Microsoft Cloud Show: Recent Episodes
Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson
The podcast that covers the latest news, notes, commentary and listener questions on Microsoft cloud technologies including Windows Azure, Office 365 and SharePoint.
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It’s true… this is the last Microsoft Cloud Show episode. In this last episode, 450, hear from co-hosts Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson why they’ve decided to wrap the podcast up.
In this episode, AC & CJ sit down to look back at the evolution of Microsoft 365, evaluate the current state of it, predictions, & some hopes for the future of the platform.
Picks AC’s Pick
- Node.js Notebooks (REPL)
CJ’s Pick
- SavvyCal
Microsoft Azure is over 13 years old and AC and CJ sit down to discuss the state of the Azure nation, where it stands in the cloud wars, and where they would like to see it improve.
Picks AC’s Pick
- Whoa dude!
CJ’s Pick
- thereandbuckagain
In this episode, AC and CJ cover some recent updates and releases in the Microsoft 365 world, get cheeky with Microsoft 365’s offer to customers that will lose their G Suite legacy free edition, more news!
Banter * Debut of the Voitanos Podcast + relaunch of YouTube channel * Voitanos on YouTube * Voitanos Podcast
News * A special offer for small businesses using Google’s legacy G Suite * Teams JS SDK v2 Public Preview Update: Teams Apps in Office.com & Office App for Windows * SharePoint Framework v1.14 - What’s in the latest Update of SPFx? * SharePoint Framework v1.14 - What’s in the latest update of SPFx? * Announcing SharePoint Framework 1.14 – with updates for Viva Connections, Microsoft Teams and SharePoint * A new ShareGate experience * LIVE & FREE WEBINAR – FEBRUARY 22, 11AM EST: A new ShareGate experience for 2022! * A first look at Microsoft’s new Windows 11 Android apps support * Windows 11 is getting new touch gestures, Start menu folders, and much more
Picks AC’s Pick
- Inside the Chess Match That Led the Feds to $3.6 Billion in Stolen Bitcoin
CJ’s Pick
- Shelly
Microsoft is trying to stave off the wrath of the FTC regarding its latest large acquisition, Microsoft Teams is doing its part to try and help your laptop from exploding & AC and CJ discuss some .NET development with Microsoft Graph.
News * In a bid to appease regulators, Microsoft announces new app store principles * What’s New in Microsoft Teams | January 2022 * Microsoft Teams performance improvements reduce power consumption in meetings by up to 50% * Microsoft Graph Mailbag – Using LargeFileUploadTask with Microsoft Graph SDKs * Helping users stay safe: Blocking internet macros by default in Office * Rider
Picks AC’s Pick
- Exposed documents reveal how the powerful clean up their digital past using a reputation laundering firm
CJ’s Pick
- Live Las Vegas airport camera with flight tracking and ATC | Harry Reid Airport | Plane Spotting
Is 2022 the year of gaming acquisitions after we’ve seen over $80 billion spent in the first 5 weeks? Or will it be the metaverse burn pit after Meta has already blown through $10 billion & Microsoft cans Hololens creating turmoil in the halls of Redmond? Tune into episode 445 and hear what AC & CJ have to say!
Banter * Andrew Connell’s Website * Black Creek Outfitters * The ‘End of an Era’ for Black Creek Outfitters * Black Creek Outfitters closing after 39 years of helping people explore, enjoy the wild * Black Creek Outfitters on Facebook
News * Try Microsoft Lists with your Microsoft account (Preview) * Take-Two Interactive to buy FarmVille creator Zynga for $12.7 billion * Sony buying Bungie for $3.6 billion * YouTube Q2 Ad Revenue Hits Record $7 Billion as Alphabet Trounces Estimates * Meta estimates Apple’s iOS changes will cost it $10B in 2022 * Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘metaverse’ business lost more than $10 billion last year, and the losses keep growing * Inside Microsoft’s mixed reality mess, where confusion, rivalries, and canceled projects have roiled the company’s metaverse strategy
Picks AC’s Pick
- Arecibo Observatory Movie - The Biggest Dream TRAILER
CJ’s Pick
- North Korea Hacked Him. So He Took Down Its Internet
AC and CJ discuss Microsoft’s incredible growth shown in their Q2 financial results and talk about some of the trends it shows. They dive off into talking about mainframes and the cloud & finish up with some Microsoft Teams and Azure news.
News * Log4J: Microsoft discovers attackers targeting undisclosed SolarWinds vulnerability * Windows 11 is getting Android apps, taskbar improvements, and more next month * Introducing Windows 11 SE and devices to support K-8 classrooms * Microsoft Cloud Strength Fuels Second Quarter Results * LanzaJet Secures $50M in Funding from Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund * MicrosoftTeams surpassed 270 million monthly active users. * Azure DDoS Protection—2021 Q3 and Q4 DDoS attack trends * 7 reasons to attend Azure Open Source Day
Picks AC’s Picks
- The James Webb Space Telescope glides to its deep-space parking spot today! How to follow it online.
- After 7 years, a spent Falcon 9 rocket stage is on course to hit the Moon
CJ’s Pick
- Adam Savage Checks Out the Apollo 11 Command Module!
This week Microsoft dropped the news of its biggest acquisition to date and AC and CJ dive in to dissect it from their points of view.
News * Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard to bring the joy and community of gaming to everyone, across every device * Microsoft deal to buy Activision Blizzard will likely go through, says MKM’s Handler * Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion * Sony reminds Microsoft of contractual obligations to make Activision games cross-platform * Generally available: Azure Kubernetes support for upgrade events * Generally available: Containerd support for Windows in AKS * General availability: FIPS enabled node pool in Azure Kubernetes * General availability: Ultra disks support on AKS * Public preview: Kubernetes version alias support in AKS * Public preview: Support for managed identity in Azure Cache for Redis * Azure Machine Learning Announcements – January 2022 General Availability Announcement
Picks AC’s Pick
- We Booped the Sun
CJ’s Pick
- Hark back to the late 1990s with this re-creation of the dialup Internet experience
Tune in to episode 442 and hear Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson cover the latest news related to Microsoft Azure products & services, Microsoft Teams, and what’s new from Microsoft 365!
What’s New With Microsoft 365 * MC306666: Pairing naming convention between Teams channels and corresponding SharePoint folders * MC306669: Self-service trials for Microsoft Project and Microsoft Visio * MC309911: Automatically Detect Music * MC312490: Yammer Cross-geo external collaboration support on External Networks for the EU
News * Azure Storage TLS: Critical changes are almost here! (…and why you should care) * Accelerate your websites with Azure Static Web Apps enterprise-edge * Updates to Azure Files: NFS v4.1, higher performance limits, and reserved instance pricing * Introducing the new Azure SDK management libraries for JavaScript/TypeScript * 3 ways technology can help rebuild your frontline workforce * Microsoft Teams: Chat with Teams personal account users * First Microsoft Pluton-powered Windows 11 PCs to start rolling out this year * Microsoft should sell Office and Windows to boost cloud business, former executive says * Best CEO of 2021 goes to… * Qualcomm Announces Collaboration with Microsoft to Expand and Accelerate AR to Usher in New Gateways to the Metaverse * Ask HN: Are Microsoft development stack and Azure a dead-end career path?
Picks AC’s Pick
- An Unanswered Question at the Heart of the U.S.’s Nuclear Arsenal
CJ’s Pick
- Looking for a Apartment to Share: Seattle(Redmond) Area
2022 has to be better than 2021 right? Surely! This week AC and CJ look forward and discuss their hopes, dreams, wishes, and goals for 2022 and what they would like to see happen in tech, and more.
Picks AC’s Pick
- Decoding James Webb Space Telescope
CJ’s Pick
- How Crash Bandicoot Hacked The Original Playstation | War Stories | Ars Technica
In this episode, AC & CJ look back at 2021. We also look at AC & CJ’s wishes & goals for 2020 and see how they ended up on the year.
Banter * Retiring comments for articles on my sites * Episode 390 | Reflecting on 2020 * Episode 391 | Looking Forward to 2021
Picks AC’s Pick
- Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials
CJ’s Pick
- Talking about Rocket Lab’s Neutron with Peter Beck
Listener Pick
- Brett McKenzie: PowerOn - The story of XBOX
AC and CJ check in on recent news from the past week including another AWS outage, MS winning company of the year, Log4J hacks, Windows news, Azure Space & Teams encryption.
What’s New in Microsoft 365 * MC303513: Anti-Malware policy - Quarantine notifications for the recipient * MC302216: Security hardening change: Enforce policies for Trusted Documents
News * Microsoft is Yahoo Finance’s Company of the Year 2021 * Right to repair: Microsoft offers Surface repair tools for technicians via iFixit * Summary of the AWS Service Event in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region * Hackers start pushing malware in worldwide Log4Shell attacks * Guidance for preventing, detecting, and hunting for CVE-2021-44228 Log4j 2 exploitation * Windows Terminal as your Default Command Line Experience * Microsoft redesigns Notepad for Windows 11 * End-to-end encryption for one-to-one Microsoft Teams calls now Generally Available * New satellite connectivity and geospatial capabilities with Azure Space
Picks AC’s Pick
- Saving the shuttle simulator—“It was an artifact that needed to be preserved”
CJ’s Pick
- NASA RETURNS HUBBLE TO FULL SCIENCE OPERATIONS
In this 438th episode, AC and CJ cover the recent AWS outage of their US-EAST-1 region as well as some Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 news. At the end, hear them bookend the episode with their own blast radius of picks!
News * Analysis: Outage shows how Amazon’s complex cloud makes backup plans difficult * AWS Amplify Studio * AWS opens ‘top secret’ western region for US government customers * Microsoft expands cloud services with two new datacenters in Wyoming * Azure Cost Management and Billing updates – November 2021 * Microsoft forces Office customers to change to an annual subscription, otherwise the price will increase by 20% * Public preview of SharePoint Framework 1.14 – with updates for Viva Connections, Microsoft Teams and SharePoint
Picks AC’s Pick
- AN UNEARTHLY SPECTACLE The untold story of the world’s biggest nuclear bomb
CJ’s Pick
- Revisiting the “Tsar Bomba” nuclear test
This week AC & CJ discuss news from the recent AWS conference re:Invent 2021.
Banter * ACQUIRED
News * Use New Amazon EC2 M1 Mac Instances to Build & Test Apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV * AWS re:Invent 2021 Daily Recap - Top announcements from Day 1 and Day 2 | A Cloud Guru * Amazon’s cloud unit launches new chips to take on Intel, Nvidia * New – Amazon FSx for OpenZFS * Introducing Amazon Redshift Serverless – Run Analytics At Any Scale Without Having to Manage Data Warehouse Infrastructure * AWS Chatbot now supports management of AWS resources in Slack (Preview) * Announcing AWS Data Exchange for APIs * AWS Mainframe Modernization (Preview) * Top Announcements of AWS re:Invent 2021 * Join the Preview – Amazon EC2 C7g Instances Powered by New AWS Graviton3 Processors * AWS Private 5G
Picks AC’s Pick
- How to Build a Supersonic Trebuchet
CJ’s Pick
- Lightning Talk: Certified Really Agile Practitioner (CRAP) - Jon Smart
In this episode, AC & CJ look at a real world implementation of Azure Functions complete with a full continuous integration & continuous deployment (CD & CD) configuration.
News * Azure Functions 4.0 and .NET 6 support are now generally available * SEGA and Microsoft (Xbox) have teamed up to develop next-generation games on Azure * Spotify, Discord, and others are coming back online after a brief Google Cloud outage * microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go * Meta and Microsoft announce partnership to integrate Workplace and Teams
Picks AC’s Pick
- Major Breach and Outage Bingo
CJ’s Pick
- Driving my Tesla Model S Plaid Underwater!! Does it float, sink or drive 7ft under!?
Tune in to episode 435, the second of two episodes where AC & CJ look back at the recent Microsoft Ignite 2021 virtual conference! In this episode, we look at Microsoft Azure-related topics! Last week in episode 434 we took a look at Microsoft 365-related news.
What’s New with Microsoft 365 * Introducing Feedback for Microsoft 365
News * MICROSOFT IGNITE BOOK OF NEWS * Microsoft Ignite 2021 * Azure Cosmos DB Blog * Introducing Azure Container Apps: a serverless container service for running modern apps at scale * Azure Logic Apps Announcement - Fall 2021 Release * Import a WebSocket API * Azure Web PubSub * Identity at Ignite: Strengthen resilience with identity innovations in Azure AD * Announcing the Public Preview of Azure Chaos Studio * queryLanguage * Ignite 2021: New releases for Azure Communication Services designed to enhance customer experiences * Powering all your applications from cloud to edge with Azure infrastructure
Picks AC’s Pick
- James Webb Space Telescope Launch and Deployment
CJ’s Pick
- “Learn and Test DMARC” console
Tune in to episode 434, the first of two episodes where AC & CJ look back at the recent Microsoft Ignite 2021 virtual conference! In this episode, we look at the keynotes as well as Microsoft 365 & Modern Work-related topics! Next week we’ll dive into all the Azure news!
News * MICROSOFT IGNITE BOOK OF NEWS * Microsoft Ignite 2021 * What’s new in Microsoft 365—How we’re empowering everyone for a new world of hybrid work * Microsoft Viva is now generally available to help transform your hybrid work experience * What’s new in Microsoft 365—How we’re empowering everyone for a new world of hybrid work * Microsoft Ignite Fall 2021: Innovations coming to Microsoft Teams * What’s New in Microsoft Teams | October 2021 * New Power Platform capabilities announced at Microsoft Ignite * What’s new for Office Add-ins at Ignite 2021 * Microsoft Graph @ Ignite 2021
Picks AC’s Pick
- Drunk Turkish man spends hours helping search party hunting for missing person without realizing it’s HIM
CJ’s Pick
- Starbase Tour with Elon Musk [PART 1]
This week CJ flys solo and sits down with Michal Pisarek from Orchestry to discuss the insane growth of Teams since the pandemic began and how organizations can manage the problems that arise from that.
Guest Michal Pisarek - CEO, Orchestry
- @MichalPisarek
- Michal Pisarek
- Orchestry
- Episode 374 | Orchestry with Michal Pisarek
This week we dive into Microsoft's 2021 diversity and inclusion report, Satya’s compensation, what AWS is doing for .net developers, Microsoft pulling LinkedIn from China and a bunch of other news.
What’s New With Microsoft 365 * MC292735: Retiring Teams mobile support for devices running on Android 5,6 and 7
News * Diversity & Inclusion Report * GamePass Subscriber News * U.S. Army pushes back date on Microsoft goggles but says ‘fully committed’ to $21.9 bln deal * 5 reasons to join the Modernize Apps and Data with Azure and Power Apps free virtual event * Announcing the new Azure Monitor Query client libraries * Update on our new AWS .NET Deployment Experience * Deployment Projects with the new AWS .NET Deployment Experience * Mac Fanboy Reviews Windows 11 * Microsoft Teams ISV app monetization capabilities now available in developer preview * Microsoft shutting down LinkedIn in China * You Voted. Now We’re Making Your Xbox Series X “Mini Fridge” a Reality
Picks AC’s Pick
- Three hours to save Integral
CJ’s Pick
- This Just Saved me $100,000 - Totalphase Cable Tester
In this 431st episode, AC and CJ talk about an acquisition and a new feature coming to Microsoft Teams, an Azure Windows VM outage, and a couple of upcoming learning opportunities including Microsoft Ignite!
Banter * Explore & evaluate the SharePoint Framework
What’s New with Microsoft 365 * MC289965: M365 Records Management * MC291088: Microsoft 365 Compliance Center Core eDiscovery - Search by ID list retirement
News * Microsoft Ignite * Microsoft Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Webcast Series * Global Azure outage knocked out virtual machines, other VM-dependent services * Microsoft Acquires Ally: Expands Viva Into Employee Goal Management * Teams Modern Search Results Page (SERP) is coming soon in Preview * Announcing Microsoft Feedback Portal * Army Halts Widely-Hyped Multi-Billion Dollar Advanced Augmented Reality Goggle Program (Updated) * Microsoft and Nvidia team up to train one of the world’s largest language models * Worst Case
Picks AC’s Pick
- Project Hail Mary: From the bestselling author of The Martian
CJ’s Pick
- ATARI ST STILL MANAGES CAMPGROUND RESERVATIONS AFTER 36 YEARS
AC and CJ discuss the terrible week Facebook just had, how to explain BGP to your kids! They discuss the recent sale of Nintex and its impact on the ecosystem & cover Microsoft’s recent announcement about starting to charge customers to use parts of the Microsoft Graph APIs.
What’s New in Microsoft 365 * MC288472: Update to Microsoft 365 and Outlook for Windows connectivity * MC288633: M365 Records Management, Information Governance & eDiscovery – Optimized behavior of file versions preserved in SPO & ODB * MC289446: Microsoft Teams: A new search results page is coming * MC289687: Changes to LinkedIn integration with the Microsoft 365 people card * MC289724: Macro Settings Update to Disable Excel 4.0 Macros by Default
News * More details about the October 4 outage * A Devastating Twitch Hack Sends Streamers Reeling * TPG to Buy Majority Stake in Thoma Bravo-Backed Tech Firm Nintex * Removing the Built-in Microsoft Teams app with Intune * Surface Laptop Studio Impressions: Windows 11 With a Twist! * Microsoft’s 5 guiding principles for decentralized identities * Announcing: Azure credits for open source projects * Announcing general availability of Microsoft Graph Export API for Microsoft Teams messages * Breaking changes to the settings endpoint in the Microsoft Graph eDiscovery API (beta)
Picks AC’s Pick
- NASA Mars missions facing 2-week communications blackout as sun blocks Red Planet
CJ’s Pick
- Schumacher
In this episode, AC & CJ catch you up on the news, explore what’s new in Microsoft 365, and then explore the Azure App Configuration service that developers can use in maintaining centralized configuration in their distributed cloud apps.
What’s New in Microsoft 365 * MC286990 - Exchange Online and Basic Auth * MC288054 - Configuration Change: Power BI app for Microsoft Teams automatic installation and availability for government customers
News * The future of Skype: Fast, playful, delightful & buttery smooth * Microsoft 365 MFA outage locks users out of their accounts * Trump pushing Microsoft to buy TikTok was ‘strangest thing I’ve ever worked on,’ says Satya Nadella * Microsoft opens its Windows store up to third-party app stores * Announcing Cloudflare R2 Storage: Rapid and Reliable Object Storage, minus the egress fees * Cloudflare R2 Storage * Azure App Configuration documentation * Getting started with Azure App Configuration | Azure Friday * How Azure App Configuration helps developers roll out new features | Azure Friday
Picks AC’s Pick
- LuLaRich
CJ’s Pick
- A hamster has been trading cryptocurrencies in a cage rigged to automatically buy and sell tokens since June - and it’s currently outperforming the S&P 500
CJ is back in the saddle this week with AC and they get right back to business discussing Microsoft's big surface event this past week, going passwordless, AWS powered by sheep & Viva Connections public preview.
News * Microsoft’s fall Surface event: the 7 biggest announcements * How Microsoft built ‘The Frankenstein’ device during the pandemic * Microsoft acquires TakeLessons, an online and in-person tutoring platform, to ramp up its edtech play * Viva Connections public preview is now available! * Microsoft Teams Meetings are getting push-to-talk capabilities * The passwordless future is here for your Microsoft account * Amazon’s cloud unit to create data centres, 1,000 jobs in New Zealand
Picks AC’s Pick
- Inspiration4 OPENING SPACECRAFT’S GLASS DOME FOR THE FIRST TIME
CJ’s Pick
- APPLE CO-FOUNDER ANNOUNCES PRIVATE SPACE COMPANY TO CLEAN UP THE SPACE DEBRIS CLOGGING THE SKY
In this 427th episode, AC flies solo without his trusty sidekick to talk about two more serious Azure vulnerabilities in Azure Linux VMs and Azure Container Instances!
Banter * Inspiration 4 * Inspiration4 | Launch * John Kraus, spaceflight photojournalist
News * Microsoft Ignite * Microsoft Viva Connections - Coming to Public Preview * Office LTSC is now generally available * Azure Cosmos DB: Azure Functions extension version 4.0 in public preview * “Secret” Agent Exposes Azure Customers To Unauthorized Code Execution * Finding Azurescape – Cross-Account Container Takeover in Azure Container Instances * What You Need to Know About Azurescape
Picks AC’s Pick
- FORTRAN.io
AC and CJ get into the news … and there are some doozies! We discuss a slew of cyber security news, Microsoft’s new start experience, Windows 11, Teams and take a look at some inside conversations at Apple regarding Office on iOS.
News * What it was like inside Microsoft during the worst cyberattack in history * Juniper Breach Mystery Starts to Clear With New Details on Hackers and U.S. Role * Microsoft: Attackers Exploiting Windows Zero-Day Flaw * Microsoft MSHTML Remote Code Execution Vulnerability CVE-2021-40444 * A deep-dive into the SolarWinds Serv-U SSH vulnerability * US Cybercom says mass exploitation of Atlassian Confluence vulnerability ‘ongoing and expected to accelerate’ * Google debuts Meet features, including ‘Companion mode’ * Microsoft rebrands its news feed as ‘Microsoft Start’ * Microsoft acquires Clipchamp to empower creators * Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Windows 11 desktop * EdgeDeflector enforces your default browser setting in Windows * Why can an ad break the Windows 11 desktop and taskbar? * Windows Subsystem for Android Arrives in the Microsoft Store * Microsoft won’t stop you installing Windows 11 on older PCs * Project Maven: Amazon And Microsoft Scored $50 Million In Pentagon Surveillance Contracts After Google Quit * 5 reasons to attend the Azure data governance digital event * Announcing a new Microsoft Teams authentication provider and file upload feature in the Microsoft Graph Toolkit * Twitter: “Apple exec - Microsoft wants to use an external payment system on iOS”
Picks AC’s Pick
- O.MG CABLE - * TO USB-A
CJ’s Pick
- The disastrous voyage of Satoshi, the world’s first cryptocurrency cruise ship
In this 425th episode, AC and CJ share recent developer security news all Microsoft cloud developers should be aware of.
Banter * The All-Seeing “i”: Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy
News * Docker is Updating and Extending Our Product Subscriptions * Docker Desktop no longer free for large companies: New ‘Business’ subscription is here * EXCLUSIVE Microsoft warns thousands of cloud customers of exposed databases * ChaosDB: How we hacked thousands of Azure customers’ databases * ChaosDB: How to discover your vulnerable Azure Cosmos DBs and protect them * Verizon, Microsoft Azure Roll Out Private Mobile Edge Cloud For Enterprises * Microsoft sent me a peculiar email and I’d like to stop laughing * Windows 11 available on October 5 * Microsoft announces Surface event for September 22nd * Improving Git protocol security on GitHub * EXCLUSIVE Amazon CEO unveils 55,000 tech jobs in his first hiring push * The Semiconductor Heist Of The Century | Arm China Has Gone Completely Rogue, Operating As An Independent Company With Inhouse IP/R&D
Picks AC’s Pick
- Podcast: Axios - How it Happened (season 2)
CJ’s Pick
- He Paid $345 for a Rolex in the 1970s. Its Value Today Left This Antiques Roadshow Guest Collapsing in Shock
With CJ back in the saddle, he and AC catch up on all things Microsoft, including exec moves, security issues in PowerApps, pricing changes in O365, and Chromebook support. Oh and geek out a bit in the picks!
Banter * Watch app for Tesla
News * New pricing for Microsoft 365 * What Microsoft’s Office Price Increase Means for Investors * Microsoft to increase Microsoft 365, Office 365 commercial prices in March 2022 * Ultimate cloud pricing comparison: AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud in 2021 * Twitter: Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella ơn their commitment to cybersecurity * Microsoft to quadruple cybersecurity investments, spending $20B over five years * Google and Microsoft will invest $30 billion in cybersecurity over the next five years * Microsoft hires former Amazon cloud executive Charlie Bell * Microsoft Windows and Surface Chief Panay added to Senior Leadership Team * 38 million records exposed by misconfigured Microsoft Power Apps. Redmond’s advice? RTFM * Microsoft ending Chromebook support for Office Android apps in September (Update: Google statement added) * Attention: Outlook REST API v1.0 deprecation final notice * Optimize bundles by disabling IE11 support in SPFx projects * Twitter: Windows Server 2022 on Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center
Picks AC’s Pick
- NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Has Completed Testing
CJ’s Pick
- Edgar Sengier
In this episode, AC & CJ catch up on the biggest news in the Microsoft cloud space as well as changes in store for Microsoft 365.
Banter * Explore Azure’s global infrastructure * Blockchain 101 - A Visual Demo
News * iOS zero-day let SolarWinds hackers compromise fully updated iPhones * Analyzing the Legal Implications of GitHub Copilot * Microsoft brings Azure Government Top Secret into GA * Microsoft Invests in Rubrik, Partners to Protect Customers from Ransomware * Microsoft hires former Uber product chief Manik Gupta to build ‘world-class consumer experiences’ * The Rise of DOS: How Microsoft Got the IBM PC OS Contract * Microsoft Graph JavaScript SDK 3.0.0 is now generally available * MC278815 - Microsoft 365 apps and services support for IE11 has ended * MC276032 - OneDrive sync client will no longer update or be supported on macOS Sierra 10.12 and macOS High Sierra 10.13 * MC271072 - OneDrive sync client will no longer be supported on Windows Server 2008 R2 * MC276896 - Announcing automatic redirection from Office 365 Security and Compliance Center to Microsoft 365 Defender portal * MC276028 - Plus addressing to be enabled for all Exchange Online customers * MC275807 - Removing Message Trace in SCC. Move Custom Queries to Message Trace in the new Modern EAC * MC274188 - Teams Meeting Recordings Auto-Expiration in OneDrive and SharePoint * MC273629 - New Device Parsing Logic in Microsoft Teams Call Quality Dashboard * MC272450 - Sender-recipient pair receiving limits in Microsoft Office 365 * NSA Awards Secret $10 Billion Contract to Amazon
Picks AC’s Pick
- MIT 15.S12 Blockchain and Money, Fall 2018
CJ’s Pick
- An F-35 pilot’s helmet costs more than a Ferrari and takes two days to get fitted
In this 422nd episode, AC sits down with Microsoft MVP Asif Rehmani to discuss employee education, learning, and how Microsoft is positioning Viva Learning in this space.
Guest Asif Rehmani - Founder & CEO, VisualSP
- Asif on Twitter
- Asif on LinkedIn
- VisualSP
News * Microsoft Viva Learning * What you need to know about Microsoft Viva Learning * Are You Meeting All 5 Moments of Learning Need? * The 5 Moments of Need® * A New Paradigm For Corporate Training: Learning In The Flow of Work * The Massive Market Impact of Microsoft Viva
In this episode, AC & CJ catch up on the recent news about Microsoft crushing their latest financial quarterly results as well as updates from Microsoft Graph and Microsoft Teams.
News * The FTC Votes Unanimously to Enforce Right to Repair * How Microsoft quietly climbed back to the top of the tech industry * The Invisible Tech Behemoth * Earnings Release FY21 Q4: Microsoft Cloud Strength Fuels Fourth Quarter Results * Microsoft says LinkedIn is now a $10 billion business * Windows 365 plans and pricing * Microsoft Graph .NET SDK v4 now generally available with streamlined authentication and more * Breaking changes to the Microsoft Graph connectors API (beta) * Announcing public preview of SharePoint Framework 1.13 – with Viva Connections Extensibility * Introducing the broadcast development kit for Microsoft Teams * Microsoft acquires CloudKnox Security to offer unified privileged access and cloud entitlement management
Picks AC’s Pick
- Netflix announces Space X documentary on civilian mission into orbit
CJ’s Pick
- Beyond the Blue Badge
CJ is joined by Matthias Einig from Rencore to talk about the state of cloud sprawl post pandemic & discuss Rencores approach to helping customers tackle this ever growing issue.
Guest * Matthias Einig - CEO & Founder, Rencore
+ @mattein
+ Rencore Governance
In this episode, AC & CJ tackle two big announcements from Microsoft around the future of Windows and SharePoint Server.
News * A new day for SharePoint Server * Welcome to your Windows 365 Cloud PC * Microsoft unveils Windows 365 — ushering in a new category of computing * Microsoft reveals $31 per user per month price tag of one of the coming Windows 365 SKUs * Raise the bar for your app security – Get Microsoft 365 Certification by passing these security controls * An Emoji For Your Thoughts * Microsoft buys cybersecurity start-up RiskIQ * Disable the Windows print spooler to prevent hacks, Microsoft tells customers
Picks AC’s Pick
- ‘Hubble is back!’ Famed space telescope has new lease on life after computer swap appears to fix glitch
CJ’s Picks
- Long-term Orbit Stability of the Apollo 11 Eagle Lunar Module Ascent Stage
- Is Apollo 11’s Lunar Module Still In Orbit Around The Moon 52 Years Later?
In this episode, CJ and AC pull back a favorite show format - the geek out! Today they discussed the prosumer grade networking gear from Ubiquity!
Links from the episode * UniFi OS Consoles * UniFi Network Switching * UniFi Wi-Fi * UniFi Cloud Key Gen2 * UniFi LTE * UniFi Protect
Join AC and CJ as they discuss the big news that dropped this week that the JEDI contract is up for grabs… again, a summary of Microsoft news and, as always, some fantastic picks!
News * Microsoft Issues Emergency Patch for Windows Flaw * Microsoft cancels plans to deliver SQL Server on Windows Containers * Pentagon cancels $10 billion JEDI contract challenged by Amazon, ending long-contested cloud-computing deal * Microsoft Edge just left a serious rival in its dust * Manage frontline workers in Microsoft Teams with Tags and Time Clock APIs * Explore new change notification API resources for your Microsoft Teams app * Microsoft Teams 2.0 Will Use Half The Memory * Build the next generation of collaborative apps for hybrid work
Picks AC’s Pick
- Hubble Trouble: NASA Can’t Figure Out What’s Causing Computer Issues On The Telescope
CJ’s Pick
- Jeff Bezos asks woman, 82, to travel into space with him
In this episode 416, after covering some security news from the last week, CJ takes us through an overview of Azure IoT Hub. If you thought this was just for IoT projects, take a listen… it's for so much more!
News * LinkedIn breach reportedly exposes data of 92% of users, including inferred salaries [U] * A driver containing rootkit malware was certified by Microsoft * SLACK LAUNCHES HUDDLES, DISCORD-LIKE AUDIO CALLS YOU CAN HOP IN AND OUT OF * AT&T to run its mobility network on Microsoft’s Azure for Operators cloud, delivering cost-efficient 5G services at scale * ROBBING THE XBOX VAULT: INSIDE A $10 MILLION GIFT CARD CHEAT * Azure IoT Hub * What is Azure IoT Hub * Tutorial: Implement a device firmware update process * Connecting IoT Devices to Azure: IoT Hub and Event Hubs
Picks AC’s Pick
- Sir Tim Berners-Lee Source Code for the WWW
CJ’s Pick
- ‘I Had to Rev the Snot Out of the Buicks’: Wild Stories From an SR-71 Blackbird Crew Chief
Windows 11 is coming and AC and CJ discuss the ins and outs of what's new, what they think of it and when to expect it along with other updates on M365.
News
- Microsoft is bringing Android apps to Windows 11 with Amazon’s Appstore
- Introducing Windows 11
- Cortana, Skype, More are Being Removed or Deprecated in Windows 11
- Why bring Android apps to the Microsoft Store and Windows 10?
- Windows 11 Home requires internet to complete setup, but there’s a workaround
- Microsoft unveils Windows 11, integrating Teams directly into flagship operating system
- Google announces the Firmina subsea cable between the US and Argentina
Picks AC’s Pick
- UPDATED: USS Gerald R. Ford Explosive Shock Trials
CJ’s Pick
- International Lunar Research Station Just Announced by Russia and China
In this episode, AC and CJ share some news around the next version of Windows, Visual Studio and catch you up on the latest news in the Microsoft Cloud!
News * Microsoft Elects Satya Nadella as Chairman * Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils * Windows 11 leak reveals new UI, Start menu, and more * Universal Actions in Adaptive Cards on Microsoft Teams * Assignments API for Microsoft Graph is now generally available * New hybrid work innovations in Microsoft Teams Rooms, Fluid, and Microsoft Viva * Expanding cloud services: Microsoft launches its sustainable datacenter region in Arizona * Unlocking the enterprise opportunity with 5G, edge compute, and cloud * Microsoft employees slept in data centers during pandemic lockdown, exec says * Visual Studio 2022 Preview 1 now available! * Microsoft Flight Simulator Lands on Xbox Series X|S and with Xbox Game Pass on July 27
Picks AC’s Pick
- Inside a transistorized shift register box, built in 1965 for Apollo testing
CJ’s Pick
- OpenRGB
Listener Pick - Wictor Wilen
- Techotel Picasso
- How Does One Get Hired by a Top Cybercrime Gang?
Microsoft has been helping to beat the bad guys, Azure has made a commitment to green tech and you can pay MS more of your $ to help schedule meetings. AC & CJ jump into all this and more!
News * 5 reasons to attend the Azure Hybrid and Multicloud Digital Event * Azure Virtual Desktop: The flexible cloud VDI platform for the hybrid workplace * Progress on our commitment to sustainable backup power in datacenters by 2030 * Four new features to build richer apps for Microsoft Teams meetings * Bringing Visio to Microsoft 365: Diagramming for everyone * Scheduler, a new Microsoft 365 service, makes scheduling meetings easier and faster * Microsoft plans to launch dedicated Xbox cloud gaming hardware * Microsoft helps Feds partially recover Colonial Pipeline ransom
Picks AC’s Pick
- The Expanse UI Design
CJ’s Pick
- Jeff Bezos and his brother will fly on Blue Origin’s first human spaceflight with auction winner
In this episode, AC & CJ restart their “What’s new in Microsoft Azure” bi-weekly segment, talk about the upcoming Windows announcement, and tackle more Azure and Microsoft 365 news!
What’s New In Microsoft Azure * Azure announces general availability of scale-out NVIDIA A100 GPU Clusters: the fastest public cloud supercomputer * Azure Cost Management and Billing updates – May 2021 * General availability: Azure API Management Premium tier price reduction for incremental purchased units * Azure Storage Blob inventory public preview is now available in all public regions * Event Hubs Premium now available in public preview * General availability: Logic Apps with new hosting options
News * Azure at Microsoft Build recap: build amazing things on your terms, anywhere * New Azure capabilities to simplify deployment and management * Azure is the home for your enterprise Java applications * Public preview: Log Analytics workspace insights from Azure Monitor * Public preview: Export Azure Monitor logs to multiple destinations * Migrate content from Box, Dropbox, and Google Workspace into Microsoft 365 - release update * Microsoft to reveal its next generation of Windows on June 24th * Microsoft has turned the Surface Duo into a handheld Xbox * Backbone * Microsoft Teams Calls will soon include end-to-end encryption * Kinda a big announcement
Picks AC’s Pick
- Unsupervised 3D Neural Rendering of Minecraft Worlds
CJ’s Pick
- Building a PC, Part IX: Downsizing
Build 2021 was this week and AC & CJ discussed what they liked, didn't like & wished they had seen more of!
News * MICROSOFT BUILD BOOK OF NEWS * Build cloud-native applications that run anywhere * Import a WebSocket API (preview) * Azure Logic Apps * What are Durable Functions? * Azure Cosmos DB serverless * Continuous access evaluation * Azure Confidential Ledger * GREEN SOFTWARE FOUNDATION * Build the next generation of collaborative apps for hybrid work * Build apps faster with the latest Microsoft Teams Toolkit * Announcing Power BI in Jupyter notebooks
Picks AC’s Pick
- Doom Captcha
CJ’s Pick
- Building the software that helps build SpaceX
Listener Pick: Meredith Connell
- YouTube: 2 Women Sailing
- Facebook: 2 Womens Sailing
- Instagram: 2 Women Sailing
This week, AC and CJ look ahead to the upcoming Microsoft Build conference & catch up on the latest news in the Microsoft 365 space.
News * Microsoft Build * 9 Modern Work sessions you should not miss at Microsoft Build * Microsoft is finally retiring Internet Explorer in 2022 * Develop production-scale modern web apps quickly with Azure Static Web Apps * Microsoft Teams now brings family and friends together to call, chat, and make plans * Microsoft officially acknowledges Windows 10X isn’t happening
Picks AC’s Pick
- Flat Data
CJ’s Pick
- Navy pilots describe encounters with UFOs
CJ flies solo this week and discusses the meltdown of the US fuel supply on the east coast, its relationship to Microsoft & the chaos that ensued. He also dives into some Teams goodies (his new favorite pick for conference prizes, remember those?), Windows delays, and some Azure acquisitions.
News * Pentagon reconsidering huge JEDI cloud-computing contract * Colonial Pipeline attack linked to Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities * A Closer Look at the DarkSide Ransomware Gang * DarkSide Ransomware Gang Quits After Servers, Bitcoin Stash Seized * Windows 10X is on ice as Microsoft focuses efforts on rejuvenating Windows 10 desktop instead * Secure configuration assessment for macOS and Linux now in public preview * Introducing Webinars in Microsoft Teams: Easy, professional webinars to engage customers * Equipping everyone with the right devices and accessories for hybrid work * Microsoft acquires Kinvolk to accelerate container-optimized innovation * A fluent new look for the Azure icon * Microsoft Graph .NET SDK v4 adds enhanced features – now in preview
Picks CJ’s Pick
- Paper aeroplane wind tunnel
This week AC and CJ discuss CJ leaving his current day job, the latest Teams, Azure, Facebook news and they dive into Microsoft's latest financial results.
News * What’s New in Microsoft Teams | April 2021 * Nadella: Microsoft Teams Users Nearly Doubled Since Start of Pandemic * Reading Progress in Microsoft Teams - Improve student reading fluency, save time and track progress * Announcing Viva Learning public preview * Microsoft releases Office 2021 for Mac preview * Beyond Calibri: Finding Microsoft’s Next Default Font * Microsoft 365 apps now available for Amazon Fire tablets * Facebook Workplace reaches 7 million paid subscribers * Microsoft acquires Kinvolk to accelerate container-optimized innovation * Upgrade your infrastructure with the latest Dv5/Ev5 Azure VMs in preview * Azure Cost Management and Billing updates – April 2021 * Microsoft’s Earnings Release FY21 Q3
Picks AC’s Picks
- Launch Complex 39 Lego Instructions
- Perseverance Mars Rover Lego Model Instructions
CJ’s Picks
- I Now Own the Coinhive Domain. Here’s How I’m Fighting Cryptojacking and Doing Good Things with Content Security Policies.
- Shelly2.5
In this 407th episode, AC chats with Stefan Bauer around his new hTWOo project, a 100% pure HTML & CSS implementation of Microsoft’s Fluent Design System.
What’s New with Microsoft Azure * Work Item Integration * General availability: Log analytics workspace name uniqueness is now per resource group * General availability: Azure IoT Central new and updated features—March 2021 * General availability: Application Gateway URL Rewrite
Interview * HTWOO UI launched – Fluent Design in HTML and CSS * GitHub: n8design/htwoo * hTWOo Pattern Lab
Stefan Bauer - MVP Office Development, Designer & Owner N8D
- @StfBauer
- N8D
This week the team discusses Microsoft and Discord, github combatting bitcoin miners, CodeCov hack and some MS Graph news.
News * Chat App Discord Ends Takeover Talks With Microsoft * Hacked Codecov uploading script leaked creds for two months * Microsoft Outlook now lets you end all meetings early to give your brain a rest * GitHub Actions update: Helping maintainers combat bad actors * Microsoft Graph Changelog (Preview) * Utilize change notification APIs for Microsoft Teams messages * Leverage new Microsoft Teams chat APIs to enable new scenarios * Enhance app engagement with the Microsoft Teams Activity Feed API * Public preview: Announcing Azure STIG solution templates to accelerate compliance for DoD
Picks AC’s Picks
- We Are Prepping for Ingenuity’s Third Flight Test
- Perseverance rover just made oxygen on Mars
CJ’s Pick
- Tidbyt: The Retro Display from the Future
In this 405th episode, AC & CJ discuss Microsoft blowing past their credit card limit on the $20B acquisition of Nuance, highlight some upcoming June 2021 retirements in Microsoft 365 and discuss the trending topic of AWS S3 data breaches.
News * Microsoft buys Nuance for nearly $20 billion as it readies deal frenzy * S3 Security Is Flawed By Design * Risk startup LogicGate confirms data breach
Picks AC’s Pick
- ESA/Hubble Top 100 Images
CJ’s Pick
- The Forgotten Operating System That Keeps the NYC Subway System Alive
Despite the episode name AC and CJ manage to find quite a bit going on this week with MS Build Conference, Java, Azure, Oracle and Google.
News * Microsoft Build * Microsoft Tests Immersion Cooling Tech from Bitcoin Mining for its Cloud Servers * GitHub investigating crypto-mining campaign abusing its server infrastructure * Episode 380 | Reviewing Recent Microsoft 365, Azure & Excel News * Breakingviews - Capital Calls - Google’s legal win against Oracle * GOOGLE LLC v. ORACLE AMERICA, INC. * Announcing Preview of Microsoft Build of OpenJDK * Cloud Design Patterns * Azure for AWS Professionals * Azure for GCP Professionals * Microsoft named a Leader in Forrester Wave: Function-as-a-Service Platforms * Announcing Project Reunion 0.5!
Picks AC’s Pick
- NASA Space Shuttle Discovery
CJ’s Pick
- MySoil
In this 403rd episode, contrary to what it seems, you aren’t forbidden from learning about the latest Microsoft Azure Outage, some Microsoft cloud-related news, our usual picks, and a fantastic pick from one of our listeners!
News * Azure Cosmos DB Conf * Compare AWS and Azure services to Google Cloud * RIP Cortana: Microsoft Silences Digital Assistant On iOS And Android * Microsoft wins U.S. Army contract for augmented reality headsets, worth up to $21.9 billion over 10 years * Microsoft Technical Fellow Don Box has left the building
Picks AC’s Pick
- Flight Software & Embedded Systems Framework
CJ’s Pick
- Radio Garden
Listener Pick: David Saas
- Dad 3D-printed a Lamborghini because his son liked one in Forza
In this episode, AC & CJ talk to Larry St-Pierre from ShareGate about their recent report, State of Microsoft 365 - Migration, Modernization, and Security in 2021!
Guest Laurent (Larry) St-Pierre - Community Enablement Manager, ShareGate
- @laurent_sp
- State of Microsoft 365 - Migration, Modernization, and Security in 2021
News * SharePoint Framework v1.12 Deprecated!!! (+ how to roll back) * Microsoft CEO Hunts Anew for Creator Hub After TikTok Bid Fails
Picks AC’s Picks
- Another First: Perseverance Captures the Sounds of Driving on Mars
- NASA Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Prepares for First Flight
CJ’s Pick
- Part of Wright brothers’ 1st airplane on NASA’s Mars chopper
Larry’s Pick
- Radiolab
In this 401st episode, AC and CJ catch up on the latest Azure AD outage and other recent news.
Banter * We are the Microsoft Excel product team. We build cool stuff like XLOOKUP, Sheet Views, and lambda in Excel. AMA! * Announcing ShareGate’s State of Microsoft 365: Migration, modernization, and security in 2021
News * SharePoint Framework v1.12 - What’s in the latest Update of SPFx? * Okta says it’s buying security rival Auth0 for $6.5 billion, sending stock plunging * Microsoft Walks Away from UserVoice * Microsoft-led team retracts quantum ‘breakthrough’
Picks AC’s Pick
- Reverse Engineering a 433MHz RF Protocol - Home Assistant Conference 2020
CJ’s Pick
- How does the brain interpret computer languages?
In this 400th episode, AC and CJ reflect on the last 7+ years of the Microsoft Cloud show.
News * Episode 1 | Introducing the Show * Episode 2 | Introducing the Show Hosts - (Part 1) Andrew Connell * Episode 3 | Introducing the Show Hosts - (Part 2) Chris Johnson * Episode 67 | Catching up on Cloud News & Interview with Arpan Shah * Episode 128 | Future of SharePoint Event Recap and SharePoint Server 2016 with Todd Klindt * Episode 137 | Windows Containers are coming! Talking to Taylor Brown about the container wave coming to the Microsoft world * Episode 159 | Microsoft Ignite Recap & Interview with Jeff Teper, Microsoft CVP SharePoint and OneDrive * Episode 165 | Interview with Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie Plus News from Kubecon and Connect * Episode 199 | Azure CosmosDB with Microsoft’s Rimma Nehme * Episode 261 | Azure Stack with Microsoft Technical Fellow Jeffrey Snover * Episode 272 | Live from Microsoft Ignite 2018 with Alex Simons * Episode 273 | Live from Microsoft Ignite 2018 with Julia White * Episode 296 | “Have I been pwned?” - An Interview with Troy Hunt * Episode 377 | Microsoft 365 and Ignite 2020 with CVP Jeff Teper
Picks AC’s Picks
- I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
- RECEIVING SPACEX FALCON 9 TELEMETRY WITH A HACKRF AND 1.2M SATELLITE DISH
CJ’s Picks
- DAY 1 | RACE 1 | Luna Rossa vs Emirates Team NZ | PRADA America’s Cup World Series Auckland, NZ
- Excel Never Dies
In this 399th episode, AC & CJ recap the most recent Microsoft Ignite conference, the first of multiple in 2021? Only the future will tell!
News * Microsoft Ignite 2021 Book of News * Microsoft Ignite * Microsoft Ignite 2021 Live Stream * Microsoft Mesh * Innovate across hybrid and multicloud with new Azure Arc capabilities * Azure Percept | Edge Computing Solution | Microsoft Azure * Azure Remote Rendering * Identity at Microsoft Ignite: Strengthening Zero Trust defenses in the era of hybrid work * Configure the admin consent workflow - Azure Active Directory | Microsoft Docs * Take a tour of process advisor and new RPA enhancements | Power Automate Blog (microsoft.com) * Introducing Microsoft Power Fx: the low-code programming language for everyone * Connecting customers and businesses with Azure Communication Services and Microsoft Teams | Azure Blog and Updates | Microsoft Azure * What’s New in Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Ignite 2021 * Microsoft Viva Connections to start rollout to general availability - Microsoft Tech Community
Picks AC’s Picks
- Voyager 2 receives and executes first command in 11 months as sole antenna that reaches it returns to work
CJ’s Picks
- (85) How Microsoft Flight Simulator Recreated Our Entire Planet | Noclip Documentary - YouTube
AC and CJ geek out on the Mars rover landing this week, discuss Apples M1 malware and SSD issues and dive into Azure, M365 and Edge news.
Banter * M1 Macs face first recorded malware * M1 Mac owners are experiencing extremely high SSD writes over short periods of time, likely thanks to aggressive swap
News * Mars 2020 Mission: Perseverance Rover * See Mars Like Never Before! NASA’s Perseverance Rover Sends New Video and Images of the Red Planet * Investing to grow in and with Atlanta * LinkedIn is building a gig marketplace * Microsoft starts testing Kids Mode for Microsoft Edge * Microsoft’s unified Office app is now available for iPad * Microsoft readies Power Fx, a new Power Platform low-code language * What’s Next for Industry * Accelerating Department of Defense mission workloads with Azure * Growing computer-chip shortage alarms Biden and Congress
Picks AC’s Pick
- Creeping as a Service (CraaS)
CJ’s Pick
- Arranging Invisible Icons in Quadratic Time
Listener Pick - Wictor Wilen
- Automatic pool stick vs. strangers
This week, AC is joined by fellow MVP’s Julie Turner & Marc Anderson of Sympraxis to talk about the current state and what they see the next year holds in store for Microsoft 365.
Guest Marc Anderson - Founder & President, Sympraxis Consulting
- @sympmarc
Julie Turner - Partner & CTO, Sympraxis Consulting
- @jfj1997
This week AC and CJ tackle some interesting Teams, Edge, Azure Space news along with discussing the upcoming memoirs from Steven Sinofsky the former boss of Windows and Office (remember the ribbon and no start menu?).
Banter * The man behind Fortnite is making the riskiest bet of his career. The payoff could be huge
News * What you need to know about kiosk mode when support for Microsoft Edge Legacy ends * General Availability of the new PnP Framework library for automating SharePoint Online operations * Controlling app access on a specific SharePoint site collections is now available in Microsoft Graph * Microsoft launches Bulletins and Milestones apps for Team * Microsoft to add new webinar and ‘meeting intelligence’ capabilities to Teams via Teams Pro * Connecting Azure to the International Space Station with Hewlett Packard Enterprise * Donating Docker Distribution to the CNCF * Exclusive: Suspected Chinese hackers used SolarWinds bug to spy on U.S. payroll agency – sources * Sinofsky speaks! Former Microsoft exec to publish memoirs online
Picks AC’s Pick
- Researcher hacks over 35 tech firms in novel supply chain attack
CJ’s Pick
- Engineers Build Retractable Lightsaber That Cuts Through Steel Like Butter
In this episode, AC and CJ share a bit of news before covering the latest product from Microsoft 365, Microsoft Viva, that was announced on February 4, 2021.
Banter * As Google eyes Australia exit, Microsoft talks Bing with PM
News * As Pentagon warns it could abandon its $10 billion JEDI cloud with Microsoft, analysts say AWS could benefit * Amazon will have a new CEO as Jeff Bezos transitions to executive chair later this year * Microsoft reveals its MASSIVE data center (Full Tour) * Azure Service Fabric Mesh Preview Retirement * Introducing Microsoft Viva * Reimagine the employee experience * Microsoft Viva * Introducing Microsoft Viva Topics * Announcing Microsoft Viva Learning private preview * Microsoft Viva Connections helps everyone to stay engaged and informed * Microsoft outlines plans for Viva, an employee-experience platform anchored in Teams * The Massive Market Impact of Microsoft Viva
Picks AC’s Picks
- February’s Gonna Be a Big Month for Mars
- Inspiration4
CJ’s Pick
- One hull crack located in ISS, another one suspected
AC and CJ are back this week (one being a little huskier than usual) to discuss the recent MSFT earnings announcement, more exec departures, teams and SAP getting cozy and M365 developer news.
News * Microsoft’s head of Corporate Strategy Kurt DelBene to leave Microsoft in June * Microsoft reports 17% revenue growth as cloud business accelerates * Azure Cost Management and Billing updates – January 2021 * SAP and Microsoft expand partnership and integrate Microsoft Teams across solutions * New version of the PnP PowerShell – Open-source cross-platform PowerShell module to manage Microsoft 365 * Build your personalized enterprise search experience with PnP Modern Search v4 solution * What’s Coming for Office Add-ins in 2021
Picks AC’s Pick
- Solo V2 — Safety Net Against Phishing
CJ’s Pick
- NASA Lends Moon Rock for Oval Office Display
AC and CJ reflect on the week that has been in both the MS tech world and the events in the US. Everything from Bernie's Mittens to Julia White leaving Microsoft, autonomous cars to new Windows versions.
News * Microsoft Lists for iOS is now generally available * Installing Windows 10X (from cabs) on real hardware * Windows 10X: Microsoft’s ‘cloud-powered’ Chrome OS competitor inches closer * Cruise and GM team up with Microsoft to commercialize self-driving vehicles * Brad Anderson Leaving Microsoft for Qualtrics * Julia White Leaving Microsoft for SAP * Episode 273 | Live from Microsoft Ignite 2018 with Julia White
Picks AC’s Picks
- WATCH: Amanda Gorman reads inauguration poem, ‘The Hill We Climb’
- READ: Youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman’s inaugural poem
CJ’s Pick
- Virgin Orbit flies into orbit
In this episode, AC & CJ catch up on the Microsoft cloud news, including updates to Microsoft Surface, Azure, Microsoft Teams and Skype!
News * Parler Is Gone, But Hackers Say They Downloaded Everything First * Surface Pro 7+ brings next level performance and versatility to the enterprise * Microsoft is building a new Outlook app for Windows and Mac powered by the web * Microsoft’s Azure Modular Datacenter: What’s ‘special clouds’ got to do with it? * Microsoft Designing Its Own Chips for Servers, Surface PCs * Introducing Microsoft Cloud for Retail * Release Notes for Skype 8.67
Picks AC’s Pick
- Can Apple’s M1 help you train models faster & cheaper than NVIDIA’s V100?
CJ’s Pick
- Now how many USB-C™ to USB-C™ cables are there? (USB4™ Update, September 12, 2019)
2021 has to be better than 2020 right? Surely! This week AC and CJ look forward and discuss their hopes, dreams, wishes, and goals for 2021 and what they would like to see happen in tech, and more.
Picks AC’s Pick
- There are an insane amount of cool space things happening in 2021
CJ’s Pick
- Explained: The thinking behind the 32GB Windows Format limit on FAT32
In this episode, AC & CJ look back at 2020. It’s not all about the pandemic… there was also some cloudy news! We also look at AC & CJ’s wishes & goals for 2020 and see how they ended up on the year.
News * Episode 377 | Microsoft 365 and Ignite 2020 with CVP Jeff Teper * Episode 342 | Looking Forward to 2020
Picks AC’s Pick
- DAVIDS PERSONAL KITT KNIGHT RIDER CAR
CJ’s Pick
- Booting from a vinyl record
This past week saw what looks like one of the worst security compromises in decades. AC and CJ dive into how it happened and discuss some of the details on how it has impacted Microsoft 365 customers. Oh, and they discuss Google's recent massive outage too.
Banter * ShareGate’s holiday message * China recovers Chang’e-5 moon samples after complex 23-day mission
News * Gmail, YouTube, Google Docs, and other Google services hit by massive outage * Securely manage and autofill passwords across all your mobile devices with Microsoft Authenticator * Microsoft 365 Message Center Rollup + 229331: Prester View in Teams Presentation Sharing + 229143: Update to Microsoft 365 and Outlook for Windows connectivity + 229161: Yammer APIs: URL changes to user, communities, or network photos * Powerful ways to connect SharePoint team sites, files, lists and pages as tabs in Microsoft Teams * Important steps for customers to protect themselves from recent nation-state cyberattacks * Customer Guidance on Recent Nation-State Cyber Attacks * Microsoft unleashes ‘Death Star’ on SolarWinds hackers in extraordinary response to breach * Malicious Domain in SolarWinds Hack Turned into ‘Killswitch’ * Advanced Persistent Threat Compromise of Government Agencies, Critical Infrastructure, and Private Sector Organizations
Picks AC’s Picks
- Watch: BMW Made the World’s First Electrified Wingsuit. It Reached 186 MPH on Its First Flight.
- Rocket Bird
CJ’s Pick
- My hunt for the El Chapo McLaren F1
In this episode, AC & CJ catch up on the latest news in the Microsoft Cloud, and tackle a question submitted by a listener. Special shout out and congratulations to our sponsor AvePoint and their recent news announcing their intention to go public!
Banter * AvePoint to go public via SPAC valued at $2B * Starship | SN8 | High-Altitude Flight Test
News * How to Enable Plus Addressing in Office 365 Exchange online * Launch of Microsoft Teams preview experience and alignment with Microsoft 365 deployment channels * Breakout rooms generally available today in Microsoft Teams * Microsoft Search query API for Microsoft Graph is now Generally Available! * Over 200 million users rely on SharePoint as Microsoft is again recognized as a Leader in the 2020 Gartner Content Services Platforms Magic Quadrant Report * The broadest range of cloud innovation across US Government data classifications * Microsoft Linux Distro - CBL-Mariner
Picks AC’s Pick
- Microsoft Teams - RCE
CJ’s Pick
- The Plan to Turn Scrapped Rockets Into Space Stations
It’s been a big week with AWS’s largest outage yet, AWS re:invent conference, Slack being acquired and Microsoft news and AC and CJ dive right in.
Banter * AWS engineer puts Windows 10 on Arm on Apple Mac M1 – and it thrashes Surface Pro X
News * Control automatic external email forwarding in Microsoft 365 * Microsoft Roadmap Office 365 ATP: External Email Forwarding Controls * Microsoft productivity score feature criticised as workplace surveillance * Microsoft apologises for feature criticised as workplace surveillance * Zoom Pricing & Plans * Six months after Oracle trumpeted Zoom as a cloud customer, AWS says it is Zoom’s ‘preferred’ cloud * Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack * Prolonged AWS outage takes down a big chunk of the internet * Summary of the Amazon Kinesis Event in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region * AWS re:Invent 2020 – Announcements From the News Blog * New – Use Amazon EC2 Mac Instances to Build & Test macOS, iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, and watchOS Apps * New for AWS Lambda – 1ms Billing Granularity Adds Cost Savings * New for AWS Lambda – Container Image Support * New for AWS Lambda – Functions with Up to 10 GB of Memory and 6 vCPUs * Amazon Elastic Container Registry Public: A New Public Container Registry * Amazon S3 Strong Consistency * Amazon S3 Update – Strong Read-After-Write Consistency * Want more PostgreSQL? You just might like Babelfish * EKS Anywhere (coming in 2021)
Picks AC’s Pick
- Video: Footage of Collapse Arecibo Observatory
CJ’s Pick
- The Secret History of Microsoft Bob - Dave Tells All - Was Bob Secretly Hidden in Windows?
In this week's episode, AC & CJ discuss deprecation with Microsoft Graph, security news from Microsoft and share their favorite picks.
Banter * Voitanos’ Black Friday Cyber Monday 2020 Deals are back for 2020!
News * Meet the Microsoft Pluton processor – The security chip designed for the future of Windows PCs * Microsoft Says North Korea And Russia Are Trying To Hack Into Covid Vaccine Research * Publisher verification and app consent policies are now generally available * Publisher verification of Azure AD apps * Python creator Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft * Bringing personal features in Microsoft Teams to desktop and web—now available in preview * Microsoft 365 now available from new Brazil geography * Outlook REST API v1.0 deprecation update * Outlook REST API v2.0 production and beta endpoint deprecation * Retiring Microsoft Graph notifications API (beta)
Picks AC’s Pick
- THE BEIRUT PORT EXPLOSION
CJ’s Pick
- schlae/snark-barker
Joint Pick
- Space Shuttle External Fuel Tank
AC and CJ discuss the exciting events of this week in Apple land and what it might mean for the laptop market, tiktok should be renamed flip flop and SharePoint Conference 2020 and a bunch more news.
Banter * Introducing the next generation of Mac * Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for Mac computers * Apple Silicon M1 Chip in MacBook Air Outperforms High-End 16-Inch MacBook Pro * Apple Announces The Apple Silicon M1: Ditching x86 - What to Expect, Based on A14 * U.S. Backs Down on TikTok
News * Announcing .NET 5.0 * Astonishing Performance of .NET 5 * gRPC performance improvements in .NET 5 * Zoom lied to users about end-to-end encryption for years, FTC says * Message Center Updates: MC226053: Yammer embed widgets will be upgraded to the new Yammer; MC226038: Use Teams licenses to control access to Microsoft Teams * Microsoft 365 (Virtual) Collaboration Conference (formerly SPC) * Microsoft 365 GCC Tenant Upcoming Updates * Microsoft Teams will let users pin posts in channels later this month * Announcing general availability of Microsoft Teams Resource-specific consent and read channel messages
Picks AC’s Pick
- Identity, Unlocked… Explained | Episode 1
CJ’s Picks
- The Least Dangerous To-Do List
- Operation Odessa
In this episode, AC and CJ talk about some recent updates from Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Graph & some upcoming conferences in the cloud sphere.
News * AWS re:Invent * Universe2020 * TikTok-Oracle deal and a potential US ban: Everything you need to know * Microsoft Teams to get multi-account sign-in support in December (sort of) * Microsoft named a Leader in the Gartner 2020 Magic Quadrant for Industrial IoT Platforms * What’s new in Microsoft Graph * Microsoft Graph Changelog (Preview) * Announcing the general availability of the Microsoft To Do API in Microsoft Graph
Picks AC’s Pick
- Voyager 2 is back online after eight months of radio silence
CJ’s Pick
- I am Aubrey Cottle a.k.a. Kirtaner. I am the founder of the hacker collective “Anonymous”. Yes. Really. Ask me anything.
This week CJ asks AC about his new course he’s developing to help developers prepare for the MS-600 exam & they discuss a host of news from around the Microsoft Cloud.
News * SpaceX prices Starlink satellite internet service at $99 per month, according to e-mail * Microsoft earnings easily top expectations, but forecast for Xbox’s debut quarter dings stock * Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare is transforming the healthcare journey * Microsoft: No Driver Updates Allowed for Win7 and Win8 * SharePoint 2010 workflow retirement * Microsoft: Teams now at more than 115 million daily active users * Survey or quiz your friends and family with Microsoft Forms, now available for personal use * Partnering with C3.ai and Adobe to re-invent CRM with AI * Breaking change to Microsoft Graph Users API: Updates to on-premises sync-enabled user contact numbers are no longer allowed * Import third-party platform messages to Teams using Microsoft Graph
Picks AC’s Picks
- Notion
- Discover UI Design Decisions Of Leading Companies, From Leaked Screenshots & A/B Tests.
CJ’s Pick
- How Mission Control’s Big Displays Worked
This week, AC & CJ discuss a partnership between Microsoft & Intel related to confidential computing, how Microsoft Teams has added integration with Salesforce, and other Microsoft cloudy news.
News * Microsoft pushes back return-to-work target date from January to July 2021 * Introducing Microsoft Edge preview builds for Linux * Microsoft partners with SpaceX to connect Azure cloud to Musk’s Starlink satellite internet * Azure Space: Powering innovation on Earth and beyond * Introducing the Microsoft Azure Modular Datacenter * Microsoft is a Leader in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Full Life Cycle API Management * Azure and Intel commit to delivering next generation confidential computing * Azure introduces new capabilities for live video analytics * Azure status history * Microsoft Partners with Salesforce to Deliver Microsoft Teams Integration for Sales and Service * Slack’s stock drops after Morgan Stanley says Covid-related spending is going to rivals Microsoft and Zoom
Picks AC’s Pick
- Tesla hacker reveals what driver-facing camera is looking for
CJ’s Pick
- This Person Does Not Exist
Listener Pick - Robyn Eisler
- Prosthesis: Mech Racing | Alpha Mech Pilot Program
This week CJ and AC discuss updates from Microsoft on Teams use during this time of unprecedented levels of people working from home and Azure. As well as other interesting cloud updates from Zoom and Cloudflare. Don’t miss the Sharegate Deploy virtual event either!
Banter * NASA Launch America * Get Microsoft 365 Developer Certified - FREE webinar series!
News * Introducing 1.1.1.1 for Families * NASA to launch 247 petabytes of data into AWS – but forgot about eye-watering cloudy egress costs before lift-off * Deploy * 500,000 Zoom Accounts on the Dark Web * Microsoft subtly sticks the knife into Zoom * Enhanced features in Azure Archive Storage now generally available * How to work with search results in Azure Cognitive Search: Hit highlighting * Ranking algorithm in Azure Cognitive Search * How remote work impacts collaboration: findings from our team * Microsoft embraces big data * Windows Terminal Preview v0.11 Release * How Microsoft tackles the 30,000 bugs its 47,000 developers generate each month * Microsoft hires a former GE exec to work with health companies in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic * Microsoft is launching a ‘plasmabot’ to encourage people who recovered from the virus to donate their plasma as a possible treatment
Picks AC’s Picks
- Oil futures drunk-trading incident
- UniFi Poller – Amazing!
CJ’s Pick
- Then and now: visualizing COVID-19’s impact on air traffic
Guest Pick: Damian Flynn
- LEGO CHALLENGE: 30 DAYS OF PLAY CALENDAR
In this episode, AC and CJ dig into a developer capability customers can use in Microsoft Teams, Outlook and many other surface areas to present data elements as well as collect data from users: Adaptive Cards.
Banter * Join me, April 22, 2020, and learn about the Microsoft 365 Developer Associate certification and MS-600 exam * Seven months later, analyzing the cost of hosting a Hugo-based site on Microsoft Azure
News * GitHub is now free for teams * DOD Clears Microsoft’s JEDI Contract Award * Adaptive Cards * Adaptive Cards community call-March 2020
Picks AC’s Picks
- This Man Owns The World’s Most Advanced Private Air Force After Buying 46 F/A-18 Hornets
- Grounded and Stored Aircraft Around The World
CJ’s Pick
- NASA’s ‘Worm’ Logo Will Return to Space
This week AC and CJ try out a new streaming setup for future shows while trying to hold together a regular show that covers MS, hackers exploiting people during COVID-19, on-going Zoom security response, Office 365 and Azure news!
News * Microsoft to conduct online-only events till June 2021: Report * Beware these coronavirus hacking threats, UK and US agencies warn * Thousands of Zoom recordings exposed because of the way Zoom names recordings * ZOOM’S ENCRYPTION IS “NOT SUITED FOR SECRETS” AND HAS SURPRISING LINKS TO CHINA, RESEARCHERS DISCOVER * Skype tries competing with Zoom by reminding people that they don’t need the app or an account to make a call * Introducing the new Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscriptions * One Identity across Yammer and Office * Remote work trend report: meetings * Modernizing SharePoint Managed Metadata Services (MMS) * Detect large-scale cryptocurrency mining attack against Kubernetes clusters
Picks AC’s Picks
- Tesla owner upgrades Autopilot 2.5 to 3.0 Hardware: Cost, results, and more
- Tesla Ventilator
CJ’s Pick
- Spying on the Scammers [Part 1 of 4]
In this 354th episode, AC and CJ discuss more impacts the global COVID-19 pandemic is having on the tech cloud and security concerns with the popular video conferencing tool Zoom.
Banter * 2020 IndyCar iRacing Challenge * iRacing IndyCar Challenge - Watkins Glen w/Josef Newgarden * Conor Daly’s Twitch Stream
News * Microsoft to conduct online-only events till June 2021: Report * Microsoft: Cloud services demand up; prioritization rules in place due to COVID-19 * Windows code-execution zeroday is under active exploit, Microsoft warns * Zoom: A Message to Our Users
Picks AC’s Picks
- Business Wars
- MasterClass: Will Wright Teaches Game Design And Theory
CJ’s Pick
- SpaceX loses its third Starship prototype during a cryogenic test
This week AC and CJ try desperately to stay off talking about virus’ and focus on news from Azure, AWS and Office 365. They fail a bit.
News * Microsoft Edge browser flunks privacy test, Redmond cries foul * Folding @ Home * Apple finally admits Microsoft was right about tablets * Amazon slams Pentagon’s approach to fix messy $10 billion JEDI cloud contract, new court docs show * The SharePoint Conferens is moving to March 2021 * Azure Government Secret accredited at DoD IL6, ICD 503 with IaaS and PaaS * Azure Dedicated Host: New capabilities and benefits * New Deploy to Azure extension for Visual Studio Code * How Azure Machine Learning powers suggested replies in Outlook * Announcing change notifications for Microsoft Teams messages * Microsoft 365 / SharePoint Community (PnP) – March 2020 update
Picks AC’s Pick
- Taking Back What Is Already Yours: Router Wars Episode I
CJ’s Pick
- kavs911
In this episode, AC and CJ discuss their results from the recent MS-600 exam and cover the recent news in the Microsoft cloud.
Banter * Exam MS-600: Building Applications and Solutions with Microsoft 365 Core Services
News * npm is joining GitHub * Microsoft announces new Teams features as usage skyrockets nearly 40 percent in a week * Bill Gates leaves Microsoft board
Picks AC’s Picks
- The Joe Rogan Experience #1439: Michael Osterholm
- Turing Pi
CJ’s Pick
- 13 Minutes to the Moon
This week AC and CJ discuss the chaos going on with COVID-19 and the impact its having on organizations and people being asked to work differently.
News * Microsoft orchestrates coordinated takedown of Necurs botnet * Microsoft Teams users to get federation with Skype consumer service starting in late March * Our commitment to customers during COVID-19 * Helping teachers and students make the switch to remote learning
Picks AC’s Pick
- OpenSilver
CJ’s Pick
- Microsoft News - Most Underrated Microsoft Product
In this episode, AC and CJ cover some service updates from Microsoft 365, Microsoft Azure, new Microsoft certifications and new pricing for Google Cloud Platform’s hosted Kubernetes offering.
Banter * Project Svalbard, Have I Been Pwned and its Ongoing Independence
News * Google Kubernetes Pricing * Microsoft for Startups * Get a sneak peek at upcoming Microsoft Certifications for Data & AI * Empowering the NFL with Microsoft Surface and Microsoft Teams * Application Insights Outage * Revoking Let’s Encrypt certificates * Revoking certain certificates on March 4 * Microsoft 365 - Basic Authentication Retirement - Updated Info * Basic Auth and Exchange Online – February 2020 Update * Microsoft 365 - Restricting form-based authentication in Office apps * Preparedness for COVID-19 (Coronavirus) and guidance regarding best practices for Microsoft Teams
Picks AC’s Pick
- Hitler uses Kubernetes
CJ’s Pick
- DeLorean Confirms Plan To Redesign and Produce A New Line Of DMC 12S Cars
Guest Pick: Wictor Wilen
- HOW ROCKETS ARE MADE (Rocket Factory Tour - United Launch Alliance) - Smarter Every Day 231
This week CJ and AC discuss upcoming conferences, MVP summit, a new mysterious tool from MS called Outlook Spaces & more news. The picks this week are epic!
News Conferences
- North American Collaboration Summit
- SharePoint Fest DC
- Microsoft Build 2020
- SharePoint Conference NA
- CJ’s “Spreadsheet of Doom”
- European Collaboration Summit
Microsoft
- A secure foundation for IoT, Azure Sphere now generally available
- Microsoft to open Azure regions in Spain, expands Telefonica relationship
- Burst 4K encoding on Azure Kubernetes Service
- Outlook Spaces
- Microsoft to add two new Dynamics 365 apps to its portfolio
- Microsoft Edge Insider: Top Feedback Summary for February 26
- Microsoft’s Spring Hardware Event: Surface Book 3 and Go 2 Detailed
Picks AC’s Picks
- Pokit PRO. Multimeter, Oscilloscope & Logger
- Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (AGC) vs USB-C Chargers
CJ’s Picks
- EXCLUSIVE: the truth about the real Armstrong’s and Aldrin’s Speedmaster references and how the Omega Speedmaster became the Moonwatch
- TransferWise
Guest Pick - Ben Stegink
- WebCatalog
In this episode, AC shares some news and explores Azure Data Factory, one of the many services available in Microsoft Azure.
News * SharePoint development state in 2019: story based on sharepoint.stackexchange analysis with Power BI * Microsoft Teams new files experience released 100% worldwide * Microsoft Teams Yeoman Generator updated * The new Office app now generally available for Android and iOS * Creating .NET Core global tools on macOS * Copying files based on file content between two locations with Azure Data Factory
In this episode, AC & CJ cover Microsoft’s backtrack of their plans to force the Bing browser extension in all your browsers via Office Pro Plus and other related news.
News * What happened to Slack today * Cisco Flaws Put Millions of Workplace Devices at Risk * Kickstarter 2019 Revenues * Update to Microsoft Search in Bing through Office 365 ProPlus * Adaptive Cards 1.2 are GA in Microsoft Teams * Amazon wants to question Trump after losing $10 billion Pentagon cloud contract * Supercharge your command line experience: GitHub CLI is now in beta
Picks AC’s Pick
- Mysterious radio signal from space is repeating every 16 days
CJ’s Pick
- SpaceX Crew Dragon becomes one fisherman’s “catch of his life”
AC and CJ chat about the recent cloud earnings from AWS, MS and Google, discuss the reorganization of the Teams team at Microsoft and its impacts on Office 365, along with a slew of other interesting news.
Banter * Join me at SPFest DC to learn SharePoint Framework Development! * 2020 Super Bowl commercials: Rewatch the ads that ran during Super Bowl LIV on Sunday
News * Google Cloud makes strides but still has a long way to go * Alphabet earnings show Google Cloud on $10B run rate * Microsoft shares rise after it beats revenue, profit expectations, Azure posts 62% growth * Microsoft Teams cert expired * Microsoft will now pay up to $20K for Xbox Live security exploits * CIA Opens Competition for Lucrative Cloud Deals to Amazon Rivals * Today, the Trident Era Ends * Microsoft to combine its Windows client and hardware teams under Chief Product Officer Panos Panay * Microsoft is merging its Windows and hardware teams * Jeff Weiner Updates His LinkedIn Profile * Microsoft moves its main employee portal to latest version of SharePoint * UN hacked: Attackers got in via SharePoint vulnerability
Picks AC’s Pick
- Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application that you open
CJ’s Pick
- Microsoft Small Basic
AC interviews Paul Schaeflein and Wictor Wilen on the state of Microsoft Teams development and building custom apps for Microsoft Teams.
AC and CJ discuss the recent massive data breach found at Microsoft, Microsoft’s brazen approach to installing what some people see as malware on your machine without consent & how Microsoft is doing their bit to help the environment.
Banter * Join me and Support the Fight to END Breast Cancer!
News * Report: 250 million Microsoft customer service and support records exposed on the web * Microsoft will be carbon negative by 2030 * Microsoft 365 Roadmap * Microsoft Search in Bing and Office 365 ProPlus * The Day Microsoft Office Turned into Malware * Microsoft to force Chrome default search to Bing using Office 365 installer * Office 365 ProPlus to change Chrome’s default search engine to Bing in upcoming update * Microsoft Office 365 UserVoice Forum * Office Deployment Insiders
Picks AC’s Pick
- LEGO International Space Station
CJ’s Pick
- Scarsdale High Student Discovers Planet At NASA
In this 343rd episode, AC and CJ catch you up on the latest cloud news from Microsoft with specific items related to Windows, Office 365, Azure with a bonus Google-Oracle fight!
Banter * Fortnite made $1.8 billion in 2019
News * The new Microsoft Edge now available for download * Advancing Azure Active Directory availability * Azure founders reflect on Microsoft’s first decade as a public cloud vendor * Google Files Opening Brief with U.S. Supreme Court in Java Case * 18-956 Google LLC v. Oracle America Inc. * Microsoft takes action against North Korea hackers * Microsoft and NSA say a security bug affects millions of Windows 10 computers * Potential disruption to customer websites and Microsoft products and services in Chrome version 79 and later * The CTO of LinkedIn explains how and why it’s making the massive shift to Microsoft’s cloud, three years after the $26.2 billion acquisition * Using Microsoft Graph Presence API on SharePoint Framework * What’s New in Microsoft Teams | December 2019
Picks AC’s Picks
- The Great Hack
- Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America
CJ’s Pick
- The Ocean Cleanup celebrates first haul of plastic from the Great Pacific garbage patch
Listener Pick: Olivier Giraud
- Speaking Truth to Power: Reflections on My Career at Microsoft
This week AC & CJ look ahead to 2020 and what they wish happens with some of their favorite tech and companies. They also set themselves goals for 2020 to help them stay accountable.
Banter * Exam MS-600: Building Applications and Solutions with Microsoft 365 Core Services (beta) * Episode 287 | Looking forward to 2019 * Episode 340 | Reflecting on 2019
In this 341st episode, AC sat down with Mark Rackley to catch up on a myriad of topics related to the current state of Microsoft 365 Development.
In this 340th episode, AC & CJ are back together after a busy 5 weeks to catch up on the news and reflect on 2019.
News * Microsoft: 44 million users use one password for all personal accounts * Microsoft to finally shut down to-do list app Wunderlist on May 6, 2020 * Exam MS-600: Building Applications and Solutions with Microsoft 365 Core Services (beta) * Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microsoft in Cloud
Picks AC’s Pick
- Privacy Analysis of Tiktok’s App and Website
CJ’s Pick
- NASA // PAST AND PRESENT DREAMS OF THE FUTURE
In this episode, CJ talks with Nicholas Lane from Raygun about building strong, fast and more resilient software using monitoring and telemetry tools in your software process.
In this episode, CJ flies solo and discusses Microsoft Teams crushing Slack, some news and goings-on in the cloud & discusses the end of life support for Office 2010 that is rapidly approaching.
News * Stack Overflow for Teams * Microsoft Teams hits 20M daily users, up 50% in 4 months — here’s how that compares to rival Slack * Facebook and Microsoft Partnering on Remote Development * GitHub, now under Microsoft, finally releases an iOS app, 11 years after launch * Salesforce will adopt Microsoft’s cloud, as the companies cozy up again * Microsoft cloud in Norway opens with availability of Microsoft Azure * Faster and cheaper: SQL on Azure continues to outshine AWS * Application Gateway Ingress Controller for Azure Kubernetes Service * Support for Office 2010 is ending—get current with Office 365 ProPlus * The new Microsoft Project rolls out to customers worldwide
In this episode, AC & CJ catch up with Ryan Duguid, Chief Evangelist at Nintex.
Guest Ryan Duguid - Chief Evangelist, Nintex
- @pvtrd
- Ryan on LinkedIn
News * GitHub Actions for Azure is now generally available * Sharing the DevOps journey at Microsoft * Azure Backup support for SQL Server 2019 and restore as files * Change feed support now available in preview for Azure Blob Storage
In this episode, AC is joined by MVP Rob Windsor while CJ is offline with his family for a few weeks. Rob joins as a guest host to catch is up on what’s new with Power Platform including product name changes, licensing and a ton of resources.
Guest Rob Windsor - Lead Consultant, PAIT Group
- @robwindsor
- Rob Windsor’s Weblog
- Rob’s YouTube Channel
News * Episode 312 | Inspire Tidbits and Big Cloud Wins * An Office 365 Users Guide to PowerApps and Flow Licensing – October 2019 Edition * Updates to Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, PowerApps and Flow Licensing * Power Apps and Power Automate licensing FAQs * Microsoft PowerApps and Microsoft Flow Licensing Guide * Planning and managing licensing and capacity for Power Apps and Microsoft Flow * Unleashing your organization’s creativity and innovation with a deep dive into the Microsoft Power Platform * Ability to BLOCK self-service purchase capabilities for Power Platform products
Picks AC’s Pick
- NASA finds Neptune moons locked in ‘dance of avoidance’
In this episode, AC and CJ cover some industry news related to containers, briefly cover the new Microsoft 365 Developer Certification, and provide our final thoughts on the recent Microsoft Ignite 2019 conference.
News * Mirantis acquires docker enterprise * Helm 3.0.0 has been released! * NEW! Microsoft 365 training modules & Microsoft 365 Certified: Developer Associate certification * Exclusive: Inside the design of Microsoft’s Hololens 2 * Microsoft Ignite 2019 Recap
Picks AC’s Pick
- Breaking: Private Equity company acquires .Org registry
CJ’s Pick
- The Size of Space
In this Microsoft Ignite 2019 episode, AC sits down with Microsoft’s Karuana Gatimu to learn what new with Microsoft Teams, chat about user adoption and more.
Guest Karuana Gatium - Customer Advocacy Group Lead in Microsoft Teams, Microsoft
- @karuana
News * What’s New in Microsoft Teams | Ignite 2019 * Adoption Resources
In this Microsoft Ignite 2019 episode, AC sits down with Microsoft’s Chris McNulty to learn more about a bold new offering from Microsoft 365: Project Cortex.
Guest Chris McNulty - Sr. Product Manager for Office 365 and SharePoint, Microsoft
- @cmcnulty2000
News * Project Cortex * Ignite 2019 Bonus: The knowledge of Project Cortex * Project Cortex: What’s new and what’s next
In this Microsoft Ignite 2019 short episode, AC sits down with Microsoft’s Mikael Svenson to find out the latest updates with what Microsoft is doing in the search space.
Guest Mikael Svenson - Principal Program Manager, Microsoft FAST/Search
- @mikaelsvenson
In this episode, AC & CJ catch up with AvePoint’s Dux Sy at Microsoft Ignite 2019.
News * Private Channels In Microsoft Teams Are Here! * MyHub
In this episode, AC and CJ discuss some of the big announcements from the Microsoft Ignite 2019 conference in Orlando, Florida.
News * Microsoft at Record High on Controversial Pentagon Contract * How can we improve the tenant admin features O365?
Microsoft Ignite
- Simply unmatched, truly limitless: Announcing Azure Synapse Analytics
- Azure services now run anywhere with new hybrid capabilities: Announcing Azure Arc
- Announcing RPA, enhanced security, no-code virtual agents, and more for Microsoft Power Platform
- From new Microsoft Teams experiences to the all-new Project Cortex—here’s what’s coming soon to Microsoft 365
- In this episode we referred to this as “Knowledge Network”, but it appears Microsoft is referring to it as “Project Cortext.”
Picks AC’s Pick
- Secrets Shared by an African Cichlid Farmer [Tour]
CJ’s Pick
- X-37B breaks record, lands after 780 days in orbit
This week AC and CJ dive into a range of news and posts including insights from James Whittaker on cultural issues at MS that hold it back, MSFT financial results, Microsoft buying Mover & more!
News * Speaking Truth to Power: Reflections on My Career at Microsoft * Google scientists say they’ve achieved ‘quantum supremacy’ breakthrough over classical computers * Google Is Uncovering Hundreds Of Race Conditions Within The Linux Kernel * EDMONTON-BASED STARTUP MOVER ACQUIRED BY MICROSOFT * Ignite 2019 guide to SharePoint, OneDrive, Yammer, Stream and related technology sessions * Microsoft Rallies as Results Beat ‘Virtually Every Metric’ * Earnings Release FY20 Q1 * Microsoft’s open-source election software now has a bug bounty program * October 2019 unified Azure SDK preview * Start building with Azure Cognitive Services for free * Microsoft Azure AI hackathon’s winning projects
Picks AC’s Pick
- CPDoS: Cache Poisoned Denial of Service
CJ’s Pick
- A Christian rock band hid a C64 program on a vinyl album in 1984
Guest Pick: Wictor Wilén
- Shelly
In this 325th episode, AC and CJ share some of their tips for surviving the upcoming Microsoft Ignite conference in Orlando, FL and catch up on some cloud news from Microsoft and AWS.
News * Microsoft + Microsoft launches new open-source projects around Kubernetes and microservices + .NET Core 3.0 concludes the .NET Framework API porting project + Support for Office 2010 is ending—get current with Office 365 ProPlus + Announcing the general availability of Desktop Analytics * AWS + Migration Complete – Amazon’s Consumer Business Just Turned off its Final Oracle Database + Now Available: Bare Metal Arm-Based EC2 Instances
Picks * AC’s Pick + Twitter Analysis: Identifying A Pro-Indonesian Propaganda Bot Network * Guest Pick - Vishwas Lele + Solving Rubik’s Cube with a Robot Hand
This week AC and CJ dive into news from Azure and discuss Hugo, Ignite, Facebook, Slack and more.
News Azure
- Microsoft Unveils Battery-Powered Version of Azure That Fits in a Backpack
- User assignment based billing, default access level and daily billing - Sprint 158 Update
- Azure Sentinel general availability: A modern SIEM reimagined in the cloud
- Announcing Azure Storage Explorer 1.10.0
- Introducing the preview of direct-upload to Azure managed disks
Slack/Teams/Facebook
- Facebook’s Slack Competitor Reaches 3 Million Users, Gets New Features
- SlackO
- Mio
Other Cloud News
- Amazon EKS Windows Container Support now Generally Available
Picks AC’s Picks
- The Family
- Mountie+
CJ’s Pick
- Making of “The Hunt for Red October” - Behind the Scenes
Guest Pick: Jeffery Byrd
- This space geek built a DIY radio telescope for $150
In this episode, AC and CJ sit down with the CEO of CircleCI, Rob Zuber, to talk about the latest feature they’ve added to their service: support for Windows!
Guest Rob Zuber - CTO, CircleCI
- CircleCI
- Rob on Twitter
- Rob on LinkedIn
News * CircleCI * Introducing Windows support on CircleCI * Why CircleCI is a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Cloud-Native Continuous Integration Tools, Q3 2019: speed, scale, security, and compliance * DevSecOps and CircleCI orbs: secure your CI/CD pipeline
Picks AC’s Picks
- The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win 5th Anniversary Edition
CJ’s Pick
- All I want to do is chill and play ‘Flight Simulator’
Rob’s Pick
- Rick Beato
In this episode, AC and CJ find a few cloud cost-cutting and competitive news bits in a slow news week, share some updates on plans for Ignite 2019 and a few picks.
News * ShareGate Overcast * Google to invest €3 billion expanding European data centres * Inside Bill’s Brain: Decoding Bill Gates * Could Microsoft Teams be the end of Slack?
Picks AC’s Pick
- GitHub: Jay Phelps
CJ’s Pick
- Oops
In this 321st episode, AC and CJ get you caught up on some new price reductions and features from Azure, a Microsoft acquisition and a new tool for SharePoint developers.
News * Azure + Azure Kubernetes Service is now available in Azure Government + Upgrade all Kubernetes 1.10.x clusters to a supported version by October 25, 2019 + Azure CDN feature updates] + Data transfer from Azure Origins to Azure CDN from Microsoft is now free of charge + We’re making Azure Archive Storage better with new lower pricing + Updates to Azure DevOps and App Service improvements + Azure Function Consumption plan for Linux is now available + General availability of user-assigned managed identities for App Service and Azure Functions * GitHub + Microsoft acquires code-analysis platform vendor Semmle * Office 365 + Announcing availability of an updated Page Diagnostics Tool for SharePoint
Picks * AC’s Pick + Stripped-Out Tesla Model S Beats Porsche Taycan by 20 Seconds at Nurburgring * CJ’s Pick + From Communism To Coding: How Daniel Dines Of $7 Billion UiPath Became The First Bot Billionaire
In this episode, AC & CJ discuss a recent blog post AC published that’s received a lot of attention, both outside & inside Microsoft. What is it? His summer 2019 wish list for the SharePoint Framework.
Banter * Stripe Corporate Credit Card * Trump adviser asked why Microsoft won’t help the government spy on people according to new book
News * Misc + NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million * Microsoft + Wunderlist founder offers to buy back app from Microsoft + Sync Up - A OneDrive Podcast * Andrew Connell: SharePoint Framework Summer 2019 Wish List
Picks * AC’s Pick + Smarter Every Day 223: How did NASA Steer the Saturn V? * CJ’s Pick + PowerToys * Listener James Duncan Pick + Let’s deploy to production
In this episode, while CJ travels Denmark, he catches up on AC’s status with Hurricane Dorian and discusses some recent news in the cloud space!
News * Microsoft acquires cloud migration startup Movere to help companies transition to Azure * Latency is the new currency of the Cloud: Announcing 31 new Azure edge sites * Azure Cost Management updates – August 2019 * Beyond the printed form: Unlocking insights from documents with Form Recognizer * A Breakthrough for A.I. Technology: Passing an 8th-Grade Science Test * Slack plunges after posting first earnings report since going public * A huge database of Facebook users’ phone numbers found online
Picks * AC’s Picks + Announcing Graph.Community - Extending the Microsoft Graph SDK * CJ’s Picks + Porsche’s Taycan is a sensational six-figure electric sports car
AC and CJ discuss botnets, Azure, Microsoft Graph, Windows, shells and more in this action and news packed episode. Tune in for some great picks and remember, if you love the show please leave us a review on iTunes or Google Play!
News * Cops Hijack Botnet, Remotely Wipe Malware From 850,000 Computers * Raygun + The dark art of prioritization and more: Tech leaders weigh in on software quality + We had issues with Monzo on 29th July. Here’s what happened, and what we did to fix it. * A chip made with carbon nanotubes, not silicon, marks a computing milestone * Microsoft Azure available from new cloud regions in Switzerland * Microsoft 365 + Upcoming deprecation of Discovery Service API + Breaking changes: Application and ServicePrincipal API updates in Microsoft Graph beta + Microsoft Graph SDK for JavaScript – 2.0.0 + New Microsoft 365 E5 subscription with EMS now available for developers * exFAT in the Linux kernel? Yes! * Introducing nushell
Picks * AC’s Picks + Vinpok Taptek Thinnest Wireless Mac Mechanical Keyboard * CJ’s Pick + Report: U.S. Nuclear System Relies On Outdated Technology Such As Floppy Disks
In this episode, AC & CJ record a live show straight from the SharePoint Fest conference in Seattle, Washington. After covering some of the news, they dive into a feature exploration in Azure Dev Ops.
News * Azure + Announcing the general availability of Azure Ultra Disk Storage + Improving Azure Virtual Machines resiliency with Project Tardigrade + Announcing the preview of GitHub Actions for Azure + Azure Sphere’s customized Linux-based OS + Announcing the general availability of Python support in Azure Functions * Microsoft Graph + Microsoft Graph Sample Data Packs Now Available in Office 365 Developer Program + People Picker component now available in the Microsoft Graph Toolkit * Vultr
Picks * AC’s Picks + Someone Filmed A Modern IndyCar Race With A Camera From 1968 And It’s So Much Better * CJ’s Pick + How Flat Earthers Nearly Derailed a Space Photo Book * Listener Pick: Rob Windsor + HOW A ‘NULL’ LICENSE PLATE LANDED ONE HACKER IN TICKET HELL
In this episode, AC and CJ discuss the new Microsoft Cloud Show website they launched this week!
News * HUGO * AC: Moved This Site to Hugo * AC: Hosting Hugo on Azure * AC: Automated Hugo Releases With Azure Devops * Microsoft: Static website hosting in Azure Storage * Microsoft: Tutorial - Use Azure CDN to enable a custom domain with SSL for a static website
AC and CJ are back as a dynamic duo this week’s to cover the recent goings-on in Azure, Office 365 and more.
News * Azure + Advancing Microsoft Azure reliability + Azure Container Registry—Support for scheduling in Container Registry Tasks + Azure Monitor for containers with Prometheus now in preview + Azure Blob lifecycle management is now available in all Azure regions + We’re making Azure Archive Storage better with new lower pricing + Announcing general availability for the Azure Security Center for IoT + Azure Cost Management updates – July 2019 + Introducing Azure Dedicated Host + New Analytics reports and Azure Boards app available for Slack * Office 365 + New to Microsoft 365 in July—updates to Azure AD, Microsoft Teams, Outlook, and more + Microsoft Graph Toolkit (preview) + Microsoft will drop Skype for Business Online on July 31, 2021
Picks * AC’s Picks + Inside a scam call center + Smart Home Weather Station * CJ’s Pick + APOLLO 11 COMMAND MODULE FOIL
In this episode, AC sits down with Steve Steuart, CTO with Astadia, to explore the growing business and Microsoft’s interest in migrating companies from mainframes to the cloud!
Guest Steve Steuart, CTO, Astadia
News * Azure is the new mainframe | Azure Friday * Inspire: Super-charge your Microsoft Azure business through datacenter transformation and workload migrations * IBM Mainframe to Microsoft Azure Reference Architecture * Mainframe Modernization: The Balanced Path to Success * Astadia Teams Up with Micro Focus and Microsoft to Deploy “FASTPaaS” to the Cloud
Picks * AC’s Pick + Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight * Steve Steuart’s Pick + RetroPie * Listener Pick: John Hollenberger + Telescopes in space for even sharper images of black holes
This week CJ flies solo and recaps some of the goings on in the cloud world, including amazon, slack, azure office 365 and more! Short, sharp and to the point!
News * Cloud Wars + Google revealed that its cloud business is on run rate of more than $8 billion, and it plans to triple the size of its salesforce + Amazon reports $63.4 billion in Q2 2019 revenue: AWS up 37%, subscriptions up 37%, and ‘other’ up 37% * Slack + Brainstorm Tech 2019: Slack CEO Sees Microsoft Having Trouble Competing on Quality + Slack’s new desktop app loads 33 percent faster and uses less RAM * Azure + Azure publishes guidance for secure cloud adoption by governments + Expanding the Azure Stack partner ecosystem + Microsoft-owned LinkedIn is moving to the public cloud, and guess which platform it’s choosing? * Office 365 + German state bans the use of Office 365 tools in its schools due to privacy concerns (Update) + Microsoft Office 365 web-based e-mail is leaking out IP addresses in e-mails + Phishers Use Fake Office 365 Alerts to Compromise Admin Accounts * Cortana + New Approaches to Home and Xbox Voice Commands Roll Out to Xbox Insiders
Picks * CJ’s Pick + NASA is just giving away an Apollo-era Saturn rocket to anyone who wants it Guest Pick: Michael Jonsson + Japan Just Landed a Spacecraft on an Asteroid, And The Photos Are Nuts
This week AC and CJ discuss a bunch of cloud news from Microsoft, Facebook and a wrap up from Microsoft’s partner conference Inspire. Naturally they talk about the Apollo 11 anniversary and of course some picks. Enjoy!
Banter * Apollo 11 In Real Time
News * Microsoft + Microsoft invests $1 billion in OpenAI to develop AI technologies on Azure + Microsoft to pay $26 million to settle probe into Hungarian kickback scheme + Microsoft, AT&T sign cloud deal worth more than $2 billion * Other + Microsoft says its Teams app is bigger than Slack and growing faster + Workplace, Facebook’s service for business teams, is raising its prices for the first time since launch * Microsoft Inspire 2019 + Microsoft Wows Inspire Crowd With Language-translating HoloLens Hologram + Azure Lighthouse + Azure Migration Program + New Program for Business Applications ISVs + We need citizen devs, cries Microsoft – but pricey new licensing plans for PowerApps might put paid to that + Microsoft Power Platform business model and licensing updates + An Office 365 Users Guide to PowerApps and Flow Licensing – October 2019 Edition
Picks * AC’s Pick + Unpublished video takes you inside the cockpit of a B-2 stealth bomber while it’s in flight * CJ’s Pick + A moonlit tribute to a moon landing icon
In this episode, AC and CJ look at what’s new in Microsoft Application Insights JavaScript v2 SDK after a look at some recent cloud news.
Banter * Zoom Zero Day: 4+ Million Webcams & maybe an RCE? Just get them to visit your website! * MICROSOFT’S NEW LONDON STORE IS BIG, BOLD, AND BRITISH
News * Microsoft News + Microsoft wants to start marketing Microsoft 365 as a single product in its new fiscal year + Microsoft is reorging its field sales team, laying off some ‘Modern Desktop’ salespeople + Microsoft stirs suspicions by adding telemetry files to security-only update * Microsoft Azure News + Previewing Azure SDKs following new Azure SDK API Standards + What is Azure Data Share Preview? * Microsoft Application Insights v2 + GitHub: Microsoft Application Insights SDK for JavaScript
Picks * AC’s Pick + Nintendo Switch Lite is a smaller, cheaper Switch built exclusively for handheld play * CJ’s Pick + RoboKiller * Guest Pick: Michael Jonsson + Cloud connected IoT Weather Balloon
This week AC and CJ discuss goings on in the cloud world with Microsoft, Azure, StackOverflow, OneDrive and more. They discuss moving the cloud show site to a new platform.
Banter * Static website hosting in Azure Storage
News * The Evolving Infrastructure of .NET Core * Introducing OneDrive community samples GitHub repository * Azure Data Box Heavy is now generally available * How the Seattle Seahawks use data to win — on and off the field * Scoop: Bipartisan senators want Big Tech to put a price on your data * British Airways faces record £183m fine for data breach * Sneaky fingerprinting script in Microsoft ad slips onto StackOverflow, against site policy * Azure DevOps adds new features including bi-directional traceability between Releases and Jira issues
Picks * AC’s Pick + 8 Days to the Moon and Back * CJ’s Pick + Bitcoin mining on an Apollo Guidance Computer: 10.3 seconds per hash
In this episode, AC & CJ cover the latest news from Microsoft Azure on new services introduced in preview as well as existing elements that have been promoted to generally available!
News * Azure + Previews - Event-driven analytics with Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 - New developer portal in API Management is now in preview - Azure Monitor for containers - updates to live data settings + GA - Announcing the general availability of Azure premium files - Azure Container Registry is now generally available in South Africa North - Application Insights Availability in Central US Region - View linked GitHub activity from the Kanban board - Azure Monitor Log Analytics UI updates - Azure Monitor for VMs is now available in West US 2 * Random: + Confirmed: NASA Has Been Hacked - pika
Picks * AC’s Pick + NASA chooses Saturn’s moon Titan as its next destination * CJ’s Pick + Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now for $35 * Listener Pick: + The Apollo DSKY Luminescent Display!!!
AC and CJ discuss the news of the week, Raygun is giving away a prize pack for listeners and we nerd out about more Apollo goodness.
News * MICROSOFT WINDOWS DESIGN EVOLUTION * Announcing the preview of Microsoft Azure Bastion * Announcing availability of Microsoft cloud datacenter regions in the Middle East * Virtual machine scale set insights from Azure Monitor * Postman raises $50 million to grow its API development platform * Microsoft acquires Pull Panda for code-review collaboration
Picks * AC’s Pick + The Long Rise of Robert Wickens * CJ’s Pick + In ‘Truth Behind the Moon Landing,’ Former Astronaut Leland Melvin Helps Debunk Conspiracy Theories * Listener Pick: Ryan House + Autonomous soaring – AI on the fly
In this 307th episode, AC & CJ catch up on the latest news in the cloud, including some stormy news!
Stormy & Cloudy News * Devs slam Microsoft for injecting tech-support scam ads into their Windows Store apps * Google Cloud Networking Incident #19009 * Salesforce to buy Tableau for $15.7B, betting on business data in deal for Seattle tech mainstay * Apple is now the privacy-as-a-service company * The consumer version of BBM is shutting down on May 31 * Microsoft, Oracle team up on cloud services in jab at Amazon * GitLab’s journey from Azure to GCP * Microsoft + Secure your journey to the cloud with free DMARC monitoring for Office 365 + Hyperscale service tier for up to 100 TB + Partnering with the community to make Kubernetes easier + Hands-On with iCloud for Windows 10 + Slack for Outlook
Picks * AC’s Pick + Couple wins millions using lottery loophole * CJ’s Pick + NASA is opening the space station to $35,000-a-night visits. A tourist who paid Russia $30 million to get there a decade ago says it’s a ‘seismic shift.’ * Listener Pick: Rob Windsor + Stitch: The Tinder for the 50+ Crowd
This week CJ sits down with Bill Baer from Microsoft to talk all about his history with SharePoint, what is new and exciting from SPC and Microsoft’s latest moves in the enterprise search space.
AC and CJ dive into some recent news and events then go deep on AC’s home power plant and future solar and battery plans.
News * LinkedIn Lets SSL Certs Lapse (Again) * Enabling innovation and opportunity on the Intelligent Edge * Hewlett Packard Enterprise to buy supercomputer maker Cray in $1.30 billion deal * Microsoft Edge Insider for macOS
Power Geekout Links * Tesla Powerwall * Sense
Picks * AC’s Pick + Is SpaceX’s Raptor engine the king of rocket engines? * CJ’s Pick + The LEGO ‘Eagle’ has landed: NASA Apollo 11 Lunar Lander revealed * Listener Pick: Ivan Wilson + Darknet Diaries: Episode 13: Carna Botnet
In this episode, AC & CJ discuss the Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas that was held the previous week.
News
- New SharePoint home sites headline Microsoft 365 innovations for the intelligent workplace
- OneDrive announcements – SharePoint Conference 2019
- New updates and capabilities for developers at SharePoint Conference
Picks
AC’s Pick
- The Race to Develop the Moon
CJ’s Picks
- Steven Sinofsky’s Uber story
Listener Pick: Alan Reed
- 13 minutes to the moon
This week we sit down with Jessica Deen, a cloud advocate at Microsoft, to talk about how Microsoft is working with the community to build trust, support and awareness of all the good open source things MS is doing in the cloud.
Show Guest
- Jessica Dean, Sr Cloud Advocate, Microsoft
Banter
- Microsoft Teams Virtual Summit
- BiFocal Podcast
News
- Microsoft Launches New Identity Management Tool on Bitcoin Blockchain
- Microsoft SharePoint servers are under attack
Picks
AC’s Picks
- Armchair Expert Podcast
- NASA NEEDS $1.6 BILLION MORE TO SEND A HUMAN TO THE MOON
CJ’s Picks
- Apollo rocks showed how the moon was made, and now they’re about to solve more mysteries
Listener Pick: Brian Laws
- EsberGatesSQLServerCommercial.wmv
In this episode, AC and CJ look back at the Microsoft Build conference this past week, more news including the Azure DNS outage last week.
Banter
- SharePoint Framework v1.8.2 (and v1.8.1) - What’s in the latest Update(s) of SPFx?
- Mastering the SharePoint Framework - Sprint 16 adds SPFx with Teams, SPA’s and Tons of Updates
News
- Steve Singh stepping down as Docker CEO
Microsoft Build
- Microsoft Build
- Microsoft Graph
- Microsoft Graph data connect and Microsoft Search hit general availability
- GitHub: Microsoft Graph Toolkit
- Microsoft Authentication Libraries for .NET and JavaScript are now Generally Available!
- Azure / Windows Development / Core
- Microsoft is bringing Visual Studio to the browser, unveils .NET 5, and launches ML.NET 1.0
- GitHub: React Native Windows
- Windows 10 Is Getting a Built-in Linux Kernel
- Microsoft unveils Windows Terminal, a new command line app for Windows
- Build 2019: Microsoft, Red Hat develop open-source service for auto-scaling serverless containers on Kubernetes
- Build 2019: Microsoft promises new ‘conversational engine’ to make virtual assistants, including Cortana, more useful
- Office 365
- Microsoft Teams Platform Enhancements for Build 2019
- Microsoft Build 2019: Fluid Framework promises a more collaborative Web
Google I/O
- Google I/O 2019: What’s new with Chrome and the Web
Picks
AC’s Pick
- No compromises CloudFlare
CJ’s Picks
- Why American Farmers Are Hacking Their Tractors With Ukrainian Firmware
Guest Pick: Elaine Van Bergen
- New Zealanders have the world’s sexiest accent, study says
In this episode, CJ covers some of the latest news in the cloud while AC sat down to talk to Microsoft MVP Matt Wade about his popular Periodic Table of Office 365. Learn this history behind this popular resource & where it’s going in the future!
Guest
- Matt Wade, JumpTo365 & Microsoft MVP
News
- The productivity pit: how Slack is ruining work
- Slack files to go public, revealing $400 million in revenue and $139 million in losses
- Cloud database removed after exposing details on 80 million US households
- The Most Valuable Company (for Now) Is Having a Nadellaissance
- Microsoft adds more AI, mixed-reality, IoT services to its Azure line-up
- Tinder’s move to Kubernetes
- The periodic table of Office 365
- The table of Azure Cognitive Services
- JumpTo365 Pro Trial
Picks
AC’s Pick
- The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - but Some Don’t
CJ’s Picks
- NASA was sold faulty rocket parts for almost 20 years
Matt Wade’s Picks
- Master of Her Domain… Name
- What the FBI Files Reveal About Hillary Clinton’s Email Server
In this milestone, 300th episode, AC and CJ have a little fun with some special interviews. Who did we get to join us? You’ll have to tune in to hear who graced us in episode 300!
News
- When SpaceX Tried to Buy Missiles From Russia: Vodka and a Run-Around
- Zoom pops 81% in Nasdaq debut
- Microsoft beats expectations with $30.6B in revenue as Azure’s growth continues
Picks
AC’s Pick
- Corey Quinn Trolls #GoogleNext19
CJ’s Picks
- Apollo 17 on-board footage showing speedy use in experiment.
Listener Pick
- IoT Research @ Princeton
In this episode, AC sits down with Microsoft’s Tyler Lenig to talk about Microsoft Graph Data Connect.
Guest
- Tyler Lenig, Program Manager, Microsoft
News
- M365 Dev Podcast - The State of SPFx
- Microsoft Azure
- Price reductions for Azure Container Instances are now available
- General availability: Azure Kubernetes Service in South Central US, Korea South, and Korea Central
- Azure Policy for AKS is now in private preview
- Home realm discovery during sign-in for Microsoft 365 services
- More sign-in options for Microsoft accounts in Microsoft 365
- Logic Apps is now available in US Gov Virginia region
- Microsoft Graph
- Microsoft Graph data connect (preview)
- Microsoft Graph Training Module - Microsoft Graph Data Connect
- Microsoft Graph: The API for Microsoft 365 - BRK3322
- THR3142 - Developing insight applications with Office 365 data and Microsoft Azure
Picks
AC’s Pick
- The Smart Money: How the World’s Best Sports Bettors Beat the Bookies Out of Millions
Guest Pick: Tyler’s Pick
- Heartbreak didn’t change Tony Bennett. Neither will his greatest triumph.
This week AC & CJ got together to cover some news and updates around Microsoft Azure.
News
- MSGraph
- Announcing Microsoft Graph Postman Collections
- How the Tech Giants Make Their Billions
- Microsoft Azure
- New tool available to migrate from classic monitoring alerts
- General availability: Azure Log Analytics in France Central, Korea Central, North Europe
- Azure Monitor Log Analytics is now available in Azure China
- Public preview: Azure Log Analytics in CENTRAL US, EAST US 2, EAST ASIA, WEST US, & SOUTH Central US
- Azure Functions Premium plan
- Public preview: Windows Server 2019 container support in Azure App Service
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster autoscaler is in preview
- General availability: Azure Kubernetes Service in France Central
- Microsoft Azure portal March 2019 update
- Microsoft Azure portal April 2019 update
Picks
AC’s Pick
- One, Ten, One Hundred
CJ’s Pick
- Soyuz docking with ISS
In this 297th episode, AC and CJ bid farewell to our loyal listeners, but we leave you with one last bit of news & picks. Thank you to our sponsors and long-time, loyal listeners!
News
-
Azure
- Azure Data Studio: An Open Source GUI Editor for Postgres
Microsoft + Microsoft takes control of 99 domains operated by Iranian state hackers + https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsofts-new-chromium-based-edge-leaks-as-insider-rollout-nears/ + TYPESCRIPT’S QUIET, STEADY RISE AMONG PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES + Who Owns The World’s Top Websites? + Microsoft launches previews of Windows Virtual Desktop and Defender ATP for Mac
Office + Microsoft resurrects Clippy and then brutally kills him off again
StackOverflow + The Next CEO of Stack Overflow
HP/Autonomy + Hewlett-Packard sues British entrepreneur in biggest ever UK fraud trial after claiming he inflated value of his Autonomy software firm before selling it to them for £8billion
Picks
AC’s Pick
- The Man in the High Castle
- Cluetrain at 20
CJ’s Pick
- The Risk of Apollo: Astronauts Swap Harrowing Tales from NASA’s Moon Shots
- Released Records
Index, Declassified D-21 Drones Program Records - March 21, 2019
Guest Pick: Andy Huneycutt
- SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has done the ‘real’ Iron Man several favors
In this 296th episode, AC and CJ sit down with Microsoft MVP & RD Troy Hunt at the MVP Global Summit in Redmond, Washington. We covered personal security, data breaches as well as building and growing a cloud-native service that has to serve deal with over 7 billion breaches.
Show Guest
- Troy Hunt, MVP, Microsoft Regional Director
Picks
AC’s Pick
- ThanosJS
CJ’s Pick
- Formula 1: Drive to Survive