In Episode 18 of Techsplaining, Mark, Brett, and Rob prove the guys need Stephanie to keep them in line! We discuss companies’ desire to remain on classic SharePoint sites and what impacts this has in your organization…..then we side bar on a few other topics.
General News
- SharePoint Fest DC https://www.sharepointfest.com
- Brett went to South Africa
- Rob runs a 200-mile relay race https://www.runragnar.com/
Main topic: Classic sites – the evolution of the SharePoint site.
- Drinking the modern site kool-aid
- Government and DC area – still very interested in the on-premises and client-side code solutions
- When do you move forward with new technology?
- How some Rob’s company (and other large enterprise companies) are reacting to modern tech –
- This includes Microsoft Flow and its many connectors – and how that impacts the experience with modern sites
- Should you adopt every piece of technology that is released as part of Office 365?
- How rolling out these technologies can be good for the mid-market (medium-sized company)
Random – the guys go way off topic without Stephanie to keep them in line:
- Skype merge into teams, facial recognition and transcription
- Mark wants to know if Microsoft makes Skype crappy on purpose, so we use Teams instead
- Mark talks to Alexa with a southern accent
- Alexa for old people (you’re welcome Mark, its in the show notes!)
- ‘Prolific’ updates to Teams
- Can you backup Teams?
- Consolidating apps into Office 365 (Trello to Planner)
References and random comments:
- Zencaster: https://zencastr.com/
- Facial recognition and transcription https://venturebeat.com/2018/07/12/microsoft-365-launches-live-events-with-facial-recognition-and-speech-to-text-transcripts/
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