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

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 podcast with the usual disagreement on Architecture coming first but we hope the different opinions, thoughts and discussions help you work out what’s best for you.The boys disagree on the readability of URLs and naming convention for Sites Marijn is a believer in identifiable and named url’s and whilst Steve is a believer in a Code or number for the Intranet, we look at the pro’s and con’s of a readable url.    The One-Inch Party is defined as 3 days before Commsverse with a reminder that September 12th is the Office365 Distilled One-Inch party and September 15th and 16th is Commsverse the Hybrid MS teams conference.Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) is discussed and the involvement of Leadership to support the solutions around RBAC and Steve identifies some of the difficult steppingstones for success which will change but solid processes and dynamic groups make this a real success possibility.A blended whisky again is selected to finish off the podcast with an independent bottler taking great whiskies from the lowlands creating ‘The Epicurean’ blended whisky from Douglas Lang.

4 Juli 20211h 6min

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 speed reduction through encrypting content etc. Mark Vale and Martin Boam creators of Commsverse join us to provide some background about how this Hybrid conference is designed to focus on networking and deep diving into MS Teams over 2 days at Mercedes-Benz world in the UK Peer comparison in Secure Score is discussed which is a great way to judge your figure against representative peer companies and how settings today will not consistently keep your percentages up because accessing secure score is important to ensure a high level of security.Secure score can manage your tasks and projects around security and allows you to mitigate the risks if your DLP for example is managed by external tools.  Defining who can see, read, and edit secure score is important to ensure the right people have appropriate access.Alerts are discussed that will set some policies which check various aspects of the user experience for those users who forward their email to external accounts or remove their Junk Email folder.Whisky raises its head as usual and we move east with a blend from Japan and Steve forgets the the name of the recent Sherry Bomb Whisky he tasted on his journey to appreciating Sherry whisky and then Marijn introduces a Japanese Whisky finished in Rum barrels from Okinawa.

22 Juni 20211h 2min

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.  Advice on becoming a MS teams Rockstar is included as well as a slightly longer discussion on Kilchoman Experimental Casks… which we of course had to taste!!

5 Juni 202152min

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 integration of voice, Video and Content.We look at the Corporate Collaborative Roadmap and route your organization needs to take along with the investment of tools, time, and resources to move forward.How do you measure the work and return on investment as you roll out the M365 services and deliver collaboration to your organization?  Steve and Marijn tell some stories in EP60 of office365 Distilled around the Roadmap to deliver collaboration.  Starting from over 40 years ago when a network drive was all that was available through to full collaboration.Finally, we tell you one of the best Whiskey stories to emerge over the last few years that created a very special whisky.  The story and the whisky combined bring you the best whisky tasting yet from the boys of Office365Distilled with the help of Uncle Nearest!

24 Maj 20211h 2min

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 SteveKI kind of hate this whole notification thing in Ms teams. Okay.00:00:21 MarijnProbably because you're not using it in the right way.00:00:26 SteveOkay Mr. high and freaking Mighty then why? What am I doing wrong?00:00:27 Marijn****00:00:29 MarijnNo, no no. I'm just saying this notification system works as you know, just like it should on Outlook 00:00:41 MarijnFor when people are collaborating in the organization and you or they should send you an email where you are in the CC.00:00:49 MarijnSee, you shouldn't be. You shouldn't have to read. It's not information that you need to know in order to do your job. If you're in the CC square, so for that they can just post that information on the team. If they need you to do something with it that you need to be put in the two fields and for that, in teams, the equivalent is actually tagging you or tagging a group of people, and that is the thing that you should get in your notification.00:01:20 MarijnShould only be the items that you need to do something with.

9 Maj 20211h 7min

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.

28 Apr 20211h 2min

Subscribe for more Steve and Marijn by clicking YouTube link here: In Episode 57 of Office365Distilled:#OFFICE365DISTILLED Steve Dalby and Marijn Somer in EP57 discuss top items to teach anyone how to Collaborate#OFFICE365DISTILLED Steve Dalby and Marijn Somer in EP57 Ask you to Tell us your thoughts on the podcast#OFFICE365DISTILLED Steve Dalby and Marijn Somer in EP57 Discuss what's in a name when the hidden 'Spaces' became 'Moka' which was launched as 'Boards' and is Project Moka now finished?#OFFICE365DISTILLED Steve Dalby and Marijn Somer in EP57 discuss the constant complain that no definitive date is available for a new application to launch.  But Steve knows why.#OFFICE365DISTILLED Steve Dalby and Marijn Somer in EP57 Talk about some new features like Boards, Scheduler, and the Duo.#OFFICE365DISTILLED Steve Dalby and Marijn Somer in EP57 What are the values of collaborations tools, feature richness, ease of use, in place governance?#OFFICE365DISTILLED Steve Dalby and Marijn Somer in EP57 hit the usual disagreement on telling the user the way they should collaborate.

11 Apr 202157min

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 All document update on the home page and how now it is more than the most recent 15 documents.  It provides a bunch of extra stuff about the documents.  Marijn identifies that the new App bar will also identify recent content from different sites.Cortana coms back as the boys discuss if ‘miss Graph is somehow related and who has the real intelligent.What is the definition of Recent documents and does Delve, Cortana and Miss Graph have some input to what is displayed?Is it the time to bring back ‘My Site’ a place where anyone can see you and all about you.  You blogs, documents… Maybe this is the time to bring back a more accessible ‘My profile’ that looks good in public.If you want to see Steve and Marijn on their You Tube channel Click >>>  https://youtu.be/8m8clnpRtsk?sub_confirmation=1  The boys finish in true lockdown style by talking about 2 whiskies, yes 2 one from Scotland and one from Japan.

29 Mars 202158min