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M365Cabo – The Modern Workplace Architecture is Flat!
This presentation was presented by Joy Apple and Jay Leask at M365 Friday Cabo San Lucas #M365Cabo, Friday, November 11, 2021. #M365Cabo was a unique hybrid conference in which both English and Spanish-speaking presenters shared content both virtually and joined together in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, to present to a virtual audience of over 500 registrants.
#OTSTWIT Viva Insights with Stephanie Donahue – Episode 38
This week Jay & Craig are joined by Stephanie Donahue, founder of The PAIT Group and Microsoft Regional Director and MVP, to discuss Viva Insights. Often confused as a “big brother” tool, enabling organizations to see what their employees are doing with their time; Viva Insights is designed to make those very statistics more generalized,… Continue Reading →
#OTSTWIT What’s New in Teams? October 2021 Edition – Episode 37
This Week in Teams, Craig and Jay jump into the October 2021 Microsoft Teams Team product blog where ALL the goodies that were announced for commercial and US Government tenants. We jumped into the Government announcements first, because Jay wanted to and because for the first time in forever, there seem to be a lot of them. We discussed how often times the Government tenants feel left behind in all the great teams news, but now it seems Microsoft is trying hard for speedier delivery times. Then we jumped through all of the end-user focused features, and a few management features, throughout the commercial tenants.
Buzzkill E18 – What is Ransomware with Yehudah Sunshine – IT Security Series
Yehudah Sunshine is the Chief Evangelist at ohttps://www.odi-x.com/dix, a Content Disarm and Reconstruction specialist in the world of cybersecurity. Continuing the IT security series, Yehudah brings a base-line understanding of ransomware, a greater-than 30 year old technological trade, which required the physical acceptance and use of floppy disks, and now it hardly requires the installation of an app or opening of the wrong email. Join Yehudah on this episode as we learn about Ransomware’s history and why you need to pay attention to it.
#OTSTWIT Viva Intro with Eddie Lee – Episode 36
This episode is the first in a 6-part series where Craig and Jay look into Microsoft Viva, the new Employee Experience platform that brings together communications, knowledge, learning, resources, and insights in the flow of work.
They are joined by Eddie Lee, the EduTech North America lead for AvePoint, in discussing Connections, Topics, Insights, Learning, and Ally.io, Viva’s four core modules and its soon-to-be fifth, announced as a recent acquisition by Microsoft.
#OTSTWIT What’s New in Teams? September 2021 Edition – Episode 35
This Week in Teams, Craig and Jay jump into the September 2021 Microsoft Teams Team product blog where ALL the goodies that were announced for commercial and US Government tenants
Buzzkill E17 – Why Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) with Thomas Heinz – IT Security Series
In this episode of Buzzkill, Thomas Heinz joins Hunter and Jay to continue the identity discussion. This time, we dig in and talk about the importance of MFA and even uncover a little of the mystery of why it often feels like we’re either getting constant requests for an MFA check or following no distinguishable pattern.
Either way, Thomas, Jay, and Hunter dig deep on this one and try to keep this as non-technical as possible while deep diving into a highly technical topic. Join us, and let us know what questions you have so we can get you answers!
#OTSTWIT Live at SharePoint Fest Chicago with Andy Huneycutt
July 26-30, 2021, marked the first wholly-in-person conference for the SharePoint community in a l-o-n-g time. While only a couple hundred people attended, the attendees and speakers alike all seemed to agree that in-person was very much missed. To kick off the live podcast recording, Craig and Jay discussed the conference and some of their presentations, with a focus on SharePoint to SharePoint Online Migration and the importance of Information Architecture as you change versions. They were then joined by Microsoft Office Apps & Services MVP William “Andy” Huneycutt to discuss his on-the-go-ready production studio for virtual training and web meetings.
Buzzkill E16 – Everyday Security with Ryen Macababbad – IT Security Series
In this episode, Ryen Macababbad, Microsoft America’s Lead for Customer Architecture and Engineering, breaks security down to the basics with the CIA Triad – Confidentiality, Integrity, Security.