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Office 365 Distilled ep17: The best advice ever… For 15 minutes of fame at Ignite

August 9th, 2019 | Posted by Marijn in events | podcast - (0 Comments)

After our sweet sixteen (and Lagavulin whisky with it), we are back with an interview with the amazing Anna Chu (@_achu), senior product manager at Microsoft and the community lead of the Microsoft Ignite event (and Ignite The Tour)! We wanted to roast her about how to get a speaker gig at Ignite. It has …
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Office 365 Distilled ep16: Sweet and smokey sixteen!

August 6th, 2019 | Posted by Marijn in events | podcast | sharepoint - (0 Comments)

16 episodes. Over 3500 listens. We are so happy. Does that mean that we have now grown up? Adult podcasters? Is that even a thing? We even got a new intro! Did you notice it? On this episode we are taking a look at some things Microsoft promised to have released after Ignite 2018 and …
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Office 365 Distilled ep15: Dynamic stability

July 26th, 2019 | Posted by Marijn in Adoption | podcast - (0 Comments)

Welcome to another episode, just the one before our “sweet sixteen”. In this episode we discuss dynamic stability, and we drink 7 whiskies! 3:56 People change After last episode, we want to continue on the idea of people change. The concepts like ADKAR talks about specific events (like rolling out Teams, or migrating from Lotus …
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Office 365 Distilled ep14: Where we talk Las Vegas & Marijn shares his travel schedule

July 24th, 2019 | Posted by Marijn in change | podcast - (0 Comments)

Marijn gives a recap on his travels after Collab Summit and SPS London ( and do some shameless namedropping of Carmen, Matt Taylor,Karoliina, Tomasz, Liz Sundet) and we talk about the SharePoint conference in Las Vegas. 7:05 Our thoughts after Las Vegas The SharePoint conference in Las Vegas has always about strategy, and Ignite has …
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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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