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- Turkish Airlines Fail – A Case Study in Terrible Customer Service
This will be one of my rare non-technical travel posts. After departing the European Collaboration Summit 2017, my wife Olivera and I headed to South Africa for a holiday, and to attend the Share Conference in South Africa. Our travel plans got suddenly turned upside down after leaving Zagreb, and ... read more - Yammer Connected Groups – Backfill Now in Progress
Back in March of this year, the Yammer team announced that the integration with Office 365 Groups was rolling out. This organizational construct of becoming part of the Office 365 Groups service had the effect of adding joy and panic at the same time. The newly minted Yammer Group ... read more - The Power BI Premium Pricing Model – The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
On May 3, Microsoft announced sweeping changes to the pricing of Power BI by introducing a new “Power BI Premium” SKU. The announcement itself can be found here, and there a number of other related resources worth that I am listing here for convenience: Distribute to large audiences with Power ... read more - New Research Points to the Strategic Value of Hybrid SharePoint
We recently had the opportunity to play a role in some amazing research led by Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet) and the team from the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University. Our CTO, John White, helped the team understand the survey data through some awesome Power BI reports. As ... read more - Use Power BI to Help Manage Your SharePoint Sites
Note – This article first appeared on April 12, 2017 on the Microsoft Partner Network When it comes to Business Intelligence, SharePoint is most often used as a platform to access dashboards and reports. With the recent availability of the Power BI web part, Power BI joins SQL Server Reporting ... read more - The Results of Our Groups Survey
The results are in from our survey on the organizational impact of Office 365 Groups. I would like to thank all of those who took part, your responses were insightful and in some ways surprising. Thank you for the richness of your comments, as well. We asked six questions ... read more - Snapshot of Our Groups Survey
We’re having some great internal discussions around the initial data from our Groups Survey (which you can take here). While I wouldn’t say that there are any huge surprises, it is always interesting to examine these kinds of results and validate your own thoughts. As I mentioned in my ... read more - The Difference Between Reporting and Analytics is 42
In his novel “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, Douglas Adams envisioned a giant supercomputer named “Deep Thought” that was built to solve the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything. For the 5 people out there that are unfamiliar with the story, I’ll relate the ... read more - The Problem with Navigation in Office 365 Groups
Back in the early days of SharePoint, one of the most pressing issues for the steady growth of SharePoint environments (lovingly referred to as “sprawl”) was the difficulty in navigating these sites. And it wasn’t just that new Team Sites being created, but that you had to wade through ... read more - The Organizational Impact of Groups
Have you noticed an increase in community content around Office 365 Groups? It’s interesting to see the shift in messaging from Microsoft, and the reaction from the community. Initially, there was a lot of push-back from customers and even within the Microsoft MVP community around Groups, which is not ... read more - Enabling the new OneDrive Sync Client for SharePoint
I recently wrote about the fact that the new OneDrive sync client now supports the synchronization of SharePoint libraries, and the benefits that it brings. Since the release however, I have heard from several people that even though they have the new client, their libraries continue to sync with the ... read more - OneDrive and SharePoint – Together Again
A little over a year ago I wrote a post entitled “OneDrive, TwoDrive, ThreeDrive” in which I took a slightly cheeky look of what has become known as the “Next Generation Sync Client” (NGSC) for OneDrive, and its many idiosyncrasies. I then turned that post into a speaking session (Changing ... read more - Analyzing Your WordPress Site with Power BI and Google Analytics
I was recently asked by Christian Buckley what my top 2016 blog posts were. No problem I thought, I just went back to my output for the past year, and pulled out the posts that I knew have had a lot of discussion or impact, and forwarded them on. At ... read more - So, You Can Disable Office 365 Groups After All
After my recent post “You Can’t Disable Office 365 Groups”, I received feedback from a few people, specifically Elaine Van Bergen,Martina Grom and Joe Stocker that some editing controls have been added in through the tenant that allows Group creation to be disabled in the Office 365 tenant, and that ... read more - You Can’t Disable Office 365 Groups
As I’ve discussed before, Office 365 Groups are a very important feature in Office 365, and one that all organizations using Office 365 should fully understand as soon as possible. Groups are either required or they provide important capabilities for every product in the Office 365 stack. However, every organization ... read more
