CIAOPS Learn is here

One of the most common stumbling blocks I see with business today, especially when it comes to using technology is that most simply don’t have the minimum skills to drive productivity benefits. This means that technology becomes more of a hinderance than a help.

This lack of digital literacy has arisen simply because of the low priority that training has been given within the organisation. Many businesses seem to expect their staff to learn technology on ‘the fly’ or in their own time. This is not an environment where people can grow their knowledge about the products and most simply revert to using the ‘minimum’ with each product and fail to explore the full range of options and services that are available to them.

This lack of digital literacy is even more the case with services like Office 365 that are constantly being upgraded and enhanced. Without dedicated time to learning the vast majority of the benefits of these tools are going to remain hidden from the business. This in turn makes them less competitive and productive.

The challenge with traditional training is that sending people ‘back to school’, where they attend all day training courses is simply not feasible or consistent enough not to mention being expensive. Trying to pick up information from the web or YouTube can result in actually getting the wrong or misleading information.

With these challenges in mind I am happy to announce the CIAOPS Learn program that provides web based video training for Office 365 across the whole range of services. From Outlook to OneNote, from OneDrive to Stream, you’ll find it here. For a simple per user per month cost you can give people access to a vast array of up to date training material. You can also customise the learning paths that people take as well as see a dashboard of their progress.

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Because this a per user per month service, you can subscribe for as long as you need. You can also sign up for as many licenses as you need at any time. There are single and multiple user options. Payments are handled directly via the CIAOPS Academy but invoicing in AU$ is also possible as well as options for resellers.

To find out more about the service visit:

www.ciaopslearn.com

where you’ll find more information as well as how to sign up immediately using the portal. CIAOPS Gold and Silver patrons also receive free access to the portal as part of their benefits as well, so if you are supporting the Microsoft Cloud you should become a Patron today to receive access to this plus a range of additional benefits.

The better you can utilise technologies like Office 365, the productive and profitable your business will be. With CIAOPS Learn you are now to do this and stay up to date for a low monthly fee.

Become digitally literate today, join the CIAOPS Learn program  

New CIAOPS classroom training

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I am pleased to announce the first CIAOPS hosted classroom training event.

How to migrate your SMB business to the Microsoft Cloud

Are you puzzled by the best approach to use when migrating a business to Microsoft 365 and Azure? Are you unsure of which services to use and when? Are you unsure how to cost cloud solutions? These and all your Microsoft cloud questions will be answered in this full day, face to face hands on training session. You’ll not only learn what products like Microsoft 365 and Azure are, you’ll learn how to effectively price solutions as well as frameworks that you can apply repeatedly to bring you success with migration, adoption and support. Best of all, you’ll see all the products in action via live demos.

This course is limited to 25 attendees, so hurry to secure your spot today!

Date = Thursday July 19th, 2018
Time = 9am – 5pm
Location = Cliftons Sydney, 60 Margaret St Sydney NSW 2000

Prices

Gold Patron = $149 inc
Silver Patron = $199 inc
Bronze Patron = $299 inc
Non Patron = $399 inc

More information about the CIAOPS Patron program can be found at www.ciaopspatron.com.

At the successful completion of this event it is planned to run this course at venues around Australia. To register your interest for a particular location please visit this link.

More information about the course and registration can be found here:

https://www.ciaopsacademy.com/p/how-to-migrate-your-smb-business-to-the-microsoft-cloud/

I hope to see you there.

Making changes to existing Site Collections

Here’s a quick summary video on how to make changes to a traditional SharePoint Site Collection. This will only work with pure SharePoint Teams Sites, not those created with Microsoft Teams and Office 365 Groups. That will become available in the new SharePoint Admin Center coming soon. Till then, this video will show you how to access the settings as well as how to interact with the most common configurations.

New Microsoft 365 courses from CIAOPS

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Just in time for Christmas, I have released two new online courses focused on Microsoft 365 Business:

Introduction to Microsoft 365 Business

and

Getting Started with Microsoft 365 Business

The Introduction course is aimed at giving you an overview of the Microsoft 365 product and how the Business plan fits inside. The Getting Started course is more a step by step guide taking you through what you can actually do with the Business plan.

Both of these new courses can be found at the CIAOPS Academy where you’ll also find extensive online courses for Office 365 and Azure. You can purchase the courses individually or in annual bundle that includes every course now and for the next twelve months.

I have more courses focused in Microsoft 365 (including some focused on the Enterprise plan) coming very soon.

CIAOPS Patron–Gold Enterprise

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I’m please to announced the availability of the CIAOPS Patron – Gold Enterprise Plan. This plan is designed to cater for those businesses that want to provide access to the CIAOPS Patron program across their organisation. The benefits include:

This means that for a single monthly payment a business can give access to all these resources to all their staff.

Look out for more announcements around the CIAOPS Patron program coming soon.

CIAOPS Office 365 Tech Tips Library

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I am happy to announce the availability of the CIAOPS Office 365 Tech Tips Library. This will be a growing collection of very short (2 minutes typically) Office 365 videos that you can view and share with your team. The library allows you to also download these files and accompanying descriptions and use them with existing customers or prospects. You can take the videos and embed them into emails and webpages if you wish.

An example of what is provided can be found here:

http://www.ciaopsacademy.com/p/o365-tech-tips/

The collection will continue to be updated and extended over time as the Office 365 services expand. You’ll be able to return to the library and access new information at any time during the course of your subscription.

You can now purchase the library stand alone or get it as part of the CIAOPS Gold and Gold Enterprise Patron plans.