In Episode 176, Ben and Scott dive into the April announcements around feature updates to Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Threat Protection, and Azure Active Directory.

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- Welcome to Episode 176 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast, recorded live on May 1, 2020. This is the show about Microsoft 365 and Azure from the perspective of IT pros and end users. Where we discuss a topic or recent news and how it relates to you. In this episode, Scott and Ben discuss some of the recent news from the month of April, including some upcoming conferences, Azure AD Security, and Microsoft Teams.

- I feel like April was never going to end.

- Well, it has, I mean, it's still might not have, but officially on the calendar it has. In our brains and collective consciousness it may have not.

- Yes, but the good news is, at least here in Florida, we are slowly starting to open back up. The question is, are you going to go out and do anything, now that it's opened back up?

- Well, we chose to open on our day of highest deaths. So my personal approach is to stay home a little bit while longer.

- You've already had it, you're immune.

- We'll see, I'm thinking about paying the 120 bucks to get the test, just to find out.

- Are you just to find out if you had it or not?

- Yeah, some of the labs are starting to get it. So Quest has one.

- Got it, interesting.

- And less little antibody test.

- I saw the mall, town center is going to open Monday, I think is what I saw. So yeah, stores, restaurants, I think they said are gonna open, but they have to be at 20% capacity. I think it was or 25% capacity.

- Yep, 25 here.

- So, we'll see. We haven't gone out and done a whole lot. We've started to see a few more people. I'm getting kind of stir-crazy and I don't know, like, I feel like we've flattened the curve and we don't need to talk about this too long 'cause we have other topics to talk about. But it's like at what point in time do you just have to start going out? Because obviously vaccines are gonna be a long way off. It feel like the curve is starting to flatten out. So I'm kind of getting close to that approach of, "All right, it's time to start getting out, "seeing some people doing some normal activities again." So yeah, my two cents.

- Slowly but surely, like get back out, see family, things like that, where you can and where it makes sense.

- And that's what we did. My wife's family came over the other day and they didn't even come inside. We actually just sat outside at the picnic tables, in the park next to our house. And it was her sister's birthday, so it was fun. It was fun to see them, we hadn't seen them in like a month. So all good, but there's some other events coming up now too, that are free. So there's some silver lining in all of this. There are some free events coming up that people can participate in.

- Nice, what type of free events are coming?

- Yes, what type of free events? So as an IT pro and as an IT pro-ish podcast, one may or may not appeal to a bunch of our audience, but Build, I have never been to a Build. This year I'm going to Build Scott,