Over the past few months, I’ve started to notice a trend around Microsoft’s announcements and for me, they all lead to a single path. From changes in the new Outlook for Windows, Planner and the new Microsoft Team client built in WebView2, they are all now Progressive Web Applications……but does this mean Microsoft are built … Continue reading Are Microsoft Building a Teams OS!?! (PWA + Microsoft = !?TeamsOS?!)
I’m very luckly to be able to talk to so many customers in both the education, public sector and corporate space around Microsoft technologies but as you can imagine, the one everyone is excited about and want more than anything else is Microsoft 365 Copilot. With Microsoft announcing a vast range of Copilots, it is … Continue reading Introducing the Copilot Cheesewheel
With the growth of AI increasing (as it will for many years to come) we are now starting to understand some of the challenges we have inside organisations and with that, we have seen organisations get it wrong with data leakage. ChatGPT is a free tool that is released as a consumer tool and has … Continue reading The Enterprise ChatGPT is here: BingChat Enterprise
The BETT Show has become my go-to exhibition. It’s a week I look forward to, as I get to catch up with collaborators, vendors, customers and friends. I truly enjoy this event, and to see so many thousands of people turn up to see the impact EdTech can have on their students still blows me … Continue reading My initial thoughts on BETT 2023
I was delighted to be able to work with a great set of people and put an article together around my thought on how an Integration Platform as a Service could be used in the Higher Education space. When I learnt that it would be featured on CIO.com, I couldnt wait for it to get … Continue reading Featured on cio.com: iPaaS in Education
Everyone has a luckly number – well mine is 15. Saturday league football and I was always on the bench so I could pick the number 15 shirt, I was born on the 15th and I have the number 15 on my car registration plate. I’m now a 15 time MVP having been awarded the … Continue reading Awarded Microsoft MVP <-- Number 15
This year I’ll be at BETT 2020 both on the Microsoft stand and roaming the halls. On Wednesday I’ll be on the Microsoft stand from 11-4 helping to take any technical queries you may have and then around the halls on Thursday and Friday morning if anyone wants to catch up. Come say hi and … Continue reading At BETT 2020
Not everyone gets access to the Admin Portal in Microsoft 365 as they are part of a managed service or not been given the elevanted rights to be able to view settings or access any data. A new pop up has appeared in the Message Centre in EDU tenants around Class Insights for Microsoft Teams. … Continue reading Class Insights in Microsoft Teams coming January 2020
There’s a great virtual event on the horizon for us that work in the education sector. Microsoft are putting on a set of free webinar all about Microsoft Teams and other technologies around these which will help you to get more out of the Microsoft cloud platform (all the free options). If you can’t make … Continue reading Microsoft Virtual Edu Event: 22nd August 2019
It was a pleasure to speak at the Microsoft Showcase School event at Downe House School. Having worked with the school on their migration from file shares to using SharePoint Online in Office 365 Education we were both keen to pass this information onto schools and how it was done, the opportunities of using just … Continue reading Slidedeck: Office 365 Edu as your file storage