In Episode 137, Ben and Scott dive into the latest Azure and Office 365 news, including the public preview of Azure Dedicated Host, the announced end-of-life for Skype for Business Online, and Private Channels in Microsoft Teams. Sponsors Opsgility – Your Cloud enablement partner to help guide your organization through all phases of Cloud migration and adoption Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate – ShareGate’s industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com – Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink – We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Collab365 SharePoint Summit (3 days) Azure Dedicated Host Introducing Azure Dedicated Host Introducing proximity placement groups Skype for Business Online to Be Retired in 2021 Microsoft FastTrack Microsoft Teams Private Channels Office 365 Roadmap ID 50588 Private Channels in Microsoft Teams: Facts vs. Fiction Create a private channel in Teams UserVoice - Support for Private Channels Episode 135 – Speaking at Microsoft Ignite! with Anna Chu Previous Episodes Episode 126 - Privileged Accounts In Azure AD The Right Way Episode 127 - SharePoint Conference 2019 Announcements Episode 128 - Automating SharePoint Online with Flow, PowerShell, and Azure Episode 129 - The Latest and Greatest in Azure and Office 365 Episode 132 - Why Friends Don't Let Friends Buy Office 365 Business About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT As the leading global brand for enabling the Microsoft Cloud, Opsgility’s global Microsoft MVP and multi-certified Cloud Solutions Architect team has authored over twenty MOC Courses, the Microsoft Press Book Implementing Azure Solutions 70-533 and numerous Microsoft Cloud Practice Playbooks for Microsoft Partners. And for a limited time, you can get your team certified in the most exciting cloud business today with a 25% discount off instructor-led training prep courses for Azure and Microsoft 365! Visit https://opsgility.com/MicrosoftCloud to learn more. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.