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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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Office 365 Distilled ep7: Starting with why

February 7th, 2019 | Posted by Marijn in podcast - (0 Comments)

Oh boy, do I get tingly feelings when I listen to the intro of our podcast.. Do you do too? Or have I been “sampling” too many whiskies already? Anyway, whatever tingly feelings you might get, here is episode 7 of our “Office 365 Distilled” podcast, hope you like it! By the way, here is …
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NavigationNode Id’s for PnP PowerShell in SharePoint

February 7th, 2019 | Posted by Marijn in code | PnP Powershell | sharepoint - (0 Comments)

When I was updating some code in PowerShell, I ran across a notification when removing navigation nodes.
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Office 365 Distilled ep6: groups, groups and groups!

January 15th, 2019 | Posted by Marijn in Office365 | podcast | Uncategorized - (0 Comments)

Welcome to another episode of Office 365 distilled, the first one in 2019 where we talk groups, groups and groups. How was 2018 treating us and what will 2019 bring? Marijn got into a lot of travel and got awarded as MVP! Expect to see him at a number of conferences in 2019! Steve is …
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Microsoft Service Adoption specialist course (Edx)

I just completed the “Microsoft Service Adoption Specialist” course on Edx. (with a nice 90%!!!)As I have been speaking in the past about change management and getting your users up to speed, I was really curious to see what Microsoft ‘s official take on it was. And boy, was I in for a treat! As …
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Office 365 Distilled Ep5.1: Most important questions for a rush greenfield project

December 21st, 2018 | Posted by Marijn in Office365 | podcast - (0 Comments)

This episode is called 5.1 … Because we had some technical issues on the first one.. Remember boys and girls… Windows Inside Preview is not recommended to run on a production machine 😉Although.. The good thing is we now have to taste this delicious bourbon once more 😉 We are back from the last conferences …
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Made easy: formatting columns in SharePoint lists and libraries in design mode

As announced at Ignite 2018, Microsoft is rolling out an easier way of formatting your lists and libraries columns. Until now you had to do this in Json script, which was very hard for end users or power users to do. Luckily, Chris Kent has a great webpart to make it easier, but that still …
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Office 365 Distilled ep3: Baseline governance, PROSCI ADKAR and a whiskey

November 16th, 2018 | Posted by Marijn in Governance | podcast - (0 Comments)

Welcome to another laid back, chill, distilled conversation about Office 365 and end with a nice irish whiskey! This episode we talk about baseline governance and share what we are doing and pondering about. Contents of Office 365 Distilled ep3 Learnings from this week Microsoft wanting to send end users mails tips and trics (but they …
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Office 365 Distilled ep2: Microsoft Teams & a nice bourbon

October 29th, 2018 | Posted by Marijn in Microsoft Teams | Office365 | podcast - (0 Comments)

Welcome to another laid back, chill, distilled conversation about Office 365 and end with a nice Bourbon! We had an awesome turnout for our first episode, over 85 plays! Let us know what your thoughts were about our first episode and this second one in the comments, or talk to us on twitter: @marijnsomers and …
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