Dwayne Natwick

I've been building a "Cliff's Notes" version of the docs for deploying the Defender XDR stack, and during the process I discovered how good the new setup guides are 🔥

Even if you have already deployed the solution, might be worth a review :)

setup.cloud.microsof...

Introducing the 2025 Imagine Cup Finalists | Microsoft Community Hub   Three Teams, One Global Stage: Meet the 2025 Imagine Cup Finalists The journey to the Imagine Cup World Championship has been nothing short of...

Honored to help judge this year’s #ImagineCup and huge congrats to the three teams advancing to the World Championship — Argus, HairMatch, and Signvrse! 🎉
Incredible to see how these students are using AI to drive real-world impact.
Tune in #MSBuild at 8:45 AM PT on May 19th.
aka.ms/2025ICTop3Blog

Transitioning to Microsoft Planner and retiring Microsoft Project for the web | Microsoft Community Hub Today, we are announcing the transition to Planner, which aims to provide a unified work management experience through a modern work stack integrating...

Transitioning to Microsoft Planner and retiring Microsoft Project for the web | techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/planner-b... by the @microsoft365.microsoft.com team! #MicrosoftPlanner

Additional skills for prompting with Intune data in Security Copilot Hello. I’m often asked how Security Copilot can assist Intune Administrators in their daily tasks.

Additional skills for prompting with Intune data in Security Copilot www.linkedin.com/pul...

#SecurityCopilot #Cybersecurity #MicrosoftSecurity #Security #GenerativeAI #MSIntuneSuite #MSIntune #Intune #EndpointManagement #MEM

It's finally time for me and Michael Howard to talk about my baby on the SFI tech tips show: Microsoft Sentinel and monitoring and auditing. This episode was filmed with my most excellent old teammate Javier Soriano, check it out:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX6-...

Securing our future: April 2025 progress report on Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative | Microsoft Security Blog The Microsoft Secure Future Initiative (SFI) stands as the largest cybersecurity engineering project in history and most extensive effort of its kind at Microsoft. Now, we are sharing the second SFI p...

Read about our progress on securing Microsoft in our Secure Future Initiative update:

Azure Back to School and Cyber Back to School are BACK for 2025. Azure Back to School takes place in September and Cyber Back to School is October. Call for Sessions is now open for both. Everyone is accepted! #AzureBackto School #CyberBacktoSchool #SkillUpLikeaSuperHero.

YouTube video by Microsoft Security Following Microsoft cloud security benchmarks | Protect networks

It’s a double whammy of Secure Future Initiative: Tech Tips from this week!!

Following Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmarks with
@markasimos.bsky.social:

youtu.be/F-B0KfEoefg?...

YouTube video by Microsoft Security Managing devices w/Intune & implementing conditional access | Protect tenants & isolate prod systems

AND Managing devices with Intune and implementing conditional access with Clay Taylor and Shehzad Kohja

youtu.be/9TFhIRHma1E?...

LEGO figure with curly hair and a blue "Cloud Optimizer" hoodie, looking sad in a control room with warnings about "Public IP Basic" retirement. Real person in a similar hoodie stands confidently beside the figure. Text below reads "Top 5 Affected Services.

Top 5 Affected Services by the Retirement of Azure Public IP Basic SKU

Microsoft is retiring the Azure Public IP Basic SKU. From March 31st, 2025, new Basic SKUs can't be created, and from September 30th, 2025, existing ones will no longer work.

What Does This Mean for Your Infrastructure?
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YouTube video by Microsoft Security Implementing managed identities | Protect identities and secrets

The second episode of Secure Future Initiative: Tech Tips is out and it's a banger - all about implementing managed identities!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoBS...

My contribution to #AzureSpringClean is live. captainhyperscaler.github.io/community/20... #AzureSpringClean, #AzureFamily, #CloudFamily, #AZOps, #SkillUpLikeaSuperHero Thank you, @thomast1906.bsky.social and @wedoazure.ie for their annual commitment to this event. azurespringclean.com.

It's amazing to me that promoting or teaching Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion has been outlawed by our country. And thinking that using the acronym DEI makes it alright.

The first set of content is now live on #AzureSpringClean azurespringclean.com There is more coming throughout the day, and across the rest of the week! #MVPBuzz

Add my Azure Spring Clean 2025 starter pack to follow this year's contributors. If you are a contributor I've missed please let me know and I will add you. #AzureSpringClean #AzureFamily #AzOps

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@CaptainHyperscaler is excited to announce our Generative AI bootcamps. These combine on-demand modules, access to certified instructors, and virtual course instruction. Taking you from Gen AI foundations to role-based use and practice. Includes hands-on learning and cert exams #GenAI DM for info.

Guide to Building Copilot Agents with NO CODE using Agent Builder 🤯 Believe it or not, you don't need any code to build Microsoft 365 Copilot Agents! That's thanks to the Copilot Studio Agent Builder, and thanks myself and Se...

New Community Video Alert: Guide to Building Copilot Agents with NO CODE using Agent Builder 🤯 | https://buff.ly/414Wk4B by @vladtalkstech.com

Perfectly stated!

So, bluesky is very quickly becoming the reason why I stopped paying attention to and left X. Anyone else feeling the same way?

(1/2) This is where we thrive

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Looks like Detroit Lions Honolulu Blue to me. 🦁

Would love to but I'm teaching a class all week. Have a great time!

Already getting FOMO. Can't make it and sooo close to Michigan!!! 😢

Feel free to add me to the list @nickydewestelinck.be