Best Sharepoint Governance Podcasts (2025)

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Azure Resiliency with Chris Ayers 38:45

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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 rel…

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Episode 113: Understanding Prompt Injection Attacks (w/ Asaf Tzuk and Gaya Salomon) 28:58

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AI agents are powerful, but with great power comes new security challenges. In this episode of Forward Deployed, we dive into prompt injection attacks and the emerging threat landscape for agentic systems. Our guests, Gaya Salomon and Asaf Tzuk, explain what XPIA (Cross-Prompt Injection Attacks) means, why it matters, and how Microsoft is building …

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Reimagining HR and Finance: Workday’s Vision for Kiwi Enterprises 54:56

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Host Paul Spain is joined by Jonathan Brabant (Workday), for a deep dive into how Workday is helping Kiwi businesses modernise their HR and finance systems. From cloud-native architecture to AI-powered insights, discover how Workday is enabling smarter decisions and driving agility across Aotearoa. Plus, we unpack the latest tech news including Mic…

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Managing Updates using Autopatch with Aria Hanson 31:54

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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 …

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Episode 112: SharePoint Knowledge Agent (w/ Julie Seto) 43:15

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Welcome to Forward Deployed! We’ve rebranded to reflect our broader focus on technologies and business solutions that go beyond low code. In our first episode as the Forward Deployed podcast, we’re joined by Julie Seto, Principal Product Manager for SharePoint, to explore the newly released SharePoint Knowledge Agent. Julie walks us through how thi…

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Latest Findings from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 - AI, Threats and Protection Strategies 52:16

4d ago52:16

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Hear from host Paul Spain as he sits down with Philippa Cogswell (Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42), to unpack the fast-moving world of cybersecurity. Philippa shares insights into global incident response, including the rise of business disruption tactics, multi-surface attacks and the growing challenges posed by supply chain vulnerabilities. The conve…

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The October Revolution: How AI is Quietly Taking Over Microsoft 365 19:56

10d ago19:56

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Send us a text After a month away from the podcast, I'm back with an episode that perfectly captures why Simply SharePoint is evolving into something bigger. Because what happened in October 2025 proves something I've been thinking about for a while: you can't talk about SharePoint anymore without talking about the entire Microsoft 365 ecosystem—an…

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AI for DBAs with Grant Fritchey 38:30

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How can the new AI tools help DBAs? Richard chats with Grant Fritchey about his experiences using various types of LLMs to help with his work as a DBA. Grant discusses having an LLM open as a side window to pass questions by, such as ideas for tuning, query optimization, scripts, and so on. Not all LLMs are the same - it's worth experimenting with …

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Episode 111: Workflows Agent within Microsoft 365 Copilot (w/ Heather Orta-Olmo) 29:30

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What if your daily Copilot prompts could turn into automated actions? In this episode, Heather Orta-Olmo joins Sean, Wendy, and Jocelyn to introduce the Workflows Agent, a new way to build personal automations inside Microsoft 365 Copilot. From summarizing meetings to creating planner tasks and blocking focus time, Heather shares how this conversat…

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Undersea Drones, Auckland Start up week, and Thematic’s Journey 53:22

9d ago53:22

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Hear from host Paul Spain and Alyona Medelyan (Thematic) as they discuss highlights from Auckland Startup Week, and review tech news from the week including, NZ’s undersea drone push to protect vital cables, Rural internet pressures amid Starlink’s rise, AWS DNS triggers widespread outages, major fraud stories span crypto empires and rigged poker. …

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Becoming a Cybersecurity Expert with Paula Januszkiewicz 38:22

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How do you become a cybersecurity expert? While at Cybersecurity Intersection in Orlando, Richard chatted with Paula Januszkiewicz about her career in cybersecurity. Paula talks about insatiable curiosity to understand how things work the way they do - why an exploit happens and following the twists and turns that lead to root cause and permanent s…

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Episode 110: Managed Platforms: The Key to Success (w/ Andrew Gaskins) 36:50

22d ago36:50

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What does it take to roll out Copilot Studio at scale? Andrew Gaskins of Lumen joins the podcast to unpack how admins can lead innovation through governance. From zone strategies to CoE reviews, Andrew walks us through the battle-tested blueprint that helped Lumen deploy thousands of agents while keeping costs in check. If you're wondering how to b…

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SPS Automation with Scott Spooner: Drone Innovation and Autonomous Flight 25:26

23d ago25:26

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Join Paul Spain as he chats with Scott Spooner (SPS Automation). Discover the fascinating world of bespoke robotics, from AI-powered agricultural drones combating wilding pines to spectacular drone light shows. Scott shares SPS’s journey from garage startup to cutting-edge innovations, including hybrid-powered heavy-lift drones, swarm technology, a…

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The End of NTLM with Steve Syfuhs 53:50

30d ago53:50

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It's time to retire NTLM - but how? Richard chats with Steve Syfuhs about the need and challenge of retiring an ubiquitous authentication protocol first used in the 1990s. While guidance to move away from NTLM has been available since 2010, it has only become feasible in the past couple of years, and Microsoft is now providing tooling to make the t…

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Episode 109: What is SFI (w Ilya Grebnov) 32:56

25d ago32:56

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When security becomes the strategy, everything changes. Ilya Grebnov, Deputy CISO for Business Applications, joins the podcast to explain how Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative (SFI) transformed the way engineers think, build, and ship. He walks through the principles behind “secure by design,” how Microsoft balances usability with protection, an…

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Emerge Fintech Innovation + Google’s Honomoana, How Exposed Am I? 1:06:07

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Join host Paul Spain and Jovan Pavlicevic (Emerge & Square One) as they discuss the latest tech news including Google’s Honomoana cable and its economic promise, IT Professionals NZ closure, Discord’s leaked ID photos, NZ’s new “How Exposed Am I?” tool. Carparking surveillance, Brewers revert to pen-and-paper due to hackers and China-US rare earth …

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Managing for Failure with Amy Norris 30:46

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By Amy Norris, Richard Campbell

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You're down - is it your servers, or someone else's? While at the Kansas City Developers Conference, Richard sits down with Mandi Walls from Pager Duty about her experiences dealing with incidents involving vendor services. It might be your cloud provider, or some other SaaS element of a pipeline, or even an open-source library dependency in an imp…