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Dive into the mind of Aaron Kornblum, General Counsel of BYJU's learning as we discuss hiring, global remote culture, EdTech, India, and the journey of GC. LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaronko/About Aaron:Aaron Kornblum serves as President and Global General Counsel for BYJU'S Learning, a part of the India-based edtech decacorn BYJU'S. Aaron helps BYJU'S deliver live, 1:1 and group instruction in coding, math, art and music on a proprietary online platform. His global legal organization enables a broad range of corporate and commercial matters, including sales and marketing functions, privacy & online safety, international operations, employment, compliance, and managing IP + litigation.Before joining BYJU'S, Aaron served as General Counsel and led legal teams at Improbable Worlds, a London-based virtual worlds startup, and Bungie, Inc., a videogame company headquartered in Bellevue, Wash., responsible for the acclaimed Halo and Destiny AAA franchises.Previously, Aaron spent 14 years in legal and business roles at Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software company. As a Group Program Manager in Xbox, Aaron scaled a multi-disciplinary team from 1 to 55 FTEs responsible for games brand protection and anti-piracy/anti-counterfeiting, privacy & online safety, geopolitical and content ratings review, and physical + online confidential information protection, including the Xbox One console launch. As a Senior Attorney in the Legal & Corporate Affairs Division, Aaron led a litigation team that partnered with worldwide government investigators to pursue cybercriminals.Aaron began his legal career in the U.S. Air Force Judge Advocate General's (“JAG”) Corps, serving nearly five years on active duty as a military prosecutor and trial defense counsel at U.S. and NATO airbases in the United States, Europe, and Southwest Asia. Following his military service, he joined the Seattle law firm Graham & Dunn PC, concentrating on commercial transactions and litigation.Originally a native of the Washington, D.C. area, Aaron received a B.A. in Politics from Princeton University and a Juris Doctor from the University of Wisconsin School of Law. He is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court and has held a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) accreditation since 2012.Today Aaron resides with his family in Greater Seattle. The Puget Sound Business Journal named Aaron to its 40 Under 40 list for 2010, a select group of the region's next generation of business leaders. He has volunteered as a director on various community non-profit boards, including Board President of the Seattle Museum of History & Industry.You can hear Aaron's voice at stadiums and sports arenas across Western Washington, including the NFL Seattle Seahawks at Lumen Field.

This is episode 230 recorded June 28th, 2022 where John & Jason talk to Priya Sathy, Group Program Manager in the Microsoft Intelligence Data Platform & the head of Product Management for Data Warehouse in Power BI, about the new datamarts feature in Power BI that is now in public preview. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

We sit down with Ben Armstrong from Microsoft to talk about Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) on Azure Stack HCI! Being a Group Program Manager for AKS on premises, Ben spends his time making life easier for infrastructure administrators running compute workloads on premises. In previous roles for Ben, this meant VMs, but now his focus is on Containers and Kubernetes! In this episode we cover what AKS is, why it's important for IT Pros, adoption outlook and more! Also worth mentioning is that we changed things up with this episode. The conversation with Ben was so engaging that we've split this episode into a two-part episode, with this one focusing on the AKS discussion. Part two will focus on Hyper-V, including some behind the scenes information on Microsoft's decision to stop development of the free Hyper-V Server SKU. So, keep a look out for part two next week! Enjoy! Join the webinar How Azure Stack HCI is forcing changes in your datacenter In this episode: What is Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) - 4:30 Where does AKS run on premises? - 12:20 What is the value-add for Kubernetes and Containers for the sysadmin? - 13:17 Are there any concerns with Serverless computer (like Azure Functions) eventually overtaking containers? - 28:33 What does the adoption of containers look like today? - 39:40 Resources for Azure Kubernetes Service: Azure Kubernetes Service Azure Kubernetes Server on Azure Stack HCI Azure Stack HCI Resources Jeff Woolsey - Principal Program Manager at Microsoft Taylor Brown - Group Program Manager at Microsoft More about this episode, and others: The SysAdmin DOJO Podcast page

Ashvini Sharma is one terrific human being and he knows a LOT about Robotic Process Automation (RPA).  As the Group Program Manager of Power Automate RPA at Microsoft, there is no better source of information about automation than from Ash! If you want real-world examples of what Power Automate can do, this is the episode you need to listen to. Power Automate Desktop Download and Blog Episode Timeline: 2:05 - How could anyone live without air conditioning?!, Maintaining the work/life balance is difficult 11:20 - Ash goes to the Excel Team and faces the challenges of his new role head-on, The Magic and Soul of Excel 21:05 - Ash's next pivot is RPA (Robotic Process Automation), the benefits of RPA, and some brilliant (and 1 possibly illegal) examples of RPA 34:05 - A Power Automate history lesson and some explanation on what it is and what it can do 47:30 - A little insight on how RPA was built and the cost of keeping company secrets 55:40 - A new segment called N Questions-Rob asks some burning questions, rapid-fire style..and some very interesting answers come out of it! 1:07:20 - Ash explains a "Hello World" scenario that will help many of you listening regarding automation of Export to Excel so that Power BI can pick up the refresh 1:13:20 - What's next for Power Automate?

Close your eyes, and imagine a world where booting up your computer wasn't a susceptibility point for attacks. Imagine a Root of Trust that's integrated into the CPU. Imagine all of your devices being protected against advanced attacks. Now, what if I told you there's a cutting-edge processor that's battle-tested for hardware penetrations, easy to update, and protects credentials, encryption keys, and personal data all at once? What if I told you it was already here, and your systems might already be using it?! Open your eyes, and get ready to be amazed! It's Pluton, baby! Peter Waxman, Group Program Manager at Microsoft, joins hosts Nic Fillingham and Natalia Godyla in a tell-all about Pluton. Trust us, Pluton is sure to knock your SOCs off (that's System on a Chip)! Now that your eyes have been opened to a more secure system, we'd like to ask you to keep the volume down, because you've just entered the Library of Threats. While it may sound like inspiration for the next installment of National Treasure, you won't find Nicolas Cage in this library (at least you shouldn't). However, you will find Madeline Carmichael, MSTIC's Threat Intel Librarian, whose movie-worthy title is just as impressive as it sounds. To be honest though, you might not find anyone in the library, as it bears more resemblance to Professor X's Cerebro than it does your local hardcover sanctuary.     In This Episode, You Will Learn:    What the Pluton Security Processor is and how it was created  The architecture of the Pluton Security Processor  What challenges were faced while bringing the Pluton Security Processor to life  The Root of Trust today vs. The Future with Pluton  The naming systems for threat actors, from periodic elements to volcanoes    Some Questions We Ask:  What differentiates the Pluton Security Processor from previous methodologies?  Why is the Pluton Processor better than what we have used in the past?    What challenges lie ahead with the next steps around Pluton?  What has changed since Pluton was in Xbox to where it is now?  What tools and platforms does a Threat Intel Librarian utilize?    Resources:  Microsoft Pluton Announcement Peter's LinkedIn Madeline's LinkedIn  Microsoft Security Blog Nic's LinkedIn Natalia's LinkedIn Related: Listen to: Afternoon Cyber Tea with Ann Johnson Listen to: Security Unlocked: CISO Series with Bret Arsenault  Security Unlocked is produced by Microsoft and distributed as part of The CyberWire Network. 

This month Ankita and Jason talk with Sesha Mani, Group Program Manager at Microsoft, responsible for the core parts of OneDrive and SharePoint around Data Governance, Compliance and Security. He spearheaded the security in Microsoft 365 service from its inception days. We also learn of each person's first memorable music concert. Click here for full transcript. Resources and Info Links: OneDrive Facebook | Twitter | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice Ankita Kirti |Twitter -- Bon Jovi Jason Moore |Twitter -- Bjork Sesha Mani | LinkedIn | Twitter -- A.R. Rahman Microsoft 365 Security and Compliance site "Change in ourselves helps drive change in the world" blog by Satya Nadella   OneDrive Tech Community Blog OneDrive Webinars Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals.  Microsoft Tech Community Home Stay on top of Office 365 changes Subscribe to Sync Up at http://aka.ms/syncup Listen and subscribe to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts

This is episode 147 recorded on May 28, 2020 where John & Jason talk to Will Thompson, Group Program Manager for Power BI Creation Experiences about his vision, The future of Power BI authoring, and the correct way to pronounce composite models. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

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Microsoft is transforming virtual desktop delivery by separating operating system, user profile and app layers. You'll see how we’ve improved the Microsoft Teams remote experience with AV redirect and you'll see the preview of the Windows Virtual Desktop admin portal experience. At Microsoft Ignite 2019, this was session THR2277: Windows Virtual Desktop updates. Scott Manchester is the Group Program Manager for Windows Virtual Desktop and Remote Desktop Services. He is a 20 year veteran at Microsoft where he has worked on Second Screen Remoting, Multimedia, and Networking technologies and holds over 20 patents in these areas. Scott holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington and an Executive MBA from Washington State University.

At Microsoft //Build 2019 I spent time talking to some of the people who build the products and services that run on Azure and on Windows. In this Build Special I combine two interviews; the first with Dan Rosanova, Group Program Manager for Azure Messaging, and the second with Craig Loewen, Program Manager for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). But first let's hear Dan Rosanova talk about two of the amazing messaging services provided by the Azure Platform: Azure Service Bus and Event Hubs, including recently announced Availability Zone (AZ) support and Azure Event Hubs for Apache Kafka. Next we hear from Craig Loewen from the Windows Subsystem for Linux team - yes, you heard right! For three years now Microsoft have been shipping a Linux Subsystem in Windows 10 which means you can use many Linux commands at the command line inside Windows. Pretty mind-blowing stuff in 2016! But now that all seems par for the course as at Microsoft //Build 2019 we announced that, this year, we will ship a full Linux Kernel in Windows 10 as part of the major improvements in the next version of the Windows Subsystem for Linux - WSL2. Here's Craig to tell us all about it. Show links: What is Azure Service Bus? Azure Event Hubs — A big data streaming platform and event ingestion service Use Azure Event Hubs from Apache Kafka applications Apache Kafka Azure Service Bus and Azure Event Hubs expand availability Windows Subsystem for Linux WSL 2 is now available in Windows Insiders Microsoft Fast Track for Azure From Microsoft New Zealand, this is Azure Lunch. A podcast about Microsoft Azure in short digestible chunks, where we discuss cloud computing from a Kiwi perspective with Architects, Engineers and Technical specialists from around the world. Azure Lunch is sponsored by Microsoft Fast Track for Azure - a team of Engineers and Program Managers dedicated to helping you to be successful in Azure. Learn more at Azure.com/FastTrack. Thanks to SilverWHK for the use of his music in our podcast: https://silverwhk.bandcamp.com Daniel Larsen and his guests are employees of Microsoft. The opinions expressed in this podcast are their own and not an official company statement.

Azure Lunch podcast had an unplanned outage a few months ago while we took time adjust to a couple of pretty big changes. In this new "Series 2.1" we reboot with a new show, a new sponsor, and best of all lots of amazing guests. Daniel has been lucky enough to travel across the world to Microsoft //Build 2019 and to Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington. As well as other events at home in Auckland, NZ. In this trailer we feature snippets from interviews with Microsoft Architects, Engineers, Program Managers and Specialists, showcasing just a few of the people that work hard every day to make Microsoft Azure awesome: Tiago Barbosa, FastTrack Engineer, Azure Engineering Chimène Bonhomme, Technical Solutions Professional at Microsoft NZ. Full interview in S2E03. Dan Rosanova, Group Program Manager, Azure Messaging. Craig Loewen, Program Manager, Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Sharad Agrawal, Program Manager, Azure Front Door. Chris Reddington, FastTrack Engineer, Azure Engineering. Kumar Srinivasamurthy, Group Engineering Manager, Bing. Ivan Towlson, Software Engineer, Cloud Native Team. Divya Sangar, Technical Solutions Professional, Azure Networking. Full interviews with each of these guests are coming up next on the Azure Lunch Podcast, so make sure you subscribe. Show links: Microsoft Fast Track for Azure Microsoft //Build 2019 From Microsoft New Zealand, this is Azure Lunch. A podcast about Microsoft Azure in short digestible chunks, where we discuss cloud computing from a Kiwi perspective with Architects, Engineers and Technical specialists from around the world. Azure Lunch is sponsored by Microsoft Fast Track for Azure - a team of Engineers and Program Managers dedicated to helping you to be successful in Azure. Learn more at Azure.com/FastTrack. Thanks to SilverWHK for the use of his music in our podcast: https://silverwhk.bandcamp.com Daniel Larsen and guests are employees of Microsoft. The opinions expressed in this podcast are their own and not an official company statement.

Chris Parkison is the Group Program Manager at VIDA Fitness (Yards), Director of the Yoga Alliance RYS-200 school at VIDA Fitness, and host of the DC yoga Podcast. He's an incredibly funny, genuine, and thoughtful guy. In our conversation, we talked about why Chris prefers to teach yoga at a gym versus a yoga studio, why he has the best job in fitness, and why he thought it was important to create his podcast, the DC Yoga Podcast. As always, talking with Chris is enlightening and fun. Check out this episode, then be sure to go listen to HIS podcast to learn from studio owners and teachers all around DC. You can find Chris at: facebook.com/Chris.Parkison.5 instagram.com/chrisparkison Soundcloud.com/chrisPyoga --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/samantha-attard/message

Demo-rich tour of the latest updates to SharePoint and OneDrive presented by the father of SharePoint, Jeff Teper, and joined by Jeremy Chapman. This includes the latest in organizational productivity with new templates for communication sites in SharePoint. New integration between SharePoint and Microsoft Teams as well as other Microsoft 365 experiences; organizational search and new mobile capabilities. Keep watching too as we show you simpler ways to manage, protect and control your data; updates to the SharePoint migration tool to migrate your content to SharePoint online and much more. Learn more at blogs.office.com Session THR2307 - Filmed Tuesday, September 25, 12:30 EDT at Microsoft Ignite in Orlando, Florida. Subject Matter Expert: Jeff Teper leads Office shared experiences and core applications, as well as, OneDrive and SharePoint consumer and business services in Office 365. Jeff joined Microsoft in 1992 to lead corporate developer evangelism for Windows NT. He then served as a Group Program Manager in Microsoft’s Internet Business Unit. In 1998, he led the creation of SharePoint Portal Server which became one of Microsoft’s fastest growing businesses exceeding $3 billion in revenues. Jeff next served as Corporate Vice President for Program Management across Office 365 Services and Servers, which is the foundation of Microsoft’s enterprise cloud leadership. He then led Corporate Strategy supporting Satya Nadella and Amy Hood on Microsoft’s mobile-first/cloud-first transformation and acquisitions. Prior to joining Microsoft, Jeff was vice president for software development for an investment firm in New York. Jeff Teper holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Science degree in information systems and finance from New York University where he was class valedictorian.

Jeremy got to catch up with Yochay Kiriaty, Group Program Manager at Microsoft responsible for the Microsoft Bot Framework.  In this interview they discussed what the Bot Framework is, how it relates to the Azure Bot Service. Yochay explained why there is a re-architecture as part of jump from v3 to v4 of the Framework. They also talked about the common authentication flows and whats there to help. He also shared common bots that he sees being built out there in the wild.   Show Links Microsoft Bot Framework Azure Bot Service Yochay on Twitter News Office Developer Bootcamps Microsoft Graph Update   Community News Sending Mail with Microsoft Graph and SPFx by Paolo Pialorsi SharePoint SPFX and Microsoft Graph 30 min lab Change the display name of a message sender by Paul Schaeflein Executing batch requests with Microsoft Graph and SharePoint Framework by Markus Moeller How to sort planner tasks using order hint and Microsoft Graph by Laura Kokkarinen A starter scaffold for my Azure Functions by Jeremy Hancock  

Episode 273: ControlTalk NOW — Smart Buildings Videocast and PodCast for week ending July 1, 2018, features a discussion with industry expert, Chief Communications Officer and Vice President at Lynxspring, Marc Petock, who provides unique insight into this week’s industry events and trends challenging and changing business as usual. 2018 Realcomm|IBcon interviews continue with Microsoft Azure’s Group Program Manager, Abundant Power Group, and Cyber Pro. 2019 AHR Expo returns to Atlanta — and AHR announces the call for nominations for the prestigious 2019 Innovation Awards. Celebrate National HVAC Technician’s Day, and Honeywell introduces two new products. AHR Expo Returns to Atlanta for the First Time Since 2001, Clay Stevens, AHR Expo Show Manager, “We are thrilled to be back in this great city for the first time in 17 years.” The AHR Expo will return to Atlanta for the first time since 2001 for its 2019 Show at the Georgia World Congress Center. HVACR accounts for billions of dollars in revenue and is a key economic driver for the state of Georgia, with U.S. Department of Labor projections indicating it will see nearly 20 percent growth in the coming years. With this booming HVACR market, the region is a top location to host the next AHR Expo. AHR Expo Announced — 2019 Innovation Awards — Call for Entries! he awards call attention to the products, systems and technologies that have set elevated standards for the industry’s responsible and effective use of its resources. Here’s some additional info: Submissions are due by July 31, 2018; Entries should demonstrate innovative design, creativity, application, value and market impact; and Categories include: building automation; cooling; green building; heating; indoor air quality; plumbing; refrigeration; software; tools and instruments; and ventilation. Microsoft’s Group Program Manager of Azure IoT, Bert Van Hoof and Willow’s CEO and Co-Founder, Josh Ridley at 2018 Realcomm|IBcon. Bert Van Hoof tells us about Microsoft’s ability to help influence what “SMART” means in the smart building context and how their new Azure platform capabilities, which Microsoft refers to as Spacial Intelligence, are helping their partners realize their innovation goals in new global markets. Willow’s CEO and Co-Founder, Josh Ridley, explains that without a Digital Twin, you don’t really have a user experience. Willow is about the digital environment for a physical world. Great Willow demonstration follows. Cyber Pro: Smart Power Supply. No matter how good your smart building controls are, if the power coming to them is off, the controls won’t work the way they should. Get the power right and you are on your way to creating a great smart building controls system. We had the chance to catch up with Dan Niewirowicz,CEO at Next Device, LLC, about CyberPower. CyberPower designs and manufactures uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, power distribution units (PDUs), rack enclosures, surge protectors, remote management hardware, power management software, mobile chargers, and connectivity products. NATIONAL HVAC TECH DAY: With the days heating up, June 22nd is a perfect day for National HVAC Tech Day! Why should we show appreciation for our HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning) Technicians? Though a variety of home heating and cooling techniques have existed since ancient times, central heating and air as we know it was born in the early 1900s. New inventions like the residential air conditioner and advances in older technologies, such as the thermostat and blower-equipped furnaces, gave Americans greater control over their indoor comfort than ever before.NATIONAL HVAC TECH DAY – June 22! Belated Congratulations and Thanks for a Job Well Done! Best way to do smart buildings data analytics Making Buildings Smarter: Catching Up with Abundant Power at 2018 RealComm|IBcon. had a chance to meet Derek McGarry, the Head Building Performance Engineer at Abundant Power. Abundant Power out of Charlotte, North Carolina, provides solution focused services, great customer service, and profit driven outcomes so that their customers get the most value out of Analytics, and as we all know making data actionable and useful is easier said than done. After hearing what Derek has to say, I believe that Abundant Power knows how to use data to make buldings smarter. And with great smart building controls integrators like McKenney’s, Atlanta, using their product, they are keeping very good company. ControlTrends Breaking News Just Announced: New Products from Honeywell.. Honeywell is excited to announce the launch of two new lines of pressure sensors (P7650 and P7635) and a new line of current sensors and switches! The pressure sensors offer enhanced features and directly replace their P7640 pressure sensor. These easy to install current sensors will replace Honeywell’s existing line of current sensors. For more information click here. The post Episode 273: ControlTalk NOW — Smart Buildings Videocast and PodCast for Week Ending July 1, 2018 appeared first on ControlTrends.

Prior to joining Talend as CEO, Mike was the CEO of Rapid7, a security software startup that provides one of the leading security assessment platforms. Mike joined Rapid7 in 2008 and grew the company by 10x in the next 4.5 years. Rapid7 was consistently one of the fastest growing companies in Boston, and was recognized as the Best Place to Work by the Boston Business Journal. Prior to Rapid7, Mike was General Manager of Microsoft's SQL Server Marketing team. During Mike's tenure the SQL business grew from $1.5B to $2.5B, and was the fastest growing of Microsoft’s largest businesses. Prior to re-joining Microsoft in September 2003, Mike was General Manager of Polycom's Austin division, a $190mm videoconferencing equipment business. Prior to Polycom, Mike co-founded and was Chief Operating Officer of Paramark, a marketing analytics startup. Prior to co-founding Paramark, Mike spent six years at Microsoft in an expanding range of roles including product marketing, product strategy, and product management. Mike joined Microsoft as a member of the MSN team, and became an early evangelist of the internet and MSN's first internet marketing manager. He spent the last two years as Group Program Manager of Exchange Server, driving Microsoft's email strategy, product definition, and product execution for this $700mm business. During Mike's tenure, Microsoft category market share grew from 40% to over 60%. Mike began his career at Sun Microsystems, working as an engineer on Sun's SPARC workstations. He led the design of an integrated I/O chip, one of two chips that were used across Sun's low-end and midrange systems. Mike holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Brown University (magna cum laude), a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and a Masters of Business Administration from Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar.

In this video Donovan Brown interviews Tony Seeley, Group Program Manager who works in the Windows and Devices Group (WDG), Engineering Systems team, overseeing the group managing the source control system which is used by thousands of users working on code for an extensive portfolio of products including Xbox, Surface, Windows Store and of course the Windows operating system itself.Throughout the interview Tony will describe how Windows moved all its source code, 350gigs worth, from an inhouse solution to Git repos hosted inside of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). He'll cover the details of what it took to get such a large repository hosted inside of Git by overcoming Git's technical limitations, such as the GVFS work that unblocked it (and is now open source). He'll also talk about why they undertook this difficult journey in the first place, such as reducing training cost, following industry trends, modernization of their engineering system and enabling more flexibility to the product teams ability to ship and innovate around Windows.Get started with VSTS: https://www.visualstudio.com/vsts

In this video Donovan Brown interviews Tony Seeley, Group Program Manager who works in the Windows and Devices Group (WDG), Engineering Systems team, overseeing the group managing the source control system which is used by thousands of users working on code for an extensive portfolio of products including Xbox, Surface, Windows Store and of course the Windows operating system itself.Throughout the interview Tony will describe how Windows moved all its source code, 350gigs worth, from an inhouse solution to Git repos hosted inside of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). He'll cover the details of what it took to get such a large repository hosted inside of Git by overcoming Git's technical limitations, such as the GVFS work that unblocked it (and is now open source). He'll also talk about why they undertook this difficult journey in the first place, such as reducing training cost, following industry trends, modernization of their engineering system and enabling more flexibility to the product teams ability to ship and innovate around Windows.Get started with VSTS: https://www.visualstudio.com/vsts

In this video Donovan Brown interviews Jill Campbell, Group Program Manager who works in the Windows and Devices Group (WDG), Engineering Systems team, overseeing the process and tools Windows uses to plan work across tens of thousands of employees and an extensive portfolio of products including Xbox, Surface, Windows Store and of course the Windows operating system itself.Throughout the interview Jill will describe how Windows moved all these product teams from various tools to a unified process powered by Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), and how VSTS scales for them along with the flexibility and customizability which enabled them to be successful in managing over 11 million work items, across 33,000 users (across all of Microsoft) and with teams varying in processes ranging from Agile through to Waterfall.

In this video Donovan Brown interviews Jill Campbell, Group Program Manager who works in the Windows and Devices Group (WDG), Engineering Systems team, overseeing the process and tools Windows uses to plan work across tens of thousands of employees and an extensive portfolio of products including Xbox, Surface, Windows Store and of course the Windows operating system itself.Throughout the interview Jill will describe how Windows moved all these product teams from various tools to a unified process powered by Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), and how VSTS scales for them along with the flexibility and customizability which enabled them to be successful in managing over 11 million work items, across 33,000 users (across all of Microsoft) and with teams varying in processes ranging from Agile through to Waterfall.

In episode 8, Jeremy Thake chats to Brian Jones, Group Program Manager for the Office 365 Developer Platform. As an Office 365 Developer you would have most recently seen Brian speak at the SharePoint Conference 2014 alongside his lead Rob Lefferts, Director of PM, about the future of Office 365 development. In this show, Brian talks about his career at Microsoft and the journey he’s had in Office evolving the development experience with his team. This includes talking about the Open XML SDK, App Model and Office 365 APIs. He shares some great stories of the old world of three year release cycles compared to the new monthly release cycle including some pretty interesting ship party stories! Weekly updates Microsoft’s Unified Technology Event for enterprises on Office 365 blogs Poll vote on next episodes on Office 365 Technical Network SPSecurityEventReceiver – The Missing Technical Reference by Tim Ferro Remote event receivers on host web gotcha by Chris O’Brien OpenXML SDK Open Source announcement WikiPedia App Open Source Office 365 API MSDN doco Azure AD MSDN doco James Callaghan’s tweet Salesforce announcement Office Graph announcement Office.com/Roadmap Got questions or comments about the show? Join O365 Dev Podcast http://aka.ms/Office365DevPodcastYam on the Office 365 Technical Network Show notes The podcast RSS has been submitted to all the stores and marketplaces but takes time, please add directly with the RSS http://feeds.feedburner.com/Office365DeveloperPodcast About Brian Brian Jones is the Group Program Manager of the Office Developer Platform team which builds the extensibility model for Office and SharePoint. Brian has spent the past 14 years working on various pieces of the Office and SharePoint products with a primary focus on how developers can integrate and extend the platform. His initial focus was on extensibility with Word and then drove the development and standardization of the Office Open XML file formats. Since then, Brian has led the team that focuses on the cross product development model About the host Jeremy is a newly appointed technical product manager at Microsoft responsible for the Visual Studio Developer story for Office 365 development.  Previously he worked at AvePoint Inc, a large ISV as the chief architect shipping two apps to the Office Store. He has been heavily involved in the SharePoint community since 2006 and was awarded the SharePoint MVP award four years in a row before retiring the title to move to Microsoft. You can find Jeremy blogging at http://www.jeremythake.com and tweeting at @jthak

Joe Stegman talks about creating XAML UI for Windows Store apps. He mentions the flexibility of XAML being accessible from C++, VB and C#, and the great performance you will get out of the engine (which is written in native code). Learn more about the new XAML UI platform at the Windows devcenter and follow Joe’s advice and start building your apps.Ready to Get Started?Visit the Windows Developer Center for a myriad of sample, docs and guidelines Join the GenerationApp program and get a jumpstart building your Windows Store app. About JoeJoe Stegman is the Group Program Manager for the Windows UI Platform team. Joe previously worked on developer platform related technologies as part of the Silverlight team and prior to that spent several years building a UI Framework and supporting UI development tools as a Lead Program Manager on the Windows Forms team. Joe has worked at Microsoft since 1998 and spent his first several years as a Microsoft consultant working with large corporations in the development and delivery of e-commerce web sites.About TimTim Huckaby is focused on the Natural User Interface (NUI) in Rich Client and Rich Internet Application (RIA) Technologies like Silverlight & WPF on the computer, the Surface, and Windows Phone 7. He has been called a "Pioneer of the Smart Client Revolution" by the press.Tim has been awarded multiple times for the highest rated Keynote and technical presentations for Microsoft and numerous other technology conferences around the world by Microsoft Corporation. Tim has done presentations on Microsoft technologies at technology events like Microsoft Tech Ed, Product Launch events, Dev Days, MEC, World Wide Partner Conference, MGB, MGX, and the PDC, along with 3rd party technology conferences all over the world is consistently rated in the top 10% of all speakers at these events. Tim was selected by Microsoft as a speaker for the International .NET Association and speaks at events world-wide on Microsoft's behalf. Tim has done keynote demos at big Microsoft events and product launches for numerous Microsoft executives including Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer.Tim founded InterKnowlogy, experts in Microsoft .NET and Microsoft Platforms, and Actus Interactive Software, and has 25+ years experience including serving on a Microsoft product team as a development lead on an architecture team. Tim is a Microsoft Regional Director, an MVP and serves on multiple Microsoft councils and boards like the Microsoft .NET Partner Advisory Council.Resources we recommend you check outDownload the Tools for Windows 8 App Development Download Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows 8 Start building your own Apps for Windows 8

Brad Abrams, Group Program Manager for UI Framework and Services, sits down with Craig Shoemaker to discuss some of the origins of the .NET Framework and what's to come from Silverlight, ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET AJAX.