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Cloud Weekly Digest – Week of January 31 – February 6, 2016

Take a look at last week’s news on Microsoft Cloud and miscellaneous.

 WEBINARS & EVENTS

Five reasons to run Microsoft apps on Azure | February 10, 2016 at 10:00 am PST
Join Corey Sanders, Microsoft’s Director of Program Management on the Azure Compute team, to learn the top five reasons why you’ll benefit from running Microsoft apps on Azure.azure-apps

YamJam: OneDrive for Business | February 10, 2016 at 9:00 am PST
Join Reuben Krippner and the OneDrive for Business team for an hour of live Q&A. This is an opportunity to voice feedback, ask questions and learn about what’s next directly from the people behind the product.

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Drive Business Results with Intelligent Tools Series | All webinars (45 minutes) will take place on Thursdays at 10:00 am PST.
Moving to the cloud is no longer a question of “if,” it’s a question of “when.” In this series you will get to see the exciting innovations enabling best-in-class, cross-platform mobile productivity, intelligent tools that can anticipate your needs to deliver timely solutions, collaboration tools built for the modern workforce and how Microsoft has delivered on its commitment to trustworthy computing across security, privacy and compliance.

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Azure Active Directory Premium Customer Training Webinars
Join us and learn how to get up and running on Azure AD Premium quickly and easily!

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RSA Conference 2016 | February 29 – March 4, 2016
RSA Conference 2016 is your best opportunity to connect with the technology, trends and people that will protect our digital world.

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TechNet Virtual – Conference 2016 | March 1-3, 2016
3 days of technology, inspiration and fun! To attend the event, please visit the event landing page http://aka.ms/technetvc

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Learn new insights from leaders in the business analyst community | Cost: $299 | March 22–23, 2016
The Excel and Power BI teams are hosting a new conference designed specifically for you, the business analyst.

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Introducing Microsoft Envision, our new event for business leaders | New Orleans, LA | April 4-6, 2016
Microsoft Envision is designed for CxOs and their senior department and functional leaders who are driven to shape their own future and position their organizations and business for success in a mobile first, cloud first world.

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Microsoft Ignite 2016: Registration is open—sign up now | September 26–30, 2016
It’s time—register now for Microsoft Ignite and mark your calendar. Be there when top industry leaders talk about what’s next, get direct access to the people who built the products you use every day and surround yourself with smart people talking tech.

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OFFICE 365

Exploring the Office 365 Groups API
Exploring the Office 365 Groups API by Paul Schaeflein.

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C# Console Application and Office 365
Great blog post on how to create a C# Console Application and connecting it to the Office 365 API.

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Get ready for Yammer!
Last week, Office announced that we are activating Yammer for every eligible Office 365 tenant—new and existing—without requiring additional action on the part of admins. This allows all Office 365 customers to gain the full benefits of Yammer.

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Office 365 Advanced eDiscovery now enables export to third-party review apps
Last week Office announced the ability for customers to export eDiscovery data from their Office 365 tenant to third-party review applications. This new capability is in addition to the existing export capabilities already present in Office 365, which allow you to download the data directly to your local computer. The new export capability enables secure eDiscovery data export from Office 365 Advanced eDiscovery to a secure Azure Blob storage controlled either by the organization or by the third-party review application.

Stay secure with Advanced Threat Protection in Office 365
ATP provides you with protection against unknown malware/viruses, real-time, time-of-click protection against malicious URLs, and rich reporting and URL trace capabilities.

Episode 083 on Office 365 PNP updates with Vesa Juvonen—Office 365 Developer Podcast
In this episode, Jeremy Thake speaks to Vesa Juvonen on the latest updates from Office 365 PNP.

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AZURE

On-premises and cloud hybrid Hadoop data pipelines with Hortonworks and Cortana Analytics
The Azure Data Factory and Hortonworks Falcon teams jointly announced the availability of private preview for building hybrid Hadoop data pipelines leveraging on-premises Hortonworks Hadoop clusters and cloud-based Cortana Analytics services like HDInsight Hadoop clusters and Azure Machine Learning.

Announcing general availability of Google Widevine license services
We are pleased to announce the general availability of Google Widevine license delivery services in the cloud with Azure Media Services.

Announcing PowerShell v5 support in Azure Automation
Some of the most exciting features include:

  • PowerShell classes
  • PowerShell Workflow performance improvements
  • PowerShell module side-by-side versioning
  • A whole bunch of new cmdlets (ex. Convert-String)
  • A whole bunch of PowerShell DSC improvements (ex. PSRunAsCredential)

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Azure welcomes Parse developers
If you have been using Parse hosting as the backend that supports your mobile apps, this may be the perfect time to try out Azure App Service.

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Is your code ready for leap year?
2016 is a leap year, and that can mean trouble for software applications not carefully coded to prevent bugs. Learn more about the types of bugs you should be on the lookout for, and how the leap year has affected Azure and other software in the past.

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An early look at Azure Stack and what it means for IT
Azure and Azure Stack share a standardized architecture, including the same portal, a unified application model, and common DevOps tools. This gives you the freedom to decide where applications and workloads reside without being constrained by technology. On this blog post, Jeffrey Snover, Chief Architect, Enterprise Cloud, demonstrates the specific advantages of Azure Stack for those of you in IT.

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MISCELLANEOUS

Gartner positions Microsoft as a leader in BI and Analytics Platforms
Industry analysts have taken note of our efforts and we are excited to share Gartner has positioned Microsoft as a Leader, for the ninth consecutive year, in the Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms. For the first time, Microsoft is placed furthest in vision within the Leaders quadrant.

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Announcing Power BI “publish to web” preview
Now available in Power BI for free: Publish your interactive data visualizations online with publish to web!

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Microsoft acquires SwiftKey in support of re-inventing productivity ambition
This acquisition is a great example of Microsoft’s commitment to bringing its software and services to all platforms. We’ll continue to develop SwiftKey’s market-leading keyboard apps for Android and iOS as well as explore scenarios for the integration of the core technology across the breadth of our product and services portfolio. Moreover, SwiftKey’s predictive technology aligns with Microsoft’s investments and ambition to develop intelligent systems that can work more on the user’s behalf and under their control.| SwiftKey is joining Microsoft

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Saying “Goodbye” to DNX and “Hello!” to the .NET Core CLI – Damian Edwards & David Fowler
The .NET Core CLI is coming soon and will replace DNX as the underpinnings of ASP.NET 5 while also being *the* command line experience for .NET Core development on all platforms. Come see David Fowler and Damian Edwards explain how this changes ASP.NET 5 (for the better) and what new scenarios it enables in its own right.

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Manage your technical debt with TFS, Visual Studio Team Services, Visual Studio, and SonarQube
#Connect2015 -| By using Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Team Services, and their integration with SonarQube, you now have a way to measure technical debt, stop it from growing, and manage it down. This video shows how to modify a continuous integration build to add a SonarQube analysis, how to take a baseline in Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 to make a fresh start managing your static analysis issues, and how to use the “Changed Documents” filter in the error list to clean-up existing static analysis issues as you change code.

GoingNative 46: [Why you should be trying out] C++ Modules
Learn from our in-house expert why modules is [sic] going to make C++ even more awesome with its various explicit and implicit benefits, and you can take advantage of it right away!

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TWC9: VSCode Insiders, Igniting Ignite, Future Edge, NFL Hololens and more…
Last week on Channel 9.

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Thanks,
Bea

Cloud Weekly Digest – Week of January 24-30, 2016

Take a look at last week’s news on Microsoft Cloud and miscellaneous.

WEBINARS & EVENTS

Azure Stack webcast with PG | February 3rd, 9:00 am PST
Great opportunity to join Mark Russinovich and Jeffrey Snover on their webcast to get the inside the scoop on Azure Stack!
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Five reasons to run Microsoft apps on Azure | February 10, 2016 at 10:00 am PST
Join Corey Sanders, Microsoft’s Director of Program Management on the Azure Compute team, to learn the top five reasons why you’ll benefit from running Microsoft apps on Azure.

Take your teamwork to the next level anywhere, anytime with Office 365 and Windows 10 | Wednesday, February 10 and 17 at 10:00 am or 12:00 pm PST
Join us for a Microsoft Immersion Experience session from the comfort of your own office. An immersion experience is a facilitated, hands-on session to “experience the possible” by test-driving Microsoft solutions through simulated everyday business scenarios.

Drive Business Results with Intelligent Tools Series | All webinars (45 minutes) will take place on Thursdays at 10:00 am PST.
Moving to the cloud is no longer a question of “if,” it’s a question of “when.” In this series you will get to see the exciting innovations enabling best-in-class, cross-platform mobile productivity, intelligent tools that can anticipate your needs to deliver timely solutions, collaboration tools built for the modern workforce and how Microsoft has delivered on its commitment to trustworthy computing across security, privacy and compliance.
Business-Results-Webinars

Azure Active Directory Premium Customer Training Webinars
Join us and learn how to get up and running on Azure AD Premium quickly and easily!
AAD-webinars

RSA Conference 2016 | February 29 – March 4, 2016
RSA Conference 2016 is your best opportunity to connect with the technology, trends and people that will protect our digital world.
rsa2016

TechNet Virtual – Conference 2016 | March 1-3, 2016
3 days of technology, inspiration and fun! To attend the event, please visit the event landing page http://aka.ms/technetvc
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Learn new insights from leaders in the business analyst community | Cost: $299 | March 22–23, 2016
The Excel and Power BI teams are hosting a new conference designed specifically for you, the business analyst.
data-summit

Introducing Microsoft Envision, our new event for business leaders | New Orleans, LA | April 4-6, 2016
Microsoft Envision is designed for CxOs and their senior department and functional leaders who are driven to shape their own future and position their organizations and business for success in a mobile first, cloud first world.
Envision-Social-Graphic

OFFICE 365

Developing Outlook add-ins – where to integrate and what you can do
In this blog post, Simon Jaeger, covers some of the key possibilities that you have when integrating with Outlook and using the Office.js library.

Getting started with Microsoft Graph
In this lab, you will investigate the Microsoft Graph.

Overview of Office 365 Development
In this lab, you will work with existing Office 365 Add-ins.

Skype for Business and Lync 2013 Memory Usage
Skype for Business and Lync 2013 clients manage memory differently than previous client versions. This article describes the design change, how it impacts client performance, and how it affects the memory footprint.

New cloud storage options for Office mobile and Office Online
Last week, Office announced real-time co-authoring with Office Online for documents stored in partner cloud services, extending our Office for iOS integration to all partners in the CSPP, and enabling integration between Outlook.com and cloud storage providers Dropbox and Box.

5 commonly overlooked security threats
This post discusses five often overlooked threats to your email security.
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Episode 082 on PowerApps with Chris McNulty—Office 365 Developer Podcast
In this episode, Jeremy Thake speaks to Chris McNulty on PowerApps.
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AZURE

Progress update: Node.js SDK for Azure App Service Mobile Apps
Back in September, we announced the availability of the first alpha release for the Node.js SDK for Azure App Service Mobile Apps. This SDK streamlines the code for implementing a mobile backend with Azure App Service. We’ve been hard at work since then developing the solution with plenty of real-world experience and feedback from the community.

Introduction to the new Azure Portal
In this video Byron Tardif, a Program Manager on the Azure team, spends some time discussing the new Azure Portal that was recently released.

Announcing the first Technical Preview of Microsoft Azure Stack
Born from Azure, Azure Stack helps organizations deliver Azure services from their own datacenter. | Technical Preview is available for download.

File management with Azure Mobile Apps
The Azure Mobile Apps File Management SDK, is a library that provides client and server components designed to help eliminate complexities using the Azure Mobile Apps SDK, currently using Azure Blob Storage as the underlying storage infrastructure.

Machine Learning in Azure Security Center
Broadly speaking, Microsoft uses Machine Learning to achieve two outcomes: next-generation detection and simplified security management.

13 effective security controls for ISO 27001 compliance
13 effective security controls that can be easily implemented to help address ISO 27001 compliance obligations
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Visual Studio UserVoice
Turn customer engagement and feedback from thousands, or even millions, of users into smart product decisions—all without turning your backlog into a hurricane. UserVoice is the perfect tool for products and development teams looking to build the best products – driven by real feedback from users.
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Microsoft research project puts cloud in ocean for the first time
The technology to put sealed vessels underwater with computers inside isn’t new. In fact, it was one Microsoft employee’s experience serving on submarines that carry sophisticated equipment that got the ball rolling on this project. But Microsoft researchers do believe this is the first time a datacenter has been deployed below the ocean’s surface. Going under water could solve several problems by introducing a new power source, greatly reducing cooling costs, closing the distance to connected populations and making it easier and faster to set up datacenters.DC-under-water

Cortana Gets Better at Helping You Manage Your Busy Schedule
Use Cortana to request an Uber, assist with meeting prep, track flights or packages and set a location-based reminder that goes with you on all your devices.

Message Analyzer: How to Diagnose Network Traces, Log files, and Windows Event Tracing (ETW) Components
Microsoft Message Analyzer is a powerful tool used for capturing, displaying, and analyzing protocol messaging traffic, events, and other system or application messages in network troubleshooting and other diagnostic scenarios. Join Lex Thomas and Paul Long as they walk us through the new Message Analyzer interface and show us how decryption works.

Incident Response 101: What to do if your Security has been Compromised
Lex Thomas welcomes back Jessica Payne to the show as they discuss the proper way to respond to a cyber security attack in your datacenter. *Hint — running around, waving your arms and screaming at the top of your lungs will not help.

(Part 2) Deploying Windows 10: How to Migrate Users and User Data to Windows 10
Yung Chou, Kevin Remde and Dan Stolts continue their multi-part Windows 10 series and in part 2 they showcase free tools like the User State Migration Toolkit (USMT) that can easily migrate users and user data to Windows 10 from Windows XP, 7 and 8. | Part 1

TWC9: Seth and Shen Stack Azure, Encrypt Web Apps, Challenge VSCode and more…
Last week on Channel 9.
TWC9

Thanks,
Bea

Cloud Weekly Digest – Week of January 17-23, 2016

Take a look at last week’s news on Microsoft Cloud and miscellaneous.

WEBINARS & EVENTS

Collaborate anywhere, anytime with the Microsoft Immersion Experience | Wednesday January 27—10 am and 12pm PST
Join us for a Microsoft Immersion Experience session from the comfort of your own office. An immersion experience is a facilitated, hands-on session to “experience the possible” by test-driving Microsoft solutions through simulated everyday business scenarios.

Take your teamwork to the next level anywhere, anytime with Office 365 and Windows 10 | Wednesday, February 10 at 10:00 am or 12:00 pm PST; Wednesday, February 17 at 10:00 am or 12:00 pm PST
Join us for a Microsoft Immersion Experience session from the comfort of your own office. An immersion experience is a facilitated, hands-on session to “experience the possible” by test-driving Microsoft solutions through simulated everyday business scenarios.

OFFICE 365

Gifme Outlook Add-in
GifMe is an Outlook add-in that demonstrates third-party integration (using the Giphy API) with Outlook add-ins, how to insert images and text into Outlook items, how to take advantage of add-in commands for Outlook, and how to get an Office look and feel using Office UI Fabric.

Learn Skype Web SDK in 30 Days
This free eBook is for anyone who wants to get started with the Skype Web SDK. There are 30 “days” (plus a few extras before and after). Each day works through a specific problem and describes how to solve it. In addition, at the end of each day you will see a link to GitHub.

SfB Video Broadcast: Ep 7. Path to the Cloud – Deployment Options
Microsoft’s Jamie Stark and Sean Wilson share Office 365 Deployment Guidance as they discuss your path to the cloud.

From Inside the Cloud—What protection exists for your data in Office 365?
We focus on protecting your data everywhere it is authored and shared, without disrupting your ability to get work done. This is a very real and vital engineering goal and requires an approach that balances both information security and end user needs. It starts with harnessing the intelligence of the service itself and providing the controls to tailor protection to your specific organization requirements.

Sway Recycle Bin, full screen mode in Windows, Send to Sway add-in for OneNote (preview) and more!
We added a Recycle Bin to Sway. Now, any Sway you delete using Sway on the web, Sway for Windows 10 or Sway for iPhone and iPad goes to the Recycle Bin, where you can recover it for up to 30 days.

Embed video throughout your intranet
Within Office 365, it is possible to place videos (embed) in-line and in-context where people work on projects, online and on-premises. You can do this within SharePoint Team Sites, custom company portals, internal blogs, wikis and more. Using the Office 365 Video solution, it is as simple as copy, paste and publish.

New to Office 365 in January—new inking tools, collaboration improvements, Office Insider builds now available for Mac and more
We’re improving the inking experience so writing and drawing with your finger, pen or stylus are more intuitive and powerful.

Office 365—monthly Dev Digest for January
Welcome to the 11th edition of Dev Digest, designed to help you—the Office 365 developer—keep up to date with what’s new in Office 365 development.

Episode 081 on ngOfficeUIFabric with Andrew Connell and Waldek Mastykarz—Office 365 Developer Podcast
In this episode, Jeremy Thake speaks to Andrew Connell and Waldek Mastykarz on ngOfficeUIFabric.

AZURE

Analyzing your Azure Search traffic
You told us you’d like to be able to know what’s happening inside your search service and we are happy to announce we’ve rolled out the first phase of Search Traffic Analytics.

Announcing the Beta Apache Cordova Plugin for Azure App Service Mobile Apps
This plugin provides an API for data access, push registration and authentication to an Azure Mobile App backend written in either Node.js or ASP.NET.

How Halo 5 implemented cloud scale telemetry using Azure Event Hubs
Halo 5 chose Event Hubs to process billions of events per day in their massive game telemetry platform. Find out why.

AJAX Collection in Application Insights
We’re excited to announce that Application Insights will now automatically tell you about the performance of AJAX calls made by your web page apps.

Application Insights Proactive Detection
Application Insights will now use Proactive Detection to automatically analyze your telemetry and notify you if it finds performance problems.

Announcing the Azure SDK 2.8.2 for .NET
Last week Microsoft announced the Azure SDK 2.8.2 for Visual Studio 2013 and Visual Studio 2015. This post summarizes the new features being released in the Azure SDK 2.8.2.

MISCELLANEOUS

How we’re putting the Microsoft Cloud to work for the public good
Microsoft is committed to putting the Microsoft Cloud to work for the public good. That’s why Microsoft Philanthropies, with support from Microsoft Research and Microsoft Business Development, will donate $1 billion in Microsoft cloud services to nonprofits and university researchers over the next three years.

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Effortlessly Analyze Data History Using Temporal Tables
Temporal Tables are a new feature in SQL Server 2016, designed to be the ultimate productivity tool for developing or migrating applications that provide insights from historical data. Temporal Tables allow you to track the full history of changes without additional code and let you focus your data analysis on a specific point in time in a very simple and efficient way.

SharePoint Server 2016 and Project Server 2016 Release Candidate available
We’re pleased to announce the availability of SharePoint Server 2016 Release Candidate (RC). SharePoint Server 2016 RC is mostly feature complete and represents an important milestone for customers and partners looking to deploy and evaluate SharePoint Server 2016 before general availability in Spring 2016.

Episode 404: Mark Miller on The Science of Great Design
Mark Miller of DevExpress is passionate about the science of great design. In this interview, Mark discusses some principles of great design and examples of those principles put into action.

Advancing Persistent Security: How Microsoft’s Cybersecurity Benefits Your Customers
Microsoft is leading the way in developing and deploying the most advanced cybersecurity technology and services. This Voices for Innovation (VFI) webinar focused on how Microsoft is responding to today’s escalating cybersecurity risks. Chris Krebs, Director, Cybersecurity Policy at Microsoft discussed the work Microsoft is doing in this area.

TWC9: Build Sells Out, ASP.NET 5 is Dead, Node.js gets ChakraCode’d and more…
Last week on Channel 9.

Thanks,
Bea

Cloud Weekly Digest – Week of January 10-16, 2016

Take a look at last week’s news on Microsoft Cloud and miscellaneous.

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Webinar and events
Azure Active Directory Premium Customer Training Webinars
Join us and learn how to get up and running on Azure AD Premium quickly and easily!

Collaborate anywhere, anytime with the Microsoft Immersion Experience
Join us for a Microsoft Immersion Experience session from the comfort of your own office. An immersion experience is a facilitated, hands-on session to “experience the possible” by test-driving Microsoft solutions through simulated everyday business scenarios.

The Office Small Business Academy series debuts January 26—register today
What is your business resolution for the New Year? Whether you want to master the art of management, grow your social media presence or get the most out of technology, be sure to watch the first episode of Office Small Business Academy.

Introducing Microsoft Envision, our new event for business leaders | New Orleans, LA | April 4-6, 2016
New flagship event for business leaders. Microsoft Envision is designed for CxOs and their senior department and functional leaders who are driven to shape their own future and position their organizations and business for success in a mobile first, cloud first world.

Microsoft loves Linux: Deep dive blog series
We’ve recently completed a 12-part series of blog posts about running and managing Linux and FreeBSD in an on-premises datacenter.

Office 365
Microsoft acquires management, reporting and analytics technology from Event Zero to enhance Skype for Business Online
Microsoft has acquired technology assets underlying the UC Commander product suite from Event Zero, a leading provider of management software for Skype for Business Online. This acquisition will allow us to expand and improve the built-in management tools for Skype for Business, and is the latest example of Microsoft’s commitment to deliver a complete, enterprise-grade communications solution at global scale with Office 365.

Skype call scheduling and more updates for Outlook for iOS and Android
The Outlook and Skype teams share a passion for helping connect you to the people that matter most in your life. That’s why we’re working together to build integrated experiences that make it easier to communicate and manage your calendar from your mobile device.

Exchange Online Protection updates | Leading the way in the fight against dangerous email threats
The Office team has introduced several new capabilities in Exchange Online Protection and Advanced Threat Protection, which help protect you from unknown external threats while providing admins visibility on targets within their companies and options for mitigating or eliminating attacks.

Boost your productivity with the new Full Screen view feature in Outlook for Mac
We are happy to announce that Outlook for Mac now officially supports Full Screen view for OS X Yosemite and above.

6 steps to a successful Yammer network
Video – Prescriptive guidance on how to roll out Yammer and drive ongoing usage in your organization

Episode 080 with form.io on their Office 365 integration—Office 365 Developer Podcast
In this episode, Jeremy Thake and Richard Dizerega speaks to Travis Tidwell and Gary Wetzel from form.io on their Office 365 integration.

Office365 and AzureAD for Developers
Understand the fundamental AzureAD concepts necessary for calling Office365 APIs, 3rd party APIs, and custom APIs.

Azure
Making R the Enterprise Standard for Cross-Platform Analytics, Both On-Premises and in the Cloud
Last week, Microsoft Data Group CVP announced a few exciting news to the R community.

Announcing enhanced migration and disaster recovery for VMware using ASR
Customers can now protect and replicate their VMware virtual machines and physical servers to Azure, without the need to deploy any replication or orchestration components in Azure IaaS.

Easily enable identity and access management with social logins for B2C apps
If you want to make it easier for your customers to easily and securely login to your consumer-facing apps with existing accounts like Microsoft, Google and Facebook and greatly minimize the work required to maintain customer identities, you’ll want to watch our latest Microsoft Mechanics show featuring the new Azure AD B2C service.

Zend Z-Ray for Azure App Service general availability
Built by the PHP experts at Zend, Z-Ray delivers unmatched runtime insights into PHP applications, including visibility into database queries, functions, errors and warnings, memory consumption to monitor and analyze application activity.

Optimize your network infrastructure for Microsoft’s cloud
Is your organization trying to get a handle on how to evolve your networking infrastructure for a cloud-based world? Just what are the new paradigms and skill sets you need to master to ensure current and future optimal access to your workloads running in Azure? To learn more please click on the link above.

What would you do with 100,000 cores? – Big compute at global scale
Well, by running a specialized insurance model on Azure, that’s exactly what Towers Watson did in collaboration with the HPC and Big Compute team at Microsoft. The whole effort took less than 12 hours, from provisioning 100,000 cores in 14 different regions worldwide, to the final downloading of results.

Announcing the Azure Automation PowerShell ISE add-on
If you’re interested in speeding up your runbook authoring process using tools you’re already familiar with, we hope you’ll give the Azure Automation PowerShell ISE add-on a try!

Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer preview: January update and roadmap
Last week the Azure Tools team announced the January release of Storage Explorer Preview and updates on version 0.7.20160107.

Miscellaneous
Microsoft InTune for the Old-School GPO Admin
The article discusses InTune for the old-school GPO Admin.

Visual Studio IDE improvements announced at Connect
Watch this quick breakdown of the IDE improvements in Visual Studio 2015.

Microsoft Neural Net Shows Deep Learning Can Get Way Deeper
Interesting read on AI.

TWC9: Build Registration Opens, ChakraCore Opens, R Server Free for Dev’s and more…
Last week on Channel 9.

Thank you!