Updates to Adoption Assets for Microsoft Teams

[Karuana Gatimu]

Hello Champion Community!

I hope that all of you are prioritizing your health and safety during this unprecedented time.  Microsoft is here to support you as many of you are transitioning to working exclusively from home.  This community is focused on support the Champions and Adoption Specialists who are in turn supporting those new remote workers.  You are not alone in this situation!  We are in this together.

Next week on March 25th we'll have our monthly community call. We will move our regularly scheduled topic and discuss instead remote work scenarios and guidelines for hosting virtual events which I think is timely.  Please share information about this call broadly so we can support as many people as possible.  In advance of that I have two new videos for you and other assets:

1.  We've launched the new Teams Quick Start playlist on my channel.  It includes two new videos specifically for this audience:

 The Champions' Guide to Supporting Remote Workers specifically for this community and

@Nydia Cavazos  and the Mechanics team have turned our guidance into a fantastic overview of the adoption process that many of you have been studying for some time. 

If you are new to driving adoption and being a champion this is a great place to start. Then, bring your questions back to this forum.

2. We have updated our Teams Toolkit flipbook with 2 new pages on remote work with guidance that include other notes on OneDrive, Yammer and Stream.  Please note that you should only bookmark https://aka.ms/TeamsToolkit as the URL for this asset as we do update its location as we continue developing the experience. 

3. We have updated our downloadable Customer Success Kit with new assets to support your roll out including new Day in the life card for Remote Work and a wonderful guide to ensure we don't forget best practices for the human side of working from home

It is my sincere hope this assets will support you and your employees while you are working remotely.  Please review these assets and give me your feedback here.  Then, join our call on March 25th, bring your questions and we will ensure to reserve ample time for Q&A about this and hosting virtual events.  

Remember: As a champion you must put your own health and well being first so that you can help others!  

[Steve Hernou]

Thank you @Karuana Gatimu for the great content.

One question on the learning pathways site. Does your tenant still need to be on First Release in order to be able to deploy the solution?

I played a bit with the first iteration of LP and that was a pre-req then though on the current docs.microsoft.com site there is no longer a mention of it.

Thanks :)

[Karuana Gatimu]

HI @Steve Hernou  no you do not need to be on First Release... We are working on both a content update there and multi lingual.  I'll have a separate post on M365LP updates as soon as they land.  

[Patrick Drews]

@Karuana Gatimu - it appears that on page 2 of the Teams Toolkit Flipbook there is a incorrect link in the "Why Teams?" section.  The link for "Why Microsoft Teams presentation" goes to the Microsoft Teams Partner Presentation.    This needs to be updated to the link to the correct presentation.  Thanks! 

[Karuana Gatimu]

Thank you @Patrick Drews I gave that feedback to the team. We'll get that updated

[MarilynS]

@Karuana Gatimu on the champions resources page the tips and tricks link is broken https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/success/champions?rtc=1

[Russell_P]

It would be great to have a permanent URL for the Flipbook as it's a great asset to add as a tab in a Team to support adoption! It changed last week and I had to re-add the link to the slighly new address (index.html to default.html)

[Patrick Drews]

@Russell_P the permanent URL is https://aka.ms/TeamsToolkit.   That won't ever change, per @Karuana Gatimu guidance above, and is the one that should be used for linking or bookmarking. 

[Karuana Gatimu]

YES! Please always use the short URL for our toolkit! It does move and will change again as we localize it for other languages.

[Tero Niemi]

Hi @Karuana Gatimu you mentioned yesterday at the TeamsFest2020 KeyNote about a new information updated coming into the Learning Pathways, I missed the timeframe for this. Is there a known time when this will be available? I'm working with my admins to make this available and just thinking that if it is the coming weeks, I'll wait until the latest update is there and then start with that new one.

[Tero Niemi]

Hi @Karuana Gatimu  you mentioned on Wednesday at the TeamsFest KeyNote about a new information updated coming into the Learning Pathways, I missed the timeframe for this. Is there a known time when this will be available? I'm working with my admins to make this available and just thinking that if it is the coming weeks, I'll wait until the latest update is there and then start with that new one.

[jeremyjacobs]

How can we get Whiteboard and To-Do added to the Learning Pathways?