EP 128: @ESPC with CoreView: The view improves when clouds collide

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 Dinosaurs to plan your Microsoft365 roll-out… an interesting podcast!Steve admits towards the end of the podcast that he is the last person in the world to create a Spotify playlist and the boys talk about the magic of driving and hitting the right bend with the right speed and the right music.Then they timebox 6 minutes to argue about Intranets and the different philosophies you could take when deciding on the Governance of your Intranet and which works in your organisation.Then it finishes off with a gift from Tony who when on Holiday found a distillery that created Whisky from Cactus.  We definitely hit the objective of tasting a Whisky that you would not normally savor.  Mike Drop!

11 Nov 20211h 3min

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 management all become part of the change leadership whilst Architects, Developers Helpdesk, Security, and the configuration team can develop design documentation and use these to define the system builds.

23 Okt 20211h 15min

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 aspects. They focus on the people aspects to try and make a judgement on the way people are changing.Microsoft has looked at how people are working but with the context of generating information from the cold hard data figures.  Achieved through a combination of data sets to create a story of changeComparisons are made between the number of people enabled for a function and the number of people using the tools available to them.Marijn and Steve are not sure about the way meeting definitions are used in the productivity Score. Where Camera-on gets a higher mark than a meeting without Camera usage by the participants.  However, they like that meetings that include screen sharing have a higher value as this indicates good CollaborationTracking the mobility of your users is about using multiple devices for a user and using different applications to edit or view content.Working through all the pages on the Productivity Score page, Office365Distilled becomes more optimistic about how these tools can judge Collaboration across the enterprise.Then we move to TOAD or The Oxford Artisan Distillery, where the boys visited a few weeks ago and bought a bottle that is distilled from grains propagated from 300+-year-old seeds.  This drink is truly a great tasting Rye Whisky.

10 Okt 20211h 16min

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 great English whisky brand.Shout out...Sarah Fenner  |  Al Eardley  |  Yannick Reekmens  |  Tony Woodruff  |  Alex Kwaskowski  |  Megan Warren  |  Bill Ayers  |  Sharon Weaver  |  Kevin and Al from GreyBeard  |  David Cromca  |  Zoe Wilson  And all the others that we missed from the list…  thank you.They talk about what they learned which of course focused on all the bits they don’t know… The main message is that MS teams is huge, but we all knew that.

25 Sep 202158min

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 matched by the awesomely sharp pepper on the finish.

5 Sep 20219min

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 technical conference dedicated to enabling Microsoft Teams for medium to large enterprises.  We are the event where the best minds in the business gather to share their expert knowledge and experience so that your organization can enable your flexible workforce communication & collaboration using Microsoft Teams effectively & efficiently.We pick out our favourite presentations that we intent to visit and learn from.Steve & Marijn   -   www.SteveandMarijn.com

3 Sep 20211h 24min

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 important to Senior managers to ensure that Awareness if Transparent. That they fully understand the implications at the start and become the strategy ambassadors for the project.Finally, we mentioned the dreaded word Politics and look at how its important for management to drive the energy of the project ensuring user beliefs and step into providing the vision of the change

17 Aug 20211h 21min

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 pages… the main 8 pieces of content.We talk about Dear jeff and how he will be taking our suggestions and immediately adding them to the backlog on the day the podcast is released…  ok maybe not 😉 A great tip from Marijn about creating a new view in the Site pages library to create a Functional list of the pages to find them back again. Steve reminds us that it is a library with all the features of a library including metadata, grouping, filtering multiple views.Marijn introduces the way to list the pages in web parts and Steve looks at the fact that the page content is King, presented in a way to make the user go WOW and want to come back and see future changes.Both podcasts talk about how the Heading anchors are a great way when combined with Quick links and even text links so that users can jump around the page and quickly get to the content.  Steve adds the tip to make sure users can easily get back to the top.Matt Hurst joins us from Ribbon Communications a sponsor from the Commsverse conference on September 15th for 2 days to talk about what goodies they will be giving away at the conference and what knowledge they will share.Dear Jeff… can you make a web part that can move within the page as you scroll down and stay within the live window as well as making it possible to pull content from other site collections.The boys shout out lots of respect to those with the skills that can visualize a stunning page and the difference between the technical skills of building the page and the design aspects of creating beauty.Movie tags are included that perfectly describes how we bend Microsoft365 weaknesses as Marijn says “Nature always finds a way” Some new features are discussed around collapsible sections which are rolling out… but you can ignore this if needed because apparently ‘We are not that kind of podcast 😊The podcast disagreement is about the Page web part that inserts a line… Steve hates and Marijn loves… before finishing with some Dear Jeff moments for improvements.Finally, we get to Whisky, which turns out to be very special, suggested by our regular listener Sven, created by a German Kirsh maker.  The boys tell a confusing story of this whisky because it is so surprisingly good and it expands the taste horizon of Steve and Marijn.  Bu the agreement is that they should not have been surprised because of the source of this whisky.And this time Steve tries to do the ending and gets hijacked by Marijn.

17 Juli 20211h 16min