Never let it be said that we turn down a challenge. We were asked by a listener to try and summarise Power Platform licensing and rather than just share what we knew, we managed to bring in one of the Microsoft experts on the subject, the very tattoed and always entertaining Chris Huntingford. Then, by sheer chance, Microsoft decided to drop the bombshell news of Dataflex and we had even more to chat about.

However, that is all for part two. In this part of the show, Al and I cover the latest news, especially all the updates from Microsoft Inspire and Ready 2020.

If you would like to appear on the show, please drop us a line using the form at https://www.greyhatbeard.com/upcoming-shows. We’d love to hear from everyone, especially if you’re not an MVP and would like to be heard more in the community.

The news links below are the ones discussed on the show but also some additional links we found during the week.

Kevin (the grey)

• New employee on-boarding hub
• Slack makes EU antitrust claim against Microsoft over Teams - even though they, apparently, aren’t in competition
• Cosmos dB power shell
• Mention a user in teams

Al (the hat)

• Universities using a supplier that suffered a ransomware attack - highlights the need for constant vigilance of users and technical solutions
• Premier League club almost lost £1 million to Hackers
• DataFlex potentially being sued already

Garry (the beard)

• SPFX 1.11 released - Extend more of Microsoft Teams, and publish to AppSource
• Jeff Teper’s thoughts on SPFX 1.11

Inspire 2020

• Inspire book of news

  - Azure
  • Blog Storage to support NFS - mentioned in Book of News but no further details yet
  • M365

    • Microsoft Lists starting to roll out

      • July - Office 365
      • August - Teams
    • Universal Print
    • Yammer

      • External guests
      • External communities to EU
      • Yammer Admin Portal
    • Teams

      • Teams Rooms
      • Power BI personal app
      • Dataflex
      • Teams meeting experiences with 3rd party apps and services
  • Business Apps

    • Return to the Workplace
    • Dynamics 365 Customer Voice
  • Security & Compliance

    • Communication Compliance - Monitor Slack and Zoom
    • Microsoft Information Protection - Incorporating end-point protection into the management experience
  • Customer Enablement

    • Cloud practice playbook

Events

• PnP virtual conf
• Al talking on Microsoft To-Do and Mental Health at Office 365 & SharePoint User Group (West Midlands)
• M365 UK Virtual User Group

  • Next event on 12th August

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