Mondays at Microsoft | Episode 37
Kickstart November 2024 with the goodness of community news and events. Your co-hosts, Karuana Gatimu and Heather Cook, along with security expert, Virginia Bryant, present the next informative "Mondays at Microsoft" (episode 37), aired live on Monday, Nov. 4th, 2024. Show notes and links to all that was shared and discussed during this episode: Jay Parikh joins the senior leadership at Microsoft: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/10/31/microsoft-names-jay-parikh-as-a-member-of-the-senior-leadership-team/ Midnight Blizzard conducts large-scale spear-phishing campaign using RDP files: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/10/29/midnight-blizzard-conducts-large-scale-spear-phishing-campaign-using-rdp-files/ With Microsoft 365 Copilot agents, Pets at Home unleashes an AI revolution leveraging the Azure platform – https://aka.ms/PetsAtHome. Microsoft builds first datacenters with wood to slash carbon emissions – https://aka.ms/LowCarbonDatacenters. Microsoft's goal: By 2030, it would be “carbon negative” – meaning it would take more carbon out of the atmosphere than it emits. And by 2050 it would remove from the atmosphere the equivalent of all the carbon the company has emitted since its founding in 1975. "Streamline collaboration with the new chat and channels experience in Microsoft Teams" by Jeff Teper - https://aka.ms/Teams/NewChatChannels/Blog. Review the "Meet the Makers" episode with Teams leadership: https://aka.ms/Teams/NewChatChannels/MeetTheMakers. Join our Teams chat and channels AMA next Tuesday, Nov. 12 at 10am PST: https://aka.ms/Teams/NewChatChannels/AMA. "Microsoft 365 Copilot drove up to 353% ROI for small and medium businesses—new study" by Brenna Robinson – https://aka.ms/Copilot/SMB/ROIstudy. Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2024 – https://aka.ms/DigitalDefenseReport2024. "2024 release wave 2 plans for Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform now available " by Ryan Darby Martin - https://aka.ms/Dynamics365/2024ReleaseWave2. Scott Hanselman and Mark Russinovich Learn To... Use AI and Know AI Limitations (Episode 3) - https://aka.ms/ScottAndMarkLearnTo/Ep3. "Fabric Influencers Spotlight October 2024" by Rie Merritt - https://aka.ms/Fabric/InfluencersSpotlight. Find your next event: https://CommunityDays.org. Microsoft Ignite | November 19-22, 2024, in Chicago, USA – https://ignite.microsoft.com. Check the #ESPC24 event guide: https://aka.ms/ESPC2024/EventGuide by Heather Cook.
