guest to talk all about her upcoming Microsoft Ignite Australia presentations. Sonia Cuff gives us the low down on what to expect with the following two sessions she is presenting:

Making SaaS part of your IT Strategy

With the business pushing for SaaS apps, why are we saying no? Can you balance an in-house infrastructure under strict controls & policies with a business reliance on an outsourced, uncontrolled solution? We’ll look at how to enable the business while still protecting them and how to keep your sanity.

and

The CEO reviewed your project & you won;t believe what happened next

Your budget was agreed. A reasonable timeframe was achieved. The implementation went smoothly. So why is the business still unhappy? You’ll learn why Digital Transformation is more than just technology deployment. We’ll show you what successful Digital Transformation looks like to the CEO & how you can ensure your IT work really is enabling people to achieve more. Find out some of the practical tools that Microsoft provides that can help you navigate this conversation with your executive stakeholders.

There is also the latest Office 365 and Azure news and don’t forget to send us your feedback at feedback@needtoknow.cloud

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https://ciaops.podbean.com/e/episode-128-sonia-cuff/

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Resources

Azure Active Directory meets Power BI

Office 365 planned service changes

Cloud platform roadmap

The Missing Chair: http://themissingchair.com.au/

Personal website: http://soniacuff.com

MS Ignite Session: Making SaaS part of your IT Strategy https://msftignite.com.au/sessions/session-details/2209/making-saas-part-of-your-it-strategy-

MS Ignite Session: The CEO reviewed your project & you won’t believe what happened next … https://msftignite.com.au/sessions/session-details/2320/the-ceo-reviewed-your-project-you-wont-believe-what-happened-next-

Microsoft FastTrack: https://fasttrack.microsoft.com/

Need to Know podcast–Episode 127

In this episode we are joined by Alessandro Cardoso, Technology strategist at Microsoft to talk about his upcoming Microsoft Ignite Australia sessions:

Managing Red Hat on Azure with OMS [OPEN312]

With the capability to deploy a Red Hat supported Virtual Machine in Azure, you may be asking: “What else can I do with my Azure Red Hat VM?” We will introduce Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS), walking you through the incredible analytic power of the system for Linux and Windows Azure VMs. With Linux, OMS allows you to collect Syslog events, Performance data, and Nagios/Zabbix alerts

And

Deploying Linux on Microsoft Public and Private cloud [OPEN323]

Heterogeneous environments with Microsoft Windows Clients, Microsoft Windows Server, Linux, FreeBSD, and the cloud are the norm. Being able to run all of your virtualized workloads on a single hypervisor simplifies management and optimizes server capacity. Learn how to deploy Linux VM to Hyper-V or Windows Azure.

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Resources

New features in Microsoft Flow

Using Flow for event registration

Project Osaka

Issues with Azure File Backup on SBS

One of the initial steps that I have been advocating when it came to migrating SBS servers to Azure was the installation of the Azure backup agent (marsagentinstaller.exe) on the SBS box in order to backup files and folders. It was the first step before moving onto more complex operations. After further research, it turns out that doing this will break “other SBS” things.

The reason is that the Azure Backup agent needs at least PowerShell V3.0 per:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/backup-client-automation

Now it turns out that installing PowerShell V3 or higher on an SBS breaks per this:

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/sbs/2012/12/15/windows-management-framework-3-0-applicability-on-windows-small-business-server-20082011-standard/

which concludes:

Our guidance at this time is that Windows Management Framework 3.0 should not be deployed on a server running Windows Small Business Server 2008 Standard or Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard.

Windows Management Framework 3.0 contains PowerShell v3.0.

The bottom line is that you shouldn’t install the Azure files backup agent on an SBS box from what I can determine, because it doesn’t support the minimum required version of PowerShell.

However, the Azure files backup agent will actually install and run on an SBS server. However, it will also as part of that installation install PowerShell v 3.0 which can cause lots of other issues. Thus, even if it can be installed DON’T install it because the components will cause other issues on SBS.

Unfortunately, the Azure file backup agent can only backup files on the host that it is installed on. This means you can’t install it on a members server and backup files across the network that are on the SBS box. However, the way you can do this (in theory) is using Azure application backup, which I’ll now have to go out and check actually operates in an SBS environment.

Makes things tough when your production OS doesn’t support the latest software eh?

Need to Know podcast–Episode 126

For our continued focus on speakers at the upcoming Microsoft Ignite event on the Gold Coast we speak with Andrew McMurray from Microsoft about Azure Information Protection. Andrew’s presentation is:

Prevent unwanted and embarrassing leakage with Azure Information Protection

Microsoft Azure Information Protection helps you safeguard your data throughout the complete data lifecycle. Data is “born” protected and carries the protection wherever it travels. So you don’t need to worry where it’s stored or with whom it’s shared – you can rest assured it’s always protected. Join us to learn more about the technology and how it can solve your information protection challenges.

Marc and I also do our usual wrap up of the latest Microsoft cloud news.

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Resources

andrew.mcmurray@microsoft.com

@marckean

@directorcia

AIP Slides: https://aka.ms/IPdeck
AIP video of slides: https://aka.ms/IPvideo
News: https://aka.ms/aipnews
Blogs: https://aka.ms/aipblogs
Security Overview: https://aka.ms/rmssec
Web: https://aka.ms/aip
Overview: https://aka.ms/aipoverview
Forum: https://www.yammer.com/AskIPteam
AAD Sync: https://aka.ms/aipaadsync

Azure news from Marc

Azure AV2 machines now available

Microsoft Staffhub is here

Study says Teams to pass Slack

Azure Av2 machines now available

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/cloud-services/?WT.mc_id=azurebg_email_Trans_33675_1284_Tier_2_Release_MOSP

The latest generation of A-series, Av2 Standard, has similar CPU performance and faster disk to standard A series. Suitable for development workloads, build servers, code repositories, low-traffic websites and web applications, Av2 Standard also works for micro services, early product experiments, and small databases.

Need to Know podcast–Episode 125

We are back for 2017! Marc and I do our usual news and cloud updates followed by a returning guest, MVP Troy Hunt. Troy chats to us about his upcoming Microsoft Ignite Australia presentation – Applied Azure: Building a Large Scale Real World Application on a Coffee Budget, which makes for real interesting listening.

You can listen to this episode directly at:

https://ciaops.podbean.com/e/episode-125-troy-hunt/

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