In Episode 169, Ben and Scott take a break from the cloud and talk about the current situation with COVID-19 and how it's impacting many of us with work from home policies that have been put in place to maintain social distancing. Sponsors 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 Opsgility - Your Cloud enablement partner to help guide your organization through all phases of Cloud migration and adoption 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 Get Your Mass Gatherings or Large Community Events Ready Global Azure and COVID-19 Current crowds at the Magic Kingdom for tonight's showing of Happily Ever After... #DisneyWorld Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19): The epidemic and the challenges. Suddenly working at home? We’ve done it for 22 years—and have advice 8 Tips To Make Working From Home Work For You Custom Teams/Zoom backgrounds stevesi/backgrounds MSAdministrator/awesome-video-chat-backgrounds Found some more video chat backgrounds - @SoniaCuff Software duet Display Luna Display About the sponsors 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 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. 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.