Microsoft Innovation Podcast

FULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/398 Shannon Mullins talks about Women in Tech: The Untold Stories podcast! Find out more about Shannon’s life – family, job, interests and what she does for fun. How did Shannon get into technology? A discussion about Shannon’s Business Central journey – how did it start? What does Shannon see in the GP Customer’s moving to Business central when it comes to Marketing? Shannon’s advice to people starting their new careers. Shannon’s recommendations to people considering becoming a Microsoft MVP.  OTHER RESOURCES Microsoft MVP YouTube Series - How to Become a Microsoft MVP 90-Day Mentoring Challenge - https://ako.nz365guy.com/ Support the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

FULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/397 A short introduction about Terho Antila’s life, country of origin and hobbies. Find out about how Terho’s interest in technology started. The first business applications Terho got involved with and started using? Talks about Terho’s journey to PowerApps Component Framework or PCF Learn more about Terho’s Planner Gantt Chart and the features Terho’s involvement and experience in attending the European Power Platform Conference in Berlin  A conversation about the impact of becoming a Microsoft MVP  Terho’s involvement in the MVP Community What is the community like in Finland around the Power Platform?  OTHER RESOURCES Microsoft MVP YouTube Series - How to Become a Microsoft MVP 90-Day Mentoring Challenge - https://ako.nz365guy.com/Terho Antila’s GitHub: https://github.com/TerhoAntila/  Support the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

FULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/396 An introduction about Greg Lindhorst’s life and what he’s doing outside Microsoft Greg shares his journey into Microsoft  What path did Greg take to where he is right now? What is Power Fx? How powerful is Power Fx?What is wrong with JavaScript and TypeScript? What has Greg learned on the access side? Find out more about Power FX vs Microsoft Excel.Greg talks about the people who are using Power FX.The role of GPT-3 in what Greg is doing? Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption is a Microsoft Press book for leaders and consultants. It shows how to identify high-value use cases, set guardrails, enable champions, and measure impact, so Copilot sticks. Practical frameworks, checklists, and metrics you can use this month. Get the book: https://bit.ly/CopilotAdoptionSupport the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

FULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/395 A brief introduction about Uday Adhikari’s life – family, country of origin, favourite food, and what he does when not working. Uday’s story about moving from Nepal to the USA to do his master's degree Uday shares his story about how he got involved in Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform. Talks about Uday’s journey into the Microsoft Power Platform Discussion about Uday’s SharePoint background With all the tool sets available in Power Platform, where does Uday specializes in? A discussion about Uday’s journey into becoming a Microsoft MVP Uday talks about his MVP Nomination OTHER RESOURCES Microsoft MVP YouTube Series - How to Become a Microsoft MVP 90-Day Mentoring Challenge - https://ako.nz365guy.com/  Support the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

FULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/394 A brief introduction with Mary Thompson about WorldMax- what she has done and what is happening. Mary talks about her community engagement What does Mary need and how can people out there help and support her with what she is doing? How can people be like Mary? Mary’s journey into becoming a Microsoft MVP and what’s involved? What was different after becoming a Microsoft MVP? Mary's involvement in the MVP community – sharing your knowledge and helping people The value of becoming a Microsoft MVP Mary’s experience speaking in an event OTHER RESOURCES       - Microsoft MVP YouTube Series - How to Become a Microsoft MVP        - 90-Day Mentoring Challenge - https://ako.nz365guy.com/        - Britta Rekstad - https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/PublicProfile/5001335?fullName=Britta%20Rekstad        - The Dynamics Skill Gap & How to Solve it – Britta Rekstad - https://podcast.nz365guy.com/the-dynamics-skill-gap-how-to-solve-it-britta-rekstad/ Support the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

FULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/393 An introduction about Hector Tellado’s life and what he does when he’s not doing Microsoft. How did Hector balance the work from home and work from the office type? Hector discusses the Dynamics 365 Field Service. How long has Field Service now been in the business? Where Field Service is at now; its opportunities, position, and how it stands globally  Hector talks about the new features and tools What are the common use cases Hector is seeing with Dynamics 365 Field Service? What are the types of organizations that use the application to manage their field service? Scheduling System - what are the markets or requests that people would like to see happen? RESOURCES MENTIONED:YouTube Channel for field service - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7Rd031NCJZekAkNU2bb8Kg/videos Overview of Dynamics 365 Field Service - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/field-service/overview Dynamics 365 Field Service - https://dynamics.microsoft.com/en-us/field-service/overview/ Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption is a Microsoft Press book for leaders and consultants. It shows how to identify high-value use cases, set guardrails, enable champions, and measure impact, so Copilot sticks. Practical frameworks, checklists, and metrics you can use this month. Get the book: https://bit.ly/CopilotAdoptionSupport the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

FULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/392 Venkata Subbarao Polisetty's life background, interests and what he does when not working. With Venkata’s choices of careers, how did he end up in Information Technology? Venkata’s first project that got him into Dynamics CRM. The key part of being part of the Microsoft Business Applications. Venkata’s focus or areas where he is working on Microsoft Business Applications MVP journey of Venkata and the nomination process. Blogging and community involvement of Venkata Venkata’s experience as a speaker in an event. If given a chance, what feature Venkata will add to Power Automate? What did Venkata discover about the MVP program that he didn’t know before becoming one? Benefits of becoming a Microsoft MVP. Recommendations to people considering becoming a Microsoft MVP OTHER RESOURCES: Microsoft MVP YouTube Series - How to Become a Microsoft MVP  90-Day Mentoring Challenge - https://ako.nz365guy.com/ Support the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

FULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/391 Family and life background of Khoa Nguyen – originally from Vietnam. Talks about Khoa’s hobbies and life in Ireland. A great story about Khoa’s career journey and how he got a job in Ireland. A conversation about Khoa’s journey into becoming a Microsoft MVP   – how did it start   – who nominated him   – how was the process for him? Find out more about Khoa’s involvement in the community and blogging Khoa’s PowerApps Portals journey and how much work he does using PowerApps Portals Learn about the projects that involves PowerApps Portal What types of industries uses Portal and why do they need one? Authentication method they use or set up. OTHER RESOURCES: Microsoft MVP YouTube Series - How to Become a Microsoft MVP  90-Day Mentoring Challenge - https://ako.nz365guy.com/ Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption is a Microsoft Press book for leaders and consultants. It shows how to identify high-value use cases, set guardrails, enable champions, and measure impact, so Copilot sticks. Practical frameworks, checklists, and metrics you can use this month. Get the book: https://bit.ly/CopilotAdoptionSupport the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

FULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/390 A brief introduction about Nathan Helgren’s life and what he does when he’s not working with MicrosoftUnpacking Nathan’s career journey to where he is right now at MicrosoftNathan shares how he got involved with Microsoft Visio AppsNathan talks about Microsoft AccessWhat was Microsoft's motivation that made them think they need an easy migration path from access to Dataverse? Find out more about having a license cost for the connector and if it is part of the connector suite? Have you got any use cases of particular industries or organizations that can solve some problems for their customers?An introduction to MigrationDiscussion about an individual or organization having a database in access that can migrate it to DataverseRESOURCES MENTIONEDMicrosoft Azure - https://www.youtube.com/c/MicrosoftAzure Support the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

FULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/389 Hobbies, interests and life of Vivian Voss. Writing a book – is there a reason why Vivian writes a book? Find out more about Estonia – things you can do Who are Alfa People and what do they do in Microsoft Business Applications? Do Alfa People do other things other than Microsoft Business Applications or non-Microsoft Tech? How did Vivian get into Dynamics? Vivian’s journey into becoming an Architect Advice to people wanting to become a Microsoft MVPOTHER RESOURCES:Microsoft MVP YouTube Series - How to Become a Microsoft MVP  90-Day Mentoring Challenge - https://ako.nz365guy.com/ Support the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith