Office 365 Distilled

Steve is not confused by his dyslexia of saying this is episode 67 at all, it might be down to the Uncle Nearest the boys shared as a winter warmer after coming in from the cold. All this before talking about M365 Chicago, mentioning Commsverse  https://www.commsverse.com/ again in June same place, and Steve and Marijn turn up on a few of the social photos on the web site. Steve tries to explain t...

Marijn and Steve fail miserably to define content types with a complex 'deep' example first time around but eventually Steve talks about his favourite subject ‘naked Chocolate’ and once you hear this you get a simple definition about what a content type is. The basics are covered to talk about re-usable metadata and then move across to the value of being able to identify specific content across la...

Marijn and Steve open their Christmas presents from Microsoft and peek of what’s cool and what’s cooler.  They touch on the complexity of collaboration, the growth of Adoption and the fact that Compliance is the ugly Christmas sweater that is a little nerdy and growing more complex.   Marijn talks about Socks and Beanies with fairy dust on as he talks about the gift if the Microsoft List before di...

Marijn goes Retro in this podcast (quoting Steamy Windows & Mrs Robinson) around how to Iteratively Evolve your M365 installation for the business.  Steve #ScrewsUp and tells you a story to help you not do the same and then introduces the concept ‘Plan to Evolve’.  This is a process for constant growth and improvement across the business and organisation for M365. Bringing together Baseline Go...

There is a new MOCA 2.0 framework from Microsoft and Marijn thinks we should do a re-visit.  Steve thinks he is right because there are hidden depths that folks need to be aware of. This new Adoption toolset is at the next level building perfectly on the first release. EP72 is really Steve and Marijn standing at the bar and shooting the breeze.  With lots of diversions and bar level humor (you hav...

Marijn has 2 subjects for discussion in Episode 71.  Intranet, using Communications sites to create an ‘intranet’ and the SAFe AGILE process ( SAFe = Scaled Agile Framework ).   So, they start with T-Shirt sizes and Steve goes onto explain how T-Shirt sizes allows for an AGILE approach to corporate planning and delivering against a vision in a driven direction.  Marijn loves the concept of using D...

Marijn and Steve look at the bigger picture of adoption and transformation and specifically the roles required to deliver Adoption successfully.  Assuming the Design, Migration, Change & Adoption and Run stages they build a matrix of the roles and responsibilities required for success.   We consider the people and problems that need to be considered at the start.  Stakeholders, C-Level, Middle...

IDO,  Microsoft:  Intelligence-Driven Organisation Framework    Deloitte:  Insight Driven Organisation     “Basically almost the same and identical” to be precise. Understanding the metrics  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/admin/productivity/productivity-score   The boys eventually start to look at the areas monitored with the productivity Score, ignoring the physical network aspect...

After The first in-person conference for 18 months Steve and Marijn talk about the things they learned from the great list of speakers and people they bumped into and the Whisky tour around the Cotswold and Oxford.  Eventually tasting the Cotswold Peated Cask and an interview with Connor Teague the Events and Marketing Manager for the distillery telling us about the history and plans for this grea...

So after talking about it for over half a year the details of the first Office365Distilled party have been reviewed. September 12th 2021 at 7.30 CET (18.30 UK) so listen in and go to www.marijnandSteve.com to reserve your place. Your chance to win a shot of Swiss Mountain Whisky matured for 7 of it's 11 years in a glacier in Switzerland to give it a complexity of forest fruits on the nose only mat...

Steve and Marijn talk about their first Face to Face conference in over a year, this is Commsverse… Times may be uncertain, but one thing remains true. There’s a simple power in people coming together.  That is why we are committed to delivering an in-person conference this Year. Commsverse is a community conference organised by technology enthusiasts for enthusiasts. We are a laser focused techni...

Ever wondered what a Whisky might taste like that has been matured for 7 years at -4 degrees on Europe’s biggest glacier? Episode 66 of Office365Distilled tell you exactly what it tastes like.  If that is not enough reasons to listen to the podcast, then understanding more about user and management buy into the Microsoft365 change and adoption process might do it for you. We discuss why it’s impor...

As always there is a hint of rudeness with discussions on how Marijn picks the perfectly sized cigar, but as it is a podcast the joke from Steve about where the cigar goes is lost on the audience. But then the background to the podcast about setting up those pages is discussed.  Not defining the information that needs to be displayed but focusing on the tips and tricks to building and managing pag...

A split decision on subjects for Episode 63 sees Steve and Marijn bring both their ideas together.  Looking at the key structures that build content architectures, Sites and Structures, Governance and Processes combined with Marijn’s thoughts on the 5 reasons that Business transformation fails and looking at how you can plan for failure and identify the solutions for success. Opinions vary in this...

Have you set up Secure Score??  Office365Distilled takes a high level look at improving your secure score and the big items that you can implement to move your score from the low percentile to more than 60%. “but how does this effect the user?” Is a question that Steve and Marijn cover. We do know that adding security is a balance with the inconvenience cause with additional authentication and spe...

EP61 is a unique episode because amazingly Steve and Marijn finish on time! Whilst looking at the MS Team announcements.  We discuss Jeff Teper’s keynote from European SharePoint conference and how he positions Microsoft365.  The future of collaboration is discussed looking at Fluid capabilities with such great excitement and the boys discuss recent announcements within MS teams from build.   Advi...

Steve and Marijn dig down into collaboration for this special episode of the Offcie265 Distilled podcast.  The 60th Episode meaning 60 subjects discussed and 60 whiskies tasted. 30+ years ago you only had the ability to share a network drive holding files you and the team needed.  Today you have co-authoring, Sharing, Document templates, Improved search capability, live sharing of content and inte...

There are a lot of things to discuss with regard to your Collaboration journey and which tools should be used for what is a key Decision.  Steve and Marijn get down and dirty checking out two of the applications  SPO (SharePoint Online) and MS teams.  It goes a little like this: 00:00:14 Steve KI kind of hate this whole notification thing in Ms teams. Okay. 00:00:21 Marijn Probably because you're...

In this episode of #Office365Distilled Steve pulls up an old Ignite slide, from the Ignite Hangout.  It described the process often used in sales, to move the customer to a state of commitment.  Steve and Marijn take that funnel and consider how it applies to M365 adoption.  Moving our users from Interest and Understanding to Value before Committing to the change.

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So do you want the Famous Office365Distilled.com opening “HHHhhhheeeeyyyyyy Marijn’ as a ring tone? And as mentioned in the podcast…  'e' vIHarqang, ghojwI'pu' qeylIS,   The boys hook into the simple task of Saving or Opening documents in Microsoft 365 and conclude that it has not changed in 30 years and still it’s difficult to open a document unless you recently accessed it. They look at the new...

In this episode, the boys start with cars and Marijn still learning about his new motor car and how long it takes to learn all about the different controls.  They remind everyone that their new Whisky@Ease YouTube channel has launched  https://youtu.be/8m8clnpRtsk?sub_confirmation=1   They report back on the speaking session that has not happened at the point of recording but went well at the time...

The Guys throw in the first advert for the Whiskay@ease channel, which is on YouTube. Just search Whisky@ease to see Steve and Marijn Shout out for the March teams Summit and the Omaha365 User Group lunchtime sessions where Steve and Marijn have slots to speak. Steve realizes that he should not trust everything he hears because he believed that you could only have 30 channels, but the reality is 2...

In this edition, the boys talk about the relationship they have both had with SharePoint and its 20-year journey. The day they both met for the first time and the spark that said this would be cool. The first date when they started to understand the complexities and depth of our new partner. That extraordinary moment of the first Kiss and you realised that this was a commitment for life. Of course...

Steve and Marijn start with Formula 1 and the changes this season, which are about restricting resources so that to win you must make everything count.  ‘making everything counts’ makes Steve think about what specific functionality in the core apps, Outlook, SPO and MS teams deliver the most significant value. Marijn explains that he has moved to the dark side on the side of the user. All because...