August 2017 Meeting

Are you interested in getting together with other Chicago area companies to share Office 365 user adoption best practices, lessons learned, and implementation strategies? Whether you are just beginning your Office 365 deployment and adoption planning, or your organization is already seeing return from Office 365, your peers want to hear your story. Please join us to share your experiences and ideas in this interactive session.

What: Office 365 Adoption User Group Meeting (Chicago Chapter)

When: Thursday, August 3, 2017, 9:30am-noon

Location: Microsoft Downers Grove

Remote attendees may join us on Skype for Business via Skype For Business

Please use this link: https://meet.lync.com/microsoft/lkuhn/9050830V

Who should attend: Business and IT roles responsible for Office 365 Adoption

**Please note, this will not be a technical conversation

This month we are excited to feature two topics!

Topic #1: Change Management, First release and Service Health

Speakers:

• Pavani Haridasyam, Sr. Program Manager, Microsoft

Pavani owns Office 365 Service Health Dashboard (SHD) and early this year her team GA’d a brand new SHD. She wants to hear from customers how that has landed with them, what are some pain points in SHD as well as in health communications area. Pavani has been at Microsoft for almost 10 years now. Before moving to the Office 365 Service Health Dashboard team, she spent 4 years on the Outlook team working on modern conversation experience in mail and Office 365 Groups.

• Michelle Swafford, Sr. Program Manager, Microsoft

Topic #2: Finding Bigfoot: Building the Next Generation Search Platform

Find Bigfoot! How to build the mythical next generation search platform for O365 and Hybrid that will find everything on your intranet (including “Bigfoot”). Learn the 5 critical items every search analyst or administrator needs to be aware of!

This presentation will provide an outline of best practices on how to migrate from a pure on-premise search solution to a cloud hybrid or a pure O365 solution. In addition, we will talk about some of the next generation buzz words like artificial intelligence, machine learning and cognitive services and how to plan and leverage these new technologies to make your search center a strategic source of information for employees and your intranet.

Speaker: Don Miller

Don Miller has been presenting about search and search related topics (Search Engines, Search Analytics, Content Management, Taxonomy, Web Analytics, Auto Meta Tagging) since 1998. He has helped a broad set of customers to build better search solutions including: The Vatican, Ernst & Young, Mars (Candy Bars), Brunswick, ConocoPhillips, PeoplesBank, Moffitt Cancer Center, The Gap and Universal Studios.

In addition to technology, Don recently moved back to the Midwest and enjoys wine, music (live shows too), sports, water recreational activities and reconditioning wood furniture and is a long time Detroit Lions Fan (This is their year for the Super Bowl). He is married with two kids (one at Michigan and one at Michigan State) and has a black Labrador named Kona!

We'll also cover what's new in the Office 365 world in the last month and have our usual open discussion and networking.

Some things you might hear about at our meetings include:

• Microsoft’s Office 365 Adoption Methodology

• Intranet Best Practices

• Discussion of recent Office 365 announcements

• Asking your questions and sharing your experiences

• Defining a Strategy and Vision

• Executive Support and Champions

• Use Cases and Education (initial and ongoing)

• Implementation and Communication

Questions about this event? Contact Michael Blumenthal (Office 365 MVP), Rich Skloot (HCSC), Larry Kuhn (Microsoft), or Michael Sculli (Microsoft) through this site.

Disclaimer: We will be requesting attendee participation and input for the event and all subsequent events. As a result, we may need to share your contact information with meeting hosts in order to plan future events. As a member of the Office 365 Adoption User Group, you agree to be contacted about upcoming Adoption User Group meetings by Microsoft or selected partners. If at any time you wish not to participate, please notify the user group leaders.