UnplugIT! is an IT Professional focused webcast hosted by IT influencer and 15-year Microsoft veteran, Stephen Rose. Stephen focused on leading the efforts to help IT pros, technical decision makers, developers, understand the ins and outs of piloting, deploying, managing, securing, and driving adoption technologies like Windows, Office 365, OneDrive, Microsoft Teams, and other products.
His previous webcast, “Inside Microsoft Teams” where he sat down with IT leaders from Lego, Polaris, Special Olympics, AEG, Kent State University and more, garnered over 2m views in just over 18 months.
In these new webcasts, Stephen goes beyond just Teams and sits down with industry experts to explore the latest trends, best practices to help our audience understand first-hand, the do’s, don’ts and gotchas to get the most out of your tech investments.
I’m sure she’s a great product manager and provides valuable input to the team. However, I’d recommend additional training on how to talk about your product to an outside team/customer. She has a way of positioning the the statements in a way that doesn’t promote a positive feeling about the product. It’s more about the problems THEY experienced rather than focus on what Loop can do for us now that all this work has gone into it.
Loop has a lot of potential. I think Microsoft has to work on consistency in sharing externally. Teams shared channel works, loop components work but not workspaces at the moment if that didn’t change very recently. Also I LOVE the Loop driven Teams meeting agendas. Perfect to use to catch follow-up tasks from meetings, BUT and this is a big one, it’s not possible to share these agendas externally hampering its usefulness. Working with partners or customers it would be great to be able to give out tasks across tenants. Also the mobile loop apps aren’t that great either. Why can’t i use Loop on the web in Edge on my iPad?
My company recently switched our brand/domain and the most painful part has been how so much broke with loop...I still cannot use ideas at all, nor use loop on mobile...love loop but its been inconsistent...
IMO, all of the Teams Premium features should be included with Microsoft Copilot. Microsoft needs to have as much value as possible for the $30 per month per user.
I really enjoyed hearing about Tim’s experience. I like what he had to say about making sure we serve the people using the technology. That often it’s not about focusing on the highly technical features. It’s feature like being able to snap a window to the side that can impact the productivity of people.
Meant constructively, how many email accounts do you have? Yes, I have quite a few and outlook online can't be used by me and my coworkers because we can only have the one email account that it picks the Mail up for. Checking email should not be about going to several different apps and login, just my humble opinion.
My first technology-driven change management program was the deployment and setting up Groove for the U.S. Interagency Community in 2004-2006. Amazing memories and great 1:1 training with Ray Ozzie.
Please please please add tasks integration for assigned list items, it would really solve the problem of needing more complex tasks and also time management with seeing all of my tasks in one location.
Jeremy is one of the nicest guys I've ever had the pleasure of meeting. Ran into him one late afternoon on the vendor floor of an Ignite conference and got to chat with him for a bit. A genuine gift to the IT world, thank you Jeremy! 5:30 - Tip #5 - Using Loopback Merge Mode 8:50 - Tip #4 - GPupdate vs GPupdate /force 12:07 - Tip #3 - Not using in-box documentation ability (Comments) 15:49 - Tip #2 - Thinking Intune has all the Group Policy Object settings (Group Policy Analytics) 18:58 - Tip #2 Demo 26:41 - Tip #1 - Thinking LAPS = actual Local Admin Solution (Don't give users this password) 29:09 - Tip #1 Demo
Great episode, Stephen. Really itching for Loop to leave the preview phase (of course, I'd rather it be ready than released prematurely). The 5 workspace limit is the only thing that is keeping from using this every day. Already maxed out.
Top video post & really like the IT Pro mention, ace podcast with Alex from Logitech, thanks for the lively Q&A! Would really like to see a cross between a "typical user base", eg WFH, hybrid, office or person profile who might be an all rounder, what 2-3 top tips; ie. devices or pieces of kit, habits and/or training, (a mix of the three?) from a cross section of a workforce, so the light user, medium to heavy user. Add on the person who might run a meeting to those who join & participate (so a balance of sorts?) Anything you like to pull out of this mini list, I'd be trying to share this on to colleagues and others, often most don't know what they can do to benefit or better make use of the tech and solutions they have. Thanks again Stephen!
@@stephenlrose certainly, at 25:22 it's the most noticeable but it was more or less through the video. It's likely on the guest side (speaker reverb or something).
We use multiple Teams Live events on a daily basis and allows our company to function online. As the Director of Operations I have been occasionally trying New Teams, let's hope ALL of the functionality of current Live Event meetings is transitioned across to New Teams. For example I joined a daily Live Event meeting that is set up in my own diary so I am the organiser and I didn't even have breakout rooms, I couldn't even upload my own backgrounds. What's the point of a Public Preview if you don't have the functionality you currently have in Classic Teams, seems a bit backwards to me!
I agree. It's still a preview and not feature complete but it's getting there. It now supports PPT Live (Thank god!) and will soon support 3rd party add-ons. It's getting there but, I agree, not fast enough. I do love the cross-tenant messaging which is not in Teams 1.0
🎉 Excited for this discussion. Curious how corporations and enterprises are preparing their employees for when the “New Teams” becomes the default Teams 2.0. It’s an evolution for sure, and the New Reactive Platform will be faster and more dynamic. People just want their apps and full features available before they can make the full investment.
Many companies, like the ones I am consulting for, are waiting for it to be feature parity (late Summer) and then will move the trainers and superhero leads over to the 2.0 release. To help create the training need towards the end of the year and into next year. It will be sometime before that switch over happens so it's good to start planning now!
It’s good to finally see Teams have the overhaul it needs. As was said they have added so much to Teams, the structure was not the best. Sort of like moving into a new home with more space and modern amenities.
Awesome new show my friend, really enjoyed this first episode and can't wait to see more. Oh, and loving the Power, Corruption, & Lies T-Shirt of course! ❤
The new Teams is a game changer. And we are planning tons of future perf & reliability improvements. Very excited of the journey we are into. I'll share more details on meeting performance in a blog next month. Stay tuned. @juanmicrosoft
