Thank you so much for this. M365 Enterprise Administrator from Amsterdam here. The videos are always very informative. Keep it up!

Great video.

Great Video of Teams

Awesome presentation!!

Thanks for a great presentation.

Saying Hi from Singapore. Thanks for the video. Informative and hits home with all the right points.

Amazing video! :)

Saved it, Thank you

Another great video, thanks!!

@Xerillion

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Michael! :)

We've done a major transition to Microsoft 365 and your videos really helped! I'm super excited for the outlook feature that pops the email into teams. Should be coming soon...basically the last piece imo to getting all internal communications to teams.

Thanks Wayne

@RobFahndrich1

4 жыл бұрын

I like that my name was used in the email portion of the video!!

@Xerillion Great video Wayne, if they asked me I would vote Xerillion as MS Partner of the year, you've mention legal matters with keeping files, so you're saying that Law firms could move to MS 365 and still maintain compliance.

@Xerillion

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Justin! Yes, that is exactly what I'm saying.

@justinkinsey5517

3 жыл бұрын

@@Xerillionthat's awesome, I've enjoyed the videos

Wayne: Excellent video on the usage of teams. One minor criticism: When you went over the discussion of the mulitple emails your head covered up the slide. While it made sense, it did cover up some of the wordings. A couple things about stream. This is something I ran into is that the stream storage limits are 500GB + 500 MB per employee. Depending on the number of recordings and the size of the recordings, you can max that out fairly quickly (depending on the size of the company). Also you were covering quick training videos in teams. You can also do this direct from Stream as it was added recently where you can do a max recording of 15 minutes per video. One other thing I found to be very helpful with planner. MSFT recently added in the message center to planner to track all of the changes of their product. It is easier for my team to digest them where I can then assign the message (task) based on what new features are coming out with O365 especially as the product keeps getting changes as it is added to our team.

@Xerillion

4 жыл бұрын

Really good and helpful input Tracy! Thanks!

Hi Wayne, Fantastic video Wayne! Great advice on how you should use teams for your virtual office. I learned a lot. One question: It looks like Xerillion stores most or all of your files in the general channel for each team (so that you can sync each team's general channel to onedrive). Is this a rule for everyone in the company or are files also stored in each channel? I am just wondering how you manage to enforce storage of files to the general channel for all employees or do you just let everyone store files in whichever chanel they like. I am trying to determine if we move to Teams from our file server, do we move folders from our share drive to directories in the general channel for each team, or create channels for each folder on our file server and store those files in each channel. Thank you!

@Xerillion

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Jeff! We are a team of 16 people and so I don't have to worry about managing around keeping files in the default general channel. There are some other channels in certain groups, and people can put files there (outside of the general channel) if they want. In your case, assuming you need a shared folder structure like "Sales", "HR", "Finance", "Operations", ect. then I would build a separate team for each of them, and use the general channel to hold the files. I wouldn't make a single company team, and then create a private channel for each department to manage permissions.

Trying to use Teams as an agile project mgmt but not there yet!

Hi Wayne, nice work, this is really helpful. Whenever I see your stuff I always wish I worked for you :-) not least because then I could just work within Teams and not have to fight with my users about Zoom and Dropbox which they use without the consent of the IT department. Anyway - can you give us a hint as to what you use for the user training videos, you mentioned mini videos and quizzes... sounds intriguing, how have you set that up?

@Xerillion

4 жыл бұрын

That is really nice of you to say Dev! Thanks! We partner with a company I found at Microsoft Inspire years ago called Brainstorm. So they do is make very short videos about things you can do in Microsoft 365. With their platform, we build a training program based on what what we are integrating for the customer. There is more to it than that, but that is the gist.

@lefrinj

4 жыл бұрын

@@Xerillion That is a great tip, thanks, I'll check it out :-)

@kristopherleslie8343

3 жыл бұрын

I know that feeling. I gave up fighting it because management and users both don't listen to IT they just have sign off's from mystery people/sources and just do stuff. No planning. Honestly until you can control the IT it will always be a headache. Stay woke.

Hi Wayne, these are great videos! How do you deal with Mac users, do you still support companies if they use Apple?

@Xerillion

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Edward! If a company is primarily Windows with some Macs, you bet we can support then. If the company is primarily Macs, we wouldn't be the best fit unfortunately.

Absolutely amazing Video Wayne, Thank you. Any possibility of making a Video on the cost Justifications in $$$$$ for dumping your all your hardware and moving to Virtual 365. You made the case for all the maintenance work needed of an Onsite setup, but seeing it in COST saving figures will be much more hopeful. I find it very difficult to imaging paying say, $120K/year for an E5 licenses for a compay size of 200 employees while still needing 2 or 3 staff to manage the system. Very much appreciate all your hard work in making these videos.

@Xerillion

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Abu! 👍👍 So, I get it...you (and likely your boss) are looking for *hard number* ROI. In other words, if you spend X on the one-time project and Y on M365 subscriptions, how long before you are paid back in cash savings over what you spend right now, and say over the next 5 years on your IT budget. A few things I'd suggest: Microsoft 365 E5 may not be the right subscription for you...and...I'd have to know the makeup of your IT team to understand what those personnel costs currently are, and what that expense would be after the migration. A good starting point would be to take all your IT staff salaries(devoted to IT infrastructure and support) per month, add 30%, then divide that by the number of users...then you get your per-user support cost. From there a determination can be made for additional savings. Then there is the soft, but very real calculation, of the issues around on-premise systems... security...dwindling priority from Microsoft...downtime...staffing...restaffing... disaster recovery...business continuity...how your old system looks to new hires in the company....dwindling IT support people. And...your own career. You know that on-premise systems are not the future...I wouldn't want to have an IT job in 2022 where my future is legacy systems...that is not exciting at all.🤷

@Xerillion

2 жыл бұрын

Abu - I also saw your question about "do we need Outlook when we are working internally?". For some reason KZread won't show that comment. 🤷‍♂️ My answer to that is you are 100% right...Outlook is not needed, and at Xerillion, all internal collaboration is done in Teams chat and has been for about 4 years now. It's a much smoother way to work.

@abulaith4485

2 жыл бұрын

@@Xerillion Wayne thank you soooo much for taking the time to explain the cost and complexity of the onsite business system. We are in the UK and our company employee count grew from 200 to 400 a couple of years ago and the whole IT Dept is made up of 3 Employees including the Manager(technical). We managed every espect of the IT services including standard and bespoke applications. I am afraid the business will highly unlikely be prepared to spend on the E3/E5 subscriptions and moving all other stuff to Azure. Even though the M365 is amazing and encompasses so many features, Microsoft will really need to drop their prices to make the transition possible. Wayne you are great man and business owner. Love your Video presentations and the technical details you provide. Best wishes.

@abulaith4485

2 жыл бұрын

@@Xerillion Sorry Wayne I deleted the comment because you answered my question in your video itself. I asked the question before I saw the whole video. 😊

@Xerillion

2 жыл бұрын

@@abulaith4485 aww...thanks Abu! 🙏🙏

We've been using Teams for 2 years, it has one major flaw that I can't understand how it was overlooked and that is the ability to sort Teams by name! It's such a basic function I can't understand how this hasn't been updated. We create a Team site for each client and then a separate channel for the client for each project. To make matters worse, if you search for a Team by name, it only shows the General channel for that Team and non of the sub channels. This means you have to scroll through the list of Teams to find the Team site but since they're aren't sorted alphabetically it's like a pick n mix trying to find your Team. You can prefix each channel with the Team name and then channel name but if you want to navigate between channels you have to run a search each time and when your prefix the channel with the team name ,the General channel no longer appears in the search results. Sort by name should really be a default function. Also, keep in mind that if you are syncing sharepoint with your file server and you sync the document library in SP, if you are working in a Teams channel and you sync that channel in Teams, it creates a separate folder in Windows file explorer for that channel rather than syncing within the document library folder that was originally synced with sharepoint. This could get very messy very quickly if users are syncing document libraries and Team channels.

@Xerillion

4 жыл бұрын

Hey BB, sounds like you are not a fan?:) I think with any of these technologies, there are features what blow our minds that were missed or don't work quite right. It''s one item of 10,000 Microsoft is aware of has to prioritize what they put their massive team of developers on. Even as massive as Microsoft is, they can't do it all at the same time of course. I tend to just appreciate what they did get right and look forward to the updates, new features and tweaks in the future. Thanks for sharing your own setup of how you structure client teams with project channels.

@brenbrady

4 жыл бұрын

@@Xerillion Hi Wayne, actually I'm a big advocate of Teams and we were probably one of the early adopters even when we were being advised to use slack. I think you hit the nail on the head when you say: client and suppliers = outlook and internal messaging = Teams. It's just that for me and the way we use Teams with a Teams site for each client, it's very difficult to navigate and find a Team. I understand MS have 000's of enhancement requests - I just would have expected that sorting by name to be a standard feature which is available from every OOTB app. Be that as it may, Teams has improved significantly in that past two years and I expect that to continue with the increase in uptake in 2020. I also appreciate the massive amount of time and energy that you put into these videos. BB

During Microsoft outages including Teams what does your company do for phones?

@Xerillion

2 жыл бұрын

We have never, in 4 years, ever had a full outage where calls couldn't get in AND out, and if when there was some type of issue, it was so rare I cannot recall the last time it happened and it was brief as in minutes.

I am researching azure...so you connect businesses to cloud applications and administer them? I kinda want to do that. Looking to get certified through microsoft right now; I enjoy optimizing systems and organizing things. Do you have any advice you would be willing to offer? Thanks.

@Xerillion

3 жыл бұрын

You mean career advice?

@MrVontar

3 жыл бұрын

@@Xerillion yes, although I may end up finishing school doing AI comp sci...if covid ever ends

@Xerillion

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrVontar Sorry, I missed this previously. 😧 I'd complete your bachelor's degree first. For business IT infrastructure...I'd recommend a degree from a college of business in information systems over a degree in computer science from a college of engineering or LAS. Then I'd get Microsoft 365 certs.

How does this hold up to malware/virus attacks to an endpoint that's synced?

@Xerillion

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry, just saw this. KZread seems to be sporadic sometimes with its notifications. To answer your question: it holds up without issue. We have literally never had an issue in how we set it up.