GreyHatBeardPrincess
A Modern Workplace Podcast covering all things Microsoft 365 with Kevin McDonnell (the grey), Al Eardley (the hat), Garry Trinder (the beard) and Luise Freese (the princess) chatting every two weeks about the latest Microsoft 365 news and then picking a topic each week with guests joining us at times as well. If you would like to appear on the show, please drop us a line using the form at https://www.greyhatbeard.com/upcoming-shows. We’d love to hear from everyone, especially if you’re not an MVP and would like to be heard more in the community.Check out our YouTube channel to view the shows as well as our biggest conference sessions and some Bitesize guides as well - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCbalP0tGZ1kyD1A0GQeVDQ
Episodes
129 episodes
Show 72 - Community journey with Femke Cornelissen
Does community matter? Hell yeah! This week, Femke Cornelissen joins us to chat about the importance of community to her journey to becoming a Technology Evangelist at Wortell in the Netherlands. We chat about her jump from marketing to SharePo...
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Show 71 - Viva Connections with Anoop Tatti
Garry and Kevin are joined this week to talk Viva Connections with Anoop Tatti (https://aka.ms/anoopt), covering what Viva Connections is, why you would use it and how you can build it out with the usual dist...
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Show 70 - a review of 2022
This week, Kevin, Al and Garry (sadly Luise couldn't make it last minute) look back at 2022 to pick our favourite tech news of the year and our own personal highlights. Kevin even decided last minute about what everyone's focus was for 2023 so ...
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Show 69: Careers in IT with Will Rowe
No news this week as we had a slightly shorter recording so we have included some links below. However, instead we have a cracker of a show with Will Rowe from
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Show 68 - part 2: where Yammer excels over Teams
A very brave Emily Mancini tackles the subject of Yammer and when it excels for organisations over Teams. The chat with Luise, Al and Kevin takes in the different use cases around Yammer and Team...
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Show 68 - part 1: Power Platform updates and end of a Microsoft era
This week, Kevin, Al and Luise were joined by Emily Mancini to talk about the latest news with Power Platform updates, great eBooks about Viva via Mark Rackley, new devices (with live demos!) and the end of an era in Microsoft related journalis...
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Show 67 - part 2: Talking Community with Ami Diamond
The SharePoint Wizard Ami Diamond is on the show to talk about community and why it matters to him, especially with his YouTube channel and host of WhatsApp groups he maintains.The Shar...
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Show 67 - part 1: Microsoft Ignite Debrief
Garry and Kevin are joined by Ami Diamond (aka the SharePoint Wizard) to talk about the big news from Microsoft Ignite, including Microsoft Syntex, Teams Premium, Designer, Loop and big exciting news about Planner (no really).
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Episode 66 - The latest news and chat
Kevin, Al and Garry were guest-less so covered the large amount of news and had a chat about Viva, Teams and Power PlatformHybrid Work Is Ju...
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Show 65 - Part 2: Making life easier with SharePoint Syntex
Newly minted MVP Leon Armston joins us to chat about all things SharePoint Syntex, covering what it is, what you need to use it and some real life scenarios that Leon has used.
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Show 65 - part 1: Teams Room licensing, Adoption Score and B2B Power Apps
This week we are joined by Leon Armston, newly minted Microsoft 365 Apps and Services MVP, who shares his thoughts on the latest news.
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Show 64 - Part 2: What is productivity and how can it be increased?
Part 2 of our recording with Gavin Jones as we dig into productivityModern Workplace Accelerator | MeeTime ServicesGa...
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Show 64 - Part 1: OneDrive is 15, Power Platform CLI and some Viva Connections tools
This week, Gavin Jones joins Al and Garry to cover the latest news and views from across the Microsoft 365 space.
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Show 62: The Big Microsoft Inspire Round-up
Last week was Microsoft Inspire, the main conference for Microsoft Partners, and so we are covering the announcements that were made. The exciting news is that there were new products, new APIs, new release dates and no new renames!V...
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Show 61 - Part 2: The future of collaboration
How old are you? Do you remember when the future of collaboration was SharePoint? Maybe you remember when it was web 2.0? Maybe you even remember back to when the internet or email was the future! This week,
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Show 61 - Part 1: A new Viva pillar, beautiful Power Apps, some CLI news and Microsoft Search AMA
Hans Brender joins us to talk about the latest news just ahead of Microsoft Inspire. We cover:Viva Sales and how it changes the outlook for Viva (pun slightly intended)How to ma...
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Show 60 - Power Platform CoE and what more you should think of
We are joined by Aaron Rendell, Head of Technology for CPS, to talk about Power Platform Centre of Excellence and how the CoE Starter Kit is what is says - a starter. We chat about the different processes and plans you that you should have in p...
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Show 59 - Your fantasy Microsoft dinner party - live from Scottish Summit
Another episode, another something a little different. Following on from our show at the South Coast Summit last year, we decided to keep a similar format but with much better sound this time. We are joined by a host of great community members ...
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Show 58 - Happy Hour Etiquette at Scottish Summit
A slightly different show as we recorded our Happy Hour Etiquette session at the Scottish Summit. Al, Kevin and Luise were joined by Marijn Somers and Sara Fennah to share thoughts and tips on etiquette in Microsoft 365.The sound wasn't...
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Show 57 - Processes in Microsoft Teams
We are joined by Tomasz Poszytek to talk about all things processes in Teams. You may think that it is just about approvals but there is so much more that you can do to make your business process...
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Show 56 - Part 2: Infrastructure as code in Microsoft 365
Do you know what Infrastructure as Code is? If you do, have you thought about it with Microsoft 365? We are joined by Luke Evans to talk about what Infrastructure as Code is, why it's important an...
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Show 56 - Part 1: Scoring with Viva Goals, Group Ownership Policies with Luke Evans and more
This week we are joined by independent Microsoft 365 consultant Luke Evans (Twitter, LinkedIn) to talk about the latest news includin...
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Show 55 - a walk and talk with Pete Rising
We went a little different with this show as Kevin and Peter Rising were on an offsite together and so recorded a chat during lunch on their thoughts on what was top of mind. Hybrid meetings, measuring well-being with Viva and exciting news on ...
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