 Good morning Shannon. Good morning. How are you waking up drinking my coffee? Yeah, that's right. It is it's Friday It's been a long week for me. I don't know if it's been a long week for you. Yes. Lots of streaming lots of recording Definitely know what that's like Like more in person, but you know, it's okay Yeah, I feel like that's going to start to change, you know, I don't know if you read the blurb, but I think People are filing an agreement that maybe the pandemic's reaching its endemic phase, which is great news I feel like we're not quite where we would like to be but I suspect maybe later in the year Maybe even early next year. It'll feel like it sort of did in 2019 I think we're forever changed, but it'll feel a little bit like it did in 2019. I kind of miss that year Okay, I know that's and I'm a hugger You know, so it's very hard for me to go back and encourage people to hug me Yeah, that's not the same. It's not the same. So Hey, Andrew and hello from Australia. Nice. Hi, Sina Just folks joining us. What's up? I don't know what the weather like is in Canada appears in Seattle. So For the PowerShell Summit. So that's why we got to take over today. Yeah. Yeah, and that's why I was asked So it's nice to come back and yeah, it's the update show. Yeah, of course. Thanks for having me. Yeah What are you working at now? You're not an cloud advocate anymore, right? I am not but what's interesting is I'm doing similar work now my title changed, right? I moved into the identity division, but I am a senior program manager for the identity and network access division So we focus on advocacy efforts. So we spend a lot of time trying to Breakdown complex topics make it more streamlined in the realm of modern identity So that's everything that would touch Azure everything that would touch M365 So that's what I've been doing and then if you're familiar with what I guess our team works on we're the 425 show So, you know what you might have seen us stream live on Tuesdays or Thursdays You might be a member of our discord server. So there's all kinds of stuff that we wind up doing. Oh Nice, that's pretty cool Yeah, so it's it's very similar it's not like it's completely different than what I did as a cloud advocate I just have said in an engineering team. So what we do a little bit differently as we now align with divisional Okay, ours, right? So you kind of get to pave your own path as a cloud advocate You get to kind of go down and explore you want to explore which is great I'm just aligning myself with divisional okay ours and okay our stands for objectives and key results So things that matter to the division we spend time on Yay the 425 show And I'm not even I'm not even like I'm a newer face to it, right? So if you follow it, it's Christos and JP for the most part Christos has been the constant JP left Microsoft and came back So you're going to see us quite a bit over the course of the rest of the year. So cool. That's awesome And it's the last day of April too. I know you know what's so funny though I thought we had another week. Is that terrible to admit out loud all of a sudden. I was like, oh, yeah, it's the end of me It's it's COVID times right like I'm like, what is it like what's going on like what's happening? Well, we have some good updates for y'all we do Let's see first one up. I'm gonna share here Um Blob Rehydration from the archive tier you can now let me zoom in Go to a different storage account, which is pretty cool because you can separate your prod data from Your archive data like your backup data, so it's a great way to separate production Of course, I had it up here. Okay. Here we go So, yeah, so you can rehydrate across a different storage account as long as it's in the same region So I think that's a pretty I don't pretty neat feature because before it had to be the same storage account If you rehydrated it don't delete it early because then you're gonna have to pay for that Right, and then you can also pick, you know, the destination as far as the tier if you want a cool tier Not pay as much money or a hot tier use the data right away. So that was one of the updates We found pretty interesting Yeah, so shout out to the storage people I used to work with them very closely when I was a say Yeah, I was on the the blob storage team briefly for about six months working with them when I was still in the field So that's an awesome update to yeah 12 so yeah And then you got every I heard so much about this I Know I know well, so It's interesting right like Microsoft you can tell we've got a lot of different teams working on a lot of different things And at some point there's the aha moment of we should probably Move all of this together right we had that with Azure monitor We had that with all of the defender rebrands now. We've got it with Azure purview, right? So I Mean, I think it really hits home that we're trying to make this less complex We're trying I mean there's going to be features underneath so all of the features you knew prior to Azure purview being the rebranded name That'll all live underneath Azure purview. So, you know, you're gonna be able to get visibility into your entire data estate Which is really important. You've got the kind of end-to-end data risks and regulatory compliance, right as well. So I think everybody's While it's a little frustrating right what do you think about it, right? I think the overall end goal makes sense, right? You want to have just a thing and everything show up underneath that that's a feature, right? Especially with the m365 compliance. So it's always been kind of in conjunction with that so to make it a Microsoft It makes sense, but for people like writing books and you know, it's like Exams like I mean there's a yeah, and and it's interesting I've always heard stories of what it's like to go through a rebranding if you think about it You have to update your docs update learn update your certifications, right? And it's just it's not an easy process. So for everybody to realize that we probably need to streamline this There's a whole team of folks working on this rebranding effort. So, um, you know while it's frustrating for you to try and keep up Probably equally as frustrating for all those teams that now have to scramble to make sure everything's updated, right? Control F as you're too I know I wish it was that easy a lot more streamlined, right? But yeah, I think like people in marketing people and learn people in the certification realm Which I think that's worldwide learning and you know as well as everybody kind of in the MVP MCT arena as well So yeah, it's it's a shuffle. I don't think it's going to be an overnight sensation There's going to be some time But yeah, if you were familiar with all of the different pieces prior to it being called Azure purview Everything now is just Azure purview. So it's very similar to the defender rebrand of all the security tooling. So cool and Yes, Andrew or no James about the backup for on-prem. Yeah, it is cool for backup from on-prem Into Azure to have that different storage account. Yeah, there's a I think that just showcases We're offering a lot more flexibility like we're listening to customers and they're coming to us with unique scenarios I may not have thought through so it's a great thing to sort of watch a full feature Go into kind of incubation private preview public preview and reach GA. So right it's a process But it's a it's a beautiful process. It's just and I even made this joke this week If we could have figured out human nature, we would all been in the cloud in 2010 We would have just had worker roles web roles storage and networking. Thank goodness We pretty solve for human emotion, right and human kind of the psychology of human nature, right? Because now we have a pretty robust cloud and it's just going to get better, right? Right, totally Like Skynet feeling there Right Yeah, so I feel like you know, there's a lot of great new features and you know working with an engineering team now as well Pay attention to the identity space this year. There's going to be some really cool Things coming out. I can't really talk about them just yet But um towards the middle of the year and later parts of the year There's going to be some really cool announcements and features and things of that sort. So, um, you know I've got I do have my twitter handle I was like follow me on twitter and then I'm like, did I write my twitter handle? So follow me on twitter and uh, you'll even linked in to you can find me on on linked in If you're not on the twitter, it's not everybody's on the twitter's right, especially as of late, you know, I know We won't talk about that He who know he who shall not be named, right? That means I still like twitter so we'll see what happens I want the ship Um, so yeah next update. I thought was pretty cool is um, we added a part another partner for DDoS pen testing, uh red button so You know denial of service is definitely always on the it's been on the rise. It's always front of mind for people Um, and now you can work with red button to do a whole testing session Obviously not in your production environment unless you want to give everyone a heart attack So it's in a controlled environment. Maybe you want to give people a heart attack Just get a change window do it on like Saturday, right? Maybe like at your security guys. Yeah, get them pages in the middle of night Yeah Oh no rick son It did take a turn we are encouraging people to do But if you wanted to just pick a change window Make sure you properly communicate that through channels, right? The only way to We are not advocating that thank you. No, we are not I'm I'm totally joking On a Friday morning here Trying trying to laugh about still being stuck at home and everybody's dimensional, right? Miss people I do too So um, you do get a great executive summary, which you know Exactly always love and the plan session the controlled attack And I think it's pretty neat that we added another uh partner For simulation testing because again, we take security seriously, you know, we have red team blue team So, you know everything in your environment is pretty rock solid, but it doesn't hurt to do some DDoS simulations, right? And then we have Oh So we've got yeah, I hadn't heard of this until you mentioned it the grafana Yeah, so I think folks are familiar with grafana the visualization of your monitoring data And the fact that we have a managed offering simplifies that process because prior to you to kind of kind of roll your own And I think more and more people are realizing they don't have the time to sort of roll your own, right? And it's harder to do so the idea that we've got, um, you know A managed offering is really great. So you're able to have the same Uh visualizations you're able to Pin that as like a dashboard So there's all kinds of interesting things you're able to do with um manage grafana Yeah, it's a great visualization tool and you can bring in different data streams and see that kind of all in one graph and pin it to your board and I think it's really again, I didn't even know about it until you mentioned it but like here's an example of a graph from different data sources and Yeah, and it looks very similar to the dashboards. You may be familiar with in the realm of azure monitor, but you get extra components inside this realm. So it's a nicer Well, I don't know. I should probably be careful about how you word that. I think it's prettier It's a it's a prettier way to visualize your data Maybe that's the better way of wording it because if you didn't if you didn't have this prior to now You still have functionality. There's still power bi. There's still dashboarding you can do with the azure monitor I just think this offers up a better way to visualize it And I don't know if you're like me, but the customers I used to work with the sea level folks They always like these dashboards. Definitely. Yeah They always want that executive level that, you know, green is good red is bad, you know Yeah, and the more colors the better, right Let's see what Bartola says graffata is cool because it lets it share The infrastructure story with business. Yeah, exactly. Yes, and again the pretty the pretty colors that that always helps, right? No, I I think it's really it's a great reality That you don't have to think about building up what you needed to build up previously It's now just part of our managed kind of offering inside of the azure monitor realm So think of it as another extra feature that hangs out underneath the bigger umbrella of azure monitor, right, right? Then we're gonna throw in an extra one that came out today that I think you're excited about Yeah, automated key rotation and azure key vault. So I think if you are security minded, you know that you need to rotate your keys Right, but there wasn't a graceful way to do that. You could clean on azure automation And hope that you wouldn't break an app if it was, you know, leaning on Maybe a service principle, right? So now you can sort of automate that process and it's end-to-end and it builds into the workflow And then that's a little less of the manual sort of because a lot of times customers even were manual about this process as well So now you can think about having it be a lot more automated and this just reached general availability yesterday Yeah, I know you texted me this morning like look Yeah, I was like this this came out After we talked yesterday. So I wanted to make sure we hit home on this one. Just yeah I mean customers have been asking for it for a while and the fact that it's now Reaching general availability. We should definitely give it a little bit of attention. It's a lot, right Yeah Then what do we have going on in the community? Let's see. I know we have the infamous ms build I did not ah You can register. Yeah, I can post that link When you're sharing your screen, but we also have the ability summit. Um, that's the 10th through the 12th And it looks it's really cool. Um Doing that inclusive inclusive Inclusive Inclusive that's inclusivity Right, right, right. Yeah It's kind of all in the same vein, right? Right. So it's free. Um, it's remote. Um, but you get people from build You know people designing platforms for to make it more accessible for you know people with all types of you know Maybe visual impairment or so. I think it's it's really cool. Um, they're gonna have asl and real-time captions So something cool to check out Um, and then you have let's see. I'm gonna Be ready to show your 425 Fun this time cool, so So we are in the middle of what we call a swarm and a lot of folks are like, what's a swarm? Think of it like a sprint the reason we call it a swarm is because we're working with the number of different teams internally at microsoft to make this be An actual concentrated set of activities. We're also working with external folks as well There's a series of videos that have been releasing with one of our mbps so a lot of cool activities and this specific swarm involves identity governance and so you get that with the azure adp to license you You get that with the e5 the ems e5 license you or the m365 enterprise skew And so we have quite a bit of activities That we've got listed here, right? So the blog kickoff we did a session on m365 and identity governance licensing We did a twitter space in so that's still up and live and you're able to go and listen to that That's kind of cool that our program managers actually run that And then we had a live twitch stream. We had a number of different streams on the 425 show The cool thing here though is our call to actions coming up, right? So if you take this actual learn path and you complete it That's the 300, right? Correct. Yep. And it's a plan and implement an identity governance strategy and you then Fill out this forms you're able to get a discounted exam voucher So for the folks who'd maybe followed us during our activities for decentralized identity during january We had a hackathon. That was our call to action So a little harder to do identity governance because you probably don't want to turn on some of these features willy-nilly You probably want to plan it out. Maybe you want to start with your guest users, etc So we thought let's have folks go through this learn path and let's have them fill out this form Filling out the form showcases that you've gone through the learn path you get a credly badge And I think we were joking yesterday. It's uh, it's credly not really. I was saying it wrong for years You get a credly badge for being a an identity contributor And then you also get the discounted exam voucher, which is kind of cool. That is cool. Yeah We did feature that learn path um a few weeks ago. I believe but the Discounted exam voucher. I think a lot of people would be interested in so yeah And it's one of those things where identity sits in between azure and m 365 One of the guys on my team JP shout out to JP says, uh, azure ad is neither azure nor ad And it's so true But it sits in the realm of both universes so to speak and so as a result I'm kind of going back to my roots Dealing more in the m 365 space, but I'm also spending quite a bit of time inside of azure as well So it's been a lot of fun being on this team And then we've got additional streams that are coming so I can tell you we're planning one To talk with a customer. So this one has now been pushed We've got a customer coming on and talking about their identity governance journey We're going to get somebody talking about the partner kind of perspective. That's how we scale at microsoft We uh, even though we're a big company. We can't help every single customer the way we would like to So we often scale with partners We're gonna have a partner on talking about that or I think one of our pms that works with partners And then we're going to have somebody in our field getting on and talking about what that's like And then we are also plotting out a full end to end demo as a part of our Extra effort. So it was hard to sort of get everybody committed to this schedule So that's what we spent the bulk of our time on But definitely go back to this blog post link and then I think Amy you'll have this in the show notes, right? So check out that blog post reference it because we're going to be additional activities that'll show up We're still trying to figure out if we're going to do a full-blown 425 show or do the end-to-end demo? It'll be christos jp and I I think We're trying to figure out it's going to be a 425 show or a couple of videos So we're meeting on monday to discuss. So there's still some activities that we've got planned for this form That's great. So i'm just going to show quick the What the actual Let's see we so sc 300. Here's the module Yes It's about three hours nine minutes. So if you get through that you get your credley badge Yeah, not clearly we we did take a poll Live on tuesday and I had to just eat my I had to eat my own words. Well, I had heard it both ways, right? Yes, it's credley. You'll you'll get a credley badge and it's a minimal amount of time It's free learning you get a discount exam voucher. It's I think it's about half off Normally the exams are 165 dollars if you Are somebody that's trying to you know, cert up getting that, you know Half to half price discount that sort of helps you out with your tech career Yeah, and then also I'd like to shout out so we have that ability summit and there's a bunch of learn modules for accessibility So if you want to get started before the The kickoff We have learn modules covering, you know accessibility content in microsoft 365 Um, so just a lot of Really neat things. I didn't even know that we had available to learn on microsoft learn so And yes, we'll have the links on the blog post so That was all jentson um, but yeah Lots of cool stuff coming up. Um, yes I'm excited for build, you know Not really. I think I'm moderating a session, but um, looks like a lot of cool neat things I like a lot of stuff is under wraps. So I don't even know But looking forward to hearing. Yeah, there's always all kinds of interesting stuff. Christos and I are delivering a learn live event I think it's On the 25th So We're kind of finalizing some of those details with the teams involved on that front But him and I will go through one of the learn modules that deals with security Because I feel like devs and security don't always go hand in hand, right? Like when you're dealings with it You know devs kind of believe you have infinite resources, right infinite storage infinite compute infinite network And they don't think about security. So our hope is that uh, we showcase it's super easy to think about security Inside, you just said security three times rod trance going to show up on the stream Is that all it takes? Yeah security security security. He shows up Well, and then you know, um, I think folks may not know this right? So charlie bell came over to microsoft and you might know that right but the way in which it works I don't i'm not in the same reporting structure as you are right now So I report up through charlie bell So it's security compliance and identity management and that's all lives underneath charlie bell within our org Structure, so that showcases our increased awareness in the realm of security Because things are changing and you've got token theft and you've got high jacking and you've got fishing and you've got You know red team blue team, right? That's a big part of our strategy And we're trying to sort of impart that onto other other customers as well But we're our hope is we go through this learn module and we get some devs who aren't usually Used to seeing security things a little bit more familiar with the security realm of Azure and how easy it is to sort of apply it Into the different development techniques so that you're not you know exposing something you shouldn't expose, right? oops, yeah That's a good point um We went too fast. I guess I mean we need more, you know We did go a little bit. I can't make fun of rick. He's watching so that's that's true I can say hi rick. How's it going? Hope it's well. I um, I think you're back in and redmond now so Yeah, he's out redmond Doing all the leadership things our fearless leader Very cool. And yeah, I think that with april and pier for the power show summit so yeah, and um peter detender was also out there and April and him were going back and forth on linkedin and they said that they had found each other and I said Picture proof or it didn't happen and within a matter of five minutes I got a tag and I saw the picture. It was just hilarious So it's nice to see that you know, even though we might not be doing in-person events, right? There are third party events starting to change and I just participated in a women in tech event yesterday There's already talk of them going back to in-person and when that actually will sort of come to light I just think the next couple of months here are going to be really telling On the direction that everybody sort of goes toward I don't think we're out of the woods yet But it is nice to hear that folks do believe like health experts and People who pay attention to this type of thing They think we're kind of moving into endemic phase for the uh pandemic which is awesome And I hope we never have to live through another one of these, right? Yeah. Oh my gosh, right But yeah, I think people at that comfort level that want to go like let them go And if you don't want to go and then have that hybrid option, you know connect remotely and um, I think yeah events will forever be changed But maybe for a good way like you still reach people around the world for an event that only happened in the us or you know Yeah, I I think that's I think that's sort of here to say I feel like if like like the big events will probably always have a hybrid component because you're able to reach more of an audience that way Versus having it just be exclusively in person Um, and then I I feel like the meetups like I've if I could have actually gone all over the world I would have in the last two and a half years, right? Opportunities to speak all over the world and it's been an awesome reality But it sort of sucks that you're doing it in a two-dimensional format I hope that does change right because uh seeing people I mean, you know, we don't live that far from each other So for the folks playing along at home maybe live in the suburb that's a little bit further west of me I live in a suburb just west of the city. We don't live that far from each other But we also haven't really seen each other much Just the fact that like the pandemic like it's like the pandemic just you know, I don't know So I I do hope that starts to change because people are starting to kind of come out of the The woodwork and see each other more often and I think that's been the hard part, right? Like being around people has been a I don't know a nice thing to have and you know Like like my parents just went to Scotland this week and that was kind of a weird one My mom was a little freaked out like am I going to catch COVID and no she was negative But she's still worried that she might you know get it down the road And I said, well, I'm here as protected as you possibly can be, you know, so Yeah, that's all you can do, you know, right and people shouldn't get back to normal. Yeah, exactly Exactly and it looks like people are installing azure defender for cloud As they watch our That's awesome. Thank you, Adam or Andrew. Sorry, Adam Nice to have a different host team on this one Yeah, I used to be on the team I was on the team briefly and then it was weird So we went through a reorg I then reported to rick and then but right before the reorg happened I also got this notion that my team was hiring and so I'd started the The the ball rolling in that realm. Uh, and so I was on rick's team briefly So again, hi rick. It's It's been far too long And I was I did a couple of these back in the fall of last year But it's nice to to and I'm always happy to come back to so See you again, you know, again, I was I'm a boomeranger. So yeah, I was in sales and you were csa We talked to each other. I know one of the reddies or something and then or I think it was a bootcamp Yeah, it was the intelligent cloud architect bootcamp. And then and then we kind of adopted you at ready In sales your team wasn't really Like they didn't like hang out together. They kind of did their own thing, which is which is fine, right? But our team we kind of just traveled in droves and we said you're just part of our drove for this This ready event, but that's one of our internal events for the technical sellers Yeah, right. Yeah, it was great to be adopted by the csat Yeah, and then you know, and then I was a cloud advocate for a little I just just shy of two years and then now I'm over being an advocate for the identity division So it's a Microsoft's been an interesting journey I think both of us can attest to the fact that it's a big giant There's a lot of great things going on a lot of different teams you can work with right I love the environment. I love the yeah, I love the flexibility and then the opportunities within microsoft are just great So, yeah, I love working with rick and team. So it's been great. So I love being back Um, but I think we should probably wrap things up. Thanks so much for joining shannon. I know you've had a long week of Streaming it was a lot of power streaming all week, you know It's uh, I guess that's kind of what we signed up for right with these concentrated activities So, um, so yeah, so this is the last stream of the week Yeah, so thanks for yeah, it's great to see you. Um Thanks, rick. We're gonna put the shout out right there. So Thanks for joining us rick. I know you're busy. Um, it's been great. It's always a good Rod has been working with security insight show and yeah, he's got a lot of stuff So if you ever want to check out rods, um, he's a machine on security insight show twitch reactor He's even playing with tick tock Yeah, so we we're starting to experiment in that realm as well So tick tock instagram. We are also leaning on third party content creators for Extending some of this so there was a live twitch stream that happened on monday with a social media influencer So this this whole realm of content creation is going to evolve and I think it's going to be very similar Kind of what the cloud advocacy team goes through and then what we wind up doing So, um, the beauty of it is we're gonna the same company. So we kind of share some of those insights, right? right exactly well, thanks everyone we're gonna Call it quits for now and see you some other time. Who knows? Maybe we'll take over even when pierce not out of time. There you go I'm always happy to do it fridays are usually easier to do it too So just let me know if you want me to join in the future. Always happy to do it. Thanks a lot shannon. All right. Thanks Bye. Bye