Microsoft Graph tenant management summary

I’ve covered a lot in recent articles around using the Microsoft Graph to manage a tenant. You can find those previous articles here:

Reporting on multiple tenants with the Microsoft Graph

Making PowerShell automation easier with the Microsoft Graph

To bring this all together I have created a summary video which you’ll find here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3xhE2ESgE8

In it, you see how to use the code that I created to install Azure AD applications in tenants, provide permissions to these Azure AD applications and then finally run a report routine to extract the desired information.

Hopefully, this summary provides a nice easy way to see this concept in action end to end.

Checking mailbox rules using the Microsoft Graph

I wrote this article about doing this here:

Making PowerShell automation easier with the Microsoft Graph

Now I have also done a video on the process which you can find here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4_FxXiTAno

Let me know if you have any feedback on how this can be improved.

How to conduct a Microsoft Teams Live Event

This video provides an overview of what is involved in conducting a Microsoft Teams Live Event. You see what it is like from a presenter’s point of view as well as an attendee. This functionality is part of Teams and allows you to have more control over audience interactions if you wish. A direct link to the video can be found here:

Scheduling a Live Event in Microsoft Teams

Live Events allow you to broadcast your content to a very large audience. Such events can be directly scheduled from inside Microsoft Teams. The video above takes you through the process of actually scheduling a Live Event. The direct for the video is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN8CXXDZids

Remember, Live Events in Teams are different from typical Teams Meetings which are ad hoc with everyone typically able at the same level. Live Events gives you more control over audience interactions and allows you to integrate professional grade broadcast equipment if you wish. This doesn’t mean that Live Events is only for very large groups, it can work for smaller environments as well. It all depends on what you are trying to achieve.

Hopefully, this short video will get you started on creating your own initial Live Event.

Introduction to Azure Sentinel

I’ve put together a quick introduction on Azure Sentinel to give you a better idea of what it is all about. I’ll show you how to connect services and create some rules to get you started. I also give you an idea of the costs of using the service (hint, it’s cheap!).

The direct video URL is – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBXeFtrYaFI

Ignite 2019 sessions on YouTube

Not everyone, including me, is able to get to Microsoft Ignite for various reasons. Microsoft, to their credit, live streams and records the sessions. Eventually, these sessions make their way onto YouTube which is my preferred viewing platform. However, what is missing is a catalogue of the links to each session.

As in previous years:

Ignite 2017 sessions on YouTube

Ignite 2018 sessions on YouTube

I have started building this index and making it available on my GitHub:

Ignite session 2019 on YouTube

Please note, all the session are not there as yet. I add them as I discover them along the way through the year.

Of course, if you have a link to a session that I don’t have up there yet, please send it along so I can add it and we can all benefit.

Thanks again to Microsoft for doing this and uploading the sessions to YouTube. They are a great source of learning and allows people like me would couldn’t get to Ignite the ability to work through the content.

My tech videos – 2020

A new list of favourite content for 2020, a list of my favourite films and documentaries. This will start off small as I have only started tacking it but will grow now that I am.

Documentaries

The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin

Movies

Sneakers

Ignite 2017 sessions on YouTube

With Microsoft Ignite 2018 just around the corner I know there is always going to be a huge amount of content and no way that I can be across all of it immediately. Luckily, Microsoft has been recording these sessions and posting them up to YouTube for later review. This has allowed me to work through many sessions over the year to improve my knowledge.

Unfortunately, there is not a single directory of all the session recordings in YouTube, at least not that I know of, so I have created and maintained a list of these sessions as I worked through them. I’ve now made my list of the Ignite 2017 sessions available via my GitHub repository at:

https://github.com/directorcia/general/blob/master/ignite2017.txt

Simply find the session that you are interested in a hopefully I’ve managed to capture the link to the session on YouTube. If you know of any sessions that aren’t listed let me and I’ll add to my catalogue.

Personally, watching the pre-recorded sessions gives me some benefits I don’t get attending in person. Firstly, I generally watch the sessions at 1.5 speed which allows me to get through more sessions. I’m also able to have my own Office 365 or Azure tenant up in another window and be following along with what I see being presented. I also get the ability to pause the session and come back later as YouTube keeps track of my history. Also, as I watch session YouTube suggest more sessions like the one I’m watching, so discovery of new relevant sessions becomes much easier once you start getting into it.

I plan to do the same for the Ignite 2018 sessions when they become available but I’ll start doing that immediately and posting into a new file in the same repository. So keep an eye out for that one coming soon.

Even after 12 months, I haven’t been able to get through everything but I do have to say thanks to Microsoft for making all this content freely available for those that couldn’t attend.