Author: Marijn

Office 365 Distilled EP52: The Big Three Adoption Propositions

You might think this episode is all about Formula 1, but it is actually all about adoption; more specific about the biggest 3 adoption propositions that we can think of in Microsoft 365. This means, going through the core applications (Outlook, SharePoint and Teams) and talking about what feature gives us the best value! Adoption …


Office 365 Distilled EP51: Scoops of MOCA for the workplace

After our last episode, where we talked about maturity levels, it provoked a thought experiment about tools and the workplace. Then we found the MOCA framework, which stands for Modern Collaboration Architecture. MOCA model You can download the MOCA presentation and one-pager here. In this model, Microsoft breaks modern collaboration down in a few parts: …


Showing the whole document name on a SharePoint page

You have been slaving away at getting a page to look just right, with some contents on the page and a list of documents on the right hand side to showcase further reading material. But lo and behold.. SharePoint cuts off the full length of the document name! What? Oh no! This is just another …


Office 365 Distilled EP50: The Value of M365 Maturity with a practical productivity score

Celebrating episode 50, with some nice gifts (how did I know Steve likes whisky?) and talking about our Wish.com failures. But then we also talk about M365 Maturity and the Maturity model! M365 Maturity Model This episode we are looking at the M365 Maturity Model. This is not from Microsoft, but it is built from …


Office 365 Distilled EP49: Transformation Acronyms and the forgotten Whisky

Steve and Marijn talk about transformation acronyms.In this podcast we would love to do a shoutout to Sean and Matt for their weekly Microsoft Refresh YouTube show. We think it is a brilliant idea! Every company needs to stay on top of the changes of this evergreen platform. You need someone to stay on track, …


Use PnP Powershell to add a document library webpart to a page (and only show a specific folder)

Office 365 Distilled EP 48: A suspicious weasel and our Christmas wish list

Office 365 Distilled EP 47: Michelangelo and the 5 steps to collaboration

How do we collaborate? Our career is about giving people the tools to collaborate, so how do we do this? What are the characteristics of collaboration? In this episode, we go back to the basics! Collaboration vs voyeurism When you co-author a document, are you just being nosy and a voyeur, a Big Brother that …


How to get the “Connect” Windows app back on your Windows device

For the past year, I have been giving sessions on the Microsoft Teams mobile app. To show my Android mobile phone on the screen of my Windows 10 PC, I used the Connect app. But when I moved to another machine, it wasn’t installed anymore. Connect used to come by default in Windows 10 machines, …


Office 365 Distilled EP 46: ‘AD-OP-SHUN’ and “OCK-UN-TOSH-UN” Both challenging!

We are talking about Teams adoption today! And taste a great whisky too! Why do Teams need a different kind of adoption approach? Is it just the complexity? Or is it the fact that Teams require a different way of working for people (aka a people change instead of just a technology change)? People need …