The Ignite summary continues (check out Part 1 for the start) as Kevin, Al and Garry cover their thoughts on Ignite 2021 (Autumn Edition) and pick the news that caught their attention most including Power Apps licensing (good news for a change), Viva licensing (more good news!), Container Apps and a few returning surprises (possibly less good news).

Book of News - https://news.microsoft.com/ignite-november-2021-book-of-news/

• PowerApps per use licensing https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/powerplatform/2021/11/02/new-power-platform-capabilities-announced-at-microsoft-ignite/
• Viva - Microsoft Viva is now generally available to help transform your hybrid work experience - Microsoft 365 Blog
• Viva roadmaps from Susan Hanley -  https://twitter.com/susanhanley/status/1455669594320945164?s=21
•  Container Apps https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/apps-on-azure/introducing-azure-container-apps-a-serverless-container-service/ba-p/2867265?ocid=AID3042118
• Open AI Service https://blogs.microsoft.com/ai/new-azure-openai-service/
• Migrate SP workflows to power autoMate - thanks Resa  Dorraini !https://twitter.com/rezadorrani/status/1456062036232871936?s=21

The worst news https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-power-apps-microsoft-access-security-mobility-new-experiences/

Kevin, Al and Garry cover their thoughts on Ignite 2021 (Autumn Edition) and pick the news that caught their attention most including Loop, Context IQ, Mesh for Teams, Connected Spaces for Dynamics 365 and more. We continue to the chat in part 2. 

Book of News - https://news.microsoft.com/ignite-november-2021-book-of-news/

Some of the links below are repeated but they are duplicated for anyone who wants to click into a specific subject.

• Microsoft Loop - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2021/11/02/whats-new-in-microsoft-365how-were-empowering-everyone-for-a-new-world-of-hybrid-work/
• Context IQ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2021/11/02/whats-new-in-microsoft-365how-were-empowering-everyone-for-a-new-world-of-hybrid-work/
• Microsoft Dynamics 365 Connected Spaces - Gain a new perspective with Dynamics 365 Connected Spaces - Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog
• Mesh for Microsoft Teams https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2021/11/02/whats-new-in-microsoft-365how-were-empowering-everyone-for-a-new-world-of-hybrid-work/
• Mesh for Microsoft Teams aims to make collaboration in the ‘metaverse’ personal and fun | Innovation Stories 
• Microsoft Teams Connect https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2021/11/02/whats-new-in-microsoft-365how-were-empowering-everyone-for-a-new-world-of-hybrid-work/
   

A slightly different show today as Al and Kevin came live from above the South Coast Summit expo floor to record with a few guests. The sound isn't the greatest this time but the content is fantastic as we had Alison Mulligan, Luke Evans, Zoe Wilson and Mark Christie sharing with us what their dream conference would be. Find out who wants Satya Nadella speaking, who likes to get hands on with hardware and who would love it to be a giant festival.

Big thanks to our guests and give them a follow on Twitter or LinkedIn:

• Alison Mulligan
• Luke Evans
• Zoe Wilson
• Mark Christie

Finally a huge huge huge thank you to the conference organisers Aaron Rendell and Nathan Sweeney - no-one would have believed it was the first big event they had put on. So impressive and they've both earned a well deserved rest.

For this show, we decided to heavily borrow from Office365Distilled's show about Commsverse and share the sessions that we are excited to watch at the South Coast Summit. Al and Kevin picked a few of the talks that caught our interest or that we know how amazing the people can be.

Check out the sessions list on the South Coast Summit website.

Burnout Begone as a Service - Dona Sarkar (13:00) - Accessibility and inclusion track

Hello from the other side - how makers and developers make a FusionDev team - Yannick Reekmans and Luise Freese (11:00) - Power Platform track) 

Approaches to Managing Insider Risk in a work from anywhere world - Graham Hosking and Dan Cousineau (11:30) - Security and compliance track

Feed on knowledge harvested with Viva Topics (even if you are a minnow) - Sara Fennah and Kevin McDonnell (14:00) - Collaboration Track

Planning a career in Power Platform - Alison Mulligan (14:30) - Power Platform track

Working with Templates in Microsoft 365 - Chirag Patel (14:30) - Collaboration track

Modern Work Management in Office 365 - what is the right tool for you and your organisation? - Sam Graber (14:30) - Collaboration track

AI Builder in Action! - Marco Rocca (16:00) - Data and AI track

How I found luck - Keith Whatling (17:00) - Where Keith is going, he don't need no track

Al and Kevin cover the latest news including a chat about the new Surface devices, some SharePoint updates, Viva Learning GA date and the amazing fact that Skype isn't dead yet.

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Microsoft’s fall Surface event: the 7 biggest announcements - The Verge

Microsoft Whiteboard receives Surface Slim Pen 2 support, new features, and a UI overhaul | Windows Central

SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop September 2021 (microsoft.com)

 Viva Learning preview moving to general availability - M365 Admin (handsontek.net) 

Microsoft says Skype is "here to stay" with this major feature update | ZDNet

Where is Microsoft Teams data stored? A comprehensive breakdown | Onna Technologies, Inc. - JDSupra

 Microsoft to add new education-focused M365 A1 per-device subscription plan | ZDNet

Community

ProvisionGenie/ProvisionGenie: ProvisionGenie 🧞 is an open-source project by Luise Freese & Carmen Ysewijn. 

 Hacktoberfest 2021 (digitalocean.com)

 South Coast Summit – A Microsoft Cloud Technology Conference

Does Employee Experience matter? Yes and we are joined by Karoliina Kettukari of Meltlake to help explain to you why, how employees can make the most of Microsoft Viva to help their experience and what organisations should consider when it comes to adoption and change in the world of employee experience, especially for frontline workers.

As we often do, we would highly recommend checking out the Microsoft Worklab site for more on the subject.

Garry and Kevin sat down to run through the latest news as Viva Connections Public Preview went out, more attempts to explain Yammer and Teams and the excitement of collaborating on flows in Power Automate lands. All while Kevin tried not to burst with the excitement of meeting real people at Commsverse.

Viva Connections Public Preview - Microsoft Tech Community

73%: The Hybrid Work Paradox

The effects of remote work on collaboration among information workers | Nature Human Behaviour

New collaborative app from ServiceNow brings employee experiences into the flow of work in Microsoft Teams 

Bringing large groups and communities together in Teams - Microsoft Tech Community

Announcing Public Preview of Power Apps respecting Conditional Access on individual apps 

Power Fx Formula Columns in Dataverse (for Teams)

Announcing co-presence in Power Automate | Power Automate Blog (microsoft.com)

Power Apps, Accessibility, and WCAG - Hart of the Midlands

SharePoint: Hub to hub site association

SharePoint Navigation Switcher 

Microsoft acquires Clipchamp to empower creators

Office LTSC is now generally available

Home computing pioneer Sir Clive Sinclair dies aged 81 | Clive Sinclair | The Guardian

Halt and Catch Fire

https://github.com/GavinMendelGleason/excel_as_code

Events

• CollabTalk - What Does It Take To Build Community? – buckleyPLANET
• South Coast Summit – A Microsoft Cloud Technology Conference
• European Collaboration Summit - Home (collabsummit.eu)
• Scottish Summit will be hybrid https://twitter.com/kevmcdonk/status/1438935272192987142?s=20

This week, we decided to just have a chat about what was making us think at the moment and what we thought would be coming up over the next six months.

Al caught us by surprise by talking about sustainability and opened our eyes to things that we can do in the digital space.
Garry is getting deeper and deeper into the world of Dev Ops, not just the tools but the processes as well.
Kevin keeps up his excitement about all things Employee Experience with Microsoft Viva and also looks forward to seeing what people can innovate with after the slight lulls during the pandemic.

Listen to the show and then let us know what you think on Twitter or on the Microsoft Cloud Hub Discord Server.

Kevin, Al and Garry are back together for the first time in a while and so we tried to find the finest news around to share with you. Unfortunately, Kevin does decide to show his muppets off.

Github codespaces
Github.dev
About billing for Codespaces - GitHub Docs

Daily briefing and MyAnalytics branding updates to reflect Microsoft Viva - Microsoft Tech Community

Together Mode:

https://twitter.com/kevmcdonk/status/1432999299412078592?s=20

https://twitter.com/kevmcdonk/status/1432763528193220622?s=20

CarPlay on Teams

Teams updates - What’s New in Microsoft Teams | August 2021 - Microsoft Tech Community

Microsoft hires former Uber exec to lead a new consumer apps effort - The Verge

Cosmos hacked ChaosDB: How we hacked thousands of Azure customers’ databases | Wiz Blog

kevmcdonk/S4MSC-Twitter: Sample for creating Microsoft Search custom indexes from Twitter data (github.com)

 New Discord community for Microsoft Cloud related chat - mscloudhub.com/community (sorry, we forgot to mention this one!)

Commsverse

South Coast Summit

Scottish Summit

With the first big Microsoft related conference in the UK scheduled for September, we invited two of the Commsverse organisers to chat to use about what you can expect from Commsverse and also how Teams Devices can improve the ways that you can use Teams. Mark talked about all the different things that will be at the event itself (that you can join in person or virtually) and Randy shared loads of info on how Teams Devices can help, from better headsets all the way through to a full meeting room with sound bars, ceiling microphones and even a mahogany table.

Register for Commsverse now or find out more details on their website.