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 EP 16: Sweet and smokey sixteen!

16!! 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 …


Office 365 Distilled EP 15: Dynamic stability

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 …


Office 365 Distilled EP 14: Where we talk Las Vegas & Marijn shares his travel schedule

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 …


Office 365 Distilled EP 12: Seal team 6 delivering communication governance

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 …


Quick tip: Open msg files quickly from SharePoint Online

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 …


Powershell

Add an external user to multiple sites (via PowerShell)

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 …


Introducing a new Youtube series: Blaming the enduser

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 …


Office 365 Distilled EP 10: Double digits!

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 …