CIAOPS Need to Know webinar–August 2016

With the first webinar now successfully under my belt, I’ve now scheduled the second one which will be held Wednesday the 17th of August at 11am Sydney, Australia time. You can register for the event here:

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5541257505109190401

This month I’ll provide insight into the most powerful feature of Office 365 that most people never use. You’ll discover what this feature is and how to make the most of it to massively improve your productivity and reduce daily frustrations. Attendees will see a hands on demonstration of Office 365 as well as be able to ask any question during the open Q and A session. You’ll also get updates from Office 365 to help you understand what new with the product and how you can take advantage of it. Join me for this revealing webinar and I promise, you’ll learn something you didn’t know about Office 365 that will save you time and money.

The CIAOPS Need to Know Webinars are free to attend but if you want to receive the recording of the session you need to sign up as a CIAOPS patron (for only USD$10 per month) which you can do here:

https://www.patreon.com/ciaops

Also feel free at any stage to email me directly at director@ciaops.com with your webinar topic suggestions.

I’d also appreciate you sharing information about this webinar with anyone you feel may benefit from the session.

I look forward to seeing everyone on the webinar in August.

Beyond the license

One of the major limitations I find with many who have an Office 365 Suite is that they are only using it for email, and basic email at that! This means they are failing to make use of get services like OneDrive for Business, SharePoint, Yammer and more!

In many cases this is because they are no aware of the products and services that are available to them as part of their Office 365 package. A while back I did a webinar with Greg Plum from plumuc.com where we focused on helping attendees understand the value that the Office 365 suite contained that they were most likely not taking advantage of.

We recorded that webinar and I’ve now posted it up on my Youtube channel as you can see above. The slides are also available at:

https://doc.co/gpEx8r/qcihGm

Hopefully, this webinar gives you a better idea of many of these ‘undiscovered’ Office 365 features and how they can be used to solve business problems. If you have Office 365 I’d urge you to take a deeper dive into the product and understand everything that you are paying for. Once you’ve done that you may be surprised at how many of the features within Office 365 can be used to make your business and users more productive. Investing a little bit of time up front to gain the knowledge pays big dividends down the track.

All about E5

I presented on a webinar yesterday with Ingram Micro around the Office 365 E5 license. I did a quick dive into some of the major additions that E5 bring to the tables as well as the business benefits these can provide for both customers and resellers.

The features, I believe, that are the most exciting are the improvements that are coming with Skype for Business, including the connectivity to landlines via the PSTN connectivity feature. I wrote about these details here:

I’m totally blown away with what’s coming with Skype for Business

and encourage those interested to check out the video that is there, especially from around the 28 minute mark.

I’ve also posted up the slides for the E5 presentation at:

https://doc.co/2VRHMh/qcihGm

which you can download and review.

E5 has lots of features for customers and lots of opportunities for resellers to provide services and configuration around these. For information on the full feature set visit:

https://products.office.com/en-au/business/office-365-enterprise-e5-business-software

September Ask Us Webinar

My free Cloud Business Blueprint Ask US Webinar is scheduled for Thursday the 17th of September at 12.30pm Sydney Australia time. You can register at:

http://www.cloudbusinessblueprint.com/ask-weekly-webinar

In the webinar I give you an update on the state of play in the cloud and particularly what’s happening in the Office 365 and Microsoft world and then I throw open the floor for questions.

Last month there were some great questions around the different Office 365 plans and Windows 10 integration. The best part of the webinar is that, in most cases, I can demo or show the solution directly on the screen so everyone can see exactly. That can be really handy if you have been struggling to find how to do something.

The other good things for Cloud Business Blueprint Community members is that the webinars are recorded and available on demand inside the Cloud Business Blueprint forums. The webinars are free for anyone to attend live but to gain access to an on demand recording you’ll need to join me in the Cloud Business Blueprint Community.

We run these events every month and welcome any questions you have. If you can’t make it on the day feel free to ship through any questions to info@cloudbusinessblueprint.com or just leave a comment on this article.

I hope to see you at the event.

Beyond the License webinar

Office 365 has many, many great features but it seems too often the case that the only thing people use is email, and just basic email at that! How is that making things more productive?

After conversations with conferencing specialist Greg Plum from PlumUC, we have decided to put on a webinar designed to show you all the really cool bits of Office 365 you can implement to turn your plain Jane Office 365 into a turbo charged rocket of business efficiency!

You can register right now at:

http://bit.ly/O365-BTL

for the event (which is 1PM Eastern US time on the 1st of September 2015). Everyone who registers will receive a copy of the recording, so you can get a good nights’ sleep if you need to, as well as other special bonuses. There’ll also be plenty of great information and I’m please to announce a special guest. All the way from his homeland of Bainbridge Island we will be bringing you the one, the only, Mr Harry Brelsford of SMBNation to share his thoughts on all this cloud stuff and where the money is in Office 365.

This event will be content and technical heavy, presented by people who know the product, how to use the product to be more efficient and what add ons you should be incorporating to make Office 365 even better.

So don’t delay, sign up now and reserve your place as they are limited.

I hope to see you at the event.