Let's Talk Azure‪!‬ Alan Armstrong & Sam Foot

Alan and Sam discuss the management of macOS and how it is a little different to other operating systems. Alan guides through what can be configured and the reasons why. Here are a few things we covered:


How is macOS different to other operating systems to manage?
What Microsoft tooling can you use to manage them
What licences do you need

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This week Alan and Sam discuss Azure Data Box. It is a ruggedised appliance designed to simplify the process of transferring large volumes of data to Azure cloud storage, offering high-speed data transfer and secure encryption. It enables organisations to overcome bandwidth limitations and easily migrate large datasets, ensuring efficient and reliable data transfer.


What is Azure Data Box?
What can you back up with it?
How does the process work?
How much does it cost?

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This week, Alan and Sam talk about new features and services that have gone into Public Preview or General Available status in the last month. We dive into a couple of these updates that peaked our interest.

Some of the Microsoft product features and update we covered:


FIDO2 authentication & Keypass
Security group provisioning to Active Directory using cloud sync
Unified security operations platform
New API Manager v2
App Service v1 and v2 environments retirement

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Alan and Sam discuss Microsoft Entra Global Secure Access. A identity-centric Security Service Edge (SSE) solution that helps secure user's internet and on-premises access. Here are a few things we covered:


What is a Security Service Edge ?
What is Microsoft Entra Global Secure Access?
How does Entra Internet access for Microsoft 365 help secure and prevent data leakage?
What is Entra Internet Access and Private Access?

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This week Alan and Sam discuss Azure Backup. It is a comprehensive solution offered by Microsoft Azure for safeguarding data across cloud and on-premises environments, providing seamless backup and recovery capabilities. It enables users to protect critical workloads, applications, and files with automated backups and flexible retention policies.


What is Azure backup?
What can you back up with it?
How can you secure your backups?
How much does it cost?

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Alan and Sam discuss Microsoft's new Cloud PKI service, which enables the management and deployment of device and user certificates through Intune.
Below are some key points we addressed:


What are user and device certificates and how are they used
How would you normally manage PKI services
What is Microsoft’s Cloud PKI
How much does it cost?

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