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

With a Special theme tune for EPSC @ CoreView the boys are joined by Kasia Nowicka, Kas to friends, to launch a series of podcasts directly from ESPC recorded live from the CoreView Stand in the Exhibition Hall

27 Nov 20238min

Value is not always easy to find when thinking about all aspects of M365.  Applications focus on functionality, and new solutions are set up without considering what is required to maintain the operational production needs.In this podcast by the boys, we look at all the places value is hidden or lost.  Check out the meeting of Opportunity Cost, Technical Debt, or Culture Debt.Finally, we get to a Durvelish Spirit that is rare and lucky to have landed in the hands of this podcast duo...

22 Nov 202356min

The Podcast will now be formally known as M365Distilled... the name the boys finally landed on after a few amusing alternatives as we introduce Misky365 and Miss Stilled.This is a strange podcast that takes a few statements from Darrell as a Service, which Steve refined into:No Adoption without User GovernanceBecause user Governance Drives AdoptionAdoption plus Governance is managed changeSo, Steve started a conversation, and the boys just talked about it... coming together with a little basic knowledge about Adoption and Governance and proving the above statements are the basis for Adoption and Governance.What comes out of this podcast are several statements that can be used as a basis for defining your governance and adaptive paths.Here they are:Microsoft default Settings are a form of governance.Viral Governance is a tool that works in many organisations.Governance is actually tough to do... even if you have a plan.Adoption and good Governance may or may not drive better change (the jury is still out).Finally, the Golden Nugget from Marijn is...   Adoption plus Change drives Sexy Change.It is a sin that Steve and Marijn have never shared with you the annual release of Cairdeas whisky from Laphroaig, so we tasted the 2023 version and atoned for that sin.

12 Nov 20231h 15min

The boys review the events visited and the future speaking opportunities for this year.  And then recall a conversation over lunch bounced from the CollabDay Belgium presentation.  Pieter was looking at MS Team growth with the few years with COVID driving many applications to be thrown over the wall at the users.Value is discussed by comparing the various Project management methods working out, which adds so much value to the business for a limited spend.   We then throw in Risk, adoption training and eventually applications and understand the size of the work needed to be successful within each of the delivery management levels.Then, Cloud features are discussed and compared to underwear and socks. It requires regular changes in small iterations... but each of the applications is compared against of the project methods to understand the work associated with the methodology.And Marijn cannot resist moving away from T-Shirt sizes to 3-piece suits and mankinis.Finally, a Whisky is tasted from Vascu’s birthday collection, the Ardbeg Galileo.

4 Nov 20231h 10min

Steve is in a mood and Marijn is suffering big time... We are trying to identify all the end-user apps that need governance and adoption and how much work is required.  Marijn says all Outlook versions are the same and don’t need re-training, but Steve is being an arse and saying the difference is important.Marijn is slowly getting convinced to listen in and check how Steve bullies him into believing that he is right...  yes, feel sorry for him.Steve says  “ I do apologise, brother, I gave you a hard time” ... “But it was fun recording this” We decide that there are loads of Apps and nearly impossible an export all of them except Yannick who has a superpower as a member of the M365 Force.The conclusion is that we try and count the total applications and don’t reach a conclusion because the number is huge (in context) and stopped counting at 80+ and started to really panic when we suddenly realised we had not considered Apple, Android and Mobile apps.The boys finish by going Cheap with their whisky bought on the way back from South Coast Summit and on the boat... they found a bargain...  White Cask is a Speyside Malt which surprises both of them.

26 Okt 20231h 2min

Firstly if you want to  Governance at the South Coast Summit (join their workshop at Practical Microsoft 365 Baseline Governance – South Coast Summit ), it is Last chance folks...The Boys from Office365Distilled want to talk about focus, the ability for people to move the company forward through an understanding of goals, or the Viva Goals of the company.At the recent Collabdays in the UK, at the National Computing Museum, an excellent place that everyone should visit if they visit the UK and are in computing in any way forward.Looking at the definition of OKR and how Viva Goals helps organisations fix the vision of their Objectives and Key results... goal setting and reporting as a process managed by a tool.In their Collab days presentation, great demonstrations are described here... and then we talk about GoldCock!!This is the whisky that Marijn tasted in Prague and found at the airport on the way home and just had to buy a bottle... even if it is to keep saying the work and all the jokes on this podcast.There is a new model described that helps understand the value of Viva Goals which is described before Marijn and Steve drink their GoldCock!!But after this, there is a little revelation about adoption of Viva Goals...

8 Okt 20231h 11min

Firstly if you want to Collab Days Poland (join their workshop at Practical Microsoft 365 Baseline Governance – ) So Marijn lost for the first round of the battle between the quick and powerful JSON v PowerApps @Helsinki but was magnanimous in his defeat.  This is a great session and if you get chance to hear it them don’t miss it.Steve had a conversation this week about a mystery workflow that did not seem to have any documentation, that we could find… it prompted a need to think about how to define a process that ensured documentation had a high enough priority and is a key component in the Definition of Done.Lots of people get a call out in this episode where Marijn and Steve look at what should be included ,typically, in your governance documents.Enjoy but be warned this is an explicit podcast versions as Marijn uses the C-word… and no we are not joking… Finally after another shout out we drink a Chinese Whisky, seriously a Chinese dram that actually impresses enough to seriously put onto the purchase list.

17 Sep 20231h 3min

Firstly if you want to  Governance at the South Coast Summit (join their workshop at Practical Microsoft 365 Baseline Governance – South Coast Summit ) As always the show is improvised around a few great ideas and this time it’s about Myth busting and Marijn throws in a Sideways thinking at the beginning “Hello Mr Watson”  to the end   “Shift Left” Check it out.We think about a few things before starting on the main topic, like Cortana, that hot non-AI chick, and if CoPilot is about questions, will voice conversations return....  Hey CortanAI... The Boys decided on a few things that people generally believe are true and bust the myths!!!Today we look at how good Search really is and Steve learns a new bunch of stuff about Search and then we look at Users, Back Up and Malware...So listen in and check out if the following is true, well actually they are all Myths....·       Is Search Holy?·       All users are the same!·       Is Everything Backed Up?·       All Content is Scanned for Malware!Check in and work out the reality of the myths.

3 Sep 20231h 4min