In this episode, we talk to Program Manager, Microsoft 365 Enterprise and Cloud Paul Andrew, and Program Manager Architect Microsoft 365 Networking Jeff Mealiffe.
These gents are legends in the Microsoft 365 networking space that bring you https://connectivity.office.com. We discuss the benefits of running the tool at home and in the corporate network, recommendations for how to optimize our network connectivity to Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365.
Along with future plans from a Microsoft networking perspective including Informed network routing.
In this episode, the team interviews Evan Zaleschuk Sr. Partner Technical Architect at Microsoft. We talk about how to apply Microsoft Teams features to your day to day work, along with as a Microsoft partner what you need to know in order to deploy Teams successfully to your clients.
In this episode, the team discusses what is the Microsoft release methodology when it comes to Microsoft 365 and Office. Where are the locations to manage this functionality, what they mean, and how to get into insider- pre-release programs.
In this Episode, a follow up to Episode 71. The teams walks through the process of running Microsoft 365 DSC in Azure Automation.
What is MicrosoftDSC?
Microsoft365DSC is an Open-Source initiative hosted on GitHub, lead by Microsoft engineers and maintained by the community. It allows you to write a definition for how your Microsoft 365 tenant should be configured, automate the deployment of that configuration, and ensures the monitoring of the defined configuration, notifying and acting on detected configuration drifts. It also allows you to extract a full-fidelity configuration out of any existing Microsoft 365 tenant. The tool covers all major Microsoft 365 workloads such as Exchange Online, Teams, Power Platforms, SharePoint and Security and Compliance.
Why automate MicrosoftDSC using a runbook?
Ordinarily, you would need to run MicrosoftDSC manually or setup an “agent” on a server to monitor changes in your tenant (tenant drift) which can be cumbersome and not always practical for some environments.
Azure Automation is a service in Azure that allows you to automate your Azure management tasks and to orchestrate actions across external systems from right within Azure.
The following guide shows you what how to setup Microsoft DSC as an Azure runbook. The runbook will monitor for changes in your Office 365 tenant an alert you when any changes do occur.
Getting everything setup in your Azure Tenant
Running MicrosoftDSC requires many prerequisite PowerShell Modules and dependencies to be installed into your Azure Tenant. This quite a cumbersome process so we have created a script to simplify this. **Shout out to fellow MVP Barbara Forbes for the inspiration for this code - https://twitter.com/Ba4bes**
M365DSCRunBookInstall
Before running this you will need to do the following things: