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Joe Schurman teaches from his deep experience in the software, machine learning, AI, and processes that organizations need today as they transition to data-driven technology companies. He names some of the cloud services and tech tools he uses to lead clients to start with a user case, break it into stories,  build a team led by the solution owner, assign the stories to developers to build, and iterate product demos until the Minimum Loved Project (MLP) is achieved. Joe offers observations on investing the “right” amount of time in projects, and wisdom on developing a learner mindset.   Key Takeaways [2:06] Joe Schurman is a 2nd-degree black belt in Kung Fu. He once judged a competition in Las Vegas. He has four children; two daughters and two sons. [2:57] Joe is an expert on the fringes of what we can do with computing technology. What we can do changes every day. In the past couple of years, from an AI perspective, with data and automation, it's taken leaps and bounds. [4:30] We're still pretty far away from general AI, despite Sophia, an AI robot that was granted Saudi Arabian citizenship in 2017. Today's AI depends on the programming we give a machine and its interpretation and output. Joe's focus is narrow or weak AI. His business colleagues call it magic. Computer vision is an area he loves. [5:45] Joe uses a lab environment across Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services. The capabilities that have come up in the last year are “just insane” with what you can do with computer vision and building libraries of what the machine can see. [6:06] Joe loved seeing a computer vision capability demonstration at AWS re:Invent of tracking every NFL player on the field and predicting injuries and other types of output and insights in real-time. The machine used narrow AI to access a library seeded with “a ton” of data to interpret the action. [7:15] What you can do with this technology comes down to the data that you feed the engine. Think about the amounts of data that organizations have to sift through to generate reflective or predictive insights. Auto machine learning helps organize the data into useful information such as anomaly detection in software engineering. The data can also come from tools like GitHub and Jira. [8:25] Joe did a fun computer vision project on UAPs for the History Channel, working with some of the nation's top military leaders, building a library of video and audio data to be able to detect unidentified aerial phenomena that were not supposed to be entering our airspace, and curating that library. [10:06] AI started with the idea of speeding up processes, such as getting an app to market faster or gathering insights quicker to make business decisions more timely. [11:28] AI can enhance human performance. Joe starts by finding people who know how to fail fast; to get a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) out the door. Solutions such as quality engineering automation, test automation, and monitoring services for DevOps detect bugs and performance issues quickly and ensure that the quality of the team is sound.[12:47] Joe notes the importance of individuals performing, contributing to, and collaborating as a team. Set your organization and standards governance up first. Look for a platform of technology to leverage that enables you to build and tinker. Finding the latest and greatest tool is no good unless it provides the right level of collaboration with their platform and connection to different processes. [14:53] When introducing ML to an organization, start with discovery, to understand the culture and talent within the organization. How are they communicating today? Joe sees the biggest gap between data scientists and data engineers. Projects tend to fail without collaboration, regardless of the tech. If the data scientists don't understand the domain, then the platform is irrelevant,[17:28] Joe stresses the need for a methodology in place to make any of these aspirations work for your organization. After discovery, there's an align phase. Focus on the outcome and the use case. The solution owner is crucial. The solution owner leads the technology team and brings them together around the client's outcome to develop that use case.[18:12] If you can't take an actual use case and break it down into bite-sized chunks or user stories, then the project will never be on the right track. Start with the use case to mitigate risks. Break the use case into user stories. Match the user stories with the number of engineers that can develop a number of user stories within a given time frame. [18:38] Those user stories given to the engineers are deducted into Story Points, in the Agile Process of engineering software. Price Waterhouse Coopers (PcW) has taken it to the next level, being able to do Engineering as a Service, being able to do it at scale, and being able to pivot quickly.[18:58] Joe explains what can happen if you have a great idea, take three to six months to break down the use case, and fill all the requirements, but hand it off to the Dev team that has no idea what the use case is: you get irrelevant software that doesn't tie back to the outcome! [19:22] Keep the solution team engaged in building the bridge between the subject matter expert stakeholders and the engineers. Every two weeks, demonstrate the iteration or program increment you have built. Does it match the outcome? Does it provide any relevance? Then take the feedback and figure out what happened in that iteration. Fix errors. You will build a product that has value to launch. [20:45] Communicate a lot, so all the people are on the same page! When you have stovepiped organizations where the departments don't talk to one another, you waste time, effort, and money building a product no one will use. One of Joe's colleagues, José Reyes, uses the term Minimum Lovable Project (MLP), where people rally around the outcome, not just the tech. [22:33] What skills and knowledge will the leaders of PwC need to endure for the next five years? Joe says first are character and attitude; people that have a hunger to build something, with a fail-fast mentality, and that are excited to learn constantly, that read every day and learn new technology. [24:27] Then know the tools. Documents exist on the internet for every solution and there is access to services like GitHub to download projects and starter templates without being an expert but just reading the README file and installing the base-level template, learning as you go, and as you tinker. That's way more valuable than coming in as a book-smart expert in a specific product or technology. [24:57] When it comes to tooling, there are products like the Atlassian platform with Confluence and Jira. For an AI stack, Joe typically works with AWS, GPC, and Microsoft, more so on the Amazon side with AWS AI tools, like Rekognition, Glue DataBrew, Redshift ML, Comprehend, and more. Amazon, Microsoft, and Google produce so much documentation and certification to get you up to speed. [26:30] Judgment, wisdom, and character will not be replaced by AI anytime soon. There's still room for philosophy in leadership. There are tools and technologies to speed up the processes, but not the individuals. There are no general AI solutions out yet to replace a pod of application developers, designers, and solution owners to execute a successful MVP or MLP out the door for a client. [27:55] Advice to CEOs: Be patient and understanding. Be willing to fail fast. Support tinkering and R&D, even if the project doesn't work out. Organizations are generally realizing that today they need to be data-driven, technology companies but there is still hesitance over the risk that needs to be taken. [30:03] Why would an insurance company or other traditional company need R&D? Look at Loonshots, by Safi Bahcall for some ideas about R&D. [30:56] Joe shares how he got to this point in his career. He wanted to play baseball but started at Compaq (now HP) when he was 18, writing scripts in Unix and other environments. Just being able to make certain changes to help clients get products faster and seeing the quick response from the outcomes felt like a home run to him! [31:49] Years later, Joe went on his own, with a vision to create telehealth before telemedicine was a thing, using Skype for Business and Microsoft Lync, enabling an API for that. Seeing people connect through a technology he had built, replaced the need to be a baseball star! Joe is grateful for the break he got at a young age and enjoys his work. [33:22] When Joe first started, he was trying to be the smartest person in the room, seeing the instant gratification of making code snippets that tested successfully. Eventually just building the app wasn't enough for him. He got the dopamine hit from seeing users interacting with his code and seeing its value. [34:58] Joe's mentors include many people he worked with. X. D. Wang at Microsoft Research inspired him to tinker, build, and focus on the short-run more than the long-run. Randeep Sing Pal at Microsoft Unified Communications was another great mentor. Also Steve Justice and Chris Mellon, in terms of character and collaboration. Joe shares how they mentored him. [37:23] Jan says something we forget about technology is that there are a lot of failures and attempts before the success hits. We have to be mindful of that as leaders to give people time and space to do really creative, cool things. [38:01] Joe appreciates the opportunity to discuss these things. Joe spent a lot of his career building software solutions that were way ahead of their time. It's frustrating to see telemedicine so successful now, but not when he attempted it. He had to learn to let go. It's not just about releasing bleeding-edge tech; you've got to find some value associated with it to resonate with the end-user. [39:31] Always think about the outcome and understand your audience first. And then be able to supplement the back end of that with bleeding-edge technology, development, tinkering, failing fast, and all the things that go with software engineering. Also, be humble! Get perspective from outside your bubble to build a better solution and be a better person. [40:49] WHenever you're setting out to build anything, start with a press release! Write a story of what it would look like if it were released today. Then just work back from there!   Quotable Quotes “There are so many new and cool technologies and innovations that are coming out at the speed of thought, which are pretty fascinating.” “I've been in real cloud engineering for about a decade, and from an AI perspective, with data and automation, over the past five to 10 years, in terms of running on a cloud environment, and it's just taken leaps and bounds.” “You've got to be able to connect that [data] environment to a use case or an outcome. If you can't do that and you can't enable a data scientist to understand the domain, then the data platform is irrelevant. I see a lot of performance issues occur because of that disconnect.” “If you can't take an actual use case and break it down into bite-sized chunks or user stories, then the project will never be on the right track.” “In this industry, you're constantly learning; constantly reading. I'm reading every day and learning about new technology every day and how to apply it and how to tinker with it. I need people on the team … that have that ability or that hunger to tinker and learn.” “Transitioning from a ‘knower' mindset to a ‘learner' mindset was the biggest shift for me.” “Always think about the outcome and understand your audience first. And then be able to supplement the back end of that with bleeding-edge technology, development, tinkering, failing fast, and all the things that go with software engineering.”   Resources Mentioned Joe Schurman, PwC Joe Schurman on LinkedIn PwC Sophia robot granted citizenship I, Robot film Weak AI Google Cloud Platform Microsoft Azure Amazon Web Services AWS re:Invent GitHub Atlassian Jira Unidentified, The History Channel José Reyes, PwC The Shackleton Journey Atlassian Confluence AWS Rekognition AWS Glue DataBrew AWS Redshift ML AWS Comprehend Steve Justice on LinkedIn Chris Mellon Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries, by Safi Bahcall  

Michael is currently on a 6 year run as a Microsoft MVP and is a Microsoft Solutions Advisor & Partner Evangelist at LaMontagne Solutions.

Randy Chapman is Head of Consulting at Enablit and a Microsoft MVP for Office Apps & Services.

This week the Gentlemen discuss animal husbandry, sibling rivalry, and fun with combustibles. Other topics include: · Charlie the Horse · Head trauma and childhood acrobatics · Video conference shenanigans · Microsoft Lync product improvements · Run-ins with the law · Dancing the Fishstick · Tales from the sea · Burner toilets · Moon boots · Potato guns · Tree houses · Zip lines · Go karts · Dog breeders · Juevos rancheros · Whitey tighties The Gentlemen this week include Brian, Gabe, Marshall, and Ryan.

Many of the human challenges of remote setups are the same no matter the size, age or type of organization. But large, long-established entities face particular issues in introducing and encouraging virtual-work arrangements. Jared Goralnick, Innovation Fellow at the Department of Health and Human Services, Founder & CEO at AwayFind, and as of recently, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft Lync, will discuss the key elements to focus on when encouraging distributed teamwork in an organization with thousands or even hundreds of thousands of employees who are accustomed to working onsite

Hosts: Pat Richard, John Cook, and Ståle Hansen. Topics in this episode include: Exchange: Network ports for clients and mail flow in Exchange 2013 iOS 8.2 has been released Using the Hybrid Configuration Wizard in Exchange Server 2013 (Part 2) How and when to decommission Exchange Hybrid The Office 2016 Mac Preview is here! The Exchange Server 2013 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager has been updated A Guide to PowerShell for Lync and Exchange Online Be the first to learn what's next for Exchange and Office 365 at Microsoft Ignite Free Load Balancer - KEMP Virtual LoadMaster Office 365: Use Windows PowerShell cmdlets to enable OneDrive sync for domains that are on the safe recipients list Office 365 for Exchange Professionals Office 365 Partner Admin app Making Clutter in Office 365 even better Azure AD Premium (and EMS) available for partner use Lync and Skype For Business: Getting rate limiting warnings for auto-discovered partners on your Lync edge (event id 14603) March 2015 update for Lync for Mac 2011 14.0.11 (KB3037358) How do I control the Lync and Skype UI with the Skype for Business client Managing the Skype Client UI in Skype for Business Set up Two-Armed Kemp VLM as Reverse Proxy/HLB for Lync 2013 Latest Visual C++ 2012 update (11.0.61030) won't let Lync Resource Kit or Debugging Tools install March 10, 2015 update for Lync 2013 (KB2956174) Lync Monitoring Reports Decoder Updates Lync Server 2013 Management Pack LS Storage Service event 32054 after you enable Lync 2013 Mobility in an Exchange 2010 environment Measure your conferencing adoption today with SQL QoS Calculator v1.2 Update to Lync 2013 mobile app (v5.8, secure app settings, bug fixes) Database Mirror Manager update Being a UC Superhero with Lync QoE Superpowers Using Lync like a LyncPro: Call Monitor Pro for Skype for Business and Lync: Enhancements and Extensibility Reviews: Book - Lync Server Cookbook Events: Microsoft Ignite Registered for the Event Zero Ignite 2015 party yet? Be there for the official release of Dossier for Lync V5.0 Lyncday becomes skypedays! UCBUG Meeting May 13th UCDAY UK - 28th Sept by by Andrew P, Steve, Jason Wynn, Iain Smith, Adam Gent and Tom A Download or subscribe to this show at TheUCArchitects.com. For additional show notes, visit the summary page for this episode. Running time: 01:25:12 Sponsor: This episode is sponsored by Event Zero. The Dossier Lync product family is an integrated suite of functionality designed specifically to enable organization-wide analytics for Microsoft Lync environments. Create actionable intelligence for the organization about the Lync environment and its utilization. Check them out at eventzero.com.

Hosts: Steve Goodman, Pat Richard, Dave Stork, John Cook, and Michel de Rooij. PIN lock and other updates to Outlook for iOS and Android, Exchange 2013 and Exchange 2010 Coexistence with Kerberos Authentication,Training Course: High Availability for Exchange Server 2013,Broken IMAP on Exchange 2013 and how to fix it,Windows Mobile does not support your new SSL certificate, Introducing New-ExchangeWebsite for Exchange 2013, A quick look at the Sunrise Calendar app, RBAC Manager R2 for Exchange, BitTitan offers Nuix-as-a-service, PowerShell for MigrationWiz updated, Sign in page branding and cloud user self-service password reset for Office 365, A better way to recover a mailbox, Automated Hybrid Troubleshooting Experience, Shared Mailbox Sent Items Changes Coming to Office 365, How Groups could be so much better, Using the Hybrid Configuration Wizard in Exchange Server 2013, Office 365: Deployment Content Moving, Azure AD Sync Service Updated, Pausing Music When On A #Lync Call - Using the Client SDK, Lync Client 2013 – Disable Customer Experience Improvement Program, New update for Lync Environment Report now supports custom Word document templates, Lync Server 2013 Control Panel crashes when you access the Route tab under the Voice Routing tab, Lync client may connect to a non federated partner, even if you though it should not, HP to buy Aruba?, Persistent Chat – December 2014 CU – 500 Internal Server Error, February 2015 Cumulative Update for Lync Server 2013, Lync / Skype for Business Photo Editor Version 1.0 available now!, Do you need a Lync Server license for every Lync Server role--or is this just a Lync licensing myth?, Enabling Group Paging on Polycom VVX Phones for Lync or Skype, Issues with Unified Contact Store in combination with Lync on-premises and Exchange Online, Deep Dive into Set-CsPinSendCAWelcomeMail, Skype for Business and Lync troubleshooting 101, Update to Skype for Business / Lync Validator KHI reader. Longer list of counters + graphs, events, and more. Download or subscribe to this show at TheUCArchitects.com. For additional show notes, visit the summary page for this episode. Running time: 01:12:37 Sponsor: This UC Architects episode is sponsored by Instant Technologies, experts in enterprise click-to-chat and eDiscovery solutions, Instant Technology announces Instant Chime for Microsoft Lync. Transform your service desk with Chime and move your support operations from endangered species to wise enterprise. Start your Chime trial at www.addchime.com and join the conversation on Twitter via @teaminstant.

Hosts: Pat Richard, Johan Veldhuis, John Cook, Justin Morris, and Tom Arbuthnot. Exam 70-342 reference, Office 365 Groups, Updating Domain Functional Level,Single click mailbox conversion, Exchange 2013 public folders, multiple vdirs in Exchange, Azure features coming, What's new in Office 365, Lync client update, Sefautil and shared line appearance, review of Jabra Evolve 80, Lync Validator, Lync User Manager, OWAS update, Lync client add-ons, Lync Server Cookbook, Skype For Busiess notes, Getting IMs when stuff happens, Lync Server 2010 update, Lync regions, events, and more. Download or subscribe to this show at TheUCArchitects.com. For additional show notes, visit the summary page for this episode. Running time: 01:00:59 Sponsor: This UC Architects episode is sponsored by Instant Technologies, experts in enterprise click-to-chat and eDiscovery solutions, Instant Technology announces Instant Chime for Microsoft Lync. Transform your service desk with Chime and move your support operations from endangered species to wise enterprise. Start your Chime trial at www.addchime.com and join the conversation on Twitter via @teaminstant. Sponsor: ENow is offering all UC Architect listeners a free $50 Amazon gift card when you install Mailscape for Exchange OR Uniscope for Lync. ENow's award winning dashboard help admins quickly and effectively monitor servers and create custom reports. Try Mailscape or Uniscope's Free 21-day trial, get a $50 giftcard and see how ENow makes Admin Life Simplified. Simply visit http://product.enowsoftware.com/trial-mailscape-for-exchange-and-uniscope-for-lync to sign up.

Hosts: Steve Goodman, John Cook and Ståle Hansen. Outlook for iOS and Android, Microsoft Ignite session catalog available, Get the inside scoop on Exchange at Microsoft Ignite, Blocking Outlook App for iOS and Android, Planning and Migrating a Small Organization from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2013, AWS Quick Start Reference Deployment – Exchange Server 2013, Considering an Exchange 2013 DAG without AAP? Careful!, Using a Microsoft Azure VM as a DAG witness server: Exchange 2013 Help, Performance issues or delays when you connect to Exchange Server 2013 that is running in Windows Server, Securing Exchange and Lync 2013 with Multi-Factor Authentication, Exchange Server 2010 Reaches the End of Mainstream Support, Office for Android, Azure AD Improvements, Amazon Workmail, Setting up a multi-forest hybrid Exchange deployment, Office 365 Exchange Online Message Size Onboarding Limit Increased to 150mb, Drive Shipping and Network Based Data Import for Office 365, SfB video interoperability server (VIS), Cumulative Update 10 for Lync Server 2013 released December 31, 2014. Fix for Google Chrome, stability, Lync 2013 Standard Automatic APP CU 10 December 2014, Lync SDN For Dummies – Part 2.1, Lync Admin Tools (free): make configuration, administrative and troubleshooting of Lync easier, Video calling between Skype and Lync is temporarily disabled, What's New in Skype4B: SILK is default codec for P2P sessions + WEBCAST LINK, Synchronise Lync Presence with Skype, Simple Understanding of Lync Windows Fabric Failover, Lync and Skype video calling is coming to your Android and iOS Devices, Passive Auth for Lync 2013 Android mobile client, We've updated Lync for Windows Phone to include additional settings dedicated to voice calls, events, and more. Download or subscribe to this show at TheUCArchitects.com. For additional show notes, visit the summary page for this episode. Running time: 01:26:00 Sponsor: This UC Architects episode is sponsored by Instant Technologies, experts in enterprise click-to-chat and eDiscovery solutions, Instant Technology announces Instant Chime for Microsoft Lync. Transform your service desk with Chime and move your support operations from endangered species to wise enterprise. Start your Chime trial at www.addchime.com and join the conversation on Twitter via @teaminstant. Sponsor: ENow is offering all UC Architect listeners a free $50 Amazon gift card when you install Mailscape for Exchange OR Uniscope for Lync. ENow's award winning dashboard help admins quickly and effectively monitor servers and create custom reports. Try Mailscape or Uniscope's Free 21-day trial, get a $50 giftcard and see how ENow makes Admin Life Simplified. Simply visit http://product.enowsoftware.com/trial-mailscape-for-exchange-and-uniscope-for-lync to sign up.

Teaching math online to visually impaired students sounds counterintuitive, but technology has made it possible. In this segment, our guest shares teaching strategies she uses with the visually impaired that can help all students learn math more easily. Follow: @teacherinthebox, @coolcatteacher, @bamradionetwork #edtechchat #edchat #edtech Robin Lowell is the distance education High School math teacher at the Washington State School for the Blind, located in Vancouver, WA. She teaches synchronous online math classes using Microsoft Lync to students located on campus and from around the Western States from her home in Issaquah, WA.

MSM 293:  New Year’s Rememberlutions! Jokes You Can Use: Eileen Award: Twitter: Pete Jabbour, Julie George Advisory: Singer’s Paradox http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2014/12/cutting-through-singers-paradox.html 20 Life Lessons from Harry Potter http://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/20-life-lessons-learned-from-harry-potter.html Rememberlutions It’s called a “rememberlutions” jar and it’ll make you feel good all year. http://www.buzzfeed.com/alannaokun/im-so-im-so-proud-of-you#.ayRB1xJJZ Middle School Science Minute by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or davidbydlowski@mac.com) EQuIP Rubric I was recently reading the November, 2014 issue of "Science Scope," a magazine written for middle school science teachers, published by the National Science Teachers Association. In this issue, I read the Editor's Roundtable, written by Inez Liftig, the editor of Science Scope. Her topic for the month was: EQuIP-A Tool to Help Keep the NGSS on Course." The EQuIP Rubric provides "criteria by which to measure the alignment and overall quality of lessons and units with respect to the NGSS." http://k12science.net/Podcast/Podcast/Entries/2014/12/12_Middle_School_Science_Minute-EQuIP_Rubric.html From the Twitterverse: #mschat every Thursday at 8:00 pm Eastern Standard Time. And as Troy says, “The Twitter never stops!” Rat Hole: Prijector Prijector is a slick and powerful device that directly connects to your Television or to any Projector. It enables one to share their full-screen and present wirelessly from Windows, Linux, Mac, iOS and Android Devices. Prijector makes every meeting room video conferencing capable by running apps like Skype, Microsoft Lync, Google Hangouts and more. https://prijector.com/ Strategies: E-Learning Challenges https://community.articulate.com/search?tags%5B%5D=E-Learning+Challenges Resources: Google Chrome Extensions Every Teacher should try (ALL FREE) http://www.edudemic.com/free-google-chrome-extensions-for-teachers/ Neil deGrasse Tyson Selects the Eight Books Every Intelligent Person on the Planet Should Read by Maria Popova Neat bonus. All of them can be found for free. http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/12/29/neil-degrasse-tyson-reading-list/ Web Spotlight: Why Reading Matters: An Interview with a School Leader http://www.edutopia.org/blog/why-reading-matters-interview-school-leader-bob-lenz In Teaching Algebra, the Not-So-Secret Way to Students’ Hearts http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/12/to-learn-algebra-the-not-so-secret-way-to-students-hearts/ Random Thoughts . . . Personal Web Site

Hosts: Pat Richard, Steve Goodman, Dave Stork, John Cook, Michel de Rooij, and Tom Arbuthnot. Exchange Cumulative Updates and Update Rollups, Outlook updates, Using DSC pull server to deploy, New ebook by our own Paul Cunningham, Michael Van Horenbeeck and Steve Goodman, Office Groups, Clutter, Lync 2103 CU9, Android and Windows Phone mobile client updates, video calling between Skype and Lync, Mac client update, Capturing the output of Get-CsPoolFabricStatus, Windows Server 2012 R2 Web Application Proxy (WAP) as a Lync reverse proxy, Silk in Lync mobile clients, Lync SBAs, Sonus SBC firmware, events, and more. Download or subscribe to this show at TheUCArchitects.com. For additional show notes, visit the summary page for this episode. Running time: 01:14:41 Sponsor: This UC Architects episode is sponsored by Instant Technologies, experts in enterprise click-to-chat and eDiscovery solutions, Instant Technology announces Instant Chime for Microsoft Lync. Transform your service desk with Chime and move your support operations from endangered species to wise enterprise. Start your Chime trial at www.addchime.com and join the conversation on Twitter via @teaminstant. Sponsor: ENow is offering all UC Architect listeners a free $50 Amazon gift card when you install Mailscape for Exchange OR Uniscope for Lync. ENow's award winning dashboard help admins quickly and effectively monitor servers and create custom reports. Try Mailscape or Uniscope's Free 21-day trial, get a $50 giftcard and see how ENow makes Admin Life Simplified. Simply visit http://product.enowsoftware.com/trial-mailscape-for-exchange-and-uniscope-for-lync to sign up.

Lawyers now have the option to purchase Microsoft Office 365 for their small, medium, or big law firms. Microsoft Office 365 is a collection of products and services that can be purchased individually or in bundles known as stockkeeping units (SKUs). The products available include Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Lync, Yammer, Office Suite 2013, and Matter Center. These provide everything from document management, email and contacts, voice and text communication, to a corporate social network. How might these services benefit a law firm and what questions should lawyers be asking? In this episode of The Digital Edge, Sharon Nelson and John Simek interview Microsoft expert and technologist Ben Schorr about the Office 365 services and products as they pertain to use in a law firm. Schorr answers some of the often asked questions concerning the difference between Office 365 and Office Suite 2013, cloud based information storage, collaboration and sharing, and the way that Microsoft's pricing differs from other software providers. He wraps up the interview by explaining the differences between SharePoint and Matter Center for document management and advises lawyers and legal professionals to do online research and work with a Microsoft partner before deciding on products for a firm. There are many options to pick and choose from for a firm of any size, from solo to big law. Ben M. Schorr is a technologist and Chief Executive Officer for Roland Schorr and Tower, a professional consulting firm headquartered in Flagstaff, Arizona with offices in Hawaii and Oregon. He has been involved with management and technology for more than 20 years and a Microsoft MVP for more than 15. He is the author of several books and articles on technology including "The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook," "The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Word," and "OneNote in One Hour." Special thanks to our sponsor, ServeNow.

Hosts: Pat Richard, Steve Goodman, Michel de Rooij, Johan Veldhuis, Andrew Price, and Serkan Varoglu. Mailbox moves and excluded from provisioning, Protecting against rogue administrators, combining O365 tenants, hybrid EAC, in-place hold issues, OWA and EAC in Chrome, unexpected failover in Exchange 2013, PowerShell and background jobs, Snom phone manangement script, Lync vulnerability, LRS update, LPE log viewer script, Lync client updates, Polycom VVX provisioning server script, OWAS and FarmOU setting, high CPU after publishing Lync topology, Office for Mac 14.4.4 update, Lync mobile update, events, and more. Download or subscribe to this show at TheUCArchitects.com. For additional show notes, visit the summary page for this episode. Running time: 00:42:12 Sponsor: This UC Architects episode is sponsored by Instant Technologies, experts in enterprise click-to-chat and eDiscovery solutions, Instant Technology announces Instant Chime for Microsoft Lync. Transform your service desk with Chime and move your support operations from endangered species to wise enterprise. Start your Chime trial at www.addchime.com and join the conversation on Twitter via @teaminstant. Sponsor: ENow is offering all UC Architect listeners a free $50 Amazon gift card when you install Mailscape for Exchange OR Uniscope for Lync. ENow's award winning dashboard help admins quickly and effectively monitor servers and create custom reports. Try Mailscape or Uniscope's Free 21-day trial, get a $50 giftcard and see how ENow makes Admin Life Simplified. Simply visit http://product.enowsoftware.com/trial-mailscape-for-exchange-and-uniscope-for-lync to sign up.

Hosts: Pat Richard, Michel de Rooij, John Cook, and Tom Arbuthnot. PelNet 2.0, Managed availability probes, Skype PowerShell script, LPE firmware, Desktop sharing guide, Lync Common Area Phone script, Lync SDN for dummies, Lync anonymous Response Group limitations, Practical use of CQM, Event Zero broadcast IM tool, Lync Server 2013 Cumulative Update, static routes for Lync edge servers, events, and more. Download or subscribe to this show at TheUCArchitects.com. For additional show notes, visit the summary page for this episode. Running time: 01:00:21 Sponsor: This UC Architects episode is sponsored by Instant Technologies, experts in enterprise click-to-chat and eDiscovery solutions, Instant Technology announces Instant Chime for Microsoft Lync. Transform your service desk with Chime and move your support operations from endangered species to wise enterprise. Start your Chime trial at www.addchime.com and join the conversation on Twitter via @teaminstant. Sponsor: ENow is offering all UC Architect listeners a free $50 Amazon gift card when you install Mailscape for Exchange OR Uniscope for Lync. ENow's award winning dashboard help admins quickly and effectively monitor servers and create custom reports. Try Mailscape or Uniscope's Free 21-day trial, get a $50 giftcard and see how ENow makes Admin Life Simplified. Simply visit http://product.enowsoftware.com/trial-mailscape-for-exchange-and-uniscope-for-lync to sign up.

Hosts: Steve Goodman, Pat Richard, Ståle Hansen, and Tom Arbuthnot. Microsoft court orders, Unified Technology Event, Exchange log level script, lingering entries for Exchange, Outlook 2013 and MAPI over HTTP, Exchange hybrid config wizard, Microsoft offering free migration services, signatures in O365,3rd party data encryption, Building a Lync lab,Make way for Skype?, Lync policies via group membership, Lync conferencing dial-in display script, Lync 2013 watcher node, Plantronics As A Service, Snom config manager, Lync CU for LPE devices, Microsoft picks 911Enable, Lync backup and restore tool, Polycom UCS 5.1, Review of Logitech cc3000e, events, and more. Download or subscribe to this show at TheUCArchitects.com. For additional show notes, visit the summary page for this episode. Running time: 01:44:39 Sponsor: This UC Architects episode is sponsored by Instant Technologies, experts in enterprise click-to-chat and eDiscovery solutions, Instant Technology announces Instant Chime for Microsoft Lync. Transform your service desk with Chime and move your support operations from endangered species to wise enterprise. Start your Chime trial at www.addchime.com and join the conversation on Twitter via @teaminstant. Sponsor: ENow is offering all UC Architect listeners a free $50 Amazon gift card when you install Mailscape for Exchange OR Uniscope for Lync. ENow's award winning dashboard help admins quickly and effectively monitor servers and create custom reports. Try Mailscape or Uniscope's Free 21-day trial, get a $50 giftcard and see how ENow makes Admin Life Simplified. Simply visit http://product.enowsoftware.com/trial-mailscape-for-exchange-and-uniscope-for-lync to sign up.

Hosts: Pat Richard, Michel de Rooij, Dave Stork, John Cook, Ståle Hansen, Andrew Price, and Michael van Horenbeeck. Special Guest:Tony Redmond Alternate ID, downtime, and roadmap for Office 365, Exchange antivirus, virtualizing Exchange, and Exchange on Azure, Windows and Mac updates for Lync, using Lync like a LyncPro, CQM, Dial-In number script, SIP Pinger Tool, Lync QoS script, 74-338 class review, and more. Download or subscribe to this show at TheUCArchitects.com. For additional show notes, visit the summary page for this episode. Running time: 01:35:32 Sponsor: This UC Architects episode is sponsored by Instant Technologies, experts in enterprise click-to-chat and eDiscovery solutions, Instant Technology announces Instant Chime for Microsoft Lync. Transform your service desk with Chime and move your support operations from endangered species to wise enterprise. Start your Chime trial at www.addchime.com and join the conversation on Twitter via @teaminstant.

Hosts: Steve Goodman, Michel de Rooij, Johan Veldhuis, Tom Arbuthnot, Dave Stork, and John Cook. Exchange 2013 CU5, 2010 CU6, Exchange storage, DLP with Exchange to OneDrive, LRS update, callback reminder, XenDesktop and Lync, Lync and SQL AlwaysOn, Azure AD sync, and more. Download or subscribe to this show at TheUCArchitects.com. For additional show notes, visit the summary page for this episode. Running time: 01:02:38 Sponsor: The UC Architects are sponsored today by Instant Technologies, experts in enterprise click-to-chat and eDiscovery solutions, announce Instant Chime for Microsoft Lync. Transform your service desk with Chime and move your support operations from endangered species to wise enterprise. Start your Chime trial at www.addchime.com and join the conversation @teaminstant. Sponsor: This episode is also sponsored by Event Zero. The Dossier Lync product family is an integrated suite of functionality designed specifically to enable organization-wide analytics for Microsoft Lync environments. Create actionable intelligence for the organization about the Lync environment and its utilization. Check them out at eventzero.com.

Hosts: Pat Richard, Michel de Rooij, Johan Veldhuis, Tom Arbuthnot, and John Cook. TechEd, Nexthop being retired, Connections, MEC, LyncConf, LPE updates, Lync Wireshark plugin, .local domains, Lync Insights, Lync mobile app updates, Lync IOS mobile app issues, LPE support extended, moving from Lync Online to on-prem, and more. Download or subscribe to this show at TheUCArchitects.com. For additional show notes, visit the summary page for this episode. Running time: 01:00:46 Sponsor: The UC Architects are sponsored today by Instant Technologies, experts in IM archiving, ediscovery and compliance applications for Lync. Learn more and get started in minutes with a free trial at http://www.tryhrauditor.com or follow @teaminstant on Twitter. Sponsor: This episode is also sponsored by Event Zero. The Dossier Lync product family is an integrated suite of functionality designed specifically to enable organization-wide analytics for Microsoft Lync environments. Create actionable intelligence for the organization about the Lync environment and its utilization. Check them out at eventzero.com.

NetIQ AppManager now supports SIP server, allowing you to sell unified communications and VoIP management into enterprises not using Avaya, Cisco and Microsoft Lync.

Wayne Turmel speaker and author, he's also the president of GreatWebMeetings.com, a company that teaches people and companies how to present, sell and lead their people using webinars and tools like WebEx, Microsoft Lync. He's the author of 6 Weeks to a Great Webinar and the writer of TheConnectedManager.com blog  Theodore Banks partner in the law firm of Scharf Banks Marmor LLC in Chicago, where his practice concentrates on general corporate, food industry, and antitrust matters.He is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at Loyola University School of Law, where he teaches Corporate Compliance.Ted has written numerous articles on antitrust, compliance, and legal automation topics, and co-edited the Corporate Legal Compliance Handbook, published by Aspen/Wolters-Kluwer  Will Ashcroft  Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Jumpjet. A lifelong aviation enthusiast with a passion for flying and operations management in rotary wing and private aircraft, Will is a commercially rated helicopter pilot with over 3,300 hours of incident and accident free flight time  Kate White nationally recognized expert on success and leadership and a New York Times bestselling author of several influential non-fiction books on work, leadership, and success, including, I Shouldn't Be Telling You This: How to Ask for the Money, Snag the Promotion and Build the Career You Deserve and Why Good Girls Don't Get Ahead but Gutsy Girls Do. She is the author of the New York Times best-selling Bailey Weggins mystery series, with six titles so far (including So Pretty It Hurts) and two stand-alone thrillers, Hush and The Sixes.Her next stand alone thriller, Eyes on You, will be published next year        

Host: Tim Albright Founder  Guests:  Dawn Meade from Net-AV, Steve Greenblatt of Control Concepts, Mike Faulkner from Avitecture, Nathan Lively author of Sound Design Live, and Josh Srago from ICS. Record Date: 9/6/2013  The world of AV is getting involved with Microsoft Lync. Is this a good thing for the industry? You can now go to the Amazon [...]

Host: Tim Albright Founder  Guests:  Dawn Meade from Net-AV, Steve Greenblatt of Control Concepts, Mike Faulkner from Avitecture, Nathan Lively author of Sound Design Live, and Josh Srago from ICS. Record Date: 9/6/2013  The world of AV is getting involved with Microsoft Lync. Is this a good thing for the industry? You can now go to the Amazon [...]

Host: Tim Albright AVNation Founder Guests: George Tucker from World Stage and Bill Brown of Ideas for AV. Record Date: 2/22/2013  Crestron is getting into the Microsoft Lync game. Red is suing Sony for getting into the 4K game. Is it time to lobby the HDMI Consortium for a Pro HDMI standard? The BBC asks if [...]

Host: Tim Albright AVNation Founder Guests: George Tucker from World Stage and Bill Brown of Ideas for AV. Record Date: 2/22/2013  Crestron is getting into the Microsoft Lync game. Red is suing Sony for getting into the 4K game. Is it time to lobby the HDMI Consortium for a Pro HDMI standard? The BBC asks if [...]

Richard talks to Tom Arbuthnot about how Microsoft Lync impacts business processes. Going beyond 'What is Lync', Tom talks about how the integration of IM, email and voice together presents opportunities for automating workflow. Tom sites the example of a timesheet that follows you around until you fill it in. He also discusses the goal of reducing email by creating opportunities for immediate response using the presence that Lync creates. Ultimately the goal is to see how Lync improves your business beyond just saving money on web seminars. Check out Tom's Lync'd Up Blog for more Lync goodness.

Richard and Greg talk to Doug Splinter from avtex about Microsoft Lync. Lync is the new name and new version of Office Communications Server. Lync, like OCS before it, pulls together telephone, instant messaging, email and collaboration into a common interface and address book. Check out Lync at http://lync.microsoft.com/En-us/launch/Pages/launch.aspx.