295 - What’s new in MCRA – Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architecture?

Today, we'll talk about Azure Landing Zones, with insights from Microsoft's Jack Tracey. What are landing zones, to be more exact? We touch topics on application and platform landing zones, networking, architectures, infrastructure as code, and many others.(00:00) - Intro and catching up.(02:30) - Show content starts.Show links- Azure Landing Zones | Cloud Adoption Framework- Azure Landing Zone Accelerator- Azure Landing Zone Brownfield- Development environments- Give us feedback!

In this week's episode, we look at MCRA - the Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architecture. Updates were released in April 2025; we'll go through the updates and explain why MCRA matters.(00:00) - Intro and catching up.(05:29) - Show content starts.Show links- Updated MCRAFeedback - 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.(05:20) - Show content starts.Show links- Design, troubleshoot, and secure networks using Microsoft Copilot in Azure | Microsoft Learn- GA: Private subnet- Public preview: VM network troubleshooter- Exchange Online Tenant Outbound Email Limits- Virtual Network TAPFeedback - Give us feedback!

The future of generative AI might very well be agentic workloads. Fresh from Build 2025, we take a look at Agent IDs in Entra ID. What are they, and why would even need to know how they work? What's the difference from Enterprise Applications? We consider compliance, reporting, licensing and other aspects on Agent IDs. (00:00) - Intro and catching up.(04:08) - Show content starts.Show links- Agent IDs announcement from Build 2025- Give us feedback!

Today, we're taking an initial look at Azure Service Groups. We're already familiar with Resource Groups and have discussed Management Groups and governance in general in previous episodes over the years. Service Groups provide a new approach to governing and managing your resources operationally. We'll share our thoughts on governance, this new capability, and how it can be utilized.(00:00) - Intro and catching up.(03:45) - Show content starts.Show links- Service Groups- Give us feedback!

* NOTE: It seems like Microsoft Teams recording messed up big time. This episode has an audio distortion issue around the 16-minute to 20-minute mark. Apologies! *This week, we'll have our initial reflections and thoughts from major Microsoft Build 2025 announcements. What caught our eye? It's AI all the way, but we find other aspects as well. Tobi shares some surprising news, and we also talk about future episodes now that we'll have a bit more time to dive deep into the new announcements.(00:00) - Intro and catching up.(02:42) - Show content starts.Show links- Build 2025 Book of News- Give us feedback!

This week, we'll tackle the basics of Azure AI Foundry. First, we'll talk about what it is and who it aims for. We will also walk you through the options and capabilities, like reviewing models, fine-tuning, and managing your data and indexes. We'll also consider the different aspects of building your apps before wrapping up with considerations on possible apps you could build.(00:00) - Intro and catching up.(03:15) - Show content starts.Show links- Plan and manage costs for Azure AI Foundry- GitHub - Azure-Samples/rag-data-openai-python-promptflow: A copilot sample that uses python to ground the copilot responses in company data.- GitHub - openai/openai-dotnet: The official .NET library for the OpenAI API- Give us feedback!

In this week's episode, we ponder what to expect from Microsoft Build 2025. Is it worth traveling to Seattle for the event, that takes place May 19-22? We reflect on the possible announcements, the breakout session topics, as well as the keynotes.(00:00) - Intro and catching up.(04:56) - Show content starts.Show links- Microsoft Build 2025- DEM554: Building Agents with Security Copilot- BRK231: Building Secure AI Agents with Microsoft Entra ID- BRK222: Windows AI Developer Workstations: Optimized for AI- Give us feedback!

This week, we take a look at Azure Review Checklists. Relatively unbeknownst to us, this interesting capability allows you to really supercharge the reviews on your Azure environments!(00:00) - Intro and catching up.(03:03) - Show content starts.Show links- Azure Review Checklists- Azure Resource Inventory- 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.(03:45) - Show content starts.Show links- What's new in Microsoft Sentinel- What's new in Microsoft Defender for Cloud features- CDN Domain URL change for Agents in Pipelines - Azure DevOps Blog- ActiveX disabled now in Microsoft 365- I/O performance analysis in SQL Server on Azure VMs- AI agents for beginners- Azure Networking capabilities for Copilot in Azure Feedback - Give us feedback!