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:
In this episode, we have a good chat with the guys who are coordinating Teamsfest. They give us a rundown about the 1-day event that is jam-packed with a star-studded lineup with sessions related to Microsoft Teams.
In this episode the team discusses the new highly impactful end-user changes, these features are large enough that would require changes to documentation or end-user adoption and training.
New meeting pre-join experience
New meeting experience
Breakout rooms
Meeting options
Channel Info (I)
Moved Channel Meeting in top Corner (Meet Now in Channel)
New file share experience
Planner /todo /tasks
Microsoft Lists
Network Device Interface - NDI
Updated Notification Experience
New Message Actions (Integrations with Power Automate )
New Templates (create a Team from a Template)
Updates to MTR (Coordinated Meetings and WebEX Direct Guest)
In this episode, the team talks with CEO Matt Landis, of Landis Technologies who are are one of the Microsoft Teams Certified Contact Center & Compliance Cloud recording partners.
We discuss their products:
Business Focus
Product differentiator
Product Architecture
Advanced and challenging scenarios
Microsoft Certification & validation process of their product.
In this episode, the team talks with PM Evan Kahan from Numonix , who are are one of the Microsoft Teams Certified Compliance Cloud recording partners.
We discuss their IX Cloud product:
Business Focus
Product differentiator
Product Architecture
Advanced and challenging scenarios
Microsoft Certification & validation process of their product.