We are halfway to double figures and the Hat is back for Episode 5. This week, it’s back to school as we talk about learning.

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

First some exciting news - as promised in our last episode, we managed to get together a repository of all those great etiquette of Microsoft 365. It is maintained in our brand new GreyHatBeard Repo in Github but the best way to view the content is on it’s own site:

https://greyhatbeard.github.io/m365-etiquette

Please take a look and let us know if you think there should be other things on there. The best way is to use Github to fork the repo and then submit a Pull Request. Many of you won’t understand that at all then for now, just drop us a message on Twitter and we’ll add the details. Thanks already to Loryan Strant as he has agreed that we can pull many of his tips from his blog series on the subject.

Garry

• SharePoint WebHooks and Logic Apps sample from Scottish Summit
• MVP Summit going online only

Kevin

• Is COVID-19 a Jira ticket?
• Free tier for Cosmos DB
• GlobalCon1 - virtual conference from Collab365

Al

• Crisis Communication App
• Microsoft retiring all MCSA, MCSE & MCSD
• Al’s Twitter poll on running a user group at the moment
• Wictor Wilen Tweet on getting outside

Episode 4 and our first guest! Joining us is Marijn Somers, MVP for Office Apps and Services from the Netherlands and bringing a beautiful hat to stand in for Al who is away this week.

Etiquette of Office 365

Three topics:

• What would you consider when sharing the etiquette of Office 365?
• Why is etiquette important?
• What are your top tips?

Related links:

• No Hello

Image by MorningbirdPhoto from Pixabay

Episode 4 and our first guest! Joining us is Marijn Somers, MVP for Office Apps and Services from Belgium and bringing a beautiful hat to stand in for Al who is away this week.

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

Marijn

• Is powerapps a worthy follow up for infopath ?
• Outlook Spaces: the pinterest for your project
• Jeff Teper also taking over Teams

Kevin

• Kevin’s first Microsoft Docs fix - go on, try it yourself!
• The new single Office App
• Mr Tesler passed away - the creator of Copy, Paste, Cut

Garry

• Using React hooks to globally share service scopes between components
• Azure Logic Apps
• Azure Managed Identies
• Garry’s blog on it all - COMING SOON!

Events

• Collab Days
• Scottish Summit on 29th Feb
• European Collab Summit on 8-10 June
• Commsverse on 29-30th April
• Collab 365 GlobalCon1 on 2-6th March
• Next #CollabTalk on Task Mgmt on Feb 26th

Episode 3 is up and after some feedback, we’re going to two shows - one for news and what we’re up to and the other on the discussion. In the discussion this week, we cover Problems with Dev Ops in a “Non-Agile” World.

Problems with Dev Ops in a “Non-Agile” World

Three topics:

• Building trust and confidence through DevOps
• Setting up a product backlog
• Setting up agile friendly contracts between client and consultant

Related links:

• Azure Dev Ops
• Finance and Budgeting in a world of Agile and Continuous Deployment

Image by Susanne Jutzeler, suju-foto from Pixabay

Episode 3 is up and after some feedback, we’re going to two shows - one for news and what we’re up to and the other on the discussion. In news, there’s more insights for Power Apps, more notes for Azure Dev Ops and more outages for Microsoft.

Al

• Model-driven apps in Power Apps
• App Insights integration for Power Apps
• Power Apps Test Framework
• 19th Feb - Power Platform Happy Hour - link to Teams meeting

Garry

• Bravo Notes
• Office 365 DSC

Kevin

• MS Search SPA
• IoT Azure MX Chip
• BBC Microbit
• Teams outage
• How to monitor your own certificates in Key Vault
• Jeff Teper taking on Teams - ok we didn’t mention this one really but we meant to!

Events

• Collab Days
• Scottish Summit on 29th Feb
• Power Platform Happy Hour 19th Feb
• European Collab Summit on 8-10 June
• Commsverse on 29-30th April
• Collab 365 GlobalCon1 on 2-6th March
• Next #CollabTalk on Task Mgmt on Feb 26th
• Summary of last #CollabTalk on Team Analytics

We’re back for more! This week we decided to split the show in to four smaller, easier to digest parts for all you busy people on the move. The running topic this week was the hugely exciting subject that is Project Cortex and all that it will be able to offer.

The four parts are:

• Part 1 - News and what’s front of mind for the Grey, the Hat and The Beard
• Part 2 - How will end users use Cortex?
• Part 3 - How will Cortex make metadata different?
• Part 4 - What problems will Cortex solve?

Related links:

• More information on Cortex https://aka.ms/projectcortex
• PnP call with Naomi Moneypenny - https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/office/blogs/community-pnp-january-2020-monthly-community-call-recording/
• David Warner’s Screenshot summary of the PnP call (lots of useful screenshots for Cortex) - http://warner.digital/pnpsummary01142020/
• Microsoft’s controversial roadmap item to set Bing as default - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=59917
• Andrew Connell’s post on Bing as default - https://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/microsoft-office-turns-into-malware/
• UserVoice entry to ask MS not to set Bing by default - https://office365.uservoice.com/forums/264636-general/suggestions/39496423-change-to-bing-search-for-proplus-should-be-opt-in
• The SharePoint Dev Docs issues that have been cleaned up - https://github.com/SharePoint/sp-dev-docs/issues
• Commsverse, the independent Microsoft Teams Conference that Al and Kevin are speaking at - https://www.commsverse.com/
• Scottish Summit, the free Microsoft focussed conference that Al and Garry are speaking at - https://scottishsummit.com/
• Power Apps Centre of Excellence Starter Kit - https://github.com/microsoft/powerapps-tools/tree/master/Administration/CoEStarterKit
• Power BI Adoption Framework - https://github.com/pbiaf/powerbiadoption

We’re back for more! This week we decided to split the show in to four smaller, easier to digest parts for all you busy people on the move. The running topic this week was the hugely exciting subject that is Project Cortex and all that it will be able to offer.

The four parts are:

• Part 1 - News and what’s front of mind for the Grey, the Hat and The Beard
• Part 2 - How will end users use Cortex?
• Part 3 - How will Cortex make metadata different?
• Part 4 - What problems will Cortex solve?

Related links:

• More information on Cortex https://aka.ms/projectcortex
• PnP call with Naomi Moneypenny - https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/office/blogs/community-pnp-january-2020-monthly-community-call-recording/
• David Warner’s Screenshot summary of the PnP call (lots of useful screenshots for Cortex) - http://warner.digital/pnpsummary01142020/
• Microsoft’s controversial roadmap item to set Bing as default - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=59917
• Andrew Connell’s post on Bing as default - https://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/microsoft-office-turns-into-malware/
• UserVoice entry to ask MS not to set Bing by default - https://office365.uservoice.com/forums/264636-general/suggestions/39496423-change-to-bing-search-for-proplus-should-be-opt-in
• The SharePoint Dev Docs issues that have been cleaned up - https://github.com/SharePoint/sp-dev-docs/issues
• Commsverse, the independent Microsoft Teams Conference that Al and Kevin are speaking at - https://www.commsverse.com/
• Scottish Summit, the free Microsoft focussed conference that Al and Garry are speaking at - https://scottishsummit.com/
• Power Apps Centre of Excellence Starter Kit - https://github.com/microsoft/powerapps-tools/tree/master/Administration/CoEStarterKit
• Power BI Adoption Framework - https://github.com/pbiaf/powerbiadoption

We’re back for more! This week we decided to split the show in to four smaller, easier to digest parts for all you busy people on the move. The running topic this week was the hugely exciting subject that is Project Cortex and all that it will be able to offer.

The four parts are:

• Part 1 - News and what’s front of mind for the Grey, the Hat and The Beard
• Part 2 - How will end users use Cortex?
• Part 3 - How will Cortex make metadata different?
• Part 4 - What problems will Cortex solve?

Related links:

• More information on Cortex https://aka.ms/projectcortex
• PnP call with Naomi Moneypenny - https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/office/blogs/community-pnp-january-2020-monthly-community-call-recording/
• David Warner’s Screenshot summary of the PnP call (lots of useful screenshots for Cortex) - http://warner.digital/pnpsummary01142020/
• Microsoft’s controversial roadmap item to set Bing as default - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=59917
• Andrew Connell’s post on Bing as default - https://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/microsoft-office-turns-into-malware/
• UserVoice entry to ask MS not to set Bing by default - https://office365.uservoice.com/forums/264636-general/suggestions/39496423-change-to-bing-search-for-proplus-should-be-opt-in
• The SharePoint Dev Docs issues that have been cleaned up - https://github.com/SharePoint/sp-dev-docs/issues
• Commsverse, the independent Microsoft Teams Conference that Al and Kevin are speaking at - https://www.commsverse.com/
• Scottish Summit, the free Microsoft focussed conference that Al and Garry are speaking at - https://scottishsummit.com/
• Power Apps Centre of Excellence Starter Kit - https://github.com/microsoft/powerapps-tools/tree/master/Administration/CoEStarterKit
• Power BI Adoption Framework - https://github.com/pbiaf/powerbiadoption

We’re back for more! This week we decided to split the show in to four smaller, easier to digest parts for all you busy people on the move. The running topic this week was the hugely exciting subject that is Project Cortex and all that it will be able to offer.

The four parts are:

• Part 1 - News and what’s front of mind for the Grey, the Hat and The Beard
• Part 2 - How will end users use Cortex?
• Part 3 - How will Cortex make metadata different?
• Part 4 - What problems will Cortex solve?

Related links:

• More information on Cortex https://aka.ms/projectcortex
• PnP call with Naomi Moneypenny - https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/office/blogs/community-pnp-january-2020-monthly-community-call-recording/
• David Warner’s Screenshot summary of the PnP call (lots of useful screenshots for Cortex) - http://warner.digital/pnpsummary01142020/
• Microsoft’s controversial roadmap item to set Bing as default - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=59917
• Andrew Connell’s post on Bing as default - https://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/microsoft-office-turns-into-malware/
• UserVoice entry to ask MS not to set Bing by default - https://office365.uservoice.com/forums/264636-general/suggestions/39496423-change-to-bing-search-for-proplus-should-be-opt-in
• The SharePoint Dev Docs issues that have been cleaned up - https://github.com/SharePoint/sp-dev-docs/issues
• Commsverse, the independent Microsoft Teams Conference that Al and Kevin are speaking at - https://www.commsverse.com/
• Scottish Summit, the free Microsoft focussed conference that Al and Garry are speaking at - https://scottishsummit.com/
• Power Apps Centre of Excellence Starter Kit - https://github.com/microsoft/powerapps-tools/tree/master/Administration/CoEStarterKit
• Power BI Adoption Framework - https://github.com/pbiaf/powerbiadoption

Our first show! We introduce the podcast and ourselves before going to chat a little about what we’ve been up to as well as the news we’ve been keeping an eye on.

After a little roundabout chat on the news, we moved on to our thoughts for 2020 based on what we’d seen at ESPC and Ignite, covering Project Cortex, Microsoft Search, Bots and others.

Then we wrapped up with our tips for everyone for the year ahead.

Links for things mentioned:

• SPFX 1.10 released - https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/office/blogs/announcing-sharepoint-framework-1-10-extending-sharepoint-framework-across-microsoft-365/
• Google Android search provider - https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/9/21058120/google-android-search-engine-choice-duckduckgo-bing-default-eu-antitrust-ruling
• Google mapped 98% of Earth with 10 million miles of Street View imagery and 36 million square miles of Google Earth imagery https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/13/21020814/google-world-mapped-street-view-earth-square-miles
• Microsoft moving in to the HR space - https://joshbersin.com/2019/12/microsoft-formally-enters-the-hr-tech-space-and-the-strategy-is-compelling/
• Project Cortex - https://aka.ms/projectcortex
• Microsoft Search - https://aka.ms/microsoftsearch
• Power Virtual Agents - https://powervirtualagents.microsoft.com/en-us/
• Bot Framework Composer - https://github.com/Microsoft/BotFramework-Composer
• Office 365 CLI - https://pnp.github.io/office365-cli/