Let's Talk Azure‪!‬ Alan Armstrong & Sam Foot

Alan and Sam talk about why it is important to monitor your network for connected devices. Alan runs us through the benefits of doing it with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. Here are a few areas we covered:


Why is it important to monitor your network?
How can you find devices using Microsoft solutions?
What are the benefits of devices being discovered and searchable in the Defender XDR Portal
How is it licensed

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This week Alan and Sam discuss Azure AI Search. It is a robust, cloud-based search service provided by Microsoft that leverages artificial intelligence to enhance search functionalities within applications. It allows developers to create rich, full-text search experiences with features like natural language processing, semantic search, and cognitive search capabilities, which can extract insights from various data sources. The service is scalable, ensuring efficient handling of large volumes of data and queries, and integrates seamlessly with other Azure services, providing a comprehensive solution for building intelligent and responsive search-driven applications.


What problems is Azure AI search aiming to solve?
What does it integrate with?
What are some of the use cases for the solution?
How much does it cost?
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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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