The M365 Copilot Data Readiness Checklist with Nikki Chapple
What does it take to be ready to deploy M365 Copilot in your organization? Richard talks to Nikki Chapple about her latest incarnation of the M365 Copilot Readiness Checklist, working step-by-step to bring M365 Copilot into the organization without causing data leak issues. Nikki discusses utilizing existing tools to accurately identify sensitive data, archiving outdated information, and monitoring data usage by both users and agents - allowing you to detect issues before they escalate. The conversation also delves into the process of identifying issues, discussing policy changes, and how to communicate those changes so that people can take advantage of the power of these new tools without feeling threatened. It's a journey!LinksMicrosoft PurviewSharePoint Advanced ManagementDefender for Cloud AppsRestricted SharePoint SearchMicrosoft 365 ArchiveSharePoint Restricted Content DiscoveryData Security Posture Management for AINikki's Readiness ChecklistM365 Copilot Oversharing BlueprintMicrosoft Purview Secure by Default BlueprintPrevent Data Leaks to Shadow AI BlueprintRecorded November 7, 2025
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Christmas Gifts for SysAdmins with Joey Snow and Rick Claus
The seasonal gift show is back - Joey Snow and Rick Claus bring their lists of great gifts for sysadmins. You know they're impossible to buy for, so we are making it easier for you with a range of prices and seriousness for your favorite sysadmin. Useful gadgets, upgrades to older devices, and some fun stuff that reminds the sysadmins in your life that you get their struggles. Share this show and toy list with everyone you know who struggles to find the right thing!LinksUSB TesterBattery DaddyUSB Air DusterSmart Soldering IronPro Tech Go ToolkitEffing Candle CoDumpster Fire Pencil HolderNES Cartridge Hard Drive EnclosurePicoKVMCO2 MeterWireless HeadphonesDigital Photo FrameSuper-Knips with Lead CatcherInkplate 6COLORInsta360 Link 2Home Assistant VoiceThrow Throw BurritoBose Ultra Open EarbudsUbiquiti Cloud Gateway FiberRecorded October 30, 2025
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Azure SRE Agents with Deepthi Chelupati
How can Azure Site Reliability Engineering Agents help your Azure infrastructure? While at Techorama in Utrecht, Richard chatted with Deepthi Chelupati about the LLM service that helps you build and maintain more reliable applications and infrastructure in Azure. Deepthi talks about monitoring deployment problems, handling errors in production, and application telemetry in operation as areas where Azure SRE Agents can help catch issues earlier and let you respond faster. The conversation dives into the array of capabilities and where you can provide information to administrators so they can decide how to proceed—perhaps pushing information to development or starting a recovery process of some kind. How you use Azure SRE Agents is up to you!LinksAzure SRE AgentPagerDutyAzure MonitorAzure DevOpsRecorded October 28, 2025
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Azure Resiliency with Chris Ayers
How resilient are your Azure deployments? Richard chats with Chris Ayers about his work on Azure reliability - not only for customers using Azure, but for Azure itself! Chris focuses on the Well-Architected Framework as a guideline for thinking through all the elements of resiliency in Azure. As with all things, there are trade-offs of cost and reliability - you'll want to build a spreadsheet to balance the cost of an outage against the expenses of resiliency services in Azure - and your own labor to maintain it! Chris provides his own talks and an extensive list of links for you to build up a comprehensive analysis of resiliency options - check it out!LinksFastTrackAzure StatusAzure Well Architected FrameworkVirtual Machine Scale SetDeployment Stamps PatternAutomatic Scaling in Azure App ServiceAzure MonitorAzure Command-Line InterfaceCopilot in AzureAzure AdvisorAzure Proactive Resiliency Library v2Azure Front DoorChris' Azure Resiliency TalkRecorded October 3, 2025
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Managing Updates using Autopatch with Aria Hanson
The future of updating Windows is here! Richard talks to Aria Hanson about Windows Autopatch, the consolidation of Microsoft's various update mechanisms to keep your managed Windows devices current. Aria discusses the deprecation of Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) and the move to always-on cloud updates. The conversation turns to the various techniques for quickly rolling out updates to machines while still allowing the process to stop if there are problems, whether you first update IT workstations, then beta testers, and so on. There's also the Windows Roadmap to give you a heads-up on new features and updates coming, so you can decide in advance whether they will be available on your machines, without changing your overall update policies!LinksWindows AutopatchWSUS DeprecationWindows Update Client PoliciesMicrosoft IntuneEntra GroupsIntune App ManagementAutopatch Group PoliciesWindows RoadmapRecorded October 27, 2025
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