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Cyphercon 2023 Presentation: 5 Architectures Every Tech Exec Should Understand
Thank you for attending my Cyphercon session! I’m excited to have had the opportunity to spend time with you and to talk about how to improve the general security of your environment. You can catch me on LinkedIn or Twitter. Here is a link to the deck for the Cyphercon presentation. Nathan Lasnoski
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You run an enterprise organization but the technology feels like it is still left over from the stone age. We’re still taking about VPN with endpoints, your employees still use file shares, and your CEO can’t work from a Mac. Why are we still sitting in this situation in 2022 when we just went through […]
Read more "Modern Workplace in Three “Easy” Steps"Changing Microsoft Teams Default File Open Preferences
Do you hate it when Microsoft Teams opens files in the Teams interface rather than the full application on your desktop? I do too. I can appreciate that sometimes you want to use the web experience, but mostly I find it clunky and only suitable for viewing the content. If I’m intending to edit, I […]
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I’m excited about Loop Components and the future of collaboration… but, Microsoft has a ways to go with making these integrated. The first iteration of this I’m not sure I’m thrilled about. I’m a pretty regular ToDo user and an immediate issue I’m seeing is when I was trying to create a “Note to Self” […]
Read more "Loop Components and Office… a Ways to Go"Listening to Feedback… Microsoft Teams “Mark as Read”
The Microsoft Teams product group has listened to feedback and added my new favorite feature. The “Mark as Read” feature allows you to take any conversation, especially a noisy one with a lot of stuff in it and “Mark as Read”. Been waiting for this one forever and really appreciate the feature being created. NOW… […]
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I’ve been working with companies going through mergers and acquisitions for years. They are painful and take a lot of investment to get right. The better transitions are proactively managed on the tech side and include time and effort to improve the operational state of both organizations. As tech modernization has happened over recent years, […]
Read more "M&A Strategy with Microsoft 365 / Office 365"Planning for 2022 Success for Appleton PM Circle
I presented to the Appleton PM circle on Planning for 2022 success. A great session with great people. We covered these topics: What it means to be a change agent What areas can you impact in your business Technology maturity curves Creating a plan with Horizon Planning Tech stack planning Skill development Bringing it all […]
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Loved this session on Ask the Expert. Myself, Lwin Maung (another Microsoft MVP), Chris Blackburn, Swami Venkatesh, and Brandon Hartman had a session to take questions on the modern environment, Azure, cloud, and M365. Love the questions, great discussion, and a great honor to be among these interesting and intelligent gentlemen. Swami certainly wins “best […]
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To kick off 2022 and to follow-up on a blog of the same name, I started the year with a video on planning for your 2022 success. In this video I talk about all the tremendous opportunities for business engagement in 2022 leveraging technology to drive your company forward. I talk about disruption, structure, and […]
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