Cloud Conversations

Nate Chamberlain returns to Cloud Conversations this week to chat with Azure and Peter about the release of the second edition of his Microsoft Teams MS-700 exam guide book which he co-wrote with Peter.  We also talk about:  

•  Nate's cats Lia and Baxter 

•  Imposter syndrome 

•  The importance of certification 

•  The writing process 

•  Community  

Connect with Nate online:  

Twitter: https://twitter.com/chambernateLinkedIn: 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nchambe/

Website: https://natechamberlain.com/2nd edition MS-700 Managing Microsoft Teams exam guide: https://www.amazon.com/MS-700-Managin...

Nate's FREE collaboration course: https://www.natethetrainer.com/course... 

Nate's books: https://www.amazon.com/Nate-Chamberla...

Ståle Hansen is CEO & Principal Cloud Architect at Cloudway, a Public Speaker, and a Microsoft MVP.  In this episode, Ståle joins Kat and Peter to discuss:  

•  Digital Wellbeing 

•  Microsoft Viva & the Viva Explorers 

•  His career journey & the changing face of technology 

•  Office 365 for IT Pros 

•  Community  

Connect with Ståle online:  

Twitter: https://twitter.com/StaleHansen

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stalehansen/

Digital wellbeing YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmD8...

Jessica White is a Technical Architect, Speaker, and a Microsoft MVP. In this episode, Jess joins Kat and Peter to discuss: 

• The DDD East Midlands Conference 

• Allyship and mentoring 

• Women in tech 

• Crohn's disease and living with an invisible disability 

• Neuro science, and social learning for children with autism 

Connect with Jess online: 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/JessPWhite 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-w... 

DDD East Midlands: https://www.dddeastmidlands.com/ 

Website: https://jesswhite.co.uk/ 

Follow us on Twitter: 

Azure: https://twitter.com/amac_ncheese 

Kat: https://twitter.com/GreenanKat 

Pete: https://twitter.com/M365Rising 

Ru: https://twitter.com/rucam365 

The show: https://twitter.com/CloudCons365 

Connect with us on LinkedIn: 

Azure: https://www.linkedin.com/in/azuremcfa... 

Kat: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kat-green... 

Pete: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterrising 

Ru: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rlcam 

Check out our blogs: 

Kat: https://collabwithkat.com 

Pete: https://www.peterrising.co.uk 

Ru: https://campbell.scot 

Buy Pete's books! 

MS-500 Exam Guide (UK): https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1838983120 

MS-700 Exam Guide (UK): https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1801071004 

MS-500 Exam Guide (USA): https://www.amazon.com/dp/1838983120 

MS-700 Exam Guide (USA): https://www.amazon.com/dp/1801071004

On this week's episode, Peter meets up in person with Kevin McDonnell from the GreyHatBeardPrincess podcast.  During a walk around the grounds of a beautiful hotel, Kev and Peter talk about:

Follow Kev at: 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevmcdonk

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevmcdonnell/

Blog: https://www.mcd79.com/

GreyHatBeardPrincess Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/c/GreyHatBeard/videos

Follow us on Twitter:  

Azure: https://twitter.com/amac_ncheese

Kat: https://twitter.com/GreenanKat

Pete: https://twitter.com/M365Rising

Ru: https://twitter.com/rucam365

The show: https://twitter.com/CloudCons365

Connect with us on LinkedIn

Azure: https://www.linkedin.com/in/azuremcfa...

Kat: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kat-green...

Peter: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterrising/

Ru: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rlcam/

Nikki Chapple joins Kat and Azure in this episode to talk about...   

•  What is Teams sprawl 

•  How tech has changed over 30 years

•  Speaking and networking events 

•  Music - Duran Duran and raving

Connect with Nikki online:  

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChappleNikki

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikkichapple/

Blog: https://nikkichapple.com/ 

User group speaking event - https://www.mn365.org

Follow us on Twitter:  

Azure: https://twitter.com/amac_ncheese

Kat: https://twitter.com/GreenanKat

Pete: https://twitter.com/M365Rising

Ru: https://twitter.com/rucam365

The show: https://twitter.com/CloudCons365 

Connect with us on LinkedIn:  

Azure: https://www.linkedin.com/in/azuremcfa... 

Kat: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kat-green... 

Pete: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterrising

Ru: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rlcam 

Check out our blogs:  

Kat: https://collabwithkat.com

Pete: https://www.peterrising.co.uk

Ru: https://campbell.scot 

Buy Pete's books!  

MS-500 Exam Guide (UK): https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1838983120

MS-700 Exam Guide (UK): https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1801071004

MS-500 Exam Guide (USA): https://www.amazon.com/dp/1838983120

MS-700 Exam Guide (USA): https://www.amazon.com/dp/1801071004

Zoe Wilson joins Kat and Azure in this episode to talk about...   

• Enabling Microsoft Viva 

• Mentoring 

• Women in Tech 

• Being an individual contributor vs leader of a team  

Connect with Zoe online:  

Twitter: https://twitter.com/SharePoint_Zoe

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoe-wilson-uk/

Women in Teams: https://twitter.com/WomenInTeams | https://t.co/ZhHIAMX0pP 

Follow us on Twitter:  

Azure: https://twitter.com/amac_ncheese

Kat: https://twitter.com/GreenanKat

Pete: https://twitter.com/M365Rising

Ru: https://twitter.com/rucam365

The show: https://twitter.com/CloudCons365 

Joe Anich is a Senior Incident Response Customer Engineer with Microsoft, helping customers who are dealing with cyber security incidents such as breaches and compromise.  Trevor Stuart is a Senior Cloud Solution Architect II with Microsoft, focused on Azure security and identity, delivering solutions that are well-architected and secure by design.

The guys have just released their SC-200 exam guide, so joined Ru and Azure to talk about...

• SC-200 exam tips and advice

• Working as architects and incident responders at Microsoft

• How to study for the exam

• Improvements to Microsoft 365 Defender over time

• Getting over the fact that, yes, Azure's name really is Azure

Connect with Joe online:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/trk_rdy

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-anich

Connect with Trevor online: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevorgstuart

LinkedIn: 

Buy their book!

UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1803231890

USA: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1803231890

Follow us on Twitter:

Azure: https://twitter.com/amac_ncheese

Kat: https://twitter.com/GreenanKat

Pete: https://twitter.com/M365Rising

Ru: https://twitter.com/rucam365

The show: https://twitter.com/CloudCons365

Connect with us on LinkedIn:

Azure: https://www.linkedin.com/in/azuremcfarlane

Kat: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kat-greenan-ba212a18

Pete: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterrising

Ru: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rlcam

Check out our blogs:

Azure: 

Kat: https://collabwithkat.com

Pete: https://www.peterrising.co.uk

Ru: https://campbell.scot

Buy Pete's books!

MS-500 Exam Guide (UK): https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1838983120

MS-700 Exam Guide (UK): https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1801071004

MS-500 Exam Guide (USA): https://www.amazon.com/dp/1838983120

MS-700 Exam Guide (USA): https://www.amazon.com/dp/1801071004

Ami Diamond joins Kat and Pete in this episode to talk about... 

• Setting up his SharePoint Wizard YouTube channel

• Contributing to the community

• Favourite Microsoft 365 features

Connect with Ami online:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ami_diamond

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ami-diamond-70a798b/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvrRgeyYaQg9hkGNEpzjEbg

Follow us on Twitter:

Azure: https://twitter.com/amac_ncheese

Kat: https://twitter.com/GreenanKat

Pete: https://twitter.com/M365Rising

Ru: https://twitter.com/rucam365

The show: https://twitter.com/CloudCons365

Connect with us on LinkedIn:

Azure: https://www.linkedin.com/in/azuremcfarlane

Kat: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kat-greenan-ba212a18

Pete: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterrising

Ru: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rlcam

Check out our blogs:

Azure: 

Kat: https://collabwithkat.com

Pete: https://www.peterrising.co.uk

Ru: https://campbell.scot

Buy Pete's books!

MS-500 Exam Guide (UK): https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1838983120

MS-700 Exam Guide (UK): https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1801071004

MS-500 Exam Guide (USA): https://www.amazon.com/dp/1838983120

MS-700 Exam Guide (USA): https://www.amazon.com/dp/1801071004

Matt Zorich is a Principal Cyber Security Operations Specialist who runs the Learn Sentinel blog and is currently taking followers through the '365 days of KQL' hashtag on Twitter.  He's a KQL guru and sharing his wisdom with the community in a big way.  He joins Ru and Pete in this episode to talk about...

• How 365 days of KQL started

• What makes Sentinel so valuable

• Do you need Sentinel if you have Microsoft 365 Defender with advanced hunting?

• Recommendations for folks getting into Sentinel / KQL - advice, lessons learned, etc

• The gateway/path from "normal" IT to security specialist?

Connect with Matt online:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/reprise_99

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewzorich 

Blog: https://learnsentinel.blog/blog

GitHub: https://github.com/reprise99

Follow us on Twitter:

Azure: https://twitter.com/amac_ncheese

Kat: https://twitter.com/GreenanKat

Pete: https://twitter.com/M365Rising

Ru: https://twitter.com/rucam365

The show: https://twitter.com/CloudCons365

Connect with us on LinkedIn:

Azure: https://www.linkedin.com/in/azuremcfarlane

Kat: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kat-greenan-ba212a18

Pete: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterrising

Ru: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rlcam

Check out our blogs:

Azure: 

Kat: https://collabwithkat.com

Pete: https://www.peterrising.co.uk

Ru: https://campbell.scot

Buy Pete's books!

MS-500 Exam Guide (UK): https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1838983120

MS-700 Exam Guide (UK): https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1801071004

MS-500 Exam Guide (USA): https://www.amazon.com/dp/1838983120

MS-700 Exam Guide (USA): https://www.amazon.com/dp/1801071004

Pragati Jain - Pragati is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, Event organiser, Manager at the Power BI UK User group, conference speaker and blogger. On this week's episode we chatted about:

- What it's like organising an event

- Feature updates in the Power Platform

- Time management and community contributions