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Welcome back to the Ultimate Guide to Partnering® Podcast. AI agents are your next customers. Subscribe to our Newsletter: https://theultimatepartner.com/ebook-subscribe/ Check Out UPX:https://theultimatepartner.com/experience/ In this episode, Vince Menzione sits down with SHI leaders Joseph Bellian and Stefanie Dunn, alongside Microsoft's Marcus Jewett, to dissect SHI's massive evolution from a traditional Large Account Reseller (LAR) to a strategic Global Systems Integrator (GSI). They explore the cultural and operational shifts required to move from a transaction-heavy model to a services-led approach, highlighting their alignment with Microsoft's MSEM methodology, the implementation of the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS), and their cutting-edge work with AI Labs and Agentic AI. Key Takeaways SHI has evolved from a transactional powerhouse into a Global Systems Integrator (GSI) focused on services and outcomes. The organization implemented the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) to align vision, people, and data across sales and delivery. SHI serves as “Customer Zero” for Microsoft AI, implementing Copilot internally to better guide customers. The partnership mirrors Microsoft's MSEM methodology to ensure seamless co-selling and customer success lifecycles. SHI's AI Labs in New Jersey provides a secure environment for clients to build and test custom AI solutions. The shift requires moving from a “Hulk” (strength/sales) mindset to a “Tony Stark” (brainpower/strategy) mindset. Key Tags: SHI International, global systems integrator, Microsoft services, Joseph Bellian, Stefanie Dunn, Marcus Jewett, AI labs, agentic AI, MSEM methodology, entrepreneurial operating system, digital transformation, customer zero, copilot implementation, solution provider, cloud migration, data governance, services led growth. Ultimate Partner is the independent community for technology leaders navigating the tectonic shifts in cloud, AI, marketplaces, and co-selling. Through live events, UPX membership, advisory, and the Ultimate Guide to Partnering® podcast, we help organizations align with hyperscalers, accelerate growth, and achieve their greatest results through successful partnering. Transcript:Transcript: Joseph Bellian – Stefanie Dunn – Marcus Jewett WORKFILE AUDIO [00:00:00] Vince Menzione: We’ve got it. So it is interesting how these sessions kind of follow each other. Hopefully you’re seeing kind of a flow from marketplaces and the conversation about how to be a really great ISV to how an ISV took and built a channel strategy and how they integrated alliances and channels together. [00:00:16] Vince Menzione: Well, we have an, we have another really great example here to talk through. I have this, uh, incredible like background. Like I’m a hundred years old, basically. I don’t even want to tell anybody that. But, uh, I got to work with this organization way back in my days at Microsoft. They are, they were and are one of the top, I’ll call them, they were classically a reseller company. [00:00:40] Vince Menzione: They one of the largest, we call ’em large account resellers back in the day. Uh, their leader built a multi-billion dollar organization. I’m gonna let them talk through who they are today, but we have an opportunity to talk about transformation. From that lens now too, like how does an organization that’s really good at doing one thing evolve, transform and take advantage of these tectonic shifts we’re seeing? [00:01:03] Vince Menzione: So, uh, we’ve got some incredible leaders. I’m gonna have them come up on stage. And everybody introduced themselves from SHI and also from Microsoft. And we’re gonna have a really great conversation today. Great to have you. [00:01:26] Vince Menzione: So I’m gonna let, I’m gonna let you guys introduce yourselves because, uh, everybody knows you as DJ Marco Polo. So we’re gonna, we’ll start with you over in the far end, Marcus. Okay. Vince, I, [00:01:36] Marcus Jewett: I’ll try to be shy. [00:01:37] Vince Menzione: No, [00:01:37] Marcus Jewett: uh, hi everyone, my name is Marcus Jut, I am the Global Partner Development Manager for the SHI partnership. [00:01:43] Marcus Jewett: Uh, I have been overseeing this partnership for just under 12 years. Wow. So I have seen the evolutional journey of this partner and really proud of where they, uh, have matured their business and the partnership with Microsoft. [00:01:57] Stefanie Dunn: Thank you. Oh. [00:01:58] Marcus Jewett: Is there, is yours on? Oh, [00:02:00] Vince Menzione: mines [00:02:00] Stefanie Dunn: on. Hi, I am Stephanie Dunn, a director of Microsoft Services at SHI. [00:02:07] Stefanie Dunn: And it is an, it’s a pleasure to be here. It’s a pleasure to have Marcus as our PDM and, uh, Joe and Vince, uh, very, very happy to be here. Um, and I lead our Microsoft Services sales, uh, area. So across, uh, cloud AI business transformation and, uh. And, uh, data and ai. [00:02:28] Joseph Bellian: Great, great to have you, Stephanie. Thank you. [00:02:30] Joseph Bellian: Joe. Joe Bellion. I’m the VP of Microsoft Alliances and programs. Uh, I’ve been here at SHI for about eight months now, but been in and around the partner ecosystem for about a decade. Uh, I think of my organization of like kind of two aspects. So leading the charge around alliances, aligning our field sellers and specialists with Microsoft, as well as the, the programs backend incentives and operations. [00:02:51] Joseph Bellian: But, um, the real focus is driving the go to market strategy here at SHI. [00:02:55] Vince Menzione: Yeah. So great. So I started to allude to this earlier about like traditional, one of the top three or four companies actually. And we used to use the term, uh, LSP back in the day, or lar, we’ve got several iterations. Microsoft’s gone through several iterations of that name. [00:03:11] Vince Menzione: Marcus knows all of them probably by heart. Tell us what was the impetus to change the organization? Become more like a ser, a services led company as opposed to a transaction led organization? [00:03:21] Joseph Bellian: Yeah, absolutely. Throw one more acronym. SSP. SSP, that was another one. So, uh, solution provider. Um, but, uh, yeah, I, I’d say probably a couple things. [00:03:29] Joseph Bellian: Um, one, the big one, no news to anybody in the room and online as well. The shift with EAs, director of Microsoft, as well as, uh, the whole CSP hero motion. So we do recognize that opportunity, uh, to have services attached, to engage with our clients as well as our joint partnerships with Microsoft, uh, with services out in the field. [00:03:48] Joseph Bellian: Uh, the second one, probably the biggest one is our clients. Hearing out our clients that shift. Um, we’re talking about ai, ai, everything, AI services. Uh, we’re now in the whole era of agentic ai. What does that mean? How do you take advantage of those offerings? And so we recognize that, that our clients are spending millions of dollars with the Microsoft products, but how do you take advantage of that investment and maximize it in their environment? [00:04:13] Joseph Bellian: And so having services to help navigate those complex solutions, that’s where we’re, we’re leaning in. [00:04:18] Vince Menzione: So what did it take to change? Transformation doesn’t come easy. There’s mindset. There’s all these cultural changes that need to happen. From your perspective, both of your perspectives, what did it take internally for this change to happen? [00:04:31] Joseph Bellian: Yeah. Um, so if you, if you heard of the entrepreneurial operating system EOS Yes. And we’ve adopted that internally. Um, if you’re not familiar, it kind of comprises of six components. So vision, people, data, um, process. Issues and, um, uh, traction. So I apologize, that’s, uh, but take, take that model and put it into our business of what we did. [00:04:57] Joseph Bellian: Um, so two kind of twofold. One, moving our entire services practice organization under one, one operating rhythm, um, under Jordan Ello, our CTO. So pre-sales and delivery. So looking at that, the how we go to market with our services, single vision. Uh, single process. So it’s consistent as we’re engaging not only through our partners, but through our clients, but then also on the other side of the house, our Microsoft practice, having all of our resources under one roof so that it’s a single way we go to market. [00:05:28] Joseph Bellian: Aligning our go to market strategy, one-to-one with Microsoft. Why it, it does two things. One, it allows us to be very clear of how we are going to market to our clients, but it allows us to partner even better with our Microsoft counterparts. Yeah, when, when Microsoft, it’s always ever changing. You’re familiar, every six months to a year solution plays and the go-to-market strategy changes, uh, we’re there at the forefront in ensuring that we have our solutions mapped a hundred percent so that we can just co-sell together. [00:05:58] Joseph Bellian: Break down those walls. Let’s do more together. [00:06:00] Vince Menzione: And, uh, geographically you were sep, your teams were separated. You have a big operation in Texas. You also have a big New Jersey operation, which was where the company was founded, in fact. So I’d love to get the perspective on this, Marcus. From your perspective, like what did it do, what was it like before and what did it become? [00:06:17] Marcus Jewett: Oh yeah, let’s go back in the way back machine to 12 years ago. Um, it was a different partner, a different operating model, uh, in those early days. And this is really when we started to move customers from on-premises to more cloud-based subscription technologies. Uh, SHI was always just an incredible selling machine. [00:06:36] Marcus Jewett: If they could not do anything, they could always sell. And for any of you who are familiar with the Marvel movies, um. I, I, I, I use a reference internally with them. SHI was always like the Hulk root for strength. You know, you tell ’em to go sell something, Hulk Smash, they can knock that out. Well, as we really needed these partners to evolve and really help our customers with their technologies, whether it’s driving adoption, monthly active usage, consumption. [00:07:02] Marcus Jewett: We needed them to be more like Tony Stark, right? We needed the brain power, and so over the last, let’s call it five or six years, SHI has continued to invest in their Microsoft practice. They went from an organization that was really focused on management of EA acquisition of new Microsoft logo. To continuing to develop that muscle, but also investing in ways to help customers through their managed services, through their professional services. [00:07:28] Marcus Jewett: And it’s been a, a journey. Right? SHI is a large organization. For a long time they were Microsoft’s largest partner. And from a transactional build revenue perspective, and they still are in many ways, but we really needed them to demonstrate that they could help our, their customers, our shared customers take full advantage of all of the entitlements and the technology they, that they’ve purchased from us. [00:07:50] Marcus Jewett: And that’s really where the evolution has been with SHI when I first started, uh, this is like, God, 12 years ago, there were 20 people that were Microsoft centric resources that really were focused on. Customer acquisition and net new logos. And today that organization from a sales perspective is over 150 sellers. [00:08:09] Marcus Jewett: Wow. That are just focused on Microsoft. So that CSP, they, they fill the top of the funnel for services to help drive program utilization. And that’s not even talking about the dedicated services resources that works under Stephanie. So it’s been. An incredible journey. Microsoft has invested in SHI and in turn, SHI has invested into Microsoft. [00:08:31] Marcus Jewett: They’ve basically taken their approach in terms of how they go to market with Microsoft, and they’ve mirrored that almost like how Joe and I are wearing the same jacket. That’s really how they’ve aligned their, their go to market strategy, really making it a mirror where they take it. They’ve taken our Microsoft M methodology. [00:08:50] Marcus Jewett: And they’ve essentially adopted it and made it their own. So now when our sellers are talking with SHI sellers, they’re speaking the same language. [00:08:58] Vince Menzione: You’re teeing it up beautifully for your conversation with Stephanie here. Stephanie, I want to hear like how you’ve done all those things. ’cause it’s really your organization that’s focused on this, right? [00:09:06] Stefanie Dunn: Yeah, absolutely. So for us it’s all about shared outcomes. It we’re listening to the. Customer. We’re listening to Microsoft and we’ve really taken that to heart. Uh, the customer is at the center of every single thing that we do. I know all of us as partners. That’s really our vision, likely, and the reason why we’re here is our customers. [00:09:26] Stefanie Dunn: But really understanding how to take advantage of that partnership and build something incredible. And it is transformative. Uh, you know, we started as a licensing powerhouse, as Marcus alluded to, and now we’re going deep into services. So we’re aligning to co-sell motions. We’re aligning to the, the industries. [00:09:46] Stefanie Dunn: Uh, we’re creating marketplace offers. We’ve got our programs, uh, tied to all of our services offerings. And so when we look at the broader ecosystem, we see the vision of Microsoft. Uh, we’ve hired the right people, we’ve put the right processes into place, and we have the technology expertise in-house to really share. [00:10:08] Stefanie Dunn: In the journey with our customers and leading them. [00:10:11] Vince Menzione: And you know, you talk about like solution plays. You talked about industry. People don’t always recognize this when you talk to Microsoft sellers. They’re very focused on the industry they’re in, and you have to have those conversations that, this came up earlier, but we never got into this. [00:10:25] Vince Menzione: But you’re aligning your solution plays, you’re aligning your conversations to be very like healthcare and education, all those different markets, right? [00:10:32] Stefanie Dunn: We are. We are, which is very new for SHI in the services industry, and so you know, we’re taking our CSP plays. Um, our licensing plays and really saying, well, what can you do with that? [00:10:43] Stefanie Dunn: Right. You know, how can we advise you? And then we, we dig into the actual industry verticals to, to get tactical with them. You know, it’s, it’s about providing the strategy. It’s about providing the extra hands. They all need extra hands. They, you know, our, our customers need us. As an extension of their team. [00:11:01] Stefanie Dunn: And so for us it’s really important to dig into that and, and be, and be that, that listening ear and you know, that expert in the room for them, uh, from advisory standpoint. And so all of our se services sellers are advisors as well. They’re not selling a product, they’re not selling, uh, something individual. [00:11:19] Stefanie Dunn: We are selling to. Fill and fulfill their goals and business outcomes, which is extremely unique, I will say, because we do have that end to end. So it does start with the licensing. It starts with assessing what you really have, meeting with those advisors, and then putting together a roadmap to help them. [00:11:37] Stefanie Dunn: Understand. Okay, well this is what it’s gonna take to get you here. Here’s our, uh, we love reverse timelines at SHI and so, um, it’s d minus din and so this is where you wanna go and this is when you wanna get there. So this is how we’re gonna help you, uh, along that roadmap. [00:11:53] Vince Menzione: I am gonna put you on the spot here with m Sem. [00:11:55] Vince Menzione: ’cause I think Microsoft finally laid out a process a couple years ago for you to like line up to, ’cause you were doing one piece of it before. Do you want to talk about m how em plays in here and how SHI is leveraging it? [00:12:07] Marcus Jewett: Right. So, uh, across our SEM stages, there are five different stages, and this is the customer journey from these, you know, pre-sales, scoping, uh, engagements with customers all the way through delivery. [00:12:19] Marcus Jewett: And then of course, like that customer success lifecycle and managed services. Again, this was not a language or a way that SHI really approached their business. Again, it was very much like, let’s. Get the customer to purchase on an EA or let’s renew the customer. And then once that cycle was complete, then it, it was almost like adding fries. [00:12:38] Marcus Jewett: Would you like some services with your ea? Right. And, uh, it took a, it took a while, right? Some very, uh, difficult conversations, but we were able to find, finally get the right people in the room to make the right investments. And now when you think about how SHI goes to market, they don’t necessarily leverage the term SEM internally, but. [00:12:59] Marcus Jewett: All of their customer methodologies or their sales methodologies in terms of how they service their customers aligns perfectly. Even when we get into the descriptive part of building out our, uh, partner business plan, we did that across every stage of the M SEM methodology. So that we can ensure that the teams at SHI are in perfect alignment with the teams at Microsoft. [00:13:20] Marcus Jewett: So, uh, I’m, I’m really excited about how we’ve been able to mature the practice and how SHI is now 100% aligned with Microsoft across all of our solution areas, whether it’s. Security, you know, cloud and infrastructure or AI business solutions. There’s a very mirrored approach to how we support customers. [00:13:39] Marcus Jewett: Yeah. I want [00:13:40] Vince Menzione: to double click on the AI component. You know, we were up here earlier, Irwin and I were up here talking about being a frontier firm, and I’ll open it up to all, all of you to individually answer this. I know, Marcus, you have some insights here about the ai. You mentioned AI already. But also to Stephanie and Joe about how you’re taking AI and modern work and workplace and, and, and, and addressing this market specifically. [00:14:07] Vince Menzione: Where, where, where do we wanna start there? [00:14:09] Joseph Bellian: Yeah. One big one. Um, if you’re not familiar, we have ai, an AI labs, um, onsite, uh, lab, and based out of Jersey, one of our headquarters. So on the forefront of the AI technology, but the real focus there is being able to meet with our clients and obviously joint partnerships, um, to build and develop solutions safe, um, offline in a safe, secure environment. [00:14:33] Joseph Bellian: Because let’s be honest, I mean, ai, it’s moving fast and, and we, we, we need to ensure that our data’s secure. Um, and there’s a lot of risk out there. And so we are partnering, um, um, out there with Nvidia and other other providers, um, but specifically with Microsoft in the cloud, um, and securing that environment. [00:14:51] Joseph Bellian: So AI Labs, bringing our clients in, building custom solutions, the area of a jet AI’s here. It’s [00:14:57] Vince Menzione: there. It is here. Yeah, it is here, Stephanie. [00:15:00] Stefanie Dunn: Thank you. Yes, and I’ll just add, uh, for, for our customers, they need to make sure that their foundation is right. You know, they’re coming from maybe all different other clouds. [00:15:09] Stefanie Dunn: They’ve, you know, got multi-tenant really understanding what their structure looks like, and then. Creating that secure foundation. So we’ve got a lot, you know, we do a lot around, uh, just full M 365 migrations and then into understanding the identity and the security baseline under that, making sure that that’s correct. [00:15:29] Stefanie Dunn: And then we can start journeying into some of these other conversations. Data governance, data engineering, uh, all that is extremely important. We have an entire dedicated team, uh, within services sales. Pre-sales with essays or solution architects and delivery, uh, as well as just the project management. [00:15:48] Stefanie Dunn: And, and it’s just this full life cycle to understand where are you and we need to make sure that, that your structure’s built correctly or else it’s never gonna succeed. So a little bit, we take it back to the foundation level, I’ll just say from a customer, uh, engagement perspective to make sure that what they wanna do, they can do securely. [00:16:06] Marcus Jewett: Very cool. I, I’d like to add one other piece there. Um, you know, obviously to Joe’s point earlier, like if anyone says they know exactly what the AI journey will look like for most customers in six months, they’re probably not telling you the truth. Right? This is, we’re, we’re building the plane in the air. [00:16:22] Marcus Jewett: But, uh, one thing Microsoft has really built a foundation on is looking at our partners. And the ones who have adopted AI internally, especially Microsoft Technologies, and we call it Customer zero, right? Ensuring working with partners who have invested in their internal usage of Microsoft AI technology. [00:16:41] Marcus Jewett: So it’s all the various flavors of copilot. Rolling it out and implementing it across their organizations and building their own internal use cases, which they can go in turn and use to go help drive successful engagements with their end customers. So SHI has also been one of our, uh, brightest partners when it comes to that customer Zero journey. [00:17:01] Marcus Jewett: Uh, and it’s something I’m very, very proud of to see. Uh, we’re leveraging the, the use cases and the learnings our SHI is to really go out there and help customers navigate through their own. Uh, complexities of their AI journey as well. So, uh, my kudos to SHI as customer. Zero. Very proud of you and opera feels great. [00:17:20] Marcus Jewett: And you’re [00:17:20] Vince Menzione: providing support engineering, organ organization that supports this function? [00:17:24] Marcus Jewett: Oh, absolutely. As a globally managed partner, I mean, we’re, we’re gonna always be there to help our partners through the journey, right? So whether they need internal readiness or technical support, uh, whether it’s workshops, however we can help the partners best. [00:17:38] Marcus Jewett: Uh, position and posture themselves to go help customers with these, uh, AI engagements. Uh, we’re, we’re there to invest. Uh, we’ve invested in SHI for the last several years across, uh, ai, and we will continue to do so. [00:17:52] Vince Menzione: So what’s the message for the partner community, Joe, that, that, like, how should they perceive you? [00:17:57] Vince Menzione: How should they think about you? Should they, how should they think about engaging with you? Okay. [00:18:02] Joseph Bellian: Yeah, so I mean, obviously we’re an SSP, we’re never gonna, we’re never gonna, um, lose that, that accreditation with Microsoft. But the, the real focus of what we wanna be recognized as A-G-S-I-A global systems integrator, um, being able to engage our clients jointly, co-selling together and meeting them where they’re at across their digital journey. [00:18:21] Joseph Bellian: Uh, we have the capabilities to handle their licensing and understanding the complex matrix in their environment, their IT infrastructure. But being able to have a solution for every part of the journey of where they’re at, because every client’s in a different situation. Yeah. So, so in reality, it’s A-G-S-I-A global systems integrator, being able to engage across their journey. [00:18:42] Vince Menzione: So that’s a, did everybody hear that? ’cause I, I heard that for the first time. That’s a very different perception of the, of the previous organization and getting there. Uh, and you also, I remember this from the transactional side of the business. You were at the very type, at the top of the pyramid, right? [00:18:56] Vince Menzione: Yeah. You handled some of the largest corporations in the, in the world. Yeah. And you know companies as well as organizations like government, governmental organizations across different markets as well. [00:19:07] Joseph Bellian: Yep. A hundred percent. [00:19:08] Vince Menzione: Yeah. So GS. Yeah. [00:19:11] Marcus Jewett: And it’s really important to, for SHI to, to develop that GSI muscle. [00:19:15] Marcus Jewett: Uh, you mentioned at the beginning, Joe, that Microsoft, uh, we have various routes to market. Uh, one of those routes to market, uh, especially in the enterprise space or in our strategic space, is for customers to procure direct. Uh, SHI has longstanding relationships with those customers, and as these customers renew their agreements into a direct model with Microsoft, the way they stay engaged and add value to these prop, uh, to these customers is through their services, their professional services, their managed services. [00:19:42] Marcus Jewett: So going back to Joe’s Point around really defining themselves as a, uh, A GSI, that is also an SSP has been paramount to their overall transformational journey and their overall success. [00:19:55] Vince Menzione: And you also work, so I would assume you work with some of the ISVs in the room too. Yeah, I would think there’s some really great relationships or synergies. [00:20:01] Vince Menzione: Is that, is that an area of muscle you’ve been building out or, yeah, it’s battle, it’s an opportunity. [00:20:06] Joseph Bellian: I mean, I, I believe you have a segment coming up as well on it, um, around NPO. Um, and so there’s a, there’s a play in every motion from services, play services attached through ISVs, your SaaS offers. Um, we do recognize that that’s an opportunity. [00:20:18] Joseph Bellian: Uh, we’re having great success when you look at the marketplace, um, through the multi private party offers. Um, it allows us to expand our footprint and take, uh, take advantage of those relationships and co-sell together. So, absolutely. Wow. [00:20:30] Vince Menzione: Very cool. So you’re gonna be around most of the day today? Yes. I hope. [00:20:34] Vince Menzione: Mm-hmm. So for the partners that are in the room, I think that great conversations with both of you, Stephanie and Joe, and, uh, great conversation. Is there anything else we wanna share with everyone? [00:20:46] Marcus Jewett: Uh, no. It’s just, I would, I would leave you all with the fact that, again, uh, for every partner. Uh, make certain that you, you’re finding a way to differentiate yourself and tell your story. [00:20:57] Marcus Jewett: Uh, you may be doing some amazing work, uh, but if you’re not finding ways to, to tell that story and make certain your customers, and for me, Microsoft, make certain that, that the Microsoft teams you’re working with have very clear understanding of what your capabilities are today, then you may be missing the mark. [00:21:13] Marcus Jewett: I, I, I use this analogy all the time. Uh, the largest retailer on the planet. Who is it? Come on, help me out. I’m sorry. Largest retailer. Box Box. Walmart. Walmart, that’s right. You can turn on a television on any given day and you will still see a Walmart commercial. So yes, tell your story. Yes, very [00:21:34] Joseph Bellian: smart move. [00:21:34] Joseph Bellian: And one more, um, I just wanna make sure I land out there, is the success and where we go from here. Um, it’s this right here in the room. Um, us partnering together, bringing the partner ecosystem together. Um, in reality, we’re not competing together. We should be collaborating together and working together, um, in our client’s joint environments. [00:21:52] Joseph Bellian: Microsoft says it well, it’s that one Microsoft story. It’s that better together story and the more we can work together, the more success we’ll have together. [00:22:00] Vince Menzione: Awesome. I want to thank you so much for your sponsorship and for being here. Uh, big news here, I think it should be like on the front page of the partner ecosystem journal that you’re now, you’re now GSII think that that says quite, that says volumes to, to the community out there. [00:22:15] Joseph Bellian: Yeah. [00:22:15] Vince Menzione: Thank you. [00:22:15] Joseph Bellian: Absolutely. [00:22:16] Vince Menzione: Yeah. Thank you. Thank you both for joining us. So great to have you both. Thank you. Thank you, Marcus, to have you as well. Thank you. Thank you, Jeff. Thank you very much Stephanie. So great. So great to spend time with you. Thank you. And this.

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In this episode of Cybercrime Radio, host Hillarie McClure is joined by Kurtis Armour, Vice President of Product Management at eSentire, and Patrick Arnone, Product Manager - Microsoft Security at eSentire. Together, they discuss Microsoft's cybersecurity offerings – including Microsoft 365 E5 – and why companies are choosing them. eSentire is the Authority in Managed Detection and Response, providing 24/7 Managed Detection and Response for your Microsoft Services, including Microsoft Defender for Office 365 and Microsoft Azure Sentinel. To learn more about our sponsor, visit https://esentire.com

Jon & Susanne are joined on this episode by John Nisi, where they discuss the power of data in decision-making within the sports industry, data literacy and the importance of ethical artificial intelligence (AI). John is the General Manager & COO of the US Cloud & Enterprise Business, where he is responsible for the US business, marketing and operations across the cloud and infrastructure portfolio of products. Formerly Worldwide Services CTO for Data and Artificial Intelligence for Microsoft Services, John was responsible for technical strategy, delivery quality, delivery readiness and technical sales support for the D&AI Services organization at Microsoft.

Three things to know today Cloud spend and strategy data – with CISOs coming to the boardroom Microsoft and ConnectWise services moves AND CISA asks for comment on key features   Want to get the show on your podcast app or the written versions of the stories? Subscribe to the Business of Tech: https://www.businessof.tech/   Support the show on Patreon:  https://patreon.com/mspradio/   Want our stuff?  Cool Merch?  Wear “Why Do We Care?” - Visit https://mspradio.myspreadshop.com   Follow us on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mspradionews/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mspradionews/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mspradio/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/28908079/

Mark MacDonald, Senior Manager of Product Marketing at eSentire, joins host Steve Morgan to discuss the evolution of Microsoft security in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the recently updated Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architecture and the highly-lauded Microsoft Defender security platform. eSentire is the Authority in Managed Detection and Response, providing 24/7 Managed Detection and Response for your Microsoft Services, including Microsoft Defender for Office 365 and Microsoft Azure Sentinel. To learn more about our sponsor, visit https://esentire.com

Join me and LJ Marinello as we discuss her impressive career, walking decks and personal branding, and making connections while working from home! LJ Marinello is a Senior Leader at Microsoft Corporation. During her 20+ years at Microsoft, LJ has held various leadership and technical roles in Microsoft Services, Support, and now Global Partner Solutions, US (GPSUS). LJ has been a featured keynote speaker at Microsoft TechEd, Comdex, and at the Internet World Conference representing Microsoft as a Subject Matter Expert on e-commerce, digital transformation, and diversity in the workplace. LJ has also served as the Co-President of the Women@Microsoft employee diversity group, which has over 15,000 members worldwide. LJ received a B.S. from Kean University in Computer Science and her M.S. from the University of Maryland in Information Technology and International Business. LJ is currently working on her Doctor of Business Administration Degree (DBA). LJ lives in New Jersey with her four children and loves to travel and decorate in her free time. ✉️ Connect with LJ http://www.linkedin.com/in/ljmarinello

Kurtis Armour, Director of Product Management - Endpoint and Microsoft Security at eSentire, joins host Hillarie McClure to discuss Microsoft adoption, and the shift to the Microsoft Suite for security, the role MDR has to play within that ecosystem, and more. eSentire is the Authority in Managed Detection and Response, providing 24/7 Managed Detection and Response for your Microsoft Services, including Microsoft Defender for Office 365 and Microsoft Azure Sentinel. To learn more about our sponsor, visit https://esentire.com

Learn about the partnership between SAP and Microsoft and how you can get started with building your own applications with SAP Business Technology Platform and Microsoft Services.

Benötigt man heutzutage überhaupt noch einen eigenen Windows Computer? Wie wäre es wenn man auf sein persönliches Windows zugreifen kann egal wo man ist? Keine teure Hardware mehr kaufen, sondern einfach in der Cloud bei Microsoft mieten. Darüber, über Microsoft Services und wie das zu iPad only oder der Nutzung unterschiedlichster Eingabegeräte passt, sprechen wir in diesem Podcast.

This week on the show, Jeffrey Palermo is joined by two special guests, Arvind Shyamsundar and Drew Skwiers-Koballa!   Arvind Shyamsundar is a Principal Program Manager on the Azure SQL DB Product Management team at Microsoft. He works to enable customers, partners, and colleagues to excel at what they do best by harnessing the power of data, advanced analytics, and cloud services. Arvind has worked at Microsoft for the last 18 years and was previously a part of the AzureCAT/DataCAT/SQLCAT group within Azure, and prior to that, a Principal PPE with Microsoft Services.   Drew Skwiers-Koballa is a Senior Program Manager on the SQL Tools and Experience team at Microsoft. In his role, he is focused on database development experiences and tools for Azure SQL/SQL Server. Previously to working with Microsoft, Drew was the Director of Information Technology at Inside Edge Commercial Interior Services.   In this episode, Drew and Arvind discuss data DevOps and how to run your SQL server database. Every system always has a SQL server database and there has been a lot of conversations over the years around the proper way to deploy a database, modify a database schema, monitor a database, etc. Drew and Arvind break down the current state-of-the-art technology and methods for running and deploying a SQL server database, the current tooling available around migration, strategies for Azure Data Studio, monitoring and telemetry flavors, and what to be on the lookout for as a developer looking forward in this landscape.   Topics of Discussion: [:14] About The Azure DevOps Podcast, Clear Measure, the new podcast Architect Tips, and Jeffrey's offer to speak at virtual user groups. [1:26] About today's episode with special guests, Arvind Shyamsundar and Drew Skwiers-Koballa. [1:45] Jeffrey welcomes Arvind and Drew to the podcast! [1:49] Arvind shares about the work that they do on the Azure SQL DB Product Management team and the previous roles he has held within Microsoft. [4:11] Drew shares about the SQL Tools and Experience team and how their focus is different from the Azure SQL DB Product Management team. [5:06] Arvind speaks about the current state-of-the-art technology and methods for running and deploying a SQL server database. [8:28] Drew shares his insights on the specifics around the tooling and the options that are available. [10:52] Beyond the DACPAC, is there another tool that is aligned with the migration approach? [11:59] From Microsoft's tooling, what is the strategy? Is it to not provide a migrations-based approach or is there one in the works? From the highest strategy level, what conversations are happening within the SQL Tools and Experience team? [13:42] A word from Azure DevOps Podcast's sponsor: Clear Measure. [14:13] If someone uses DbUp, do they still use a Visual Studio database project? Or is that an ‘either or' decision? [18:37] What the landscape looks like right now for tooling around managing your SQL server database. [21:21] What is the strategy around ‘Azure Data Studio?' Is it geared towards every storage service in Azure?  [23:09] Monitoring and telemetry: the current flavors that developers should know about and how to decide how to run your SQL server database. [29:30] What is currently coming out from a tools perspective that developers should be on the lookout for. [30:35] Go-to resources that Arvind and Drew recommend listeners check out. [32:40] Jeffrey thanks Arvind and Drew for joining the podcast!   Mentioned in this Episode: Architect Tips — New video podcast! Azure DevOps Clear Measure (Sponsor) .NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer's Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon! bit.ly/dotnetdevopsebook — Click here to download the .NET DevOps for Azure ebook! Jeffrey Palermo's Youtube Jeffrey Palermo's Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events! The Azure DevOps Podcast's Twitter: @AzureDevOpsShow Arvind Shyamsundar's LinkedIn Drew Skwiers-Koballa's LinkedIn DbUp Azure Data Studio Redgate SQL Source Control Redgate Database Migrations Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Cosmos DB Microsoft Learn Azure SQL Fundamentals | Docs.Microsoft.com   Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.

In dieser Folge des Podcasts sprechen wir über Dinosaur Planet von Rare für das Nintendo 64, die Xbox Games with Gold im April 2021, die neuen Game Pass Highlights, Neuigkeiten zu den Microsoft Services, die Playstation Plus Spiele im April 2021, die Investition von Sony in Haven Studio von Jade Raymond, den 1 Dollar Chip, der die Weltwirtschaft beeinträchtigt, den Sky Deal mit HBO Max (Warner), die Zukunft des Kinos und einiges mehr. In der Pre-/Postshow exklusiv für unsere Unterstützer sprechen wir u.a. zusätzlich noch über einen Beovision MX 3000 CRT Fernseher, das PC-Spiel Diabotical, den Fire Emblem Amiibo Byleth, den Zoom Escaper, Pokémon Sammelkarten bei McDonalds, den Witz der Woche von Maik und einiges mehr. Dazu genießen wir eine "Mio Mio Mate Zero". Viel Spaß beim Anhören! Sendungsdetails: Männerquatsch#96 Die kompletten Sendungsdetails mit allen Links und Fotos zur Sendung findest du auf unserer Webseite: www.maennerquatsch.de Genussmittel: (02:33) Björn genießt eine "Mio Mio Mate Zero" (02:33) Maik genießt eine "Mio Mio Mate Zero" Themen: (03:47) Dinosaur Planet von Rare für N64 (Bezug zu#91,#24) (10:26) Xbox Games with Gold im April 2021, Game Pass Highlights, Microsoft Services Meldungen (17:48) Playstation Plus Spiele im April 2021 (20:33) Sony investiert in Haven Studio von Jade Raymond (Bezug zu#92-S) (23:25) Der 1 Dollar Chip, der die Weltwirtschaft beeinträchtigt (30:53) Der Sky Deal mit HBO Max (36:00) Die Zukunft des Kinos Picks / Was geht ab?: (39:29) The PlayStation 2 Encyclopedia (E-Book) (43:02) Hörerbeitrag: Immortals: Fenyx Rising Pre-/Postshow: (Unterstützer Content) Unsere Unterstützer erhalten jede Folge exklusiv die Pre- und die Postshow (ca. 20-30 Minuten) zusätzlich. Hier hört ihr persönliche Geschichten und weitere oft lustige Themen. - Warm-up - Abgeholt: Beovision MX 3000 CRT TV - Angespielt: Diabotical (PC) - Fire Emblem Amiibo Byleth angekommen - Zoom Escaper holt dich aus Video-Calls raus - Pokémon Sammelkarten bei McDonalds - Witz der Woche von Maik - Hörerwitz Dieser Podcast von zwei quatschenden Männern für Alle über Retrospiele, Videospiele, Filme, Serien, Technik und Gadgets bietet dir handverlesene Neuigkeiten und viele Hintergrundinformationen, damit du gut informiert bist, ohne selber zu viel Zeit zu investieren. Neue Folgen erscheinen jeden 1. und 3. Montag im Monat. Für Feedback und Kommentare nutze gerne unseren Discord Server: discord.gg/4n35eHU Wenn Du uns unterstützen willst, dann schau doch mal auf unserer Unterstützerseite vorbei: www.patreon.com/maennerquatsch Oder nutze für Deine Einkäufe bei Amazon unseren Affiliate-link: amzn.to/2uVop1y

Microsoft Had an Outage on April 1st that is caused by DNS surge, let us discuss this. Bonus I’ll also discuss the outage that happened on March 18th cpu 100% utilization RCA - DNS issue impacting multiple Microsoft services (Tracking ID GVY5-TZZ) Summary of Impact: Between 21:21 UTC and 22:00 UTC on 1 Apr 2021, Azure DNS experienced a service availability issue. This resulted in customers being unable to resolve domain names for services they use, which resulted in intermittent failures accessing or managing Azure and Microsoft services. Due to the nature of DNS, the impact of the issue was observed across multiple regions. Recovery time varied by service, but the majority of services recovered by 22:30 UTC. 0:00 April/1st Outage - DNS Issue 13:30 March/18th Outage - CPU 100% RCA https://status.azure.com/en-us/status/history/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hnasr/message

Microsoft users around the world were unable to log into Teams and other multiple services on Monday because of a software update glitch. Things returned to normal after the update was rolled back by Microsoft. In other news, wearables did well in the 2020 4th quarter, says IDC, with Apple and Xiaomi leading this market. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/whatsnewonthenet/message

In this episode we discuss the incoming series S & X , Microsoft All Access and the compelling suite of services Microsoft has put together for the incoming generation.

Innowacje i rozwój IT jest często poruszanym tematem, ponieważ technologia zmienia się w bardzo szybkim tempie. Uwielbiam te tematy i mocno interesuje mnie to co zmienia się w naszej branży. Dlatego o innowacjach i rozwoju IT z perspektywy Microsoftu oraz Ewangelisty IT porozmawiałem w 14 odcinku podcastu. Moim gościem jest Mariusz Kędziora CEE App Innovation Lead, Microsoft Od 12 lat pracuje w firmie Microsoft. Przez 8 lat jako Ewangelista w dziale Nowych Technologii (DX), przez 3 lata jako Technical Account Manager w dziale Microsoft Services, a obecnie jako App Innovation Lead na region CEE (Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej). Odpowiedzialny za powstawanie innowacyjnych aplikacji z wykorzystaniem najnowszych technologii (AI, Cloud, IoT). Wspiera swoimi działaniami i wiedzą zarówno wewnętrznie pracowników Microsoft jak i zewnętrznie Klientów oraz Partnerów w 32 krajach Europy. https://ewangelista.it/bio/ Pytania wstępne do Mariusza: 1.Z jakiego sprzętu korzystasz na co dzień? 2.Czy wybór takiego sprzętu podyktowany był tym czym się zajmujesz na co dzień czy raczej z osobistych decyzji? 3.Czym się zajmujesz na co dzień i kim jest App Innovation Lead? Pytania dot. tematu do Mariusza: 4.Czym wg. Ciebie i Microsoft jest innowacja? 5.W jaki sposób będzie wyglądać przyszłość IT wg Ewangelisty IT? 6.Czy idziemy w kierunku, gdzie sztuczna inteligencja będzie dominowała w IT? 7.Czy dla Microsoftu IT odchodzi od tradycyjnych rozwiązań? 8.Jak postrzegani są w dzisiejszym świecie IT tradycyjnie rozumiani administratorzy? 9.W jakim kierunku powinni się rozwijać osoby, które chcą wiązać przyszłość z IT, ale nie w programowaniu? 10.Na kim spoczywa największa odpowiedzialność w IT nad kontrolowaniem rozwoju technologii i przyszłości? 11.W jaki sposób słuchacze mogą znaleźć więcej informacji od Ciebie w sieci? Gdzie Cię szukać? Link do odcinka:Blog Mariusza – https://ewangelista.itMariusz na Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ewangelista.it/ Wystąpienie na TEDx How to sound smart in your TEDx Talk | Will Stephen | TEDxNewYork - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S0FDjFBj8o Zapraszam do śledzenia Podcastu na portalach społecznościowych:Twitter – https://twitter.com/AMolendowskiInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/artur_z.m/LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/artur-molendowski/Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/chwiladlaadmina/www – https://chwiladlaadmina.pl

In this episode, we share how to get a sales and support team that offers Microsoft Gold Level Service without being a large company. We highlight Navisite (www.navisite.com) and Rackspace (www.rackspace.com) as two partners that give you that a dedicated Microsoft team for any sized business. For more information contact us at Tech & Main, info@techandmain.com or 678-575-8515. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/techandmain/message

This week in the latest of our life stories podcast I’m interviewing Tom Murphy, director of global communications, Microsoft Services.Tom started his career at Text 100 in Ireland and then worked for a couple of start-ups and mid-sized firms in their in-house teams before joining Microsoft Ireland in 2005.He moved to Microsoft's head office in Redmond in the US in 2009 and is now Global Communications at Microsoft Services. Tom joined us on the phone from Redmond.Here is a summary of what Tom and I discussed:[00:00:56] What was it that he did at Microsoft Ireland that meant he got a tap on the shoulder to go to the US. [00:02:15] Why Microsoft has a career profile where you spend a couple of years learning a job, you spend a couple of years doing the job and then you look for your next move. [00:03:18] How, in Redmond, Tom can go skiing 40 minutes from his front door and gets a guaranteed four or five month summer .[00:03:39] Why in a big company you get a lot of opportunities to work in a whole range of different areas. [00:04:28] Tom tells us about his experience of working for Microsoft in the US for 10 years.[00:04:46] Tom identifies the big differences between working in-house and agency side. [00:05:46] Why in-house your perspective needs to be a mile deep and an inch wide rather than the opposite when you have in agency.[00:05:59] Why the pressures you feel in-house are very different from the questions you feel agency side.[00:06:11] Why Tom believes that communicators should try and spend time both on the agency side and in-house. [00:08:24] How TV shows like Ab Fab created a false impression of PR for Tom and almost meant he didn't target a career in public relations. [00:09:54] Why Tom believes he has been "the luckiest man alive to have fallen into a career in PR". [00:09:58] How PR provides such a diverse set of work experiences, that very few jobs can compete with.[00:10:43] Why you must retain your inquisitiveness to be at the forefront of communications.[00:10:53] Why PR and communications folks are typically at the leaders table when decisions are made. [00:11:01] How senior PR people input into major business decisions and shape strategy. [00:11:20] How the profile of public relations within Microsoft has changed in the last 10 years. [00:11:57] Why PR has always been a major strategic function for Microsoft. [00:13:11] How Microsoft has made a "massive investment" in storytelling.[00:13:32] How Microsoft uses data and insights to help it inform both its PR strategy and business strategy. [00:14:05] How does an in-house team use data? [00:14:17] How Tom is amazed at “how half are PR professional seem to be embracing data and half are ignoring it”[00:16:00] How data gives Microsoft a balanced scorecard of the business. [00:16:53] How many different KPI’s do Microsoft find useful? [00:20:11] Why Tom finds his current internal communications role enables him to get very close to the challenges of the business. [00:20:46] How do you create better employee communication within a business of 16,000 people. [00:22:02] Why the prominence of change in modern business means that communications is more important than ever. [00:22:48] How the nature of employee comms has changed in recent years. [00:24:37] Why modern employee communications is getting more complicated by the day.

In this episode we talk to Art Akerman about how we can use AI for marketing and PIM. Art leads a technology incubation team for Microsoft Services in Americas with focus on cloud technologies and advanced application workloads such as AI, blockchain and others.    If you would like to recommend a featured guest or topic on the PIMtalk podcast, please email us at PIMtalk@inriver.com. Want to know more about PIM? Download this free Whitepaper!

As the Chief People Officer at Microsoft, Kathleen Hogan is responsible for the company's cultural transformation.  She joins us to talk about how Microsoft is using a technique called "Screening In" to drive cultural change through diversity.   Hogan is new to the HR function, but not to talent management. Previously she was vice president of Microsoft Services, a team dedicated to helping businesses and consumers maximize the value of their investment in Microsoft technologies. Hogan has also served as corporate vice president of Customer Service and Support, responsible for the strategy and delivery of consumer and commercial technical support and customer service for Microsoft products and services.  *This spotlight episode is excerpted from our 1 hour interview with Kathleen in 2016

As chief technology officer for Microsoft Services, Norm Judah has what he considers, “the best role in the company.” He works on both the customer side and the vendor side of enterprise technology, and those combined perspectives are uniquely valuable in today’s high-paced and turbulent business world. Hear Norm discuss artificial intelligence, bots, Microsoft HoloLens, and much more. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Frank Murgia of Pittsburgh Podcast Network joins Sorg and Chilla this week. Frank always keeps it real when he’s in studio with Blackberry updates and notes on paper. This week, our tech and gadget gurus are talking about: Frank is sharing an Awesome Thing of the Week with a wearable USB sync and charging bracelet. Chilla’s Awesome Thing of the Week is an open source product for 360 photos without having to use an outside service. Sorg’s Awesome Thing of the Week would work well with Chilla’s – Hilltopolis happened. It was AWESOME! One of the coolest things about Hilltopolis (other than the music) was the mesh network from Meta Mesh! Kudos to Meta Mesh on the grant from Hillman Foundation! Big things in Pittsburgh with some friends at the helm. We’re getting our annual Blackberry update from Frank. There’s a next gen Uber coming to the streets of Pittsburgh. Sorg saw an Argo while he was out and about. Will Uber have an AI auto competitor in Pittsburgh? Chilla is giving us a PSA about some recent vulnerabilities. Seeing update options on your device? Take the time to update to avoid breach of vulnerabilities. Are you a Microsoft Services user? iOS 11 had some issues with native mail apps. The recent update fixes that. Ford is using AR to assist in development and modeling. After the show remember to: Eat at Slice on Broadway (@Pgh_Slice) if you are in the Pittsburgh area! It is Awesome! (sliceonbroadway.com) Speaking of Slice on Broadway, make sure you vote for them in the Incline’s pizza bracket. Join our AwesomeCast Facebook Group to see what we’re sharing and to join the discussion? Follow these awesome people on Twitter: Mike Sorg (@Sorgatron), John Chichilla (@chilla), and Frank Murgia (@PGHPodcast). Have you seen our AwesomeTips videos? You can support the show at Patreon.com/awesomecast! Remember to check out our friends at River’s Edge (@RiversEdgePGH) and The 405 Media who replay the show on their stream throughout the week! Also, check out sorgatronmedia.com and awesomecast.com for more entertainment; and view us livestreaming Tuesdays around 7:00 PM EST!

Frank Murgia of Pittsburgh Podcast Network joins Sorg and Chilla this week. Frank always keeps it real when he’s in studio with Blackberry updates and notes on paper. This week, our tech and gadget gurus are talking about: Frank is sharing an Awesome Thing of the Week with a wearable USB sync and charging bracelet. Chilla’s Awesome Thing of the Week is an open source product for 360 photos without having to use an outside service. Sorg’s Awesome Thing of the Week would work well with Chilla’s – Hilltopolis happened. It was AWESOME! One of the coolest things about Hilltopolis (other than the music) was the mesh network from Meta Mesh! Kudos to Meta Mesh on the grant from Hillman Foundation! Big things in Pittsburgh with some friends at the helm. We’re getting our annual Blackberry update from Frank. There’s a next gen Uber coming to the streets of Pittsburgh. Sorg saw an Argo while he was out and about. Will Uber have an AI auto competitor in Pittsburgh? Chilla is giving us a PSA about some recent vulnerabilities. Seeing update options on your device? Take the time to update to avoid breach of vulnerabilities. Are you a Microsoft Services user? iOS 11 had some issues with native mail apps. The recent update fixes that. Ford is using AR to assist in development and modeling. After the show remember to: Eat at Slice on Broadway (@Pgh_Slice) if you are in the Pittsburgh area! It is Awesome! (sliceonbroadway.com) Speaking of Slice on Broadway, make sure you vote for them in the Incline’s pizza bracket. Join our AwesomeCast Facebook Group to see what we’re sharing and to join the discussion? Follow these awesome people on Twitter: Mike Sorg (@Sorgatron), John Chichilla (@chilla), and Frank Murgia (@PGHPodcast). Have you seen our AwesomeTips videos? You can support the show at Patreon.com/awesomecast! Remember to check out our friends at River’s Edge (@RiversEdgePGH) and The 405 Media who replay the show on their stream throughout the week! Also, check out sorgatronmedia.com and awesomecast.com for more entertainment; and view us livestreaming Tuesdays around 7:00 PM EST!

Breakdown: Alex is out of town getting his vacation on, and Jon Anderson is on vacation getting his video games on! With Alex gone Jon and the guys talk abotu Nier Automata, when it gets weird, how Blade Runner is an amazing movie, something about Black Desert Online, and bad old video games like Crash Bandicoot. In the news it’s all about gift giving on Microsoft Services. That we finally know who Doomfist is. The questions segment gets lost to the throughs of fast food, drunk fast food, fried chicken, and more drunk fast food. We finally settle things with bets and Kesha songs. That’s the show! Check out more of Jon’s stuff with Alex too on TheBrO-C, the #1 Bro-hosted OC Rewatch Podcast. Our site and base of operations: IrrationalPassions.com. Be a part of the show and send us your questions: mailsack@irrationalpassions.com (404) 590-1337 (long distance fees do apply) Tweeting your question @IrrationalPod with #IPQ Follow us on Twitter: @ALFighter27  - Alex @wuttehchuz - Scott @Nabeshin186 - Brian “Nabeshin” Jackson @TonyHorvath - Tony @heyjonanderson - Jon @IrrationalPod - The show, the site, the content. We do cool video stuff too, follow us here for: Youtube.com/IrrationalPassions - home of Let's Plays, Alex Talks and Spoilercasts Twitch.tv/IrrationalPassions - welcome levels of insanity, shenanigans and Dark Souls Please check out our forums over at VGEvo.com! Like us on Facebook! Reviews us on iTunes and Stitcher please!

In Episode 130 of the Office 365 Developer Podcast, Andrew Coates talks with Vesa Juvonen and Daniel Kogan about SharePoint Developer announcements at Build 2017.   Weekly updates How to monetize with Office add-ins and apps by Office Dev SharePoint PnP webcast—introduction to Visual Studio Extension for SharePoint Framework by the PnP team Announcing updated SharePoint Framework developer training by Office Dev Andrew interviews Vesa and Dan on Channel 9 at build 2017 by Channel 9 SharePoint Online free developer tools list for Windows by Velin Georgiev Tooling up for SharePoint Framework by Danny Jessee Utilizing ngOfficeUIFabric People Picker in SharePoint by Julie Turner Microsoft Teams Developer Preview mode by Microsoft Teams Get started with the Cortana skills kit by Greg Duncan Got questions or comments about the show? Join the O365 Dev Podcast on the Office 365 Technical Network. The podcast RSS is available on iTunes or search for it at “Office 365 Developer Podcast” or add directly with the RSS feeds.feedburner.com/Office365DeveloperPodcast. About the guests Vesa Juvonen is a senior program manager within SharePoint engineering. He works in the team responsible for the SharePoint customization model, including SharePoint Framework and developer community initiatives from engineering. Previously, he worked as a SharePoint CAT team member in CXP and as a principal consultant with Microsoft Services for eight years before movin the to product group. Vesa also leads the virtual team that created the SharePoint Patterns and Practice (PnP) initiative to help customers and partners to learn right ways to customize and extend SharePoint and Office 365. Daniel Kogan is a principal group program manager responsible for the SharePoint developer platform and extensibility. As a 15-year veteran at Microsoft (joining by way of acquisition), Daniel has a leader in a number of critical areas of SharePoint and Office Server. In his 25+ years of tech leadership, Daniel holds a number of patents for his work and is the brain behind a number of popular features in SharePoint.   About the hosts Richard is a software engineer in Microsoft’s Developer Experience (DX) group, where he helps developers and software vendors maximize their use of Microsoft cloud services in Office 365 and Azure. Richard has spent a good portion of the last decade architecting Office-centric solutions, many that span Microsoft’s diverse technology portfolio. He is a passionate technology evangelist and a frequent speaker at worldwide conferences, trainings and events. Richard is highly active in the Office 365 community, popular blogger at aka.ms/richdizz and can be found on Twitter at @richdizz. Richard is born, raised and based in Dallas, TX, but works on a worldwide team based in Redmond. Richard is an avid builder of things (BoT), musician and lightning-fast runner.   A Civil Engineer by training and a software developer by profession, Andrew Coates has been a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft since early 2004, teaching, learning and sharing coding techniques. During that time, he’s focused on .NET development on the desktop, in the cloud, on the web, on mobile devices and most recently for Office. Andrew has a number of apps in various stores and generally has far too much fun doing his job to honestly be able to call it work. Andrew lives in Sydney, Australia with his wife and two almost-grown-up children.

As the Chief People Officer at Microsoft, Kathleen Hogan is responsible for the company's cultural transformation.  She joins us to talk about how Microsoft is using a technique called "Screening In" to drive cultural change through diversity.   Hogan is new to the HR function, but not to talent management. Previously she was vice president of Microsoft Services, a team dedicated to helping businesses and consumers maximize the value of their investment in Microsoft technologies. Hogan has also served as corporate vice president of Customer Service and Support, responsible for the strategy and delivery of consumer and commercial technical support and customer service for Microsoft products and services.  

In this episode, Richard DiZerega talks with PnP founder Vesa Juvonen about the evolution of PnP and the SharePoint Framework. Weekly updates Office Dev Show on Building Office 365 Connectors by Richard diZerega Compose mail add-in with the Office Developer Tools update 2 by Elio Struyf The anatomy of a modern SharePoint solution by Waldek Mastykarz Getting started with SharePoint Framework – Office Dev PnP Web Cast by Waldek Mastykarz Getting started on the web stack – Office Dev PnP Web Cast by Waldek Mastykarz Is it worth preparing for the SharePoint Framework already? by Waldek Mastykarz Show notes Patterns and Practices Getting Started with the SharePoint Framework Got questions or comments about the show? Join the O365 Dev Podcast on the Office 365 Technical Network. The podcast RSS is available iTunes or search for it on “Office 365 Developer Podcast” or add directly with the RSS http://feeds.feedburner.com/Office365DeveloperPodcast. About Vesa Juvonen Vesa Juvonen is a senior program manager within Office 365 engineering and more precisely in the SharePoint Customer Experience team. Prior to being a member of the CXP team, Vesa was a principal consultant with Microsoft Services for eight years before moving to product group. Vesa was also SharePoint Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) instructor for the life cycle of the program and is considered an industry expert on the use of the app/add-in model and more specifically on the transformation from farm solutions to the app/add-in model. Vesa leads the virtual team that created the Office 365 Developer Patterns and Practice (PnP) to help customers to learn how to use SharePoint add-in model and other Office 365 related technologies. Vesa is also a frequent speaker at SharePoint conferences and events. You can read Vesa’s blog here and follow him on twitter on @vesajuvonen. About the host Richard is a software engineer in Microsoft’s Developer Experience (DX) group, where he helps developers and software vendors maximize their use of Microsoft cloud services in Office 365 and Azure. Richard has spent a good portion of the last decade architecting Office-centric solutions, many that span Microsoft’s diverse technology portfolio. He is a passionate technology evangelist and frequent speaker are worldwide conferences, trainings, and events. Richard is highly active in the Office 365 community, popular blogger at aka.ms/richdizz and can be found on Twitter at @richdizz. Richard is born, raised and based in Dallas, TX, but works on a worldwide team based in Redmond. Richard is an avid builder of things (BoT), musician and lightning-fast runner.

In this episode, Jeremy Thake speaks to Vesa Juvonen on the latest updates from Office 365 PNP. Audio Player       00:00   00:00   Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume.   Download the podcast. Weekly updates New cloud storage options for Office mobile and Office Online How Lotus F1 Team built custom #Office365 integrated apps to manage race team logistics Office Outlook MailApp Manifest Uploader Office Mechanics on Office 365 Extensibility Build a SharePoint add-In with Angular2 and TypeScript  by Scot Hillier Group API Explorer by Paul Schaeflein Offset classes are coming to Office UI Fabric by Elio Struyf What’s new in SharePoint 2016 Remote API Part 4 (Web) by Steven Curran C# Console Application and Office 365 by Liam Cleary Show notes The Microsoft Patterns and Practices (PnP) team is working hard to release samples to show the power of SharePoint add-ins and Office 365 APIs with Microsoft Graph. Don’t forget to join the monthly community calls to hear the updates from them directly, with demos on the latest released samples and solutions.Here are the latest updates from the team: PnP January 2015 monthly release notes at dev.office.com New PnP webcast series released with the following recordings now available: Office Dev PnP webcast—building Help Desk application with Microsoft Graph Office Dev PnP webcast—property bag trick for CSOM to enable additional configurations Office Dev PnP webcast—Azure AD for Office 365 developer Office Dev PnP webcast—throttling mechanisms in SharePoint Online Office Dev PnP webcast—SharePoint Nuget Packages and PnP Core Component Office Dev PnP webcast—provisioning engine and reference solution with AngularJS Office Dev PnP webcast—JavaScript performance considerations with SharePoint Office Dev PnP webcast—asynchronous operations with Office 365 using Azure WebJobs Office Dev PnP webcast—branding SharePoint using add-in model techniques Office Dev PnP webcast—JavaScript Development Patterns with SharePoint Numerous updates and new articles to PnP section in MSDN at OfficeDevPnPMSDN For more on patterns and practices check out dev.office.com/patterns-and-practices. All questions related on released materials and guidance can be added to our Yammer group at OfficeDevPnPYammer. Got questions or comments about the show? Join the O365 Dev Podcast on the Office 365 Technical Network. The podcast RSS is available iTunes or search for it on “Office 365 Developer Podcast” or add directly with the RSS http://feeds.feedburner.com/Office365DeveloperPodcast. About Vesa Juvenon Vesa Juvonen is a senior program manager within Office 365 engineering and more precisely in the SharePoint Customer Experience team. Prior to being a member of the CXP team, Vesa was a principal consultant with Microsoft Services for eight years before moving to product group. Vesa was also SharePoint Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) instructor for the life cycle of the program and is considered an industry expert on the use of the app/add-in model and more specifically on the transformation from farm solutions to the app/add-in model. Vesa leads the virtual team that created the Office 365 Developer Patterns and Practice (PnP) to help customers to learn how to use SharePoint add-in model and other Office 365 related technologies. Vesa is also a frequent speaker at SharePoint conferences and events. You can read Vesa’s blog here and follow him on twitter on @vesajuvonen. About the hosts Jeremy is a 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 www.jeremythake.com and tweeting at @jthake.   Richard is a software engineer in Microsoft’s Developer Experience (DX) group, where he helps developers and software vendors maximize their use of Microsoft cloud services in Office 365 and Azure. Richard has spent a good portion of the last decade architecting Office-centric solutions, many that span Microsoft’s diverse technology portfolio. He is a passionate technology evangelist and frequent speaker are worldwide conferences, trainings and events. Richard is highly active in the Office 365 community, popular blogger at www.richdizz.com and can be found on Twitter at @richdizz. Richard is born, raised and based in Dallas, TX, but works on a worldwide team based in Redmond. Richard is an avid builder of things (BoT), musician and lightning-fast runner

In episode 31, Jeremy Thake speaks to Vesa Juvonen about Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) with Office 365 Development. Vesa shares what they have been doing with the Office 365 Patterns & Practices initiative with regard to ALM as well as what his core customers that he works with are doing. He also talks about different options for dev/test/prod environments for Office 365 too.  Weekly updates Microsoft HoloLens SharePoint REST API Batching Made Easy by Steve Curran To brand or not to brand, that is the SharePoint Online Question by Heather Solomon Getting Started with azure WebJobs (“timer jobs”) for your Office 365 Sites by Tobias Zimmergren Pulse Check: The SharePoint / Office365 App Model is alive and well… by Dave Warner II Show notes SharePoint Server 2013 Application Lifecycle Management by Steve Peschka Application Lifecycle Management with Office 365 on Microsoft Virtual Academy Office 365 Development PnP.Core Deploying a SharePoint App to Azure As Part of a Build by Kirk Evans Application Lifecycle Management in SharePoint 2013 & Office 365 using Team Foundation Server 2013 & Visual Studio Online by Ayman El-Hattab Automated Testing Challenges for SharePoint Apps – Trusting the app! by Ayman El-Hattab Got questions or comments about the show? Join the O365 Dev Podcast on the Office 365 Technical Network. 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 Vesa Juvonen Vesa Juvonen is a senior program manager with the SharePoint Customer Experience team in product group. Prior to being a member of the CXP team, Vesa was a principal consultant with Microsoft Services for eight years before moving to product group. Vesa was also SharePoint MCM (Microsoft Certified Master) instructor for the life cycle of the program and is considered an industry expert on the use of the app model and more specifically on the transformation from farm solutions to the app model. Vesa leads the team which created the Office 365 Developer PnP (Pattern and Practice) project (formerly known as OfficeAMS) to help customers transition into the new app model. Vesa is also a frequent speaker at SharePoint conference and events.

"Smart Products and Microsoft Services" (you could also say "Internet of Things with Microsoft Datacenter Services") is the topic of this very long, 110 minute presentation.But before I'll let you watch it, allow me to apologize for completely skipping the first quarter of 2014 here on Subscribe!Happy New Year! It's been a busy time here in my basement in Germany and over in Redmond and on the road, and to make up for the long drought, I recorded an extended director's edition of the "Smart Products and Microsoft Services" talk I gave at the CeBIT trade show and several other conferences in recent months and also added a section about "Project Reykjavik" that I've been working on (and which is the reason for the long break) and that Todd first mentioned and showed in his BUILD talk last week. I don't have a demo in this talk, but I'll have that coming up soon.The video is probably really too long, but the upside of the videos here on Channel 9 are that you can pause it when the popcorn bag is empty and you need to get a new one.The scenarios I talk about are about Public Transportation systems and Connected Car, and you may recognize the transportation scenario from my "Internet of Things or Thing on the Internet" blog rant. I also give a refresher on Service Assisted Communication in the context of the Reykjavik discussion.The PowerPoint deck for this presentation is here.

"Smart Products and Microsoft Services" (you could also say "Internet of Things with Microsoft Datacenter Services") is the topic of this very long, 110 minute presentation.But before I'll let you watch it, allow me to apologize for completely skipping the first quarter of 2014 here on Subscribe!Happy New Year! It's been a busy time here in my basement in Germany and over in Redmond and on the road, and to make up for the long drought, I recorded an extended director's edition of the "Smart Products and Microsoft Services" talk I gave at the CeBIT trade show and several other conferences in recent months and also added a section about "Project Reykjavik" that I've been working on (and which is the reason for the long break) and that Todd first mentioned and showed in his BUILD talk last week. I don't have a demo in this talk, but I'll have that coming up soon.The video is probably really too long, but the upside of the videos here on Channel 9 are that you can pause it when the popcorn bag is empty and you need to get a new one.The scenarios I talk about are about Public Transportation systems and Connected Car, and you may recognize the transportation scenario from my "Internet of Things or Thing on the Internet" blog rant. I also give a refresher on Service Assisted Communication in the context of the Reykjavik discussion.The PowerPoint deck for this presentation is here.

Scott chats with Norm Judah, the CTO of Microsoft Services. They talk about running a multi-cultural organization of 16,000 consultants, building online community, and writing green software.