In episode 6 of the Stories of Modern Work Podcast, I spoke with Mr Joel Oleson a Microsoft MVP and Senior IT Manager at Blizzard Entertainment as our guest to share his experiences and thoughts on Office 365 as a Modern Work tool.

Here are some key points we discussed in the episode.

• Joel shared the genesis of Office 365. The story about how it all started!
• Office 365 Feature Release cadence (inner ring and outer ring) and how to deal with ever changing product suite.
• Feedback on Office 365 message center and roadmap.
• Targeted Release vs Standard Release - Which one should you be on?
• Modern Work is about taking the advantage of the tools and technologies today to work the best you can right now!
• OneDrive for Business - File On-Demand is changing the way users think about the cloud file storage.
• OneDrive for storage limits.
• Setting up Information Architecture using Hub Sites, Managed Metadata, User segmentation using location based metadata classification.
• Guidance on how to deal with out of the box limitations in Office 365 Apps and Services.
• Usage of the Power Platform starting to pick up and users are already getting some business value.
• Guidance on InfoPath Form migrations.
• Strengths of Office 365 when compared with other similar SaaS products.
• Easy of using Microsoft Stream
• Guidance on branding Office 365 Apps.
• Content Panda Link
• Windows Edge using Chromium browser engine will bring in the possibility to use browser extensions to enhance UX of Office 365 users.
• Guidance on Yammer vs Microsoft Teams

Links mentioned in the episode:

https://collabshow.com/2019/01/07/how-to-get-unlimited-onedrive-for-business-in-a-nutshell/

https://github.com/SharePoint/PnP