365 Unplugged: Recent Episodes
Alistair Pugin & Loryan Strant
Paper, scissors, rock! What will Alistair Pugin and Loryan Strant talk about in the world of Microsoft 365? You can be sure they'll keep it real and tell you what they really think - the good, the bad and the ugly.
In this episode, Alistair Pugin and Loryan Strant share some of the things they hate about Microsoft Teams.
Topics include:
- custom backgrounds
- amount of videos viewable in a meeting
- presence
- notifications
- and a bunch more!
In this episode, Alistair Pugin and Loryan Strant have a one-sided debate about Zoom vs. Microsoft Teams (big surprise).
They mainly target two hotly debated and requested features as well as a few others, and raising some points about why not all things are equal.
A few notes to the negative commenters from a previous episode:
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Alistair vapes in this episode
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There is no information about how to achieve custom backgrounds until somewhere towards the end - you can skip some of the waffle if you want, but we won't tell you exactly how much
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Didn't your parents teach you that if you're not going to say something positive, don't say it at all!?
In this episode of 365 Unplugged, Alistair Pugin and Loryan Strant talk about whether Microsoft Teams is truly the solution to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) as many people are making out, and what's required to make it actually work. Is this episode clickbait, you betcha! But there's some good nuggets in there to make it worth your time!
In this episode of 365 Unplugged, Alistair Pugin and Loryan Strant talk about Sensitivity Labels in Microsoft 365 and how they're taking the compliance world by storm even while still in preview - and what this means for collaboration, especially those organisations & IT pros that don't like external sharing or guest access.
Other characters popping in include Azure Active Directory group classification, Azure Rights Management, Azure Information Protection, Windows Information Protection, Microsoft Information Protection, and a few others!
In the first episode of 365 Unplugged, Alistair Pugin and Loryan Strant talk about their predictions for Microsoft 365 in 2020. Will apps and services continue to converge, or will there be an all-out battle between products to see who is the last one standing?
In this episode, Alistair Pugin and Loryan Strant discuss (quite candidly) their frustrations with the Microsoft 365 Message Center, the frequency of “Major Change Update” notifications, the confusion of features that are “rolling out”, features that are there but not there, and another tangent or two they go off on.
In this episode, Alistair Pugin and Loryan Strant discuss the evolution of Microsoft Intune, it's connection with System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), and their union - culminating in Microsoft Endpoint Manager.
We also talk about the fact that Intune is now FREE for customers of SCCM, meaning they can have hybrid device management without paying any extra.
In this episode, Alistair Pugin and Loryan Strant talk about the improvements in Microsoft's free SharePoint migration tools, the acquisition of Mover, and whether partners still have a play in customer migrations.
In this episode, Alistair Pugin & Loryan Strant summarise the week that was at Microsoft Ignite 2019; their key takeaways, addressing some predictions and rumours.
In the final of a series of recordings "live" at Microsoft Ignite 2019, Alistair Pugin and Loryan Strant cover some of the announcements around the Microsoft 365 space - specifically Microsoft Search and SharePoint.
In this fourth of a five-part series of recordings "live" at Microsoft Ignite 2019, Alistair Pugin and Loryan Strant cover some of the announcements around the Microsoft 365 space - this time talking about Yammer and Microsoft Teams.
In this third of a five-part series of recordings "live" at Microsoft Ignite 2019, Alistair Pugin and Loryan Strant cover some of the announcements around the Microsoft 365 space - this time talking about adoption and productivity.
In this second of a five-part series of recordings "live" at Microsoft Ignite 2019, Alistair Pugin and Loryan Strant cover some of the announcements around the Microsoft 365 space - this time focusing on apps.
In this first of a five-part series of recordings "live" at Microsoft Ignite 2019, Alistair Pugin and Loryan Strant cover some of the announcements around the Microsoft 365 space - starting with AI.
In this episode, Alistair Pugin and Loryan Strant discuss all the recent hubub Microsoft has been making about #yearofyammer and ask if it's all just marketing hype, or if there's some substance behind it and Yammer is about to pull some serious punches at Ignite.
In this episode, Alistair Pugin and Loryan Strant talk about the recent Surface event where Microsoft unveiled the new Surface Earbuds - and whether they (and other earbuds) are suitable devices for use with Microsoft Teams calls.
In this episode, Alistair and Loryan are on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington. Who cares where they are though, what are they talking about!?
They're talking about custom backgrounds in Microsoft Teams - a feature that was demonstrated at Enterprise Connect in March 2019.
In this episode (filmed at the Digital Workplace Conference in Sydney, Australia), Alistair Pugin and Loryan Strant discuss the role of the intranet in a world dominanted by Microsoft Teams.
In this episode, Alistair Pugin and Loryan Strant discuss the changes to Microsoft Flow licensing announced recently.
The link to Matt Wade's article: https://medium.com/jumpto365/new-power-platform-and-microsoft-flow-licensing-coming-october-1-f9d06f09fd45
In this episode, Alistair Pugin and Loryan Strant discuss the options available to upgrade straight from Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams without all that fancy "teamwork".
In this episode, Alistair Pugin and Loryan Strant discuss OneDrive for Business and measure it's potential impact on how well Office 365 is utilised across organisations.
In this episode Alistair Pugin & Loryan Strant return from their hiatus to discuss the naming of Office 365, Microsoft 365, and Windows 10 - and what they think will happen to them.
In this episode, Alistair Pugin and Loryan Strant discuss MyAnalytics, the veritable "fitbit for work" and what this means to the average person just doing their job.
In this episode (filmed in person at Microsoft's Redmond campus), Alistair Pugin gets educated by Loryan Strant on what Sway is, why and where you use it, and what value it adds to Office 365.
In this episode, Alistair and Loryan talk about the recent increase to 5,000 members in Microsoft Teams. We ask if it's just too many, whether you'd still use Yammer, and if anyone out there has even had close to the previous maximum (2.5k users).
In this episode, Alistair Pugin & Loryan Strant debate what's more important; teamwork or individual productivity, and whether we should put the brakes on Teams to deploy To-Do first.
In this episode, Alistair Pugin & Loryan Strant talk about "Modern" - in reference to SharePoint and it's new fandangled modern functionality.
This is probably the most unfiltered episode we've done yet.
In this episode, Alistair Pugin & Loryan Strant talk about the death of Microsoft StaffHub, and it's resurrection as Shifts in Microsoft Teams.
In this episode, Alistair Pugin and Loryan Strant talk about the newly released Microsoft Service Adoption Specialist course (https://www.edx.org/course/microsoft-service-adoption-specialist). We talk Proscii, adoption, the partner landscape, and what this means for end customers and users.
In this episode Alistair and Loryan talk about animated GIFs in Yammer (and Teams), and try to unpack the lack of control or features around them.
In this episode, Alistair and Loryan talk about Cortana and her gradual disappearance from the sphere of usefulness. Does she have a chance in Office 365? Tune in to find out!
In this episode, Alistair and Loryan discuss the fact that SharePoint metadata is coming to Microsoft Teams - but still not Windows 10.
In this episode, Alistair and Loryan discuss Microsoft Stream - the replacement for Office 365 Video. Is it ready for prime time? Is video the new email? Is it really a corporate YouTube? Watch to find out!
In this episode, Alistair and Loryan talk about Microsoft Kaizala - a new chat app that is now available as part of Office 365. They try to understand and lay out why this product exists, and where it fits in the suite.
In this episode, Alistair and Loryan talk about the recent furor around Microsoft sending training emails directly to end users.
In this episode Alistair and Loryan talk about the improvements to SharePoint Online and what this means for intranet-in-a-box partners as well as SharePoint consultancy firms, as well as ultimately end customers.
A quick show about things to do with Microsoft 365. No fancy production, no scripts, no marketing schlock, no planning in fact - just straight talk between two opinionated guys: Alistair Pugin & Loryan Strant.
In this episode they talk about whether the future is indeed passwordless as Microsoft wants us to think.