Unified Tenant Management with Nik Charlebois-Laprade

About this episode

Richard talks to Nik Charlebois-Laprade about managing configuration drift in Azure tenants using Microsoft365DSC and the new Unified Tenant Configuration.

Configuration drift is real - how do you control it in your Azure tenant? Richard talks to Nik Charlebois-Laprade about his ongoing work on desired state configuration DSC for Microsoft 365 tenants. Microsoft365DSC has been an open-source tool for managing configuration for some time, but today it has become a preview product called Unified Tenant Configuration in Microsoft Graph. Nik talks about managing multiple tenants, including a single tenant, using reference configurations that help you detect and correct configuration changes. It's early days for the product, but there's a ton of power here to keep your tenant working the way you expect!

People in this episode

Host: Richard Campbell

Guest: Nik Charlebois-Laprade

Topics covered

• Azure tenant management
• desired state configuration
• configuration drift
• Microsoft 365
• multi-tenant management
• open-source tools

Keywords

• configuration drift
• Azure
• Microsoft 365
• desired state configuration
• multi-tenant management
• open-source
• Microsoft Graph

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Microsoft Graph

Products: Microsoft365DSC, Unified Tenant Configuration

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