This week sees a valuable accessibility feature arrive in Microsoft Teams. Live captioning has been making an impact to PowerPoint presentations and now expands to Teams, making meetings more inclusive. Also this week: – Microsoft Surface hardware announcements – Microsoft Compliance Manager permissions changing – Updated SharePoint start page – Changing timestamps in Message Center posts – Updating default setting for live captions/subtitles in teams – OneDrive / SharePoint email language localization – Voice Administration in Teams admin center – Service health dashboard email notifications – Upcoming changes to Yammer GDPR Process – Live captions in Eng-US available in teams meetings Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell Webster as they cover…
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Back to the ATL 2019
I hope you will join me in Atlanta Georgia on October 19th for SQL Saturday Atlanta - BI Edition!
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User adoption urban myths
While at SharePoint Fest, Sarah Haase and I recorded the 5th episode of The Coffee Chat on 365 Adoption series. Our previous episodes have included topics on: Why is user adoption so difficult? How to run effective user adoption events, user adoption planning, and more! For this episode, we tackled the user adoption urban myths and misnomers – sort of a ‘mythbuster’ episode. We went through several myths that we see in organizations today. These included one suggested by Darrell Webster: “We hire smart people. They'll figure out how to use Office 365 for themselves.” Other myths included “If you build it, they will come”, “Once the killer feature is…
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Music City Tech 2019
Music City Tech is one of the largest technology conferences in Middle Tennessee and is happening over three days – September 5th, 6th, & 7th. This year's conference is made up of Music City Code, Music City Agile, and Music City Data – three separate conferences all joined under the banner of Music City Tech. Each conference has its own focus, schedule, and speakers. This year I'm giving two presentations aligned with Music City Data and I will deliver both sessions on Saturday September 7th. Tickets are selling fast and they sell out every year, so get yours today! I hope to see you there! Music City Tech Website …
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Add a dictation button to the quick access menu
I love using tools that enable me to get the job done and move on. One feature that does just that is the dictate function in Microsoft Office. Office Dictation allows me to speak words rather than type them and has sped up the process for creating documents for me. One of the things I've noticed slowing me down while using the dictate function has been the need to click the Office Dictate button in the ribbon to start the process. I recently went on Twitter to ask for a shortcut key to start the dictate process. Can we please get a keyboard shortcut for @Office dictation? It would be…
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New York City Office 365 Saturday 2019
Join me in New York City for the 2019 edition of Office 365 Saturday. The event will be July 27th and you can get all the details on the website www.spsevents.org/city/nyc/nyc2019. I'll be doing a session about using your on-premises data with cloud tools, such as Microsoft Flow, PowerApps, and Power BI. Register now and I hope to see you there! [Update] Thank you everyone for attending! I had a great time and I hope you learned something new. For those in my session, here are my slides: #SPSNYC 2019 Also, here is the recording of the session: