The Intelligence Age

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https://podcast.nz365guy.com/396 

• An introduction about Greg Lindhorst’s life and what he’s doing outside Microsoft 
• Greg shares his journey into Microsoft  
• What path did Greg take to where he is right now? 
• What is Power Fx? 
• How powerful is Power Fx?
• What is wrong with JavaScript and TypeScript? 
• What has Greg learned on the access side? 
• Find out more about Power FX vs Microsoft Excel.
• Greg talks about the people who are using Power FX.
• The role of GPT-3 in what Greg is doing? 

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Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

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https://podcast.nz365guy.com/395 

• A brief introduction about Uday Adhikari’s life – family, country of origin, favourite food, and what he does when not working. 
• Uday’s story about moving from Nepal to the USA to do his master's degree 
• Uday shares his story about how he got involved in Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform. 
• Talks about Uday’s journey into the Microsoft Power Platform 
• Discussion about Uday’s SharePoint background 
• With all the tool sets available in Power Platform, where does Uday specializes in? 
• A discussion about Uday’s journey into becoming a Microsoft MVP 
• Uday talks about his MVP Nomination 

OTHER RESOURCES

Microsoft MVP YouTube Series - How to Become a Microsoft MVP
90-Day Mentoring Challenge - https://ako.nz365guy.com/  

If you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.

Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

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https://podcast.nz365guy.com/394 

• A brief introduction with Mary Thompson about WorldMax- what she has done and what is happening. 
• Mary talks about her community engagement 
• What does Mary need and how can people out there help and support her with what she is doing? 
• How can people be like Mary? 
• Mary’s journey into becoming a Microsoft MVP and what’s involved? 
• What was different after becoming a Microsoft MVP? 
• Mary's involvement in the MVP community – sharing your knowledge and helping people 
• The value of becoming a Microsoft MVP 
• Mary’s experience speaking in an event 

OTHER RESOURCES
       - Microsoft MVP YouTube Series - How to Become a Microsoft MVP
       - 90-Day Mentoring Challenge - https://ako.nz365guy.com/
       - Britta Rekstad - https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/PublicProfile/5001335?fullName=Britta%20Rekstad
       - The Dynamics Skill Gap & How to Solve it – Britta Rekstad - https://podcast.nz365guy.com/the-dynamics-skill-gap-how-to-solve-it-britta-rekstad/ 

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Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

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https://podcast.nz365guy.com/393 

• An introduction about Hector Tellado’s life and what he does when he’s not doing Microsoft. 
• How did Hector balance the work from home and work from the office type? 
• Hector discusses the Dynamics 365 Field Service. 
• How long has Field Service now been in the business? 
• Where Field Service is at now; its opportunities, position, and how it stands globally  
• Hector talks about the new features and tools 
• What are the common use cases Hector is seeing with Dynamics 365 Field Service? 
• What are the types of organizations that use the application to manage their field service? 
• Scheduling System - what are the markets or requests that people would like to see happen? 

RESOURCES MENTIONED:
YouTube Channel for field service - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7Rd031NCJZekAkNU2bb8Kg/videos
Overview of Dynamics 365 Field Service - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/field-service/overview
Dynamics 365 Field Service - https://dynamics.microsoft.com/en-us/field-service/overview/ 

If you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.

Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

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https://podcast.nz365guy.com/392 

• Venkata Subbarao Polisetty's life background, interests and what he does when not working. 
• With Venkata’s choices of careers, how did he end up in Information Technology? 
• Venkata’s first project that got him into Dynamics CRM. 
• The key part of being part of the Microsoft Business Applications. 
• Venkata’s focus or areas where he is working on 
• Microsoft Business Applications MVP journey of Venkata and the nomination process. 
• Blogging and community involvement of Venkata 
• Venkata’s experience as a speaker in an event. 
• If given a chance, what feature Venkata will add to Power Automate? 
• What did Venkata discover about the MVP program that he didn’t know before becoming one? 
• Benefits of becoming a Microsoft MVP. 
• Recommendations to people considering becoming a Microsoft MVP 

OTHER RESOURCES: 

Microsoft MVP YouTube Series - How to Become a Microsoft MVP 
90-Day Mentoring Challenge - https://ako.nz365guy.com/ 

If you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.

Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

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https://podcast.nz365guy.com/391 

• Family and life background of Khoa Nguyen – originally from Vietnam. 
• Talks about Khoa’s hobbies and life in Ireland. 
• A great story about Khoa’s career journey and how he got a job in Ireland. 
• A conversation about Khoa’s journey into becoming a Microsoft MVP  
   – how did it start  
   – who nominated him  
   – how was the process for him? 
• Find out more about Khoa’s involvement in the community and blogging 
• Khoa’s PowerApps Portals journey and how much work he does using PowerApps Portals 
• Learn about the projects that involves PowerApps Portal 
• What types of industries uses Portal and why do they need one? 
• Authentication method they use or set up. 

OTHER RESOURCES:
Microsoft MVP YouTube Series - How to Become a Microsoft MVP 
90-Day Mentoring Challenge - https://ako.nz365guy.com/ 

If you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.

Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

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https://podcast.nz365guy.com/390 

• A brief introduction about Nathan Helgren’s life and what he does when he’s not working with Microsoft
• Unpacking Nathan’s career journey to where he is right now at Microsoft
• Nathan shares how he got involved with Microsoft Visio Apps
• Nathan talks about Microsoft Access
• What was Microsoft's motivation that made them think they need an easy migration path from access to Dataverse? 
• Find out more about having a license cost for the connector and if it is part of the connector suite? 
• Have you got any use cases of particular industries or organizations that can solve some problems for their customers?
• An introduction to Migration
• Discussion about an individual or organization having a database in access that can migrate it to Dataverse

RESOURCES MENTIONED
Microsoft Azure - https://www.youtube.com/c/MicrosoftAzure 

If you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.

Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

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https://podcast.nz365guy.com/389 

• Hobbies, interests and life of Vivian Voss. 
• Writing a book – is there a reason why Vivian writes a book? 
• Find out more about Estonia – things you can do 
• Who are Alfa People and what do they do in Microsoft Business Applications? 
• Do Alfa People do other things other than Microsoft Business Applications or non-Microsoft Tech? 
• How did Vivian get into Dynamics? 
• Vivian’s journey into becoming an Architect 
• Advice to people wanting to become a Microsoft MVP

OTHER RESOURCES:
Microsoft MVP YouTube Series - How to Become a Microsoft MVP 
90-Day Mentoring Challenge - https://ako.nz365guy.com/ 

If you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.

Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

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https://podcast.nz365guy.com/388 

• A brief introduction about Kristen Hosman’s life, family, facts about Denver, Colorado USA and what she does for fun when not working. 
• Talks about the Microsoft MVP Women in Tech: The Untold Stories – what is this all about and where the idea come from? 
• Kristen’s journey coming into technology and her career journey. 
• A conversation about Kristen’s journey into becoming a Microsoft MVP. 
• Discussion about Kristen’s involvement in the community – blogging and speaking events 
• Kristen’s advice to people considering becoming a Microsoft MVP. 

OTHER RESOURCES:
Microsoft MVP YouTube Series - How to Become a Microsoft MVP 
90-Day Mentoring Challenge - https://ako.nz365guy.com/
Kristen Hosman D365 Blog - Kristen Hosman’s Dynamics 365 Business Central Blog
MVP Women in Tech - Microsoft MVP Women in Tech: The Untold Stories (Nashville, TN) | Meetup 

If you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.

Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

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https://podcast.nz365guy.com/387 

• A brief introduction about Marcel Ferreira’s life and what he does for fun 
• Marcel shares how was moving during COVID works. 
• How did Marcel’s career journey take him back to Microsoft and specifically in Seattle?  
• A conversation about Fusion Development 
  - how it works 
  - its importance 
  - its collaboration across platforms 
• Marcel explains why cooperation is essential for Fusion Development and how it benefits the companies.  
• The other type of roles that Marcel sees that would make up a very robust and scalable fusion team.
• Marcel talks about Developers  
  - who they are 
  - their importance in business 
  - benefits of having them 
  - challenges and best practices 
  - the top tools that enable developers 
• Why do we have Low-code-No-code?

RESOURCES MENTIONED 

• Transform Business Applications with Fusion Development 
• Microsoft Power Platform developer documentation 
• Marcel's GitHub: https://github.com/marcelbf 

If you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.

Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith