Ability to send an email to Planner and create a Task
Is this on the roadmap? Our organization is starting to lose the battle of using Planner instead of Trello, pretty much because of the sole feature that Trello allows you to send an email to a specific email address and it will automatically create a Task. It is quite a simple model: Email Subject = Task Title Email Body = Task Description Email Attachments = Task Attachments This would be a massive win for adoption. Looks like this is the entry with the most votes, but there are about 100 of them that individually are asking for the same/similar functionality: https://planner.uservoice.com/forums/330525-microsoft-planner-feedback-forum/suggestions/13076007-ability-to-add-email-as-planner-task
Where Does End-User Adoption Start?
This April, we're putting the focus on conversations in the Driving Adoption community. We kick off the discussion with insights from Microsoft research we conducted on IT Pros. Where Does End-User Adoption Start? End-user adoption is clearly top of mind. In our research last year, 87% of IT Pros said that driving Office 365 end-user adoption was a priority initiative in the next two years. But “adoption” refers to a wide-range of actions – some of which occur before you even deploy a new product. We asked IT Pros what adoption actions either their organizations or they, as individuals, were involved in. High-maturity cloud companies (companies with 6+ products in the cloud) were more likely to engage in pre-deployment adoption activities. Already deployed? There are still plenty of actions you can take now! In April, we’ll be discussing end-user adoption best practices, success stories, sharing resources, and answering your questions. We’ll elaborate on the actions we listed above and open the conversation to discuss any challenges/questions you have on the community! What adoption actions do you or your organization take? When did the conversation around end-user adoption start? Read these other posts featured during 'End User Adoption' month: Case Study #1: Adoption as a Marketing Campaign Case Study #2: Outsourcing Adoption Case Study #3: Organic Discovery vs Forced Adoption Friday Feature: NunoAriasSilva: 'The biggest challenge in customers adopting new technologies is helping them understand the value of technology by its features compared to its price. Some customers only upgrade their systems by feature by end of support.' Read his interview here. John White: 'If users can't see value immediately, we need to be able to demonstrate the value of a platform in order to overcome this skepticism, or resistance to change.' Read his interview here. DeletedUser2246: 'The main way I work to influence the skeptics to change is to find at least one or two little things that annoy them and make it better.' Read his interview here. Deleted: 'I make complicated things simple, relatable, and sometimes even fun. That’s been my reason for existing as a communications and change manager for more than 20 years.' Read her interview here. The Irony of Change: Think much has changed since 1985? Think again. How Do You Measure Adoption Success? Useful resources on adoption metrics. Expanding the IT Skill Toolbox: Change Management Skills. A post from a previous month's theme of IT Career Skills but relevant to this month's theme. Office 365 Adoption Guide: Matt Wolodarsky shares a useful adoption resource from Microsoft. When Adoption Goes Wrong: The community shares stories to help you learn what not to do when it comes to driving adoption. Getting Creative with Adoption: Some cool and sometimes unconventional ways people have driven adoption in their organization. Consumer vs Enterprise Adoption: Interesting post from Simon Terry highlighting the different approaches. The Growing Interest in End User Adoption: Blog post from Debbie Arbeeny from the Skype for Business team about the expansion in focus on end user adoption. Connecting with People to Drive Adoption: Sharon Liu explores three ways you might engage users in driving adoption. Reimagine the Workplace with Office 365: Cian Allner shares 360 degree videos showcasing collaboration, analytics and security in the modern workplace using Office 365 from the Microsoft Canada Customer Immersion Experience. Save Save Save SavePLEASE VOTE!!! for Additional function for formatting cells. Adjust cell size to text length
Your vote counts!!! Adjust cell size to text length Additional function for formatting cells. https://excel.uservoice.com/forums/304921-excel-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/41191999-additional-function-for-formatting-cells Additional function for formatting cells. Adjust cell size to text length. At the moment there is in the menu of cell format, alignment, among other things the possibility to adjust the text size on the cell. In addition to this function, it would be very helpful if there was a box to click on where the cell would be adapted to the font size. If you like the idea, please click on the link and vote!Looking for Adoption Guidance for Office 365? How about over 100 pages with SAMPLES?
What adoption tips, ideas and approaches have you used? There are great resources available at Success.Office.com (or FastTrack) that I know I would recommend as a great start. Just in case that isn't enough for you though... what else do you use? After many long hours we have tried our best to compile many approaches and resources that we have seen work into an 80+ page whitepaper on "Driving Office 365 Adoption & Usage". It can be found at http://Office365Campaigns.com. Within it you will find all sorts of guidance - but in particular detailed guidance on how to actually improve and plan for adoption using adoption campaigns. Including how to define tips, contests, training, communication and more to effectively improve Office 365 adoption. That's not all. We realized that 80 pages weren't enough. So we also released a few supporting resources with EVEN more content and guidance. These additional resources are available in our “Office 365 Success” Resource Kit at http://Office365Resources.com. (Think of a zip file of various samples and guides - with many more to come). Quiz Contest Samples & Guidance For Office 365 - Running a quiz contest can help improve organizational understanding, awareness, and readiness around Office 365. This resource contains a sample quiz and additional quiz questions for Office 365. Contests, Challenges & Ideas For Office 365 - Running contests or challenges can help reinforce the tips you communicate in adoption campaigns. This resource contains a listing of sample contests and user challenges. Survey Sample & Guidance For Office 365 - Surveys can help improve organizational understanding, awareness, and readiness. They help provide insight based on participation of a targeted user group to improve the roll out of Office 365. This resource includes a few sample surveys and survey guidance. Office 365 Success Readiness Questionnaire - This questionnaire is designed to collect the information needed to support the construction of a governance plan and an adoption plan tailored for Office 365. What about the resources you use? What are some great ones we should add to the resources section of the whitepaper? What did we miss and what else should organizations know?
