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Melvin Amey
Using Microsoft Teams is a new way to work for many users. Teams is a combination of many tools: chat, file storage, meetings, and many more. It presents a way for businesses to work with their business content that often can reduce email clutter and allow conversations to happen more dynamically and efficiently. Users are not just learning how to use software as much as improving work processes and understanding how Teams can bring efficiency to how they work with their business content and colleagues.
As recognized Microsoft Teams experts, KnowledgeWave provides training and guidance for businesses using or looking to use Microsoft Teams. Our proven learning modalities provide companies with the flexibility to address different learning styles most affordably, enabling their businesses to deploy Teams quickly and spark user adoption at the same time. As a Microsoft Partner, our in-house Service Adoption Specialists can assist your organization with everything from planning for change, Teams and Microsoft 365 governance, to training and support.
KnowledgeWave works with each client uniquely, depending on the level of involvement our client wants us to have with them and their users. It is often a direct result of the skill level and experience the organization and IT team has with Microsoft 365 and MS Teams. On the lightest of touches, we advise and provide access to our Online Learning Library, the KnowledgeWave Learning Site (KLS). Every company we work with receives a copy of our Microsoft 365 Adoption Planning Checklist.
This checklist has topics instrumental in the deployment of Microsoft 365 and tools like Microsoft Teams because while you can dial back functionality, successful deployment of Teams requires more than just turning it on. User collaboration uses both OneDrive and SharePoint to store files. KnowledgeWave is your partner, and our Service Adoption Specialists, are resources that can guide you through defining a plan and strategy to assist your organization with considerations around document management across Microsoft 365. For example, how to best integrate content in Teams, which is quickly becoming the premiere communication and collaboration hub for businesses.
We publish the rates for our learning site, the entry point solution for many of our clients, on our website. We will share recommendations, best practices and what we have done that has been successful for others, but we support your specific/specialized goals and deployment needs. We recommend a solution that works with your budget.
KLS is an on-demand video learning system that can be used around your deployment road map, where you can customize content that is surfaced to your employees. With complete transparent pricing, you know the costs, and with no long-term commitment, KLS is the easiest way to Optimize Microsoft Teams Training for your users. Businesses subscribing to KLS also have access to our live instructor-led member webinars with no additional investment. Live webinar training provides the opportunity for your employees to ask questions to a real person. Our team members are content creators, which is extremely important when we are talking about a product like Microsoft Teams, which updates so incredibly often. Our on-demand learning content and webinar schedule address change as it happens. Sign Up for the KnowledgeWave Learning Site here.
KnowledgeWave recommends that all organizations deploying and looking to adopt Office 365 and tools like Microsoft Teams, deliver a live webinar-based training session that shares the message around the reason for moving to tools like Teams, and shows the basics of how the tools being deployed can benefit the users in your business.
KnowledgeWave can deliver this type of event around your message or you can do it yourself. Delivering this type of Awareness Session can help to put users at ease and helps those that fear change. It can also help to identify potential champions that may envision ways they can use the Office 365 tools to work more efficiently in their day-to-day business workflow.
You can train your entire team affordably and as a KnowledgeWave Learning Site customer, we host the video on your learning site at no additional charge. If you want to go straight to on-demand, we can run this event without the audience and provide you with a finalized branded video that can be added to your KnowledgeWave dashboard, or provided to you as an .mp4 file.
Workshops are active sessions designed to help organization better understand the layers of Microsoft 365, and how the Microsoft 365 toolkit works across Microsoft 365. Workshops provide a more hands-on approach to learning and helps organization better visualize how they might use Microsoft 365 tools around their business workflow. The audience for a workshop will vary depending on topic. KnowledgeWave is a recognized expert for Microsoft 365, you know your workflow, together we look at how your business can leverage Microsoft 365 around your processes to build a modern workplace with new efficiency. Webinars are presented as a one-to-many event, whereas workshops are presented to small groups, usually key personnel that serve as leaders for change.
With today's remote working climate and the need for online collaboration, KnowledgeWave offers both public and private 90-minute hands-on classes. Hands-on learning done online provides attendees with the ability to do versus just watching.
This premium solution is completely customized to meet the needs of your company and its road map for Microsoft technology deployment. Onsite training may consist of various modalities that could include presentations, workshops, or specific task-based learning sessions like those listed under on 90-minute classes.
Before you choose this session as your desired way to train your employees, we recommend speaking with one of our Service Adoption Specialists. Our team can come on site, we love to travel and embrace the white-glove approach, however, because we are teaching your team on cloud-based products like OneDrive for Business and Microsoft Teams, we highly recommend using cloud-based tools to deliver the training in order to boost user adoption of your cloud software. Onsite, live in person training is a great approach, and for those that have budget, we can and will come to you.
Every organization, and actually every department within an organization, will use the tools and applications provided by Microsoft 365 and Teams in different ways to meet their own business challenges and goals.
We work with our clients to build tailored training and adoption support, based on the experience we have gained working with organizations that have already made the transition to a modern workplace.
For the past 20 years, KnowledgeWave has been helping companies deploy and adopt the latest business software. We stay up to date with the most recent software features and are constantly adding additional training to our online learning library, the KnowledgeWave Learning Site.
As a Microsoft Partner, we stay on top of all the newest features released within Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365. We pride ourselves on having helped hundreds of organizations throughout North America deploy business solutions for their organizations.
I've been outspoken about wanting the OneDrive placeholders feature from Windows 8.1 to come to Windows 10. In the relatively short time that it was available, it became such a key part of my workflow -- especially for collaborating with my frequent co-author Simon -- that losing it made me reluctant to move to Windows 10. Now that it's back, as OneDrive Files on Demand, I've flipped my daily driver Surface Book onto Fast Ring. I can finally unmap the network drive that uses WebDAV to fake a view of OneDrive in File Explorer and get back to just having all the many gigabytes of files and photos I keep in OneDrive at my fingertips.
The new version of placeholders fixes all the reasons that Microsoft had to take the feature away. These aren't a strange new thing apps have to treat differently; they're just files that work with any application, from Photoshop to the command line. It's fun to do a DIR command (or ls in Bash) against the cloud and get a list of files as if it was a folder on your PC, just with brackets around sizes of the files that are online only.
Click on an online file to open it and Windows just downloads it and hands it over to the app you're using like any other file. Thumbnails of images live not in the placeholder that few applications understand, but in the Windows thumbnail cache -- so if they take up too much space on a tablet with very little disk space, Windows can clean them up.
The new status icons in Explorer make it very obvious which files are in the cloud, which I have temporarily cached and which I've got pinned so they are available offline. If you're in tile or thumbnail view, files that are only available online get greyed out when you're offline -- so you know you can't open them, but you can still clearly see what files they are, especially for images.
Folders that someone has shared with me only show up in the OneDrive list if I choose to add them to my own OneDrive. That doesn't happen automatically, because you may not want to see everything you have access to -- including the folder list for every SharePoint Team Site you're a member of -- in Explorer. Of the many folders people have shared with me, I've only added one to my own OneDrive to see here.
Similarly, you can keep the current 'do all the planning in advance or have nothing offline' selective sync view of OneDrive if you want; perhaps there's a very private folder in OneDrive you don't want to see on a work laptop even remotely; or there may be folders used by mobile apps for their settings that you can't remove but don't want to see.
Initially at least, I've turned that off, because I want to see everything. Confusingly, there are two steps to this: turn on Files on Demand and then go into OneDrive settings and explicitly say that you want to see all your folders on demand or pick the subset you want to see. It would be easier if the 'pick which folders are visible on demand' window popped up automatically. And of course, on a new PC you'd choose all this while you set up the PC anyway.
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