Best Kevin McDonnell Podcasts (2024)

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Ep 14 - Copilot Readiness with Michal Pisarek 1:19:05

1h ago1:19:05

1:19:05

Is your tenant ready for Copilot? Do you know what needs to be done to be ready? This week, Kevin was joined by Michal Pisarek, CEO and Janitor at Orchestry, who has been involved in governance in Microsoft 365 for many years. We talk about Copilot Readiness and three key areas for governance: - Understand the environment - Review oversharing - Sor…

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Ep 13 - Copilot for Security with Ru Campbell 43:49

9d ago43:49

43:49

With Copilot for Security released on 1 April, we thought we should bring some real experience of trying it out from one of the top MVPs in Security. Ru Campbell (Twitter, LinkedIn) joined us to talk about: - What is Copilot Security? - What is it used for and by who? - How has his experience with it been compared with the marketing? This was a gre…

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Ep 12l - MVP Summit bonus with Mark Rackley 5:04

10d ago5:04

5:04

Twelth of twelve mini episodes as we bring our interviews from MVP Summit. Interviewee today - Mark Rackley Mark thinks that copilot is a vague term that can mean different things to different people, and he wants to help people understand what it is. Mark has some great use cases like finding presentations that were shared with him by using natura…

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Ep 12k - MVP Summit bonus with Angeliki Patsiavou 6:01

11d ago6:01

6:01

Eleven of twelve mini episodes as we bring our interviews from MVP Summit. Interviewee today - Angeliki Patsiavou Angeliki sees copilot as a way to increase productivity, creativity, and innovation for individuals, teams, and organizations. She uses copilot for M365 to get technical content and learn about power FX queries and functions. Listen to …

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Ep 12j - MVP Summit bonus with Angel David Carillo 6:22

12d ago6:22

6:22

Tenth of twelve mini episodes as we bring our interviews from MVP Summit. Interviewee today - Angel David Carillo Angel uses Copilot a lot in Microsoft Teams, especially for searching for information. He finds it easier and faster than using other tools or navigating to the location of the information. He also uses Copilot as his personal assistant…

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Ep 12i - MVP Summit bonus with Pragati Jain 7:31

13d ago7:31

7:31

Ninth of Twelve mini episodes as we bring our interviews from MVP Summit. Interviewee today - Pragati Jain Pragati finds Copilot helpful to start developing something, add comments to her calculations, and learn PySpark coding but worries that Copilot is not always right and she needs to validate results. Listen to find out how she thinks Copilot w…

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Ep 12h - MVP Summit bonus with Gosia Borzecka 3:50

14d ago3:50

3:50

Eighth of twelve mini episodes as we bring our interviews from MVP Summit. Interviewee today - Gosia Borzecka Gosia works in the AI space and talks here about the comparisons between Copilot Studio and AI Studio/Azure Search. Listen to find out more about how she thinks that this plays with Copilot. 🐱‍💻 Gosia (Małgorzata) Borzęcka | LinkedIn Gosia …

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Ep 12g - MVP Summit bonus with Chris Lloyd-Jones 4:57

15d ago4:57

4:57

Seventh of twelve mini episodes as we bring our interviews from MVP Summit. Interviewee today - Chris Lloyd-Jones Chris was impressed by how GitHub Copilot could generate code from comments and help him achieve a flow state. Listen to find out how he thinks the Copilots could follow him across applications. Listen to find out which areas of Copilot…

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Ep 12f - MVP Summit bonus with Rishi Sapra 7:58

16d ago7:58

7:58

Sixth of twelve mini episodes as we bring our interviews from MVP Summit. Interviewee today - Rishi Sapra Rishi sees Copilot as a tool for creativity and insight, rather than automation. He thinks it can help technologists understand the business questions and the data model better Listen to find out which areas of Copilot frustrate him and his hop…

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Ep 12e - MVP Summit bonus with Vesa Juvonen 6:14

17d ago6:14

6:14

Fifth of twelve mini episodes as we bring our interviews from MVP Summit. Interviewee today - Vesa Juvonen Vesa is a principal product manager in the Microsoft 365 platform who works remotely from Seattle. He is excited about Copilot's potential to increase productivity and innovation for enterprise customers. Listen to hear his favourite features …

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Ep 12d - MVP Summit bonus with Simon Doy 7:14

18d ago7:14

7:14

Fourth of twelve mini episodes as we bring our interviews from MVP Summit. Interviewee today - Simon Doy Simon likes the development side of things and breaking down application barriers with Copilot. He is excited about the opportunities to bring business data and take actions with Copilot. Listen to find out how he used Copilot to make his daught…

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Ep 12c - MVP Summit bonus with Marc Anderson 9:51

19d ago9:51

9:51

Third of twelve mini episodes as we bring our interviews from MVP Summit. Interviewee today - Marc D Anderson Marc is a natural skeptic who thinks that Copilot often gives unsatisfying or wrong answers that require extra thinking and verification. Find out what he thinks about the longevity and Return on Investment (ROI) of Copilot as well as any p…

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Ep 12b - MVP Summit bonus with Tom Morgan 5:11

24d ago5:11

5:11

Second of twelve mini episodes as we bring our interviews from MVP Summit. Interviewee today - Tom Morgan Tom uses GitHub Copilot to develop things on Microsoft 365 platform, and finds it useful for taking out some of the tedious tasks that he already knows how to do as well as learning with it. Listen to find out how he built using a new language …

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Ep 12a - MVP Summit bonus with Darrell Webster 5:55

25d ago5:55

5:55

One of twelve mini episodes as we bring our interviews from MVP Summit. Interviewee today - Darrell Webster Darryl is a change manager and adoption specialist who likes creating videos and helping people make sense of technology. Find out what he thinks about Copilot and the insights it can bring as well as the areas of concern he has. Darrell (as …

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Ep 12 - inspired by the MVP Summit 1:00:06

27d ago1:00:06

1:00:06

After a small pause due to travel, we are back with our thoughts from the MVP Summit without jeopardising our NDAs. As well as those thoughts, we pick up on the latest news and play a longer interview with Aaron Reich, CTO of Avanade, covering his thoughts and views on the Copilots, recorded live on the Microsoft campus. Listen to the second half o…

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Ep 11 - Busting Copilot Myths 43:21

2M ago43:21

43:21

With more and more people getting access to all the different Copilots, there are more myths that are appearing online. So, in this episode, Zoe and Kevin take a look at some of those myths and either bust them or add the detail behind the truth of each of them, Plus, we highlight some of the latest news along the way including some potential new t…

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Ep 10 - Starting the extensibility story 34:16

2M ago34:16

34:16

In this podcast episode, Kevin runs solo to talk about the extensibility of Copilot. he covers the impact of Copilot on organizations, how to prepare for it, and how to extend it. The episode also features interviews with Garry Trinder (developer advocate at Microsoft) and Anoop Tatti (Team Lead at Advania), who share their experiences with Copilot…

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Ep 9 - Feeding the 300 42:34

3M ago42:34

42:34

Welcome to this episode of the Copilot Connection podcast, where we share the latest news, insights, and capabilities of the Microsoft Copilots ecosystem. In this episode, your hosts Kevin and Zoe discuss the latest announcements in the copilot space, including the lifting of the 300 seat limit and the availability of Copilot Pro. They also delve i…

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Ep 8 - Looking ahead to 2024 41:45

4M ago41:45

41:45

In a slight change of schedule, Zoe and Kevin decided to talk about the year ahead and some thoughts as to the big topics. There was a little news to cover as well, especially for all those who love buttons. We also asked Copilot to do a summary of the show so here's that version! In this episode of Copilot Connection, Kevin and Zoe discuss the lat…

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Ep 7 - Copilot Connection at ESPC part 2 1:05:04

4M ago1:05:04

1:05:04

Following on from the last episode, we continue with some of the interviews from ESPC23 in Amsterdam with guests Heather Cook, Karoliina Kettukari and Gabriel Ho from Microsoft. Hear what they think about what Copilot means to them, the transformation that people will see, what people should prepare for and what they hope will happen next. Plus the…

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Ep 6 - Copilot Connection at ESPC part 1 48:42

4M ago48:42

48:42

For the first in a series of interviews from ESPC, we have Karuana Gatimu and Richard Harbridge from the expo floor at ESPC. Plus, the latest news including GA for Copilot for Service, info on a Copilot for Viva Glint and a reminder about our Custom Copilot Connection Challenge. Announcing Microsoft Copilot for Service - Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog…

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Ep 5 - Copilot in Ignite 51:42

5M ago51:42

51:42

Zoe and Kevin share all the big Ignite news with insider information from Zoe who was over in Seattle. We also have interviews with Dona Sarkar, Ana Ines Urrutia and Raymond Comvalius fresh from Ignite. Kevin also announced the Custom Copilot Connection Challenge, asking you all to build Copilots that can consume all the amazing Ignite information …

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Ep 4 - Dynamics Customer Service and Sustainability with Tricia Sinclair 45:14

6M ago45:14

45:14

We are joined by Tricia Sinclair, Microsoft MVP, CRM Tech Architect at Avanade and quiz host extraordinaire. Together, we talk about the latest news, how Copilot is changing Customer Service with Dynamics and the issues and considerations around Sustainability for Copilot and the wider Generative AI ecosystem. M365 Copilot General Availability http…

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Ep 3 - the A-Z of Copilot from South Coast Summit 48:18

6M ago48:18

48:18

After an exciting South Coast Summit, Kevin and Zoe sit down to discuss what has been happening in the news around Copilot and share the A-Z of Copilot with you. Power Platform Copilot GA https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/build-better-apps-faster-copilot-in-power-apps-is-now-generally-available/ Power Platform Prompt Library (pnp.github.io…

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Ep 2 - Interviews at Experts Live Europe 43:16

7M ago43:16

43:16

Zoe and Kevin share the latest news on Copilot with Copilot for OneDrive and all sorts from Microsoft Power Platform Conference and then we play some short interviews with Stale Hansen, Ragnar Heil and Marijn Somers and chat about our thoughts on them. Useful links: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-onedrive-blog/unveiling-the-next-g…

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Ep 1 - Welcome to the Copilot Connection 18:44

7M ago18:44

18:44

Welcome to Copilot Connection, the podcast that explores the world of Microsoft Copilots! Join your hosts, Zoe Wilson and Kevin McDonnell, as they take you on a journey through the different Copilots available and how they can help you in your day-to-day life. From the newly launch date announced Microsoft 365 Copilot to the Dynamics 365, GitHub, W…

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Winning with a Goodness Culture: Finding Joy with Amanda Brinkman 32:46

1y ago32:46

32:46

Welcome back to the Goodness Pays Leadership Podcast! Listen in as Paul Batz and Kevin Sensenig debrief the March Good Leadership Breakfast featuring Amanda Brinkman, CEO of Sunshine Studios and Keynote Speaker. This Good Leadership Breakfast Spring Series is all about Winning with a Goodness Culture - hear how Amanda does just that here.…

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Show 72 - Community journey with Femke Cornelissen 54:47

1y ago54:47

54:47

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 SharePoint Consultant and how chatting at Ignite helped her realise the power of community. Want to get more invo…

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Show 71 - Viva Connections with Anoop Tatti 1:04:35

1y ago1:04:35

1:04:35

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 distractions along the way! Viva Home Announcement - https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-viva-blog/more-options-coming-soon-for-the-v…

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Show 70 - a review of 2022 1:06:07

1+ y ago1:06:07

1:06:07

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 there are some late panics in the show that are worth sticking around for! Microsoft Viva Goals brings pur…

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Show 69: Careers in IT with Will Rowe 1:00:00

1+ y ago1:00:00

1:00:00

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 MS-Talent, talking about the current job market in Microsoft IT related roles, the impact of hybrid, why people are moving and even blue back hair (yes really). Careering out of control - Wi…

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Show 68 - part 2: where Yammer excels over Teams 46:35

1+ y ago46:35

46:35

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 Teams, how you can help adoption, why you should consider both and a lot lot more. There were certainly opinions this week!…

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Show 68 - part 1: Power Platform updates and end of a Microsoft era 47:44

1+ y ago47:44

47:44

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 journalism as Mary Jo Foley leaves ZDNet after 16 years. This led to a slightly diverted chat about what we were up…

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Show 67 - part 2: Talking Community with Ami Diamond 33:13

1+ y ago33:13

33:13

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 SharePoint Wizard Channel Community days - https://communitydays.org/By Kevin McDonnell

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Show 67 - part 1: Microsoft Ignite Debrief 59:47

1+ y ago59:47

59:47

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). Microsoft Ignite 2022 Book of News Weekly view in SharePoint calendar - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadm…

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Episode 16: Good Leadership Is a Team Sport 21:09

1+ y ago21:09

21:09

Good Leadership recently launched its newest book: Good Leadership Is a Team Sport. Paul and Kevin talk about the early drafts of the book and how it came to the final product it is today. To purchase copies for your team, visit here.By Paul Batz

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Episode 66 - The latest news and chat 1:08:57

1+ y ago1:08:57

1:08:57

Kevin, Al and Garry were guest-less so covered the large amount of news and had a chat about Viva, Teams and Power Platform Hybrid Work Is Just Work. Are We Doing It Wrong? (microsoft.com) Microsoft Viva Ebook What’s New in Microsoft Teams | August and September 2022 - Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft Teams apps coming in preview to Office and Ou…

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Show 65 - Part 2: Making life easier with SharePoint Syntex 46:25

1+ y ago46:25

46:25

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. Leon's Blog SharePoint Syntex | Microsoft 365 Automate document generation with SharePoint Syntex and Power Automate (preview) - SharePoint Syntex | Microsoft Docs Licensing…

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Show 65 - part 1: Teams Room licensing, Adoption Score and B2B Power Apps 43:51

1+ y ago43:51

43:51

This week we are joined by Leon Armston, newly minted Microsoft 365 Apps and Services MVP, who shares his thoughts on the latest news. Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro and Microsoft Teams Rooms Basic, everything you need to know. - Tom Talks Driving adoption of Microsoft Viva at Microsoft - Microsoft Tech Community Introducing Adoption Score – helping cus…

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Show 64 - Part 2: What is productivity and how can it be increased? 53:41

1+ y ago53:41

53:41

Part 2 of our recording with Gavin Jones as we dig into productivity Modern Workplace Accelerator | MeeTime Services Gavin 🤓 Jones | LinkedIn MeeTime (@meetimeapps) / Twitter Photo by Marvin Meyer on UnsplashBy Gavin Jones

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Show 64 - Part 1: OneDrive is 15, Power Platform CLI and some Viva Connections tools 39:35

1+ y ago39:35

39:35

This week, Gavin Jones joins Al and Garry to cover the latest news and views from across the Microsoft 365 space.By Gavin Jones

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Show 62: The Big Microsoft Inspire Round-up 56:45

1+ y ago56:45

56:45

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! Viva Engage https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-viva-blog/announcing-microsoft-viva-engage/ba-p/3571382 …

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Show 61 - Part 2: The future of collaboration 37:57

2y ago37:57

37:57

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, Hans Brender joins us to talk about the future of collaboration and we go a bit loopy talking about how Microsoft Loop will change the way we …

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Show 61 - Part 1: A new Viva pillar, beautiful Power Apps, some CLI news and Microsoft Search AMA 53:47

2y ago53:47

53:47

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 make beautiful Power Apps, inspired by the awesome Kristine Kolodziejski Why you should upgrade your SharePoint Framework solutions with CLI for Microsoft 365 Thinking about…

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Show 60 - Power Platform CoE and what more you should think of 1:03:58

2y ago1:03:58

1:03:58

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 place to make your Power Platform usage the best it can be and to truly enable your citizen developers the …

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Show 59 - Your fantasy Microsoft dinner party - live from Scottish Summit 48:17

2y ago48:17

48:17

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 to talk about what their fantasy dinner party would be with three rules - there has to be one person from …

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Show 58 - Happy Hour Etiquette at Scottish Summit 47:50

2y ago47:50

47:50

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 the best so we hope that it came across ok for you all. Let us know if you'd like more live recordings like this…

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Show 57 - Processes in Microsoft Teams 1:01:46

2y ago1:01:46

1:01:46

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 processes more automated. We also talk about how you can plan your automations too. Useful links: Adaptive Cards Overview of Universal Actions for Adaptive Cards …

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Show 56 - Part 2: Infrastructure as code in Microsoft 365 45:59

2y ago45:59

45:59

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 and how you can do it in the world if Microsoft 365. Some useful links (that slightly give away what we will talk about!): M365 DSC Claus Jespersen - clajes…

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Show 56 - Part 1: Scoring with Viva Goals, Group Ownership Policies with Luke Evans and more 47:14

2y ago47:14

47:14

This week we are joined by independent Microsoft 365 consultant Luke Evans (Twitter, LinkedIn) to talk about the latest news including a nicely timed announcement of Viva Goals (Microsoft's release of Ally.IO), how to organise your Teams with no owners, some amazing new accessibility tools announced at the accessibility summit and the latest ShareP…

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