Microsoft Ignite 2017 recap of Office 365 announcements
Fellow MVP Darrell Webster and hosted a webinar where we provided a recap of the key Office 365 related announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2017. You can find the slides available on SlideShare, and...
View ArticleWhat does Microsoft’s technology convergence mean for its partners?
In 2015 Office 365, Azure Active Directory and Windows 10 converged which meant that in the same conversation you could talk about desktop deployment & experience, identity management, and...
View ArticleIs this the end of Office “365” as we know it?
Microsoft has been slowly removing the “365” from Office 365 over the past few months in all kinds of different places. Ever since Microsoft Inspire (formerly known as the Worldwide Partner Conference)...
View ArticleMythbusters: Skype and Teams resources
Damien Margaritis (Lync MCM) and myself presented a webinar aiming to bust the myths around the merger of Skype for Business and Microsoft Teams. Luckily since the initial news leakage there’s been the...
View ArticleQuick Yammer tip: controlling external group creation
What do IT pros usually do when they don’t understand something or don’t have a clear direction? KILL IT! Kill it before something happens that we don’t understand!!!! I’ve seen this a lot with Yammer...
View ArticleMeet Stride, a Microsoft Teams competitor from Atlassian
Welcome everyone to Stride, a new product currently in preview from Atlassian. It boasts features like group chat & direct messaging, voice & video conferencing, and built-in collaboration...
View ArticleEnabling the Microsoft Whiteboard to work with Office 365
If you’ve ever worked with the Microsoft Whiteboard on a Surface Hub with the Creators Update installed, you’ll know that the whiteboard experience is fantastic. Where it has fallen down is that it was...
View ArticleHow to keep email signatures out of Teams and Yammer
While Teams and Yammer provide us a way to communicate without email, sometimes we still need to connect the conversation threads together. Already in Teams we can surface Yammer threads, and in both...
View ArticleWhich Office 365 infographic to use when
As Office 365 has grown in complexity and feature set richness there have been many attempts to provide guidance for customers and end users. Initially these came in the form of whitepapers and eBooks...
View ArticleImprovements to Planner integration with Microsoft Teams
One of the bugbears for users of Microsoft Teams is the challenges of Planner integration – or lack thereof. In the early days of Teams, the Planner integration was very limited – it had no ability to...
View ArticleReflections on 2017 and looking towards 2018
2017 has been an exciting year on a variety of fronts. On a personal level I have had a change in the direction of my career which I am enjoying considerably. In the world of Office 365 there has also...
View ArticleLearn how to have professional organisation-wide signatures with Office 365,...
Many organisations I work with still use Outlook as the place where signatures are applied. The problem with this approach is that approximately 40% of emails are done on mobile devices these days – in...
View ArticleTeams quick tip: the case of the missing Teams meeting add-in
A few months ago, the ability to schedule a meeting in Teams directly was made available in Outlook, and it’s been a wonderful thing. What you see in the calendar view in Outlook is options for both...
View ArticleMicrosoft Bookings – a hidden time-saving tool in the Office 365 toolkit
Microsoft Bookings is customer-facing online booking & scheduling system for users of Office 365. It is part of the value-add tools targeted at small businesses such as Invoicing MileIQ, Listings,...
View ArticleBots, polls, bookings and publishing – which is best for calendar scheduling
One of the most frustrating experiences in business these days is scheduling meetings with people over email. The more people you have; the harder it gets. Add in external people; even harder. Throw in...
View ArticleShould end users be able to create Office 365 Groups?
Last week while attending the MVP Summit at Microsoft HQ in Redmond, a group of us were given the opportunity to film a debate in the Microsoft Production Studios – where they create all their official...
View ArticleTeams quick tip: start a chat as a guest
Recently in conversation with fellow MVP Steven Collier, we had differing views on how chats can be initiated by guests based on our experiences. As it wasn’t clearly documented I sought clarification...
View ArticleFirst Experiences with Microsoft Kaizala
What is Microsoft Kaizala? Is it Microsoft’s equivalent of WhatsApp for Business? A replacement for StaffHub? Is it something new entirely? The answer is all of the above, and none of the above, as...
View ArticleCleaning up the clutter in Office 365
Various tech vendors and research companies have been telling us one thing consistently over the years: demand for storage is increasing. While a lot of this is because of new ways to create content...
View ArticleWhat is the role of email in the modern world?
I hate email. Many people hate email, and for different reasons. But is our hatred misplaced? Is it the fault of the technology? Or is it legitimate? Some people hate email because they get too much of...
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