Episode 197 – Surface Duo with Dan Patrick

In Episode 197, Ben and Scott hop on a call with Dan Patrick (@deltadan) from Solliance to discuss the Surface Duo and where it sits in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem as a productivity device. YouTube Link - https://youtu.be/IoqID5L2aP0 Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Surface Duo Hardware First Look Surface Duo First Impressions How Google and Microsoft teamed up to try to reinvent smartphones contacts+ Microsoft Ignite North American Collaboration Summit DEVintersection Microsoft Azure+AI Conference Dan Patrick Dan is the Chief Infrastructure Architect for Solliance. He leads the DevOps and Infrastructure practice focusing on accelerating the customer's velocity to the cloud. Dan has been designated a Microsoft MVP (“Most Valuable Professional”), for Azure and is a 15-year veteran of Microsoft. About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.