Episodes

Sept. 30, 2022

S2E13 - Architecting Serverless Applications in Azure/O365

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 ...

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Sept. 23, 2022

S2E12 - Microsoft Purview Information Protection – Classify and Secur…

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...

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Sept. 16, 2022

S2E11 - Microsoft Purview Data Governance Portal

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 particip...

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Sept. 9, 2022

S2E10 - Microsoft Entra – Azure AD – Identity Governance

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 Managemen...

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Sept. 2, 2022

S2E9 - Microsoft Entra Permission Management - First Look

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...

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Aug. 26, 2022

S2E8 - Securing Multi-Cloud environments with Microsoft Defender for …

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 ...

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Aug. 19, 2022

S2E7 - Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure

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 fra...

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Aug. 12, 2022

S2E6 - Microsoft Entra – Securing and Managing Cloud Identities

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 …

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Aug. 5, 2022

S2E5 - Managing Compliance with Azure Policy

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 co...

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July 29, 2022

S2E4 - Modern Device Management with Microsoft Endpoint Manager

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 ad...

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July 22, 2022

S2E3 - Terraform - Deploy your Infrastructure as Code

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 r...

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July 15, 2022

S2E2 - Microsoft Entra - First Look

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 famil...

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July 4, 2022

S2E1 - Aaaaaaaand We're Back!

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 …

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Nov. 1, 2020

S1E9 - Infrastructure as Code – ARM Templates

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. Wh...

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Sept. 30, 2020

S1E8 - Microsoft Ignite Recap

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. You can check the Book of New...

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Sept. 16, 2020

S1E7 - Cloud vs On Premises

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? When does on premises make more sense? We also …

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Aug. 26, 2020

S1E6 - Zero Trust

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 breathes security day to day, so he gives us his …

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Aug. 4, 2020

S1E5 - Security Center

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 some of the vast range of features, how we …

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July 15, 2020

S1E4 - Learning and Accreditations for Azure/O365

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 of learning and what you can expect from the exam pro...

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June 26, 2020

S1E3 - The Rise of the Citizen Developer

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 platforms, we have seen a rise in people within the business building...

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May 29, 2020

S1E2 - Microsoft Build Recap

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 virtually as Microsoft announced new products and featu...

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May 19, 2020

S1E1 - Hello World!

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. What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form …

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