It’s true… this is the last Microsoft Cloud Show episode. In this last episode, 450, hear from co-hosts Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson why they’ve decided to wrap the podcast up.

In this episode, AC & CJ sit down to look back at the evolution of Microsoft 365, evaluate the current state of it, predictions, & some hopes for the future of the platform. Picks AC’s Pick Node.js Notebooks (REPL) CJ’s Pick SavvyCal

Microsoft Azure is over 13 years old and AC and CJ sit down to discuss the state of the Azure nation, where it stands in the cloud wars, and where they would like to see it improve. Picks AC’s Pick Whoa dude! CJ’s Pick thereandbuckagain

In this episode, AC and CJ cover some recent updates and releases in the Microsoft 365 world, get cheeky with Microsoft 365’s offer to customers that will lose their G Suite legacy free edition, more news! Banter Debut of the Voitanos Podcast + relaunch of YouTube channel Voitanos on YouTube Voitanos Podcast News A special offer for small businesses using Google’s legacy G Suite Teams JS SDK v2 Public Preview Update: Teams Apps in Office.com & Office App for Windows SharePoint...

Microsoft is trying to stave off the wrath of the FTC regarding its latest large acquisition, Microsoft Teams is doing its part to try and help your laptop from exploding & AC and CJ discuss some .NET development with Microsoft Graph. News In a bid to appease regulators, Microsoft announces new app store principles What’s New in Microsoft Teams | January 2022 Microsoft Teams performance improvements reduce power consumption in meetings by up to 50% Microsoft Graph Mailbag – Using...

Is 2022 the year of gaming acquisitions after we’ve seen over $80 billion spent in the first 5 weeks? Or will it be the metaverse burn pit after Meta has already blown through $10 billion & Microsoft cans Hololens creating turmoil in the halls of Redmond? Tune into episode 445 and hear what AC & CJ have to say! Banter Andrew Connell’s Website Black Creek Outfitters The ‘End of an Era’ for Black Creek Outfitters Black Creek Outfitters closing after 39 years of helping people explore,...

AC and CJ discuss Microsoft’s incredible growth shown in their Q2 financial results and talk about some of the trends it shows. They dive off into talking about mainframes and the cloud & finish up with some Microsoft Teams and Azure news. News Log4J: Microsoft discovers attackers targeting undisclosed SolarWinds vulnerability Windows 11 is getting Android apps, taskbar improvements, and more next month Introducing Windows 11 SE and devices to support K-8 classrooms Microsoft Cloud...

This week Microsoft dropped the news of its biggest acquisition to date and AC and CJ dive in to dissect it from their points of view. News Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard to bring the joy and community of gaming to everyone, across every device Microsoft deal to buy Activision Blizzard will likely go through, says MKM’s Handler Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion Sony reminds Microsoft of contractual obligations to make Activision games...

Tune in to episode 442 and hear Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson cover the latest news related to Microsoft Azure products & services, Microsoft Teams, and what’s new from Microsoft 365! What’s New With Microsoft 365 MC306666: Pairing naming convention between Teams channels and corresponding SharePoint folders MC306669: Self-service trials for Microsoft Project and Microsoft Visio MC309911: Automatically Detect Music MC312490: Yammer Cross-geo external collaboration support on...

2022 has to be better than 2021 right? Surely! This week AC and CJ look forward and discuss their hopes, dreams, wishes, and goals for 2022 and what they would like to see happen in tech, and more. Picks AC’s Pick Decoding James Webb Space Telescope CJ’s Pick How Crash Bandicoot Hacked The Original Playstation | War Stories | Ars Technica

In this episode, AC & CJ look back at 2021. We also look at AC & CJ’s wishes & goals for 2020 and see how they ended up on the year. Banter Retiring comments for articles on my sites Episode 390 | Reflecting on 2020 Episode 391 | Looking Forward to 2021 Picks AC’s Pick Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials CJ’s Pick Talking about Rocket Lab’s Neutron with Peter Beck Listener...

AC and CJ check in on recent news from the past week including another AWS outage, MS winning company of the year, Log4J hacks, Windows news, Azure Space & Teams encryption. What’s New in Microsoft 365 MC303513: Anti-Malware policy - Quarantine notifications for the recipient MC302216: Security hardening change: Enforce policies for Trusted Documents News Microsoft is Yahoo Finance’s Company of the Year 2021 Right to repair: Microsoft offers Surface repair tools for technicians via...

In this 438th episode, AC and CJ cover the recent AWS outage of their US-EAST-1 region as well as some Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 news. At the end, hear them bookend the episode with their own blast radius of picks! News Analysis: Outage shows how Amazon’s complex cloud makes backup plans difficult AWS Amplify Studio AWS opens ‘top secret’ western region for US government customers Microsoft expands cloud services with two new datacenters in Wyoming Azure Cost Management and Billing...

This week AC & CJ discuss news from the recent AWS conference re:Invent 2021. Banter ACQUIRED News Use New Amazon EC2 M1 Mac Instances to Build & Test Apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV AWS re:Invent 2021 Daily Recap - Top announcements from Day 1 and Day 2 | A Cloud Guru Amazon’s cloud unit launches new chips to take on Intel, Nvidia New – Amazon FSx for OpenZFS Introducing Amazon Redshift Serverless – Run Analytics At Any Scale Without Having to Manage Data...

In this episode, AC & CJ look at a real world implementation of Azure Functions complete with a full continuous integration & continuous deployment (CD & CD) configuration. News Azure Functions 4.0 and .NET 6 support are now generally available SEGA and Microsoft (Xbox) have teamed up to develop next-generation games on Azure Spotify, Discord, and others are coming back online after a brief Google Cloud outage microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go Meta and Microsoft announce partnership...

Tune in to episode 435, the second of two episodes where AC & CJ look back at the recent Microsoft Ignite 2021 virtual conference! In this episode, we look at Microsoft Azure-related topics! Last week in episode 434 we took a look at Microsoft 365-related news. What’s New with Microsoft 365 Introducing Feedback for Microsoft 365 News MICROSOFT IGNITE BOOK OF NEWS Microsoft Ignite 2021 Azure Cosmos DB Blog Introducing Azure Container Apps: a serverless container service for running...

Tune in to episode 434, the first of two episodes where AC & CJ look back at the recent Microsoft Ignite 2021 virtual conference! In this episode, we look at the keynotes as well as Microsoft 365 & Modern Work-related topics! Next week we’ll dive into all the Azure news! News MICROSOFT IGNITE BOOK OF NEWS Microsoft Ignite 2021 What’s new in Microsoft 365—How we’re empowering everyone for a new world of hybrid work Microsoft Viva is now generally available to help transform your...

This week CJ flys solo and sits down with Michal Pisarek from Orchestry to discuss the insane growth of Teams since the pandemic began and how organizations can manage the problems that arise from that. Guest Michal Pisarek - CEO, Orchestry @MichalPisarek Michal Pisarek Orchestry Episode 374 | Orchestry with Michal Pisarek

This week we dive into Microsoft's 2021 diversity and inclusion report, Satya’s compensation, what AWS is doing for .net developers, Microsoft pulling LinkedIn from China and a bunch of other news. What’s New With Microsoft 365 MC292735: Retiring Teams mobile support for devices running on Android 5,6 and 7 News Diversity & Inclusion Report GamePass Subscriber News U.S. Army pushes back date on Microsoft goggles but says ‘fully committed’ to $21.9 bln deal 5 reasons to join the...

In this 431st episode, AC and CJ talk about an acquisition and a new feature coming to Microsoft Teams, an Azure Windows VM outage, and a couple of upcoming learning opportunities including Microsoft Ignite! Banter Explore & evaluate the SharePoint Framework What’s New with Microsoft 365 MC289965: M365 Records Management MC291088: Microsoft 365 Compliance Center Core eDiscovery - Search by ID list retirement News Microsoft Ignite Microsoft Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Webcast...

AC and CJ discuss the terrible week Facebook just had, how to explain BGP to your kids! They discuss the recent sale of Nintex and its impact on the ecosystem & cover Microsoft’s recent announcement about starting to charge customers to use parts of the Microsoft Graph APIs. What’s New in Microsoft 365 MC288472: Update to Microsoft 365 and Outlook for Windows connectivity MC288633: M365 Records Management, Information Governance & eDiscovery – Optimized behavior of file versions...

In this episode, AC & CJ catch you up on the news, explore what’s new in Microsoft 365, and then explore the Azure App Configuration service that developers can use in maintaining centralized configuration in their distributed cloud apps. What’s New in Microsoft 365 MC286990 - Exchange Online and Basic Auth MC288054 - Configuration Change: Power BI app for Microsoft Teams automatic installation and availability for government customers News The future of Skype: Fast, playful,...

CJ is back in the saddle this week with AC and they get right back to business discussing Microsoft's big surface event this past week, going passwordless, AWS powered by sheep & Viva Connections public preview. News Microsoft’s fall Surface event: the 7 biggest announcements How Microsoft built ‘The Frankenstein’ device during the pandemic Microsoft acquires TakeLessons, an online and in-person tutoring platform, to ramp up its edtech play Viva Connections public preview is now...

In this 427th episode, AC flies solo without his trusty sidekick to talk about two more serious Azure vulnerabilities in Azure Linux VMs and Azure Container Instances! Banter Inspiration 4 Inspiration4 | Launch John Kraus, spaceflight photojournalist News Microsoft Ignite Microsoft Viva Connections - Coming to Public Preview Office LTSC is now generally available Azure Cosmos DB: Azure Functions extension version 4.0 in public preview “Secret” Agent Exposes Azure Customers To Unauthorized...