Office 365 Distilled
Episodes
EP 183: AI is a people Challenge
17 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Marijn came back from MVP Summit in Seattle, but can't say anything, because NDA! The topic changes in what AI can do for you, and why people are the ...
EP182: An Irish foursome
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On this special day of the day, when we celebrate Saint Paddy, the boys taste 4 whiskies while they work out how to measure collaboration.
EP181: SharePoint matures like fine whisky
03 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Birthday to 25 year SharePoint! The boys reminisce and share war stories. They end with an amazing smoky dram.
EP180: Of Mice and Men
26 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Microsoft 365 Distilled, the boys celebrate Burns Night in true Scottish fashion: with tartan‑level enthusiasm and a whisky that ...
EP 179: Eyeballs on AI
16 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Happy new year everyone! The boys are back and making plans for fun events this year. Marijn hates the fact that Steve is now higher up the CommunityD...
EP 178: SP prophecy from Jura
30 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The boys discover Jura and their wheel to describe the full range of whiskies. They compare it with different SharePoint elements, techniques and ingr...
EP177: Hidden Gems in SharePoint
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Marijn makes a total arse of himself at a whisky tasting. Because why not. The boys are talking about undiscovered gems in SharePoint,which they uncov...
EP176: What we think of people
15 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This time, the boys are not alone! Anouck Fierens, co-host of the FusionTalk podcast is joining them for a dada-dram! The talk of tonight? How, and wh...
EP175: 5s Sexy Site Culture
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The boys talk about Seiri, Seiton, Seiso, Seiketsu, Shitsuke. In short: the 5s methodology.After Marijn's session on Marie Kondo, this is another meth...
EP174: The Zagreb Connection
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The boys are at Collabdays Zagreb and talking to Frane Borozan and Danijel Cizek, from Syskit. They are enjoying some Croatian whisky (well, some of t...
EP173: Agentic Cable Pulling
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Marijn for once, does something useful (in Steve's house).A new Modern Workplace workshop arises, so that means the boys will be live workshopping (ak...
EP172: Does your Microsoft 365 spark joy?
07 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Marijn talks about his new session that is delivering in Helsinki and Oslo. That one is about finding a methodology to handle data, and Marijn chooses...
EP171: Wild West Frontier
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"You never listen to me", might be the start of a old fashioned shoot out in the wild wild west. Thankfully, the boys are much more civilized (so they...
EP170: No more mister nice M365 guy
17 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The boys had it with M365. Done. Dusted. But what are alternatives? If you want to use spreadsheets, run an intranet or collaborate, what are the real...
EP169: New Model
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When the boys are left alone.. they come up with great ideas. New models for whisky that also work for Microsoft 365? Why not!
EP 168: TO BE an MVP
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The boys are renewed as MVP. But what does that even mean? How do you become one? Would you want to be one? What are the perks? And how much work is i...
EP167: Vesku Party Questions
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The boys try something new this episode. What started as a great idea, turned into a drinking game! Marijn got some great Teerenpeli Finnish whisky sa...
Ep166: MegaMigrationChat
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, the boys talk about migrations in the wild, and the experiences they had. They end with a brilliant whisky from one of their favorite...
EP165: Agentic Steve & Marijn
30 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The boys discuss 1 billion SharePoint users, agents and all the other sweet stuff coming out of #M365Conf in Las Vegas. Steve talks about his conferen...
EP 164: Naked intranets configured
18 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It is getting hot in here! Not only are the boys talking governance, intranets and whisky, but Steve might not have a lot of clothes on...
EP163: The Boys... Pixel Perfect
27 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The boys start off talking about intranets and Marijn's new gig at Involv. Then they talk about the concept of the decentralized intranet architecture...
EP162: The Boys have Expectations
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
OK, we are alte... well Steve is late in publishing this episode... no excuse except travelling to the Microsoft world... but then again this is what ...
EP161: Finding your 42
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Boys are back! Marijn and Steve embark on an intergalactic journey through Microsoft 365 in search of the ultimate answer to life, the universe, a...
EP160: Welcome to mAImi
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Steve comes back from Collabdays Miami and tells the story about the 4th revolution that is currently happening in the world.
EP159: A very Sherried Intranet
22 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Well this is a conversation about Intranets that the boys dont start arguing about... too much anyway.
EP158: Marijn in fantAIsy
24 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
OK, the boys ramble on a bit about the money and about AI. The way we pay for SharePoint and M365 services and new ways to pay for Azure services th...
EP157: Steve's Mum, Cheap Whisky and AI
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
So, this turned out to be fun after the boys could not get excited about a big single subject... except whisky... but being broke after the holidays c...
EP156: A whisky Toast to Viva Goals
30 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Steve and Marijn record this just before Xmas and decide on 4 whiskies as they have a send-off for Viva Goals recently announced to be deprecated by M...
EP 155: Masticating fools
28 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Six years ago the boys recorded Office365Distilled 001. 6 years and 155 Episodes ago and talked about Ignited 2018.So the opportunity arose to check...
EP154: Getting Laid with SharePoint
30 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The boys are starting to realise that it is time to get practical and talk about how governance has changed and how they approach SharePoint Governanc...
EP153: Sectsy Chat
10 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
OK, so MS Teams gets new way to look at Channels and Chats under a Sectional title. Steve and marijn take a look at the value of such change and go ...
EP152: Tikit: Helping the Helpdesk
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The boys talk to Geoff and Adam, from Tikit by Cireson. Tikit is a helpdesk solution build on Microsoft Teams. We talk about planes, journeys, AI (ofc...
EP151: AI fun and abuse with Live Prompts
25 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
OK, the boys finally did it. AI, Copilot, Gemini, etc., get a beating in this very funny episode of O365Distilled. Yes, there was even a little live p...
EP150: AI - Bull Shit or Hot Shit
23 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
149 episodes of M365 Distilled took place before we arrived at Collabdays Hamburg! All Marijn had to do was get us a room to record in with a few frie...
EP149: The Team Goes South
08 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Steve and Marijn check out a HBR article (https://hbr.org/2024/08/is-your-organizational-transformation-veering-off-course) that identifies some trait...
EP148: Igniting awareness for success
19 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is the last of the series of podcasts called the apologise series as Steve managed ot catch up with the programs recorded and published so hopefu...
EP147: A bag full of Shit & a pink cross
12 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
So Marijn talks about indecision and the trouble in deciding on a Twix or not… and missed out on a Peated Yamazaki, depriving Steve of a chance to t...
EP146: An Obvious and Satisfying Podcast
05 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is the first of a new series of podcasts called the Apology Series… Life has been a little tricky over the last 3 months for Steve with a separ...
EP145: SharePoint Renovation & Elephant Whisky
02 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
OK, we talk about SharePoint and a question that Marijn received about Sorting our SharePoint Shit. You know the scenario, what do you do to help a ...
EP144: The Fax about Communications and Collaboration
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It started when we discussed how mail is still the prevalent business communications tool and how good or bad it is for collaboration.Unusually for th...
EP143: The Jenga Way in Poland
21 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Poland was a blast at Collab days a few weeks ago. Steve and Marijn spend time in this podcast looking at Jenga and how they used to consider governan...
EP142: The Battle of the Intranet: Gloves Off!
24 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Boys talk about the new gameshow “ IT Depends” which you can find here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcB3Ba6K6N3HMUbt6yVT1Bg and then......
EP141: Meet SaFe Expert Gianni Solito
10 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We have a guest who has been listening to the podcast since Episode One “ Gianni Solito “ Gianni uses SaFe AGILE methods for managing adoption and...
EP140: Modern Wonders of the M365 World
02 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As always the start is about our travels and community speaking events was from Miami to Bremen we talk about Tetsi flies and the rule of ‘Don’t l...
EP139: The M365 Bare Necessities
12 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine that you have 5 days to migrate a small company to M365 from Google Docs… What would you start with, Apps, Email MS teams, Power platform…...
EP138: 2024 Return of Innovation
13 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Short... the boys look at what is on the roadmap and mix them in with some of their own ideas that might not be true... can you work them out 😊 ...
EP137: M365 distilled washback awards 2023
22 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Merry Christmas to every listener of M365, although we suspect that you will not listen to this before the 24th Dec, Monday's celebration day... but i...
EP136: A lot to say about nothing
17 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Boys are back after a hectic time at Lisbon and ESPC where they created 9 podcasts from the CoreView stand @ESPC so this is a kind of recap of the...
EP 135: CoreView @ ESPC: 3 levels of Copilot business case
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The last episode at #ESPC and we are here once more with Kas! This time we bring Jasper Oosterveld on board as a guest! He talks about business cases ...
EP 134: CoreView @ ESPC: Day Two Roundup with Chirag
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Final day at ESPC, which means it is time for a little round up of all the goodness that was spread on day 2. We have Chirag Patel on, the man with ma...
EP 133: CoreView @ ESPC: Simeon Cloud talks security
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Last podcast of day 2 at ESPC, and we have Kenneth van Surksum with us. Kenneth is a Security MVP, who has been involved with Simeon Cloud for years, ...
EP 132: @ESPC with CoreView: Karuana distills Copilot adoption
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The best thing about live events is running into very cool people. Karuana Gatimu from Microsoft, famous for all the work she did on Microsoft Teams a...
EP 131: CoreView @ ESPC: Day one Roundup with Kevin
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Day 2 at ESPC, which means it is time for a little round up of all the goodness that was spread on day 1. We have Kevin McDonnell, Manager at Avanade,...
EP 130: @ESPC with CoreView: The Princess and the Crane
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we have Imre Tholen as a guest, together with princess Kas. Imre is the collaboration expert at Mateco IT and talks about his experie...
EP 129: @ESPC with CoreView: 5 Pillars of cloud governance
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the second episode, live from #ESPC! We’ve got a couple of new guests joining us today: Kas Nowicka from CoreView and Ragnar Heil from Re...
EP 128: @ESPC with CoreView: The view improves when clouds collide
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The boys are in Amsterdam at ESPC23 and bring the spectacle of M365Distilled, live from the CoreView booth!Picture this: a room buzzing with energy, t...
M365Distilled @ESPC with CoreView
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With a Special theme tune for EPSC @ CoreView the boys are joined by Kasia Nowicka, Kas to friends, to launch a series of podcasts directly from ESPC ...
EP 126: A Duvelish plan for finding Hidden Value
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Value is not always easy to find when thinking about all aspects of M365. Applications focus on functionality, and new solutions are set up without ...
EP125: Miss Stilled and Sexy Governance
12 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Podcast will now be formally known as M365Distilled... the name the boys finally landed on after a few amusing alternatives as we introduce Misky3...
EP124: Move over Agile and Waterfall
04 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The boys review the events visited and the future speaking opportunities for this year. And then recall a conversation over lunch bounced from the C...
EP123: From Pussy Galore to Apps Galore
26 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Steve is in a mood and Marijn is suffering big time... We are trying to identify all the end-user apps that need governance and adoption and how much ...
EP122: Reflecting on The Power of Focus
08 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Firstly if you want to Governance at the South Coast Summit (join their workshop at Practical Microsoft 365 Baseline Governance – South Coast Summ...
EP121: Goalong Governance docs
17 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Firstly if you want to Collab Days Poland (join their workshop at Practical Microsoft 365 Baseline Governance – ) So Marijn lost for the first roun...
EP120: M365 Myth Busting
03 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Firstly if you want to Governance at the South Coast Summit (join their workshop at Practical Microsoft 365 Baseline Governance – South Coast Summ...
A Wee Dram #16 SCS - Governance in 11 steps – The Preview
23 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
October13th 2023 @SouthCoastSummit https://www.southcoastsummit.com/workshop/practical-microsoft-365-baseline-governance/ In this final Wee Dram for ...
EP119: Adopt Based on the size of your package
19 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The boys get distracted as always as the Autumn Speaker circuit comes alive. The conclude with Governance at the South Coast Summit (join their work...
EP118: Steve and Marijn Define Governance
12 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Getting ahead of themselves, this episode was recorded at the end of July for the August release due to holidays etc. Before looking at Our governance...
A Wee Dram #15 SCS - The catchy Governance Model D.R.A.A.P
29 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing their Wee Drams on thei new Governance workshop for South Coast Summit October13th 2023 @SouthCoastSummit https://www.southcoastsummit.co...
EP117: Steve and Marijn's Dream M365 job
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The boys get distracted for the first 10 minutes covering Their speaking events, Governance at the South Coast Summit (join their workshop at www.sout...
A Wee Dram #14 SCS - Why do we Need Governance
23 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
October13th 2023 @SouthCoastSummit https://www.southcoastsummit.com/workshop/practical-microsoft-365-baseline-governance/ In this special Wee Dram wh...
EP116: Governance meets Change for New Stream
16 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this special podcast, we have changed a few things... The Intro does not blow your ears out at the start... You can win a place at our 5th Birthday...
EP115 by SecureMailMerge: Steve bought an App
08 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a very late podcast because Steve #ScrewedUp and the great interview with Alex Duggleby needed more work than usual. But it is finished, Ale...
EP114: Do 70% of VIVA projects fail?
03 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Wow, what a week, you can tell when Steve and Marijn have had a busy week because you get this very laid-back podcast where they discuss their Trips.....
EP113 by CloudAlly: The M365 backup backstory!
26 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The second of 3 podcasts sponsored by CloudAlly and provided 3 great whiskies to taste across the following 3 Episodes. Today we are speaking to Mur...
A Wee Dram #13: Harvard’s Information Overload
24 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Marijn Confirms that he can read!! OK, I could not resist that, the power of being the Office365Distilled producer and being able to publish the con...
EP112: The Human Side of Change
14 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The first of 3 podcasts sponsored by CloudAlly and provided 3 great whiskies to taste on the next 3 Episodes. On Episode 113 we will be speaking to ...
EP111: Hairy Fairy Governance from the Jungle
23 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Taking the first module and outlining how Process, Governance and Policies, when brought together, ensure we present a practical approach to providing...
A Wee Dram #12: Catalyst IDEA framework E=EMPOWER
16 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Marijn moves from Inspiration and Design to Empowering your organisation for Digital transformation. Following the Microsoft IDEA framework for digi...
EP110: Boutique Business Needing Content Compliance
08 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Steve and Marijn are joined today by a Guest who brings many questions about UK financial compliance. In this episode, we wanted Laura Madden to tel...
EP109: Lost in AI and then document governance
19 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Marijn and Steve lose about 20 minutes of this podcast covering search and how AI might help. We accept that we can’t help ourselves... We eventua...
EP108: The 4.5 pillars of Innovation
12 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is an extraordinary look at Innovation based on criteria around: Creativity, Vision, Risk-taking and Collaboration. But maybe Governance has a ...
EP107: XLA delayed by Valentines day
26 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Are SLAs just Secrets, Lies and Assumptions? Do we fudge the KPIs to show we have excellent delivery? It’s possible, but XLA’s are more diffic...
EP106: Practical Governance From ChatGPT
04 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
2023 is the year of governance with Marijn and Steve. To get started, we asked ChatGPT for 3 paragraphs describing Governance for M365, which we used ...
EP105: Five Rules for Building Baseline Governance
21 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
So 2023 in the country of Office365Distilled is the year of Governance. And we start with out invention and golden nugget, Baseline Governance which ...
A Wee Dram #11: M365 Iterative Strategy
15 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
So we know that M365 is a constant... it constantly changes. We look at M365 considering where the value is in this changing environment and how best...
EP104: Entering Listopia the world of Lists
08 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
So Happy New Year from Marijn and Steve is the first thing that comes up with a review of the Advents podcasts and a big thanks for getting us close t...
Christmas Eve: Closing with the Boys EGO & Craigellachie 2008, 14 years in the Barrel
24 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The boys celebrate 24 podcasts this month and a year of work relaxing with the ultimate Christmas gift for the whisky lover. A quick review of the wo...
Advent Dec 23rd: Another silly Rule from IT that needs change?
24 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
So WhatsApp is prevalent and easy to use, but it does not conform to the business management of corporate content. What’s in it for me is minimal v...
Advent Dec 22nd: Question: Are there too many meetings in a day?
22 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Meetings are working; this is a pretext for Agile methodology and is very true today. Meetings take work, and they also take you away from work. M...
Advent Dec 21st: Yammer has stories Like Steve and Marijn
22 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Marijn explains Yammer’s Storylines and Stories because he loves them both. He makes a good point; this creates an opportunity for every individual...
Advent Dec 20th: Eating Nuts and a not so Interesting bourbon.
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
So, this podcast just goes to show that the tasting notes of a Whisky can be very accurate... In this case, one stating notes says intense whisky with...
Advent Dec 19th: Marijn goes SharePoint pages mad with a Golden Nugget
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Marijn has been using Steve’s ideas again and wants to tell everyone how he is tracking the questions on his SharePoint site about the change ad ado...
Advent Dec 18th: Heavy responsibility in deciding someone else timeline.
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It was an email, but it’s also going to be on MS Teams messages... seriously a great idea from Microsoft about delaying the delivery. You can now d...
Advent Dec 17th: Marijn goes slow, so Steve does all Microsoft Etiquette in 90 seconds!!
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Meeting Etiquette from a few Microsoft Screenshots identified some great points for improving your meeting habits and accessibility. But Marijn goes ...
Advent Dec 16th: Sync is going away, and Send to Onedrive is here to stay
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There’s a sync that Steve washes his dishes in that is not what Marijn wants to discuss. He has terrible news: they want to favour the Add to OneDr...
Advent Dec 15th: The Black Bar of Gold from several places.
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tasting of Gold Bar Bourbon, Steve travelled through New York Airport last week and crashed the last bottle of Gold Bar reserved... shaped in black wi...
Advent Dec 14th: Caroline again STOMPS into the Office365Podcast
18 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We are doing all this work to enable knowledge management and enhance collaboration. But this does create a point where change is required. Our Spec...
Advent Dec 13th: Caroline joins again and takes the lead!
18 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Another episode with Caroline Hackney, who is rapidly learning to take over this podcast and puts Steve and Marijn in their place. The extraordinary ...
Advent Dec 12th: Guest Caroline Hackney joins to talk personae
18 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We had a few guests on this episode of Office365Distilled, the awesome Caroline Hackney from Port Houston was an attendee at the workshop presented by...
Advent Dec 11th: Baseline Sensitivity labels a conversation.
18 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The problem with short unfocused podcasts is that you can be more confused after the podcast than before. But as the boys touch on Sensitivity labels...