Ignite MVP Live Blog : THR2041 How Microsoft does IT: Best practices for your Champion program Monday, October 1, 2018 7:17 AM Martina Grom This session gives you insights from Microsoft IT about how they use their internal Teams Champion program to drive collaboration and communication using Microsoft Teams. The session was delivered by Sara Bush, Sr. Program Manager Microsoft Teams, Microsoft. Sara is a member of the Teams & Voice team in End User Services Engineering, Sara is driving Microsoft Teams adoption internally through the Art of Teamwork Tour training program, the Teamwork Champions program and the EUSE change management effort to bring all Microsoft users into a deep understanding of how Microsoft Teams supports day to day work, increasing collaboration and productivity. Pouneh Kaufman, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft. Pouneh is responsible for the global rollout of Microsoft Teams within Microsoft.Every time I have the chance to listen to a session from Microsoft IT I try to attend. It is valuable and gives you good insights, how a worldwide company with more than 220k employees adopt and implement IT. During my projects I see that there is not a lot of difference in IT planning among large enterprises. Microsoft IT shares insights which can be extremely valuable when you use that in your own enterprise. First Sara and Pouneh talked about why Microsoft moved form Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams. Microsoft Teams helps the organization to get all communication channels together in one place. To drive adoption Microsoft IT runs an internal adoption program around awareness, engagement, measurement, management.Success factors were defined in measurements, like collecting usage data, feedback to gain trust and awareness. The project scope was very clear:Get more than >200k users to use Microsoft Teams and move away from Skype for Business. Success factors showed that it worked:over 55% of all chats happen in Teams, Teams meetings are widely used.Champions feedback measurements: 98% Program satisfaction, 88% Satisfaction Training support. 83% Satisfaction with monthly calls.To drive adoption and usage Microsoft IT used a champions program. First champs came from passionate users which were found within their most active Teams Yammer participants. People wants to be in the know. Microsoft IT developed a training: Art of teamwork. It is a level 100 training for end users, which is available to customers as well. More showcases are available here. The best thing about a Champions program: Champions are bringing in other champions.So what are the Champions give and gets:Gives: Teamwork Training. Teams Yammer Group support. Champions List for organization. promote readiness. Gets : Digital Profile Badge, Digital & Physical Swag. Engage with SME's and the Microsoft Product Group. "I see you, I recognize you, I need you". access to monthly call with product group. Champions need to be visible to end users. The results are impressive:more than 650 Champions, 45 Countries, 90 BuildingsTo find champions use the channels which are available - like Microsoft IT used the Yammer group. They make their Champions recognizable. Further ways to drive adoption worked through Gamification: A little friendly competition. Earn points by hosting internal training. Point system for users development. new badges for new levels. Impacts the performance reviews.What did not work: too much products, different generations, resistance about taking Skype away. Give users a place to talk about that: UserVoice. Yammer community.If you look into bringing a new communication tool into life, look at this usecases!Resources:Slides VideostreamThe Art of Teamwork resource Kit Microsoft365 | Microsoft Teams | Microsoft | MVP | Office365 | Social | Yammer Mediumlink | Permalink | Comments (0) | Post RSS mehr
How to associate an Azure subscription owned by a MSA to your organization's AAD Friday, September 14, 2018 4:00 PM Toni Pohl If you created new Azure subscriptions with a Microsoft Account (MSA), the subscription is managed with an own Azure Active Directory (AAD). This article shows how to integrate such an "external" Azure subscription into your organization's AAD. Azure | Cloud | English | Developer | Microsoft | Microsoft365 | Office365 Mediumlink | Permalink | Comments (2) | Post RSS mehr
Looking forward to Microsoft Ignite 2018 Thursday, September 13, 2018 8:00 PM Toni Pohl In a good week, Microsoft Ignite 2018 will start! Ignite is Microsoft's largest yearly IT conference that will take place from September 24 - 28, 2018 in Orlando, Florida. Ignite will offer about 700+ sessions, insights and roadmaps from industry leaders, and deep dives and live demos on the products you use every day. We are looking forward to a full week to meet customers, partners and friends from all over the world. And we have prepared a bunch of great content we will deliver in our sessions! Azure | Cloud | Developer | English | Event | Microsoft | MVP | Microsoft365 | Office365 | atwork | Yammer Mediumlink | Permalink | Comments (0) | Post RSS mehr
Delegate365 changelog version 8.0-Group OU's Wednesday, July 25, 2018 8:00 AM Toni Pohl With Delegate365 version 8.0, besides many other features, a brand new feature has been added to Delegate365: Group OU’s. In short, a Group OU can be used by Scope Admins for using members of another OU they do not manage themselves. See how this works here. Delegate365 | English | Microsoft | Office365 | atwork Mediumlink | Permalink | Comments (0) | Post RSS mehr
Delegate365 changelog version 8.0-A new major release Tuesday, July 24, 2018 2:00 PM Toni Pohl Delegate365 version 8.0 is a major release with a bunch of new features and updates. This Delegate365 version brings support for a new partner login, improvements in the setup process after updates, integration of Azure Event Grid, new user profile features, new Group OU's, a new check email address module, some bugfixes, new security features and some more features. See the details here! Delegate365 | English | Office365 | atwork Mediumlink | Permalink | Comments (0) | Post RSS mehr
Microsoft commits to sustainability in their data centers Monday, July 9, 2018 12:00 PM Martina Grom Good to see that Microsoft is committed to sustainability in their data centers as seen in the session "Inside Azure Datacenter Architecture with Mark Russinovich" from the last BUILD conference. Azure | Cloud | English | Microsoft | Office365 Mediumlink | Permalink | Comments (0) | Post RSS mehr
This was Insider Dev Tour Vienna Thursday, June 21, 2018 7:30 PM Toni Pohl Yesterday, on June 20th, the Insider Dev Tour (see insiderdevtour.com) took place in our home town Vienna. It’s a roadshow for software developers in the Microsoft universe delivering the latest news about Windows, Azure, Office, Graph, AI technology and more. I enjoyed being part of the event along with my fellow MVP colleagues and the Windows Development community. App | Azure | Cloud | Developer | English | Event | Microsoft | MVP | Office365 | Visual Studio | Windows Mediumlink | Permalink | Comments (0) | Post RSS mehr
Help Global Admins to see Azure subscriptions automatically Monday, June 11, 2018 6:00 AM Toni Pohl When creating a new Azure subscription, the Azure Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) permissions must be defined for users to be able to work with the subscription. But, Office 365 Admins can get permissions automatically – if you define it as here! Azure | Cloud | English | Microsoft | Office365 | Security Mediumlink | Permalink | Comments (0) | Post RSS mehr
Does Delve work without an Office 365 license? Saturday, June 9, 2018 8:00 AM Toni Pohl Office 365 is a wide service and offers a lot of functionality if you have the corresponding license acquired. So, one frequently asked question is: What happens in Delve if a user has no Office 365 license assigned? See it here. Azure | Cloud | English | Microsoft | Office365 | SharePoint Mediumlink | Permalink | Comments (0) | Post RSS mehr
Join featured speaker Martina Grom at Microsoft Ignite Friday, June 1, 2018 1:00 PM Toni Pohl Microsoft Ignite is Microsoft’s largest, yearly conference focused on the latest insights and skills from technology leaders and practitioners with more than 25.000 attendees and will take place in September 24–28, 2018 in Orlando, Florida. We are very pleased to announce, that atwork’s CEO, Martina Grom, is a featured speaker at this year’s Ignite! Cloud | English | Event | Microsoft | MVP | Office365 | Azure | atwork Mediumlink | Permalink | Comments (0) | Post RSS mehr
Delegate365 changelog version 7.5-SignIn-Activities and GDPR module Friday, April 27, 2018 4:00 PM Toni Pohl The previous versions of Delegate365 brought major updates with the new reporting engine and over 80 reports. With Delegate365 version 7.5 there are more improvements coming as litigation hold for Shared Mailboxes, more reports and a new GDPR module. See the details here. Delegate365 | English | Microsoft | Office365 | atwork Mediumlink | Permalink | Comments (0) | Post RSS mehr
Delegate365 reports at a glance Thursday, April 12, 2018 5:00 PM Toni Pohl Recently, Delegate365 got a new reporting engine with version 7.3 and more reports have been added with version 7.4 and version 7.5. In total, there are now 87 reports available (and likely more are about to come in the following versions). To keep up with the latest reports, we want to deliver an overview of all available reports at a glance here. Delegate365 | English | Microsoft | Office365 | atwork Mediumlink | Permalink | Comments (0) | Post RSS mehr