October 2020 – Mr. Wombat Blog

Microsoft Tech News & Product Updates: 10/26/2020

Happy Monday! I hope you had a great weekend. Please find below an overview of last weeks product news, post and announcements.

Product News, Tech Posts & Announcements from last week

Azure Infrastructure
Microsoft And SpaceX: The Final Frontier For Cloud Computing	Forbes
Disaster recovery through stretch clustering with Azure Stack HCI	YouTube
Running Containers on Azure – All Options Explained	Tech Community
Load Balancing on Azure – An Overview	Tech Community

Business Applications
Power Series Episode #034: Building Power BI and Power Apps all in one occasion.	YouTube
Power BI October 2020 Feature Summary	Power BI

Windows
Security baseline (DRAFT): Windows 10 and Windows Server, version 20H2	Tech Community
What’s new for IT pros in Windows 10, version 20H2	Tech Community
Stay up to date with Windows Server	Tech Community

App Dev
5 Things you didn’t know about Azure SQL Database	Tips & Tricks
Quickly get started with samples in Azure Synapse Analytics	Big Data
Serverless Streaming At Scale with Azure SQL	Tech Community
Managing and Rotating Secrets with Azure KeyVault, Managed Services, and some automation – Part 1	Tech Community
Zone Redundancy for Azure SQL Database general purpose tier now in preview	Azure SQL
Top Azure Synapse Analytics and Power BI questions	James Serra

Microsoft 365
Managing Attention for Employee Wellness & Productivity	Adoption
Stay in Teams: Using Microsoft Teams with External Apps like Slack and Webex	Teams
Surface Hub’s Windows 10 Team 2020 Update available October 27	Surface
Does Microsoft Teams Replace SharePoint Online?	Power-ful

Security
Azure AD provisioning, now with attribute mapping, improved performance and more!	Tech Community
What’s New and What’s Coming in Information Protection?	Tech Community
Secure Score Over Time Power BI Dashboard	Tech Community
Conditional Access Adoption	Tech Community
What’s New: Entity Insights for Convenient Investigation Checks is Now in Public Preview	Tech Community
Auto-disable malicious inbox rules!	Tech Community
Introducing an exciting new way to review and manage Microsoft DLP alerts	Tech Community
Microsoft 365 Defender enriches the Microsoft Defender for Identity experience	Tech Community

Manufacturing	Manufacturing Blog
IoT Signals Research, edition 2: global insights for 2020 and beyond	IoT
Solving IoT device security at scale through standards	IoT
Addressing cybersecurity risk in industrial IoT and OT	IoT
7 Essential Traits to Build a Resilient Growth Strategy	NIST
A Well-Trained Workforce Is Manufacturing’s Future	Industry Week

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Have a great week!

Microsoft Tech News and Product Updates: 10/18/20

Happy Monday! I hope you had a great weekend. Please find below an overview of last weeks product news, post and announcements.

Product News, Tech Posts & Announcements from last week

Azure Infrastructure
Make the most of Azure to reduce your cloud spend	YouTube
What’s new for Azure VMware solution to accelerate cloud migration	YouTube
What is Azure Hybrid Benefit?	Tech Community
Bring compute, storage, and intelligence to the edge with Azure Stack Edge	Azure Friday

Business Applications
Introducing an empowering new role: Microsoft Power Platform App Maker	Power Apps
Solving automation challenge at Microsoft with citizen development, Microsoft Power Platform	IT Showcase
Azure AI & IoT \| Smart Office Reopening with RXR Realty	Mechanics
Delivering Better Customer Experience with Omni Channel	Channel 9
Highlights from Dynamics 365 release wave 2	Dynamics

Windows
Disabling legacy scripting engine JScript in Internet Explorer	IT Pro

App Dev
Apps can now narrate what they see in the world as well as people do	Cognitive Services
Announcing Azure Data Explorer data connector for Azure Synapse (preview)	Synapse
Build your full-PaaS IoT solution with Azure SQL Database	Azure SQL
Microsoft AI breakthrough in automatic image captioning	YouTube

Microsoft 365
Learning and Networking Days – two FREE, one-day events from the EU Collaboration Summit event team	Microsoft 365
Managing communities & channels in Teams	YouTube
What is Microsoft Teams? How to use the new version. (2021)	Mechanics

Security
Azure Defender for IoT is now in public preview	IoT
What is Conditional Access	Docs
Top 10 Best Practices for Azure Security	Tech Community
Securing Administrative Access to Microsoft Cloud App Security and Defender for Identities	Security
CISO Stressbusters: 7 tips for weathering the cybersecurity storms	Security
Announcing the Zero Trust Deployment Center	Security

Manufacturing	Manufacturing Blog
Rockwell Automation and Microsoft Addressing Industrial Digital Transformation Challenges Together	Industry Week
Cyber Risks Continue to Grow in Manufacturing	MAPI
Suspicious Minds: Non-Technical Signs Your Business Might Have Been Hacked	NIST

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Your Microsoft team and I value your partnership and we are committed to helping you achieve more. Please reach out to us if you need assistance. Have a great week!

Microsoft Tech News and Product Updates: 10/12/20

Happy Monday! I hope you had a great weekend. Please find below an overview of last weeks product news, post and announcements.

Last week was Ignite. A summary of announcements is available in Ignite Book of News The Ignite site with on-demand content is available here. A list of guides|playlist from the product teams is available from my blog.

Product News, Tech Posts & Announcements from last week

Azure Infrastructure
What’s new in System Center?	YouTube
Optimize your Azure workloads with Azure Advisor Score	Azure
Build your Azure skills with Microsoft Learn and Pluralsight	Tech Community
Microsoft optimizes its cloud consumption to help Microsoft Azure meet surging demand during COVID-19	IT Showcase
Azure Arc & Azure Stack HCI Updates \| Anywhere Management	Mechanics

Business Applications
Build Power Apps in Microsoft Teams \| Microsoft Ignite 2020	Mechanics
Under the hood of the Mercedes-Benz Virtual Remote Support system	Remote Assist
Loblaw Companies Limited: Transforming Supply Chain Systems with Microsoft Power Platform	Power Apps

Windows
Windows Virtual Desktop 2020 updates \| Microsoft Ignite 2020	Mechanics
Security baseline for Microsoft Edge version 86	Tech Community

App Dev
Enabling resilient DevOps practices with code to cloud automation	Azure
Three ways serverless APIs can accelerate enterprise innovation	Azure
The Azure Data Team Gears Up for PASS Virtual Summit 2020	Tech Community
AI Applications Without a PhD	Channel 9
Azure SQL Capacity Planning: Scenarios	Channel 9

Microsoft 365
3 SharePoint admin, migration, and security on-demand session videos	SharePoint
European SharePoint Conference (ESPC20) – upcoming online training event	SharePoint
Conditional Access Office 365 Suite now in GA!	Office 365
6 Microsoft Lists on-demand session videos	Lists
Lifecycle of an item in SharePoint: Where does it go?	SharePoint
What’s new with Microsoft 365 \| September 2020	YouTube
Enabling hybrid work with Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Ignite 2020 wrap-up part 2	YouTube
Microsoft Teams Administrator Updates for Compliance and Migrati…	Mechanics

Security
Microsoft Defender \| Extended Detection and Response (XDR)	Mechanics
End User Training for Sensitivity Labels in M365 – How to Accelerate Your Adoption	Tech Community
End User Training for Retention Labels in M365 – How to Accelerate Your Adoption	Tech Community
Why integrated phishing-attack training is reshaping cybersecurity	Security
Best practices for defending Azure Virtual Machines	Security
Sophisticated new Android malware marks the latest evolution of mobile ransomware	Security

Manufacturing	Manufacturing Blog
Learn how the Azure nested edge securely unlocks value from manufacturing data	IoT
IoT Signals Research, edition 2: global insights for 2020 and beyond	IoT
If You Connect It, Protect It!	NIST
How AI at the Edge Can Generate Enterprise-Wide Savings	MBT
How Mercedes-Benz uses Mixed Reality to quickly connect remote experts with field technicians	Channel 9

View previous weeks news, tech posts and announcements here on Linkedin or follow me on Twitter @MrLouisG

Your Microsoft team and I value your partnership and we are committed to helping you achieve more. Please reach out to us if you need assistance. Have a great week!

Microsoft Tech News and Product Updates: 10/05/20

Happy Monday! I hope you had a great weekend. Please find below an overview of last weeks product news, post and announcements.

Product News, Tech Posts & Announcements from last week

Azure Infrastructure
A closer look at Microsoft Azure Arc	ZDNet
What’s new with Azure Backup	YouTube
Sneak peek: Manage Windows Server in Azure using Windows Admin Center	YouTube
Azure Cost Management + Billing updates – September 2020	Azure
SAP Rolling Kernel Switch (RKS) on Azure	Azure
Azure Automation: Scale-Down VM Size	Tech Community

Business Applications
Microsoft Trainees Helping To Solve Homelessness On The Power Platform	Channel9
Driving a data culture in a world of remote everything	Power BI
Overcome disruptions in your supply chain	Dynamics

Windows
Migrating and acquiring Windows 10 optional content	Tech Community

App Dev
Azure Load Balancer insights using Azure Monitor for Networks \| Azure Friday	YouTube
Collection of Useful Tools for QA/Test Engineers	Tech Community
Vision AI Made Simple by New Azure IoT Central Template	Tech Community
Azure Communication Services \| Enterprise-grade Video, Voice, &	Mechanics
Announcing Major Performance Improvements for Azure SQL Managed Instance	Channel9

Microsoft 365
SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: September 2020	SharePoint
What’s New in Microsoft Teams \| September 2020	Teams
Enabling hybrid work with Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Ignite 2020 Wrap-up	YouTube
Microsoft presents: The future of work keynote	YouTube
Microsoft Teams Rooms \| Your Integrated Meeting Solution	Mechanics
Microsoft Teams Rooms Setup \| Step-by-Step	Mechanics
New tools can help boost wellbeing and soothe unexpected stresses of working from home	Microsoft

Security
Lessons Microsoft learned from applying Zero Trust during COVID-19	IT Showcase
Microsoft Endpoint Manager updates with Brad Anderson	Mechanics
Microsoft Advanced Compliance Solutions in Zero Trust Architecture	Security
Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2020: Cyber Threat Sophistication on the Rise	Security

Manufacturing	Manufacturing Blog
2020 Vision Says All Manufacturers Are Targets (ransomware)	Industry Week
Supply Chains Reinventing Themselves in Reaction to Pandemic	MH&L
Communication Strategies for Returning to Work During COVID-19	EHS
COVID: A Golden Opportunity to Move Forward {Value Stream Mapping]	Industry Week
Azure sustainability \| The mechanics of reducing the carbon footprint	Mechanics
Thinking Anew about Manufacturing	NIST

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Your Microsoft team and I value your partnership and we are committed to helping you achieve more. Please reach out to us if you need assistance. Have a great week.

Ignite 2020 Guides to On Demand Content

Online conferences provide a great opportunity to learn about the latest tech though sometimes its hard to set aside focus time when you are remote. If you did miss Ignite last week I have compiled a list of blogs post that are guides which reference links to on demand content you can view at any time. Microsoft also publishes a summary of announcements which is available in Ignite Book of News and if you missed the keynote you can view it here Satya keynote