 So, this is the Microsoft Community Office hours and we are live streaming on the Office 365 community out on Facebook, as well as of course this webinar series. Our thought process here, so this is the first one, the first time, is that we're going to do this twice a day on Mondays and try and hit, North America kind of gets hit twice of course, but early enough in the morning that we have the AMIA folks at the end of their day and then we're going to do one late afternoon. My schedule just actually opened up, I can do it later. Careful what you're saying. I know. Today, so we're doing one at 4 p.m. Pacific, but we might move that to 5 or 6 p.m. Pacific so that we can really hit Asia Pacific and get all those nations out there. Whack-A-Pack. Yeah. And so, who shows up to help? It really depends if you're an expert and you're showing up as an attendee and you'd like to join us in the expert discussion and share your video, please do. Just ping me if you'd like to, if you've got an answer to that. Of course, if you're joining and you have questions and we're kind of monitoring in two places, at least I am, if there are any questions. So just use the Q&A module in this. Note, not an expert. Thank you. If you move that over to your left slightly, hold that up again and then it'll point to me on my screen. Yeah. There you go. Yeah, look at the arrow, let me get a screenshot of that. Yeah, hold on, yeah. Perfect. Yeah. Awesome. So, with that, do we have any questions? And let me jump back over into the... Can anybody actually speak? I mean, if we don't have any questions, this is Riaz, I'm also a follower MVP on the Microsoft side. Hey, Riaz. Hey, Sean and Christian, I think we should talk about how the remote workers are going to work nowadays, especially like almost like everybody's working from home, right? They should be. There are some areas that everybody is actually having concerns about how do I do this or how do I manage my time. Literally, in the last one week, a lot of my friends would never work from home. They reach out to me to like, hey, how do you manage this and that when you work from home because they know that I'm working from home for the last five or six years at minimum. That is a good topic and a very timely one. Yeah. Christian's got ideas I do too. Well, you know, it's funny because there have been so many people talking, you know, sharing kind of best practices for using teams while working from home and all this and a couple of people have said, you know, like, there's so much of this and we don't need it all and we're just overlapping. And the reality is that we all have different, you know, tips and tricks that will work for different people. We all have different experiences. We work in different industries. And so I never say, like, don't go blog. Don't go create videos about it. Like, go and go and do that. But, you know, we often don't have that chance to ask questions. And so it's great to have this. And as Rios, maybe you want to share like two or three of your tips until we see some questions come through anything you want to share. And then Sean and I can kind of share a couple of things. I think the way first thing that I would share with the community is like every day when I start my working, I still follow the same routine. If I have to go to the office, wake up early, you know, go to the bathroom, you know, get some coffee and get yourself a little bit of fresh air before you start working at eight, right? Because some of the eight friends, yeah, eight a.m. I'm that kind of a guy. Sorry, I'm sorry. My colors here. So I mean, literally some of my friends will reach it to me and even in the community as well. When they were asking me like, oh, we know that, yeah, our office started at eight. We literally wake up at 745 and start working and like, no, that's not right. I mean, it might work for you for some time. But if you're looking at working from remote, like for a long period of time, the first thing that I always recommend is guys follow the same routine that you follow for your office. If you have to go to the office, right? You need to have your fitness as well. So literally people working from home in the last couple of weeks. I mean, again, it's because of that pandemic as well. They don't focus on their health. It's like, oh, I wake up at 745, 750, go straight to my laptop and start working. And then, you know, in between, I'm going in and out and doing, you know, all of the stuff that I need to do. When you're working, you are working, right? So you need to stay focused and you need to be active the same way that you used to be in the office as well. That's the very first one that I recommend to the team. Second, I mean, right now, because of the pandemic, literally it's my personal recommendation. Don't quote me anywhere, but I mean, this is what I believe. And that's what I'm communicating to my teammates as well. Your dogs, your kids on the background noise, all this stuff, whatever we're doing, we're doing for them, right? So it's the time everybody's working from home. So don't feel embarrassed because, oh, I have a background noise. My dog is barking or, you know, my kids are screaming around and stuff like that. It happens, right? So don't be panicking about that and don't be embarrassed for that as well. Just speak up and the third and the most important one. I know I'm not following that right now because I also have some technology issues right now. Try to be on the video calls as much as you can. I'm the one right now who is doing the video, but yeah. Video calls makes it more productive for the team. And it's actually going to be more engaging experience when you're actually on a meeting at a conference with the customers and the other business partners as well. That's true. It gives people something to hold on to. Yeah, Sean, any tips that you want to share? Well, I think the ones that Rizia just shared were good. I mean, they're very good. I could do a lot better about taking care of myself personally. It tends to get lost once you start working from home for any substantial period of time. You'll find yourself slipping. I mean, Dan Usher and I and a handful of other people joke about No Pants Monday and you only have to look like business from the waist up. You start to slide and everybody's I think probably seen the Dilbert comic where after like three days, Dilbert is just a hairy pajama mess on shave and unclean try not to become that guy. Every now and then we slide and it's understandable. But what are you doing, Christian? Is I've got a little foot roller thing down there. I had to adjust it. Oh, nice. Lost it there. That sounds like a nice thing. But the other thing is you're one of the benefits of being at home is you've got flexibility in your schedule. I know a lot of folks the point about keeping a regular routine is a good one. But one of the benefits of working from home is taking advantage of that flexibility. And so I know that I oftentimes have to go out and run errands. I'll have service folks to the house to fix heating air air conditioning sort of things. Maybe I need to take care of my sick kid. But, you know, those things when you work from home, those are kind of the give backs that you get. I know you're saying time with my sick kid is a give back. Well, yeah, in many cases, it is because you would have to take time off from work otherwise. So don't be afraid to take advantage of some of those things. You know, I joked about not getting started at eight a.m. I mean, there are days, certainly days I get up and I'm running at like seven and in the morning, like seeing my kids off to school normally when we're not in the middle of a viral pandemic. There are other times when I'll, you know, be up late at night. And it's, you know, I'm sure Christian has gotten more than a couple of pings for me. And I've gotten them from him during my early morning hours. We'll call him, you know, one, two in the morning, because these two hours behind me over there and wherever you are, ours. Utah, yeah. Yeah, Mars, Utah, but yeah. So, you know, West Coast clients are three hours behind me. So you have to sometimes flex that stuff. And when you work, we can be productive at all hours of the day. And I know many developers who either burn the midnight oil or get up at the butt crack of dawn and are doing things. So learn your own schedule and when you're most productive and try to take advantage of that, you know, forcing yourself to work when you are not in a work mindset. And there are different reasons you might be. Some of them may be good. Some of them not so good, but take advantage of your own personal productivity and adapt to that as you start to work on your own more often. Sometimes people work better at a Starbucks. I work with several folks who will go out to a coffee shop and sit there. That amount of noise around me is something of a distraction. Some people might think the music that I listen to would be a distraction to them, but it depends on what I'm doing. So I just try to adapt my conditions to better suit my work style and in turn learn my work style as I go through this. The other point is I like to practice what I call mindfulness moments where we can all get so wrapped up in everything we're doing. And it may seem like the sky is falling after, you know, two and a half hours of back-to-back meetings. Take a moment to just ground yourself, practice mindfulness. And if you're not familiar with mindfulness, this is the whole idea of just living in the moment and getting in touch. And there are multiple techniques, books, sites on this. It's very valuable and it does help keep you sane throughout a day I found. So that's probably what I would suggest. I'm sure Christian's got some wonderful ideas too. No, I like that idea too. I mean, no, one thing I would add that I try to do is and sometimes it feels like obviously you get locked into productivity mode and getting something done. You just, you might suddenly look up and say, wow, I've been sitting here for three hours working on this document or reviewing this. I know it happens, but I do try to get up at least for, you know, five minutes every hour and do something. Thankfully, I've got two little dogs that remind me that it's time to get up and do something. I do too. They're called Brendan and Sabrina. Yeah. Those are, I've graduated from all my, so I got your four adult children and they've all, they're all gone. But yeah, actually we're, we just found out last night, we get our son that's supposed to come home in six months is coming home as soon as he can get a flight from Argentina. So yeah, they're, they're, you're going to be able to make it. Okay. Uh, yeah. No, it's funny. It's, uh, yeah. That's a, that's a different conversation for everybody. But, uh, yeah, it should be fine. Um, but it's, we're not sure when he'll even be able to get a series of flights to back from South America. But anyway, um, you know, one of the things that I've been, I've done is, is, so I've started wearing my fruity watch all the time. And I actually went and subscribed to one of these services that I'm not like dieting, but it's, I'm, I am watching my steps and becoming aware of the time when I'm eating other things, just because I would find that I would forget to eat breakfast and then it's four third in the afternoon. And by the time I'm like, Oh, I'm really hungry, but I've been busy this whole day and why is my stomach bothering me? Right. Or, you know, and, and Sean knows this. I was for a long time was typically like a four and a half, five hour sleep a night guy. And that's not, you give your, you say it was that long. This is the guy who would pound like two monsters at midnight. Yeah, sounds like a developer right now. That part's not happening anymore. But, uh, you know, I'm, I'm constantly drinking. This is my favorite because it doesn't sweat at all. It's awesome. It's always for vice and I've been drinking a, I drink sparkling water all day every day, sugar free. But, um, yeah, but I'm back running again, but just out walking with the dogs and I'm doing that every hour. So you have to do that. Otherwise you, I found for myself, I just get in a rut of, you know, it focused obviously if you're focused, you're getting stuff done in your productive. I'm not saying halt that. Um, but at the end of that burst of productivity, make sure that you get up, move around. And, uh, the fruity watch is great for that because it constantly reminds you to, to breathe, to stand up and kind of those different things, but yeah, well, I, I hit it to buzz, buzzes by, I'm in the middle of a conversation or something to look down. It says, breathe. I'm just like, that's fantastic. Hey, we had Hal join the panel as well. How are you there? Hal, you're on mute. Hal is here, but he is on mute. Trying to figure out the unmute button right now. Unmute him. Hey, Hal, are you there? I'll mute him again. So maybe he walked away. Well, let's go and check again too. I don't see any questions coming up. So we have a few folks that are here attending. Do you have any product questions that you'd like help with? You know, uh, one, a couple of things we could bring up some, some questions that are out there. I saw a couple of people asking about, um, do you have the ability to see in teams? Uh, do you have read receipts on channel discussions? And there were some people that kind of, you know, made kind of mocked the questioner was like, would you have control issues and things like, look, there are valid reasons for wanting to know if, if people are present and are participating. The answer though is, uh, is no in a chat in teams. Of course, that's the exchange based conversation. You can, uh, it's just like an, uh, an email being sent. So you can see if someone has read the message in that chat, but in the channel discussion, you cannot see that. And so your options to find out if people are reading content, you need to survey them. Um, you know, you can throw up a little poll, uh, or something within the channel. Um, and then of course you can put, uh, you can have more visibility over documentation, but just down on the conversation. I don't know anything to add to that. Guys, actually, you know, I've seen people run surveys in teams, but I don't think it's incredibly intuitive. You want to, you want to screen share and actually run one right now, just to show how it's done. Are we both in a place yet? Do you, do you have one up and ready to share? Um, I've never run one. So I'm actually being somewhat selfish here and saying, how do we do this? Well, anything from a survey perspective, Christian, uh, my personal opinion is like, you know, surveys are really good. But to be honest with you, like when you are in a meeting and if someone is not paying any attention and you're putting up a survey in front of the, you know, audience, someone is, oh, there's a question. I just pick up the answer without thinking about that because that will make my participation. And to be honest, you will get 20 to 40% of garbage data, or I would say not the real data of what we ask things or you think you just answered the question to make sure your participation is there. Well, well, that's why the, if you think of the web conferencing technologies that give you some, some data on, uh, whether people are active or passive. And so they can actually read whether, uh, if the, they suddenly the, uh, the screen becomes secondary to their email and you can see that they're not paying attention and they'll actually provide you stats on that data. Within teams, there's not that capability, however. Uh, so I, but I, I completely agree if, if they're not reading the content or the conversation, uh, one, they're not going to see the poll. If they do see the poll, they might go answer, uh, untruthfully and just be, oh yeah, no, I'm paying attention. Click. Yes, I'm reading this, not having read any of the, what you can do is trick people and say in the thread, don't answer the poll, this is only for people that aren't paying attention and then place a poll in there. Ooh, that's a good idea. So you remember those teachers, those teachers that would do that in school, they, they'd say, read the last questions. Admiral Lackbar going, it's a trap. There's the, uh, yeah, we should, uh, we can come up with a list of things you don't, uh, not to do to, uh, to build trust and community. That would be one of them. That's hilarious. I want to try this with my team meetings. Exactly. I know I want to try that as well. Yeah. Just a mess with people. Nice. All right. Uh, yeah. Okay. Uh, yeah, any other, uh, any other issues or questions that have come up recently that, uh, you've been able to answer for people. I had a one on one meeting, um, last Friday. I was recently the background here to, um, set the stage. I was supposed to speak at, uh, the cloud Saturday, the SharePoint, uh, not SharePoint, but rather, uh, the Chicago sub suburbs were running and I had to cancel last minute for that event because my furnace went on the fritz and I found out from the organizers after the fact there were a handful of people who showed up for my session who indicated they had specifically come up to see my session. So I felt really bad. So when I reached out to these folks, um, the organizers, you know, um, uh, Jack Fru, uh, Craig, Janky were kind enough to gather their information, pass it on to me. And I approached them in email and said, Hey, I'd be willing to do like a team session, uh, on my presentation or give you like one hour of time where we sit down and just discuss whatever you want to discuss. Um, and I've had one person take me up on that so far. And that was last Friday. And I got together with this person and we had a, we spent over two hours on a team session. I went through my material. She had lots of questions. She was just, she was relatively new to SharePoint, uh, in the last six months and it sounded like she was with an organization that was adopting, uh, Office 365 and she had a, had the potential to make a great impact there and really influence the way things went. Um, she's a, she's actually a PhD physicist who came from a background studying magnetics, um, which is kind of interesting. My background is chemistry. So, uh, we had a bit to talk about there, but she was wondering, you know, what should she focus on? How can she kind of steer the direction of Office 365 at her company while also getting to know the technology better? So I'm going to kind of redirect your question as, you know, you've probably got some very specific thoughts around this Christian. Um, what are some good ways that somebody just getting into this can not only learn, but maximize the direction their company might be going at the same time, kind of like the just in time, getting things in position and not make any bad decisions when they're starting out. So, um, moving forward perfectly, not not perfectly nothing's perfect, not in this world. Um, I, you know, just kind of in, in, in, in, in general, like how, how do you best look, I mean, my first thought is that like, if you, um, with any, uh, ongoing adoption engagement strategy, um, me, you need to have, uh, you know, the content you need to have, uh, you know, the training, the educational aspect of that you can't just assume that, well, people know how to use the Office suite of tools and, and we had the last version of SharePoint. And so now we move to SharePoint online and though people will figure it out, there's enough that changes on a regular basis that even, you know, every piece that are looking at it on a regular basis, they're like confused by, you know, some changes and, and, uh, have to, right. And we have to talk to each other and be like, are you aware that this button moved or this thing changed or this got renamed or am I doing wrong? Right. Um, and, and so, I mean, I'm a big fan of, of tools like, uh, the, the in context tools, uh, like Visual SP and Content Panda to be able to, uh, you know, in your employees, if you can go and buy a third party tool so that if you're in using something like SharePoint, be like, I don't understand how to use this, turn on the tool, suddenly it highlights, Hey, there's three videos of how to use that function that I'm struggling with. Those kinds of things are really, are really cool. Um, otherwise, I mean, one of the most common questions that I'm asked is, you know, how do you keep up with everything? And the answer is, uh, we don't, yeah, we have to rely on each other. So, uh, I'm constantly, uh, so I follow a bunch of different threads. I follow the Microsoft 365, the, the, um, uh, regarding 365 team, and there's a bunch of people, uh, you know, Daryl's a service on Twitter. So, uh, Daryl Webster and Maureen Strand and, and Alistair Pugin and, and, uh, you know, Tracy Vanderskiff and a bunch of folks that are Daniel Glenn. Uh, I keep going down the list, Sarah Hassi. Anyway, a bunch of people that participate within that, it's just a fantastic community. And then there's of course, live shows, you know, if, uh, you know, if you're into the Power BI and, and the analysis side of things is the bifocal podcast with Himmelstein and John White doing that is fantastic. Um, I mean, I, I really like the, even though I'm not in the, you know, I'm not in the dev space, but the, the PNP broadcast, the stuff that Vesa and, and Walduk do, they are fantastic. Um, I enjoy a lot of those and they're covering a broad range of topics and not always just development topics. Um, and so you just have to go out and kind of consume from the, from the, uh, the community. Hey, we do have a couple of questions from Christine. I want to handle, uh, and it's something I know a little bit about. Um, so the new office app, and if you've not seen it, and, and, um, I should say that, so I did blog about some of this, uh, out on BuckleyPlanet.com. If you go in a couple of weeks ago, I had a blog post on it. Um, but she says that the new office app, she hasn't been able to transfer camera media files using the QR code. Um, she can transfer the word files. However, if I pick media camera photos, I get unsupported file type. Um, not seeing that error message, uh, but I have heard that a couple of people have been, uh, unable to, um, find any, any, uh, videos. Um, and it's, uh, I'm looking for, if there has been an updated response. Well, let's ask first, Christine, what kind of phone do you have? And I'm not seeing anything. Yeah. So what, what I can say is on the, uh, you know, on the second half of your question, we'll come back to that one, see if we can find it, uh, you know, collectively an answer to that. And I think just enough, uh, on this one, uh, there might be a couple of things that you want to check is your global policies on the team side. If your administrator has blocked a certain type file type that they blocked from a transfer perspective, or if you're trying to do, I assume you're trying to do it from your phone, check with your MDM provider as well. You might have some MDM policies deployed that restrict the access from managed app to access non-managed applications as well. That might be an issue as well. So is it, you know, are you even using something like Intune or an MDM, um, is it a company phone or is it your personal phone, that sort of thing? Right. Yeah, because the way that it's supposed to work, yeah, it's a personal phone. The way that it's supposed to work to answer the second half is like when you go into that process and when you, um, when you pair your phone with your PC, for folks that aren't aware of the new office app, so it combines really five apps into one. Uh, so Word, Excel and PowerPoint as well as to some degree, um, the One Drive app as well as Office Lens. Uh, and so it has the nice little office logo. It streamlines that it adds some other additional functionality, some things that we've heard about months ago, like the ability to take a picture of, uh, of a, uh, of a table in a magazine. If you come across some stat, uh, and you're reading along and it can actually convert that table into an Excel usable, uh, you into cells of data. And, and so you can snap a picture, drop it in and then start working with that and modify that data. It can also convert text that's in an image. So again, looking at a magazine and there's OCRs that, that, that content. Um, it, I found that my experience to be a little bit flaky in its, uh, ability to capture and convert that text. Um, but interesting. Again, it, it learns it, it gets smarter. Um, but when you have that big enough to hold it, sorry. I said, I'm glad you have our phone big enough to hold it. Yeah. But it's a problem with that, with that app. It, it, if, if you look at Excel and PowerPoint and word as the separate mobile apps, all three of them have the ability to allow you to put your data and cash into your external storage, your micro SD card. Right. The main outlook that, that, that, that Microsoft thought this app does not. Everything has to stay in main memory. So if you get any kind of busy with it, you're looking at that thing, eating up a couple of gigs of your memory. Yeah. On my phone, I have an old phone. It's an LG G5. It was a pretty good phone in its day. It still works really great. I can't update it any further, but it's only got 32 gigs of RAM. So between, between Office Mobile and Outlook Mobile, I can pretty well eliminate the entire memory in that machine without having another app running. Hal, that sounds dangerously like back in my day. Yeah. Well, it's in, in Hal, out of you saw my blog post that I actually mentioned your comment that you made when I posted that. So yeah, yeah, thanks for that. That's a, that's a, that's a good point, something to watch. The, what I was going to make the other day a lot of two. Yeah. The question of where the files are transferred for Christine, second half Christine's question is that when you have the pairing there, it'll actually, it'll, it'll open it up. And then it'll ask you where you want to save them file, individual file by file. And so what I've not done, I've not gone in there and explored to see, but I didn't see that it's not part of the, of the box experience is to dedicate a location for all those things so it can just move them across. So it does have you. It removes the name of the file. So you know, as you're saving them, it's a, it doesn't transfer, you know, any data into the name of the file, you know, so that you like time stamp or anything other than the metadata that comes with the file transfer itself. But so you have to name the file and then move it, you can move each individual if you're, you know, trying to move 10 images. And I find myself, you know, each time naming it, saving it in one at a time into sometimes different locations. So that's part of that process. If you're not seeing that process, which is automated, it's, it's probably I would, you know, as Ria said, the first half of the question, you know, it could be some other, well, no, it's a, it's a personal phone. So it's not going to be some other, you know, mobile management rule policy that's blocking that. I can still think of app protection policies for unenrolled devices as well. If they might have those, you know, just an example with the in-cune app protection policies, you can configure the policies for unmanaged devices and you can restrict the copy paste or the move of the data from a copied managed app to an unmanaged app as well. So even though if your device is not managed by an MDM provided like in-cune or mobile iron or any third-party MDM, you can still have those app protection policies to protect the data on the application level. Yeah, I know she can set a default storage location with it. So you can at least guarantee that things go there. Yeah. Yeah. And Christine comments that it's kind of surprising she can't find documentation on, on that. Right. I mean, that's the problem. This is like brand new. And this is this is the kind of feedback that we all need to go out to the Microsoft, you know, tech community to that site and go log it as a bug as an issues that Microsoft is aware and they can address it. They are watching and they are listening to this kind of feedback. And so they're definitely lacking some documentation around issues with the new office app. So I think it's just a matter of time before it's out there. But yeah, so Christine, you might want to step back from the bleeding edge to just a cutting edge. Just a suggestion. So helpful, Sean. I know. Thank you for stating the obvious. And I think the next question that we have from Christine, which I actually answered in the chat window as well, it's more of a changing the team meeting information of like who can join the meeting and all this stuff. So you guys seeing these questions is the chat. I'm looking at this. I'm looking at the chat. Well, I have from how and all panelists, but I don't sorry, it's one of the chat is a Q&A session Q&A module. Click on Q&A. Oh, geez. Oh, hey, that does it. So got to be smarter than the app. I got it. Yep. Thanks. Yeah. So I think from this perspective of like who can join or if you can create an open ended meeting that anybody can join. So technically, you can do it at two different levels. One is you can actually have your default configurations in the team. So for as a teams administrator to modify like anyone can join the meeting without any approval. The second one is you as an individual user, you can modify your team meeting information before you send the meeting in white to anyone and you can decide like who can join the meeting. My recommendation or what I would say is do not modify these settings at the tenant level because you might have a lot of meetings in the organization, which are confidential or from a compliance perspective, you do not want anyone to join those meetings, right? If they get the meeting information. So you really, really want to keep it to a very specific meetings like webinars, just an example, right? You want to put it up on the Yammer and just set up a individual meeting and change the meeting options of like anyone can join the meeting and put it up on Yammer or the public forums that you want to put it up, right? But you do not want to set it up at the organization level. Sean, Christian, I think that you guys want to add on this one. You clearly know more about this than I do. I think that I'm just, you know, I just became aware of the application recently. So I'm not on the cutting edge, the latest and greatest. I tend to lag a little bit. So I can appreciate the user perspective. Well, one thing is so there's a couple of questions that are recent questions that are out in the so I'm looking at the Facebook team looks like Chris Christine has a question there. But there's another question that was asked by Marco, you know, yesterday about, you know, is it possible to clear the channels in teams? And let me look at this question with this comment from Christine. Yeah, yeah, I don't know if there's a best practice Christine. Okay, the way she's doing it now, the opening the meeting is to create a meeting with one other person and just copy the link and paste it to Yammer. Was it sure if there was some best practice on doing that? Yeah, so so is it possible to clear the channels and teams? This is one of the first questions that was asked when teams went with live asked in a slightly different way. People it's about the same answer. People were asking, hey, is there a way to archive a channel? And then the question of formerly our team. Well, so that's that's the thing. So the comment that Marco made, he said, look, it's it's becoming messy. And there are, of course, teams is built on on the two other workloads exchange and SharePoint. And so to archive a Microsoft team means that you're archiving all the content and then archiving all the conversations. And so then the default experience is the SharePoint experience for all the content. So your files and images and then all the conversations, the meetings and all of that history is on the exchange side. So you can archive both of those pieces. However, there's not a out of the box way to archive or clear the channel level or in a team. In fact, it's the best thing that you can do without obstructing and removing deleting content and access to people and the conversations that are in there is kind of hide it from your view. And so by default, all of your active teams and channels are visible. And so you can favorite them or unfavorite them and unfavorite thing them removes them from your visibility. And so that's and so our channel or the team that they're again, there are ways of if you need to formally archive, if you're saying, hey, we want to remove this from the system. Note, remove all access that you have to the to the content as it stands archive everything into SharePoint, back at the disk, whatever you want to do, download it to your home PC, whatever the process is for archiving your content. And then the same with the exchange of the conversations, but just realize then all of the chat history, all the context of the conversation to that content is all then disconnected and removed by hiding it. And so you might shut off access to all the content and still have access to the conversations. Is that if then if somebody in a thread of conversation goes and does a historical search finds a conversation that's relevant to what they need to work on now and then finds that they can't get access, they can then at least request access to that content. So they can do that when it's archived when it's but it's still the relationships, the links between conversations and content are all still in the system. So from a historical standpoint, all the data is still there. Yeah, I just dropped a link in the Zoom webinar chat, not in the Q&A module, but somebody at Sharegate actually put up a post on this managed clutter and archive content, how to archive a team and Microsoft teams. So it might be worth a read if you haven't found it already. I'm not doing anything more special than googling it. And just an FYI, I mean, this feature of like having an actual team slash channel to be archived. This is actually one of the features which is requested as part of the user voice. And I was just actually following up that, you know, user voice as well. Microsoft haven't done anything on that yet, but it's actually in the Microsoft to do list as well to actually make it an official feature as far as the Microsoft teams to where users or administrators actually can archive channel slash teams as well. I'm actually going to put it up in the chat window as well just for reference. Excellent. Let's see. I'm just looking. I'm just monitoring on Facebook. Any other questions? We've got 14 more midst during this session. That's it. It's a you talk too much, Christian. I know that. Don't need you to tell me that. Tell me something I don't know. My wife reminds me of that. Yeah, I could appreciate that. I'm reminded of many things by my wife, too. She can't hear me. She's in the other room. She can see this webinar. If she were to tune into this webinar, I would be incredibly impressed and probably incredibly in trouble. Let's see what else. Any other big news that came out, product news that we want to talk about briefly? Anything on the heels of the MVP summit that we're actually allowed to talk about? No, Sean, we're not allowed to talk about that stuff. Those three letters NDA. Yeah. Let's see. SharePoint conference has been checked into next year. I think everybody knows that now. Yeah. Yeah, there's just so many. I was supposed to be in in a week and a half, two weeks. I was going to two weeks out. I was going to be heading over to India to do one of the Ignite, the tours kind of bummed about that. Part of India have not been to. Hmm. Yeah, we were going to have a single conference till June is being postponed or cancer. Yeah. Some of them have dates. Some of them don't hold a sequel Saturday on April 4th, and that's of course gone. You say Phoenix, how? Yeah, I think that's Phoenix. I think just about everything in April and into May, I think the next big one we're waiting to hear about is the Collab Summit in the first week in June over in Germany. So I know Audis is waiting to see how things pan out like I didn't have my flights booked. Yeah, I saw a news article this morning that Germany is seeing the first leveling of new cases. So maybe there's hope. We're not all doomed. Well, by that, I mean, we're all doomed. Yeah. Let's see, what else? What else is new? Open one here. Does anyone know if home sites are GA yet? Also, if you have a single tenant, is there any way to have more than one home site? Good question. And I think the answer is no, you're not allowed to have more than one home site, at least not yet. And I don't know if that's on the product roadmap. I just saw something I'm looking. I just saw something about I don't know if it was that they went GA or that there's a date for GA. Where are you getting your information, Christine? Who are you paying? Yeah. Which JPS you are using that we don't have? Really, because we want access to who's got the open trench coat selling you things. Yeah, I'm not finding anything new on it. So my gut would say it's not su-handling. Oh, well, I don't know if you could trust that su-handling. Yeah, you know, she's she's a little shifty. I'd watch her shifty little Jewish woman. Yeah. Nah, Sue's great. I mean, if Sue says it's out there, even if Microsoft says it's not out there, Sue says it's out there. It's out there. Yeah, I would believe Sue most of the time before anyone at Microsoft. This is a high compliment to people. There are a handful of people in the community that I would say this about. But su-handling is one of those people where who Microsoft goes to to answer a question about Microsoft stuff. This is true. Yeah. There's there's just a few people that are like that. But. Oh, here's one. So I did a blog post about this. Sorry, just saw another comment about teams in hybrid environments and and part of this goes to an announcement. I think it was in Redmond magazine a couple of days ago talking about how teams its forthcoming stuff this year. So there's no GA date for it. But I think it was a Kurt Mackie article was talking about some offline capability in teams. So this has been a question I've heard a few times. I did a blog post back on March 10th. Called Microsoft Teams in a hybrid environment. There's a lot of documentation that's out there. And again, what makes it a little more complex is the fact, again, that it's SharePoint and Exchange workloads and and your hybrid environment. It's I think the minimal impact if you have a hybrid SharePoint environment, so you have SharePoint on-premises as well as using, you know, Office 365 and have SharePoint online because teams is a cloud based service. So you you must have you deploy teams. It deploys SharePoint online and for it to work to its fullest capability, Exchange online. And so by you can't not have SharePoint online. However, you can be running on Exchange on-premises and have the hybrid connector and it will work, although you won't have all the full capability. And so that's it'll be exciting to see Microsoft offer more capability so that with the desktop version of Microsoft Teams that you'll have more of a more robust experience that if you go offline or in a low bandwidth situation where you're able to collaborate and it'll sync as soon as it you know, it catch up when it's back online. That just to say that sounds like hanging a kick me sign on my back right now trying to do that across hybrid. Right. And you know, we can get into the religious discussions of whether you should have a hybrid environment or not and whether the things that you think that you're protecting by having things on-prem are really protected or not. Stop the madness Christian. Sean, do you want to get into that in detail and painful painstaking detail? Do you see me hiding my head right now? It's not the right time. Yeah. Yeah. And also, I see Christine, your comments is the suit posted about teams being up to 350. Haven't seen that one. And especially during this time of increased use and demand and load. So the fact that the if it disappeared, maybe rightly so, I've not seen that. And I, you know, this question was just asked. And I will say, and we had our the MVP summit was last week all week. And where we all should have been in Seattle, but we were online instead. And this actually came up and something from the product team once again said, yeah, there's that cap of 250. So yeah, it's not as a matter of fact. I got one of the things I personally do when it just comes from the PGI's that all the PGI's I watch, it is not at all uncommon for me to have two different teams, sessions going, teams, meetings going at the same time. One of them happened in one of the browser. I can I thought you can run up to three. So you're the guy sucking all the band with hell. I got yelled at for that. I got yelled at for that the first day, please one session at a time because of the two hundred and fifty feet limit. Yep. I was gratified later than lead a couple of a day or two later to find out because they had a they had a little informal pound MVP buzz bar going in the community room. Yep. And a couple of them were saying, oh heck, I had four or five sessions up at once. So I didn't feel so bad then. And in all honesty, I did talk to one of the PMS, the teams PMS. I joined one of the sessions a little bit before the meeting and mentioned that to her and she says, well, basically just just keep an eye on the head count in the room because it's always shown. If it can close, you think about dropping otherwise that you're OK. So for what that's worth. Yeah. But still it's a 250 had limit. Yeah. And it's never a bad idea to go conservative when you're talking limits and software boundaries. One of the if that is a it's an issue for an organization that has you have more than 250 people that you need to include in in a session. And that's what the the the live capability is. And that's up to 10,000 participants. And so for like the keynotes for the summit last week, we're using the live. It was a broadcast rather. So you lose the collaborative capability. But you you got some rudimentary features. One of the things that I also heard that discussions around was Microsoft doing a write up of running the summit and providing that guidance to companies that might want to run an internal, you know, event like that. And so kind of learning from what Microsoft did to build out and run in parallel all of these sessions. Yeah, it's worth it. It's worth pointing out that it was not a flawless experience by it was not. Yeah, lots of folks had connection issues, getting the right links to get to virtual sessions, sessions being rescheduled and canceled. They were dealing with all of that. And so I'm sure they developed a handbook or at least a note list of various practices that worked in those that didn't. So Mr. Steven Fowler joined us. He's asking about did you talk about helping organizations with a Corona portal? We did not. I do know that there are folks who are doing that. At least one company here in the Cincinnati area is trying to rapidly get information out. I don't think I'm at liberty to speak about but I was approached about it. And I know that people are looking at disseminating information via SharePoint. How about you guys? Have you seen anything? I'm looking now. So Mark Cashman provided I think you did the blog post. Hang on. I'm looking for it. And Steven gave us a link to Jared's. Oh, that's what. Oh, that's right. But there's actually a SharePoint template. Oh, kind of a health response. Cool. Thanks for bringing that up, Steven. That's a very timely and appropriate question. Yeah, hang on. I'm out looking for it a second. You demand. No, it's exciting to watch a video of somebody scrolling through Twitter. So the way we've got to do this, I think for the next session is I have to be juggling or something while you're typing. I'll see if I can spruce up my background and do all sorts of interesting things. Yeah, so build a crisis management site to connect people and information out on tech community. Let me grab the link. There it is. Yeah, so I'll put it in the chat there. And I'll put it over on Facebook as well. Yeah, Rusty Brown saying IW Mentor did a great job on the crisis site. So hat tip to IW Mentor. Wonder Laura. Raise our coffee mugs to you. Yeah, wonder Laura and her minions. Well, we've got one more minute. Any other outstanding questions? Of course, they flow in here at the end. Of course, they'll have to just stay tuned for the next one in eight hours. Is that what we're doing? Yeah. Maybe I'll be in my jammies. No, we don't need that. We don't need that at all. Let's see. Yeah, I think that's that's it for questions. That's all I see. So, well, hey, really appreciate, you know, Riaz, Sean, Hal, for joining for those attendees that jumped on at some point. Yeah, we'll be doing this again at 4 p.m. Pacific today. We may adjust on that next week, but the plan is to do this every Monday until we don't need to do it anymore. And I can fully verify that we have no preordained format. It's Q&A. It's an ask the experts panel. That's it. As soon as we find the experts. I know. Well, thanks a lot, everybody, for joining. Thank you. Take care. Bye. Thank you, Christian. All right, what I was saying, all right, this is the new office app. If you've not yet seen it, had a chance to take a look at it. You probably saw some of the press around it. Essentially on mobile devices, it combines three primary apps, but I'd say five apps in total. So Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, as well as to some degree, the one drive application as well as office lens. That's one of my favorites. So it's a tool that I use fairly often. And so it's bundled all that together. It's also some of the capabilities that we knew months ago were coming and where we're waiting for, like your ability to transform an image into text or an image of a table or graph. Because it works with both. I experiment on just a visual graph and the visualization of data. And it converted that into it wasn't pretty what it did with that visual, but it converted into Excel. So I could actually go in and modify with the data that was there. With a table, it's a little bit cleaner. So actually the data that's in the visualization, like if you read a magazine, you see a table of data. You're like, wow, I really want that. And you can't find the source material for it. You could actually take a picture of that. And then it will OCR it and format that for Excel and bring that over. Some people have had difficulty in when you connect with your phone with your PC and transfer files. They're having some issues. And the complaint was, I fully recognize there's a lack of documentation yet for Microsoft on some of those issues. So with any of the problems, if you see issues, please remember to go in and log those issues. It's critical that you do that. So that Microsoft has the data and they can respond efficiently to those things. Because Microsoft, do you think of user voice, if you're not familiar with user voice, where you can actually go and make feature requests? If they have five or more people that upvote something that are like something, then they will respond to that. I don't remember how many, I used to talk about this all the time, I don't remember how many votes that it takes for them to actually move it into a place. I think with any product, you can have thousands of votes and Microsoft says, we're never going to do this. It's not part of the roadmap. It doesn't fit in with our vision for the product. But most of the incremental fixes that people are looking for, Microsoft is very responsive to come back in and either address, especially for something like documentation. If this is a known issue, or if we're all just using the new tool wrong incorrectly in a way that it's not working as expected, and clarify that document and help us out so they need us to respond. So with that, and Hal, are you on? Can you hear me? Yes, certainly, I can. I'm here. So I'm going to turn my video on because I don't think it, I don't think people can. No worries. So joining on the panel so far, we've got Hal Hostetler's fellow MVP. And so we've got a couple of people that are on the call and a couple of people, see how many people are viewing. A few people are also viewing over on the live stream. If you have any questions, yeah, and then Himmelstein's commenting, making some jokes there. Jason, why don't you click on the link, come join the conversation, answer some questions. Hey, Hal, from our call this morning, did you any questions or issues that you've seen frequently out there that you thought would be good to address of this? Sorry, I just got here. What were you discussing before I showed up? I was talking about this morning's call. Yeah, I was talking about just about the office, the new office app. Oh, well, it's one of those things that I wish I could really explore it more. What I'm going to have to do basically is just clean out a whole bunch of stuff off my phone. So I got enough room to sit down and really play and get that thing real. From the point of what it's advertising that we'll do, it should be credible. It's the slickest thing since sliced bread. I mean, I played with it a little bit, a little bit of the text capture of these of using the office lens features and looking at various things. It just surprised the daylights out of me when they came up and showed me all my notes. All of my quick rep, basically, sticky notes right off the bat. It's very easy to set up from the other accounts that I had listed on my phone. Basically, it picked those up and just said, you want them. I said, yeah, and off we go to the races. It sets up. It's smooth. It's slick. I really haven't run into a lot of bugs again because of the memory issues. I haven't played with it extensively. Well, no worries. Hey, Hal, I wasn't talking about it. I was talking about any other questions, not about the office app, but anything else that you see, frequent questions that are out there. So as we're waiting for any questions to be asked from the crowd, the almost crowd, I was just kind of covering off that topic and other things that I've been trying to answer for the community over the last couple weeks through my blog. I talked to this morning about hybrid in teams and Microsoft Effect. I just reposted a link today earlier today. It was actually a Redmond Channel Partners magazine. I think it was Kurt Mackey article where he talked about the new features and I don't have it open. Of course, I don't have it open in front of me. But talking about how Microsoft Teams will have an offline or a low bandwidth option or capabilities built into it. So that's something I look forward to. We also talked about this morning briefly. So Mark Cashman did an article out on March 9th called Build a Crisis Management to Decide to Connect People and Information. And so if you've not looked at that article, it's just another great resource if you are looking at enabling your organization and more information about what's going on just internally or just in general in country. Let me share that link. There it's in the chat and I will also post it over on Facebook and there we go. That link is there. So that came up today. Let's see. And kind of adding onto that, it's been one of the more popular blog posts in the last 30 days. It's been up at the top three of the posts that I've written as part of the monthly productivity tips webinar that I do with Tom Duff, which we're doing tomorrow, by the way, if you're interested in specifically end user productivity and some team. So most of them are individual but some are team-based productivity activities. But one of the ones that I shared that I wrote about is the Build Your Own Learning Portal with Learning Pathways and pointed people to a, and I will share the link to this as well, if you're interested. If you've not yet gone and built a learning portal, it's just a SharePoint template, as well as then a number of just content resources by industry, by role, just a bunch of great content that's out there. So you can go and customize and build something with content out of the box from Microsoft. Of course, you can always add that on with your own content and build out a portal. But there's the link in both locations as well to that. And let's see. There's Danny. All right, so for the folks that are on watching, let me move. Sherman, though, where it needs to be over here. Any questions that we can answer for you? And this might be Hal and Sherman. It might be us chatting. You know how these things generally go is that the questions all roll in right within the last, like, five, 10 minutes. Oh, I guess when I have to pull out is 445 Pacific. So how are you doing? Believe it or not, yeah, I'm pretty good. How are you doing? Are you going to come on camera or are you being shy? I can. Did I comb my hair? Hang on a second. I'm not going to use this thing. There he is. I'm glad you combed your hair. It would have been embarrassing. And shaved, though. Yeah, well, do I? Yeah, it's the hey, I don't know where to go. Nobody to impress. Well, you know, my wife and there's Hal. He's muted, but at least we can see him now. So we can. There's about that either. Oh, it's great to have both of you guys on. Yeah, the point of this is that if there's people that queue up questions, maybe next week we'll try it again and people will have asked questions. I'll actually be posting the recordings out to YouTube and not on the blog and queuing up any questions. So I don't know. Helen Sherman, are there any questions that you've heard or people have asked you in the last week or so that you'd like to share some guidance with the audience? It's definitely been a lot more interest, obviously, with teams. And this sudden rush to have everyone work remotely. I mean, we're all seeing that all the crazy activity on Twitter. And you also saw I'm actually doing a couple of sessions tomorrow for a company saying, hey, help us do a quick intro to teams. And of course, because they're being rushed into it, one of the things that they're saying is like, but we're not ready to open it up to the actual team's part. So they're just using it basically as a Skype replacement just for the one-on-one chats and the ad hoc chats. So that'll be challenging. There's a few groups that have used it. So I'll be doing two sessions. One session is actually for the sales team that and the leader there is really gung-ho about using teams and gets it. So the session will be a little bit different, but it'll be interesting to see how it works for the, because I said to the IT manager, so just to be clear, you don't want me to talk about teams itself, even though it's kind of an icon that's right beneath chat. I'm like, OK, all right, I get that. So that's one thing. And to your point about the crisis management, it's interesting. I haven't played around with that yet, but a lot of the companies, again, that I've been working with, well, the two or three or whatever, they've already got something going on, like they didn't know about it. So they said, hey, we'll create a communication site and communicate with our employees, and then we'll have a separate team collaboration site for the response team. So again, in that second scenario with second client, they've rushed into it. I'm seeing kind of stuff that is done in teams that I wouldn't recommend, but they're in it, right? That's kind of like, again, they're very reactive. It's like, hey, help us kind of do this, that, and the other. And I'm looking at going, OK, well, how much do I say? And I keep my mouth shut because they're being slammed with just COVID-19 related stuff, and we'll fix some of the other issues later. Yeah. That's, it's hard. I was thinking about some of the issues, the questions that have come up. I've seen over in the Office 365 community page on Facebook, which is a fairly active community in Facebook. And so I always post content over there, of course, out in tech community as well. But there's, out on the Facebook group, there's just a ton of questions from folks that are obviously brand new to teams, a lot in the education sector that are having problems getting things up and running. And we were kind of talking about this morning's session about problems with the app and making sure, like, does your organization have some policies in mobile device management that could be impacting that? And the, I think it's some of the similar issues. Things that we tend to forget about is a lot of these issues with just set up a configuration, especially when you have a very distributed organization being sensitive to the fact that, hey, we might not have a standardized desktop and how people are trying to connect. And so I think we're, it's kind of like, just brought me back to some of the questions back in the early days of SharePoint and the, you know, before it was called Office 365, the MMS times of dealing with basic connectivity issues before you even start talking about functionality. So that's been interesting. But when you have, what was the person, like 500% increase in usage in a week and a half or whatever it was, just crazy numbers of growth around it? Just like our stocks. There you go. And as we can see, that'll all be sustainable. Yeah. But yeah, it's, you know, so there's, and the other thing that we have to be careful not to forget about is that, especially in the MVP community, the experts, the speakers, the people that travel around do all these events is that, I mean, I understand we tend to get bored with some topics that we've done dozens of times at multiple events and kind of move on. And we're excited to go jump on the next greatest, the next feature, whatever comes coming out. And people still need to have those fundamentals covered. And so it's good to, you know, things like this. I'm happy to answer even basic questions about, you know, using the applications. Just checking to see if there's any other... Yeah, Phil is on chatting it up, but he doesn't want to, he's too frightened to come and join us on the panel, apparently, but seeing some comments over on Facebook. What else? Besides Microsoft Teams, I know that's the hot property. Did either of you guys catch the webinar we had Antonio Mayo do a webinar for our local user group last week? And of course, we broadcast that out there on Project Cortex. I did not see that. So that is... I didn't either. I should share that link, hang on. Well, I don't have an organization, I don't have a customer that's part of the beta that's going on. So I don't have any deeper insights into what's happening there than anyone else. But if you're looking for, if you want to know about Project Cortex, what it is, and just an overview. Antonio did a great job. Okay, there it's in the chat. Portex overview, paste that over in Facebook as well. Yeah, so I mean, there's just some exciting stuff that's coming out. A lot of search-based stuff, a lot of Project Cortex is all AI and searched based and giving a snapshot of what Microsoft is, where they're going with the technology. It just kind of reflecting back on in the last 15 years and how I apologize since Sherman and I both come from the SharePoint side of things to talk about SharePoint a little, but entering into space. And it used to be all about keeping the servers up and running, and so much of the content. It was even, IT Pro was like 50, 60% of the content. You go to a SharePoint Saturday or other event and so much of it was about that IT Pro perspective, little bit of Dev and tiny bit of end user. And now it's like 50, 60% end user, power user, low code, no code, but really geared towards information workers and business users. And then IT Pro and Dev kind of equal chunks on that side. And the conversation has moved from keeping the lights on to, hey, we'll just assume the lights are on and here's what you now need to do with the technology to innovate more quickly, to improve efficiencies to optimize your systems, all those kinds of things. And so I really feel like we're at this place where we have the luxury of talking about productivity. Where before, productivity would be great once we make sure that our backups are happening, that the servers are staying on. Yeah, certainly lower barriers to entry. I'm still finding, in my experience, there's a lot of IT departments and organizations that still are thinking kind of the old school mentality, I'll call it. Not really, kind of more as a reactive service as opposed to engaging with the business and figure out what the business problem is first and then trying to solve it without a box. Office 365, I'm also still dealing with a lot of kind of SharePoint specific type thinking, where they're thinking, how do we do this in SharePoint? As opposed to thinking beyond that, saying, well, hey, if you have an E3 license, you have more than just SharePoint, so maybe it's using Planner, maybe it's using it. Did you know you don't have to put that MP4 file in a document library or you use YouTube? There's something called Stream, right? So there's still a lot of lack of knowledge about that and it's about educating the business about the services that are available. And a lot of IT organizations are just still too busy for whatever reasons on various legacy systems that they aren't able to reach out to the business and fully understand what the business problem is and then also bridge that by saying, okay, well, here's what I know about Office 365 and here's how to bridge that gap because they're just too busy to learn some of that stuff. So definitely what I'm trying to still, what I still find is a lot of IT departments don't yet fully embrace the role of a collaboration specialist. Yeah, and that's been a long battle. It's been that way for a long time. And that topic too of understanding, I mean, that goes back to my project management days of having arguments with engineers about designing something without fully understanding what we already had in place. Like why are you going and starting to build something new? Like half of what you're talking about, we already have and we could modify or... Well, kind of as you point out, is that usually with something like Microsoft 365 licensing, there's just so much under the hood. Think of just individual workloads. You can think of products like Excel and Word where you have, you've generically used the 80-20 rule of we do 80% of our activity on 20% of the features and we have no idea about the other 80% of the features. Most people aren't just not getting down that granular into those features and use doing those special cases and yet it can do so much. And most of the Microsoft products are like that. There's just so much under the hood. And so that's why you should not build requirements based on your understanding of what a product can and can't do but have your requirements independently and then ask those questions and apply the technology to know whether it can actually meet those requirements or not but always start with the requirements. Yeah, and I think what's something that's like that concept is so basic and core for someone like you and me and I still, it still surprises me how it's not to a lot of others that are very tech-focused their brain just automatically goes I think it to solution mode and how can I do that in OneDrive? How can I do that in Excel? How can I do that in OneNote? Whatever it is. And yeah, I find that still kind of interesting. Like for me, it's never really about the technology like we're using Zoom, I have no issue with it. I have to get an update but it's what works because I can understand that in this scenario, teams won't work. Yeah, but it's funny too is I've gotten some grief from people like and why are you using Zoom and so, well this morning, so one of my clients, partner companies, they did a webinar and tried using a different streaming technology. They're using it for the same, doing essentially the same thing. They're using another third-party tool. Of course, they're then, you know, we're showing is an extranet user manager had their webinar and they did a great job. They're using, I think it is VMIX and showing everything within teams and doing that. Audio wasn't fantastic in that mix. And so, you know, while I would love to use teams for everything that I do, but as we all know, for a webinar with external anonymous access to it and to stream, like it doesn't do those things. It's that's not what it's built for. And so I run all of my webinars through Zoom and it has the simulcast, so I can stream it on Facebook or YouTube and records and all the pieces that I need are there. There's some other automation. So use the tools that make sense that are the right fit. Don't, well, you know, I always argue that there, I've not run into an organization in a long time that would say like, we are only a Microsoft shop, period. Or we're only, you know, you can't say that about Apple because it's hardware and the software's not there. But we're, you know, any one technology stack. They used to be, it was they're Microsoft and we're all Microsoft or we're all IBM or whatever it was and they go use all those different things. And they were just diehard on those things even if, you know, a bunch of the core pieces were incredibly weak. And anyway, you don't find companies that are like that now. And I would argue that that was never actually true when you kind of dig into the, you know, into the ranks and people would, they wanna get work done. They wanna use the right tools that are gonna help them get their jobs done. And that's that whole shadow IT there. If the IT organization says you must use this tool and that tool is crap. Yeah, we know, but we are, you know, we will only use these tools and users will go around you. Yeah. It's much harder to enforce that nowadays unless you throttled the internet and have a gateway on it, right? Be a gatekeeper. Exactly. We've got a few more people that are watching. Again, if you have any questions you'd like us to address, you know, feel free to ask away. We're here. We're just talking. We're chatting while we're waiting for questions to come in. So we had a handful of questions in this morning session. And again, if you're wondering what we're doing here, this is just the Microsoft community office hours and collection of people that are, you know, experts and MVPs and consultants that are very involved in the Microsoft community. And we're gonna try and do this two different times every Monday, just for the next few weeks. Well, we'll see how long this period of, you know, it would call it this self-isolation. Yeah. Mini-darkness. Lockdown. Yeah. Yeah. When is your first session? What, I didn't see that this morning. It was at 8 a.m. Pacific. Oh, all right. Yeah. It will be at 8 a.m. Pacific next week as well. So I'll have to, I'll go back and look at the schedule, but I think we'll push this one, this second session, back an hour. So it'll start at five. So we hopefully get a few more folks in the early time there and let's see. Any other comments there? Just looking at, let me see if there's any, any other questions that have come in? Let's see. Yeah, just looking through some of the questions over the last day or two out on the Office 365 community. And there's, right on the top, there's a couple of connectivity issues with, as we were talking about with teams and the education sector. Let's see. Oh, there's somebody's asking about whether Microsoft has gotten rid of the track changes for Office 365. And I didn't go and dig into this, that was news to me. It looks like Tracy Vaterskiff responded that track changes still exist in Office Pro Plus. Yeah, I don't know if either of you know anything about that. Yeah, I'm gonna have to go dig into that because if it's changed, if it's gone away, I mean, that's a big thing. Last I checked it was still there. Yeah, it was, again, news to me. So, let's see other questions, more activations. Yeah, so what else do the two of you guys have going on? Any webinars you were mentioning? Just Sherman, internal webinars tomorrow? Like customer training stuff? Yeah, they had rolled out internet based on SharePoint communication sites last, late last spring, last summer. And so they just reached out to me again, a lot of the blue super quickly and said, hey, with this whole thing going on, a lot of people working remotely, one of our C-level people or Bibi Gang Ho about teams. Can we do what we talked about last year? Can you whip that something up forward like in a few days? Yeah, sure, we can do that. So all it is is a quick walk around with Microsoft Teams introduction. You know, won't be diving too deep into anything. Probably won't get a chance to touch too much into the file sharing and SharePoint aspects of it. Except with that one sales group, we probably will because they're already starting to use it. It'll be interesting again, I said, I don't know how it's gonna go with not talking about the Teams aspect and just talking about the chats. I had to test this morning to see whether or not I could record, if there's a one-on-one chat, can I do a recording on that? I think the answer is no. So I said, you know, make a note to scratch that, don't talk about this on Wednesday. Yeah, that's a key feature. In fact, somebody was just, where did I see this? I just highlighted that. Oh, I know what it was. Oh, yeah, sorry, that's something I can't talk about. That came at the last week's summit. I'm just like, oh, yeah, this, that topic just came up. What was the, oh yeah, so it's something I can't talk about. All right, so never mind. I was gonna bring something up about meetings, but I won't now. Any other webinars or anything else? Do a little promo, do you have anything else coming up in the next week or two, Sherman? No, I'm not that big time like the rest of you. No, big time. Hal, how about yourself? Do you have any webinars or anything coming up? That I'm putting on, no, that I'm watching. There's that one that you're putting on tomorrow afternoon. I am going to be there for that, let's say. Is that the security one? Is that the extra net user manager security one? Yeah, actually, I won't be gone for that one. I've got, because I'm part of our, it's our monthly user group. So helping run that session, which we've transitioned shockingly, we'll be doing it remotely, I know. Yeah, so we've moved all that to Teams. But yeah, that was a great session today. So fellow MVP Peter Carson, he did a session today. I've got a link to it on my Facebook page and of course you can go to eum.co and find it. He's doing a webinar series on how to be successful working remotely. And so kind of kick things off the first one, just talking about navigating around basic capability of Teams. So Sherman, you might want to go take a look at that. It's like 30 minutes long, what he covered to get any ideas. It's not stealing if you think good thoughts. Is that a webinar that already happened or? Yeah, that just happened, that one happened today. So he's doing a three in a row. So same time tomorrow and about, I think about 30 minutes again on security. Here, let me. You're still with Peter Carson? Yeah. So if you go to eum.co, extra net user manager and into the events, resources, events and you'll see the details there. So yeah, that was the, tomorrow is the, oh, it's a series. You click on the top one. So it was running your organization remotely, leveraging Teams and Office 365, that was today. So that recording is up there as you can go and watch the on-demand recording. Tomorrow is securing Office 365 and Teams. And then on Wednesday is extending Office 365 and Teams to your partners, which is, yeah, it's an important topic for a lot of organizations that are, that whole extra net solution and how you can leverage the tools that you have to accomplish those goals. Anyway, so yeah, if you follow me on Facebook and you scroll down from this live session and you'll actually see the link to that recording or just go to eum.co. Yeah, I got it, right, there we go. Yeah, so I've got, yeah, tomorrow, I don't have it all open here. So there's, I think tomorrow's user group session here for Utah is an SPFX session. And then after that, Tom Duff and I have our productivity tips webinar. And I know I should show the link. So, and we called it and I think, Hal, I don't know if you've attended one of those, but we tried to come up with fun names for each one of them. And this month, we named the productivity tips very original, I think, I'm gonna trademark it. We called it March Madness. So, makes a good deal of sense, yeah. Yeah, so, and so there's the link to that and I'll share it within the chat here. Oh, it's a lot of fun about this. So Tom and I have been doing those productivity tip webinars for about three years now, not quite every month. We're trying to make it every month. We've got like the next three or four months booked out, dates set for them. But what's fun about this is with our format, we've got kind of the boxing match format or wrestling, whatever works. We've got the ring and then we share 10 different productivity tips. They're not always new. We try to introduce some new features and capabilities, but there are plenty of oldies, a bit goodies, but that we've never covered in these sessions. And then Tom and myself, we both go and we try to blog about things and expand each of those topics. And then we have people, here's the thing. The other person has no idea what is the other's gonna share. So we go head to head and it might be me sharing a tip on using one note and he might do SharePoint. And then we have the audience do a quick little vote and we take a poll. And right now Tom is ahead in the polls, but I'm still investigating. There's an asterisk that I've placed by that, those wins, still investigating how he cheated. I don't know how or whether he did or not, pretty sure he did. Now if we do this and share those out, so if you go out to, again, out to my blog, you'll be able to see up at the top of my blog. So if you just go to buckleyplanet.com, you'll see up in the menu, the nav bar, it says productivity tips. And click on that and that will get you to all of our recordings, the videos, the blog posts for each one of these will actually point to each individual tip. And so because we're clearly, we're not gonna share 10 productivity tips that everybody's interested in all 10 of those things. It might be only one, two or three that you're really keen on investigating and potentially using. So all the slides are available, but you can actually click on a link directly to that tip that's being shared in the video and just watch those three to five minutes about that tip. So we tried to have fun. We kind of poke fun at each other throughout the hour, but I mean, every single month I learned something and Tom I know has said the same thing. We both learned something. We share some things that neither of us have seen or you hear about something and the months go by and you're like, oh yeah, I remember hearing about that, but I never took a look at it. So, people seem to like it. We enjoy doing it. So that's happening tomorrow as well. That's at, I guess I could click on it and it'll tell you the time when that is. Nine Pacific. Nine Pacific. So right behind. Yeah, that's what I was talking about actually. Yeah, it's happening right behind this. Oh, that's the one you're talking about? Yeah, that's always a lot of fun. So let's see, any questions that come in? Let's see, Phil's in there liking everything, but he doesn't have any questions or he's not joining to try and answer. Yeah, maybe we just have this session is that we've got 13 minutes more of it at the wrong time for APAC. It's still a bit too early. We need to push it later in the evening to get bigger audience. That's all right. I knew going into this that it could be us sitting here in silence waiting for questions to come in, but it's kind of how office hours work. You know, in fact, so I started blogging about this. So I'm gonna, I'll write about it tonight, but so back in my PM days, back in the mid 90s, working for the phone company in the San Francisco Bay Area of course we didn't have some of the great tools that we have now for, you know, so we certainly didn't have co-authoring and co-editing and when the web meeting tools finally came out a few years later, we're a bit pricey. So one of the things that we used to do, of course we had our intranet and those resources, but we had our conference line. So we're the phone company. So we had a lot of those conference lines, but one of the things that we would do is we would in our, so I was in, you know, the IT team, we were, I worked for Pacific Telesis shared services organization. So we were kind of a shared services IT team for multiple business units around Pacific Bell. And we just leave a phone line open 24 hours a day, sometimes multiple days, if a project was going on. And that was, it was pretty expensive to do that. However, you know, we had sometimes, especially when data center projects were coming online or we were doing a massive migration or an upgrade, there might be people there around the clock working from the support desk. And so having that phone line on, and so that anytime you could like jump on and you'd hear in the background, people typing away or a conversation and you'd literally just kind of shout in the phone, like, hey, hey, who's there online? And then have a discussion around that, but it's great now to have the synchronous, the real time collaboration as well as the asynchronous capability so that you're able to kind of follow along on stuff. So that was another, in all this downtime and quiet time in my time out walking the dogs in the beautiful nature thing, longer walks than I was doing a month ago. With all that going on, I've been thinking about some of these things, like, yeah, remember how we used to do that? That was, we're really blessed now with some of the capabilities that we have. Anyway, I'll pause from talking. If you didn't tell, my voice is going a little bit anyway, so that's not something that happens with coronavirus, is it? The voice disappears. Yeah, I don't think so. I think there's more to it. Yeah, I think so too. But I found that, so on the weekend, I woke up, just normal wake up and kind of had to sniffle them like, oh no, what is that? Quickly look up the symptoms. Do I have a headache? Do I have a fever? It's crazy, it's just getting this all messed up. Yeah, well, I've had, it's that. So I had, you know, in majority of my life, living in California, I had allergies my entire life. Moved to Seattle and lived there for 12 years. And it's like my allergies almost completely, I'd say 95% just disappeared. I'm surprised by that though, right? Because I think it's pretty potent up here. I know, I'm just telling you, whatever they have in Seattle, I was not allergic to. We moved to Utah three years ago. My allergies all came back with, you know, in an angry wave. And so I, anyway, I'm on some new, you know, just anhistamine stuff and it dries out my throat. So of course I have like just the dry cough thing. And every time I cough, my wife is just like, I'm like, no, I don't have that. Like, not that I know of. Well, that's the thing, how do we know, right? Yeah, of course that's the thing. I'm unfortunately in the 70-ish category with, you can tell from that. And I've had a couple of problems along the way. So that's, it's a scary, scary time. Yeah. Well, stay safe, Hal. Like, don't interact with people. Don't touch anything. Don't touch your face, touch anything. Certainly don't touch people. Yeah, well, for the, oh, for my background, you can't see that. What I did is like, I've got to go to old fashioned paint stirring handle and I keep that here. And if I need to scratch something, we do it that way, you know, I can spray this puppy with alcohol and stuff. And the same thing would apply if you've got a bamboo back scratcher around. Those work real good too. I need one of those. That's a great idea. That should be on your, see, that's what we need. We have all of these tips for working from home. It's all about technology. We need to have the low to no tech tips for working from home with things like that, like, like legitimate little, like having a back scratcher. Of course, now to get one, have to order it off of Amazon for a dollar store. But yeah. Order from Amazon because you don't want to go into the dollar store because the dollar store is full of people. Yeah. So, fortunately, I already had one and the paint paddle was current and see it put the local home people a year ago. So I just happened to find it and say, yeah, that'll work. Well, we kind of shared this morning, how, you know, kind of our tips for working from home. So I think the challenge for you and I is let's, why don't we close this thing out in the next five minutes? But, you know, like, what are your, like, you know, something different, some other tips. Like I shared this morning about getting up like every hour and doing something. So getting up and forcing yourself to move around. I'll think of something different too. So Sherman, you didn't go this morning. So, you know, what are your kind of tips or best practices for work from home? I don't know if I have one. I just, my routine is, just think I'm just grateful for that coffee machine. Yeah, I don't, I definitely can attest to, you know, changing your clothes. And like you can see, I don't shave every day anymore because working from home, not always on screen or anything like that. Then I need to do a better job of forcing myself to just even go around the block and just walk around the block or nearby parks to get out of here. And otherwise, like it happened today is I can look at the clock and it's two o'clock and I realized I hadn't eaten yet. So it's just one of those busy times right now, but yeah, definitely take time to step away from the computer, that's for sure. Yeah. Hal, anything that you would say differently from this morning, Chair? No, that's pretty much it. I just, you know, keep your distance. That's for me, unfortunately, I pretty much look at someone who, at other people as you've got a loaded gun pointed in my head, I'm gonna stand away from you. You know, I just, and maybe that's the long way to look at it. And yeah, I will have to be the first one to admit that I'm as much fighting the hysteria as anyone. But at the same time, I would like to see the next year's summit. I wanna be around to be another MVP for next year and the pickup on the Seattle trip that I didn't get to go to this year. And truthfully, I gotta admit, just the way they were able to turn that around and put on that virtual summit, regardless of its shortcomings and the problems that were inherent with it, that was a monumental effort. And I really do have to thank them for the kind of hard work that they put in to make that happen. You know, I don't know how you can turn an event around like that quickly, but they did it and I am. Yeah, it was pretty amazing for those that, Hal's talking about, for those that aren't MVPs and weren't able to participate last week in the MVP summit is they ran the entire thing on teams. And it, yeah, I mean, look, they're like we do. With anything online, you're gonna have some people that have connectivity issues and different things. But I think after, I mean, I heard about a couple minor things on days two and three and four, but it went pretty well. So my understanding is that their Microsoft is gonna kind of write up like what they did and share that out for other organizations that would like to run an internal event or potentially something like this with so many external partners with MVPs from around the world. I mean, that's almost a Nobel Peace Prize effort. This is they need to do, Microsoft has been good the last few years about doing the, here's how we did it and sharing that out. I know CSCO, which is now the rebranded, the old IT, MSI IT organization. They've done a pretty good job at kind of capturing what they did. That's, you know, Karawana did that for years. Pune owns that now if you know Pune and her team and really kind of sharing like, hey, here's how we did this. Here's what we learned from that. Here's what we would do differently. And so I'm looking forward to reading up on the write-up of what they did. You know, partly postmortem for that, you know, activity and the other half is that there's no reason why any other organization can't go and do something similar. So, yeah, should be great. All right, well, with that, I'm just looking to make sure if there's anything else on there. It doesn't look like any questions have come in. So, you know, Sherman and Hal, you know, thanks a lot for your time here and we'll do this again next week. So we will be, I'll confirm for the afternoon for this session, it might be an hour later, but definitely at 8 a.m. Pacific next Monday and we'll be on. So if you're watching the recording, if you'd like to join us and be part and ask questions and we should have a handful more of MVPs, of course, Sherman, Hal, you guys are both welcome back. I think we can have up to like a hundred people on here. I think it's a pretty high number. We'll not get anywhere close to that. So, but, you know, feel free to jump in and there's Sean right at the end, just as we're shutting it down. Thank you, Sean, for nothing, for absolutely nothing. Yeah, you got the hour wrong. Yeah, it's all right. Hey, next week, you will have joined right at the right time because we're gonna push it back an hour. Yeah, so it's all right and we don't hear you anyway. So, yeah. All right, thank you, Sean, for so much, for all that you've done. Again, I say with as much sarcasm as possible. My work here is done. Thank you, thank you, George Costanza. All right, hey, thanks a lot guys and we'll see you online through other activities but next week. See you Monday. All right, bye. Get easy.