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