Microsoft Cloud Show

In this 185th episode, AC and CJ finally caught up with one of our favorite developers, Microsoft's Richard diZerega. Richard shared his experiences on developing custom applications for the Microsoft Bot Framework as well as extending Microsoft Teams.Notes: BOTS Bot Framework Documentation/Registration Bot Framework WebChat Component Blog post of using Bot Framework back channel for contextual bots Office 365 Dev Podcast talking about bots in SharePoint/Office Bots 101 – scenarios for bots Microsoft Teams Office 365 Dev Podcast with guest Jeremy Thake talking Microsoft Teams and extensibility Microsoft Teams Developer Documentation Blog posts on building Microsoft Teams App Blog post on Teams tab authentication Blog post on Teams tab theming Rich’s Picks How to soundproof a room Azure AD Device Profile CJ’s Picks SpaceX to Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond the Moon Next Year AC’s Picks IndieHackers: Stock Trading Bot Hey it’s Another Documentation Server! (hads) The Microsoft Cloud Show sponsored by: Sharegate makes it easier for organizations to adopt and use the latest Microsoft productivity tools, helping millions of users be happier and more productive at work. Sharegate is trusted by over 10,000 IT admins from over 110 countries to manage, migrate, and secure their SharePoint and Office 365 environments. Sharegate is recognized as the must-have tool for day-to-day administration of On-Premises, Cloud, and Hybrid environments. Interested in learning more? Check them out on sharegate.com or take advantage of their free resources for IT Admins, like this SharePoint or Office 365 Migration Checklist. Valid.nl's motto is “Stay Ahead”. Its mission is to enable its customers to excel in their business through the innovative use of IT. Valid is always on the lookout for new colleagues. Are you interested in all things happening in Azure, whether in infrastructure, SQL Server, Office 365, PowerBI, SharePoint or .Net? Look them up on Valid.nl.

In this episode, AC and CJ cover some of the new offerings from Google & Office 365, the epic February 28th AWS S3 outage and Docker growing up with enterprise offerings.Notes: Office / SharePoint SharePoint Framework reaches general availability Outlook 2016 for Mac adds support for Google Calendar and Contacts OneNote REST API now supports application-level permissions AWS Summary of the Amazon S3 Service Disruption in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region Google Introducing Cloud Spanner: a global database service for mission-critical applications GPUs are now available for Google Compute Engine and Cloud Machine Learning Docker Swarm Mode With Fleet Management and Collaboration Now in Public Beta, Powered by Docker Cloud Announcing Docker Enterprise Edition AC’s Picks Mitigating an AWS Instance Failure with the Magic of Kubernetes Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up CJ’s Picks Cirrus Press - Ice Ball press Boiling Down Coke and Coke Zero The Microsoft Cloud Show sponsored by: Sharegate makes it easier for organizations to adopt and use the latest Microsoft productivity tools, helping millions of users be happier and more productive at work. Sharegate is trusted by over 10,000 IT admins from over 110 countries to manage, migrate, and secure their SharePoint and Office 365 environments. Sharegate is recognized as the must-have tool for day-to-day administration of On-Premises, Cloud, and Hybrid environments. Interested in learning more? Check them out on sharegate.com or take advantage of their free resources for IT Admins, like this SharePoint or Office 365 Migration Checklist. Valid.nl's motto is “Stay Ahead”. Its mission is to enable its customers to excel in their business through the innovative use of IT. Valid is always on the lookout for new colleagues. Are you interested in all things happening in Azure, whether in infrastructure, SQL Server, Office 365, PowerBI, SharePoint or .Net? Look them up on Valid.nl.

In this 183rd episode, AC and CJ caught up with Nintex's VP of Product, Ryan Duguid, at the Nintex InspireX conference. In this interview, we talked about Nintex's latest offering: Nintex Workflow Cloud.Notes: Nintex Nintex Workflow Cloud The Microsoft Cloud Show sponsored by: Sharegate makes it easier for organizations to adopt and use the latest Microsoft productivity tools, helping millions of users be happier and more productive at work. Sharegate is trusted by over 10,000 IT admins from over 110 countries to manage, migrate, and secure their SharePoint and Office 365 environments. Sharegate is recognized as the must-have tool for day-to-day administration of On-Premises, Cloud, and Hybrid environments. Interested in learning more? Check them out on sharegate.com or take advantage of their free resources for IT Admins, like this SharePoint or Office 365 Migration Checklist. Valid.nl's motto is “Stay Ahead”. Its mission is to enable its customers to excel in their business through the innovative use of IT. Valid is always on the lookout for new colleagues. Are you interested in all things happening in Azure, whether in infrastructure, SQL Server, Office 365, PowerBI, SharePoint or .Net? Look them up on Valid.nl.

In this 182nd episode, AC and CJ cover recent announcements from Amazon, Microsoft, Docker, Kubernetes and CoreOS. Learn what AWS Chime is and how it matches up to Skype for Business and Google Hangouts as well as learn what new features Microsoft has added to Azure AD and Azure storage recently.Notes: AWS Chime AI Blog Microsoft / Azure Preview Team Flows IP Advantage AzureAD GA of Tenant Restrictions B2B Updates Preview - MFA cloud based protection for on-premises VPN Azure Storage News GA of Managed Disks & Larger Scale Sets VM & Blob Storage Price Cut Storage Service Encryption for File Storage Containers Kubernetes Fission CoreOS moves from Fleet to Kubernetes Docker 1.13 GA Docker Secrets Management The Microsoft Cloud Show sponsored by: Sharegate makes it easier for organizations to adopt and use the latest Microsoft productivity tools, helping millions of users be happier and more productive at work. Sharegate is trusted by over 10,000 IT admins from over 110 countries to manage, migrate, and secure their SharePoint and Office 365 environments. Sharegate is recognized as the must-have tool for day-to-day administration of On-Premises, Cloud, and Hybrid environments. Interested in learning more? Check them out on sharegate.com or take advantage of their free resources for IT Admins, like this SharePoint or Office 365 Migration Checklist. Valid.nl's motto is “Stay Ahead”. Its mission is to enable its customers to excel in their business through the innovative use of IT. Valid is always on the lookout for new colleagues. Are you interested in all things happening in Azure, whether in infrastructure, SQL Server, Office 365, PowerBI, SharePoint or .Net? Look them up on Valid.nl.

In this 181st episode, AC and CJ sit down with Ben Niaulin from Sharegate to talk about digital transformation in the office and the impact Office 365 Groups and Teams is having with organizations.Notes: Sharegate SharePoint or Office 365 Migration Checklist The Microsoft Cloud Show sponsored by: Sharegate makes it easier for organizations to adopt and use the latest Microsoft productivity tools, helping millions of users be happier and more productive at work. Sharegate is trusted by over 10,000 IT admins from over 110 countries to manage, migrate, and secure their SharePoint and Office 365 environments. Sharegate is recognized as the must-have tool for day-to-day administration of On-Premises, Cloud, and Hybrid environments. Interested in learning more? Check them out on sharegate.com or take advantage of their free resources for IT Admins, like this SharePoint or Office 365 Migration Checklist. Valid.nl's motto is “Stay Ahead”. Its mission is to enable its customers to excel in their business through the innovative use of IT. Valid is always on the lookout for new colleagues. Are you interested in all things happening in Azure, whether in infrastructure, SQL Server, Office 365, PowerBI, SharePoint or .Net? Look them up on Valid.nl.

In this 180th episode AC and CJ share recent news from Microsoft, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Oracle and discuss recently quarterly results from Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Apple.Notes: Voitanos Free 10-day Understanding the SharePoint Framework Development Toolchain Email Course Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Keynotes and Full Agenda for CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe Microsoft Azure Resource Name, Pricing & Feature Updates: newsletter #1 and newsletter #2 Microsoft Office Add-ins are now available for Outlook on iOS Forrester wave report FastTrack now includes Win 10 and MS Teams Richard DiZegra: Delivering Better Applications Through Microsoft Teams Quarterly Results Microsoft TechCrunch, Bloomberg and Reuters Google Amazon Apple Oracle Cloud Licensing Change AC’s Picks VSCode 1.9 - node debugging Plex Skill for Amazon Alexa CJ’s Pick NASA: How Stressful Will a Trip to Mars Be on the Human Body? We Now Have a Peek Into What the NASA Twins Study Will Reveal The Microsoft Cloud Show sponsored by: Sharegate makes it easier for organizations to adopt and use the latest Microsoft productivity tools, helping millions of users be happier and more productive at work. Sharegate is trusted by over 10,000 IT admins from over 110 countries to manage, migrate, and secure their SharePoint and Office 365 environments. Sharegate is recognized as the must-have tool for day-to-day administration of On-Premises, Cloud, and Hybrid environments. Interested in learning more? Check them out on sharegate.com or take advantage of their free resources for IT Admins, like this SharePoint or Office 365 Migration Checklist. Valid.nl's motto is “Stay Ahead”. Its mission is to enable its customers to excel in their business through the innovative use of IT. Valid is always on the lookout for new colleagues. Are you interested in all things happening in Azure, whether in infrastructure, SQL Server, Office 365, PowerBI, SharePoint or .Net? Look them up on Valid.nl.

In this 179th episode, AC and CJ sit down with AvePoint's Dux Raymond Sy & Paul Olenick to talk about AvePoint Citizen Services, appsource.com and how their solution leverages the Microsoft cloud to provide more self-service and insightful services to citizens of local municipalities.Notes: Notes CJ’s Making Perfectly Clear Ice AC’s “Introducing the SharePoint Framework” webinar Kickstarter: Apollo 11 Flight Plan Re-Issue AppSource.com AvePoint Citizen Services Picks AC’s Picks Electronic Paper Tablet ECMAScript 2017: the final feature set CJ’s Picks F1™ Brake Disc Clock - Sahara Force India Paul’s Picks Akinator the Genie Dux’s Picks Panda Planner The Microsoft Cloud Show sponsored by: Sharegate makes it easier for organizations to adopt and use the latest Microsoft productivity tools, helping millions of users be happier and more productive at work. Sharegate is trusted by over 10,000 IT admins from over 110 countries to manage, migrate, and secure their SharePoint and Office 365 environments. Sharegate is recognized as the must-have tool for day-to-day administration of On-Premises, Cloud, and Hybrid environments. Interested in learning more? Check them out on sharegate.com or take advantage of their free resources for IT Admins, like this SharePoint or Office 365 Migration Checklist. Valid.nl's motto is “Stay Ahead”. Its mission is to enable its customers to excel in their business through the innovative use of IT. Valid is always on the lookout for new colleagues. Are you interested in all things happening in Azure, whether in infrastructure, SQL Server, Office 365, PowerBI, SharePoint or .Net? Look them up on Valid.nl.

In this 178th episode, AC and CJ share some of the latest news from Microsoft & Office in the cloud space. Then AC sits down to talk with Doug Ware about his new community project, Azure Functions for SharePointNotes: News OneDrive brings new file collaboration and management features to the enterprise Microsoft mulls cutting UK datacentre investment amid Brexit concerns Office 365 Meets Its SLA But Fails Elsewhere Interview Links GitHub: AzureFunctionsForSharePoint Docs: Azure Functions For SharePoint AC’s Picks Facebook Purity YouTube: Titan Touchdown The Oregon Trail Card Game Doug’s Picks Ken Burns’ Dust Bowl Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life History Channel: Vikings The Microsoft Cloud Show sponsored by: Sharegate makes it easier for organizations to adopt and use the latest Microsoft productivity tools, helping millions of users be happier and more productive at work. Sharegate is trusted by over 10,000 IT admins from over 110 countries to manage, migrate, and secure their SharePoint and Office 365 environments. Sharegate is recognized as the must-have tool for day-to-day administration of On-Premises, Cloud, and Hybrid environments. Interested in learning more? Check them out on sharegate.com or take advantage of their free resources for IT Admins, like this SharePoint or Office 365 Migration Checklist. Valid.nl's motto is “Stay Ahead”. Its mission is to enable its customers to excel in their business through the innovative use of IT. Valid is always on the lookout for new colleagues. Are you interested in all things happening in Azure, whether in infrastructure, SQL Server, Office 365, PowerBI, SharePoint or .Net? Look them up on Valid.nl.

In this 177th episode, AC and CJ discuss how they "cut the cord", or slashed costs and their dependence on cable and satellite TV providers.Notes: SpaceX “Anomaly Updates” from Sept 2016 Explosion SpaceX Iridium-1 Launch Webcast Flight Club - SpaceX Iridium-1 Gene Cernan The Last Man on the Moon AC’s Blog - Cutting the Cord - Taking Control of TV and Slashing Monthly Costs Over 70% The Microsoft Cloud Show sponsored by: Sharegate makes it easier for organizations to adopt and use the latest Microsoft productivity tools, helping millions of users be happier and more productive at work. Sharegate is trusted by over 10,000 IT admins from over 110 countries to manage, migrate, and secure their SharePoint and Office 365 environments. Sharegate is recognized as the must-have tool for day-to-day administration of On-Premises, Cloud, and Hybrid environments. Interested in learning more? Check them out on sharegate.com or take advantage of their free resources for IT Admins, like this SharePoint or Office 365 Migration Checklist. Valid.nl's motto is “Stay Ahead”. Its mission is to enable its customers to excel in their business through the innovative use of IT. Valid is always on the lookout for new colleagues. Are you interested in all things happening in Azure, whether in infrastructure, SQL Server, Office 365, PowerBI, SharePoint or .Net? Look them up on Valid.nl.

In this 176th episode, AC & CJ share their predictions, wishes, and goals for 2017.Notes:AC’s Blog: Cutting the Cord - Taking Control of TV and Slashing Monthly Costs Over 70% AC’s Webinar: Introducing the SharePoint Framework Yahoo says Marissa Mayer will leave board after Verizon deal closes, will operate under new name Altaba Microsoft is taking on IFTTT with even more supported services in Microsoft Flow Microsoft StaffHub is here! The Microsoft Cloud Show sponsored by: Valid.nl's motto is “Stay Ahead”. Its mission is to enable its customers to excel in their business through the innovative use of IT. Valid is always on the lookout for new colleagues. Are you interested in all things happening in Azure, whether in infrastructure, SQL Server, Office 365, PowerBI, SharePoint or .Net? Look them up on Valid.nl. Rencore is a market-leader in the code analysis space. Founded and driven by high-profile international SharePoint and Office 365 experts, their main goal is to help any organization using Microsoft’s enterprise productivity environments to work more efficiently by providing software that optimizes and secures their collaboration solutions. Rencore’s most recognized product, the SharePoint Code Analysis Framework SPCAF, is the de-facto standard tool for verifying the quality, compliance, and governance of SharePoint and Office 365 customizations. If your company is using SharePoint or Office 365 and you are struggling to get your Office 365 and SharePoint customizations under control, check them out at spcaf.com to learn all the ways SPCAF can help you. Sharegate makes it easier for organizations to adopt and use the latest Microsoft productivity tools, helping millions of users be happier and more productive at work. Sharegate is trusted by over 10,000 IT admins from over 110 countries to manage, migrate, and secure their SharePoint and Office 365 environments. Sharegate is recognized as the must-have tool for day-to-day administration of On-Premises, Cloud, and Hybrid environments. Interested in learning more? Check them out on sharegate.com to learn how Sharegate can make you more productive.

In this 175th episode, AC and CJ interviewed Microsoft MVP Laura Rogers. In this detailed interview, they talked about the rapidly evolving and improving Microsoft PowerApps and Flow that facilitate building business forms & automation with easy to use tools!Notes: Laura Rogers http://www.wonderlaura.com Laura’s YouTube Channel IW Mentor @iwmentor The Microsoft Cloud Show sponsored by: Valid.nl's motto is “Stay Ahead”. Its mission is to enable its customers to excel in their business through the innovative use of IT. Valid is always on the lookout for new colleagues. Are you interested in all things happening in Azure, whether in infrastructure, SQL Server, Office 365, PowerBI, SharePoint or .Net? Look them up on Valid.nl. Rencore is a market-leader in the code analysis space. Founded and driven by high-profile international SharePoint and Office 365 experts, their main goal is to help any organization using Microsoft’s enterprise productivity environments to work more efficiently by providing software that optimizes and secures their collaboration solutions. Rencore’s most recognized product, the SharePoint Code Analysis Framework SPCAF, is the de-facto standard tool for verifying the quality, compliance, and governance of SharePoint and Office 365 customizations. If your company is using SharePoint or Office 365 and you are struggling to get your Office 365 and SharePoint customizations under control, check them out at spcaf.com to learn all the ways SPCAF can help you. Sharegate makes it easier for organizations to adopt and use the latest Microsoft productivity tools, helping millions of users be happier and more productive at work. Sharegate is trusted by over 10,000 IT admins from over 110 countries to manage, migrate, and secure their SharePoint and Office 365 environments. Sharegate is recognized as the must-have tool for day-to-day administration of On-Premises, Cloud, and Hybrid environments. Interested in learning more? Check them out on sharegate.com to learn how Sharegate can make you more productive.

In this 174th episode, AC & CJ discuss some of the recent news out of the Azure Storage group as well as some updates from the Visio team in Microsoft Office.Notes: Azure Storage Larger Block Blobs Import / Export Microsoft App Source Office Visio Online Preview Visio Viewer for iOS Picks AC’s Picks Visdown - Markdown for Visualization Programming Languages CJ’s Picks Into the Black Keybase chrisjohnson on Keybase andrewconnell on Keybase The Microsoft Cloud Show sponsored by: Valid.nl's motto is “Stay Ahead”. Its mission is to enable its customers to excel in their business through the innovative use of IT. Valid is always on the lookout for new colleagues. Are you interested in all things happening in Azure, whether in infrastructure, SQL Server, Office 365, PowerBI, SharePoint or .Net? Look them up on Valid.nl. Rencore is a market-leader in the code analysis space. Founded and driven by high-profile international SharePoint and Office 365 experts, their main goal is to help any organization using Microsoft’s enterprise productivity environments to work more efficiently by providing software that optimizes and secures their collaboration solutions. Rencore’s most recognized product, the SharePoint Code Analysis Framework SPCAF, is the de-facto standard tool for verifying the quality, compliance, and governance of SharePoint and Office 365 customizations. If your company is using SharePoint or Office 365 and you are struggling to get your Office 365 and SharePoint customizations under control, check them out at spcaf.com to learn all the ways SPCAF can help you. Sharegate makes it easier for organizations to adopt and use the latest Microsoft productivity tools, helping millions of users be happier and more productive at work. Sharegate is trusted by over 10,000 IT admins from over 110 countries to manage, migrate, and secure their SharePoint and Office 365 environments. Sharegate is recognized as the must-have tool for day-to-day administration of On-Premises, Cloud, and Hybrid environments. Interested in learning more? Check them out on sharegate.com to learn how Sharegate can make you more productive.

In this 173rd episode, AC and CJ first cover some of the latest news in the Azure and container space. Then they look back at their 2016 predictions and wishes (originally shared in episode 110)... let's see how they did!Notes: Links [Docker Donates containerd, its Core Container Runtime, to Accelerate Innovation Across the Container Ecosystem](http://blog.calsoftinc.com/industry_insights/docker-donates-containerd-its-core-container-runtime-to-accelerate-innovation-across-the-container-ecosystem] COREOS - Kubernetes Operators Microsoft Graph - Delta Query Introducing Change Feed support in Azure DocumentDB DocumentDB: Paper about the TCO of running a NoSQL database is available Application Insights: Telemetry data will require HTTPS Episode 110 | AC & CJ’s 2016 Predictions & Wishes-AC’s Picks TestCafe GIT Query Language The Microsoft Cloud Show sponsored by: Valid.nl's motto is “Stay Ahead”. Its mission is to enable its customers to excel in their business through the innovative use of IT. Valid is always on the lookout for new colleagues. Are you interested in all things happening in Azure, whether in infrastructure, SQL Server, Office 365, PowerBI, SharePoint or .Net? Look them up on Valid.nl. Rencore is a market-leader in the code analysis space. Founded and driven by high-profile international SharePoint and Office 365 experts, their main goal is to help any organization using Microsoft’s enterprise productivity environments to work more efficiently by providing software that optimizes and secures their collaboration solutions. Rencore’s most recognized product, the SharePoint Code Analysis Framework SPCAF, is the de-facto standard tool for verifying the quality, compliance, and governance of SharePoint and Office 365 customizations. If your company is using SharePoint or Office 365 and you are struggling to get your Office 365 and SharePoint customizations under control, check them out at spcaf.com to learn all the ways SPCAF can help you. Sharegate makes it easier for organizations to adopt and use the latest Microsoft productivity tools, helping millions of users be happier and more productive at work. Sharegate is trusted by over 10,000 IT admins from over 110 countries to manage, migrate, and secure their SharePoint and Office 365 environments. Sharegate is recognized as the must-have tool for day-to-day administration of On-Premises, Cloud, and Hybrid environments. Interested in learning more? Check them out on sharegate.com to learn how Sharegate can make you more productive.

In this special episode, we sit down with Valid, one of the Microsoft Cloud Show sponsors to learn more about their business.Notes: Valid

In this 171st episode, AC sat down with Scott Hoag and Ben Stegink to find out what they think is new and interesting with Azure. At the start of the show, AC also covered some news from Microsoft and AWS as well.Notes: AWS News New Services and Features Launched at AWS re:Invent 2016 Announcing the AWS Canada (Central) Region Microsoft News Microsoft + LinkedIn: Beginning our Journey Together Update to Filtering and Sorting in the Mail, Calendar and Contacts REST API Microsoft to offer option of 16 years of Windows Server, SQL Server support through new Premium Assurance offer Notes from the Azure Interview Accelerated Networking, Information and Getting Started How FPGA’s for Networking are attached to Azure VMS Supported Server Sizes and OO for Accelerated Networking Azure DevTest Labs Azure AD Identity Protection Azure Mobility Application Management Azure Mobility Application Management w/o Enrollment The Microsoft Cloud Show sponsored by: Valid.nl's motto is “Stay Ahead”. Its mission is to enable its customers to excel in their business through the innovative use of IT. Valid is always on the lookout for new colleagues. Are you interested in all things happening in Azure, whether in infrastructure, SQL Server, Office 365, PowerBI, SharePoint or .Net? Look them up on Valid.nl. Rencore is a market-leader in the code analysis space. Founded and driven by high-profile international SharePoint and Office 365 experts, their main goal is to help any organization using Microsoft’s enterprise productivity environments to work more efficiently by providing software that optimizes and secures their collaboration solutions. Rencore’s most recognized product, the SharePoint Code Analysis Framework SPCAF, is the de-facto standard tool for verifying the quality, compliance, and governance of SharePoint and Office 365 customizations. If your company is using SharePoint or Office 365 and you are struggling to get your Office 365 and SharePoint customizations under control, check them out at spcaf.com to learn all the ways SPCAF can help you. Sharegate makes it easier for organizations to adopt and use the latest Microsoft productivity tools, helping millions of users be happier and more productive at work. Sharegate is trusted by over 10,000 IT admins from over 110 countries to manage, migrate, and secure their SharePoint and Office 365 environments. Sharegate is recognized as the must-have tool for day-to-day administration of On-Premises, Cloud, and Hybrid environments. Interested in learning more? Check them out on sharegate.com to learn how Sharegate can make you more productive.