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If you missed BUILD 2017 and are interested in catching up on any of the hundreds of sessions presented, many of them have been recorded and are available for streaming at no cost.

Watch any of the 452 streaming videos & presentations at the URL below:

• VIDEO: Recordings from Microsoft BUILD 2017
  https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2017/

Every organization is impacted by the recent increased focus on data privacy rights. Microsoft has long been champion of individuals’ privacy rights and views the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as an important step forward in clarifying and enabling individual data privacy rights.

Join Brad Smith, Microsoft President, and Brendon Lynch, Microsoft Chief Privacy Officer as they discuss data privacy rights and how Microsoft can help advance your organization’s privacy practices to align with privacy regulations such as the GDPR on May 24, 2017 at 6:00 am PT.

During this webcast, you will learn more about:

• Microsoft’s commitments and approach to privacy in the context of digital technology
• GDPR and how it is an important step forward for individual privacy rights
• How moving to the Microsoft cloud can help accelerate your organization becoming GDPR compliant

Register for the event below:

• DATE/TIME:
  May 24th, 2017
  6:00AM PT
• REGISTRATION:
  https://info.microsoft.com/TrustPrivacyandGDPR-Registration?key1=gdproft.html

If you’re building a presentation for your executive management and you’re in need of a PowerPoint that goes over the details of WannaCry/WannaCrypt, the following deck from SANS Institute’s Dr. Johannes Ullrich is a good start:

1. What happened?
2. How many infections?
3. How do systems get infected?
4. What happens to the victim?
5. How to prevent infection? PATCH
6. Other mitigating controls
7. Detect affected systems
8. Ransom note
9. Cleaning up infected systems
10. Kill switch
11. Will paying the ransom help us?
12. Impact/Summary
13. Additional links

Get the PowerPoint presentation here:

• DOWNLOAD: SANS Institute Overview of WannaCrypt Ransomware
  https://isc.sans.edu/presentations/WannaCry.ppt

What do managers of highly engaged teams do differently every day?
A Gallup study found that manager behaviors drive at least 70% of the variance in employee engagement. While executives can quantify discrete business outcomes like revenue and profitability, manager behaviors that contribute to those outcomes often remain unclear, unquantified, and unseen. In this webinar, attendees will learn how behavioral analysis of the digital signals from the collaboration systems we use every day can reveal specific behavior changes that make managers more effective.

• Ryan Fuller
  General Manager, Workplace Analytics, Microsoft
  Ryan Fuller was the CEO and co-founder of VoloMetrix, a leading people analytics company acquired by Microsoft in 2015. Within Microsoft, Ryan leads Workplace Analytics, a business unit focused on leveraging the power of collaboration data to inform strategic business decisions at the individual and organizational level. Ryan is a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review and speaker at industry events. Ryan was previously a management consultant at Bain & Company and holds an MBA from Kellogg School of Management.
   
• Nina Shikaloff
  Senior Program Manager, Workplace Analytics, Microsoft
  Nina delivers actionable insights for improving organizational efficiency and talent management to Fortune 500 companies using Workplace Analytics. She previously led analytic consulting, R&D and product management functions at FICO and InfoCentricity.

Microsoft executives Ryan Fuller and Nina Shikaloff, published authors in Harvard Business Review, will share insights and best practices based on research conducted by Microsoft for Fortune 100 companies. They will highlight how analysis of collaboration data revealed unique manager behaviors and how those insights can increase manager effectiveness and employee engagement. Join us!

• DATE/TIME:
  June 14, 2017
  10:00 AM PT | 1:00 PM ET – 1 Hour
• REGISTRATION:
  https://veconnect.us/gk/g/kFeGmqFiJ4t-630/p/ManagersMatter-EM1

A SharePoint consultant named Matt Wade at ICanSharePoint.com created an attractive visual of many of the services provided by Office 365, across all license SKUs:

An everyday intro to Office 365
http://icansharepoint.com/an-everyday-intro-to-office-365/

This infographic is actually really important to help people get their head wrapped around everything that Office 365 for Enterprises offers. (as well as O365 for Business, O365 for Education & to some extent, O365 for Government)  Check it out.

Secure Productive Enterprise E3/E5
https://kurtsh.com/2016/07/23/info-what-is-the-secure-productive-enterprise-e3-e5-suite/

SPREADSHEET OF OFFICE 365 SERVICES
If you’re looking for a fairly thorough list of services & technology included in Office 365 E3/E5, (as well as EMS E3/E5 and Windows Enterprise E3/E5), check out the spreadsheet I published at the post below.  I made the rows collapsible to hide suites that the reader isn’t interested in, to help simplify the view:

• INFO: What is the “Secure Productive Enterprise (E3 & E5)” suite
  https://kurtsh.com/2016/07/23/info-what-is-the-secure-productive-enterprise-e3-e5-suite/

Today, many of our customers around the world and the critical systems they depend on were victims of malicious “WannaCrypt” software. Seeing businesses and individuals affected by cyberattacks, such as the ones reported today, was painful. Microsoft worked throughout the day to ensure we understood the attack and were taking all possible actions to protect our customers.

We are using the MSRC blog – Customer Guidance for WannaCrypt attacks to post information and resources in one place, to help customers respond to this latest threat.

The first and most important piece of guidance is to immediately deploy the security update associated with Microsoft Security Bulletin MS17-010, if you have not done so already. Customers that have automatic updates enabled or have deployed this update are already protected from the vulnerability these attacks are trying to exploit.

Malware Detection

Windows Defender, System Center Endpoint Protection, and Forefront Endpoint Protection detect this threat family as Ransom:Win32/WannaCrypt.

In addition, the free Microsoft Safety Scanner http://www.microsoft.com/security/scanner/ is designed to detect this threat as well as many others.

Recommendations

Review the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) blog at Customer Guidance for WannaCrypt Attacks for an overview of the issue, details of the malware, suggested actions, and links to additional resources.

Keep systems up-to-date. Specifically, for this issue, ensure Microsoft Security Bulletin MS17-010 Security Update for Microsoft Windows SMB Server is installed.

Customers who believe they are affected can contact Customer Service and Support by using any method found at this location: https://support.microsoft.com/gp/contactus81?Audience=Commercial.

Microsoft Malware Detection and Removal Tools

Use the following free Microsoft tools to detect and remove this threat:

• Windows Defender: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-defender
• Microsoft Safety Scanner: http://www.microsoft.com/security/scanner/

Additional Resources

• Microsoft Security Response Center Blog: http://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msrc
• Microsoft Malware Protection Center Blog: http://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/mmpc
• Microsoft Safety and Security Center webpage: http://www.microsoft.com/security/default.aspx

Our Azure Solution Specialist, Ion Gott, shared a list of Azure announcements/accompanying links with me this morning that I thought I’d publish for other’s to see:

Database Announcements

• Azure Cosmos DB: The industry’s first globally-distributed, multi-model database service – https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-cosmos-db-microsofts-globally-distributed-multi-model-database-service/
• Technical overview of Cosmos https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/a-technical-overview-of-azure-cosmos-db/
• Azure managed database services with introduction of MySQL and PostgreSQL https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-extends-azure-managed-database-services-with-introduction-of-mysql-and-postgresql/
• Announcing Azure Database for PostgreSQL  https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-azure-database-for-postgresql-preview/
• Announcing Azure Database for MySQL https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-database-for-mysql-public-preview/
• Modernize your application with Azure SQL Database https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/new-options-to-modernize-your-application-with-azure-sql-database/
• Azure Database Migration Service https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-database-migration-service-announcement-at-build/

Batch Computing

• Low-priority VMs (in preview) This has nice features like auto-restarting a job when a VM gets reclaimed. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-public-preview-of-azure-batch-low-priority-vms/
• Pricing – https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/pricing/details/batch/

Internet of Things

• Azure IoT technical training, developers can start quickly with IoT – https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-launches-azure-iot-technical-training-developers-can-start-quickly-with-iot/
• Certification for Microsoft Azure Certified for IoT https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-kit-certification-for-microsoft-azure-certified-for-iot/

Serverless computing

• New Serverless announcements at Microsoft Build 2017 https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/what-s-new-for-serverless-at-microsoft-build-2017/
• Azure Functions Runtime https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-azure-functions-runtime-preview/z
• Windows Server Container orchestration with Azure Service Fabric https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-windows-server-container-orchestration-with-azure-service-fabric/

Cognitive Services & AI

• Microsoft AI http://www.microsoft.com/ai
• Cognitive Services collection of intelligent APIs https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/at-build-microsoft-expands-its-cognitive-services-collection-of-intelligent-apis/
• Microsoft Vision AI http://www.customvision.ai
• Bot Framework https://blog.botframework.com/2017/05/10/Build/

Azure Management

• Azure Cloud Shell https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-cli-2-0-new-commands-features-available-now-in-azure-cloud-shell/
• Azure Mobile Management App for Smart Phone https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-app-preview/
• Azure Cloud Shell https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/public-preview-of-azure-cloud-shell/
• Azure Application Insights https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/optimize-your-apps-for-your-business-with-azure-application-insights/

PowerApps, Flow and Logic Apps

• Build and certify your PowerApps, Flow & Logic Apps Connector – https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/build-and-certify-your-powerapps-flow-logic-apps-and-connector/

Cloud Rendering

• Azure Batch Rendering Services – https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/massive-scale-cloud-rendering-with-autodesk-on-azure/

“Office 365 Advanced Data Governance” is a special set of services for Office 365 that can do the following:

• Find/retain important data; eliminate obsolete/trivial data
• Produce policies automatically based on industry, geography, etc.
• Classify data based on automatic analysis of data type, age, user access
• Apply corrective action (archival, deletion, encryption, etc.)

Here’s two quick videos you can view to see how this is accomplished:

• VIDEO: Office 365 Advanced Data Governance OVERVIEW (5 minutes)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL5DF7LN07s
• VIDEO: Office 365 Advanced Data Governance DEMO (13 minutes)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omKW9ukXFFM

The Office 365 Advanced Data Governance Web Sites are:

• Overview Page:
  https://blogs.office.com/2017/02/10/new-office-365-capabilities-helps-you-proactively-manage-security-and-compliance-risk/
• Features Page:
  https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Data-governance-in-the-Office-365-Security-Compliance-Center-5fe09846-41b6-4168-9c48-2eb491b69dc2
• Questions:
  https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Security-Privacy-Compliance/bd-p/security_privacy

The keynote for BUILD 2017 Day 1 is above.  There’s so much stuff that was announced that I’m not going to post each item individually.  Instead I’m just going to post snippets of each to condense it all.

• BETA: Azure Cloud Shell
  https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/public-preview-of-azure-cloud-shell/?utm_source=Direct
• RELEASE: Windows Configuration Designer (“Desktop bridge”) Update
  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/p/windows-configuration-designer/9nblggh4tx22
• RELEASE: Cortana Skills Kit
  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/cortana/cortana-skills/
• RELEASE: Azure IoT Edge
  (a new service that delivers artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced analytics functionalities to edge devices)
  https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/campaigns/iot-edge/
• RELEASE: Azure Cosmos DB
  https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-cosmos-db-microsofts-globally-distributed-multi-model-database-service/
• NEWS: PowerPoint Real-Time Translation
  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/garage/project-details.aspx?project=translator-ppt
• RELEASE: Visual Studio 2017 for Mac
  https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/visual-studio-mac/
• NEWS:
• Azure Database Migration Service for near-zero” downtime migration from Oracle/SQL Serve to Azure SQL
• PostgreSQL as a Service & MySQL as a Service
• Bot Framework has 3 new channels: Skype for Business, Bing and Cortana skills. Also Adaptive Cards introduced, allowing nice looking visual cards during bot conversations.
• 500 million devices are actively running Windows 10
• Windows 10 Fall Creators Update coming in September 2017
• New Microsoft Cognitive Services
• Machine Vision
• AI-driven Search Engine
• Video Indexer
• Fluent Design System coming in Fall Creators Update for cleaner, better looking apps
• Windows Story Remix coming in Fall Creators Update – seqel to Movie Maker
• iOS App Testing on Windows coming through Xamarin Live Player
• OneDrive Files On-Demand
• VR motion controllers coming that pair with Windows Mixed Reality VR headsets
• Cloud-powered clipboard coming to Windows 10 that works across iPhopne, Android
• iTunes is coming to the Windows Store

We are very excited to announce an upcoming opportunity to ‘Ask Microsoft Anything’ (AMA) about Windows 10 deployment!

The AMA will take place on Thursday, June 8, 2017 from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM Pacific Timein the Windows 10 deployment space.

An AMA is a live online event similar to a "YamJam" on Yammer or an "Ask Me Anything" on Reddit. The Windows 10 deployment AMA will give you the opportunity to connect with members of the Windows product teams, who will be on hand to answer your questions and listen to feedback about application compatibility, Windows 10 deployment options, deployment best practices, and more.

Don’t miss this opportunity. Add the event to your calendar. We hope to see you there!

• DATE/TIME:
  June 8th, 2017
  9:00AM PT!
• ADD TO CALENDAR:
  https://aka.ms/deployw10-ama/invite
• LOCATION:
  http://aka.ms/deployW10-ama