In Episode 178, Ben and Scott dive into what you should think about when securing Microsoft 365 at a high level and run down the areas you'll want to focus on first.






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- [Ben] Welcome to Episode 178 of the Microsoft Cloud IT pro podcast, recorded live on May 15 2020. This is a show about Microsoft 365 and Azure from the perspective of IT pros and end users. Where we discuss the topic or recent news and how it relates to you. Is this episode Scott and Ben take a high level approach and rundown what you should consider when securing your Microsoft 365 environment, based on recently published recommendations from Microsoft.
- [Scott] Mic check one, two, three.
- [Ben] Mic sir?
- [Scott] Sure.
- [Ben] Are we checking for Mic?
- [Scott] Why not, let's do it.
- [Ben] We're gonna get zoom bombed by mic.
- [Scott] That's how your weeks gone huh? I say my, I say mic check and you're gonna make mic jokes.
- [Ben] I'm gonna make mic jokes. You know what I got a lot of sleep last night after not sleeping the night before. So that may affect my sense of humor.
- [Scott] So either way you would have been grogging out of it. Love it.
- [Ben] Yeah, pretty much. However, I did make an upgrade to our home network today.
- [Scott] Oh, yeah?
- [Ben] Yes, I now have.
- [Scott] You renamed the WiFi from FBI surveillance fan to stay away there's COVID
- [Ben] No, but that would be kind of funny. I now have redundant internet coming to our house. It was even more nerdy than renaming the WiFi.
- [Scott] Oh, cool. So you run everything into a router that's gonna support that failover for you then?
- [Ben] Yep, I have a unifi USG, and it has a LAN. Well, so it has a LAN and WAN, and then a LAN slash WAN. So you can use it for whatever you want to. So right now it is set up as two LANs and I have a AT&T going into one way LAN, Comcast going into another LAN. And if one of them drops, it automatically fails over.
- [Scott] Perfect, can you bond those connections together and use them both at the same time? Or is just one strictly there for failover.
- [Ben] So technically, I could.
- [Scott] Technically.
- [Ben] Technically I could do.
- [Scott] I could have even more bandwidth. Like I can see you like the Infinity Gauntlet in your hand, you're just squeezing.
- [Ben] Yeah, I could do lots of things. So I did test it, I actually like reached over and just turned off my Comcast modem. And AT&T picked right up and turned it back on, it flipped over, I could see it in all the logs where it switches your primary way in connection, however, what I think I'm going to do. So Dan Patrick, over at CES Alliance wrote an article about this on the Build Five Nines site. And he and I were actually talking about this and trying to figure out some of the routing, I think I'm going to stick a bunch of my family and streaming devices on one way in connection, and keep the other one for work stuff now as all of that- [Scott] Gotcha.
- [Ben] All right?
- [Scott] Well, yeah, you might wanna just like separate them and keep them all on one and potentially do the failover thing, right? 'Cause then if you put one on one and one on the other, if one goes down then stuff.
- [Ben] So I think and I need to go through Dan's article and probably talk to him a little bit more about how he did it, is you can do both, where it still works as a failover. And you can have them on both VNet. So it's essentially like two VNets that, you can do policy based routing, but then it still will fail over when it fails over. I need to dig through all of it a little more.
- [Scott] Gotcha. Yeah, it's a little bit of a setup to do what he was doing. 'Cause yes, he was doing a couple things with like policy based routing on his USG user.
- [Ben] Yes, exactly. So I'm gonna go through that.