Michal Pisarek
Helping organizations drive effective digital transformation and change using Office 365
Vancouver, Canada
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Michal Pisarek is a 7 X Microsoft MVP and CEO of Orchestry Software. His passion is in ensuring that SharePoint is seen primarily as a business platform so that organizations can take full advantage of the many capabilities that it offers. Having been involved in SharePoint for over 10 years he has led multiple implementations of large scale digital workplaces, Intranets and collaboration solutions that have won multiple Nielsen Norman Intranet awards.
His new venture is Orchestry - a new and unique tool to help organizations define their Office 365 strategy and create engaging solutions available to users built on the various workloads of Office 365.
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Intranet Information Architecture: Building Blocks
An intranet without intuitive information architecture is as useful to your organization as the disorganized file cabinets it replaced. If your employees cannot locate the resources they are searching for, the tool will be rendered useless and will not be trusted. Learn the principles of intuitive intranet information architecture from the lessons learned from more than 50 intranet implementations to easily get your users to the information they need, every time.
In this session, we will share various tools and techniques you can use to create an intuitive information architecture / navigation for your intranet, with examples and use cases from over 50 intranet implementations. Learn how to:
• Test if your navigation menu works before rolling out your intranet.
• Label your content so that it makes sense for your users.
• Help your content authors create, structure and publish consistently.
• Create a homepage that serves the needs of all your users.
• Gather requirements for your information architecture.
• Learn best practices for structuring your navigation, pages and content.
Join us to get the knowledge, tools and resources you need to make your intranet more intuitive, useful and reliable.
Getting the Most Out of Office 365 - What To Use When
Imagine being a new user to Office 365 and just wanting to collaborate on a document? Should I use OneDrive? Or maybe SharePoint? Or should it be in Teams? In this session, learn about the various tools that Office 365 offers, their overlap in capabilities and various strategies that you can use to help educate your users and organization to find the right tool for the right job, quickly and easily.
Office 365 can be a nightmare for end users with a wide array of tools, many of which do the same thing. How do you help users understand the various features and capabilities that they can and should use in Office 365? Join the session to learn a better strategy of how to approach Office 365 through the lens of 'what is best to use when' to gain the most value from your investment in Office 365, including:
• Microsoft Teams
• Microsoft SharePoint
• Microsoft OneDrive for Business
• Microsoft Groups
• Microsoft Planner
• Microsoft Project
• Microsoft Outlook
• Microsoft Office Apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access)
You will leave this session with a pragmatic strategy and approach to get the most out of your Office 365 investment for each user.
Pragmatic Governance for Microsoft Teams
Governance is a hot topic before turning on any new piece of software. With the rapid adoption of Microsoft Teams, this a roadblock that many organizations are trying to navigate today. In this session, you will learn how to put a proper governance plan in place before launching Microsoft Teams in your organization and how to keep governance in place as the usage of Teams expands.
Without governance, Microsoft Teams can quickly spin an unmanageable web for your IT teams. Governance is the first step to success with Microsoft Teams.
Microsoft provides a wide range of features that you can use to help ensure the hygiene of your Teams so that Office 365 doesn’t become an nest egg of chaos.
In this session we will cover the out-of-the-box governance features of Microsoft Teams, such as:
• Naming Conventions
• Guest Access
• User Permissions
• Creation Permissions
• Expiration Policies
• Monitoring
Join us to learn about the best way to ensure that your Teams implementation doesn’t spiral into an out of control mess by using all the tools that Microsoft provides out-of-the-box.
Best Practices in naming, organizing and structuring Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams might seem easy at the start but if left unchecked you will experience the unruliness of the collaboration platform in no time.
In this pragmatic and demo driven session learn the best practices on how to:
- Name your Teams, Channels and Tabs in a way that promotes findability and usability
- Structure your Teams consistently across your organization to ensure consistency and adoption
- Organize your Microsoft teams so that they can be used in a way that leverages all of Microsoft 365 and drives collaboration.
Join Michal from his experience in managing over 500,000 Teams across hundreds of customers to find out what actually works and what doesn't.
How to Leverage SharePoint to Get the Most Out of Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams is a smashing success for Microsoft 365, but we often underestimate the role of SharePoint in efficient collaboration. An organization's document management, navigation, and communication highly depend on the utilization of SharePoint to its full potential.
Seize this opportunity to effectively structure and configure your SharePoint sites and extend the collaboration experience offered within Microsoft Teams.
What You'll Learn
Doc Management
- Learn how to provide an intricate yet simple document management experience in MS Teams and SharePoint.
Enhanced Styling
- How to enhance the view of your lists, libraries, and pages with custom formatting for simpler use.
Page Design
- Leverage the power of web parts to streamline collaboration across SharePoint.
MS Teams Integration
- Discover the best way to integrate your MS Teams and SharePoint platform for effective use.
Template Examples
- Experience real and engaging SharePoint collaboration templates for projects and departments.
Michal Pisarek
Helping organizations drive effective digital transformation and change using Office 365
Vancouver, Canada
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