Podcasts

On September 14th, I had the great pleasure of being a guest on On the Line with Cohesity podcast. I joined host Theresa Miller to discuss several M365 topics; including:

• Introductions
• Microsoft Viva and the new employee experience during the pandemic
• The evolution of email security
• Safety Tips to keep your users informed on questionable email
• Microsoft Teams active users in the pandemic
• Teams integrations with other products: Dynamics 365, Service Now.
• Windows 365 Cloud PC
• Windows 11 experience and GUI changes
• How to join the Windows Insider Program to get Windows 11 now
• The benefits of the Office Insiders program and who should enroll in an organization

On January 29th, I had the great pleasure of being a guest on MSP Unplugged. I joined host Jeff Halash to discuss several topics; including:

• Introductions
• TechCon Unplugged 2021
• A brief history of Gareth Gudger
• Staying on-prem versus going to the cloud
• Modern security threats leveraging email
• Benefits of Exchange hybrid for mailbox migrations
• Question from the audience: OneNote file storage options
• OneNote: Windows 10 OneNote vs. Office 365 OneNote
• OneDrive: Syncing and folder redirection
• Syncing vs. Backups
• Windows AutoPilot Overview
• Exchange Server vNext
• Exchange Server vNext subscription licensing
• Loss leaders and cash cows
• MSP Unplugged Patreon and Facebook Group
• Word: True dark mode in Office beta channel
• Edge Chromium supports ClickOnce
• Future of in-person conferences vs. Microsoft’s carbon negative goal

On September 14th, I had the great pleasure of being a guest on RunAs Radio. I joined host Richard Campbell to discuss several hot topics for Exchange and Office 365; including:

• Introductions
• Staying on-prem versus going to the cloud
• Importance of email availability
• Monitoring in the new Exchange Admin Center
• Exchange Server vNext
• Extended deadline for basic authentication deprecation
• Migrating away from basic authentication
• Exchange Server vNext in-place upgrade scenarios
• Exchange Server vNext licensing model
• Certificate-based authentication for unattended Exchange Online scripts
• Eliminating the last Exchange Server on-prem
• Keeping Exchange Server on-prem for SMTP relay
• DANE for SMTP (DNS Authentication of Named Entities)
• Plus Addressing in Exchange Online
• Tenant-to-tenant mailbox migrations in public preview
• SMTP domain sharing preview in development

On July 19th, I had the great pleasure of being a guest on SysAdmin Today. I joined host Paul Joyner to discuss several hot topics for Exchange and Office 365; including:

• Introductions
• Overview of Microsoft MVP Program
• Getting out of the patching and server management business
• Updated Hybrid Configuration Wizard (v17)
• Keeping an Exchange server on-prem for secure mail relay
• GUI for restoring deleted mail for users
• Reply-all storm protection
• Support for DANE / DNSSEC
• New defaults for SMTP Auth
• Deprecation and deadline extension for basic auth
• Getting all users to multi-factor authentication

On February 29th I had the great pleasure of being a guest on the RunAs Radio podcast. I joined host Richard Campbell to discuss all the new security requirements coming to Exchange Online, specifically around the new modern authentication requirement and the deprecation of TLS 1.0 and 1.1.