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Microsoft Cloud Show episodes

  • Episode 361 | Microsoft Build 2020 Recap

    AC and CJ round up some of the top announcements and news coming out of the Build 2020 conference and give you their highs and lows from the show.

    News
    • Microsoft Build
    • Channel 9: Microsoft Build 2020
    • Microsoft Build proves splashy tech events can thrive online
    • The biggest announcements from Microsoft Build 2020
    • The most important announcements from Microsoft Build, its annual conference for software developers
    • HttpRepl: A command-line tool for interacting with RESTful HTTP services
    • Remote development with Visual Studio Codespaces
    • Welcome to C# 9.0
    • Evolving Azure AD for every user and any identity with External Identities
    • Azure Synapse Analytics: Insights for all
    • Introducing App Service Static Web Apps
    • Mark Russinovich on Azure innovation and more!
    • Azure Blob Storage enhancing data protection and recovery capabilities
    • Announcing the general availability of Azure Spot Virtual Machines
    • Announcing Azure Front Door Rules Engine in preview
    • Microsoft Lists is a new app designed for Teams, SharePoint, and Outlook
    • Build 2020: Microsoft announces acquisition of Softomotive to enhance Power Automate
    • Introducing the new Microsoft Graph To Do API
    • The API to your organization: Microsoft Graph @ Build 2020
    • What’s New in Microsoft Teams | Build Edition 2020
    • Picks

      AC’s Pick

      • HYPER Announces World’s First 100W GaN Charger
      • CJ’s Pick

        • Beyond the Brick: COMBINING 186 LEGO GEARS
        • Listener Pick: Jeffery Byrd

          • If Rockets were Transparent
          • 55 min
          • Episode 360 | Microsoft Build 2020 Preview

            In this episode, AC & CJ recap some of the recent news before previewing some of the news expected at the Microsoft Build 2020 virtual conference this week.

            Banter
            • NOW AVAILABLE: Mastering the SharePoint Framework - CI/CD with GitHub Actions & Azure Pipelines for SPFx projects chapter
            • It’s Here! 5 Things to Know About Zoom 5.0
            • News
              • Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percent of VM cores
              • Microsoft Xbox legend J Allard gets back in the game, joining Intellivision for new console launch
              • Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise: Changes to Channel Names
              • New update channel for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise
              • Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise: New Tenants will default to the “Current Channel”
              • Microsoft Build Live
              • Picks

                AC’s Pick

                • Tesla Virtual Power Plant with Powerwalls proves successful in early phase, report says
                • CJ’s Pick

                  • SpaceX ISS Docking Simulator
                  • 1 hr 11 min
                  • Episode 359 | Github Codespaces, NFL Teams Teams, and the News

                    This week AC and CJ check in on the exciting news from GitHub’s virtual event, SharePoint 2010s life extension, Teams craziness & more.

                    Banter
                    • Nintex Process Automation Event - ProcessFest 2020 - Goes Online 12 May
                    • Microsoft offers $100,000 to hack its custom Linux OS
                    • News
                      • How a new game plan made the NFL Draft possible — and brought joy to fans during uncertain times
                      • Revised end of support date for SharePoint Server 2010: April 13, 2021
                      • Microsoft’s GitHub account hacked, private repositories stolen
                      • Codespaces
                      • Unlimited SSO and new Azure AD features to simplify secure access management
                      • Microsoft expands data centre region to New Zealand
                      • Zoom’s choice of Oracle cloud looks smart after Microsoft and Google’s aggressive moves in video
                      • Zoom Acquires Keybase and Announces Goal of Developing the Most Broadly Used Enterprise End-to-End Encryption Offering
                      • Slack CEO: Microsoft Teams is not a competitor to Slack
                      • Picks

                        AC’s Pick

                        • Run your GitHub Actions locally
                        • CJ’s Pick

                          • Researchers pinpoint the ideal age for entrepreneurs, and it’s not twentysomething
                          • Guest Pick: Matt Taylor-Coffey

                            • Triggernometry - Scott Adams: “2020 Election Could be Biggest Blowout in History”
                            • 52 min
                            • Episode 358 | Microsoft Smashes Q2 Results + M365 and Azure News

                              In this episode, AC and CJ discuss Microsoft’s blockbuster quarterly results and a recently disclosed nasty bug in Microsoft Teams along with other Microsoft 365 & Microsoft Azure news.

                              Banter
                              • GitHub Actions
                              • How to find cause of high kernel_task cpu usage?
                              • News
                                • Microsoft’s stock rises after company reports 15% sales jump and says coronavirus had ‘minimal’ impact on revenue
                                • Beware of the GIF: Account Takeover Vulnerability in Microsoft Teams
                                • Microsoft Word now flags double spaces as errors, ending the great space debate
                                • What’s New in Microsoft Teams | April 2020
                                • Introducing incremental enrichment in Azure Cognitive Search
                                • Announcing the general availability of Windows Server containers and private clusters for Azure Kubernetes Service
                                • Microsoft Services is now a Kubernetes Certified Service Provider
                                • Picks

                                  AC’s Pick

                                  • SomeGoodNews
                                  • CJ’s Pick

                                    • GIANT LEGO Star Destroyer with Full Interior! Custom Star Wars
                                    • 37 min
                                    • Episode 357 | Latest News This Week From the Microsoft Cloud

                                      This week CJ and AC discuss updates from Microsoft on Teams use during this time of unprecedented levels of people working from home and Azure. As well as other interesting cloud updates from Zoom and Cloudflare. Don’t miss the Sharegate Deploy virtual event either!

                                      Banter
                                      • NASA Launch America
                                      • Get Microsoft 365 Developer Certified - FREE webinar series!
                                      • News
                                        • Introducing 1.1.1.1 for Families
                                        • NASA to launch 247 petabytes of data into AWS – but forgot about eye-watering cloudy egress costs before lift-off
                                        • Deploy
                                        • 500,000 Zoom Accounts on the Dark Web
                                        • Microsoft subtly sticks the knife into Zoom
                                        • Enhanced features in Azure Archive Storage now generally available
                                        • How to work with search results in Azure Cognitive Search: Hit highlighting
                                        • Ranking algorithm in Azure Cognitive Search
                                        • How remote work impacts collaboration: findings from our team
                                        • Microsoft embraces big data
                                        • Windows Terminal Preview v0.11 Release
                                        • How Microsoft tackles the 30,000 bugs its 47,000 developers generate each month
                                        • Microsoft hires a former GE exec to work with health companies in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic
                                        • Microsoft is launching a ‘plasmabot’ to encourage people who recovered from the virus to donate their plasma as a possible treatment
                                        • Picks

                                          AC’s Picks

                                          • Oil futures drunk-trading incident
                                          • UniFi Poller – Amazing!
                                          • CJ’s Pick

                                            • Then and now: visualizing COVID-19’s impact on air traffic
                                            • Guest Pick: Damian Flynn

                                              • LEGO CHALLENGE: 30 DAYS OF PLAY CALENDAR
                                              • 52 min
                                              • Episode 356 | Exploring Adaptive Cards

                                                In this episode, AC and CJ dig into a developer capability customers can use in Microsoft Teams, Outlook and many other surface areas to present data elements as well as collect data from users: Adaptive Cards.

                                                Banter
                                                • Join me, April 22, 2020, and learn about the Microsoft 365 Developer Associate certification and MS-600 exam
                                                • Seven months later, analyzing the cost of hosting a Hugo-based site on Microsoft Azure
                                                • News
                                                  • GitHub is now free for teams
                                                  • DOD Clears Microsoft’s JEDI Contract Award
                                                  • Adaptive Cards
                                                  • Adaptive Cards community call-March 2020
                                                  • Picks

                                                    AC’s Picks

                                                    • This Man Owns The World’s Most Advanced Private Air Force After Buying 46 F/A-18 Hornets
                                                    • Grounded and Stored Aircraft Around The World
                                                    • CJ’s Pick

                                                      • NASA’s ‘Worm’ Logo Will Return to Space
                                                      • 1 hr 10 min
                                                      • Episode 355 | Catching Up on the Latest Microsoft Cloud News

                                                        This week AC and CJ try out a new streaming setup for future shows while trying to hold together a regular show that covers MS, hackers exploiting people during COVID-19, on-going Zoom security response, Office 365 and Azure news!

                                                        News
                                                        • Microsoft to conduct online-only events till June 2021: Report
                                                        • Beware these coronavirus hacking threats, UK and US agencies warn
                                                        • Thousands of Zoom recordings exposed because of the way Zoom names recordings
                                                        • ZOOM’S ENCRYPTION IS “NOT SUITED FOR SECRETS” AND HAS SURPRISING LINKS TO CHINA, RESEARCHERS DISCOVER
                                                        • Skype tries competing with Zoom by reminding people that they don’t need the app or an account to make a call
                                                        • Introducing the new Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscriptions
                                                        • One Identity across Yammer and Office
                                                        • Remote work trend report: meetings
                                                        • Modernizing SharePoint Managed Metadata Services (MMS)
                                                        • Detect large-scale cryptocurrency mining attack against Kubernetes clusters
                                                        • Picks

                                                          AC’s Picks

                                                          • Tesla owner upgrades Autopilot 2.5 to 3.0 Hardware: Cost, results, and more
                                                          • Tesla Ventilator
                                                          • CJ’s Pick

                                                            • Spying on the Scammers [Part 1 of 4]
                                                            • 47 min
                                                            • Episode 354 | Pandemic Continued Impact on the Cloud, News and Security Updates

                                                              In this 354th episode, AC and CJ discuss more impacts the global COVID-19 pandemic is having on the tech cloud and security concerns with the popular video conferencing tool Zoom.

                                                              Banter
                                                              • 2020 IndyCar iRacing Challenge
                                                              • iRacing IndyCar Challenge - Watkins Glen w/Josef Newgarden
                                                              • Conor Daly’s Twitch Stream
                                                              • News
                                                                • Microsoft to conduct online-only events till June 2021: Report
                                                                • Microsoft: Cloud services demand up; prioritization rules in place due to COVID-19
                                                                • Windows code-execution zeroday is under active exploit, Microsoft warns
                                                                • Zoom: A Message to Our Users
                                                                • Picks

                                                                  AC’s Picks

                                                                  • Business Wars
                                                                  • MasterClass: Will Wright Teaches Game Design And Theory
                                                                  • CJ’s Pick

                                                                    • SpaceX loses its third Starship prototype during a cryogenic test
                                                                    • 36 min
                                                                    • Episode 353 | Trying to Focus on the Less Viral News

                                                                      This week AC and CJ try desperately to stay off talking about virus’ and focus on news from Azure, AWS and Office 365. They fail a bit.

                                                                      News
                                                                      • Microsoft Edge browser flunks privacy test, Redmond cries foul
                                                                      • Folding @ Home
                                                                      • Apple finally admits Microsoft was right about tablets
                                                                      • Amazon slams Pentagon’s approach to fix messy $10 billion JEDI cloud contract, new court docs show
                                                                      • The SharePoint Conferens is moving to March 2021
                                                                      • Azure Government Secret accredited at DoD IL6, ICD 503 with IaaS and PaaS
                                                                      • Azure Dedicated Host: New capabilities and benefits
                                                                      • New Deploy to Azure extension for Visual Studio Code
                                                                      • How Azure Machine Learning powers suggested replies in Outlook
                                                                      • Announcing change notifications for Microsoft Teams messages
                                                                      • Microsoft 365 / SharePoint Community (PnP) – March 2020 update
                                                                      • Picks

                                                                        AC’s Pick

                                                                        • Taking Back What Is Already Yours: Router Wars Episode I
                                                                        • CJ’s Pick

                                                                          • kavs911
                                                                          • 51 min
                                                                          • Episode 352 | AC's and CJ's MS-600 results are in! Are they certified or certifiable?

                                                                            In this episode, AC and CJ discuss their results from the recent MS-600 exam and cover the recent news in the Microsoft cloud.

                                                                            Banter
                                                                            • Exam MS-600: Building Applications and Solutions with Microsoft 365 Core Services
                                                                            • News
                                                                              • npm is joining GitHub
                                                                              • Microsoft announces new Teams features as usage skyrockets nearly 40 percent in a week
                                                                              • Bill Gates leaves Microsoft board
                                                                              • Picks

                                                                                AC’s Picks

                                                                                • The Joe Rogan Experience #1439: Michael Osterholm
                                                                                • Turing Pi
                                                                                • CJ’s Pick

                                                                                  • 13 Minutes to the Moon
                                                                                  • 51 min

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                                                                                  The podcast that covers the latest news, notes, commentary and listener questions on Microsoft cloud technologies including Windows Azure, Office 365 and SharePoint.