Gresham Smith - Today I Learned

This brings our podcasting efforts to a close. The series finally.  

In this month's edition of TIL we will talk to our very own Matt Freudenthal about the new version of Newforma 

 Then we get down to the most important topic of the year for someone like myself, a self-proclaimed "Sugar Professional" the Halloween Candy Poll.   

1. Newforma
   • What is Newforma?
   • What are the big changes in the new version ? 
2. User interface 
   • Add-ins (what other applications tie into NF) 
3. Training on the new version? 
   • Group or team? 
   • Build U 
4. What new features should we expect?
5. Why is this better?

1. Halloween Candy Poll Results

In this month's edition of TIL we will talk about Revit 2021 Projects. Then we will talk to Jashwath Lakshmaman our new Revit developer and some of the tools he has and is working on for us. 

1. Revit Projects to be in 2021, no new Revit 2020 projects.
2. Jashwath Lakshmaman PT BIM Analyst Revit Developer 
   • What do you do here at Gresham Smith? 
   • How long have you been here? Where were you before?
   • What has been your favorite project you have worked on?
   • Any podcasts you are currently listening to or shows you have been watching? 
   • Tell us about PyRevit
   • GS Tools
   • Studio X
3. TIL Joe
4. Wrap it up

In this month's edition of TIL we will talk about Microsoft TEAMS VOICE!!!!!!! Last we will talk about Revit 2021. 

1. Teams VOICE!!!!!! 
   • Plan 
   • Conference Rooms 
   • Coves 
2. Office Apps Training - Cainan
3. Software Roll outs - how they work now that we're all remote? 
   • Got to office for updates - some users 
   • High bandwidth - it's important 
   • Rules for rebooting/software roll outs 
4. Revit 2021 roll out. 
   • New features
   • Content
   • Templates / library files
   • When will it install?

Wrap it up

In this month's edition of TIL we will talk about the Covid-19 Virus company updates. Then we will also talk about what we learned from working at home, new VPN technology coming soon to our offices. We will also talk about how conferencing will work when we get back in the office. A big move for our PT group's documentation moving to SharePoint and our IT Help Library. 

1. Covid-19 update 
   • July 6th - for now 
2.  Working from home - what did we learn 
   • Survey results 
3. New VPN Technology coming to our offices soon 
   • It's new tech! Direct Access was older tech 
   • It's redundant. We have two servers handling connectivity - across two separate connections to our Datacenter 
   •  Testing right now 
4. How will conferencing work when we come back into the office (for Teams) 
   • All conferencing units (video and room sized audio) have been upgraded across all sites 
   • Cove phones are NOT upgraded and will be replaced 
5. Practice Tech Documentation moving to Share Point 
   • Why 
   • When will this be done. 
   • What does it really mean to the practice. 
6. IT Help Library 
   • Who has access to the IT Help Library?
   • What is the IT Help Library?
   • Where do I find it?  

Wrap it up

In this month's edition of TIL we will talk about the Covid-19 Virus company updates. Then we will also talk about Microsoft Teams functions we are rolling out and Microsoft Chromium Edge.

1. Covid-19 update 
   • Plug in at home: don't use WIFI (design files) 
   • Recommendations for: 
     • Screens 
     • Desks 
     • Chairs 
2. Teams 
   • Where are we at with Teams? 
   • How did we get here? 
   • How long until we get Teams fully functional? 
   • How does it work for external clients 
     • AA's now have conferencing license 
   • Phone calls? 
     • Inside 
     • Outside 
   • Presentations? 
   • Chat? Chat groups! 
   • Video? ALWAYS! 
   • New functionality coming! 
     • Backgrounds are live now (including custom) 
     • Raise Hand should be any day now 
     • 3x3 grid is coming in weeks (and will expand beyond that) 
3. Edge 
   • Why are we pushing Chromium Edge?
   • Advantages?
   • But I like x browser!

Wrap it up

Covid-19 Update 
Stuff you should know.

In this month's edition of TIL we will talk to Joe and Cainan about computer encryption and Microsoft Teams. Then we will also talk about IT / PT office visits So Joe tell us about Encryption 

What are we doing with encryption? 
What is the program used for this process? 
How will it affect our users? 

Cainan tell us about Microsoft Teams again and what is the latest update? Any update on timeline for people to start using. 

Jonathan and Joe tell us about the upcoming office visits.
PT visits
IT visits 

Closing recap and banter. 

In this month's edition of TIL we will talk to Cainan and get a IT training recap.

1. IT training recap (Cainan) 
   • OneDrive 
   • OneNote 
   • Phishing Email Training 
   • Authenticator Training 
2. Preview of February's Training 
3. Upcoming training for 2020 
4. Scheduled PT training twice a month live in Nash
5. Skype broadcast of the same training the following week

TIL (no baby kneecaps)

 Closing recap and banter. 

In this month's edition of TIL we will talk to Smiley Baltz about our SharePoint site and we will also talk about our Newforma Upgrade and where we will be putting data.