Marijn Somers
Microsoft MVP. Freelance Microsoft 365 expert focusing on user adoption and governance. Trainer. Licensed watchmaker.
Appears in 176 Episodes
EP116: Governance meets Change for New Stream
In this special podcast, we have changed a few things... The Intro does not blow your ears out at the start... You can win a place at our 5th Birthday celebration with...
EP115 by SecureMailMerge: Steve bought an App
This is a very late podcast because Steve #ScrewedUp and the great interview with Alex Duggleby needed more work than usual. But it is finished, Alex sounds great, ne...
EP114: Do 70% of VIVA projects fail?
Wow, what a week, you can tell when Steve and Marijn have had a busy week because you get this very laid-back podcast where they discuss their Trips... and start with ...
EP113 by CloudAlly: The M365 backup backstory!
The second of 3 podcasts sponsored by CloudAlly and provided 3 great whiskies to taste across the following 3 Episodes. Today we are speaking to Murrey Moceri, the Pa...
A Wee Dram #13: Harvard’s Information Overload
Marijn Confirms that he can read!! OK, I could not resist that, the power of being the Office365Distilled producer and being able to publish the content that we both ...
EP112: The Human Side of Change
The first of 3 podcasts sponsored by CloudAlly and provided 3 great whiskies to taste on the next 3 Episodes. On Episode 113 we will be speaking to Murrey Moceri, the...
EP111: Hairy Fairy Governance from the Jungle
Taking the first module and outlining how Process, Governance and Policies, when brought together, ensure we present a practical approach to providing a well-governed ...
A Wee Dram #12: Catalyst IDEA framework E=EMPOWER
Marijn moves from Inspiration and Design to Empowering your organisation for Digital transformation. Following the Microsoft IDEA framework for digital transformation...
EP110: Boutique Business Needing Content Compliance
Steve and Marijn are joined today by a Guest who brings many questions about UK financial compliance. In this episode, we wanted Laura Madden to tell us what her cust...
EP109: Lost in AI and then document governance
Marijn and Steve lose about 20 minutes of this podcast covering search and how AI might help. We accept that we can’t help ourselves... We eventually started on docum...
EP108: The 4.5 pillars of Innovation
This is an extraordinary look at Innovation based on criteria around: Creativity, Vision, Risk-taking and Collaboration. But maybe Governance has a place... or half a...
EP107: XLA delayed by Valentines day
Are SLAs just Secrets, Lies and Assumptions? Do we fudge the KPIs to show we have excellent delivery? It’s possible, but XLA’s are more difficult to fool. The boys ...
EP106: Practical Governance From ChatGPT
2023 is the year of governance with Marijn and Steve. To get started, we asked ChatGPT for 3 paragraphs describing Governance for M365, which we used to dig deep into ...
EP105: Five Rules for Building Baseline Governance
So 2023 in the country of Office365Distilled is the year of Governance. And we start with out invention and golden nugget, Baseline Governance which is about doing ju...
EP104: Entering Listopia the world of Lists
After Mark Kashman’s great block article from the end of 2022 https://kashbox.substack.com/p/use-microsoft-lists-to-track-contacts Steve thinks we need more examples o...
Christmas Eve: Closing with the Boys EGO & Craigellachie 2008, 14 years in the Barrel
The boys celebrate 24 podcasts this month and a year of work relaxing with the ultimate Christmas gift for the whisky lover. A quick review of the work and travel, bu...
Advent Dec 23rd: Another silly Rule from IT that needs change?
So WhatsApp is prevalent and easy to use, but it does not conform to the business management of corporate content. What’s in it for me is minimal value for the users ...
Advent Dec 22nd: Question: Are there too many meetings in a day?
Meetings are working; this is a pretext for Agile methodology and is very true today. Meetings take work, and they also take you away from work. Meeting culture ne...
Advent Dec 21st: Yammer has stories Like Steve and Marijn
Marijn explains Yammer’s Storylines and Stories because he loves them both. He makes a good point; this creates an opportunity for every individual to join the compan...
Advent Dec 20th: Eating Nuts and a not so Interesting bourbon.
So, this podcast just goes to show that the tasting notes of a Whisky can be very accurate... In this case, one stating notes says intense whisky with a hint of plasti...
Advent Dec 19th: Marijn goes SharePoint pages mad with a Golden Nugget
Marijn has been using Steve’s ideas again and wants to tell everyone how he is tracking the questions on his SharePoint site about the change ad adoption project he is...
Advent Dec 18th: Heavy responsibility in deciding someone else timeline.
It was an email, but it’s also going to be on MS Teams messages... seriously a great idea from Microsoft about delaying the delivery. You can now delay a message and ...
Advent Dec 17th: Marijn goes slow, so Steve does all Microsoft Etiquette in 90 seconds!!
Meeting Etiquette from a few Microsoft Screenshots identified some great points for improving your meeting habits and accessibility. But Marijn goes into that talking...
Advent Dec 16th: Sync is going away, and Send to Onedrive is here to stay
There’s a sync that Steve washes his dishes in that is not what Marijn wants to discuss. He has terrible news: they want to favour the Add to OneDrive functionality. ...
Advent Dec 15th: The Black Bar of Gold from several places.
Tasting of Gold Bar Bourbon, Steve travelled through New York Airport last week and crashed the last bottle of Gold Bar reserved... shaped in black with a copper minte...
Advent Dec 14th: Caroline again STOMPS into the Office365Podcast
We are doing all this work to enable knowledge management and enhance collaboration. But this does create a point where change is required. Our Special guest Carolin...
Advent Dec 13th: Caroline joins again and takes the lead!
Another episode with Caroline Hackney, who is rapidly learning to take over this podcast and puts Steve and Marijn in their place. The extraordinary lady comes with a...
Advent Dec 12th: Guest Caroline Hackney joins to talk personae
We had a few guests on this episode of Office365Distilled, the awesome Caroline Hackney from Port Houston was an attendee at the workshop presented by Steve and Marijn...
Advent Dec 11th: Baseline Sensitivity labels a conversation.
The problem with short unfocused podcasts is that you can be more confused after the podcast than before. But as the boys touch on Sensitivity labels whilst at M365 i...
Advent Dec 10th : Breakout rooms are simple !!
Steve and Marijn look at Breakrooms and Steve keeps talking team rooms, because hey they are about teams… but he means breakout room of course but let’s blame it on th...
