Episode 141 – Microsoft Cloud News – Hurricane Dorian Edition

In Episode 141, Ben and Scott discuss some of the new features coming to Intune for iOS 13 and macOS Catalina with their upcoming releases this fall. Then they talk about some of the latest announcements around Microsoft Azure including the announced new regions in Switzerland and some of the changes coming to the behavior of SNAT with Azure Load Balancer.

Sponsors

• ShareGate – ShareGate’s industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs

• Opsgility – Your Cloud enablement partner to help guide your organization through all phases of Cloud migration and adoption

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• Intelligink – We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business

Show Notes

• Intune Day Zero support for new settings and updates in iOS 13 and macOS 10.15

Turn on iOS supervised mode

• Microsoft Intune announces the general availability of administrative templates

Use Windows 10 templates to configure group policy settings in Microsoft Intune

• Policy CSP

• Microsoft Azure available from new cloud regions in Switzerland

• Azure Load Balancer becomes more efficient

Managing SNAT (PAT) port exhaustion

• The Azure Security Lab – Dedicated cloud hosts for security researchers to test attacks

Microsoft Azure Bounty Program

• Request an Azure Security Lab VM

Previous Episodes

• Episode 133 – We Still Have All Of Our Fingers

• Episode 136 – Azure SQL Managed Instance

• Episode 137 – Azure and Office 365 News

• Episode 138 – Slaying PowerShell Dragons

• Episode 139 – Azure Migrate v2

About the sponsors

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As the leading global brand for enabling the Microsoft Cloud, Opsgility’s global Microsoft MVP and multi-certified Cloud Solutions Architect team has authored over twenty MOC Courses, the Microsoft Press Book Implementing Azure Solutions 70-533 and numerous Microsoft Cloud Practice Playbooks for Microsoft Partners. And for a limited time, you can get your team certified in the most exciting cloud business today with a 25% discount off instructor-led training prep courses for Azure and Microsoft 365! Visit https://opsgility.com/MicrosoftCloud to learn more.

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Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.