Let's Talk Azure!

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 some money, who doesn’t love doing the same for less? What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form , Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right corner of our site.

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 and the cost. He discuss how you the solution can be deployed via Code and why you should check it out. What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form , Or leave us a voice me...

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 episode we aim to give you the knowledge and experience we have gained working on many MFA related projects over the years. What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form ,...

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 listeners of this season and look forward to providing content in the next season. What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form , Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right co...

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. What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form , Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right corner of our site.

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, automate process, and present data using the platform. What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form , Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right corner of our site.

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 discover your device exposure risk and start to prioritise the remediation. What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form , Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right corne...

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 Microsoft Sentinel and how it is for any size organisation. Alan dives into the process from log ingestion to automated response to an incident. What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via...

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 2022 Book of News - Here What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form , Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right corner of our site.

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 Azure Sphere Development Kit. What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form , Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right corner of our site.

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 you can easily discover your device exposure risk and start to prioritise remediations. What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form , Or leave us a voice message in the bott...

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 take the role of the 'Expert' and give our experiences using these technologies to build applications for our customers. What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form , Or leav...

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 easily start labelling document, as well as encrypt them to protect data leaving your organisation. What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form , Or leave us a voice message i...

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 Trainer' event that he participated in with Microsoft and gives an overview of the product. Link to the Microsoft Purview Workshop: https://github.com/tayganr/purviewlab Many thanks to the team at Microsoft...

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 explains how Entitlement Management, Access Reviews and Privileged Access can secure, review, and give access. What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form , Or leave us a voi...

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 in your multi-cloud environments. What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form , Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right corner of our site.

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 multi-cloud environment and how you secure it using protection workloads. What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form , Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right corn...

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 about considering using the framework. Get Started with Azure Cloud Adoption Framework What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form , Or leave us a voice message in the bot...

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 we should consider the premium features within Azure AD to secure and manage cloud identity. What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form , Or leave us a voice message in...

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 organisations to track their compliance level and enforce policies in Azure. What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form , Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right...

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 the product and why we should adopt MEM in our organisation. What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form , Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right corner of our sit...

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 Terraform in our organisation and recommending it to our customers. What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form , Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right corner of our...

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 excited about this new product family from Microsoft. Entra is very new at the time of recording, and we give our first impressions on the product family and give you a high level overview of it's functionality...

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 did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form , Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right corner of our site.

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 infrastructure deployment process. What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form , Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right corner of our site.