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On the SPOT - Technology Podcast

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by Jay Leask and Craig Jahnke

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March 14, 2022

#OTSTWIT Viva Learning with Asif Rehmani – Episode 44

In this episode of This Week in Teams, Jay and I continue with our Microsoft Viva series by talking with <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/asifrehmani/" target="_blank">Asif Rehmani</a>, the CEO and founder of <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.visualsp.com/" target="_blank">VisualSP</a>, about <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-viva/learning">Employee Learning and Training | Microsoft Viva</a>. Asif introduced himself and expressed that he does not work for Microsoft, have never worked for Microsoft, but his career has been aligned with Microsoft. He joined Jay and Craig to talk about the good and the not so good of Viva Learning. Viva is a brand came up because of the whole exposure while the the focus on employee experiences. Asif has looked into and played around with all the different modules modules or Viva. Some Viva connections, Viva topics, Viva insights, but because of his background, he dove deep on Viva learning. We then talked with Asif about both pros and cons of it. First found out the licensing model of Viva learning. Actually, in the beginning there wasn’t licensing licensing model. You know, it came out slowly, but when it was revealed, that would be $4 per user per month. That surprised Asif and it is something that he has given feedback to Microsoft about because we’re talking about aggregation of all this content in one place using Viva learning. We’re not talking about the actual LMS system that you still need. We’re not talking about the content source like and when I say content source and talking about edx, Coursera, LinkedIn. You need to Viva learning to put it all together. When he speaks with organizations and talks about this, they tally up the cost and it becomes pretty big. There’s a free version of Viva learning too. That one that he has seen many, many organizations adopt because there is no downside to it. In fact, it’s already pushed out to almost every tenant anyway. So you have it already. Organizations need to decide to do with it, that’s up to you. Do you publicize it? Do you like, just let people discover it by chance? Asif’s advice has always been that you do let your users know that it exists and here’s what it’s going to do for you. But you also let them know some of the gotchas as well. So here’s a gotcha which I definitely do not like, you get to see all the content that’s available through, let’s say LinkedIn library in Viva learning, not everything that you have access to, but everything that’s there and you can get to a point where you see it see it in it, I’ll say Oh yeah this course on I don’t know dynamics 365 sales help makes a lot of sense. Let me figure that out. You click on it you get the next screen where it tells gives you a tile gives you all the synopsis everything else. You’re happy and think, “OK, I have access to it. I was going to learn to learn it anyway.”, and then you click on it and you’re surprised when you when it asks you for your login credentials. Then you will have access to only the things you have permissions to actually view. We then talked about the good. You get to show everything that your organization has in terms of learning in one place so that people don’t have to go to different places. In fact, if you have the paid version of it, you can get into the assignments which your analytics are. You can expose all that stuff from your LMS through Viva learning as long as there’s integration, which is huge because it is truly learning in the flow of work, you’re looking at your chats, you doing your meetings,

February 8, 2022

#OTSTWIT What’s New in Teams? January 2022 Edition – Episode 41

In this episode of This Week in Teams, Jay and Craig talk about the <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/what-s-new-in-microsoft-teams-january-2022/ba-p/3082888" target="_blank">new releases feature </a>updates from Microsoft for January 2022. They talked about how, due to the holiday season, it seemed like there were few exciting announcements, they then proceeded to talk for 25+mintues. The first thing they covered was unmute keyboard short cut, they would like to see it as a global hotkey. They talked about custom backgrounds from the web being a nice release and how Craig really needs to clean his office up so he could be like Jay and not need to use a background. That conversation transitioned to Craig wanting to use multi-cameras and multi-camera support being more easily supported in Teams. They also referenced an <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.onthespot.tech/2021/09/04/otstwit-live-at-sharepoint-fest-chicago-with-andy-huneycutt/" target="_blank">episode with Andy Hunneycutt</a> and the setup he uses to make more interesting videos and drive better viewer engagement. Moving on to “Mirror my video”; this is a feature where you no longer have to see the text in your video flipped. Which, of course, led to hilarity because it is only visible to the presenter but everything is the same for all the viewers; Jay thought it was backwards for everyone. They then talked about Teams meetings recordings. Ever since meetings were moved into OneDrive, organizations saw their SharePoint storage skyrocket. Onedrive provides nifty capabilities, from sensitivity labels to eDiscovery, and now the admin capabilities support cleaning up your videos automatically – so check out Stream if you’re recording things that should be turned into long-term education. Jay and Craig talked about how recordings of 1 on 1 calls can be useful but also posed interesting problems because people can be more candid than normal and need to be careful of what’s recorded. We then rolled through Teams Rooms feature that they didn’t think were necessarily important to talk about in detail: * Rooms on Windows* Cortana updates in Teams Rooms on Windows* Cortana skills now available in additional languages* AAD conditional access support for Teams Rooms on Windows Last but not least, we closed on talking about Jeff Teper’s twitter post on <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://twitter.com/jeffteper/status/1489676770798292992" target="_blank">Mesh for Teams</a> and how important it is for legless avatars to have chairbacks… and then closed out the recording with their usual witty banter. Join us next time on This Week in Teams!

January 31, 2022

#OTSTWIT Teams for Government Live at #365EduConDC with Jeremy Wood – Episode 40

While Jay and I were speaking at <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.365educon.com/DC/" target="_blank">365 EduCon D.C.</a>, we were able to sit down with Jeremy Wood and talk about Teams in Government and how the US Government uses Teams. Jeremy Wood is a Federal IT implementer, strategist, and enthusiast specializing in complex business systems. His expertise and career spans infrastructure, service desk, software development, budget, policy, and architecture. He continues to focus on providing value to business through technology solutions to reduce cost and increase efficiency. He is currently in a pivotal role at the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) that will help transform both the business and IT roles and systems through planning, alternative analysis, developing business cases, and facilitating the investment review process.  Jeremy told us about how his organization was a Skype organization, but with Covid and the challenges his organization faced, they turned to Teams to meet there collaboration needs. They began a process to rolling it out and now his users are constantly asking how can they leverage teams even more. One of the biggest challenges was governance and what controls did they want to put in place. They created user personas and scenarios on how their users would want to use Teams. We discussed how important using the <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://adoption.microsoft.com/microsoft-teams/" target="_blank">Teams Adoption</a> guides can be to organizations trying to roll out Teams and change the culture to being a Teams first mentality. We also talked about the challenges that government users face because not all features are rolled out to the government tenants as quickly as they are to enterprises tenants. Jay talked about card sorting and using Teams and Whiteboard to do card sorting to help with information architecture and Jeremy added his own experiences with Whiteboard. I then told a story about how a customer of mine has created a Center of Excellence in SharePoint for training materials and posting tutorials when new features roll out. Jeremy talked about the importance about having a business analysts to help understand and build business solutions for his users. He said one of the best tools they use are <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/customlearning/" target="_blank">Learning Pathways</a> and have built out a support solution of Teams and training to help your users including monthly “Ask Me Anything” sessions. We asked Jeremy what things interested him that are coming up. He talked about Power Bi pro and Analytics are of a lot of interest to him and his organizations. Jeremy is really looking forward to building things out on the Teams platform like adaptive cards and SharePoint pages like Viva Connections. <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/geekwithin/" target="_blank">Jeremy on LinkedIn</a> Podcast: <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtMqalrP6-uP2DDz9KXnPfQ" target="_blank">The Geek Within</a> Teams for Government Live at #365EduConDC with Jeremy Wood

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