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In this episode, AC & CJ look back at 2020. It’s not all about the pandemic… there was also some cloudy news! We also look at AC & CJ’s wishes & goals for 2020 and see how they ended up on the year.News Episode 377 | Microsoft 365 and Ignite 2020 with CVP Jeff Teper Episode 342 | Looking Forward to 2020 Picks AC’s Pick DAVIDS PERSONAL KITT KNIGHT RIDER CAR CJ’s Pick Booting from a vinyl record

This past week saw what looks like one of the worst security compromises in decades. AC and CJ dive into how it happened and discuss some of the details on how it has impacted Microsoft 365 customers. Oh, and they discuss Google's recent massive outage too. Banter ShareGate’s holiday message China recovers Chang’e-5 moon samples after complex 23-day mission News Gmail, YouTube, Google Docs, and other Google services hit by massive outage Securely manage and autofill passwords across all your mobile devices with Microsoft Authenticator Microsoft 365 Message Center Rollup 229331: Prester View in Teams Presentation Sharing 229143: Update to Microsoft 365 and Outlook for Windows connectivity 229161: Yammer APIs: URL changes to user, communities, or network photos Powerful ways to connect SharePoint team sites, files, lists and pages as tabs in Microsoft Teams Important steps for customers to protect themselves from recent nation-state cyberattacks Customer Guidance on Recent Nation-State Cyber Attacks Microsoft unleashes ‘Death Star’ on SolarWinds hackers in extraordinary response to breach Malicious Domain in SolarWinds Hack Turned into ‘Killswitch’ Advanced Persistent Threat Compromise of Government Agencies, Critical Infrastructure, and Private Sector Organizations Picks AC’s Picks Watch: BMW Made the World’s First Electrified Wingsuit. It Reached 186 MPH on Its First Flight. Rocket Bird CJ’s Pick My hunt for the El Chapo McLaren F1

In this episode, AC & CJ catch up on the latest news in the Microsoft Cloud, and tackle a question submitted by a listener. Special shout out and congratulations to our sponsor AvePoint and their recent news announcing their intention to go public!Banter AvePoint to go public via SPAC valued at $2B Starship | SN8 | High-Altitude Flight Test News How to Enable Plus Addressing in Office 365 Exchange online Launch of Microsoft Teams preview experience and alignment with Microsoft 365 deployment channels Breakout rooms generally available today in Microsoft Teams Microsoft Search query API for Microsoft Graph is now Generally Available! Over 200 million users rely on SharePoint as Microsoft is again recognized as a Leader in the 2020 Gartner Content Services Platforms Magic Quadrant Report The broadest range of cloud innovation across US Government data classifications Microsoft Linux Distro - CBL-Mariner Picks AC’s Pick Microsoft Teams - RCE CJ’s Pick The Plan to Turn Scrapped Rockets Into Space Stations

It’s been a big week with AWS’s largest outage yet, AWS re:invent conference, Slack being acquired and Microsoft news and AC and CJ dive right in.Banter AWS engineer puts Windows 10 on Arm on Apple Mac M1 – and it thrashes Surface Pro X News Control automatic external email forwarding in Microsoft 365 Microsoft Roadmap Office 365 ATP: External Email Forwarding Controls Microsoft productivity score feature criticised as workplace surveillance Microsoft apologises for feature criticised as workplace surveillance Zoom Pricing & Plans Six months after Oracle trumpeted Zoom as a cloud customer, AWS says it is Zoom’s ‘preferred’ cloud Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack Prolonged AWS outage takes down a big chunk of the internet Summary of the Amazon Kinesis Event in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region AWS re:Invent 2020 – Announcements From the News Blog New – Use Amazon EC2 Mac Instances to Build & Test macOS, iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, and watchOS Apps New for AWS Lambda – 1ms Billing Granularity Adds Cost Savings New for AWS Lambda – Container Image Support New for AWS Lambda – Functions with Up to 10 GB of Memory and 6 vCPUs Amazon Elastic Container Registry Public: A New Public Container Registry Amazon S3 Strong Consistency Amazon S3 Update – Strong Read-After-Write Consistency Want more PostgreSQL? You just might like Babelfish EKS Anywhere (coming in 2021) Picks AC’s Pick Video: Footage of Collapse Arecibo Observatory CJ’s Pick The Secret History of Microsoft Bob - Dave Tells All - Was Bob Secretly Hidden in Windows?

In this week's episode, AC & CJ discuss deprecation with Microsoft Graph, security news from Microsoft and share their favorite picks.Banter Voitanos’ Black Friday Cyber Monday 2020 Deals are back for 2020! News Meet the Microsoft Pluton processor – The security chip designed for the future of Windows PCs Microsoft Says North Korea And Russia Are Trying To Hack Into Covid Vaccine Research Publisher verification and app consent policies are now generally available Publisher verification of Azure AD apps Python creator Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft Bringing personal features in Microsoft Teams to desktop and web—now available in preview Microsoft 365 now available from new Brazil geography Outlook REST API v1.0 deprecation update Outlook REST API v2.0 production and beta endpoint deprecation Retiring Microsoft Graph notifications API (beta) Picks AC’s Pick THE BEIRUT PORT EXPLOSION CJ’s Pick schlae/snark-barker Joint Pick Space Shuttle External Fuel Tank

AC and CJ discuss the exciting events of this week in Apple land and what it might mean for the laptop market, tiktok should be renamed flip flop and SharePoint Conference 2020 and a bunch more news. Banter Introducing the next generation of Mac Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for Mac computers Apple Silicon M1 Chip in MacBook Air Outperforms High-End 16-Inch MacBook Pro Apple Announces The Apple Silicon M1: Ditching x86 - What to Expect, Based on A14 U.S. Backs Down on TikTok News Announcing .NET 5.0 Astonishing Performance of .NET 5 gRPC performance improvements in .NET 5 Zoom lied to users about end-to-end encryption for years, FTC says Message Center Updates: MC226053: Yammer embed widgets will be upgraded to the new Yammer; MC226038: Use Teams licenses to control access to Microsoft Teams Microsoft 365 (Virtual) Collaboration Conference (formerly SPC) Microsoft 365 GCC Tenant Upcoming Updates Microsoft Teams will let users pin posts in channels later this month Announcing general availability of Microsoft Teams Resource-specific consent and read channel messages Picks AC’s Pick Identity, Unlocked… Explained | Episode 1 CJ’s Picks The Least Dangerous To-Do List Operation Odessa

In this episode, AC and CJ talk about some recent updates from Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Graph & some upcoming conferences in the cloud sphere.News AWS re:Invent Universe2020 TikTok-Oracle deal and a potential US ban: Everything you need to know Microsoft Teams to get multi-account sign-in support in December (sort of) Microsoft named a Leader in the Gartner 2020 Magic Quadrant for Industrial IoT Platforms What’s new in Microsoft Graph Microsoft Graph Changelog (Preview) Announcing the general availability of the Microsoft To Do API in Microsoft Graph Picks AC’s Pick Voyager 2 is back online after eight months of radio silence CJ’s Pick I am Aubrey Cottle a.k.a. Kirtaner. I am the founder of the hacker collective “Anonymous”. Yes. Really. Ask me anything.

This week CJ asks AC about his new course he’s developing to help developers prepare for the MS-600 exam & they discuss a host of news from around the Microsoft Cloud.News SpaceX prices Starlink satellite internet service at $99 per month, according to e-mail Microsoft earnings easily top expectations, but forecast for Xbox’s debut quarter dings stock Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare is transforming the healthcare journey Microsoft: No Driver Updates Allowed for Win7 and Win8 SharePoint 2010 workflow retirement Microsoft: Teams now at more than 115 million daily active users Survey or quiz your friends and family with Microsoft Forms, now available for personal use Partnering with C3.ai and Adobe to re-invent CRM with AI Breaking change to Microsoft Graph Users API: Updates to on-premises sync-enabled user contact numbers are no longer allowed Import third-party platform messages to Teams using Microsoft Graph Picks AC’s Picks Notion Discover UI Design Decisions Of Leading Companies, From Leaked Screenshots & A/B Tests. CJ’s Pick How Mission Control’s Big Displays Worked

This week, AC & CJ discuss a partnership between Microsoft & Intel related to confidential computing, how Microsoft Teams has added integration with Salesforce, and other Microsoft cloudy news.News Microsoft pushes back return-to-work target date from January to July 2021 Introducing Microsoft Edge preview builds for Linux Microsoft partners with SpaceX to connect Azure cloud to Musk’s Starlink satellite internet Azure Space: Powering innovation on Earth and beyond Introducing the Microsoft Azure Modular Datacenter Microsoft is a Leader in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Full Life Cycle API Management Azure and Intel commit to delivering next generation confidential computing Azure introduces new capabilities for live video analytics Azure status history Microsoft Partners with Salesforce to Deliver Microsoft Teams Integration for Sales and Service Slack’s stock drops after Morgan Stanley says Covid-related spending is going to rivals Microsoft and Zoom Picks AC’s Pick Tesla hacker reveals what driver-facing camera is looking for CJ’s Pick This Person Does Not Exist Listener Pick - Robyn Eisler Prosthesis: Mech Racing | Alpha Mech Pilot Program

This week AC and CJ discuss AC’s new blog series on SPFx, discuss a new work management app notion.io and dive into some Zoom and Microsoft news from the last week.Banter Series: SharePoint Framework Five “W"s & One “H” answered Notion News OnZoom Linux under WSL2 can be leaking Microsoft to reportedly allow its 150,000 employees to work from home permanently, the latest tech giant to do so Microsoft acquires game publisher Bethesda Softworks for $7.5 billion Microsoft touts Windows 10 on Arm advances, including 64-bit emulation End users can now report “This wasn’t me” for unusual sign-in activity Exchange News and Announcements – Microsoft Ignite 2020 Edition Announcing the General Availability of Microsoft Graph Teams Membership API Picks AC’s Pick Kube DOOM CJ’s Pick ‘The Right Stuff’ lifts off on Disney Plus, takes flight from book, film

In this episode, AC and CJ review some of the recent news in the Microsoft Cloud space, including how Excel’s date formatting caused some issues for some genome sequencers and the incorrect file format selection resulted in reduced contact tracing in the UK.News & Interesting Links Microsoft’s newest sustainable datacenter region coming to Arizona in 2021 Microsoft 365 Sept 28 Outage Microsoft Outlook was down worldwide for four hours Nintex Announces Agreement to Acquire K2 Software, Inc. Microsoft 365 roadmap Covid: Test error ‘should never have happened’ - Hancock Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates Google and Oracle are squaring off in the Supreme Court. Here’s what’s at stake Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster for Google Google LLC v. Oracle America Inc. Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc. Oral Argument Audio Series: SharePoint Framework Five “W"s & One “H” answered Picks AC’s Picks https://github.com/ggerganov/wave-share Fear the Sky (The Fear Saga Book 1) CJ’s Pick Star Wars Squadrons

Oracle has been making strides with their own cloud services over the last few years. AC and CJ wanted to learn more and hear all about what they are up to in the cloud and how they differentiate with their products. This week Karan Batta, VP of Product at Oracle, joins AC and CJ to bring you up to speed on all things Oracle cloud. Guest Karan Batta - VP of Product, Oracle @karan_batta News Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Oracle Cloud Free Tier Episode 249 | HashiCorp Terraform with Microsoft Azure Oracle and Microsoft Accelerate Enterprise Cloud Adoption Overview of Oracle Applications and solutions on Azure Picks AC’s Pick Astronauts home in on International Space Station air leak CJ’s Pick Windows XP source code leaks online Guest Pick - Karan Batta Boxes of XBOXes

Last week saw the first fully virtual Microsoft Ignite conference. In this episode, AC and CJ talk about their impressions of the event, cover some key announcements made, and discuss how we might see MS do events like this in the future. News MICROSOFT IGNITE 2020 BOOK OF NEWS Introducing Flexible Server for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Introducing Azure Orbital: Process satellite data at cloud-scale Microsoft Bot Framework and Azure bot services update AT&T powered guardian device with Azure Sphere enables highly secured, simple, and scalable connectivity from anywhere Power platform low-code updates for professional developers in public preview for GitHub and Azure New Outlook for Mac uses Microsoft Sync technology, features support OS updates New calling features are coming soon to Microsoft Teams Announcing SharePoint Syntex Picks AC’s Pick this electrical transmission tower has a little problem. can you spot it? actually, it’s not a small problem–it cost us 16.65 billion dollars and caused the deaths of 85 people. CJ’s Pick Airbus Redesigns A350 Center Console Because Pilots Keep Spilling Coffee on Critical Instruments

In this episode, AC and CJ are joined by Jeff Teper, Microsoft CVP of Microsoft Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint. Jeff shares some of the big news around Microsoft 365 and his perspectives with us in this week of a virtual Microsoft Ignite 2020 Conference!Guest Jeff Teper - CVP Microsoft Teams, OneDrive & SharePoint, Microsoft @jeffteper News Episode 159 | Microsoft Ignite Recap & Interview with Jeff Teper, Microsoft CVP SharePoint and OneDrive Collaboration, communication and knowledge sharing with Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Project Cortex Picks AC’s Pick Players are fixing Microsoft Flight Simulator’s missing monuments with Google Maps CJ’s Pick When you browse Instagram and find former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s passport number Guest Pick - Jeff Teper Star Wars: Mandalorian Season 2

The JEDI contract is the biggest cloud contract awarded worldwide to date and MS is fighting for it. AC and CJ discuss where things are at with the MS vs. Amazon fight, talk about Ignite coming in a week and the sessions MS have posted and pontificate about the Fluid Framework and it’s seemingly perpetual just around the corner release date.News Fluid Framework is now open source MICROSOFT’S NEW FLUID OFFICE DOCUMENT IS GOOGLE DOCS ON STEROIDS Pentagon says it will stick with Microsoft for $10 billion JEDI cloud contract Microsoft Ignite session catalog Announcing the public preview of Microsoft Graph change notifications delivery via Azure Event Hubs SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: August 2020 PnP Virtual Conference – September 2020 – Summary and Recordings https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/advancing-a-culture-of-reliability-at-the-pace-of-azure/ Picks AC’s Pick The UX of LEGO Interface Panels CJ’s Pick Aircraft - Sci-Fi Ships Pack (Star Wars, Top Gun, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica)