Microsoft 365 Voice

We are excited to host Joanne Klein, Microsoft MVP, Advanced Compliance Specialist, and part of the Microsoft Blackbelt team, to discuss compliance in M365. In this episode, Joanne shares with us her thoughts and experience about the M365 compliance platform. We talk in detail about Information Protection, Retention, Records Management, File plan, and best practices to deploy compliance at a large...

In this episode, we are delighted to have Chris McNulty, Director of Product Marketing, Office 365, to talk to us about SharePoint Cortex and the latest announcement of Microsoft Viva. It was great to hear his insights on Project Cortex, Topics, and details on SharePoint Syntex like document curation, auto labelling, document understanding, metadata processing, OCR, and many other goodies. We were...

We are excited to host Thomas Daly, Microsoft MVP, Collaboration Director at SOHO Dragon, to talk to us about Branding in SharePoint modern. We had fun talking to him about the possibilities of branding in the modern world, the limitations, and best practices to deploy your corporate branding in SharePoint Online. He walked us through his experience, what to do and what to avoid, and he definitely...

We kick-off 2021 with a Podcast to introduce ourselves. This get to know your podcasters’ podcast is an opportunity for us to share with our audience our personal information, experience, what we like and do not like, and a brief overview of our daily lives. DOWNLOAD THIS PODCAST

In this episode, we do a year in review of 2020 and what were our personal favorite moments of 2020. We talk about various technical and no-technical events, features, community contributions and the lifestyle changed by Covid-19. We reviewed many new features, and we shared our perspectives on each one of them. This is the last episode of 2020 and we will resume in early 2021 with the hope of a b...

In this episode, we are excited to have Laurie Pottmeyer, Senior Program Manager, Community lead for Microsoft Teams, joining us to talk about Microsoft Teams, new capabilities, latest releases, and future road map. We have taken turns to ask our guests a wide range of questions about new announcements, pro tips, personal experience with the product, and other great ways to use Teams. Laurie share...

In this episode we discuss how you can deploy Microsoft Information Protection labels. Should you use the out of the box labels, should you add more, and if you do, what is the magic number of sensitivity labels you should have in your tenant? We also talk about options on the deployment of the labels, best practices and what you should do and not do. DOWNLOAD THIS PODCAST

Microsoft Teams’ usage is growing daily, and we are now more dependent on it in our daily communication and collaboration than emails. But does this mean we can achieve an inbox 0 and do not need to be dependent on our outlook? In this episode we discuss different opinions on how to best manage your communication and emails. Are you a team Sarah with less than 25 in your inbox, team Antonio with l...

We have the pleasure in this episode to host Heather, Power Platform Community Success Lead with Microsoft to talk about a dear topic to all of us. Heather is a leader in the Tech Community space and frequent speaker in many events and online promoting diversity, inclusion, equality, and a healthy workplace environment. Heather shares with us great tips on this sensitive subject and we learned so...

We are excited to have Bill Baer, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft Search, as our special guests to talk about the latest Microsoft Search announcements. Talking to Bill is like opening a treasure box to find so many goodies in it. In this episode, we will dive into Search Answers, Topic Search, Find Skills and Expertise, Image and Power BI Search, Personal Query History, the evolution of SharePo...

Microsoft recently announced at Ignite 2020 a new initiative from Project Cortex called SharePoint Syntex. In this episode we talk about the details of the new service and how Microsoft is transforming Content Services by adding AI and intelligence to content capturing. This is a game changer as it allows the platform to automatically classify, tag and apply retention to a document or form based w...

Many users are often confused when they collaborate with others when it comes to sharing files; they want to make sure they are sharing them securely and correctly. There are few different ways to share a file internally or externally using different platforms. In this episode, we shed the light on how you can share files, what are the use cases and where you can share them from. We also highlight...

We are excited to have DC Padur, Product Manager at Microsoft, SharePoint Experiences, with us to discuss the SharePoint Home site and the latest announcements from Microsoft Ignite. In this episode, DC  answered many questions from us regarding the features of the Home site, scenarios where you can use it or not, the difference between a Home site and other communication site, and many other good...

In this episode, we address the question if SharePoint Hub sites are actually site collections. We explain how Hub sites are configured, what are the features and you can enable a site to be a hub site. We go through multiple scenarios and we address the best practice to deploy Hubs for your intranets. DOWNLOAD THIS PODCAST

Microsoft 365 Admins have the challenge to keep up with all the updates rolled out with the platform and will need a way to stay ahead of the users when it comes to changes. In this episode, we suggest multiple ways for the M365 Admins to make sure they are not overwhelmed with the constant changes, how to delegate and where to keep up with the evolving cloud. DOWNLOAD THIS PODCAST

We are excited to have Mark Kashman, Senior Product Manager at Microsoft, with us to discuss the latest release of Microsoft Lists. In this episode, Mark answered many questions from us regarding the evolution of Microsoft Lists from SharePoint Lists, how Teams work with Lists, all the different templates, integration with other platform and services, availability, and many more. DOWNLOAD THIS POD...

In this episode, we answer the question about what to where? Should I use a SharePoint Communication site or a SharePoint Team site? We explore the different features for both sites and the differences in each one of them, and we review what it means when you collaborate with others vs. when you share the information with the rest of the organization. DOWNLOAD THIS PODCAST

Changes in Microsoft 365 are constant, and organizations always need to stay on top of the changes and how to address them. In this episode, we address how M365 admins can manage all the changes to make sure any updates are handled appropriately within the tenant. We review many different options to stay connected to all the changes and what are the best strategies to deal with this evolving cloud...

In this episode, we dive into security in Microsoft 365. Like nay other platform, hackers may attempt to get into your tenant to phish for information and cause disturbance in your daily work life. We review options on what to do when you have a data breach in M365 and what actions you should take to correct the breach. We also discuss measures that you can take to minimize the data breach and sec...

A common question and scenario we always face in our daily lives is how we refer to services in Microsoft 365. Few of the users are confused by the terms that are not familiar with and do not call the instance related to a service in its proper term. For example, we hear Team’s Teams or Planner’s Plan to refer to a Team or a Plan, where many users feel they are being repetitive. This episode shows...

In this episode, we discuss our most used Microsoft 365 mobile apps and which ones we use the most. We do another round table where we share our personal experience and the mobile apps and how we use them on daily basis. DOWNLOAD THIS PODCAST

The question in this episode was “When to self-service or not”. We address this governance question on how to control the creation of Office 365 groups, SharePoint , Teams, Planner and Yammer Communities. It is a question that every organization faces to balance between proper governance and opening self-service creation to the end users. We provide multiple options on this topic and we share with...

In this episode, we discuss the big question where you should start implementing Microsoft 365. There are many ways to deploy M365 and we review the best practice scenarios of which service to do first, but we also dive into the exceptions that companies must do. Even with the exceptions, we recommend some standard practices any organization should follow to have a proper deployment of the cloud w...

We address a new question in this episode about the top 5 Teams features any business user should know. We think there is a long list of great Teams features that everyone should know, and we address them in a fun round robin game. Each one of us presented a personal favorite Teams feature and described its functionality and why we like it. We hope you enjoy them as well! DOWNLOAD THIS PODCAST

In this episode, we address the question on how fast we can onboard an organization into the Microsoft cloud. We review the deployment of the platform within normal circumstances and during COVID, explaining what organizations are doing to fast track the enablement of remote users. We also address how you can follow proper procedures to implement best practices when it comes to Security, Governanc...