Need to Know podcast–Episode 314

Two major releases from Microsoft since the last episode, the full Intune Suite as well as Teams Mesh immersive experience. Stay tuned for information and links to both of these plus more news and updates from the Microsoft cloud.

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CIAOPS Need to Know February webinar

CIAOPS Techwerks 23

Microsoft Intune Suite – beyond endpoint management in 2024

Microsoft Intune Tunnel for Mobile Application Management

Microsoft Cloud PKI

3 new ways the Microsoft Intune Suite offers security, simplification, and savings

What’s new in Microsoft Intune January 2024

Midnight Blizzard: Guidance for responders on nation-state attack

Vulnerable Components Inventory now in public preview

Monthly Microsoft Security news – February 2024

Bring virtual connections to life with Microsoft Mesh, now generally available in Microsoft Teams

Easily control audio and video settings in Teams meetings

Unlock the Power of Video at Work and School: 6 Features to Use in Microsoft Stream

How to explore immersive spaces

Easily Manage Privileged Role Assignments in Microsoft Entra ID Using Audit Logs

Microsoft Teams available on Apple Vision Pro on February 2

Microsoft earnings beat across the board as cloud, AI drive momentum

Make meetings more fun and personal with Decorate your background

Introducing More Granular Certificate-Based Authentication Configuration in Conditional Access

Microsoft Entra user and admin access controls to prepare for Copilot

Summary of podcast episode straight from Copilot for Microsoft 365:

Main ideas:

The need to know podcast episode 314: The podcast episode covers various topics related to Microsoft products and services, such as Intune suite, security copilot, Microsoft Mesh, and Teams.

The Intune suite features and benefits: The Intune suite is a set of tools for managing and securing devices and applications in the Microsoft cloud. It includes enterprise app management, endpoint privilege management, cloud PKI, tunnel for MAM, and remote help. It also integrates with security copilot and Intune.

The Apple Vision Pro and Teams integration: Apple Vision Pro is a device that projects apps and screens onto glasses. It can be used for entertainment, work, and education. It supports Teams, which allows users to attend teams meetings through the device.56

The Teams audio and video settings and other features: Teams has improved its audio and video settings, making it easier for users to control them in meetings. It also has features such as stream, which is a video platform with transcription and analytics, and background decoration, which allows users to customize their backgrounds.

CIA Brief 240203

Microsoft Create: How to use ChatGPT to plan a vacation –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT3IkaftZME

Monthly Microsoft Security news – February 2024 –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-defender-xdr-blog/monthly-news-february-2024/ba-p/4046948

Easily control audio and video settings in Teams meetings –

https://insider.microsoft365.com/en-us/blog/easily-control-audio-and-video-settings-in-teams-meetings

Microsoft Intune Tunnel for Mobile Application Management –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s_tBW_XQu0

Microsoft Endpoint Privilege Management –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3X2JGdXqDE

Microsoft Cloud PKI –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJfL55viYjg

Microsoft Intune Suite – beyond endpoint management in 2024 –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLcX9-uXlKY

How Microsoft 365 Delivers Trustworthy AI –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/copilot-for-microsoft-365/how-microsoft-365-delivers-trustworthy-ai/ba-p/4045596

3 new ways the Microsoft Intune Suite offers security, simplification, and savings –

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/02/01/3-new-ways-the-microsoft-intune-suite-offers-security-simplification-and-savings/

Midnight Blizzard: Guidance for responders on nation-state attack –

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/01/25/midnight-blizzard-guidance-for-responders-on-nation-state-attack/

Unlock the Power of Video at Work and School: 6 Features to Use in Microsoft Stream –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-stream-blog/unlock-the-power-of-video-at-work-and-school-6-features-to-use/ba-p/4043899

Power Platform January 2024 Newsletter –

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/january-2024-newsletter-microsoft-power-platform-community-uy5rc/

Easily Manage Privileged Role Assignments in Microsoft Entra ID Using Audit Logs –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-entra-blog/easily-manage-privileged-role-assignments-in-microsoft-entra-id/ba-p/4013854

Microsoft Teams available on Apple Vision Pro on February 2 –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/microsoft-teams-available-on-apple-vision-pro-on-february-2/ba-p/4042499

Microsoft earnings beat across the board as cloud, AI drive momentum –

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/technology/microsoft-earnings-beat-across-the-board-as-cloud-ai-drive-momentum/ar-BB1hvri9?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=e176344ba388468f9bc7ad3509af872d&ei=13

Make meetings more fun and personal with Decorate your background –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhbowtYOkyw

Introducing More Granular Certificate-Based Authentication Configuration in Conditional Access –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-entra-blog/introducing-more-granular-certificate-based-authentication/ba-p/2365668

Create an org wide team –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrbmYhQxvok

Microsoft Incident Response Retainer Overview –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q-j0gq33Fg

After hours

Vision Pro Review: 24 Hours With Apple’s Mixed-Reality Headset –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xI10SFgzQ8

Editorial

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Watch out for the next CIA Brief next week.

CIAOPS Need to Know Microsoft 365 Webinar – February

Join me for the free monthly CIAOPS Need to Know webinar. Along with all the Microsoft Cloud news we’ll be taking a look at Copilot for Microsoft 365 now that it is available generally..

Shortly after registering you should receive an automated email from Microsoft Teams confirming your registration, including all the event details as well as a calendar invite.

You can register for the regular monthly webinar here:

February Webinar Registrations

(If you are having issues with the above link copy and paste – https://bit.ly/n2k2402

The details are:

CIAOPS Need to Know Webinar – Febraury 2024
Tuesday 20th of February 2024
11.00am – 12.00am Sydney Time

All sessions are recorded and posted to the CIAOPS Academy.

The CIAOPS Need to Know Webinars are free to attend but if you want to receive the recording of the session you need to sign up as a CIAOPS patron which you can do here:

http://www.ciaopspatron.com

or purchase them individually at:

http://www.ciaopsacademy.com/

Also feel free at any stage to email me directly via director@ciaops.com with your webinar topic suggestions.

I’d also appreciate you sharing information about this webinar with anyone you feel may benefit from the session and I look forward to seeing you there.

January Microsoft 365 Webinar resources

The slides from this month’s webinar are available at:

https://github.com/directorcia/general/blob/master/Presentations/Need%20to%20Know%20Webinars/202401.pdf

If you are not a CIAOPS patron you want to view or download a full copy of the video from the session you can do so here:

http://www.ciaopsacademy.com.au/p/need-to-know-webinars

Watch out for next month’s webinar.

CIA Brief 240113

Intune iOS/iPadOS Management In a Nutshell –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/core-infrastructure-and-security/intune-ios-ipados-management-in-a-nutshell/ba-p/4015363

Introducing SharePoint Premium for IT Admins –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnqZYx_7tZA

Make any space a smart workplace with Microsoft Teams –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io4jXTtW5B4

Introducing Automatic File and URL (Detonation) Analysis –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-defender-threat/introducing-automatic-file-and-url-detonation-analysis/ba-p/4000489

Microsoft is named a Leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Protection Platforms –

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/01/12/microsoft-is-named-a-leader-in-the-2023-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-endpoint-protection-platforms/

Welcome to Business Assist –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFC0TTGMaRk

Microsoft Teams, the smart workplace for your frontline workers –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdWn5ShOqo8

Microsoft briefly overtakes Apple as world’s most valuable company –

https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-overtakes-apple-worlds-most-valuable-company-2024-01-11/

New Windows 365 Boot and Switch features in public preview –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/new-windows-365-boot-and-switch-features-in-public-preview/ba-p/4027398

Experience Defender Experts above the fold –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-security-experts-blog/experience-defender-experts-above-the-fold/ba-p/4026320

Monthly news – January 2024 –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-defender-xdr-blog/monthly-news-january-2024/ba-p/4025630

SharePoint Premium and Content Management: 2023 in Review and What’s Next in 2024 –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/sharepoint-premium-blog/sharepoint-premium-and-content-management-2023-in-review-and/ba-p/4024391

Microsoft 365 Admin Monthly Digest – Jan 2024 –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-365-blog/microsoft-365-admin-monthly-digest-jan-2024/ba-p/4024956

Become a Microsoft Unified SOC Platform Ninja –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-sentinel-blog/become-a-microsoft-unified-soc-platform-ninja/ba-p/4014565

Microsoft, Palo Alto and other security leaders make 2024 AI security predictions –

https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/feature/microsoft-palo-alto-and-other-security-leaders-make-2024-ai-security-predictions/2024/01/

How Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 works –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJsf0Tpz0ho&list=PLXtHYVsvn_b_t2dNsM86jUHpzlL0RlCF8

Onboarding Intune Managed iOS User Enrollment Devices to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/core-infrastructure-and-security/onboarding-intune-managed-ios-user-enrollment-devices-to/ba-p/4020858

Build customer relationships with Microsoft 365 for business –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtZ5hOxU3Z8

Stand out from the competition with Microsoft 365 for business –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaL1YUUQIUs

After hours

My kinda Copilot –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI_BCS-Wisk

Editorial

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Watch out for the next CIA Brief next week.

CIA Brief 240106

Rerun queries in query history

Microsoft Datacenter Tour: Virtual Experience

SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: December 2023

Enabling Microsoft Syntex PAYG

Experience AI-enhanced meetings in every Teams Room

Introducing a new Copilot key to kick off the year of AI-powered Windows PCs

What’s New in Microsoft Teams | December 2023

Get organized at work with Microsoft Loop

Copilot app for iOS

Copilot app for Android

Financially motivated threat actors misusing App Installer

Overview of multi factor authentication

After hours

GoPro: Best of 2023 –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb2cX8qwCho

Editorial

If you found this valuable, the I’d appreciate a ‘like’. This helps me know that people enjoy what I have created. If you have any feedback or suggestions around this, I’m all ears. You can also find me via email director@ciaops.com and on X (Twitter) at https://www.twitter.com/directorcia.

If you want to be part of a dedicated Microsoft Cloud community with information and interactions daily, then consider becoming a CIAOPS Patron – www.ciaopspatron.com.

Watch out for the next CIA Brief next week.

Need to Know podcast–Episode 312

Welcome to 2024! A few pieces of interesting news and updates from Microsoft especially around the PAYG offering with Syntex. I’m hanging out for the remaining items in the Intune suite to drop, especially third party patching so stay tuned for more information when that becomes available. Until then here’ s the latest in the Microsoft Cloud.

You can listen directly to this episode at:

https://ciaops.podbean.com/e/episode-312-hny/

Subscribe via iTunes at:

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

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

Brought to you by www.ciaopspatron.com

Resources

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CIAOPS merch store

Become a CIAOPS Patron

CIAOPS Blog

CIAOPS Brief

Rerun queries in query history

Microsoft Datacenter Tour: Virtual Experience

SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: December 2023

Enabling Microsoft Syntex PAYG

Experience AI-enhanced meetings in every Teams Room

Introducing a new Copilot key to kick off the year of AI-powered Windows PCs

What’s New in Microsoft Teams | December 2023

Get organized at work with Microsoft Loop

Copilot app for iOS

Copilot app for Android

Financially motivated threat actors misusing App Installer

Overview of multi factor authentication

CIA Brief 231231

Financially motivated threat actors misusing App Installer –

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2023/12/28/financially-motivated-threat-actors-misusing-app-installer/

Overview of multi factor authentication –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCFAoMPFq-Q

CIAOPS Need to Know podcast – Episode 311 – https://ciaops.podbean.com/e/episode-311-copilot-fatigue/

After hours

How scam call centers actually work –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrZZan7QfEo

Editorial

Also, I’m doing a summer camp deep dive into Microsoft 365 Secure Score. You can read more and sign up here – https://blog.ciaops.com/2023/12/11/ciaops-summer-school-is-open-for-enrolments/

If you want to be part of a dedicated Microsoft Cloud community with information and interactions daily, then consider becoming a CIAOPS Patron – www.ciaopspatron.com.

Watch out for the next CIA Brief next week.