 lots of birds say something for your blog you got that's what this is for you got Christmas blueberry real and actually Christmas was made down okay she's actually 22 years old all three amazing how long these birds live oh yeah and then blueberry and all the birds you can give me one your index that's neat that is too cool so after completing the first day of the entire MS Ignite it was exciting it was fun it was a whole lot of people and that really was taking me back because it was hard I was gonna take the camera and try to film and do somewhat of an interview but it is just wall-to-wall crowded people I didn't even I ended up leaving the camera in the room I just took my GoPro with me to grab some b-roll footage to show you some of this I didn't even start doing some of the footage until later when people started clearing out and going into some of the breakout sessions but it was it was great I learned a lot interacting on the floor with a lot of different moves especially the folks from solar winds and you know we're we use the whole solar wind sack for our RMM and our backup and you know it's exciting to see some of the new products they were coming out with and it was really interesting because someone well more than one person there knew my name and they're like Tom and I'm like yeah and they're like I watched your videos because I did the video on the RMM tool and on the backups and they thought that was pretty cool so I got to interact with them and talked about things I liked or didn't like and really my complaint has been with the backup system that it's not part of a single sign-on solution yet and they're like that's coming really soon that's actually what some of our discussion was about is the challenges they are having because they bought separate products they're not everything was developed by one team with a clear plan with you know like an overview and a management here's our backup team run by this guy who talks to the other guy that runs the other team these are separate products so bringing it back down to a level of integration has some challenges as they explained but they're really close to it and it's interesting because I remember they said they were close before on the way they were doing their two factor and they're like yeah we didn't we testing internally it didn't work out as well so we ban on it and just gonna move everything to single sign-on and I'm like that's great I actually like companies to do that they're not afraid to say look I know we said something's coming but we realize it wasn't the right way to do it and we didn't want to put our customers to any drama so we just decided to scrap it and go a slightly different way and do this they did demo for me some of their other tools and I'm gonna do separate videos because there's a free demo for the tool I believe it's called InfoPath and I THWACK I'm not positive on this I got the details because I only talked to them they're gonna email me all the details and I'm gonna do some videos but it what it allows you to do is look from your customer standpoint and trace out network problems so you can say all right customer can't get to office 365 but it appears to be up where's the issues so it gives you diagnostic so before when a trouble comes in from the client before you can even call them back you can go through and say hey I've already checked I see that you can't get through this network and you can start troubleshooting and realize that you have an end-client problem a site problem or actually is it office 365 so they have a lot of monitoring templates and things like that like so they're gonna send me some more info by the time I get back and I like to do some separate videos on there about some of the new tools that they're gonna do once they're all you know ready and I can get signed up because I could tell you about it in detail but what would go to that too I like to show you how it all works but it's really neat they fed us which was quite a feat and seeing how they put together all the breakfast lunch and dinner for that many people is really cool that was definitely fun and then afterwards I was able to go out and really get to meet a lot of interesting people so I started hanging out with some of the people in sales and Microsoft some of the challenges they've had and you know they they're gonna cover everything on the record I did ask and but it was interesting talking about culture changes from different leaderships that they've worked under is that means they're a long time Microsoft veteran so it means there's no great conversation but they value their jobs and they really like what they do they're not willing to necessarily find one of them I'll talk to them again and see if he's interested in sharing some stories because I really like not just the perspectives of did they you know do this or do that because the people's look at it Microsoft is big monolithic evil company sometimes or maybe you really like Microsoft but the reality of it is there's a bunch of individual people that all have opinions that doesn't necessarily reflect top management but they like working that the common theme you hear about some Microsoft people is there are so many interesting smart people working there that it makes it for just a cool work environment and I got to say hanging out with groups some very diverse group very much a whole lot of fun and yeah it was it's just really cool meeting some of these people and they're very interesting to talk to and I have at least one of them that I think I'll get them maybe share a couple Microsoft stories but we definitely had a lot of laughs and so I didn't finish any video last night you're watching the Sun come up now because last night after about midnight's when I got done going from all the different the after parties just don't stop here you know it's not like I'm big into drinking or anything as much but it's just all the stories we were sharing and all the adventures I got to hang out with some of the top IT from big companies IBM AT&T and just you know talk about stuff at some of the top level then I got to meet some of the people that really like that are the hands-on keyboards that designed and network engineered companies from the ground up so just lots of fun conversations about stuff I'm gonna see if I can get any of them maybe help produce some content talk about IT a little bit but that big you know overview that some of them have is a very interesting perspective and how things are done so I'm gonna work on producing some more content and if you like the content here like and subscribe throw in the sunrise after this because I've been time-lapsing it since I got up and got my coffee and had it recording over here on another camera because they put me up here in the 24th floor and it's it's great it's a great view every morning I got lucky and I got the corner room so I got all the windows open wide and get to look outside and yeah it's great so tomorrow though I'm gonna be doing the Sunday morning Linux review I'll see what I can record there that's gonna be us sitting in I believe the podcast with I gotta actually get a hold of our contacts here to get that clarified and see everyone that we have on our interview list because it's a little fuzzy I know some of the people then they said we're gonna have more but I don't yeah we'll get all those details sorted out because those are great because those are gonna be people we sit down with and if you've listened to our MS build podcast on those you can hear the interviews we did with people and it's it's it's deep dives on the topics there are the things that they're in charge of and that's SMLR US if you haven't found my podcast before so that's gonna be for that also we have a few more days that I'll be here and so I'll see what other content see what other interviews I can rustle up and make it all happen all right once again thanks you like to 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