Some 12 hours ago (4.30am New Zealand time) I joined Microsoft’s live broadcast of its Future of SharePoint event. A few select people were actually in San Francisco for the event, and apparently 16,999 people joined me in watching the live online feed of the event. There are […]
In a conversation about the application of Delve Analytics, Ryan Fuller shares a story of how the tool was used to identify the overall time spent every year for one weekly executive status meeting (from 6:15 in the video above). The numbers were: – 7000 direct hours by […]
In an article that’s almost four years old, Matt Gervais talked about five reasons Exchange shops delay Office 365 migrations. Some of the issues he raised have been addressed (re #1 – GE), and others remain problematic, although generally less so. What I found most interesting, however, was […]
On Tuesday next week I’ll be hosting the third meeting of the Office 365 for Business Meetup in Christchurch. The topic is profiling employee expertise in Office 365: In all organisations the Ghostbusters question is asked everyday: Who you gonna call? The answer is not usually the one […]
At a recent meeting in Christchurch one of the participants grumped about his experiences with moving to Office 365, and in particular OneDrive for Business. He was the owner of a small business, and he had moved all of his files into OneDrive for Business (which if I […]
The first meeting of the recently rebranded Christchurch SharePoint User Group – now Christchurch Ignite – is meeting on April 5. There are two sessions in the two hour meeting: Session 1: University of Canterbury’s Collaboration Roadmap – Tom Norcliffe Tom Norcliffe, Information and Records Manager from the […]
The second meeting of the Christchurch Office 365 for Business group is on next week. Last month we looked at and discussed the Office 365 offering from Microsoft; this month we are looking at the opportunity to use Office 365 to enable hands-off IT services. The meeting is […]
A presentation in August 2016 at the Digital Workplace Conference 2016 in New Zealand, on Taking a Strategic Approach to Office 365.
Over the past year I have been doing a lot of work around the effective use of Office 365, and have been wanting to develop a group of people in Christchurch who are interested in making the most of Office 365 in their businesses and organisations. With the […]
Tony’s comments in Predicting the world of Exchange in 2016 about the cadence of updates to Office 365 caught my eye, as he expresses one of my concerns with the offering: I expect Microsoft will throttle back the number of changes introduced into Office 365 during 2016. At […]
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