Talking Office 365 http://www.talkingoffice365.com Helping Businesses Implement Microsoft Office 365 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:14:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 How to Integrate Email with SharePoint and Office 365 [Master Class] http://www.talkingoffice365.com/integrating-email-with-sharepoint-and-office-365-oneplacemail http://www.talkingoffice365.com/integrating-email-with-sharepoint-and-office-365-oneplacemail#comments Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:03:01 +0000 Marlon Marescia http://www.talkingoffice365.com/?p=1780 James Fox from OnePlaceMailEmail is arguably the backbone of business communication today, and moving important emails into SharePoint to be searched and used by the whole business is critical to collaboration.

Our first Master Class covers the following:

  • Why is email so important in business?
  • Who gets the benefit of information in an inbox?
  • The business challenge and opportunity of email
  • Best practices for using email for collaboration
  • Barriers to implementing a successful email solution
  • Six ways to move email into SharePoint
  • Live demo of the key features of OnePlaceMail

What is a Master Class?

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About James Fox

OnePlaceMail for Office 365James is the CEO of Scinaptic. Scinaptic’s flagship product is OnePlaceMail which helps businesses move their email, attachments and documents into SharePoint seamlessly so their users can take full advantage of the SharePoint search and collaboration features.

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]]> http://www.talkingoffice365.com/integrating-email-with-sharepoint-and-office-365-oneplacemail/feed 1 #19 Business benefits of SharePoint Online over On-premise – Daniel Mcpherson http://www.talkingoffice365.com/business-benefits-of-sharepoint-online-over-on-premise http://www.talkingoffice365.com/business-benefits-of-sharepoint-online-over-on-premise#comments Wed, 13 Jul 2011 19:00:43 +0000 Marlon Marescia http://www.talkingoffice365.com/?p=1773 Today’s guest is Daniel McPherson. Daniel has helped companies in 40 countries implement Microsoft Technologies. After 10 years at Microsoft he co-founded zevenseas, a boutique consultancy focused solely on the SharePoint platform, and apparently is having more fun than ever before.

Marlon and Daniel discuss the four reasons SharePoint Online will reduce costs for businesses over SharePoint on-premise.

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About Daniel McPherson

Daniel McPherson from Zevenseas

Daniel McPherson has been involved in SharePoint since attending the first public announcement of project “Tahoe” at the Microsoft Technical Briefing, January 1999. It has had a profound impact on his career, taking him to the doorstep of hundreds of companies, of all shapes and sizes, in a range of industries and in over 40 different countries. He’s worked on projects that create solutions, evaluate possibilities, deploy to tens of thousands of users and fix problems when the sirens are sounding.

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]]> http://www.talkingoffice365.com/business-benefits-of-sharepoint-online-over-on-premise/feed 0 #18 Five business advantages of IT Pros using Office 365 – Adam Carter http://www.talkingoffice365.com/five-business-advantages-of-it-pros-using-office-365-adam-carter http://www.talkingoffice365.com/five-business-advantages-of-it-pros-using-office-365-adam-carter#comments Wed, 06 Jul 2011 04:57:52 +0000 Marlon Marescia http://www.talkingoffice365.com/?p=1752 Today’s guest is Adam Carter. Adam is a Technical Evangelist at Microsoft which means his job is to make sure IT Professionals are up to date with Microsoft’s latest technologies. Much of his focus is currently on Office 365.

Marlon and Adam discuss:

  1. Does Office 365 and cloud computing mean your IT pros are not as important?
  2. What are the business advantages of freeing your IT pros from the maintaining these systems?
  3. How an IT pro can adapt their skill sets to be more useful in a cloud computing and Office 365 environment

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About Adam Carter

Adam Carter Bomb talking on Office 365

Adam is part of the Evangelist team at Microsoft that look after, and focus on the desktop including everything Windows client and Office, including Office 365. He has worked with desktop deployment and management roles while working at Microsoft, starting in Microsoft Consulting Services working with SMS and helping develop and implement an offering became the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT).
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]]> http://www.talkingoffice365.com/five-business-advantages-of-it-pros-using-office-365-adam-carter/feed 0 #17 Extend SharePoint’s social features with Beezy – Jordi Plana http://www.talkingoffice365.com/extend-sharepoint-social-features-with-beezy-jordi-plana http://www.talkingoffice365.com/extend-sharepoint-social-features-with-beezy-jordi-plana#comments Tue, 28 Jun 2011 23:31:32 +0000 Marlon Marescia http://www.talkingoffice365.com/?p=1742 Today’s guest is Jordi Plana is the CEO of Spenta, the company behind Beezy, the new Corporate social networking tool built on SharePoint Online. This tool is a great example how you can extend Office 365 to get more from your investment.

Marlon and Jordi discuss:

  1. The added social features Beezy adds to SharePoint
  2. The business challenges solved by Beezy for Office 365 users
  3. What types of businesses will benefit from this SharePoint extension

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About Jordi Plana

Jordi Plana from Beezy

Jordi Plana is the Founder & CEO of Spenta a Microsoft Gold Partner in Spain and social spin-off product Beezy. he is a former motoracer, a FCBarcelona supporter, half marathon runner & snowboarder.

]]> http://www.talkingoffice365.com/extend-sharepoint-social-features-with-beezy-jordi-plana/feed 0 #16 Turbocharge your sales team with Office 365 http://www.talkingoffice365.com/turbocharge-your-sales-team-with-office-365 http://www.talkingoffice365.com/turbocharge-your-sales-team-with-office-365#comments Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:07:16 +0000 Marlon Marescia http://www.talkingoffice365.com/?p=1732 What makes Office 365 revolutionary is it’s ability to empower your staff to work smarter not harder. It takes the focus off IT and puts it back onto productivity.

Today I am going to show you how Office 365 can help your sales people:

1. Generate more leads
2. Lower the cost of making a sale
3. Reduce the stress involved in submitting tenders
4. Access important information while disconnected form the office.

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About Marlon Marescia

Marlon Marescia founder of Talking Office 365

Marlon is the founder and host of Talking Office 365. He believes that Office 365 is a game changer for businesses of all sizes. His focus is on helping businesses utilize the platform to make their staff more productive. Office 365 is taking the focus off IT and putting it back onto productivity, where it should be.

]]> http://www.talkingoffice365.com/turbocharge-your-sales-team-with-office-365/feed 5 #15 The Office 365 Community supporting businesses moving to the cloud – Jim Glynn http://www.talkingoffice365.com/office-365-community-supporting-businesses-moving-to-the-cloud http://www.talkingoffice365.com/office-365-community-supporting-businesses-moving-to-the-cloud#comments Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:40:45 +0000 Marlon Marescia http://www.talkingoffice365.com/?p=1688 The Office 365 Community will become the central location for businesses to get technical help when setting up and using Office 365. Microsoft has been running this community while in Beta and today I am speaking to Jim Glynn whose team is responsible for the community.

His role is to provide valuable content for the Office 365 community and drive community engagement across the Office 365 services, the support organization, and within the community itself.

During the interview Marlon and Jim discuss:

  • How the Office 365 community can support your business
  • The different support options for Office 365 Small Business and Enterprise subscribers
  • A run down of the different blogs, wikis and forums included in the community and how to get the most out of each
  • An Introduction to the Grid

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About Jim Glynn

Jim Glynn Office 365 Community

Jim Glynn (JRG_MSFT in the Office 365 Community) has been with Microsoft for 13 years. He started with Microsoft as a Lead Technical Writer on Server 2000, working on Active Directory. He also worked on Small Business Server and Live Meeting before transferring in 2006 to the team that became Microsoft Online Services Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) and then Office 365.

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]]> http://www.talkingoffice365.com/office-365-community-supporting-businesses-moving-to-the-cloud/feed 0 #14 The benefits of the Office 365 Marketplace for customers and partners – Peter Horsman http://www.talkingoffice365.com/the-benefits-of-the-office-365-marketplace-for-customers-and-partners http://www.talkingoffice365.com/the-benefits-of-the-office-365-marketplace-for-customers-and-partners#comments Wed, 08 Jun 2011 12:26:20 +0000 Marlon Marescia http://www.talkingoffice365.com/?p=1591 Where do you go to find the best partners to help you get the most out of your investment in Office 365? Or where do you go to find the best products to extend the Office 365 platform to suit your specific needs? You go to the Office 365 marketplace.

This Marketplace should be your first destination when looking for help with Office 365. Whether you are a customer or a Microsoft Partner, taking advantage of the opportunities presented by the Marketplace will make a huge difference to your business.

Today’s guest is Peter Horsman. Peter is the Senior Product Manager for Microsoft Pinpoint which the Office 365 Marketplace is built on. It is an online marketplace for business consumers, featuring applications and services from Microsoft partner companies.

During the interview Marlon and Peter discuss:

  • An introduction to the Office 365 Marketplace and the Pinpoint Platform
  • Benefits of the Office 365 Marketplace for customers and Microsoft Partners
  • How customers can extend their investment in the Office 365 platform
  • The marketing opportunities the Marketplace offers Microsoft Partners
  • How customer ratings in the Marketplace help customers and Partners

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About Peter Horsman

Peter Horsman Office 365 Marketplace

Born in the Netherlands, Peter lived and worked throughout Europe, building a strong background in online communications and business strategy before joining Microsoft Netherlands in 2003. In 2007, he moved to Seattle to begin the planning phases for Pinpoint. Peter holds an international business degree from Holland International Business School / Mercuria Business School (Finland) and speaks four languages.

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]]> http://www.talkingoffice365.com/the-benefits-of-the-office-365-marketplace-for-customers-and-partners/feed 0 Microsoft Office 365 release date announced for 28th June http://www.talkingoffice365.com/microsoft-office-365-release-date-announced-for-28th-june http://www.talkingoffice365.com/microsoft-office-365-release-date-announced-for-28th-june#comments Fri, 03 Jun 2011 21:57:18 +0000 Marlon Marescia http://www.talkingoffice365.com/?p=1552 John Roskill, Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President of Worldwide Partner Group announced through a tweet yesterday the public release date of Office 365. In the tweet he says:

June 28th is the date for General Availability of Office 365! > 100,000 real customers on beta…Partners, are you ready???

Some might say that Office 365 is Microsoft’s answer to Google Apps, but it is so much more. Microsoft Office is set to revolutionize productivity in small to medium businesses who use the service. It gives them access to Microsoft’s best and most mature productivity tools like Exchange Online, Microsoft Office, SharePoint Online and Lync Online without the complexity and costs of maintaining these systems. Large business is also going to benefit greatly from the advantage of having Microsoft maintain and support these systems.

Whether you are a Microsoft Partner or a customer the wait is over. June 28, 2011 is the day the game will change for you. Get on board, book the date and take advantage of the most compelling case for cloud computing today.

]]> http://www.talkingoffice365.com/microsoft-office-365-release-date-announced-for-28th-june/feed 1 #13 The business case for the social features of SharePoint – Rob Finney http://www.talkingoffice365.com/the-business-case-for-the-social-features-of-sharepoint http://www.talkingoffice365.com/the-business-case-for-the-social-features-of-sharepoint#comments Wed, 01 Jun 2011 22:15:46 +0000 Marlon Marescia http://www.talkingoffice365.com/?p=1496 SharePoint Online is one of the major inclusions in the Office 365 suite and has the potential to improve collaboration and communication in any business.

SharePoint includes many social features which not only improve communication between staff members, but gives them the ability to improve the find-ability of important data as they work. This makes data access easier every time SharePoint is used.

Today’s interview is with Rob Finney who will help us understand the business case for these social features of SharePoint.

During the interview Marlon and Rob discuss the following:

  • An overview of the social features included in SharePoint and SharePoint Online including:
    • My Sites
    • Profile pages
    • Blogs
    • Wikis
    • Tagging
    • People search
    • Skillsets
    • Org charts
  • The business challenges solved by these social features of SharePoint
  • Examples of how businesses have used the social features successfully
  • The types of businesses that get maximum value from the these features

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About Rob Finney

Rob Finney SharePoint Social Features

Rob has been working for Microsoft Consulting Services in the UK Sharepoint team since 2007. He has been working with SharePoint since 2001 covering design, administration and recently developing SharePoint solutions. In the past he has run the To the ‘Point Blog site.

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]]> http://www.talkingoffice365.com/the-business-case-for-the-social-features-of-sharepoint/feed 0 #12 Moving to the cloud with Office 365. Good or bad business decision? – Andrew Kisslo http://www.talkingoffice365.com/moving-to-the-cloud-with-office-365-good-or-bad-business-decision http://www.talkingoffice365.com/moving-to-the-cloud-with-office-365-good-or-bad-business-decision#comments Wed, 25 May 2011 00:58:56 +0000 Marlon Marescia http://www.talkingoffice365.com/?p=1486 With all the talk of cloud computing and the associated benefits, many businesses are asking should I move my business to the cloud and is it the right time? How will the cloud effect my IT staff? What are the real costs? Will I lose flexibility? Is my data safe? These are just some of the questions that may be running through your head.

Today’s guest is Andrew Kisslo and he will help answer these questions.

Andrew Kisslo is the Group Product Manager for Office 365. His team is responsible for the Office365.com website live in 38 countries and 17 languages. They also are responsible for the Official Office 365 blog and all social media outreach efforts including twitter and Facebook.

During the interview Marlon and Andrew discuss the following:

  • Is it a good time to move to the cloud based on recent outages
  • Explanation of the BPOS outage that has recently occurred
  • Microsoft 99.9% uptime SLA and how it works
  • The different decisions technical decision makers and business decision makers need to make when considering the cloud
  • The real costs of running your email system
  • How businesses can reuse the existing licenses and agreement they have with Microsoft when moving to the cloud
  • How the Office 365 will effect the IT staff in your organisation
  • Does Office 365 meet the standards of highly regulated industries like government?

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About Andrew Kisslo

Andrew previously served as Sr. Product Manager and is well known for launching the Whymicrosoft.com blog. He joined Microsoft in 2006, after spending eight years with SAP in a variety of roles. Andrew holds dual International MBA degrees from The University of South Carolina and the Vienna School of Business in Austria.

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