We are joined by Christos Matskas for the news this week - as a Developer Advocate for Security and Identity at Microsoft, he shares with us his thoughts on the latest news. This week we talk about Microsoft's purchase of Nuance, some interesting articles on security and more Power Platform updates to improve the governance and deployments.

Our big news - we have a custom YouTube URL - https://www.youtube.com/greyhatbeard - thanks to all who helped make this happen.

Microsoft to buy AI and speech technology firm Nuance for $16bn
How Nuance acquisition stacks up

 Security

• How far have we come? The evolution of securing identities
• De-risk your lateral movement paths with Microsoft Defender for Identity
• Announcing GA of Microsoft Data Loss Prevention Alerts Dashboard

Power Apps

• Announcing data source environment variables
• CoE starter kit in Dataverse for Teams

Teams

• New frontline worker features in Teams
• Streamline requests with new approval features in Microsoft Teams

Events

Clean up completed Microsoft To Do tasks using CLI for Microsoft 365 · Garry Trinder

 26-28 April - Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon (m365virtualmarathon.com)

• 27 Apr 15:00 (BST) - Why Microsoft To Do is good for your mental health
• 28 Apr 12:00 (BST) - How to measure Wellbeing and Productivity using Viva Insights
• Building a culture of knowledge sharing
• Microsoft Search - the what, the why and the how

28 April - M365 S&C UG April 2021 | Meetup

• Steve Goodman - Advanced session controls in Microsoft Cloud App Security
• Viktor Hedberg - Azure AD: How to extend your current IAM processes to the cloud, and beyond

4 May - MBAS - MyMbas - Your home for MyMbas (microsoft.com)

12 May - Teams Nation - https://teamsnation.rocks/register

25-27 May - Microsoft Build - MyBuild - Home (microsoft.com)