S4E24 - Azure Container Apps - Fully managed containers in the cloud from 2023-11-24T07:00:33

This week we cover Azure Container Apps. Container Apps is a serverless container service provided by Microsoft Azure, designed to simplify the deployment and scaling of containerized applicatio...

S4E23 - Ignite 2023 Recap - Seattle and what is hot off the press! from 2023-11-17T00:00

This week talk all things Microsoft Ignite 2023! Microsoft Ignite is an annual conference hosted by Microsoft, centred around technology trends, product innovations, and announcements concerning...

S4E22 - Microsoft Training - What’s new in certifications and the new applied skills accreditation from 2023-11-10T15:00:13

Alan and Sam have a discussion around Microsoft accreditations and how they have recently changes. Here are a few things we covered:

• What are Microsoft accreditations?
• What...
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S4E21 - Azure App Service - You bring your apps, Azure provides the hosting platform from 2023-11-03T07:00:56

This week we discuss Azure App Service. Azure App Service is a robust, cloud-based platform that streamlines web app and API development. It simplifies deployment, auto-scaling, and management, ...

S4E20 - Microsoft Entra ID - A single cloud identity to rule them all. from 2023-10-27T06:00:58

Alan and Sam the concept discuss cloud identities and how cloud identity providers like Microsoft Entra ID can help manage and secure those identities.

Here are a few things we covered: Listen

S4E19 - Azure DDoS Protection - Add DDoS resilience to your public facing workloads from 2023-10-20T06:00:36

This week we discussed Azure DDoS protection, a managed service from Microsoft in Azure to mitigate against DDoS attacks. DDoS or distributed-denial-of-service attacks are commonly used to overw...

S4E18 - Microsoft Entra External ID - Provide access for external identities to your application or tenant from 2023-10-13T06:00:46

Alan and Sam discuss how Microsoft Entra External ID can help organisations collaborate and provide identity to their services. Alan goes through the B2B and B2C options and their scenarios.

S4E17 - Cosmos DB - a fully managed NoSQL and relational database for modern app development from 2023-10-06T06:00:55

This week we discussed Cosmos DB, a No SQL and relational database system hosted and managed by Microsoft. Cosmos DB is a cloud first service from Microsoft on Azure. It’s a modern approach to a...

S4E16 - Intune - Modern Management for Windows from 2023-09-29T06:00:30

Alan and Sam discuss how Microsoft Intune can help manage your Windows 10/11 estate from anywhere that has an internet connection. Alan goes through the capabilities and how it can help organisa...

S4E15 - Purview Insider Risk Management - Minimise internal risks to data security from 2023-09-22T06:00:13

This week we discussed Purview Insider Risk Management. Insider Risk Management is a compliance solution that enables organisations to discover, track and manage insider risk. Insider risks can ...

S4E13 - Azure Lighthouse - Large scale multi-tenant management within Azure from 2023-09-08T06:00:20

This week we discussed Azure Lighthouse. Lighthouse allow organisations and partners access and manage resources and services in multiple tenants at scale. Lighthouse allows management of access...

S4E12 - Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps - Your SSPM and CASB solution from 2023-09-01T06:00:33

Alan and Sam discuss how Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps can help monitor and secure access to your SaaS applications. Here are a few things we covered:

• What is Microsoft Defender...
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S4E11 - Azure Chaos Studio - Use chaos to improve your infrastructure resilience in Azure from 2023-08-25T06:00:42

This week we discussed Azure Chaos Studio. Chaos Studio allows organisations to run test plans to introduce chaos. Learn how your applications and infrastructure are effected by infrastructure d...

S4E10 - Microsoft Entra - Global Secure Access First Look from 2023-08-18T06:00:35

Alan and Sam discuss Microsoft Entra ID Global Secure Access. A feature that was announced with the rebrand of Azure AD to Microsoft Entra ID. Here are a few things we covered:

• What...
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S4E9 - Microsoft Dev Box - Azure hosted development environments from 2023-08-11T06:00:15

This week we discussed Microsoft Dev Box. Dev Box allows development teams to create development environments for their projects in the cloud. This enables development teams to utilise infrastru...

S4E8 - Zero-touch deployments with Microsoft Intune from 2023-08-04T06:00:20

Alan and Sam discuss how Zero-Touch deployments can help organisation reduce the effort needed to build devices. Alan goes through some of the scenarios and the benefits. Here are a few things w...

S4E7 - Azure Automation - Deploy automation across Azure and non-Azure environments from 2023-07-28T06:00:49

This week we discussed Azure Automation. Azure automations allows you develop processes in PowerShell and Python and deploy this content to Azure to manage and orchestrate. Azure automations can...

S4E6 - Introduce Passwordless authentication into your organisation with Microsoft technology from 2023-07-21T06:00:52

Alan and Sam discuss how passwordless authentication can help organisations to improve their authentication health and increase their security posture. Alan explains the concept and the solution...

S4E5 - Azure Confidential Ledger - Use blockchain to create secure, tamper proof data stores from 2023-07-14T06:00:13

Alan and Sam discuss how Azure Confidential Ledger can help organisations to create private tamper proof stores of data. Sam explains the features of the solution and the benefits that it can br...

S4E4 - Understand your Cloud Security Posture using Microsoft Defender for Cloud from 2023-07-07T06:00:53

Alan and Sam discuss why it is important to have a Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) solution in place. Alan explains the benefits of CSPM, and dives into Microsoft Defender for Cloud. To...

S4E3 - Azure Functions - Build serverless application in the cloud, just focus on your code, leave the rest to Azure from 2023-06-30T06:00:16

This week we discuss Azure Functions. Azure Functions allows you to build serverless applications on top of Azure. Serverless functions allow you to bring your code and let Azure handle the host...

S4E2 - Securing Bring Your Own Devices (BYOD) using Microsoft Technology from 2023-06-23T06:00:26

This week we discuss how to manage Bring Your Own Devices (BYOD) securely in an organisation. With hybrid working on the rise, more flexibility is needed to reduce costs, but not as the compromi...

S4E1 - Defender for DevOps - Add protection to your DevOps process with ease from 2023-06-16T06:00:18

This week we discuss Defender for DevOps. It gives you visibility of your security posture within your CI/CD processes. Improves your threat protection and hardening of your Infrastructure-as-co...

S3E21 - Season 3 Finale - including a Microsoft Build 2023 recap! from 2023-05-26T06:00:54

It's the Season 3 Finale! Where has the time gone! Alan and Sam discuss the season, what their favorite episode were. They discuss some of the announcements at Microsoft Build 2023 that peaked t...

S3E20 - Windows 365 vs Azure Virtual Desktop, how do you decide? from 2023-05-19T06:00:05

Alan and Sam discuss the difference between Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD). Alan goes through what to consider when choosing which technology to use for different scenarios.

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S3E19 - Azure DevOps Services - plan, manage and deploy software more effectively from 2023-05-12T06:00:29

Alan and Sam discuss Azure DevOps services and its features. Sam gives us a tour of the features and benefits of Azure DevOps and how it can be integrated into your development process.

W...

S3E18 - Windows 365 - the ultimate managed Cloud PC for all from 2023-05-05T06:00:10

Alan and Sam discuss all of the features of Windows 365. Alan goes through the pricing, benefits and how organisations can use this to provide secure access to their environments.

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S3E17 - Azure Load Testing - Load test your APIs and Web Applications with ease from 2023-04-28T06:00:21

Alan and Sam discuss how Azure Load Testing can streamlined you load testing QA process. Bring your JMeter scripts, configure the service and let Azure and Microsoft take care of the rest. Sam r...

S3E16 - Azure Firewall - Securing your Azure Network from 2023-04-21T06:00:08

Alan and Sam discuss how Azure Firewall can help secure your network environment. Alan discusses how to set it up, and when you should decide to use it over Network Virtual Appliances (NVA). The...

S3E15 - Azure API Management - Manage and Secure your APIs at scale from 2023-04-14T06:00:52

Alan and Sam discuss Azure API Management. Sam explains the key features and benefits of using API management to manage your APIs at scale.

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S3E14 - Azure Private Link (plus some important news!!!) - Secure access to your Azure resources from 2023-04-07T06:00:09

Alan and Sam discuss the Azure Private Link and how it can secure your services. Alan goes through the functionality available and the benefits of using Azure Private Endpoints to access PaaS. Listen

S3E13 - Azure Static Web Apps - Rapidly deploy globally hosted static&serverless web applications from 2023-03-31T06:00:56

Alan and Sam discuss Azure static Web applications. Part of Azure App Service, static web apps allows developers to deploy static web applications in conjunction with serverless function applica...

S3E12 - Microsoft Intune Suite - New SKUs are in town! from 2023-03-24T07:00:50

Alan and Sam discuss the new Intune licences that have recently been released. Alan goes through the new functionality that is coming to Intune and why they help manage and support your endpoint...

S3E11 - Azure Cognitive Services - Efficiently add cognitive functionality into your apps/services from 2023-03-17T07:00

Alan and Sam discuss the functionality provided by Azure Cognitive Services, a group of AI powered cognitive solutions that can rapidly add advanced cognitive functionality to your applications ...

S3E10 - Power Platform - Managing your application lifecycle with Solutions from 2023-03-10T07:00:44

Alan and Sam discuss how Power Platform solutions can help manage your lo-code/no-code application lifecycle. Alan runs through what a solution can be used for and what can be managed in Power P...

S3E9 - Azure Developer CLI - Helping Developers to Deploy and manage their Applications on Azure from 2023-03-03T07:00:45

Alan and Sam discuss how The Azure Developer CLI can be used to help automate and manage key points in the application development lifecycle. Sam discusses what the Azure Developer CLI (azd) is,...

S3E8 - Azure Key Vault - Securing your Certificates and Secrets from 2023-02-24T07:00:11

Alan and Sam discuss how Azure Key vault can help secure your certificates, keys, and secrets. Alan goes though the types of vaults you can use and how you can secure the access to the secrets. ...

S3E7 - Azure Stack - Take Azure with you to the Edge from 2023-02-17T07:00:22

Alan and Sam discuss how Azure Stack solutions can help bring the capabilities of Azure management plane to your on-premises and edge environments. Sam goes through the three solutions, what the...

S3E6 - Microsoft Defender for Office - Protecting users from phishing attacks and more from 2023-02-10T07:00:06

Alan and Sam discuss how Microsoft Defender for Office (MDO) can be used to protect users from phishing attacks. Alan will go through all the security benefits, as well some of the education tra...

S3E5 - Confidential Computing in Azure - Apply Zero Trust Principles to your IaaS and PaaS Workloads from 2023-02-03T07:00:36

Alan and Sam discuss how Confidential Computing can be used to add additional zero trust principle layers to workloads running in Azure. Confidential Computing gives administrators multiple leve...

S3E4 - Privileged Identity Management - Secure Azure and Azure AD from 2023-01-27T07:00:40

Alan and Sam discuss how Microsoft’s Privileged Identity Management (PIM) can be used to improve your identity Security. PIM gives the ability to provide just-in-time access to management roles ...

S3E3 - Do the same for less - 15 ways to reduce your costs in Azure from 2023-01-20T07:00:40

Alan and Sam explain 15 ways that you can save costs in Azure…. ssh…. don’t tell Microsoft! If you have workloads in Azure, we hope that you will find some ideas that will enable you to save som...

S3E2 - Azure Virtual Desktop - Providing access to applications and desktops anywhere. from 2023-01-13T07:00:08

Alan and Sam discuss how Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) can be used provide application and virtual desktops from anywhere. Alan discusses how AVD works, the benefits to organisations, management a...

S3E1 - Azure MFA - Securing access to your corporate environment from 2023-01-06T07:00:26

Alan and Sam discuss how Azure MFA can be used to improve you security posture. MFA is ubiquitous in 2023, however utilizing MFA in a secure and user first experience can be challenging. In this...

S2E21 - Season Finale! - End of Season Recap from 2022-11-25T07:00:45

Alan and Sam discuss how Season 2 has gone. They discuss their best episodes, the podcast stats and what the plans are for Season 3 in the new year.

We would like to say thank all their l...

S2E20 - Microsoft XDR – Create a Holistic View of Your Environment from 2022-11-18T07:00:57

Alan and Sam discuss Microsoft XDR and why it is now becoming a requirement in organisations. They both take the role of the 'Expert' and explains what XDR is, how it helps reduce security risk....

S2E19 - Microsoft Power Platform – Power to the Users from 2022-11-11T07:00:55

Alan and Sam discuss Microsoft Power Platform and why it is a useful tool have in an organisation. Alan takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains how you can easily build internal apps, automa...

S2E18 - Microsoft Defender for IoT – Discover and protect your IoT Devices from 2022-11-04T07:00:18

Alan and Sam discuss Microsoft Defender for IoT and why it is a useful tool have in an organisation to reduce cyber risk. Alan takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains how you can easily disc...

S2E17 - Microsoft Sentinel - Cloud-native SIEM and SOAR capabilities from 2022-10-28T06:00:38

Alan and Sam discuss how Microsoft Sentinel can help organisations have visibility of malicious activity in their environment. Alan takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains the capability of ...

S2E16 - Microsoft Ignite 2022 - The In-Person Experience from 2022-10-21T06:00

Alan and Sam discuss Microsoft Ignite 2022, the announcements and how the in-person experience vs remote was. Sam quizzes Alan on his experience in Seattle and ignite.

Link to the Ignite ...

S2E15 - Azure Sphere – Securing IoT Devices from Silicon to Cloud from 2022-10-14T06:00

Alan and Sam discuss Azure Sphere, it's features and the security and operational value it can bring to your IoT estate. Sam takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains his experience with the A...

S2E14 - Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management from 2022-10-07T06:00

Alan and Sam discuss Microsoft's Threat Vulnerability Management and why it is a useful tool have in an organisation to reduce cyber risk. Alan takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains how yo...

S2E13 - Architecting Serverless Applications in Azure/O365 from 2022-09-30T06:00

Alan and Sam discuss how server applications in Azure can help you to more efficiently build applications for your business in a different way to traditional application development. We both tak...

S2E12 - Microsoft Purview Information Protection – Classify and Secure Your data from 2022-09-23T06:00

Alan and Sam discuss how Microsoft Purview Information Protection can help label, classify and protect your data in Office 365 . Alan takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains how you can easi...

S2E11 - Microsoft Purview Data Governance Portal from 2022-09-16T06:00:45

Alan and Sam discuss how the Microsoft Purview – Data Governance Portal can help you to manage and govern your organisations data. Sam takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains the 'Train the ...

S2E10 - Microsoft Entra – Azure AD – Identity Governance from 2022-09-09T06:00:25

Alan and Sam discuss how Identity Governance within Azure AD, part of Microsoft's Entra family of identity products can help with your user lifecycle. Alan takes the role of the 'Expert' and exp...

S2E9 - Microsoft Entra Permission Management - First Look from 2022-09-02T06:00:25

Alan and Sam take a first look at Microsoft Entra permissions management. Sam takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains how the product allows you to discover and remediate permissions creep i...

S2E8 - Securing Multi-Cloud environments with Microsoft Defender for Cloud from 2022-08-26T06:00:25

Alan and Sam discuss how Microsoft Defender for Cloud can help Secure your multi-cloud environments. Alan takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains how you can easily gain visibility of your m...

S2E7 - Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure from 2022-08-19T06:00:02

Alan and Sam take a look at The Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure. Sam takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains his experience with the Cloud Adoption framework and highlights the reasoning ...

S2E6 - Microsoft Entra – Securing and Managing Cloud Identities from 2022-08-12T06:00

Alan and Sam discuss how Azure AD, part of the Microsoft Entra family can secure your identity in the cloud. Alan takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains his viewpoint of the product and why...

S2E5 - Managing Compliance with Azure Policy from 2022-08-05T06:00

Alan and Sam discuss all things Azure Policy, a way to manage Azure compliance at scale. Sam takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains his viewpoint of the product/tooling and why it can help ...

S2E4 - Modern Device Management with Microsoft Endpoint Manager from 2022-07-29T06:00:37

Alan and Sam discuss how Microsoft Endpoint Manager (MEM) can simplify device management whilst making it easy to secure them. Alan takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains his viewpoint of t...

S2E3 - Terraform - Deploy your Infrastructure as Code from 2022-07-22T06:00:37

Alan and Sam discuss Terraform, a popular choice in the Infrastructure as Code space. Sam takes the role of 'Expert' and explains his viewpoint of the product and why we should be utilising Terr...

S2E2 - Microsoft Entra - First Look from 2022-07-15T06:00:37

Alan and Sam discuss all things Entra, a 'new' product offering by Microsoft. Alan takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains his initial viewpoint of the product and why we should all be excit...

S2E1 - Aaaaaaaand We're Back! from 2022-07-04T20:03:32

In this episode, Alan and Sam discuss the Podcast, what's happened and what we are planning over the next season. Also with a big a apology that we have been absent for over a year.

What ...

S1E9 - Infrastructure as Code – ARM Templates from 2020-11-01T17:04:20

In this episode Alan and Sam deep dive into Infrastructure as Code and specifically ARM Templates inside of Azure. We talk about what infrastructure as code is and how it can improve your infrastru...

S1E8 - Microsoft Ignite Recap from 2020-09-30T20:24:27

In this episode Alan and Sam talk recap all the latest news from Ignite! Even though Ignite was virtual this year, Microsoft announced a load of new features and products around Azure/Office 365. Y...

S1E7 - Cloud vs On Premises from 2020-09-16T17:10:35

Episode Notes

In this episode Alan and Sam talk around the move from on premises to the cloud. Why are companies doing this? What are the cost advantages? Is the cloud more reliable? Wh...

S1E6 - Zero Trust from 2020-08-26T17:42:25

Episode Notes

This episode we have a deep dive looking at Zero Trust, the principles, components and tools that enable us to be more secure in the modern workplace. Alan lives and breat...

S1E5 - Security Center from 2020-08-04T19:16:16

Episode Notes

In this episode we look at Azure Security Center and the features and benefits that it can bring to a range of different teams working with assets in Azure. We highlight s...

S1E4 - Learning and Accreditations for Azure/O365 from 2020-07-15T13:30:57

Episode Notes

In this episode we cover many aspects of the learning and accreditation process within the ecosystem of Microsoft. We wanted to give a high level overview of the structure...

S1E3 - The Rise of the Citizen Developer from 2020-06-26T15:00:37

Episode Notes

In this episode we discuss the changing nature of who builds applications and systems on Azure/o365.

In recent years, with the proliferation of low/no code platform...

S1E2 - Microsoft Build Recap from 2020-05-29T07:30:08

Episode Notes

In this episode we recap the Microsoft Build virtual conference. Build this year, due to COVID19 was broadcast over 48 hours non stop across the world. Attendees watched v...

S1E1 - Hello World! from 2020-05-19T11:44:11

Welcome to the first episode of the Let's Talk! Azure podcast. In this episode we introduce ourselves and cover some of the current Azure news.

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S1E1 - Hello World! from 2020-05-19T11:44:11

Episode Notes

Welcome to the first episode of the Let's Talk! Azure podcast. In this episode we introduce ourselves and cover some of the current Azure news.