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Office 365 Distilled ep13: Digital illiteracy is enormously chewable

July 16th, 2019 | Posted by Marijn in Adoption | metadata | podcast - (0 Comments)

We are tasting such a good whisky (“enormously chewable”) so 13 is definitely not an unlucky number! We will be at Ignite this year, maybe Las Vegas could be in the works for next year ? We will see. 5:34: with all things changing… How can we keep our end users notified? Steve had a …
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Office 365 Distilled ep12: Seal team 6 delivering communication governance

May 17th, 2019 | Posted by Marijn in podcast - (2 Comments)

Another 2 weeks have passed, that means another episode of Office 365 Distilled! Life just happens when you are too busy making plans. We just love creating these podcasts, although we never seem to have the same opinions 🙂 7:40 The most succesfull Governance strategy is not what you should do, but what your users …
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Office 365 Distilled ep11: Unanswerable governance question – folders or metadata?

May 10th, 2019 | Posted by Marijn in metadata | podcast - (0 Comments)

This episode took us a little bit longer, but the question behind using folders or metadata is just a burning one… that needs a lot of talk. Or it could be the irish whiskey that kind of tasted like a scotch.. SharePoint Saturday season kicking off! Marijn went to speak at SPS Warsaw (Teams etiquette) …
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Quick tip: Open msg files quickly from SharePoint Online

May 9th, 2019 | Posted by Marijn in quick tip | sharepoint - (2 Comments)

It has been a long time since I published a quick tip, but a request from a client got me in happy mode this morning! The request was that every time they tried to open up a msg (.msg or Outlook email message format) it downloaded the file. Then they needed another click to open …
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Add an external user to multiple sites (via PowerShell)

April 29th, 2019 | Posted by Marijn in code | PnP Powershell | PowerShell - (0 Comments)

I have a customer that works a lot with external experts. Every project is a new SharePoint site, and contains multiple external experts. And, that is how life goes, these people tend to change email address from time to time. As a governance rule, we want these experts to stay in touch with their past …
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Introducing a new Youtube series: Blaming the enduser

April 18th, 2019 | Posted by Marijn in podcast | video | Youtube - (0 Comments)

I am happy to introduce a new (possibly, hopefully hit) series on YouTube: Blaming the enduser. This series is about all the bad things that happen to endusers, and us asking the question who is to blame for those issues. After all, it all boils down to user adoption. In this series, we don’t take …
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Office 365 Distilled ep10: Double digits!

April 16th, 2019 | Posted by Marijn in podcast | project management - (0 Comments)

We made it to 10! Double digits! And next to that, we have had 1000 listens! We had a question from a listener (Greg Jennings) who aske us to help him out. I am big fan of your Office 365 Distilled Podcast, it has inspired me to further my knowledge in Office 365 Migration and …
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Office 365 Distilled Ep9: How technology is ruining our James Bond experience

April 4th, 2019 | Posted by Marijn in podcast | technology - (0 Comments)

The last episode before we hit the double digits! For this episode we are still on our rooftop in sunny Barcelona! After a recap on how long we are in this business we dive into how technology is ruining our lives.. At a visit to the Barcelona casino, we saw the good old chips experience …
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Minimum viable license: external Teams owner

A customer, who is the intermediate party between the governement and organisation working in a specific sector wants to use Microsoft Teams as the preferred way of communicating with those organisations. They are planning to use a Teams for HR, Communications, IT and other common fields that sector wants support in. The intermediate party only …
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Office 365 Distilled Ep8: Live from F1 in Barcelona (and a Bruichladdich tasting with Nick Baeyens)

March 20th, 2019 | Posted by Marijn in podcast - (0 Comments)

This time, we are coming to you live from Barcelona, Spain! We had a boys weekend in Barcelona to go to the Formula 1 testing days. So a perfect long weekend of roaring F1 engines, gorgeous hills and weird architecture.Oh yes, and do some work and podcasts too! Shownotes The main topic today is how …
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