Office 365 Distilled

Wow, what a week, you can tell when Steve and Marijn have had a busy week because you get this very laid-back podcast where they discuss their Trips... and start with a Whisky Chat before moving on to talk about 70% of the project failing and deciding if it is Fake News. In this Podcast, we look at the truth behind the common assumption that 70% of projects fail and analyse if it is accurate and h...

The second of 3 podcasts sponsored by CloudAlly and provided 3 great whiskies to taste across the following 3 Episodes.  Today we are speaking to Murrey Moceri, the Partner Account Director from CloudAlly, a man of the world who hails from Seattle and had flown into London from Sri Lanka and then chose to speak with Marijn and Steve on Office365Distilled. Information from www.cloudally.com     Fol...

Marijn Confirms that he can read!!  OK, I could not resist that, the power of being the Office365Distilled producer and being able to publish the content that we both produce. Never having enough information is bad... but unlike Whisky sometimes too much information can be just as stressful and causes problems of a different kind.... thinking about it,  too much Whisky might also cause problems of...

The first of 3 podcasts sponsored by CloudAlly and provided 3 great whiskies to taste on the next 3 Episodes.  On Episode 113 we will be speaking to Murrey Moceri, the Partner Account Director from CloudAlly, who will be talking about content protection through their platform. Information from www.cloudally.com     Follow up use sales@cloudally.com   The subject of today is ‘Human in IT’ and we st...

Taking the first module and outlining how Process, Governance and Policies, when brought together, ensure we present a practical approach to providing a well-governed M365 environment.  This podcast looks at some of the first module content from their latest training workshop, 'Practical Microsoft 365 Baseline Governance' First presentation is at... Techorama Belgium on May 15th https://techorama....

Marijn moves from Inspiration and Design to Empowering your organisation for Digital transformation.  Following the Microsoft IDEA framework for digital transformation.  E is for Empower and Marijn looks at how you can empower your audience through the development of a model either digital or Paper-based plan for awareness of your new digitally transformed organisation. This very much supports the...

Steve and Marijn are joined today by a Guest who brings many questions about UK financial compliance.  In this episode, we wanted Laura Madden to tell us what her customers need from their content management.  We investigate solutions for typical problems the UK small business financial industry needs from a cloud service. Marijn dives in immediately, talking about some cool solutions, but soon un...

Marijn and Steve lose about 20 minutes of this podcast covering search and how AI might help.  We accept that we can’t help ourselves... We eventually started on document library Governance... but it took some time to pull away from the AI conversation. Steve is not sure how AI can add value to documents and other content, but we will wait patiently to find out.  The original subject is around doc...

This is an extraordinary look at Innovation based on criteria around: Creativity, Vision, Risk-taking and Collaboration.  But maybe Governance has a place... or half a place in the definition. The Boys are back after the great episode 107, and this time they are talking about innovation with a quote that Innovation is in the Delta between your known limit and the place you push to. As we take some...

Are SLAs just Secrets, Lies and Assumptions?  Do we fudge the KPIs to show we have excellent delivery?  It’s possible, but XLA’s are more difficult to fool.  The boys are talking about experience and happiness on this podcast that defines and describes XLA’s, eXperience Levels Agreements and how they fit into the picture of SLA and OLA. Valentine’s day caused some delays as it fell on a regular re...

2023 is the year of governance with Marijn and Steve. To get started, we asked ChatGPT for 3 paragraphs describing Governance for M365, which we used to dig deep into the practical aspects of setting up Governance in M365. We conclude that there are practical links between getting governance right that drives the success of a Good Adoption and Change program. Here is what GPT told us about M365 Go...

So 2023 in the country of Office365Distilled is the year of Governance. And we start with out invention and golden nugget, Baseline Governance which is about doing just enough to go live quickly and safely. In this podcast, we talk about Marijn’s adventure with VR at his Daughter’s birthday party, how many Elephants fit into a Mini and five golden rules for baseline Governance to get your new appl...

So we know that M365 is a constant... it constantly changes. We look at M365 considering where the value is in this changing environment and how best to manage the strategy of changes using AGILE techniques that we all know and maybe even 'love' using.

So Happy New Year from Marijn and Steve is the first thing that comes up with a review of the Advents podcasts and a big thanks for getting us close to Marijn downloads target of 15,000 downloads this year. A quick 10-minute review of the people we met, the subjects we covered in December before hitting the subject of the Podcast Lists.... and some examples for use Mark Kashman, on his blog did a...

The boys celebrate 24 podcasts this month and a year of work relaxing with the ultimate Christmas gift for the whisky lover. A quick review of the work and travel, but mainly just saying tanks to everyone listening and generally, the boys lay their EGO on the line... what would you expect...

So WhatsApp is prevalent and easy to use, but it does not conform to the business management of corporate content. What’s in it for me is minimal value for the users except that you can have a continuous conversation from your mobile device to your laptop. ADKFAR comes into the mix a little, but this is a change process.

Meetings are working; this is a pretext for Agile methodology and is very true today. Meetings take work, and they also take you away from work. Meeting culture needs to change, and we are back to change and adoption. In this podcast, we identify the reasons why you should NOT be in a meeting. As the organiser, you are responsible for creating a meeting with a real invitation to make everyone welc...

Marijn explains Yammer’s Storylines and Stories because he loves them both. He makes a good point; this creates an opportunity for every individual to join the company community, which is essential in today’s working life as we have less chance to connect and communicate across the business.

So, this podcast just goes to show that the tasting notes of a Whisky can be very accurate... In this case, one stating notes says intense whisky with a hint of plastic!! But this was a Whisky to avoid at Christmas unless you are out with the boys doing shots... Hey Vascu, thanks for the tasting but Steve leaves his opinion on his purchase verse yours 😊

Marijn has been using Steve’s ideas again and wants to tell everyone how he is tracking the questions on his SharePoint site about the change ad adoption project he is working on. Steve Does not mind because it is one of his brilliant ideas...

It was an email, but it’s also going to be on MS Teams messages... seriously a great idea from Microsoft about delaying the delivery. You can now delay a message and an email to arrive at the optimum time for the receiver. But... Marijn is unsure because he thinks he is not responsible for the receiver’s timeline. Then the boys come up with some significant variations for the options around defini...

Meeting Etiquette from a few Microsoft Screenshots identified some great points for improving your meeting habits and accessibility. But Marijn goes into that talking mode where we get unfocused, and storytelling voice kicks in... so Steve takes over. All Microsoft’s Meeting room etiquette in 3 minutes!!!

There’s a sync that Steve washes his dishes in that is not what Marijn wants to discuss. He has terrible news: they want to favour the Add to OneDrive functionality. This podcast says NNnnnoooo... we like the Sync and the fact that you get a list of the libraries under your Tenant name and not included in your OneDrive folders. So guys, if you are listening and reading this... leave well alone......

Tasting of Gold Bar Bourbon, Steve travelled through New York Airport last week and crashed the last bottle of Gold Bar reserved... shaped in black with a copper minted coin in the face of the bottle. So it’s time for a Whisky advent episode with something very different to the normal whisky we get hold of...

We are doing all this work to enable knowledge management and enhance collaboration. But this does create a point where change is required. Our Special guest Caroline Hackney introduces her baby... The Collaboration Clinics at Port Houston have been running to implement this change. This is a podcast with real value if you want to do what Steve and Marijn started with, and Caroline is currently ru...