Michael on the Go

In this Michael on the Go I discuss the benefits of leveraging Surface Hub facilitated Skype meetings (soon to be Microsoft Teams) for executive friendly collaborative Director meetings. Michael on the Go, and Michael on the Go 360, is a video series, shot on the go, where Michael Gannotti address technology tips, trick, and best practices. While many of these revolve around real world work examples they also cover social media topics as well as home and travel technology. * All views expressed by Michael Gannotti are purely his own and not those of his employer.

In this episode of Michael on the Go I discuss the balancing act between security and productivity. There is always a balancing of risk and reward that needs to take place and the key is achieving the required security while also not impairing users in their ability to collaborate. * All views expressed by Michael Gannotti are purely his own and not those of his employer.

In this Michael on the Go episode I discuss the pervasiveness of data connectivity and it’s nature in undeveloped areas, mobile device pervasiveness, as well as how Microsoft Teams is the perfect fit for such environments. Michael on the Go, and Michael on the Go 360, is a video series, shot on the go, where Michael Gannotti address technology tips, trick, and best practices. While many of these revolve around real world work examples they also cover social media topics as well as home and travel technology. * All views expressed by Michael Gannotti are purely his own and not those of his employer.

In this edition of Michael on the Go I discuss the use of Microsoft’s Office 365 Sway to easily create cross team rich, multi-modality, responsive design, web pages for event capture and publishing. To learn more about Sway visit https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Getting-Started-with-Sway-2076C468-63F4-4A89-AE5F-424796714A8A and/or https://support.office.com/en-us/sway * All views expressed by Michael Gannotti are purely his own and not those of his employer.

In this Michael on the Go I discuss the use of Teams in the creation of a personal portal to simplify not only daily collaboration but the further needs of a single pane of glass to get your work done. * All views expressed by Michael Gannotti are purely his own and not those of his employer.

In this edition of Michael on the Go I discuss my opinion of going all in on core services vs partial implementation to deliver users the best possible experience and derive the most productivity from those same users.

During a recent onsite I met with a customer who was very excited about the prospect of leveraging Teams to improve their collaboration capabilities. The idea of providing a single pane of glass for their users where they could seamlessly chat, hold meetings, share documents, and more was a clear winner in their estimation. The issues that arose however were that they still had their email on premise and had not deployed OneDrive. In both cases they did plan to eventually roll out those services to their employees but that was a longer-term vision. In this edition of Michael on the Go I discuss how Teams leverages other Microsoft best of breed services to deliver an optimal single pane of glass for employee productivity. As a part of that discussion I also discuss how not having certain pieces in place may not preclude Teams use but may influence user experience and solution capabilities.

The other day I participated in an all-day session with a customer who wanted to validate their #Office365 migration plans and initial pilot plans. They had done a great job thinking through the various services and what to roll out when and were looking to deliver maximum value to their users. The only thing that caught my attention was the situating of Teams at the tail end of the rollout in pilot. In this edition of Michael on the Go I discuss leveraging Teams early in a pilot rollout, in a controlled fashion. The use of Teams by the IT organization to facilitate their rollout collaboration and planning provides the ideal real-world experience for IT to get their feet wet and to have a better appreciation for the capabilities of Teams and how to best manage and promote within the organization. You can learn more about Microsoft Teams here https://products.office.com/en-US/microsoft-teams/group-chat-software

Recently when onsite with clients the subject of data retention for legal/compliance reasons has been a frequent topic of conversation. IT Administrators are looking for ways to improve upon their data retention procedures to provide them with a more robust, bulletproof, solutions beyond traditional legal hold. In this edition of Michael on the Go I discuss the use of Office 365 Data Retention Policies and the addition of a Preservation Lock that can ensure that not even Office 365 Tenant Admins can override the set policy. This is vital in light of compliance regulations such as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Rule 17a-4, which requires that after a preservation policy is turned on, it cannot be turned off or made less restrictive. You can learn more about Preservation Lock and Office 365 Data Retention Policies here https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Overview-of-preservation-policies-9c3b1d52-40ce-4ba3-a520-9ae0be15538a

During this past week while onsite with a customer one of their executives lamented that their user experience with collaboration tools was sub optimal. The executive detailed how users had a fragmented experience jumping from application to application just for everyday tasks and that users were unhappy. In this edition of Michael on the Go I discuss how the use of Microsoft Teams can provide a unified “single pane of glass” experience for employees thereby simplifying their experience and increasing productivity. Michael on the Go, and Michael on the Go 360, is a video series, shot on the go, where Michael Gannotti address technology tips, trick, and best practices. While many of these revolve around real world work examples they also cover social media topics as well as home and travel technology. * All views expressed by Michael Gannotti are purely his own and not those of his employer.

During a client onsite earlier this week the topic of compliance, especially in the Healthcare/Life Sciences arena, popped in relation to chat. The customer really liked the unified “single pane of glass” to get work done in Microsoft Teams but they were concerned about how they could ensure that their compliance policies around auditing, retention, etc. were adhered to. In this edition of Michael on the Go I discuss how Microsoft Teams chat adheres to, and leverages, your existing Office 365 compliance setup. Michael on the Go, and Michael on the Go 360, is a video series, shot on the go, where Michael Gannotti address technology tips, trick, and best practices. While many of these revolve around real world work examples they also cover social media topics as well as home and travel technology. * All views expressed by Michael Gannotti are purely his own and not those of his employer.

The other day while onsite with a client in Raleigh NC there was one of those “aha!” moments that I love to see light up with executives when covering Enterprise Digital Transformation with Office 365. This particular “aha!” was precipitated by my coverage of Office 365 Delve and the capability it delivers. As with many organizations Delve was not something IT had pursued yet with vigorous promotion as they were engaged with other projects. However, while I was demonstrating Delve the executive in attendance accessed their corporate Delve instance (of which he was entirely unaware of prior to the session) and instantly found value in finding contact information for an employee he had been unable to find in their corporate directory app the week prior. At this point he become excited as he articulated how the Delve profile was so much richer, and easier to find the information they needed. Additionally, he said it fit in perfectly with a corporate mandate they had to reduce custom appli

In this edition of Michael on the Go I discuss a conversation I recently had with a customer about increasing the employee engagement factor in their use of Yammer for Enterprise YamJams. When Coupled with Skype Meeting Broadcast a Yammer YamJam presents a unique, and powerful opportunity to engage employees, and cut across organizational boundaries for innovation and ideation. Michael on the Go, and Michael on the Go 360, is a video series, shot on the go, where Michael Gannotti address technology tips, trick, and best practices. While many of these revolve around real world work examples they also cover social media topics as well as home and travel technology. * All views expressed by Michael Gannotti are purely his own and not those of his employer.

In this edition of Michael on the Go I discuss the use of Yammer rendered through SharePoint to increase collaboration and site stickiness for users. This is based on a client onsite where the client has successfully done so in a manner that resulted in a sharp uptick in employee engagement. Michael on the Go, and Michael on the Go 360, is a video series, shot on the go, where Michael Gannotti address technology tips, trick, and best practices. While many of these revolve around real world work examples they also cover social media topics as well as home and travel technology. * All views expressed by Michael Gannotti are purely his own and not those of his employer.

In this edition of Michael on the Go I discuss a conversation I have been having pretty regularly with customers. Namely, when do you use SharePoint vs Yammer vs Teams. They actually work together in a synergistic fashion and usage will vary from org to org depending on their own requirements. However having a baseline understanding of some of the logical cutoffs is helpful and I address them in this video. *Michael on the Go is a video series, shot on the go, where Michael Gannotti address technology tips, trick, and best practices. While many of these revolve around real world work examples they also cover social media topics as well as home and travel technology.