 Good morning, everyone. Good morning, ladies. How are you on this lovely Friday? I am ready for the weekend. Yes. Yeah, because next week is going to be a doozy. Oh, yeah. Rest up. Luckily, for the first time in a few years, actually, I have no involvement with the build other than I get to just sit back and watch. I'm moderating a session, but that's it. And if you want to fly to the UK and be helping me do what I'm doing all next week, that would be amazing. I'll be there overnight flight. Actually, just email. Actually, no next week. I can't. I'm in Quebec City. I am representing Microsoft doing a keynote for Web at Quebec, a conference on React and Vue.js. That's a developer conference. I don't know why they asked me to. Awesome. Awesome. They're looking pretty. Cool. Well, it's good to see James Vandenberg in the audience. Yes. Vandenberg. Sorry, I can't speak today. I have literally used all my speaking skills this week prepping for build. So apologies now to everyone. Yeah. So this week is the build special edition. I was waiting to see when I could use this overlay. You'd have music with it. Oh, yeah. No, I didn't have that much time. Yeah, because normally we go through the news of what's going on at the mothership. The news have been getting progressively more sparse and spread out over the last few weeks. It's actually been a chore. We've had to go down the rabbit hole of product group blogs and inverses like official announcements to get stories. This week, it was almost nonexistent due to possibly the build news embargo. And everybody not wanting to, product groups that are not involved in build, not wanting to be overshadowed by build. So they're waiting for after build to put out the new updates. So we decided, or more to the effect that, whoops, I decided that person over there, April, the wonderful April, the April Edwards, suggested why don't we do a special build edition. And I thought, this is fantastic. And this is also a first. There's three of us on. I know. So I'm going to shut up. And I'm going to let you girls say something. I'll start. So Pierre, if you stand up and show the camera, you're pretty T-shirt. So for those of you watching, we've had a lot of requests for people to get the AbleWang T-shirts. They are going to launch Monday morning. I have literally 50 people queued up with requests. So that will get launched officially Monday morning for the week of build. So tell all your friends, buy more shirts. I've had lots of people say, oh, I have a shirt. I need another one because I wear it all the time. So this is your chance. So we're going to open it up. So the shirts are for Girls Who Code. So any profits go directly to Girls Who Code. It doesn't touch anyone, which is great. But we're also going to raise a second fundraiser. And Pierre has the link here. And you can start donating now. This is a straight donation link for Girls Who Code. We're aiming to raise over 10,000 pounds, which is like 12,000 US dollars because conversions, no, yes, $12,000. So we're going to be raising money directly for Girls Who Code. Now, Microsoft is going to match 100% of this donation. So this is officially live at this moment. And it will be promoted all next week as well during build. And honor of AbleWang is why we've chosen Girls Who Code. That was his chosen charity. Also, it's an amazing charity. They're global. So I'm based here in the UK. Amy and, well, Amy's in the US. Pierre is in Canada. I almost said you're American. I'm sorry, Pierre. The dog from fighting wars there. You're just the top cat. You said A-Z, instead of A-Z update. I was like, you must be American now. Yeah. But the Girls Who Code have presence in all of our countries, plus a ton of other countries. They are global. They encourage Girls Who Code, Girls in STEM. And there's lots of local regions where you can get involved with them. So it's a great cause. So yeah, so donate some money. It will be promoted on Twitter, LinkedIn, probably even, hate to say it, TikTok. And as long as it's not Rick doing the floss dance doing that. There's no dancing. There is a dog involved, but there is zero dancing. And I believe we even got a Microsoft corporate vice president who will remain nameless, who was pledged, is her own. Because I don't want to give it away. I'm happy to believe the name because I spoke to her. I know. But it's your news. I wasn't going to steal your thunder on that. So Anthony Bartolo just called America Canada's pants. I'm going to call Pierre our top hat. That's what I was going to say. They're the top hat. Canada's America's top hat. It is actually Erin Chapel, who's the CVP of Azure Core, I believe is our official title. I spoke to her a few weeks ago standing next to Pierre and told her about this awesome initiative with the shirts and Girls Who Code. And she is going to donate $10,000 of her own money to the cause. Now as part of this, Microsoft's matching that. So if I raise $10,000 US dollars or 10,000 pounds, Microsoft matches that. Erin is going to donate her own money. We could raise $40,000 without much fuss. But Erin is going to try and get some other CVPs on board as well. So we should hopefully have a lot of buy-in for this. Spread the word, everyone. Yeah. So that's cool. Right. What do you want to talk about next, Amy? It's on me. I don't know. We've got Bill. I heard you're talking at Build, April Edwards. What are your signs? Damn. I'm going to put in some self. Well, let's actually start about the regions. So let's talk about hybrid for a minute. Everyone has asked when we're going back to in-person events. And we're going back to a regional activation as the official term, regional spotlights. So if you go to the website, mybill.microsoft.com, which is down here. You go to the top in the middle, which is regional spotlights. You can see different countries. So we have UK, France, Deutschland, Latin America, and Japan. So we will have presence in each of those regions. So thank you, Pierre. Get a quick seat. Thank you. Cheers. I will be representing the UK in-person with Chris Reddington, who is in the square directly below me. He is the nice bald man with the glasses. All bald men are very nice, right? Yes, especially not. Thank you very much. So yeah, we will be hosting live in the UK. If you register for the UK activation, you get a chance to come to our Thames Valley office to see everything. We have limited spots. I think we're only doing like 300 people, I think. But there is going to be food. And I know that today because I was told there's going to be food. Food. Food? Yeah, I'm there. Is it like bacon rolls and stuff? Oh, even better. Even better. But yeah, we'll be launching live from the UK on Wednesday. And I think we're doing something for Satya's keynote on Tuesday. For those of you sitting in other countries like France, Germany, Latin America, Japan, check out your local regions there. So yeah, this is kind of our first step to going back in person. It's interesting because some people aren't ready. And we think we're ready. And it's still a little bit awkward. It's OK. Do we handshake? Do we hug? Do we like elbow bump? I'm going to be hugging, probably. There's Will's invited John Lund, who's a Microsoft MVP here in the UK. Peter Gallagher is going to be there. And there's another name I'm drawing a blank on. Loose Carter. Some amazing MVPs are going to be in person on the Wednesday. And we have some great interstitials. So part of Bill, we're going to do some stuff that's kind of UK focused as well, which is going to be awesome. And in sessions, for those of you watching, there are some great sessions. You can go in and choose your sessions. And these will be watched online. And then in the regional activations, we'll be doing stuff, maybe things like take photos of you and your dog or your pet and put it on Twitter and tweet at us. We're doing some charity stuff, not just the girls who code. We're going to talk about how you can get involved. A lot of STEM stuff for younger people. Yeah, so we have end partners in those local regions. So how are our customers doing well in Azure? So that's going to be really cool. There's two sessions at Bill that you absolutely cannot miss. The first one is on demand, which means you can watch it at any time. I believe, Pierre, you have the link for that somewhere. Which one is that? There's a lot of links. You want me to send you the link? There's a lot of links. Yeah, I'm wondering which one you're talking about. Mine. How does it happen? Give up an Azure better together. Come on. So this one is on demand. If any of you are MVPs, you've probably already saw this at the MVP summit. It's very similar. We're going to be talking about you leveraging GitHub and deploying it to Azure. We talk about security and we say developer practices, but good deployment practices. And there's another session where we're going to be launching some new products. So I think we should talk about the new things coming out that we can talk about or hint at, Amy. What do you think? Are we allowed to talk about anything that's going to be in those sessions right now? I can direct you to the Accelerate and Secure Your Code. I can't even say it. Accelerate and Secure Your Code to Cloud Development. In this session, again, you might see my face. In the first part of the session, though, the first two-thirds of the session, the first half, there is a new product getting launched. This is going to be great for developers and ops teams wanting to get started in Azure. I can't tell you what the product is, but it's a brand-new product that's coming out. We want you to try it, and we also want the feedback because we want to see everyone getting started. Yeah, Rod, I can't say that 10 times fast. I see you in the audience. A double-dog, Dary. A triple-dog, Dary. Nope. Absolutely new product coming out in that. And then in my section, I talk a little bit about some stuff that's more towards the IT Pro audience. So, Amy, when you connect a service principle to Azure, what's the biggest, what are a couple of the biggest pain points in doing that? I never have the rights to do it because my... But they expired. I gave you rights in our subscription. This is why we take away your rights, Amy. I can't do anything ever. Hi. We're just going to strip up from you. Yeah, I'm manually doing it. Expiration, stuff like that. Expiration. If you got a lever in the organization and they've set up that service principle connection between... And I'm just going to use the GitHub to Azure. There is a new connector, and I can talk about this because this is available. It's called the GitHub OIDC connector. There's another fancy Azure name that I cannot say, but I say it in the video. And it removes the requirement for that service principle and it's a more secure, less vulnerable way for you to do it. I'll tell you about that in that session. There is also some great features in GitHub around putting passwords in your code. And I can talk about that because it is publicly available as well. I did see a session about that. Passwords and code, that's a no, no, no. Yeah, even I know that. And I like how Andrew's brought up following Christos on the 425 show. Yes, Christos is amazing. Christos was also in the DevOps Lab recently, and those will get released in the next few weeks about service principles and stuff. But yeah, there's some great tips on the 425 show around identity and authentication, which is so critical in the cloud, whether you're a developer or you're an IT pro. So I think from my perspective on this session, we definitely gear build towards the developers, but there's so much in there for the IT pros. Yeah, definitely. And I would absolutely say accelerating and securing your code for cloud development is a good one. There's some great stuff in there. And I think there's some other sessions. Amy, did you have any on your list? Yeah, I picked some. I don't know. They're in the one note here on the bottom. But the one I liked was intro to tech skills. So people are always looking for a way to start out. So this is a great way to, you know, how do I get started and for, you know, whether you are in tech already and you want to get into cloud or so I always have, you know, yeah, Gwyneth is known. She started just learning on YouTube and she was just on YouTube showing how she was learning and that's how she grew her popularity into the space and then ended up here at Microsoft. So it's pretty cool. Actually, I watched some of her videos that she is really, really good. Yeah. And, you know, she just started, hey, I'll just show people how I'm learning this and it took off. Take people along the journey. That's what we've tried to do too as well. Yeah. That's why I'm mentoring someone right now. I'm like blog about it or tweet about it. People want to read it because there's still someone struggling. How do I get started? Where do I go? You know, so it's like, I think that will be a great session. I think and, and Jared, you're absolutely right for bringing that up. Like all of us need that. I mean, we also get very focused on our roles and whatever tech we're involved in at the time. And I'll use PowerShell as an example. Like I was at a PowerShell summit and there are things I haven't done in years, years with PowerShell because my day job is really different. And I, when I've used PowerShell, it's been in different ways. And I don't remember how to do everything in PowerShell. You know, so it's great to do the beginner stuff. And also when you're teaching people about tech, it is the best way for you to learn tech. Like I deployed something or I did something. Here's where I had pain points. Those are the best way to teach others and also to teach yourself, right? Definitely. And breaking it down. And I've, I know I've told the story before. I don't know if I've told it on this show. One of my previous managers said, you know, you've got some great intro content. I want to see you go more technical. And I said, yes, but 50,000 people have watched that intro content. 500 saw the deep dive. And while it's helpful to people, you know, anytime you help one person, it's worth it. But it's so many people need the intro stuff. And I think sometimes it's good to just go over the basics. Like we forget about it or there's new features. There's always new features in Azure. So people ask how we keep up on it. I do Microsoft learn modules. I do intro stuff. So this is going to be a great session, Amy. That's a great one. Yeah. Yeah, I really liked that. So which one, which other one are you interested in? Oh, for me, I also liked the hello world and three program programming languages. Cause again, starting out, you know, if you're, you know, learning Python or I don't know which languages they're actually going to use. But I'm showing you, you know, different ways to get started. Again, I just kind of focused more on education and getting started something new. Cause honestly, like I've played with Python. I played with JavaScript. But again, I probably can't even do a hello world right now. Screen print, you know, I can still do a little world in basic. I could do HTML, but yeah, not basic. I'm aging myself here. I don't want to go back to basic. I had someone asked me the other day about Fortran. I was like, no. Fortran. Fortran and Pascal. That's what I learned in college. Not that you're old. No, of course not. You're 21 again. Yeah. Yeah. And Jared again, you're right. And like it's, it's the mindset. It's the cloud mindset. And I had this conversation last night on a, on an internal call about making some content about cloud specific stuff. Like, and I'll use PowerShell as an example. PowerShell is great to learn, but Azure PowerShell is a whole different kettle of fish, right? Yeah. So yeah, I think it's, it helps. Speaking of PowerShell, there are, there's one session that I've put into my, in my backpack already is the PowerShell session, PowerShell seven session with Jason Elmick. Yes. So that one is going to be hopefully, I'm going to give us an update on where we're sitting with, with PowerShell seven, which would be an open source. And I'm not sure whether or not he's going to touch. I'm hoping he does. But again, we haven't seen what the session is touch on the differences between like Azure PowerShell and PowerShell core. And like whether or not there's a direction to unify them or not, not sure if there is, but we'll figure that out. And there's another session, which I think is amazingly helpful is upgrading your scripts from Azure AD PowerShell to graph PowerShell. Yes. There was a massive community shout voice opinion of, of losing that functionality, but the function is still there. It's just different. It's changed. It's frustrating in our role sometimes when things change, but we, that's part of being the cloud and that's part of being agile. Yeah. And while you're mentioning that there are multiple sessions, I'd like to point everybody to the schedule builder, which is live. It's up to date where you can, whether or not you want to do us on demand or in certain region or certain languages, but just go in there and put the terms that you're, what you're looking for technology you're looking for. And then you'll get to those sessions. So the, the upgrading script for Azure AD PowerShell to graph PowerShell is there, but there's also the PowerShell seven, the one I was talking about with Jason Elmick and Sydney Smith. Go through the, the session builder. There is something in there for everyone. And as April mentioned, it is more focused on developer, but there are definitely some stuff in there for the IT and ops audience. And there's a lot of stuff on Windows itself. So it should be cool. There's some great hybrid cloud stuff with Azure Arc. I think Amy and I both put that in our, building containerized applications and databases for hybrid and multicloud with Azure Arc. And I'm going to come out and make a statement that potentially could get me in trouble. But that's fine. I think, I think build gets tags developer. Event. But I think it's hard the way we, it's the way we use the word developer at Microsoft. I can't change that. I don't work in marketing, but it is the best place to go for new product launches and technical content at Microsoft ignite is great. I think, and I'll be honest, the last ignite was a bit marketing focused. And I think for those of you out there that are more technical, absolutely spending some time at build. It isn't just for your programmers. It is developers and IT pros and people that are automating and doing stuff in the cloud. There's some great content. And I think we need to make sure we tell everyone that and say, it's not just for developers. And we use the term developer in so many ways at Microsoft. And I'll say it again, I'm going to ruffle some feathers. Don't be afraid to call the developer. I'm going to mute you. Don't be afraid. And the developers, anyone that tells the machine to do something for them or automate something. Okay. The way I look at it is I'm an IT and ops person. I do use some developer type tools, but I am not a developer. Even though I'm right. Some code. Well, yeah. I copy and paste code. Does that count? Yeah. That's not what developers do. That's what I learned. They're like, don't recreate steel. We'll borrow. No, you're not. Sure. Same. Right. Yeah. I'm my zoning stealing coat. I myself, I think next week I was going to spend or spend most of my week either in the learning zone. There's going to be like the intro tech skill is in there as well. There's a lot of different. Sessions. There's going to be a lot of learn live sessions, which I believe, uh, Orin and Venetius are giving a couple of those sessions. They're our teammates. Venetius. April. I'm. Yeah. Yeah. Venetius. Venetius and Orin Thomas. Directing all of that. The Microsoft skills. I can't. The Microsoft cloud skills challenges kicking off. I know in the UK, we've put together a video with, um, the education team of like how to learn AI and ML. And the repose where all this is held, it won't be on these front pages. But I'm going to repurpose that video for global, uh, this week to show you all how you can do all these things. But the cloud skills challenge they get, you get, I think a free exam cert at the end of it. Yeah. There's eight challenges. There are eight. Uh, there are eight different challenges for you to pick from. Um, if you have any questions, sorry about that. There's a land. If anyone out there had recall, we're going to have to pull a snippet of that out. That's going to be like, that's all my landline. There's one, there's one phone that I should, I shouldn't leave it in my office. Cause the, it only telemarketers actually call it. So I just hung up. Uh, you can still, my thunder cause this was going to be my, uh, learn module of the week. Uh, not a single module, but eight cloud challenges. Where you get a certification exam and they are, but they, it's not every exam. No. There's a handful, but some are the AZ, some are the SC, some are the AI, you know, so. Yeah. So at least like a red font, like a cool like road. Oh no, no. It's like cheap radio. Yeah. I was going to say this is like the, the camel P yellow colored phone that sits on a, it actually had a digital ring. So like, at least it's a digital ring versus like the bell ring. Right. Nope. Nowhere they're in that nowhere near that. It's just a very plastic boring phone. We are almost at time. Uh, I thank you so much ladies for joining me today. It was fun. And I think that next week, next week we're going to cover actually what. Actually got announced at build. Yes. So. Rod with his swatch, by the way, saying we have five minutes left. He wants more. Making fun of peer probably. Hey, there's a big swatch store in Vegas. And you can buy like fancy swatches. Oh, they're expensive now. Yeah. So I have just signed up. Build cloud skills challenge. I'm not in it for the, the free exam, but I think I'll complete one. Yeah. Why not? Um, Yeah. I will get anything for it, but, you know, you get points, right? Like, Oh yeah. You get Microsoft learn points, which is cool. Um, I think Oren has the most learned points I've ever seen in my entire life. Yeah. I don't know how he's done every single module. There we go. And I was looking at the lists and there's, there's the list of exams that those, um, vouchers are going to qualify for. So the AI solution, I'm more interested in the, the two SCs here. So Rod is going to be really happy with me. Uh, 200 and 300. Um, security. Yeah. The SC 300, uh, four to five shows covering that too. Um, I think I needed to do that. I don't have that one. I have AZ 400 and I have AZ 204. Um, I have a, I used to have a lot of exams. I have to renew one of mine. I have to renew my solution architect exam soon. Yeah. I have to renew all of them. They're all expired. Yeah. Um, how much time do we have left here? We have, uh, three minutes. Cool. Um, so yeah. Next week. So everyone next week, we're going to have review of build, what happened, what didn't happen. Um, what else are we going to do next week? More build. Uh, so those of you that joined a little bit later than earlier, it won't name any names. Rod. No, I'm just kidding. Um, Rod. Um, Pierre is going to flash the AKA link for donations to girls who code. Remember, this is getting matched 100% by Microsoft. Um, so this will get plastered all over social media. Um, so don't you worry. Um, and then the t-shirts will be launched on Monday morning in the UK. So that will be early UK time for those of you. Not in the UK. Um, that will be while you're sleeping or before you go to bed. So Sunday night. Um, but it'll be available all next week. So new t-shirts, donate to girls who code. Uh, enjoy build, come to my sessions. Uh, there's also an ask the expert session after mine. So you can come heckle me or ask really hard questions or whatever. We can't virtually do that. Can we? It's gotta be in person, huh? Well, Amy, that's why you're flying here next week to come. Oh, yes. Yes. I forgot. Yeah. I was on that conference food, you know, and I was going to say, if you're looking at, uh, keeping up, because there's going to be like, it's going to be an avalanche of news. Uh, I'm, I've got the version of last year's, uh, Microsoft business, uh, Microsoft built book of news, but there is going to be an updated book of news where all of the listings of everything that's, uh, that are going to be announced in a well organized environment. Uh, where you can see, uh, for let's say Azure info last year, we announced the bicep version, uh, 0.4. So keep an eye on that book of news and, uh, you'll be able to keep up with all of the, the announcements that are coming up. I'm looking forward to this. Yeah. That's going to be fun. Good. So bring all your friends. Yeah. Bring all your friends, uh, donate to girls who code. Uh, if you're following us in the UK, you're following me on Twitter, I'm going to ask you to take selfies with your pets. Um, and those of you that may have stalked my Twitter today, notice that there was a certain dog at the Reading campus already. He made his like debut on camera. Um, pictures of pets are not, don't have to be, uh, limited to builds. Yeah. I'd rather see that fill my timeline than some of the, um, Yes. Anything about the spark? For bill, we're definitely going to do a pet feature, a feature creature. Um, Yeah. Lots of good stuff coming out of build. So even though any of you watching are not in the UK, tune in, see how it's going for us in the UK. And, um, there might be some t-shirt changes, some funny banter or ban, as the British said, banter. Yeah. Like banter. Well, this is the code of funny banter. And thank you very much, ladies, because now we are out of time. Uh, I want to keep it within the time. Uh, thank you for joining our special edition. I'm really like this overly, uh, on build 2022. And we will see you all next week. Have a wonderful weekend and a great build experience. Yes. Where is my out video? Thanks.