Microsoft Cloud Show

In this 170th episode, AC and CJ discuss some of the announcements from AWS from the re:Invent conference. They then switch gears and talk about ExpressRoute for both Azure and Office 365. Notes: Microsoft News Microsoft to raise prices after slump in pound AWS re:Invent 2016 News IPv6 Support for EC2 Instances in Virtual Private Clouds AWS Greengrass AWS ColdBuild Dev Preview - EC2 Instances (F1) with Programmable Hardware Announcing AWS Organizations: Centrally Manage Multiple AWS Accounts AWS X-Ray AWS Shield ExpressRoute Azure ExpressRoute for Office 365 Ignite Session: Implement ExpressRoute for Microsoft Office 365 (step by step) 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 169th episode, AC and CJ discuss some of the latest cloud news. Included in this discussion are new Office 365 supported locales and languages, a new Customer Manager for O365 and a deal with the EU related to the LinkedIn acquisition. We also covered some Azure news such as token auth for CDN's, new Azure VM sizes for Av2's, Application Insights going GA with new diagnostic preview features and auto-shutdown of VMs.Notes: General News-Azure vs. Google vs. AWS pricing-Top Cloud Myths of 2016 - Julia White Office 365 Office 365 in 10 new markets Customer Manager for O365 Hack Productivity Microsoft offers EU an Outlook deal to secure LinkedIn acquisition Azure Application Insights GA & Diagnostic Preview Azure Auto-Shutdown for VMs using ARM Azure new Av2 Series VM Sizes Azure ANN Token Auth with Azure CDN-Picks: CJ’s Pick Measurement of Impulsive Thrust from a Closed Radio-Frequency Cavity in Vacuum AC’s Pick National Geographic: Countdown to Mars 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 168th episode, AC and CJ look back and discuss some of the stats and additional non-container news that came out of Microsoft's Connect(); event in New York City the week of November 14th, 2016. They also talk about OpenAI selecting Azure as their platform, more continuous integration with containers, new GPUs available in the Google Cloud Platform and some space related picks (yeah... we know... shocker).Notes: Connect(); News Google Cloud joins .NET Froundation Tech Steering Group Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate Visual Studio Mobile Center Preview Visual Studio for Mac Preview Azure Functions GA Azure Bot Service Azure App Service on Linux Preview now ith Container & ASP.NET Core support Azure N Series GA SQL Server on Linux & Windows VSCode extension for SQL & updated connectors & tools Azure Data Lake Analytics & Store GA with VS & VSCode Tooling Azure DocumentDB new emulator for offline mode (initially for Windows only) Microsoft / Azure News OpenAI Joins Microsoft on the Cloud’s Next Big Front Continuous integration and deployment to Azure Container Service Continuous Delivery with Containers – Use Visual Studio Team Services and Docker to Build and Deploy ASP.NET Core to Linux New Azure PaaS services available for Azure Stack Technical Preview 2 (TP2) Google / AWS News Announcing GPUs for Google Cloud Platform AC’s Picks Into the Black: The Extraordinary Untold Story of the First Flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia and the Astronauts Who Flew Her Margaret Hamilton, Apollo Software Engineer, Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom CJ’s Picks Margaret Hamilton and Grace Hopper Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom 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 one of the Microsoft Cloud Show sponsors to learn more about their business.Notes: Rencore SPCAF SPTransformator

This week we spoke with Steve Peschka about his product Office365Monitor for monitoring and uptime reporting of Office 365. Office365Mon tagline is "Be in the know. Before your users. Before even Office 365." and it helps you stay in front is issues and outages in Office 365. Steve is a long-time Microsoftie that left the mothership to start Office365Mon. He knows a thing or two about SharePoint/Office 365 and is a leading authority on identity and access management. Notes: https://www.office365mon.com/ http://samlman.com/ https://twitter.com/speschka 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 165th episode, AC and CJ sit down with Microsoft's Executive Vice President Scott Guthrie. In this interview, Scott shares his insights into the developer space over his career at Microsoft. We then started talking about one of recent interest in containers. Scott shared a lot of the work Microsoft has been doing and went into details about some of the recent news related to Azure, containers & the development workloads recently announced at KubeCon and Connect(). Finally, we have a fun question for Scott: what tech would he like to have a week to play around with!Notes: KubeCon News Bringing Kubernetes Support to Azure Azure Container Registry Open Source Azure Container Service Engine Connect(); News Visual Studio for Docker SQL Server 2016 on Linux App Service supports Linux 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 164th episode, AC and CJ tackle the latest news in the cloud world. This includes Twitter slashing jobs to reach profitability, thoughts on the new Apple's MacBook Pros and tons of Microsoft news. We also talk about the GA announcements for Microsoft Flow and PowerApps, but spend a good amount of time talking about a new product from Office: Microsoft Teams, a competitor to Slack.Notes: Twitter cuts jobs with eye on 2017 profit; Vine discontinued Apple News New Macbooks Are Finally Here, and They Certainly Seem Worth the Wait Apple just told the world it has no idea who the Mac is for Microsoft News: Microsoft open sources its next-gen cloud hardware design Connect() 2016 Microsoft Flow GA Microsoft PowerApps GA Microsoft Teams Office: Introducing Microsoft Teams—the chat-based workspace in Office 365 CJ: Microsoft Teams puts people at the center ZDNET: Microsoft Teams - What about guest support, an Education version, and other questions answered CNET: Microsoft Teams - 7 things you need to know This episode is sponsored by Valid.nl, a Microsoft gold partner whose mission is to enable its customers to excel in their business through the innovative use of technology. Valid is always on the lookout for consultants, architects and engineers. Do you know Azure, BI and Analytics, .Net, Office365 or SharePoint? Look them up on valid.nl.

In this 163rd episode, AC and CJ talk about the recent news on Microsoft's Q1 2017 earnings report and the new Surface Studio. They also discuss new products from Google, labs from Docker and the day the internet broke. Finally, AC talks about what he's up to and a new training site he's launched called Voitanos (http://voitanos.io). Notes: News Microsoft’s Q1 2017 Earnings: Surface Cloud & Office Continue to Shine Microsoft Surface Studio Skype for Business on Mac Docker Labs Google Takes on Microsoft with new Digital Whiteboard Google Turning Spreadsheets, Docs & Presentations into ToDo Lists Webcams Invovled in Dyn DDOS Attack Recalled AC’s News Voitanos - AC’s New Training Site AC’s Blog: What’s Next for Me: Introducing Voitanos for OnDemand Courses Picks: CJ’s Pick: Elon Musk’s Reddit AMA AC’s Pick: Apollo 11 Command Module 3D Scan This episode is sponsored by Valid.nl, a Microsoft gold partner whose mission is to enable its customers to excel in their business through the innovative use of technology. Valid is always on the lookout for consultants, architects and engineers. Do you know Azure, BI and Analytics, .Net, Office365 or SharePoint? Look them up on valid.nl.

In this 162nd episode, AC and CJ interview Brendan Burns from Microsoft about Kubernetes. Brendan came from Google in recent months as one of the original developers who started the open source container orchestrator Kubernetes. Not only does he still work on it today while working at Microsoft, but as you'll here in this interview, he's also working to add better support for Azure as we saw in the most recent 1.4 release of Kubernetes.Notes: Brendan Burns Twitter @brendandburns Google engineer and Kubernetes founder Brendan Burns joining Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Kubernetes.io Kubernetes on Twitter Kubernetes org on Github Kubernetes on Slack ACMQueue Magazine: Borg, Omega, and Kubernetes KubeCon 2016 Kubernetes Anywhere for Azure Apprenda: SIG-Windows presents Windows Server Containers with Kubernetes, running on Microsoft Azure Minikube Kubernetes Windows SIG This episode is sponsored by Valid.nl, a Microsoft gold partner whose mission is to enable its customers to excel in their business through the innovative use of technology. Valid is always on the lookout for consultants, architects and engineers. Do you know Azure, BI and Analytics, .Net, Office365 or SharePoint? Look them up on valid.nl.

In this episode AC & CJ interviewed Kelsey Hightower, a Developer Advocate at Google, to talk about Kubernetes. Kubernetes is a container orchestration engine that powers Google Cloud Platform's Google Container Engine product (GKE) and is based on "Borg", the system that powers all of Google. Notes: News Workplace By Facebook Makes Fax Machines Obsolete, Something Something Productivity Office 365 local datacenters now available in the United Kingdom Azure AD Premium P2 GA Azure Active Directory Domain Services Goes Live Links from the Kubernetes interview with Kelsey Hightower Kubernetes.io GCP Blog: From Google to the World: the Kubernetes origin story Kubernetes the hard way Other interviews Kelsey has done on Kubernetes: GCP Podcast #16 The Cloud cast #261 Kubecast #1 This episode is sponsored by Valid.nl, a Microsoft gold partner whose mission is to enable its customers to excel in their business through the innovative use of technology. Valid is always on the lookout for consultants, architects and engineers. Do you know Azure, BI and Analytics, .Net, Office365 or SharePoint? Look them up on valid.nl.

In this episode, AC & CJ sat down at the Microsoft Ignite 2016 conference with Microsoft's Mike Ammerlaan to talk about the SharePoint Framework. Mike recently rejoined the SharePoint team to tackle developer marketing for SharePoint. We wanted to share with our listeners Microsoft's stance on the SharePoint Framework so join us for an informative discussion!Notes: Get Started with Developing on SharePoint & SharePoint Framework Build your first SharePoint Framework Part Showcase of Parts built with SharePoint Framework This episode is sponsored by Valid.nl, a Microsoft gold partner whose mission is to enable its customers to excel in their business through the innovative use of technology. Valid is always on the lookout for consultants, architects and engineers. Do you know Azure, BI and Analytics, .Net, Office365 or SharePoint? Look them up on valid.nl.

In this episode, AC and CJ look back at the Microsoft Ignite 2016 conference in Atlanta, Georgia offering their thoughts and highlights from the show. This show also features an interview with Microsoft's Corporate Vice President of SharePoint and OneDrive, Jeff Teper.Notes:This episode is sponsored by Valid.nl, a Microsoft gold partner whose mission is to enable its customers to excel in their business through the innovative use of technology. Valid is always on the lookout for consultants, architects and engineers. Do you know Azure, BI and Analytics, .Net, Office365 or SharePoint? Look them up on valid.nl.

In this episode, AC talked to Mark Fussell of Microsoft about Service Fabric. Learn what Service Fabric is, how Microsoft released the software that runs a big part of Azure and is available to customers to build applications.Notes: http://aka.ms/tryservicefabric Azure Cloud Cover: Episode 210: Service Fabric Series (1 of 3) - Introduction Azure Cloud Cover: Episode 211: Service Fabric Series (2 of 3) - Service Fabric with Containers Azure Cloud Cover: Episode 212: Service Fabric Series (3 of 3) - Service Fabric on Linux

In this episode, AC caught up with Harmon.io CEO Yaacov Cohen to learn more about their new product Harmon.ie Collage.

In this episode, AC caught up with Yina Arenas of Microsoft on some new preview announcements and updates to the Microsoft Graph.