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The telecommunications industry has come a long way since the days of manual service telephone exchanges. We caught up with fellow MVP Greig Sheridan late last year to talk about Skype for Business, Teams and the evolution in technology he has experienced in his 30+ years in the industry. Greig has worked in the telecommunications industry in Sydney, Australia, since finishing high school in the 1980s. Having entered the industry as an Apprentice Technician with Telecom Australia, he’s today the “Practice Lead - UC” for Generation-e, a leading Microsoft partner with a focus on the modern workplace, UC and Audio-Visual solutions. You can check out Greig's blog at greiginsydney.com or connect with him on Twitter - twitter.com/greiginsydney          

In this incredibly interesting episode, Warren and Nic catch up with Joe Baguley from VMware to talk what it's like speaking live in front of 90 million people and geek out about virtualization, edge computing and the endless possibilities enabled by AI. Joe Baguley is VMware's Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for EMEA, He helps develop and communicate VMware's strategy and vision with customers and partners, using his wealth of experience to help organizations reduce costs and better s and business needs. As part of VMware's Office of the CTO and its representative in EMEA, Joe assists VMware's customers in understanding how to use today's advances in technology to deliver real business impact as well as working with them to inform VMware's R&D processes. You can find Joe on Twitter @JoeBaguley          

Mobility has been a hot topic for some time - in fact, IDC forecasts that the U.S. mobile worker population will sur 105 million by 2020. Organizations often struggle when trying to provide flexibility and a choice of devices on the one hand and retain control of sensitive data and security on the other. We sat down with fellow MVP Steve Goodman at Microsoft Ignite late last year to discuss a simplistic approach to implementing Device Management and why it needn't be so complex. Steve Goodman is a Principal Tech Strategist at Content and Code, a top Microsoft partner. He works with Office 365, Exchange and Skype for Business and you’ll find him either deep into a complex Exchange Hybrid implementation or in front of a crowd extolling the virtues of Office 365 Groups & Microsoft Teams. If you’d like to get in touch with Steve, you can visit his blog at https://www.allabout365.com or find him on Twitter as @stevegoodman          

SharePoint can be intimidating, especially for those of use who don't work with it everyday. In this episode, WonderLaura tells us why SharePoint isn't so scary and we discuss some of the SharePoint announcements at Ignite. Laura Rogers is a SharePoint expert, speaker, author and educator. She is well-versed in helping organizations make the most of their SharePoint environments using out-of-box functionalities such as workflows, forms and Web parts. She is the owner of IW Mentor, a SharePoint training company. Laura’s technical expertise also includes over 13 years of experience working with Microsoft’s messaging and collaboration systems. She has been named a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for the past 7 years. Laura runs the Birmingham (AL) SharePoint Group. She has contributed to several books on SharePoint over the past eight years. You can find Laura on her blog (wonderlaura.com) or on Twitter (twitter.com/wonderlaura). Be sure to check out IW Mentor if you are looking for SharePoint training (www.iwmentor.com).          

Change can be difficult for any organization. Changing the working culture of your population and driving product adoption can seem overwhelming, especially when applying traditional principles and adoption practices to today's cloud world. We sat down with Patience Wootton at Ignite recently to understand what it means to be an Office 365 Product Owner and talk about change, driving adoption and being an early Microsoft Teams adopter. Patience is the Office 365 Product Owner within Dentsu Aegis Network, the global media group that specializes in Media, Digital and creative Communications services. In this role she is responsible for driving the change, release and adoption of Office 365 applications into the business. The most recent to launch was Microsoft Teams, which saw a surge in productivity through global cross-brand collaboration. Patience is ionate about creating a modern workplace and a culture of empowerment and teamwork across our 50+ brands within the network. Check out Patience's "Collaborate in a chat-based workspace with Microsoft Teams" session from Ignite here: https://myignite.microsoft.com/sessions/53211          

OneDrive for Business has come a long way since it was initially launched and has earned it's place as a leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Content Collaboration Platforms. We sat down with Stephen Rose at Ignite recently to talk about some of the exciting new things that will be coming to OneDrive soon. Stephen Rose leads product marketing for OneDrive for Business on the SharePoint/OneDrive team. In addition to speaking at conferences around the globe, he is a regular contributor to the Office and OneDrive blogs. In his previous roles, Stephen spent 8 years on the worldwide and US Windows teams launching Windows 7, 8, and 10, owning IT pro readiness and deployment. Stephen holds over 15 technical certifications and has been a MCT and MCSE since Windows NT. In 2015, he was awarded the Microsoft 2015 Circle of Excellence Platinum Club award. Stephen Rose can be found on Twitter: https://twitter.com/stephenlrose          

OneDrive for Business has come a long way since it was initially launched and has earned it's place as a leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Content Collaboration Platforms. We sat down with Stephen Rose at Ignite recently to talk about some of the exciting new things that will be coming to OneDrive soon. Stephen Rose leads product marketing for OneDrive for Business on the SharePoint/OneDrive team. In addition to speaking at conferences around the globe, he is a regular contributor to the Office and OneDrive blogs. In his previous roles, Stephen spent 8 years on the worldwide and US Windows teams launching Windows 7, 8, and 10, owning IT pro readiness and deployment. Stephen holds over 15 technical certifications and has been a MCT and MCSE since Windows NT. In 2015, he was awarded the Microsoft 2015 Circle of Excellence Platinum Club award. Stephen Rose can be found on Twitter: https://twitter.com/stephenlrose          

If there is anything we’ve learned about Office 365 in the last few years, it’s that change is inevitable. Not only are the core workloads and services changing constantly, but there are also new features and services added to Office 365 on a regular basis and as a result of this the service as a whole continues to evolve. At Ignite recently, we caught up with Paul Andrew and Paul Collinge from the Office 365 product group to talk about Microsoft’s impressive and ever-evolving network and how connectivity and network guidance has changed over time. Paul Andrew is a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft working on Office 365 cloud networking, network connectivity and performance. He works on the Office 365 IP’s and URLs surface area, ExpressRoute for Office 365, and Office 365 connectivity with network device partners. Paul has worked as a program manager and product manager at Microsoft for over 12 years and as a developer prior to that. Paul holds an MBA from the University of Washington and a Bachelor of Technology from Massey University in New Zealand.   Paul Collinge is a Senior Program Manager in the Office 365 Product Team, specializing in network connectivity and performance. This Episode is brought to you by KEMP TECHNOLOGIES. We chose Kemp as a sponsor due to their amazing Cloud product line. Have a look at this amazing video on how Kemp 360 is helping companies achieve zero downtime and full scalability in their infrastructure.

If there is anything we’ve learned about Office 365 in the last few years, it’s that change is inevitable. Not only are the core workloads and services changing constantly, but there are also new features and services added to Office 365 on a regular basis and as a result of this the service as a whole continues to evolve. At Ignite recently, we caught up with Paul Andrew and Paul Collinge from the Office 365 product group to talk about Microsoft’s impressive and ever-evolving network and how connectivity and network guidance has changed over time. Paul Andrew is a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft working on Office 365 cloud networking, network connectivity and performance. He works on the Office 365 IP’s and URLs surface area, ExpressRoute for Office 365, and Office 365 connectivity with network device partners. Paul has worked as a program manager and product manager at Microsoft for over 12 years and as a developer prior to that. Paul holds an MBA from the University of Washington and a Bachelor of Technology from Massey University in New Zealand. Paul Collinge is a Senior Program Manager in the Office 365 Product Team, specializing in network connectivity and performance.          

If there is anything we’ve learned about Office 365 in the last few years, it’s that change is inevitable. Not only are the core workloads and services changing constantly, but there are also new features and services added to Office 365 on a regular basis and as a result of this the service as a whole continues to evolve. At Ignite recently, we caught up with Paul Andrew and Paul Collinge from the Office 365 product group to talk about Microsoft’s impressive and ever-evolving network and how connectivity and network guidance has changed over time. Paul Andrew is a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft working on Office 365 cloud networking, network connectivity and performance. He works on the Office 365 IP’s and URLs surface area, ExpressRoute for Office 365, and Office 365 connectivity with network device partners. Paul has worked as a program manager and product manager at Microsoft for over 12 years and as a developer prior to that. Paul holds an MBA from the University of Washington and a Bachelor of Technology from Massey University in New Zealand. Paul Collinge is a Senior Program Manager in the Office 365 Product Team, specializing in network connectivity and performance.          

This Episode is brought to you by KEMP TECHNOLOGIES. We chose Kemp as a sponsor due to their amazing Cloud product line. Have a look at this amazing video on how Kemp 360 is helping companies achieve zero downtime and full scalability in their infrastructure. In this Episode, Warren goes solo again and shares some Microsoft Azure announcements from this year’s Ignite conference in Orlando and why they are relevant.     See the link below on the announcements. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-networking-announcements-for-ignite-2017/ The following links are more detailed pages on the technologies that were released. Jump in and start playing with them NOW! VNet Service Endpoints DDoS Protection webpage Global VNet Peering The post Episode 4.1 – Ignite 2017 Azure Announcements with Warren appeared first on The Cloud Architects.

In this Episode, Warren goes solo again and shares some Microsoft Azure announcements from this year’s Ignite conference in Orlando and why they are relevant: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-networking-announcements-for-ignite-2017/ The following links are more detailed pages on the technologies that were released. Jump in and start playing with them NOW! VNet Service Endpoints: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-network/virtual-network-service-endpoints-overview DDoS Protection webpage: http://aka.ms/azureddos Global VNet Peering: http://aka.ms/globalvnetpeering          

In this Episode, Warren goes solo again and shares some Microsoft Azure announcements from this year’s Ignite conference in Orlando and why they are relevant: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-networking-announcements-for-ignite-2017/ The following links are more detailed pages on the technologies that were released. Jump in and start playing with them NOW! VNet Service Endpoints: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-network/virtual-network-service-endpoints-overview DDoS Protection webpage: http://aka.ms/azureddos Global VNet Peering: http://aka.ms/globalvnetpeering          

In this episode, we introduce our listeners wot our new co-host Chris Goosen about massive migrations to Exchange Online… What is massive? 400,000 s are massive. We speak to Chris about things like networking, adoption and not defeating the rules of physics when migrating from on-premises or even tenant to tenant, as well as what to do with multiple workloads like One Drive for Business and Skype for Business. Chris is an IT professional with a ion for technology and almost two decades’ experience working with Microsoft technologies. As a solutions architect and consultant, Chris has many years’ experience helping organizations around the world design and implement Microsoft Exchange Server. The explosive growth of cloud technologies in recent years has given Chris the opportunity to be on the forefront of Microsoft Office 365 adoption in Australia and the United States. Chris holds the Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) certification and has been an Office Servers and Services MVP since 2014, making him one of a small number of individuals worldwide to have earned both. Chris has been a speaker at conferences such as Microsoft TechEd and Ignite and blogs regularly on Microsoft Exchange and Office 365-related topics at cgoosen.com.   We’re also excited to mention that this Episode is brought to you by KEMP TECHNOLOGIES. We chose Kemp as a sponsor due to their fantastic Cloud product line as well as robust Load Balancer technologies. Have a look at this amazing video on how Kemp 360 is helping companies achieve zero downtime and full scalability in their infrastructure.   To listen to the episode via this article as opposed to your podcast player, please use the player control below this text.

In this episode, we introduce our listeners to our new co-host Chris Goosen and talk about massive migrations to Exchange Online… What is massive? More than 400,000 s! We speak to Chris about things like networking, adoption and not defeating the rules of physics when migrating from on-premises or even tenant to tenant, as well as what to do with multiple workloads like One Drive for Business and Skype for Business. Chris is an IT professional with a ion for technology and almost two decades’ experience working with Microsoft technologies. As a solutions architect and consultant, Chris has many years’ experience helping organizations around the world design and implement Microsoft Exchange Server. The explosive growth of cloud technologies in recent years has given Chris the opportunity to be on the forefront of Microsoft Office 365 adoption in Australia and the United States. Chris holds the Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) certification and has been an Office Servers and Services MVP since 2014, making him one of a small number of individuals worldwide to have earned both. Chris has been a speaker at conferences such as Microsoft TechEd and Ignite and blogs regularly on Microsoft Exchange and Office 365-related topics at cgoosen.com.          

In this episode, we introduce our listeners to our new co-host Chris Goosen and talk about massive migrations to Exchange Online… What is massive? More than 400,000 s! We speak to Chris about things like networking, adoption and not defeating the rules of physics when migrating from on-premises or even tenant to tenant, as well as what to do with multiple workloads like One Drive for Business and Skype for Business. Chris is an IT professional with a ion for technology and almost two decades’ experience working with Microsoft technologies. As a solutions architect and consultant, Chris has many years’ experience helping organizations around the world design and implement Microsoft Exchange Server. The explosive growth of cloud technologies in recent years has given Chris the opportunity to be on the forefront of Microsoft Office 365 adoption in Australia and the United States. Chris holds the Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) certification and has been an Office Servers and Services MVP since 2014, making him one of a small number of individuals worldwide to have earned both. Chris has been a speaker at conferences such as Microsoft TechEd and Ignite and blogs regularly on Microsoft Exchange and Office 365-related topics at cgoosen.com.          

This Episode is brought to you by KEMP TECHNOLOGIES. We chose Kemp as a sponsor due to their amazing Cloud product line. Have a look at this amazing video on how Kemp 360 is helping companies achieve zero downtime and full scalability in their infrastructure. In this Episode, Warren goes solo and shares some Microsoft announcements and why they are relevant. See the links below on the announcements. https://www.geekwire.com/2017/independent-two-years-kubernetes-center-cloud-now-comes-hard-part/ https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/07/from-Google-to-the-world-the-Kubernetes-origin-story.html https://www.cncf.io http://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/25/microsoft-launches-azure-container-instances.html https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-azure-container-instances/?ranMID=24542&ranEAID=TnL5HPStwNw&ranSiteID=TnL5HPStwNw-3h0ML0wDMknAnbOIXdGjww&tduid=(5bb8ef4f0b4e9c8ac8aac722c4148138)(256380)(2459594)(TnL5HPStwNw-3h0ML0wDMknAnbOIXdGjww)() https://www.geekwire.com/2017/microsoft-launches-new-container-service-s-cloud-native-group-isolating-aws-kubernetes/ https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/26/microsofts-new-azure-container-instances-make-using-containers-fast-and-easy/  

In this Episode, Warren goes solo and shares some important Microsoft Azure announcements and discusses why they are relevant.          

In this Episode, Warren goes solo and shares some important Microsoft Azure announcements and discusses why they are relevant.          

In this episode we chat to renowned evangelist and fellow South African MVP Alistair Pugin. Alistair has worked in various capacities in multiple verticals from retail – manufacturing to government, spanning 50 to 50000 s utilizing all aspects of pure Enterprise Information Management. His current position as an Office Servers MVP in Johannesburg, South Africa, provides him with a mechanism to assist companies with deg their SharePoint environment using “best of breed”, proven methodologies to foster innovation and growth through an ECM framework while incorporating a Knowledge Management strategy. It is with this vision that he strives to provide customers with a platform for Business Productivity Enrichment, establishing communities of practice through proper analysis and building a knowledge economy that is both quantifiable and achievable. Grab his stories at http://alistairpugin.net Specialties: 20+ years pure IT, 16 years ECM, Livelink, Zylab, SharePoint, FileNet, etc. IT Pro dabbling in Dev, ECM Consultant, Suffering from Technophilia Technology Architect specializing in Business Productivity Enrichment You can find Alistair at all the below links Cloudgeek ECM Ninja  WhoisAl.com Informationworker.org Meetup.com LinkedIn Here are the show notes. Christian Buckley – The Oprah of personal branding Mark Miller – Dev Ops  Agnes Molnar – The Search Lady Neil Hodgekinson – Built hybrid engine for Sharepoint