2017-11-09 Biggest fails and best practices using Office 365 in real life projects - Thrive Conference

1. Biggest fails and Best practices
using Office 365 in real life projects
Patrick Guimonet
Microsoft Regional Director - Office Servers and Services MVP
Founder and Owner Abalon
@patricg

2. @patricg
aOS Community
Founder and member
Enterprise Solutions
Architect - AbalonGreater Paris, France
Who am I? Patrick Guimonet
7 times MVP
Office Servers and Services
2 times MS RD
International speaker and
events organizer

3. Who are you?
Business usersArchitects
DevelopersIT Administrators
Executive
sponsors
Service
Administrators
Champions
End-users

4. Microsoft is on mission
Satya Nadella June 25, 2015

6. Latest figures are impressive

7. Some examples of our latest community experiences
• Biggest community event ever organized in France
• January 23rd to 25th, 2017
• In Paris, France
• Budget 100 K€
• 20+ volunteers
• 30+ sponsors
• 120 speakers
• 800 attendees !
• 4 cities in Canada
• February 6th to 10th
• Budget 35 K $CAN
• 4 volunteers
• 13 sponsors
• 30 speakers
• 500 attendees !
➢ http://mscloudsummmit.fr
➢ http://canada.aos.community

8. Office 365 it’s a
little bit like…

9. Agenda

10. The ugly
part!

11. • Detoxification cures for Mail addicts!
Too much mails?

12. MS Cloud Summit mails

13. • One of the best Office 365 advantage
• Used for exchanges with other organizations
• We push it to extreme case when we organize a
community event
External sharing

14. Our experience for MS Cloud Summit
• Planner with external users
was coming
• Teams with external users
was coming
• OneDrive for Business
sharing, ugh…

15. Presentation template sharing

16. New sharing option but…

17. Guest contributor can’t download the deck

18. Slack for #aOSCanadianTour

19. The bad…

20. Positive point:
Breadth of offering

21. Negative point:
Breadth of offering

27. The good!

28. Office 365 the new landscape
https://yos365.wordpress.com/2016/08/29/office365-sharepoint-the-new-landscape

29. OneDrive for Business
• Became the Control center of all your files in Office 365
• You can even sync from several tenants

30. MS Cloud Summit files
• At last a SharePoint synchronization that works !

31. • Should be activated in SharePoint Admin center
OneDrive for Business Pro Tips
The new OneDrive sync client must be version
17.3.6743.1212 or higher.
• Should be activated in SharePoint Admin
center

32. OneDrive Files On-Demand feature
• Introducing OneDrive Files On-
Demand feature
• NEW Windows integration
• Publicly available with the
Windows 10 Fall Creators
Update

33. Skype for business
Up to 250 participants in a Skype
FB meeting, to go beyond, use
➢ Skype Meeting Broadcast

34. • All meetings were done with Skype
MS Cloud Summit follow up meetings

35. Fully understand Skype for business
Old name New name
PSTN Conferencing Audio Conferencing
Cloud PBX Phone System
PSTN Calling Calling Plan
PSTN Consumption Communications Credits
Audio Conferencing extended to Microsoft Team and pay-per-minute offering added for more options on TechCommunity

36. PSTN Conferencing Audio Conferencing PSTN Calling Calling Plan
Fully understand Skype for business
Public Switched Telephone Network

37. With great features:
• Scheduling from Teams
• Join the meeting from
any device
• Record a meeting
• Playback a meeting
And more
BRK3333 MS Ignite
Teams is replacing Skype and become the core
communications client in Office 365

39. TODO: Consistent
content;
Take out Recording
Take out call controls
Add 3d avatars
Marketing review | Microsoft Teams

41. Mobile Meetings – iOS and Android
Immersive video
Content view

42. Office 365 groups is a membership service
• Before • After

43. Office 365 groups are not a tool!
Except on mobile though…

44. SharePoint Publishing made simple, at last

45. Become modern!
• New set of web parts
• Newest webparts
announced at
#SPSummit
Choose the correct page

46. Impressive set of new
Webparts
New and updated web parts
rolling out to SharePoint in
Office 365
Announced at #MSIgnite

47. New communication site
• A full new type of site
Announced

48. Power BI

50. My best tips for mails
• Rules for your inbox
➢ The Three Most Important Outlook Rules for Processing Mail - SCOTT
HANSELMAN
• Prohibit “reply all”
• Use Teams, your phone, Yammer

51. My best tips for choosing the right tool
• The best tool is the one the team will use!
• Use Office 365 groups to structure your collaboration
• But it’s not a tool per se
• Use naming rules for Office 365 groups
• A quick rule of thumb
• Less than 100 person groups  Use Teams
• More than 100 people  Yammer

52. BRK2103

53. Office 365 Groups
Outer LoopInner Loop
Files
Sites
Content
SharePoint
GS09

54. Teams is here! GA March 14th
•
And external access too

55. My best tips for sharing
• Use One Drive for external sharing, seamlessly
Shamelessly ☺

56. These are efficient tools ☺
• OneDrive (with synchronization)
• Skype
• Office 365 Groups
• SharePoint
• Excel Online
• Links with business apps
• MS Teams
• Power BI
• MS Flow
• PowerApps
• …

57. Lots of improvements and simplification are always on going

58. The Office 365 Maslow hierarchy

59. The Office 365 Maslow hierarchy

60. The Office 365 Maslow hierarchy

61. The Office 365 Maslow hierarchy

62. The Office 365 Maslow hierarchy
Checked on
November 8th, 2017 ☺

63. We did it … and a lot of customers too!