This week I touch on the latest news from the Azure and Microsoft Teams world and also touch on how I think we need to normalise taking time off from work and stop celebrating people who work 14 + hour days.

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In this week's update I share the recent Azure news and also talk about why I started these weekly updates and the journey I've been on to reach number 90!

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Welcome to another Friday update!  The week's are fair flying in, here we are at the end of April!

It's been a fairly quiet week for Azure news, but this week I've taken the opportunity to share what there is and also highly some awesome news from the team over at Jabra around the new video bar and personal webcam that they announced this week.

I also take the chance to share where my head is at the moment in regards to social media, and how I'm trying to distance myself from the negative part of it and focus on being a technical expert in my field and not a social media influencer. Focussing on what makes me happy. 😊

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Join me in this weekly update as I talk through the Azure news and my never stop learning mindset.

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My video graphics were created by the awesome Krist McKenna from Ratworks

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Join me in this weekly update as I talk about the latest Azure news this week as well as the exciting news from the Surface team. 

And here's to future freedom to travel about Scotland and hopefully film some updates from different locations now that the travel ban has been lifted! 

My video graphics were created by the awesome Krist McKenna from Ratworks

Music by https://www.bensound.com and https://youtube.com/ikson

Happy Unicorn Day everyone, the national animal of Scotland is the unicorn so it's definitely worthy of celebrating! 😊

In this week's update I talk about the Azure news and then also what I've been up to.  It seems like a lot of deadlines are all hitting me at once at the moment, full steam ahead!

My video graphics were created by the awesome Krist McKenna from Ratworks

Music by https://www.bensound.com and https://youtube.com/ikson

In this week's episode I talk about the Azure news that has caught my eye this week. I also touch on the awesome live stream I did with some friends and colleagues on blogging and why we all do it and the platforms that we all choose to host our blogs. 

I've recently been working through my reading pile and am reading Call me Red by Hannah Jackson and it's been interesting hearing her thoughts on social media and bullying/trolls and dealing with that.  As well as women in farming and it got me to thinking about the parallels between that and women in tech. 

I hope you enjoy this episode!

My video graphics were created by the awesome Krist McKenna from Ratworks

Music by https://www.bensound.com and https://youtube.com/ikson

Join me as I recap the announcements made at Microsoft Ignite around Microsoft Teams.  I'm talking about eleven of the announcements that caught my eye earlier this year!  

✔️ Resources:  

Full recap of all the Microsoft Teams announcements made at Microsoft Ignite

My video graphics were created by the awesome Krist McKenna from Ratworks

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Join me this week as I talk about the latest news from the Azure world as well as talking about taking the renewal exam for my Azure Architect exam and the launch of my new blogging platform. 

This week I cover off the Azure news around Availability Zones, Forecast alerts in Cost Management and the new Azure Storage Explorer that has been released.  I also talk about how my blog transition is going and some livestreams that are coming up later this month, you don't want to miss. 😉  

✔ Resources:  

Azure Storage Explorer new version: https://github.com/microsoft/AzureStorageExplorer/releases/tag/v1.18.0

Azure Forecasted Cost Alerts: https://azure.microsoft.com/blog/prevent-exceeding-azure-budget-with-forecasted-cost-alerts/?WT.mc_id=modinfra-21065-salean

Azure Availability Zone Commitments: https://azure.microsoft.com/blog/our-commitment-to-expand-azure-availability-zones-to-more-regions/?WT.mc_id=modinfra-21065-salean