Owen Allen presented on the journey from Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams. Some key points:
- Microsoft is transitioning users from Skype for Business to Teams as the primary collaboration tool. Teams offers improved features over Skype and is built on a modern, scalable architecture.
- Adoption of chat-based collaboration apps like Teams and Slack is growing rapidly in organizations of all sizes. Teams usage has surpassed Slack according to recent surveys.
- Teams can be used for a variety of collaboration scenarios including sales, marketing, project management, and customer support. It integrates with Office 365 apps and allows customization with third-party solutions.
- For a successful transition,
1. The Journey from Skype for Business
to Microsoft Teams
Just Got Real
Owen Allen
@owenallen
owen.allen@zones.com
Sr Solution Architect
Zones
#MTXPDX
11 Dec 2018
2. Agenda
• Introduction
• Our world is changing
• Microsoft is changing
• Collaboration and market products are changing
• Skype and Teams
• What Are Microsoft Teams?
• Use cases for Teams
• What? Me Worry? about user experience with Teams
• Governance and user experience. Together. Wait, what?
• User Adoption Best Practices
• Thank you
3. Introductions
• Owen Allen
• Sr Solutions Architect at Zones Cloud Center
of Excellence
• 10+ years at Microsoft
• 5+ years as independent consultant
• Current focus is Digital Workplace, Change
Management, Governance and User
Experience with Microsoft 365 and Azure
• Owen.Allen@zones.com
6. Market Overview – Organizational
Change
• Mobile Workers
• Work at Home, Work at Office, Work at Coffee shop
• Increased Employee Mobility - Shorter Employee Longevity
• More Training, more Onboarding
• Shorter business cycles, shorter project cycles, larger projects
• Millennial and Gen-X workforce impacts
• Rapid technology change provides opportunities for different
workstyles to interact, learn to work together, or to clash
• More Information, more Decisions, more Data, more Sorting.
• International Teams, Collaborating across Time Zones and
Culture
7. • 72% of workers will be working remotely by 2020 **
• 38% of remote attendees join via mobile
• 60% are unsatisfied with their current meetings
• 57% find meetings unproductive
• 40% of the US Workforce is now contingent workforce, Forbes 2015
• 60% growth in technology skills needed for Non-IT roles in past four years, Gartner
2017
Microsoft Teams Numbers, Sept 2018
• 330k organizations using Microsoft Teams
• 120M Office 365 monthly active users
Market Overview – Trends
9. Skype4B Server and new infrastructure
• Skype for Business Server 2019 was released in Oct-2018.
• There are no announcements about terminating support for
future Skype for Business Server editions to support on-
premises installations.
• Teams is built on a scalable microservices architecture
• Better telemetry
• Improved maintenance and upgrades
• More granular bandwidth optimization
• Faster meeting joining
• Inclusion of Microsoft Cognitive Services and Azure Media Services
10. Upgrade for Cloud users
• October 1, 2018
• The Date when Teams became the primary client for meetings and
calling in Office 365 over Skype for Business.
• NOW: Companies sized 1-500 employees
• TOMORROW (When?): Larger companies
• No automatic upgrade date for existing users yet announced.
Each customer can choose their own upgrade date.
11. Skype to Teams Upgrade Items
• Upgrade Paths
• Upgrade Basic (all at once) and Upgrade Pro (phased or groups)
14. If we have Modern Tools,
then we have a Modern
Workplace!
• Email started with
which phone?
• We still have email…
• We now have modern
phones and other tools
• Have we changed how
we collaborate?
• Why aren’t we using
modern tools?
• Why doesn’t change
happen with all tools?
• Because of a little thing
called Trust.
15. Microsoft Teams usage passes Slack in new survey; IT
pros expect its presence to double by 2020
• Geekwire reported on a Spiceworks article, 10 Dec 2018
• Report in 2016 and in 2018…
• Email is in use by 99% of people… (I’ll come back to this later)
• Chat apps growing quickly.
2016 2018
Small (1-99) 42% 58%
Medium (100-499) 38% 61%
Large (500+) 53% 70%
% Companies using Chat Based Apps
2016 2018
Skype for Business 36% 44%
Microsoft Teams 3% 21%
Slack 13% 15%
Google Hangouts 16% 11%
Workplace by
Facebook
1% 1%
% Adoption of Chat Based Apps
17. What if We don’t use Exchange Online?
• User accounts must be synchronized with Azure Active Directory
for Office 365.
• Cannot modify user profile pictures
• Cannot add or configure connectors.
• Must have Exchange Server 2016 CU3 to create / view meetings.
• No Retention policy support
• SharePoint Online required for Teams files support
• OneDrive for Business required for Private chats files support
• Search still works!
18. Call Quality?
• Uses online Call Quality Dashboard (CQD) to collect call information
• Have the proper tenant roles assigned so that you can access CQD.
• Office 365 Global Administrator role: Accesses all administrative features in
the Office 365 suite of services in your plan, including Skype for Business.
• Skype for Business Administrator role: Configures Skype for Business for
your organization and is able to view all the activity reports in the Office 365
admin center. This role is required even if you deploy only Teams.
• Alternatively, you can assign the following role to an Office 365 user account
to allow access to reporting features only.
• Reports Reader: Can view all the activity reports in the Office 365 admin center, any
reports from the Office 365 Adoption content pack, and CQD reports.
20. Office 365: Supporting the unique workstyle of every group
Complete Collaboration Solution
Office 365 addresses the breadth of
collaboration needs across organization
Integrated Experiences
Office 365 Groups and Graph enable
integrated experiences that facilitate
effective collaboration
Security and Compliance
Office 365 provides the security,
compliance and manageability
required in today’s workplace
Mail &
Calendar
Outlook
Voice, Video
& Meetings
Skype
Chat-based
Workspace
Teams
Sites & Content
Management
SharePoint and
OneDrive for
Business
Enterprise
Social
Yammer
Office 365 Groups
21. Microsoft Teams
Communicate
through chat, meetings & calls
Collaborate
with deeply integrated Office 365 apps
Customize & extend
with 3rd party apps, processes, and devices
Work with confidence
enterprise level security, compliance,
and manageability
Solution Overview
26. Teams – the hub for teamwork
Microsoft
Teams
Office
Applications
Content and
authoring
Chats, calls
& meetings
Bots and
connectors
Everyday
apps and
services
People
What will your
organization do with
the hub for teamwork ?
27. How can I best use Microsoft Teams?
Sales
• Get quick answers
from PMs and
Sales Ops
• Share key
customer wins
• Get lead
notifications and
deal mentions
• Share latest
company, product
and competitor
news
Marketing
• Coordinate
campaigns and
event tasks
• Share the latest
content drafts for
feedback
• Get automated
reports from
analytics tools
• Prepare marketing
launch across
multiple
stakeholders
Project
Management
• Streamline project
communication
and tools
• Provide status
updates, get
feedback,
coordinate tasks
• Share files and
collaborate on
deliverables
• Get new project
members up to
speed
Engineering
• Enable
continuous
discussion across
a distributed team
• Discuss ideas and
requirements,
gather inputs in
the open
• Integrate with
developer tools
like VSTS, Jira
• Store standard
documentation
and files
Customer
support
• Enable
continuous
knowledge
sharing between
shifts
• Provide visibility
into customer
escalations
• Speed up issue
resolution with
various subject
matter experts
• Search for
solutions across
conversations
29. When there is no user training or plan
First and Loudest Complaint – What do I use When?
Three Models
• Microsoft
• Inner Loop and Outer Loop
• AvePoint
• Audience, Tone, Speed
• Regarding365
30. Outer LoopInner Loop
Me
We All Of Us
SharePoint
Files, Sites, & Content
Collaboration
Stream
Video & Live Events
Inner Loop and Outer Loop
31.
32.
33.
34.
35. When there is no user training or plan
• The Second Loudest complaint
•Clutter! – Too Many Teams!
• Remember the email at 99% factoid? TRUST
36.
37. Trust makes the World Go ‘Round
• the email we sent to a colleague
• the proposal that we need to review
• the acceptance letter from the
partner/customer.
• everything has a Date, and a From:
and a To:
• we can find what we need there
• a message that is in our email, is also
in our colleague’s email.
• We trust that we can prove that
something was agreed to or
prohibited by checking our email
• Without trust, how does anything
get justified or remembered, or
followed through on?
38. We Tried to
Trust Modern
Tools
• Too many people couldn’t locate the URL to
the SharePoint site
• And then there were too many SharePoint
sites – which one is the right one?
• Which chat tool? - Skype, or Spark, or Slack,
or other?
• Which Task Tracking tool? - Trello, Asana, or
other?
• We tried using SharePoint … again.
• Too many tools!
• But we don’t KNOW the other person is
there to receive it.
• There was no Trust that the message would
be delivered or discoverable later
• There wasn’t enough TRUST in our tools.
39. We may need a
new view into
teamwork
1:1 Communication
• 1:1 Chats - Skype
• 1:1 Emails - Exchange
• 1:1 File sharing - OneDrive and SharePoint
• 1:1 File sharing - Email attachments
Group Communication
• Group Chats – Skype
• Group Meetings – Exchange, Webex
• Group Emails (and Reply-Alls) - Exchange
• Group File Sharing - SharePoint
• Group File Sharing - Email Attachments
40. Since when does governance
combine well with user
experience
41. Governance Topics with Microsoft Teams
Creation
• Team Naming
• Prefix, Suffix, Blocked Word list, AAD Prem Plan 1
• Pattern: Prefix[GroupName]Suffix
• Example: GRP_TheWinningGroup_MTXPDX
• Can use placeholders: Department, Company, Office, State, Country, etc.
• (Keep it short!)
• Team Classification
• AAD Prem Plan 1
• Allow some Teams to have Guests
• Allow some users to create Teams
• Set-MSOLCompanySettings –UsersPermissionToCreateGroupsEnabled $False
• Full list of settings you can adjust
• New-AzureADDirectorySetting –DirectorySetting $setting
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/users-groups-roles/groups-
settings-cmdlets
42. Governance Topics with Microsoft Teams
Clean Up / Deletion
• What Expiration Dates should you Require?
• Set Expiration Policy for Groups, AAD Prem P1
• Does Teams data require retention?
• Teams channel messages and channel files, O365 E3
• Do you need to archive Teams data in a read-only state?
• Content Search and E-Discovery
43. Governance Topics with Microsoft Teams
Features and Security
• Do you want to limit some features of Teams across the entire
tenant?
• Do you want to limit some features of Teams for specific users?
• Which 3rd party apps do you want to make available to your
users?
• How can you control data and access to third party apps?
• Hierarchical vs Flat groups
45. Champions and Pilots and Best Practices
• Identify User Champions
• Identify Leadership Champions
• How High can you go?
• Pilots and Pilots
• Look for natural processes that connect different groups
• (e.g. Research and Product Management; Recruiting and Employee Interviewers
• Build a user communication model
• What is your right way to receive feedback?
• Identify approaches to overcome user resistance to change
• What is the reason for the resistance?
• Sometimes the symptom masks the true root cause…
• Advertise your organization’s success and accomplishments
• Add the new stories into the rotation
47. Organizational Change Management
with Office 365
What is most important?
• To be Really Clear about Why a change is needed
What is a common #Fail?
• Assuming that people understand
• --- that a change is needed
• --- the reasons for the change
• --- what is being asked of them - the “How”.
Often, these assumptions will be the cause of failures.
49. The Journey from Skype for Business
to Microsoft Teams
Just Got Real
Owen Allen
@owenallen
owen.allen@zones.com
Sr Solution Architect
Zones
#MTXPDX
11 Dec 2018
Research citations:
Trend: In 2009, the average IW in the US worked on 1.7 teams; by 2014 that had nearly doubled to 3 teams. Question: Thinking about the projects you are currently involved with, how many collaborative, project based teams are you on? Source: 2009, 2014 US IW Survey
Primary research, conducted on behalf of Microsoft for the Windows and Devices Group.
Audience: The survey is among Information Workers in Enterprise and UMM (250+ employees).
Geographies: US, Japan, India, Germany and Brazil.
The amount of time employees spend engaged in “collaborative” work – in meetings, on phone calls or answering emails – has increased by about 50%. Perhaps even more significantly, this kind of work now takes up 80% or more of employees’ time. Source: University of Virginia, January 2016, How much workplace collaboration is too Much?
Collaboration is taking over the workplace. As business becomes increasingly global and cross-functional, silos are breaking down, connectivity is increasing, and teamwork is seen as a key to organizational success. According to data we have collected over the past two decades, the time spent by managers and employees in collaborative activities has ballooned by 50% or more. Source HBR, Feb 2016, Collaborative Overload
40% of the US workforce is now contingent worker Source: Forbes 2015 http://www.forbes.com/sites/elainepofeldt/2015/05/25/shocker-40-of-workers-now-have-contingent-jobs-says-u-s-government/#478eaaf22532
Email started when…
We still have email
We now have modern tools
Have we changed how we drive productivity?
Have we changed how we collaborate?
Why aren’t we using modern tools?
Because of a little thing called Trust.
Geekwire story URL: https://www.geekwire.com/2018/microsoft-teams-usage-passes-slack-new-survey-pros-expect-presence-double-2020/
Spiceworks story URL: https://community.spiceworks.com/blog/3157-business-chat-apps-in-2018-top-players-and-adoption-plans
Docs: Quality of Experience Review Guide: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/quality-of-experience-review-guide
Objective: Customers can use the different tools across the Office 365 suite to get their job done.
Talking points:
Office 365 is the culmination of everything we have learned in more than 40 years of pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in business productivity. Each application has been road-tested and validated by our customers and the industry.
With Office 365, you can equip your whole organization with a robust collaboration solution that meets the needs of diverse groups. Whether that’s generational, geographical, functional or simply workstyle diversity.
Below are some details of the different tools customers can use:
Teams:
Leveraged by users & teams who are looking to collaborate in real time with the same group of people
Teams looking to iterate quickly on a project while sharing files & collaborating on shared deliverables
Users looking to connect a wide range of tools into their workspace (such as Planner, Power BI, GitHub, etc.)
Outlook:
Leveraged by users looking to communicate in more formal, structured manner
Specific business processes that require email usage to transmit documents & information inside and outside corporate boundaries
Communicating & connecting with users who are outside of immediate workgroup or organization
Low frequency interactions that do not require immediate action
Skype for Business:
Organizations looking for real time communication and collaboration both internally with immediate team, outside of immediate team and externally with customers/partners
Meetings with audio, video and content with small or large teams (including Town Halls with up to 10,000 participants)
Enterprise telephony functionality
SharePoint Online:
Use for company, organizational intranet sites with curated content
Deploy project information sites that are public to your entire organization
Implement business process automation on libraries and lists of information by integrating Flow, PowerApps and other automation tools
Land Teams first then move this section down later in Plan
Yammer:
Leveraged to help connect users across the organization share best practices or participate in a community of practice
Enterprise social network to connect one to many and crowdsource ideas and topics
Customers looking to foster two way conversations between leadership and staff
[MAIN POINT TO LAND]
Microsoft Teams is a hub for teamwork, a chat-based workspace that enables teams to be more productive by giving them a single and secure location that brings together everything a team needs: chats, meetings, calls, files, and tools. Microsoft Teams is one place for all the needs your teams have.
Microsoft Teams delivers on four core promises to create a digital workspace for high performing teams.
[COMMUNICATE]
First, Microsoft Teams solves for the communication needs of a diverse workforce.
Since preview, Microsoft Teams has evolved to include a complete meetings experience, as well as chat, voice and video -
You can use Teams for informal 1:1 or group chats – directly on your phone if you’re on the go. Or you can have an open conversation in a channel. This enables people to share information in a transparent way to accelerate decision making. And it's super easy to move from a chat into a face to face meeting, helping you to bridge geographical barriers.
[COLLABORATE]
When it comes to collaboration, the deep Office integration enables today’s multigenerational workforce to use the Office apps they are familiar with and love - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, SharePoint, Planner, even Power BI - right within the context of Teams. Teams is unique in how we enable collaboration.
Today, when you want somebody’s feedback, you send them the file via email, they store it locally with comments, you store it again…… it's a vicious cycle that results in v2, v3, v4 versions – and you have to jump between email and other apps to get the work done. Teams brings all the Office 365 services together – so that you can easily share and co-author files without the need for email attachments.
[CUSTOMIZE]
Many of you use other services than Office 365 as well which results in you having to jump between and spend time in disparate experiences. We built Teams to not only be the hub for Office 365 services, but for all the services and tools teams use on a day to day basis. So, you can customize Teams with tabs, connector and bots to include the apps and services you need - <mention relevant 3rd party apps like GitHub and Trello that can be included in Teams>– we have integrations with over 150 partners. For our developer community, we have also created an extensible platform, to enable building apps and to integrate with business processes.
[WORK WITH CONFIDENCE]
Microsoft Teams comes with the enterprise grade security, compliance and manageability that you expect from Office 365 which customers tell us is a huge value add for them.