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Let's talk about sovereign cloud, and what it means, and what is relevant. We talk about our experience with sovereign solutions, what the risks are, and the varying aspects of sovereign solutions from Microsoft today in the market.
(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
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- One year on: Progress on our European digital commitments (Microsoft On the Issues)
- Microsoft Sovereign Cloud adds governance, productivity and support for large AI models securely running even when completely disconnected (Official Microsoft Blog)
- Microsoft offers in-country data processing to 15 countries for Microsoft 365 Copilot (with April 2026 update)
- Microsoft sovereign cloud announcements (Azure Blog)
- Microsoft’s Sovereign Cloud in 2026: How far does it go in addressing sovereignty risks? (KuppingerCole)
- Microsoft admits it ‘cannot guarantee’ data sovereignty (The Register)
- Not sovereign: Microsoft cannot guarantee the security of EU data (heise online)
- AWS launches AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Amazon press release)
- AWS European Sovereign Cloud: why a separate German region still can’t close the CLOUD Act gap (bex.co)
- Sensitive data and Cloud Act: Microsoft France admits it cannot oppose an American injunction (ActuIA)
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We've talked about Microsoft Sentinel a few years ago, and realized it's time to brush up our understanding of the new and interesting capabilities it has to offer. In this episode, we talked about where Sentinel is today, the retirement of the Azure Portal side, new AI-related capabilities, as well as the recently announced ISOC.
(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(04:34) - Show content starts.
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- What is Microsoft Sentinel data lake? (Microsoft Learn)
- Microsoft Sentinel pricing
- Plan costs and understand pricing and billing (Microsoft Learn)
- What’s new in Microsoft Sentinel (Microsoft Learn)
- What’s new in Microsoft Sentinel: August 2026
- What’s new in Microsoft Sentinel: June 2026
- What’s new in Microsoft Sentinel: RSAC 2026
- UPDATE: New timeline for transitioning Sentinel experience to Defender portal
- Onboard to Microsoft Sentinel data lake and graph (Microsoft Learn)
- ISOC
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We quite often talk about amazing enterprise-grade capabilities, like Azure Landing Zones, Data Lakes and clusters of super smart AI agents. But what about the small businesses? What do they need to get starting from scratch? In this episode we dissect the needs, the capabilities, the licenses, and security for anyone to get started in Azure and Microsoft 365!
(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:00) - Show content starts.
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- Microsoft 365 business plans and pricing
- Azure Files Entra-only identities
- Plan your Microsoft Entra join deployment
- Windows Autopilot device preparation, user-driven Entra join
- Plan for mandatory Microsoft Entra multifactor authentication

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This week, we take a look at GitHub Enterprise, and why you should care. We talk about features, compliance, licensing, total cost, and preferred setups whether you're a small or large organization. Join us this week to level up your GitHub setup!
(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:45) - Show content starts.
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- GitHub pricing
- Configuring SAML single sign-on for your enterprise (personal accounts mode)
- About Enterprise Managed Users (SAML/OIDC/SCIM partner matrix)
- Choosing an enterprise type (personal accounts vs EMU)
- Entra ID SSO tutorial - GitHub Enterprise Cloud Organization
- Entra ID SSO tutorial - GitHub Enterprise Cloud Enterprise Account

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In this week's episode, we look at recent Microsoft Tech updates. By popular request, we're expanding our scope beyond Azure to include Microsoft 365, Power Platform, and related Microsoft platforms and capabilities. What's new? What's interesting? What's retiring?
(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(05:35) - Show content starts.
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- What's new in Microsoft Security: August 2026
- Microsoft Foundry docs: What's new for August 2026
- Resilience for long-running Microsoft Foundry hosted agents (preview)
- Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance is now generally available
- Copilot Code Review Reaches Azure Repos (InfoQ)
- Announcing General Availability of Managed Instance on Azure App Service
- Managed Instance on Azure App Service Reaches GA for Legacy Windows Apps
- MCP Firewall in Global Secure Access
- Microsoft Sentinel in Azure Portal will be retired March 31, 2027
- Project HydraFusion
- Azure Multicloud Interconnect with AWS
- Agent 365 license clarification - Conditional Access Policies, Licensing in general
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