In Episode 169, Ben and Scott take a break from the cloud and talk about the current situation with COVID-19 and how it's impacting many of us with work from home policies that have been put in place to maintain social distancing.

Sponsors

* ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs

* Opsgility - Your Cloud enablement partner to help guide your organization through all phases of Cloud migration and adoption

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Show Notes

* Get Your Mass Gatherings or Large Community Events Ready

* Global Azure and COVID-19

* Current crowds at the Magic Kingdom for tonight's showing of Happily Ever After... #DisneyWorld

* Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19): The epidemic and the challenges.

* Suddenly working at home? We’ve done it for 22 years—and have advice

* 8 Tips To Make Working From Home Work For You

* Custom Teams/Zoom backgrounds

* stevesi/backgrounds

* MSAdministrator/awesome-video-chat-backgrounds

* Found some more video chat backgrounds - @SoniaCuff

* Software

* duet Display

* Luna Display

About the sponsors

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Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance,