Microsoft Mechanics Podcast

See how you can pragmatically harness AI and IOT in your apps. Join Azure automation expert Jeff Hollan for an exclusive 15-minute show as he deconstructs a real-world scenario. See the latest tech updates in action including eventing, security with Azure Sphere, Logic App automation and more.

The latest updates to accelerate modern teamwork with Microsoft 365, starting with the work to empower different kinds of workers across different industries. Presented by Microsoft Teams General Manager, Lori Wright, and joined by Jeremy Chapman, they cover the completion of Skype for Business capabilities within Microsoft Teams to deliver a complete meeting and calling solution. Deeper teamwork experiences across Microsoft 365 to transform collaboration.

Demo-rich show that looks at the evolution of PowerShell as the de facto automation scripting tool across Windows and Linux platforms as presented by the father of PowerShell, Jeffrey Snover. Check out the ability for Visual Studio Code to run PowerShell inside of CloudShell. See how you can leverage the Cloud with PowerShell to protect secrets and harness Azure Machine Learning to advance your management scenarios.

Microsoft’s approach to delivering a secure and trusted identity solution across platforms and services presented by Joy Chik, CVP of the identity engineering team at Microsoft and joined by Jeremy Chapman. This includes a closer look at your options to eliminating password usage with Azure AD and the latest in password-less solutions with the new authenticator app.

Demo-rich tour of the latest updates to SharePoint and OneDrive presented by the father of SharePoint, Jeff Teper, and joined by Jeremy Chapman. This includes the latest in organizational productivity with new templates for communication sites in SharePoint. New integration between SharePoint and Microsoft Teams as well as other Microsoft 365 experiences; organizational search and new mobile capabilities. We show you simpler ways to manage, protect and control data.

Ready to deploy Windows 10 and Office 365 ProPlus? In this show CVP Brad Anderson is joined by deployment expert and host Jeremy Chapman to share deployment recommendations for how to shift to a modern desktop. Focus on System Center Configuration Manager for OS Deployment, Windows Analytics, Office 365 ProPlus Click-to-Run, OneDrive Known Folder Move, Windows Autopilot for new PC acquisition and we'll cover the Windows as a Service model and Upgrade Task Sequences for scale.

Microsoft CVP Julia White joins Jeremy Chapman to demonstrate Microsoft’s approach to AI across the areas of knowledge mining, Cognitive Services and Azure Machine Learning. Watch as Julia walks through practical applications for how you can harness AI for your apps today, including the use of Azure Search and Cognitive Services to analyze the recently released JFK files; training the custom vision service for retail scenarios; and Azure Machine Learning for sales optimization.

A demo-rich tour of the merger of AI Machine Learning, IoT, real-time analytics with Azure Data Bricks, and mixed reality through HoloLens presented by Azure expert Ben Walters with host Jeremy Chapman. Watch as he demonstrates a real mixed reality solution: eSmart’s connected energy system, built on top of the Azure IoT platform which uses mixed reality for the troubleshooting and visualization of grid issues via connected drones on the Edge.

A look at Azure’s strong privacy foundation and what it does in practical terms. See how Azure enables privacy, from what we give you to within our control framework. We review the new policy controls within Azure to ensure consistency over where your resources reside and how they're managed. And for GDPR implementation, we feature new options to help with compliance, such as the Compliance Manager and Service Trust Portal, to respond to data subject request in Azure.

The ways you can use Azure as an integration platform. Leverage core services such as Service Bus, Event Grid, and Logic Apps, as well as API Management. See how Azure can be used to connect back to local business apps and your data center using virtual networks and/or the data gateway on-premises. So join Matt McSpirit, Technical Solutions Professional at Microsoft, as he shows you ways you can integrate your apps with Azure.

Major advances in managing hyper-converged infrastructure, support for storage class memory, as well as deduplication coming to ReFS, new hybrid integration between Windows Server data center and Azure with the Windows app center. The security enhancements including support for Linux, shielded VMs, and more.

Complete guide for hybrid networking, identity, management, data and more. Opting for a cloud integrated, or hybrid, approach brings more advantages than if you were to uniquely host your infrastructure and services on-premises. You'll see explanations on how the development tools and practices that you're currently using can bridge between Azure and your locally hosted resources.

Join Shain Wray from the MSTIC security team as he demonstrates the work of Microsoft's intelligence groups to hunt for and protect against malicious activity in Azure -- and how this leads to the hardening of the controls and defenses available to you.

Services designed for on-demand scale without having to plan for or manage the infrastructure required to run apps. With serverless, you can publish your code using Azure Functions, build workflows and integrate with other services via Logic Apps and trigger your code via Event Grid. This happens without the need for idle resources between events. In terms of efficiency and utilization, serverless is the evolution of application platforms.

Use data from everyday work in Office 365 to boost productivity and engagement. First, we're introducing nudging to MyAnalytics to help you make better decisions about how you collaborate as you get work done in Outlook. Second, we're introducing a teamwork solution in Workplace Analytics which helps organizations use data to build high performing teams. Join Peter Bergen, Product Manager, Microsoft 365 as he walks you through the updates to MyAnalytics and Workplace Analytics.