Marc and I run through all the latest cloud news in the wind down to the holiday season. Still plenty of things happening, especially around Azure so listen in for the latest.

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@marckean

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New Skype for Business Mac Client

Azure AD PAss through authentication

New capabilities for EMS

Marc and I chew the fat over the latest updates from the Microsoft Cloud. No guest for this episode just us giving you the latest news. Don’t worry we are buys teeing up some great guests for future episodes but we thought we’d get this update out for everyone.

You can listen to this episode directly at:

http://ciaops.podbean.com/e/episode-120-cloud-update/

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Satya’s Australian visit

Azure N Series machines available

Azure functions now generally available

Azure backups directly from VM blade in portal

CMD to be replaced by PowerShell

Azure news from Marc

Outlook Customer Manager in Office 365

New SharePoint Team news authoring

New Microsoft documentation site

Marc reports back on what happened during his first trip to the MVP Summit in Redmond. You’ll learn his experiences with the events, the people and the places as well as an interesting aside on Microsoft grass! You’ll also get the latest Office 365 and Azure news so listen for details of our roving reporter in the belly of the beast.

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http://ciaops.podbean.com/e/episode-119-mvp-summit/

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@directorcia

Automated patching for Azure VMS

Getting started with the new Azure AD Management experience

The Azure portals

https://rc.portal.azure.com

https://ms.portal.azure.com

https://portal.azure.com

Master the art of stage presence with James Whittaker

Azure detailed login auditing

Microsoft Teams

After the usual cloud news wrap up with both of us Marc dives deep into Azure backup with Trinadh who is the Program Manager for Azure IaaS backup. He also ropes in fellow MVP Stephan Budo to learn more about what Azure backup can do and what options are available.

You can listen to this episode directly at:

http://ciaops.podbean.com/e/episode-118-azure-backup/

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Resources

Marc Kean – @marckean

Stephane Budo – @_TheWorks_

Robert Crane – @directorcia

Dynamics 365 now generally available

Microsoft Flow and PowerApps now generally available

New scheduling experience for Outlook for iOS

Azure Onboarding Guide for IT organizations

Marc and I round up all the cloud news and then I spend some time with Nigel Moore talking about selling an IT business. Nigel has extensive and current experience in exactly this having just sold his own IT business. Nigel shares some real world learnings that will benefit anyone who runs a business.

You can listen to this episode directly at:

http://ciaops.podbean.com/e/episode-117-nigel-moore/

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Nigel Moore – @nigel_moore

Marc Kean – @marckean

Robert Crane – @directorcia

Dynamics 365

Facebook Workplace

PowerBI Office 365 Content Pack

Marc and I are joined by MVP Bill Chestnut, maybe better known as Biz Talk Bill, to speak about the wave of automation that is sweeping Microsoft products. Bill brings us up to date about Microsoft Biztalk Server and then shares with us his insights around things such as Azure functions, Microsoft Flow and PowerApps. We also cover the latest Azure, Office 365 and Microsoft Cloud news for you to ensure you have the latest.

You can listen to this episode directly at:

http://ciaops.podbean.com/e/episode-116-bill-chestnut/

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also now on Soundcloud at:

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Resources

Bill Chestnut – @biztalkbill

Marc Kean – @marckean

Robert Crane – @directorcia

Biztalkbill.com

Azure functions

Azure Logic Apps

Microsoft Flow

PowerApps

Marc’s blog

New access controls for Office 365

New Office 365 App launcher

Updates to Yammer

Automatically download all the Microsoft Ignite 2016 content