How is the world of remote working treating you? Are you able to work well and focus? This week we chat about how to track your work effectively with Microsoft 365 and some techniques for staying focused.

Part 1 focuses on the news and what we’ve been up to.

If you would like to appear on the show, please drop us a line using the form at https://www.greyhatbeard.com/upcoming-shows. We’d love to hear from everyone, especially if you’re not an MVP and would like to be heard more in the community.

Kevin (the grey)

• Great post from Chris Tubb (via Sharon O’Dea) on search not working for you
• Reduced seat requirements for multi-geo
• United Nations breach from unpatched SharePoint

Garry (the beard)

• Managed Metadata REST APIs - demoed on PnP Community Call
• Multilingual Portals

  • Demonstrated on another PnP Community call
• Office 365 Groups renamed to Microsoft 365 Groups
• Getting started with Office 365 CLI and PowerShell
• Identify and report on Microsoft Teams Private Channels using Office 365 CLI and PowerShell
• Welcomed new team member to Office 365 CLI team - Albert Jan-Schot (CTO) Portiva

Al (the hat)

• SharePoint 2010 end of extended support - extended to April 13 2021
• Concentration with VOIP - link to the program on Smart Phones that Al mentioned below

  • On BBC4 for those in the UK
  • On Netflix
• The challenges of time
• Email and Outlook - Add a zoom meeting in Outlook.com with the Zoom for Outlook add-in

Events

• Kevin and Al speaking at Global Con 2 from Collab 365 from June 15th-19th - click links below to register for free:

  • Kevin is covering how to run a virtual workshop using Microsoft Teams
  • Al is covering To-Do, Doing, Done: How to manage work
• Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon
• Microsoft Business Application Summit - 6 May
• [London Power Platform User Group - 23 April] - (https://cutt.ly/LondonPPUG)
• [Black Country Power Platform User Group - 12 May] - (https://www.powerplatformug.com/meetings/event-description?CalendarEventKey=f848e6de-25f1-4ed3-bef9-4974299dad38&CommunityKey=7986d889-136e-46fb-98b1-b8703c04e1d8&Home=%2fcommunities%2fcommunity-home%2frecent-community-events)

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