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October 29, 2026Episode 2218 min

Why glueckkanja Builds What Microsoft Doesn't | With Christian Kanja & Stefan Schoenleber

glueckkanja runs managed services on Microsoft's stack, and builds products when Microsoft leaves a gap. CEO Christian Kanja and Stefan Schoenleber on SCEPman, Autopilot Monitor and why the community is their main audience. In this episode - Why the name became glueckkanja - Why glueckkanja focuses on community events - Managed Entra, Intune, SOC and Azure services, and why products came out of them - The products: Intune extensions, Autopilot Monitor, SCEPman and RADIUS as a service - Retiring the last on-prem Exchange server that only exists for scanners and old SMTP - First try to get Microsoft to fix a gap, then build it - A sneak peek at the next identity product Chapters 00:00 Welcome: Christian Kanja and Stefan 01:03 Meet glueckkanja 02:12 The name change 03:07 Why community matters 04:09 Managed services and products 06:10 The product portfolio 08:38 Retiring the last Exchange server 10:08 SCEPman and Microsoft's own PKI 13:46 What's at the booth 15:43 What's next: identity Guests Christian Kanja – Founder and CEO, glueckkanja Stefan Schoenleber – Companion products (sales, marketing, customer support), glueckkanja Workplace Ninja Summit 2026: Live NAC build with Intune (Wed 16 Sep 13:10, Community stage, with Constantin Heinzler) glueckkanja at the summit Fabian Bader, Christopher Brumm, Constantin Heinzler, Stefan Schoenleber and Oliver Kieselbach Hosts Frans Oudendorp & Jose Schenardie Recorded at Workplace Ninja Summit 2026 in Baden, Switzerland. Follow the Workplace Ninja Summit Website: https://summit.wpninjas.global LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wpninjasummit X: https://x.com/wpninjasummit Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wpninjasummit/ #WPNinjaSummit #glueckkanja #SCEPman

October 27, 2026Episode 1932 min

Agents Are Everywhere: Managing AI with Intune | With Heena Macwan, Venkata Pampana & Zach Dvorak

Agents now live in the cloud, in apps and on endpoints. Heena Macwan, Venkata Pampana and Zach Dvorak from the Microsoft Intune team explain how to discover, govern and secure them, and why it starts with a healthy, managed estate. In this episode - The keynote's message: AI changes the admin's job, and agents are everywhere - Why security and IT are merging as attacks speed up - Is an agent an app or a user? Why Entra agent identities matter, and how Conditional Access extends to agents acting on a user's behalf - Project Perception and the multi-agent pattern behind it - Discovering local agents with the Intune properties catalog: app inventory plus the local AI agent entity - What an agent can actually access, and why you have to protect the full stack - Keeping apps current with Enterprise App Management and automatic app updates - What to put on your CISO's agenda Chapters 00:00 Welcome: Heena, Venkata and Zach 03:27 The keynote: AI changes the job 04:39 Agents are everywhere 08:48 Is an agent a user or an app? 11:44 Project Perception explained 14:24 Discovering local agents with Intune 16:08 What can an agent access? 17:41 Apps, updates and exposure 21:26 Agents as managed apps? 25:48 What to tell your CISO Guests Heena Macwan – Microsoft Intune (apps and app lifecycle) Workplace Ninja Summit 2026: Cloud-Native Windows (Thu 17 Sep 13:10, Glassaal) · From deployment to defense (Mon 14 Sep 16:20, Glassaal) Venkata Pampana – Architect, Microsoft Intune (AI and data platforms) Workplace Ninja Summit 2026: Keynote: Rethinking the Endpoint (Mon 14 Sep 10:00) · Project Perception / Adaptive Defense (Thu 17 Sep 09:50) · Questions your CISO is asking about security for AI (Thu 17 Sep 14:30, Trafohall) Zach Dvorak – Product Manager, Microsoft Intune (security for AI) Workplace Ninja Summit 2026: Questions your CISO is asking about security for AI (Thu 17 Sep 14:30, Trafohall) Hosts Frans Oudendorp & Mirko Colemberg Recorded at Workplace Ninja Summit 2026 in Baden, Switzerland. Follow the Workplace Ninja Summit Website: https://summit.wpninjas.global LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wpninjasummit X: https://x.com/wpninjasummit Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wpninjasummit/ #WPNinjaSummit #MicrosoftIntune #AIAgents

October 22, 2026Episode 2115 min

Recast Software on Community Tools and App Management | With Ben Ward

Why does a commercial vendor keep giving tools away? Ben Ward, Field CTO UK & Ireland at Recast Software, on Right Click Tools Community, OSDCloud and why application management is still the hard part. In this episode - Why Recast has sponsored the summit and keeps coming back - Free community tools like Right Click Tools Community Edition and OSDCloud, and what Recast gets back from them - The problem customers call about most: application management that never shows up as a budget line - The Recast portfolio, from Right Click Tools to Application Workspace and OSDCloud - What's coming in OSDCloud, and the question of community licensing - Why Windows is the easy part and applications are snowflakes Chapters 00:00 Welcome: Ben Ward 01:25 Meet Recast Software 02:40 Why Recast keeps sponsoring 03:38 Free community tools 05:26 Why customers call: app management 06:57 The Recast portfolio 09:42 OSDCloud and licensing 11:56 Applications are snowflakes Guest Ben Ward – Field CTO UK & Ireland, Recast Software Recast at the summit David Segura – What's new in OSDCloud Community Edition (Tue 15 Sep 15:50, Halle 36.3) · New OSDeploy Tools (Mon 14 Sep 15:00, Trafohall) Nico Zieck – What 100 IT Pros Told Us About the Modern Workspace (Mon 14 Sep 13:40, Halle 36.1) Hosts Frans Oudendorp & Jose Schenardie Recorded at Workplace Ninja Summit 2026 in Baden, Switzerland. Follow the Workplace Ninja Summit Website: https://summit.wpninjas.global LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wpninjasummit X: https://x.com/wpninjasummit Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wpninjasummit/ #WPNinjaSummit #RecastSoftware #AppManagement

October 20, 2026Episode 1830 min

Windows Updates Meet Recovery | With Lia Vargas & Mounica Battula

Why do Windows updates and device recovery belong in one conversation? Lia Vargas (Windows recovery) and Mounica Battula (Windows Autopatch) from Microsoft explain how they keep devices current, and what happens when an update goes wrong. In this episode - Why update management and recovery are two halves of the same device lifecycle - What the Windows team changed after the July 2024 outage, and how Quick Machine Recovery delivers fixes through Windows Update - What happens when a device can't reach the network, and where Windows 365 Reserve fits - The recovery escalation ladder and Microsoft's new Windows device recovery framework blog - The customer finding that surprised the team: most admins block end users from their BitLocker recovery key - How Autopatch update readiness checks work at three levels, including hotpatch - Why Feedback Hub feedback really gets read every week Chapters 00:00 Welcome: Lia Vargas and Mounica Battula 02:48 Autopatch and Windows recovery teams 05:04 Why updates and recovery belong together 07:42 Quick Machine Recovery after July 2024 10:26 When a device can't connect 12:28 The recovery escalation ladder 13:40 Cloud-managed, hybrid and on-prem 17:38 Surprise: BitLocker keys and self-service 19:43 Ask Windows Anything and one admin pane 22:16 Autopatch update readiness checks 24:25 One ask: use Feedback Hub Guests Lia Vargas – Product Manager, Windows device recovery, Microsoft Workplace Ninja Summit 2026: From managing updates to recovery (Tue 15 Sep 15:50, Trafohall) · Ask Windows Anything panel (Tue 15 Sep 17:00, Halle 36.2) Mounica Lakshmi Sai Battula – Senior Product Manager, Windows Autopatch, Microsoft Workplace Ninja Summit 2026: From managing updates to recovery (Tue 15 Sep 15:50, Trafohall) · Ask Windows Anything panel (Tue 15 Sep 17:00, Halle 36.2) Hosts Frans Oudendorp & Kenny Buntinx Recorded at Workplace Ninja Summit 2026 in Baden, Switzerland. Follow the Workplace Ninja Summit Website: https://summit.wpninjas.global LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wpninjasummit X: https://x.com/wpninjasummit Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wpninjasummit/ #WPNinjaSummit #WindowsAutopatch #WindowsRecovery

October 15, 2026Episode 2044 min

They Don't Hack, They Log In | With Sami Laiho & Mikael Nyström

Most breaches don't need clever hacking: someone logs in with real credentials. Sami Laiho and Mikael Nyström (Truesec incident response) on why, what to do in the first hour, and which security measures are pure theater. In this episode - Why 'they don't hack, they log in' is how most incidents really start - Windows 11 isn't secure by default until you configure and harden it - Attackers specialise in one weakness and try it everywhere - The first hour after the phone rings: assume breach, don't reboot, pull cables, cut outbound internet - A recovery plan fits on one page, and IT needs a 'wartime' mode - The controls that matter most: privileged access workstations, no password reuse, no admin rights for developers - Why remote tools are risky and RDP gives you logs - Security theater: BitLocker as your main control and expensive 'AI' firewalls Chapters 00:00 Welcome: Sami Laiho and Mikael Nyström 05:02 They don't hack, they log in 07:35 Is Windows 11 secure by default? 16:19 The first hour after the call 20:09 A recovery plan on one page 22:26 One control: separate admin devices 23:53 Admin rights and developers 28:56 Security theater 33:08 Why does your DC need internet? 36:52 The hilarious history of Windows Guests Sami Laiho – Microsoft MVP, Adminize Workplace Ninja Summit 2026: 11 Ways to Hack Windows 11 (Tue 15 Sep 14:30, Trafohall) · Hilarious History of Windows (Tue 15 Sep 17:00, Trafohall) · Keynote: Cybersecurity from Disabler to Enabler (Wed 16 Sep 09:50, Trafohall) Mikael Nyström – Incident response (CSIRT), Truesec Workplace Ninja Summit 2026: IT disaster bootcamp (Wed 16 Sep 13:10, Glassaal, with Andreas Hammarskjöld) · You Don't Get Hacked — They Log In (Thu 17 Sep 13:10, Trafohall) Hosts Frans Oudendorp & Peter Daalmans Recorded at Workplace Ninja Summit 2026 in Baden, Switzerland. Follow the Workplace Ninja Summit Website: https://summit.wpninjas.global LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wpninjasummit X: https://x.com/wpninjasummit Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wpninjasummit/ #WPNinjaSummit #CyberSecurity #IncidentResponse

October 13, 2026Episode 1732 min

AI for Security vs. Security for AI | With Itay Peled & Yuri Diogenes

Itay Peled (Project Perception) and Yuri Diogenes (Defender for Cloud) on the two sides of AI in security: using AI to defend, and securing the AI everyone is deploying. Recorded live at Workplace Ninja Summit 2026 with Frans Oudendorp and Alex Verboon. In this episode - Why "AI for security" and "security for AI" are different problems that you can't solve separately - Exposure management for agents: an agent that was never meant to be internet-facing can still be reachable through an attack path - Prompt injection and indirect prompt injection as the big threat to agents, and why MITRE ATLAS is worth knowing - How attackers use AI today: more scale, and digging deeper than they could before - Agent sprawl: start with an inventory through AI security posture management, and give every agent an identity in Entra so Conditional Access applies - Agent 365 as the control plane, Defender as the security view, and why data classification has to be in place before you point an agent at SharePoint - Project Perception is read-only today: it recommends and explains, and a human takes the action - Careers: admins and analysts won't be replaced but will need new skills, and why soft skills and in-person networking still matter Chapters 00:00 Welcome: Itay Peled and Yuri Diogenes 01:52 AI for security vs. security for AI 04:55 Exposure management for AI agents 06:37 Prompt injection and MITRE ATLAS 09:13 How attackers use AI today 10:24 Agent inventory and agent identities 13:07 Agent 365, Defender and data protection 17:55 Human in the loop: when the agent is wrong 19:08 Will AI replace admins and analysts? 25:06 Yuri's 35 books, soft skills and networking 29:56 What Itay wants asked at the AMA Guests Itay Peled – Microsoft Security Research, working on Project Perception, Microsoft's agentic SOC Workplace Ninja Summit 2026: Project Perception / agentic SOC · Threat landscape · Microsoft Security AMA Yuri Diogenes – Microsoft, customer experience engineering for Defender for Cloud and exposure management Workplace Ninja Summit 2026: AI-SPM & Threat Detection · Proactive Security Posture Management Hosts Frans Oudendorp & Alex Verboon Recorded at Workplace Ninja Summit 2026 in Baden, Switzerland. Follow the Workplace Ninja Summit Website: https://summit.wpninjas.global LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wpninjasummit X: https://x.com/wpninjasummit Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wpninjasummit/ #WPNinjaSummit #AISecurity #MicrosoftDefender

September 3, 2026Episode 520 min

[Ninja BE Event] What Does the Ninja BE User Group Actually Do? | Nicky, Kenny & Dieter

The Ninja BE organizing team — Nicky, Kenny, and Dieter — take the stage to explain what the Ninja BE user group is all about: its mission, community, and what members can expect from future events. 📍 Recorded live at the Ninja BE User Group Event, June 4, 2026 (Belgium) #NinjaBE #UserGroup #Community #ITCommunity #Belgium

August 27, 2026Episode 424 min

[Ninja BE Event] Windows 365, Azure Virtual Desktop & More | Joeri Kumbruck & Jon Jarvis

Joeri Kumbruck and Jon Jarvis explore the world of Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), covering the latest features, use cases, and best practices for deploying cloud PCs and virtual desktop environments in the modern workplace. 📍 Recorded live at the Ninja BE User Group Event, June 4, 2026 (Belgium) #Windows365 #AVD #AzureVirtualDesktop #CloudPC #Microsoft365 #NinjaBE

August 20, 2026Episode 330 min

[Ninja BE Event] The SSO Tax: Stop Paying for Security Your IdP Already Provides | Michael Mardahl

Michael Mardahl exposes the hidden "SSO Tax" — the extra fees organizations pay for security features that their identity provider already includes. This deep dive shows how to get more value out of your Microsoft Entra investment and cut redundant security tooling from your stack. 📍 Recorded live at the Ninja BE User Group Event, June 4, 2026 (Belgium) #SSOTax #MicrosoftEntra #IdentityManagement #SSO #CyberSecurity #NinjaBE

August 13, 2026Episode 231 min

[Ninja BE Event] WDAC, Appcontrol.ai & App Control for Business | Kim Oppalfens & Tom DeGreef

Kim Oppalfens and Tom DeGreef break down Windows Defender Application Control (WDAC), the Appcontrol.ai platform, and Microsoft's App Control for Business. A practical look at application allowlisting and how organizations can lock down what runs on their endpoints. 📍 Recorded live at the Ninja BE User Group Event, June 4, 2026 (Belgium) #WDAC #AppControl #Appcontrolai #WindowsSecurity #Intune #NinjaBE