Two old guys talk about Windows AGAIN? Richard brings back Paul Thurrott for the tenth time to discuss Windows more. This time, the discussion focuses on the end of life for Windows 10 - currently October 2025. Paul discusses how it used to be April 2025, but that's not enough time. Is it enough time now? The conversation spans other Windows-related topics, including alternative versions like Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop. And what about Windows 12? There is a bit of speculation at the end of a longer show - weigh in with your thoughts on what's next for Windows!

Links

• End of Support for Windows 10, 8.1, and 7
• Windows Autopilot
• Windows Copilot
• Microsoft Intune
• Windows 365
• Microsoft Entra
• Azure Virtual Desktop

Recorded April 26, 2024

Machine learning models need updating - what's the reliable way to do it? While in Romania, Richard sat down with Annie Talvasto to talk about her work helping to build DevOps practices around machine learning: Building repeatable processes for data ingestions, cleaning, organization, model building, and deployment. The challenges are the arrays of skilled people needed to operate and evaluate the pipeline - it takes domain experts to know if the machine learning results are accurate and valuable. Tooling can help, but it is only in the early days. If your organization is keen to get machine learning into the company, you need to do some careful planning!

Links

• Jupyter Notebook
• Pandas
• MLFlow
• Azure Machine Learning

Recorded April 20, 2024

How's your identity governance? Richard talks to Jef Kazimer from Microsoft about Entra's capabilities to help you have robust governance around identity. Jef talks about the lifecycle of identity - when someone joins the organization and a new identity gets created, privileges changing as roles evolve, to the eventual offboarding when that person departs. The same sort of cycle exists for devices, too - the question is only how much work you must do to get through those cycles. Entra offers tooling to get identity changes out of your support tickets - make your life easier with effective identity governance!

Links

• Microsoft Entra
• Conditional Access
• Microsoft Entra Permission Management
• Road to the Cloud
• Entitlement Management
• My Access Portal
• Just Enough Administration
• Privileged Access Workstation
• Entra Lifecycle Workflows
• Azure Logic Apps
• Usage and Insight Reports in Entra
• 425 Show

Recorded April 26, 2024