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: …
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 …
Steve and Marijn are still worlds apart, so will not be enjoying a whisky together.. But that doesn’t keep them from talking about some geographical arbitrages for Bookings in Cuba and Orkney! After a Chuck Berry intro by Steve, we start talking governance needs after Teams is rolled out and how we can use Microsoft …
A request I hear a lot when implementing Teams is the ability to make files read-only in certain channels. There is also an uservoice item to request such a feature. Microsoft Teams, with the underlying Microsoft 365 Groups technology works best (in my opinion) if you keep it as simple as possible: You need a …
Steve and Marijn get their best French out, while they talk about the 27 club, french onions and a french whisky. Steve talks about his OneDrive migration project, where they let the end users do the manual lifting (and getting rid of everything that is not moved). Marijn talks about re-engineering a business process with …
Across the years of consulting various organisations in the world around SharePoint, I have hinted at using various color schemes and themes (color-coding) to define the type of collaboration: Green for a department site, brown for a project site, red for a highly classified site, … While this is still possible in SharePoint Online, with …
Why should I have Teams? We got Yammer, SharePoint, Skype and Outlook in place. This is a question we get ever so often! Steve and Marijn both come from a SharePoint experience, so they are not always up to par with the latest and greatest 🙂This 25th episode of Office 365 Distilled, a quarter cask …
This is the recording of the webinar I did at Teamsfest Spring 2020, called “Becoming a Road Warrior with Microsoft Teams Mobile”. The topic was Microsoft Teams mobile app and all the cool things you can do with it. Please enjoy this demoladen session! If you are just looking for the slides on how to …
Onboarding people to Teams in these #WFH (Work From Home) times is exciting! I get questions that I haven’t even thought about, or that I just didn’t see. One of those questions is why there are grey and blue icons in the Teams chat. What is the difference and how do I get this icon? …
This post is a duplicate of the one I wrote for the EnableRemoteWork on TechCommunity. As people around the world start #WFH, I felt that this post could use some love on my own blog too. Working from home (#WFH) doesn’t have to be boring. Even in quarantine there are many conversations to be had, …