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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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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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