For almost a decade I have been working in the user adoption area, with numerous blog posts, conference talks and keynotes, client-internal and public workshops, consulting projects, and multiple books the result. In light of the above, I find it very interesting to observe from afar the increased […]
Since its acquisition of Yammer in 2012, an improving level of integration between SharePoint and Yammer has been drip fed from Microsoft. It hasn’t been a speedy integration. Last week Beezy announced two-way integration between Yammer and SharePoint that is a great step up from what’s available from […]
On August 1 a range of prices in the Microsoft ecosystem are going up: – the User CAL for on-premises software (including Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync) is increasing by 13%; and – pricing for enterprise cloud products, including Office 365 and Azure in certain regions, are increasing by […]
In June I will be presenting the User Adoption Strategies Workshop twice in Rotterdam, in partnership with Silverside. The workshop will be presented for two different audiences: – Wednesday June 10, for customers with IBM Connections, SmartCloud, and Sametime. – Thursday June 11, for customers with Microsoft SharePoint, […]
Microsoft announced a series of future and immediate updates for Yammer, with inclusion of Yammer in Office 365 Groups and Yammer signals in the Office Graph as future updates, while the ability to include external people in a Yammer network is available now. I’m pleased to announce a […]
Microsoft gave a sneak peak at the timeframe and focus areas for SharePoint Server 2016. Timeframe is general release in 2Q2016, with a beta in 4Q2015. The areas of focus are: – improved user experiences, with mobile device and on-the-go access front and center, along with tools such […]
Last week Microsoft announced details of Office 2016 for the Windows desktop. The details included new features for Outlook: – We’ve replaced the RPC-based sync with a new Internet-friendly MAPI-HTTP protocol that supports Exchange/Outlook connectivity. – We’ve eliminated the use of foreground network calls to ensure that Outlook […]
Benjamin from Sharegate offers an infographic and blog post on why “migrating” to OneDrive for Business is the wrong way to think about it. I thought this way a pretty good way of describing the problem with doing so: … OneDrive for Business is a way for them […]
Merck has almost finished an 11 month transition to Office 365 from various older Microsoft products and messaging and collaboration tools from other vendors (e.g., IBM, WebEx). The deployment of the new foundation is expected to be completed by mid-April. Here’s the paragraphs in the announcement about the […]
Thoughts on taking a strategic approach to Office 365, and two models to support this. Presentation at the SharePoint User Group meeting in Christchurch.
Michael Sampson 
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