Microsoft Cloud Show

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 channelVoitanos on YouTubeVoitanos Podcast News A special offer for small businesses using Google’s legacy G SuiteTeams JS SDK v2 Public Preview Update: Teams Apps in Office.com & Office App for WindowsSharePoint Framework v1.14 - What’s in the latest Update of SPFx?SharePoint Framework v1.14 - What’s in the latest update of SPFx?Announcing SharePoint Framework 1.14 – with updates for Viva Connections, Microsoft Teams and SharePointA new ShareGate experienceLIVE & FREE WEBINAR – FEBRUARY 22, 11AM EST: A new ShareGate experience for 2022!A first look at Microsoft’s new Windows 11 Android apps supportWindows 11 is getting new touch gestures, Start menu folders, and much more Picks AC’s Pick Inside the Chess Match That Led the Feds to $3.6 Billion in Stolen Bitcoin CJ’s Pick Shelly

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 principlesWhat’s New in Microsoft Teams | January 2022Microsoft Teams performance improvements reduce power consumption in meetings by up to 50%Microsoft Graph Mailbag – Using LargeFileUploadTask with Microsoft Graph SDKsHelping users stay safe: Blocking internet macros by default in OfficeRider Picks AC’s Pick Exposed documents reveal how the powerful clean up their digital past using a reputation laundering firm CJ’s Pick Live Las Vegas airport camera with flight tracking and ATC | Harry Reid Airport | Plane Spotting

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 WebsiteBlack Creek OutfittersThe ‘End of an Era’ for Black Creek OutfittersBlack Creek Outfitters closing after 39 years of helping people explore, enjoy the wildBlack Creek Outfitters on Facebook News Try Microsoft Lists with your Microsoft account (Preview)Take-Two Interactive to buy FarmVille creator Zynga for $12.7 billionSony buying Bungie for $3.6 billionYouTube Q2 Ad Revenue Hits Record $7 Billion as Alphabet Trounces EstimatesMeta estimates Apple’s iOS changes will cost it $10B in 2022Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘metaverse’ business lost more than $10 billion last year, and the losses keep growingInside Microsoft’s mixed reality mess, where confusion, rivalries, and canceled projects have roiled the company’s metaverse strategy Picks AC’s Pick Arecibo Observatory Movie - The Biggest Dream TRAILER CJ’s Pick North Korea Hacked Him. So He Took Down Its Internet

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 vulnerabilityWindows 11 is getting Android apps, taskbar improvements, and more next monthIntroducing Windows 11 SE and devices to support K-8 classroomsMicrosoft Cloud Strength Fuels Second Quarter ResultsLanzaJet Secures $50M in Funding from Microsoft Climate Innovation FundMicrosoftTeams surpassed 270 million monthly active users.Azure DDoS Protection—2021 Q3 and Q4 DDoS attack trends7 reasons to attend Azure Open Source Day Picks AC’s Picks The James Webb Space Telescope glides to its deep-space parking spot today! How to follow it online.After 7 years, a spent Falcon 9 rocket stage is on course to hit the Moon CJ’s Pick Adam Savage Checks Out the Apollo 11 Command Module!

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 deviceMicrosoft deal to buy Activision Blizzard will likely go through, says MKM’s HandlerMicrosoft to acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billionSony reminds Microsoft of contractual obligations to make Activision games cross-platformGenerally available: Azure Kubernetes support for upgrade eventsGenerally available: Containerd support for Windows in AKSGeneral availability: FIPS enabled node pool in Azure KubernetesGeneral availability: Ultra disks support on AKSPublic preview: Kubernetes version alias support in AKSPublic preview: Support for managed identity in Azure Cache for RedisAzure Machine Learning Announcements – January 2022 General Availability Announcement Picks AC’s Pick We Booped the Sun CJ’s Pick Hark back to the late 1990s with this re-creation of the dialup Internet experience

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 News Azure Storage TLS: Critical changes are almost here! (…and why you should care)Accelerate your websites with Azure Static Web Apps enterprise-edgeUpdates to Azure Files: NFS v4.1, higher performance limits, and reserved instance pricingIntroducing the new Azure SDK management libraries for JavaScript/TypeScript3 ways technology can help rebuild your frontline workforceMicrosoft Teams: Chat with Teams personal account usersFirst Microsoft Pluton-powered Windows 11 PCs to start rolling out this yearMicrosoft should sell Office and Windows to boost cloud business, former executive saysBest CEO of 2021 goes to…Qualcomm Announces Collaboration with Microsoft to Expand and Accelerate AR to Usher in New Gateways to the MetaverseAsk HN: Are Microsoft development stack and Azure a dead-end career path? Picks AC’s Pick An Unanswered Question at the Heart of the U.S.’s Nuclear Arsenal CJ’s Pick Looking for a Apartment to Share: Seattle(Redmond) Area

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 sitesEpisode 390 | Reflecting on 2020Episode 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 Pick Brett McKenzie: PowerOn - The story of XBOX

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 News Microsoft is Yahoo Finance’s Company of the Year 2021Right to repair: Microsoft offers Surface repair tools for technicians via iFixitSummary of the AWS Service Event in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) RegionHackers start pushing malware in worldwide Log4Shell attacksGuidance for preventing, detecting, and hunting for CVE-2021-44228 Log4j 2 exploitationWindows Terminal as your Default Command Line ExperienceMicrosoft redesigns Notepad for Windows 11End-to-end encryption for one-to-one Microsoft Teams calls now Generally AvailableNew satellite connectivity and geospatial capabilities with Azure Space Picks AC’s Pick Saving the shuttle simulator—“It was an artifact that needed to be preserved” CJ’s Pick NASA RETURNS HUBBLE TO FULL SCIENCE OPERATIONS

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 difficultAWS Amplify StudioAWS opens ‘top secret’ western region for US government customersMicrosoft expands cloud services with two new datacenters in WyomingAzure Cost Management and Billing updates – November 2021Microsoft forces Office customers to change to an annual subscription, otherwise the price will increase by 20%Public preview of SharePoint Framework 1.14 – with updates for Viva Connections, Microsoft Teams and SharePoint Picks AC’s Pick AN UNEARTHLY SPECTACLE The untold story of the world’s biggest nuclear bomb CJ’s Pick Revisiting the “Tsar Bomba” nuclear test

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 TVAWS re:Invent 2021 Daily Recap - Top announcements from Day 1 and Day 2 | A Cloud GuruAmazon’s cloud unit launches new chips to take on Intel, NvidiaNew – Amazon FSx for OpenZFSIntroducing Amazon Redshift Serverless – Run Analytics At Any Scale Without Having to Manage Data Warehouse InfrastructureAWS Chatbot now supports management of AWS resources in Slack (Preview)Announcing AWS Data Exchange for APIsAWS Mainframe Modernization (Preview)Top Announcements of AWS re:Invent 2021Join the Preview – Amazon EC2 C7g Instances Powered by New AWS Graviton3 ProcessorsAWS Private 5G Picks AC’s Pick How to Build a Supersonic Trebuchet CJ’s Pick Lightning Talk: Certified Really Agile Practitioner (CRAP) - Jon Smart

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 availableSEGA and Microsoft (Xbox) have teamed up to develop next-generation games on AzureSpotify, Discord, and others are coming back online after a brief Google Cloud outagemicrosoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-goMeta and Microsoft announce partnership to integrate Workplace and Teams Picks AC’s Pick Major Breach and Outage Bingo CJ’s Pick Driving my Tesla Model S Plaid Underwater!! Does it float, sink or drive 7ft under!?

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 NEWSMicrosoft Ignite 2021Azure Cosmos DB BlogIntroducing Azure Container Apps: a serverless container service for running modern apps at scaleAzure Logic Apps Announcement - Fall 2021 ReleaseImport a WebSocket APIAzure Web PubSubIdentity at Ignite: Strengthen resilience with identity innovations in Azure ADAnnouncing the Public Preview of Azure Chaos StudioqueryLanguageIgnite 2021: New releases for Azure Communication Services designed to enhance customer experiencesPowering all your applications from cloud to edge with Azure infrastructure Picks AC’s Pick James Webb Space Telescope Launch and Deployment CJ’s Pick “Learn and Test DMARC” console

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 NEWSMicrosoft Ignite 2021What’s new in Microsoft 365—How we’re empowering everyone for a new world of hybrid workMicrosoft Viva is now generally available to help transform your hybrid work experienceWhat’s new in Microsoft 365—How we’re empowering everyone for a new world of hybrid workMicrosoft Ignite Fall 2021: Innovations coming to Microsoft TeamsWhat’s New in Microsoft Teams | October 2021New Power Platform capabilities announced at Microsoft IgniteWhat’s new for Office Add-ins at Ignite 2021Microsoft Graph @ Ignite 2021 Picks AC’s Pick Drunk Turkish man spends hours helping search party hunting for missing person without realizing it’s HIM CJ’s Pick Starbase Tour with Elon Musk [PART 1]

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 @MichalPisarekMichal PisarekOrchestryEpisode 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 News Diversity & Inclusion ReportGamePass Subscriber NewsU.S. Army pushes back date on Microsoft goggles but says ‘fully committed’ to $21.9 bln deal5 reasons to join the Modernize Apps and Data with Azure and Power Apps free virtual eventAnnouncing the new Azure Monitor Query client librariesUpdate on our new AWS .NET Deployment ExperienceDeployment Projects with the new AWS .NET Deployment ExperienceMac Fanboy Reviews Windows 11Microsoft Teams ISV app monetization capabilities now available in developer previewMicrosoft shutting down LinkedIn in ChinaYou Voted. Now We’re Making Your Xbox Series X “Mini Fridge” a Reality Picks AC’s Pick Three hours to save Integral CJ’s Pick This Just Saved me $100,000 - Totalphase Cable Tester

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 News Microsoft IgniteMicrosoft Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Webcast SeriesGlobal Azure outage knocked out virtual machines, other VM-dependent servicesMicrosoft Acquires Ally: Expands Viva Into Employee Goal ManagementTeams Modern Search Results Page (SERP) is coming soon in PreviewAnnouncing Microsoft Feedback PortalArmy Halts Widely-Hyped Multi-Billion Dollar Advanced Augmented Reality Goggle Program (Updated)Microsoft and Nvidia team up to train one of the world’s largest language modelsWorst Case Picks AC’s Pick Project Hail Mary: From the bestselling author of The Martian CJ’s Pick ATARI ST STILL MANAGES CAMPGROUND RESERVATIONS AFTER 36 YEARS