103 - Azure Updates

In this week's episode, we look at recent Microsoft Tech updates. By popular request, we're expanding the scope beyond just Azure to include Microsoft 365, Power Platform, and similar Microsoft platforms and capabilities. What's new? What's interesting? What's retiring?(00:00) - Intro and catching up.(04:25) - Show content starts.Show links- Agent 365 tooling servers - Mistral 3 available in Microsoft Foundry - Microsoft 365 Copilot Business - Entra ID support for RDP Connections- Ignite 2025 Next Steps- Foundry Control Plane: Where Developers Build, Operate, and Govern Every Agent Feedback - Give us feedback!

In this episode, we unpack what's new with Microsoft Defender for Cloud. During Ignite 2025, Microsoft announced that the public preview of MDC would be available shortly, and it has arrived now. We'll take a look at what changed, what didn't, and why you should care.(00:00) - Intro and catching up.(03:52) - Show content starts.Show links- Defender for Cloud Preview- Give us feedback!

In this episode, we take a look at the new Microsoft Zero Trust Assessment tool. We reflect on Zero Trust in general, its application in the Microsoft security landscape, and what this exciting tool will offer you.(00:00) - Intro and catching up.(05:00) - Show content starts.Show links- Microsoft Zero Trust Assessment tool- Demo of Microsoft Zero Trust Assessment (Merill Fernando)- Give us feedback!

Microsoft Ignite 2025 is here! We reflect on the hero announcements and what they mean for the future. Some exciting announcements were made during the first keynote, and we already had a chance to try a few of them out.(00:00) - Intro and catching up.(03:35) - Show content starts.Show links- ESPC’25 in Dublin- Microsoft Agent 365- Security Copilot announcement- Azure Copilot- Microsoft Foundry, and more here- Defender for Cloud- Give us feedback!

Microsoft Ignite 2025 is just around the corner. As is tradition by now, we take a look at what to expect from Ignite: the announcements, expectations, and sessions.(00:00) - Intro and catching up.(04:55) - Show content starts.Show links- Microsoft Ignite 2025- Give us feedback!

This week, we unpack the hero announcements from GitHub Universe 2025. Much of this is related to agents, agentic AI, and GitHub Copilot. We reflect on these new announcements as we proceed.(00:00) - Intro and catching up.(03:59) - Show content starts.Show links- Agent HQ- Custom agents examples- Copilot integrations - Agentic code review in Copilot- Plan mode- Agents.md- GitHub Code Quality- Usage metrics and API- Enterprise AI controls and agent control plane- Give us feedback!

This week, we review the Microsoft Digital Defense report 2025. We did the same for 2024 and 2023, so this time we'll look at what's interesting in the report and what to focus on from a security perspective.(00:00) - Intro and catching up.(03:40) - Show content starts.Show links- Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2025- Ctrl+Alt+Azure: Episode 275: Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2024- Ctrl+Alt+Azure: Episode 210: Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2023- HackTheBox- Give us feedback!

In this week's episode, we look at recent Microsoft Tech updates. By popular request, we're expanding the scope beyond just Azure to include Microsoft 365, Power Platform, and similar Microsoft platforms and capabilities. What's new? What's interesting? What's retiring?(00:00) - Intro and catching up.(04:40) - Show content starts.Show links- Public preview: VM Customization in Azure: Disable Multithreading & Constrained Cores- Containerization Assist (GitHub)- Microsoft Azure Migration Hub- Private Link service Direct ConnectFeedback - Give us feedback!

Today, we talk about identity mistakes, with our guest, Stephan van Rooij. We learn about OWASP top 10, his project IdentityProxy and things to avoid when building custom solutions that revolve around identities.(00:00) - Intro and catching up.(02:50) - Show content starts.Show links- Blog: https://svrooij.io- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/stephanvanrooij - IdentityProxy: https://github.com/svrooij/identityproxy- OWASP Top 10- GitHub servers being migrated to AzureFeedback - Give us feedback!

Today, we go through the three recommended and must-have alerts you should configure in all of your Azure tenants. We touch upon FinOps, security, a bit of WAF and CAF, and find out if we're using these recommendations ourselves.(00:00) - Intro and catching up.(03:20) - Show content starts.Show links- Azure Quota Alerts (Preview): Still overlooked, but incredibly useful | Microsoft Community HubFeedback - Give us feedback!