Collab365 Podcast

The search experience in Office 365 is changing! So how much do you know about modern search, and how does this compare with classic search? Join Andy Talbot and Nick Brattoli for this special LIVE show were they will be ‘searching’ for the answers, with industry experts Naomi Moneypenny (Microsoft) and Agnes Molnar (Search Explained). In this fast-paced Collab365 Live Show we’ll also be covering: - Important search announcements from Ignite - Modern v Classic Search (and when to use which) - Accelerating productivity with search and discovery in SharePoint and Office 365 - Understanding the user interfaces ……..your questions and many more! Show Line Up: - Andy Talbot, your Collab365 LIVE Show Host. - Nick Brattoli, your other Collab365 LIVE Show Host - Naomi Moneypenny – Senior Product Manager, Microsoft. Naomi is a Senior Product Manager for Enterprise Search & Discovery and Social Intranet. - Agnes Molnar (MVP) – Search Explained CEO. Agnes is an internationally-recognized expert in the fields of enterprise search, information architecture, and Microsoft technologies.

Were you like me and missed out on all of the amazing content shared at Microsoft Ignite last week? Well fear not! In this fast-paced Collab365 Live Show we’re going to be going through some of the most important announcements from those who attended it: - Mark Kashman – Senior Product Manager, Microsoft - Dux Raymond Sy – Microsoft Community Report at Ignite - Nick Brattoli – Collab365 Community Manger & Show Host - Me – Andy Talbot, your Live Show Host How to attend? Book here and we’ll pop a reminder over. Add to Calendar Tbh, I personally cannot wait for this show! We’ll be digging into so many of the juicy announcements including: - SharePoint 2019 - New updates to SharePoint – read Nick’s post for a summary - ‘SharePoint 2019 Announced: The complete round-up from Ignite‘ (We’ll be going into detail on a few with one of the people responsible for SharePoint, Mark Kashman) - Plus, plenty of other news from Ignite Did you go to Ignite? Now to make this a real “community special”, it would be awesome if you could also come along and join us in the Chat. We’ll have a team monitoring Chat, so we’ll do our best also include your news and give you a shout out Live on the Show.

We’re delighted to have Stephen Rose (Snr Product Marketing Manager) and Jason Moore (Partner Group Program Manager) from Microsoft, plus special guest Hans Brendner to share the latest information around OneDrive. In this Live Show Nick and Andy will be discussing the following: - Are Microsoft planning an API for the client, that admins may use to check their health of all NGSCs (New Generation Sync Client) of all users - Is there a plan for syncing metadata to the client? - Is there a technical description about all the parameters of the NGSC on the client side? - When will we receive information about IRM/RMS document libraries? - What’s on the OneDrive Roadmap for the rest of the year?

Live Show #13 – Darshan Desai With The Latest On Microsoft PowerApps by Collab365

It's been a while since Andy Talbot caught up with Yina Arenas, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft. So we thought it was time to invite her back on our 11th Live Show ... In this Live Show, Nick and Andy were also joined by Tiago Costa MVP and discussed the following: - If/when two product teams fight for the same end point - how do you resolve that? - Will there be any changes to make 'auth' simpler? - Which product is going to own '/me/tasks' Endpoint? - What's on the Graph Roadmap for the rest of the year? - What are the major highlights since we last chatted with Yina?

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) takes effect on 25 May 2018. Are you ready? Microsoft has made a public commitment to The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) takes effect on 25 May 2018. Are you ready? Microsoft has made a public commitment to help its partners and customers get ready for the changes by offering resources for achieving GDPR Compliance in 2018. Companies that do not meet the requirements could face reputational harm and substantial fines. Join AvePoint, Collab365 and Microsoft at the live show to get ready for General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Microsoft Teams is set to become one of the most important collaboration technologies to be released from Redmond in recent years. If you don’t stay up to date with Teams you will miss out on an opportunity to take full advantage of what it offers your business. To help you learn what’s new and coming soon – we’re delighted to have Richard Moe (from the Teams Product Team) joining us LIVE from a sweltering hot Las Vegas! Join Richard Moe, Andy Talbot and Nick Brattoli TODAY at 10am PDT|1pm EDT|5pm UTC|6pm BST where you will learn: -The new Teams app model; -New capabilities like compose extensions and 3rd party connectors; -Office Store integration; -News around the first beta round of Teams APIs in the Graph; -What’s coming for the rest of the year.

Join Nick and Andy who caught up with the Microsoft Flow product team. . Other areas that were discussed: - What is the intended usage for flow, is it ITTT or does it replace workflow as we know it? - For approval steps how powerful are these - Can I dynamic resolve sets of users to send approvals to manage? - Can voting scenarios for be used (a team get an approval request and you continue if two people say yes or one person said no? - How do I put logic on for different possible sets of Approvers - When updating a backend system can I choose to impersonate the user who interacting with the flow or use a service account? / how is this managed – are credentials centrally managed or do they need to be authorised for each user of the flow? - How are exceptions managed? - When a flow fails can I re-start it from the failed step or do I have to run the whole flow again? - Can I configure my own exception rules - - Re-usability - - How re-usable are flows, can one flow call another? - - Export to logic apps and visa versa - - Will Flow completely replace SharePoint workflows? When can we expect that to happen?

Host Andy Talbot interviews Maarten Visser, the CEO of Meetroo and a decade-long Microsoft partner and cover topics like: ​- The evolution of Office 365 - The use cases that have driven the earlier Office 365 adopters - How the adult entertainment industry has driven innovation in the new cloud world - How Microsoft Graph has been a game changer in building scalable applications - How data mining and artificial intelligence plays an essential role in allowing people to be more efficient in their jobs

Collab365 host Andy Talbot interviews Mary Jo Foley, the American Freelance Technology Writer, Author, Podcaster and News Editor. Live from the Office 365 Engage Conference in Haarlem, NL.

Collab365 host Andy Talbot interviews Mary Jo Foley, the American Freelance Technology Writer, Author, Podcaster and News Editor. Live from the Office 365 Engage Conference in Haarlem, NL.

Collab365 host Andy Talbot interviews Mary Jo Foley, the American Freelance Technology Writer, Author, Podcaster and News Editor. Live from the Office 365 Engage Conference in Haarlem, NL.

Collab365 host Andy Talbot interviews Mary Jo Foley, the American Freelance Technology Writer, Author, Podcaster and News Editor. Live from the Office 365 Engage Conference in Haarlem, NL.

Collab365 host Andy Talbot interviews Todd Klindt, the 11-time SharePoint MVP and Speaker. Live from the Office 365 Engage Conference in Haarlem, NL.

Collab365 host Andy Talbot interviews Juan Carlos González Martin, Microsoft Office Servers & Services MVP and co-founder of the SharePoint Users Group of Spain. Live from the Office 365 Engage Conference in Haarlem, NL. In this interview Andy and Juan discuss the difficulties in pronouncing words in Spanish along with some of the key Office 365 features he uses to enable him to work effectively from home. They focus on Microsoft Teams and discuss a new way of extending teams to enable messages that allow you to: interact with connectors for example adding a task in Trello embed your custom activity messages within Teams to publish your custom development for teams publish to the Microsoft Store They talk about how idea the idea behind teams is not just to compete with Slack but to provide a single site without having to leave to go to SharePoint / Email etc – all the tools you need are available in Teams. They discuss some of the differences between Delve, Slack and Teams for example the ability to store files in Teams and move on to talk about the differences in pricing. To keep up to date with the new releases and functionality Juan Carlos recommends using: message centre, tech community roadmap They consider Stream v’s O365 Video and the number of channel, 500 GB per tenant and 500 MB per user limits before discussing their ability to automatically create transcripts and face recognition.

Collab365 host Andy Talbot interviews Andrew Connell, the famous full-stack web developer, trainer, author and 12-time annual recipient of the Microsoft MVP award for Office Development. Live from the Office 365 Engage Conference in Haarlem.

Collab365 host Andy Talbot interviews Hans Brender. Known as Mr. OneDrive Hans has been awarded the Microsoft MVP award for Office Servers and Services for the last 5 years.

Collab365 host Andy Talbot interviews Jasper Oostervald, Microsoft MVP, Cloud Consultant and Internationally renowned Speaker. Live from Office 365 Engage Conference in Haarlem

Collab365 host Andy Talbot interviews Juan Carlos González Martin, Microsoft Office Servers & Services MVP and co-founder of the SharePoint Users Group of Spain. Live from the Office 365 Engage Conference in Haarlem, NL. In this interview Andy and Juan discuss the difficulties in pronouncing words in Spanish along with some of the key Office 365 features he uses to enable him to work effectively from home. They focus on Microsoft Teams and discuss a new way of extending teams to enable messages that allow you to: interact with connectors for example adding a task in Trello embed your custom activity messages within Teams to publish your custom development for teams publish to the Microsoft Store They talk about how idea the idea behind teams is not just to compete with Slack but to provide a single site without having to leave to go to SharePoint / Email etc – all the tools you need are available in Teams. They discuss some of the differences between Delve, Slack and Teams for example the ability to store files in Teams and move on to talk about the differences in pricing. To keep up to date with the new releases and functionality Juan Carlos recommends using: message centre, tech community roadmap They consider Stream v’s O365 Video and the number of channel, 500 GB per tenant and 500 MB per user limits before discussing their ability to automatically create transcripts and face recognition.

Is your organization in the market for a new or revamped SharePoint Intranet? If yes, how will you make it happen? Do you bring in a team of developers and start developing it from scratch, or do you buy an off the shelf Intranet (Digital Workplace)? Maybe you take SharePoint "as-is" and tweak a few things here and there? Making this decision can be hard and a lot of factors need to be taken into account such as : Licensing / Ownership (What can I change?) Cost (How much will it cost me?) Requirements (What do you actually need?) Branding (How important is it to have your corporate "look and feel"?) and much more. Today, Nick will be hosting Matthew Bailey, Sam Marshall and Paul Gallagher in a special live show titled "Should I build or buy my next Intranet?". Time : 5pm UTC Where : Online Cost : As always, it's complimentary, but we'd love a Tweet to help share it. If you need to see a little more about what the guys will be discussing check out Matthew's awesome post and then see you here shortly!

Have you ever wondered why your company hasn’t truly embraced and fallen in love with SharePoint? Implementing SharePoint is no mean feat, so it can be really frustrating if it doesn’t achieve the initial immediate impact you expected. However, to ensure a successful SharePoint implementation (online or on-premises), there are a few key things you can do right now to get back on track and put some serious smiles on faces. Join our panel of experts on today’s Collab365 Live Show to learn how they tackle the problem of user satisfaction and adoption.

SharePoint Summit Reaction with Microsoft’s Mark Kashman (Senior Product Marketing Manager), live from the Microsoft Redmond Campus. For just over 50 minutes, hosts Nick Bertolli and Andy Talbot were joined by Microsoft’s Mark Kashman and  dived deeper into the announcements at the virtual SharePoint Summit from the week before, covering SharePoint Online & On-Prem, Yammer, PowerApps, Power BI, OneDrive, and Teams. We also took audience questions from the sidebar chat, and discovered more insight into where Microsoft are taking SharePoint. By attending this session you will learn: Gain more insight into where Microsoft are taking SharePoint. Learn from 2 people that work on the product in Microsoft HQ, Redmond. Find out who won the 2 Tickets to the Office 365  Engage Conference.

Andy Talbot and Nick Brattoli were joined by Adam Levithan (Metalogix) and Jasjit Chopra (Penthara Technologies) to discuss matters relating to Hybrid SharePoint.  Watch this show to understand more on: - What is Hybrid SharePoint? - Compelling reasons to go Hybrid (and not ‘all in’ to O365) - Challenges of hybrid vs “All in” (cost, complications, versioning, adoption issues?) - How do (on premises) implement hybrid? (Tooling, planning)

Adam Levithan and Jasjit Chopra joined Nick and Andy to tak about Hybrid SharePoint. To watch the show in full go here : https://collab365.community/ep5-collab365-live-show-hybrid-sharepoint-april-18th-5pm-utc/

Show hosts, Andy Talbot and Nick Brattoli discussed Microsoft Office 365 Groups with Alex Pearce (Founder BFC Networks) and Mark Stokes (CTO at Attollo).

Andy and Mark were joined by Richard Moe (Program Manager for Microsoft Teams) and also Richard Dizerega (Principal Software Development Engineer at Microsoft). If you are interested in Microsoft Teams then this is unmissable.

Christina Singletary, besides being one of the most AWESOME people at Microsoft, is also responsible for producing articles, videos and courses to help you learn what you need to know. – She also knows a thing or two about certifications and learning paths. Here are the questions that were asked during the session with a brief overview of Christina’s answers: Release cadence for new features is now monthly, how do you keep up with the changes? We catch up with the internal development teams every other week to ensure that learning content is kept up to date. How many people work within the learning team? After recently merging with another team there are currently around 150 in the team split into areas such as Productivity, Windows, Azure & Academic each focusing on specific areas. Christina’s team, Cloud Productivity, contains 7 and oversees Office 365, Skype, Exchange and SharePoint. Please can you provide a short overview of the Certification pass process. Certifications are constantly refining and we are trying to simplify the approach to make sure people can acquire the skills they need to level up in their career to stay on top of the certifications they need for their industry. In terms of SharePoint there is one exam (rather than the usual 2) mainly due to the fact that SharePoint 2013 and 2016 were fairly similar with few architectural changes and mainly feature changes so the certifications were consolidated into 1. It also contains more components relating to hybrid as Christina thinks that a level of understanding of this is really important. What drives the naming conventions for the certifications, e.g. MCSE Productivity Solutions Expert SharePoint is just one Productivity tool with Office 365 offering lots of other ways to aid collaborative working whilst also helping productivity. Please can you describe how you provide training resources at the moment. So if someone were to go onto Microsoft Learning, what would their journey look like? Within our team we are currently creating very diverse tracks moving content from MVA into edX to develop learning paths that allow students to learn in their own time. So as we bring productivity into the mix we have to decide what core learnings are required for Solutions Expert or Solutions Associate accreditation to help them prepare for the examinations. Some of the short bits of learning available on MVA are specific to a product (SharePoint, O365, OneDrive etc.) whereas deeper more committed learning is available on edX. There are currently 5 SharePoint courses that take up the 5 broader topics that form part of the exam. In April 2 hybrid courses will be released which will include labs to provide hands on focussed type of learning. There are also courses available for Office 365 (4 courses) courses have just been released for Skype and exchange. Is mock still available Yes, it’s still available for those people who prefer more of a classroom learning experience Is there a seamless link from the courses you mentioned on MVA to those on edX (edX.org)? We are currently working with MVA to do this, a new 8 hour recording with Brian Alderman for Workload Optimisation will be available in MVA which will then provide jumping points into edX. We are also getting content from the product teams currently 5 micro courses (between 5 & 30 minutes long) are being created with lots of other things scheduled for release in the spring. How do you keep track of the popularity of courses? Also how do you progress course content due to demand? We try to stay on top of all the data but are really interested in what people use the courses for, as this really determines their usefulness.

The very first Live Show where we joined by Mark Kashman from Microsoft. They talked a lot about what's new and also what features are coming with Office 365.