Chats are shorter because they already have context but for emails, you often must provide the context so that people can understand the message. Policies do need to be thought through about external access for Chats. MS Teams and channel chats are OK as invitees are created as external users but not for Chats. Marijn outlines the email problems with emails and the problems of losing control and treating the email string as a conversation instead of having… a real conversation. Worth thinking ab...
Apr 06, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 88
These are the links to the things we found cool in Barcelona. Braeburn Podcask https://open.spotify.com/episode/3CTjSOEP9QZpfkAa8358d1 Kate took us to a few new Bars and was a fabulous host visiting 4 great places https://www.airbnb.com/experiences/1757637 Kates first choice was Dr. Stravinsky: https://www.worlds50bestbars.com/the-list/dr-stravinsky.html But we found our spiritual home here at La Whiskeria: https://www.facebook.com/lawhiskeria which became our Barcelona home from Home...
Apr 02, 2022•26 min•Ep. 87
On Monday your team delivers on the change and confirms their ability to deliver change based on the knowledge they have learned. The boys talk about ways to help confirm people are on the right track and suggest creating a community of success. Marijn quotes ‘something he read’ that it takes 21 days to drive change and 90 days to change the old habits. It potentially gives you a timeline for this stage of the ADKAR model. Bribery is discussed, OK a bonus system where savings are identified as p...
Mar 23, 2022•29 min•Ep. 86
Having the ability to change or do something is about proving yourself. Knowing something and delivering something is different. In a setting such as Adoption and Change management, the proof is in the delivery. Where the Individual provides that have the Awareness, Desire and knowledge but now prove their ability through delivery. The boys point out that we cannot finish and move to the R – reinforcement if the Individual has not delivered the change. Demonstrating the ‘Ability to Change is the...
Mar 19, 2022•26 min•Ep. 85
Knowledge as training is discussed in a way that ensures people are ready for the change, what they need to do and prepare for. It is easy to describe knowledge as training, but you need to bring in the desire to want to learn. After making users enthusiastic for change then a holistic learning program shows the organisation’s commitment to supporting the change.
Mar 09, 2022•22 min•Ep. 84
Steve and Marijn continue their journey of shorter discussions on ADKAR focusing on this session on Desire. Within the spirit of Barcelona high on the boy’s mind, this episode is based on the ideas from the Barcelona tapes but finished in Marijn’s front room. Make sure you catch the Postscript at the last minute when Marijn encapsulates ADKAR it is very cool
Mar 06, 2022•23 min•Ep. 83
In this first “Matured” episode, Steve and Marijn go deep on the ADKAR process, taking the first A – Awareness (we didn’t have to look that up, we promise!!) and discuss the why, what and how to make this first step a success when rolling out Microsoft 365. Filled with examples and experience, this is adoption content matured for you to enjoy (responsibly).
Feb 26, 2022•31 min•Ep. 82
In this short form podcast we are talking about the 5 components that make up the ADKAR methodology: What they are, what you need to do, what we think is necessary here and how to measure if you are on the right path. This will serve as a base for our next "Matured" episodes, in which we will look at each of those components in depth.
Feb 25, 2022•19 min•Ep. 81
In this short form 18.50 minute podcast, Steve and Marijn talk from experience about 4 principles to enhance collaboration: Digital affinity, a good adoption process (that also includes the technophobes), tools that have baselined governance and a feedback mechanism for improvement.
Feb 25, 2022•19 min•Ep. 80
Coming to you live from the beach in Barcelona, Steve and Marijn are trying to wrap their heads around first principle thinking. They talk about Primero Principios (PP) and the cause and effect reasoning to get to the core beliefs about a product. Of course Marijn is trying to overcomplicate things.
Feb 24, 2022•11 min•Ep. 79
The first step is to define the migration strategy that ensures you have the User Story associated with the content, locations, and final resting places so that everyone understands the plan that will take several months. Marijn points out that not migration is a migrating strategy and one to consider, although not migration leads to come complexity on the roadmap. Stave points out that the tools are not about Migration, and they agree the scope is about moving active content from the old techno...
Feb 19, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 78
Starting with a conversation about music and movies Marijn and Steve suddenly realise that it is supposed to be a technical podcast with a dose of whisky… not film music. As they realise this and move across to the podcast subject of looking at the Back-to-Basics of data in SharePoint online. Steve pushes listeners to think about how they process data and make it available as data. From a Change and Adoption basis, we teach how to manage documents when we need to decide on the form that the data...
Feb 13, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 77
Steve is not confused by his dyslexia of saying this is episode 67 at all, it might be down to the Uncle Nearest the boys shared as a winter warmer after coming in from the cold. All this before talking about M365 Chicago, mentioning Commsverse https://www.commsverse.com/ again in June same place, and Steve and Marijn turn up on a few of the social photos on the web site. Steve tries to explain to Marijn why his view on Internet is a little screwed and has changed over the years and yes Steve ge...
Jan 23, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 76
Marijn and Steve fail miserably to define content types with a complex 'deep' example first time around but eventually Steve talks about his favourite subject ‘naked Chocolate’ and once you hear this you get a simple definition about what a content type is. The basics are covered to talk about re-usable metadata and then move across to the value of being able to identify specific content across large number of sites. Steve gets pedantic (surprise surprise) about how CT’s are synchronized and cop...
Jan 08, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 75
Marijn and Steve open their Christmas presents from Microsoft and peek of what’s cool and what’s cooler. They touch on the complexity of collaboration, the growth of Adoption and the fact that Compliance is the ugly Christmas sweater that is a little nerdy and growing more complex. Marijn talks about Socks and Beanies with fairy dust on as he talks about the gift if the Microsoft List before discussing if he would walk around with a Scrotum beanie label on his head. Conclusion is that Lists are ...
Dec 24, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 74
Marijn goes Retro in this podcast (quoting Steamy Windows & Mrs Robinson) around how to Iteratively Evolve your M365 installation for the business. Steve #ScrewsUp and tells you a story to help you not do the same and then introduces the concept ‘Plan to Evolve’. This is a process for constant growth and improvement across the business and organisation for M365. Bringing together Baseline Governance and Plan to Evolve will put in place your rise to Rockstar status in your Microsoft 365 proje...
Dec 12, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 73
There is a new MOCA 2.0 framework from Microsoft and Marijn thinks we should do a re-visit. Steve thinks he is right because there are hidden depths that folks need to be aware of. This new Adoption toolset is at the next level building perfectly on the first release. EP72 is really Steve and Marijn standing at the bar and shooting the breeze. With lots of diversions and bar level humor (you have been warned) Steve identifies the subtle levels of change in the MOCA framework that takes it over a...
Nov 28, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 72
Marijn has 2 subjects for discussion in Episode 71. Intranet, using Communications sites to create an ‘intranet’ and the SAFe AGILE process ( SAFe = Scaled Agile Framework ). So, they start with T-Shirt sizes and Steve goes onto explain how T-Shirt sizes allows for an AGILE approach to corporate planning and delivering against a vision in a driven direction. Marijn loves the concept of using Dinosaurs to plan your Microsoft365 roll-out… an interesting podcast! Steve admits towards the end of the...
Nov 11, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 71
Marijn and Steve look at the bigger picture of adoption and transformation and specifically the roles required to deliver Adoption successfully. Assuming the Design, Migration, Change & Adoption and Run stages they build a matrix of the roles and responsibilities required for success. We consider the people and problems that need to be considered at the start. Stakeholders, C-Level, Middle management all become part of the change leadership whilst Architects, Developers Helpdesk, Security, a...
Oct 23, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 70
IDO, Microsoft: Intelligence-Driven Organisation Framework Deloitte: Insight Driven Organisation “Basically almost the same and identical” to be precise. Understanding the metrics https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/admin/productivity/productivity-score The boys eventually start to look at the areas monitored with the productivity Score, ignoring the physical network aspects. They focus on the people aspects to try and make a judgement on the way people are changing. Microsoft has loo...
Oct 10, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 69
After The first in-person conference for 18 months Steve and Marijn talk about the things they learned from the great list of speakers and people they bumped into and the Whisky tour around the Cotswold and Oxford. Eventually tasting the Cotswold Peated Cask and an interview with Connor Teague the Events and Marketing Manager for the distillery telling us about the history and plans for this great English whisky brand. Shout out... Sarah Fenner | Al Eardley | Yannick Reekmens | Tony Woodruff | A...
Sep 25, 2021•58 min•Ep. 68
So after talking about it for over half a year the details of the first Office365Distilled party have been reviewed. September 12th 2021 at 7.30 CET (18.30 UK) so listen in and go to www.marijnandSteve.com to reserve your place. Your chance to win a shot of Swiss Mountain Whisky matured for 7 of it's 11 years in a glacier in Switzerland to give it a complexity of forest fruits on the nose only matched by the awesomely sharp pepper on the finish.
Sep 05, 2021•10 min•Ep. 66
Steve and Marijn talk about their first Face to Face conference in over a year, this is Commsverse… Times may be uncertain, but one thing remains true. There’s a simple power in people coming together. That is why we are committed to delivering an in-person conference this Year. Commsverse is a community conference organised by technology enthusiasts for enthusiasts. We are a laser focused technical conference dedicated to enabling Microsoft Teams for medium to large enterprises. We are the even...
Sep 03, 2021•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 67
Ever wondered what a Whisky might taste like that has been matured for 7 years at -4 degrees on Europe’s biggest glacier? Episode 66 of Office365Distilled tell you exactly what it tastes like. If that is not enough reasons to listen to the podcast, then understanding more about user and management buy into the Microsoft365 change and adoption process might do it for you. We discuss why it’s important to Senior managers to ensure that Awareness if Transparent. That they fully understand the impli...
Aug 17, 2021•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 65
As always there is a hint of rudeness with discussions on how Marijn picks the perfectly sized cigar, but as it is a podcast the joke from Steve about where the cigar goes is lost on the audience. But then the background to the podcast about setting up those pages is discussed. Not defining the information that needs to be displayed but focusing on the tips and tricks to building and managing pages… the main 8 pieces of content. We talk about Dear jeff and how he will be taking our suggestions a...
Jul 17, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 64
A split decision on subjects for Episode 63 sees Steve and Marijn bring both their ideas together. Looking at the key structures that build content architectures, Sites and Structures, Governance and Processes combined with Marijn’s thoughts on the 5 reasons that Business transformation fails and looking at how you can plan for failure and identify the solutions for success. Opinions vary in this podcast with the usual disagreement on Architecture coming first but we hope the different opinions,...
Jul 04, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 63
Have you set up Secure Score?? Office365Distilled takes a high level look at improving your secure score and the big items that you can implement to move your score from the low percentile to more than 60%. “but how does this effect the user?” Is a question that Steve and Marijn cover. We do know that adding security is a balance with the inconvenience cause with additional authentication and speed reduction through encrypting content etc. Mark Vale and Martin Boam creators of Commsverse join us...
Jun 22, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 62
EP61 is a unique episode because amazingly Steve and Marijn finish on time! Whilst looking at the MS Team announcements. We discuss Jeff Teper’s keynote from European SharePoint conference and how he positions Microsoft365. The future of collaboration is discussed looking at Fluid capabilities with such great excitement and the boys discuss recent announcements within MS teams from build. Advice on becoming a MS teams Rockstar is included as well as a slightly longer discussion on Kilchoman Expe...
Jun 05, 2021•53 min•Ep. 61
Steve and Marijn dig down into collaboration for this special episode of the Offcie265 Distilled podcast. The 60th Episode meaning 60 subjects discussed and 60 whiskies tasted. 30+ years ago you only had the ability to share a network drive holding files you and the team needed. Today you have co-authoring, Sharing, Document templates, Improved search capability, live sharing of content and integration of voice, Video and Content. We look at the Corporate Collaborative Roadmap and route your org...
May 24, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 60
There are a lot of things to discuss with regard to your Collaboration journey and which tools should be used for what is a key Decision. Steve and Marijn get down and dirty checking out two of the applications SPO (SharePoint Online) and MS teams. It goes a little like this: 00:00:14 Steve KI kind of hate this whole notification thing in Ms teams. Okay. 00:00:21 Marijn Probably because you're not using it in the right way. 00:00:26 Steve Okay Mr. high and freaking Mighty then why? What am I doi...
May 09, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 59
