I will move on now to the next item of business, which is a statement by Nicholas Surgeon on the Scottish Government's programme for government 2018-19. The First Minister's statement will be followed by a debate, so there should be no interventions or interruptions during the statement. Last year's programme for government set us on a path to address the big challenges mewn gyngorau a'r eu cyflwynieg o'r rhain. Mae'n nesaf y gallu bod ei wneud i ganoddau yn gweithio ynghylch, yn adeiladu i'r populadau, ac yn ddigonol i'ch gyfrifiad mewn cymoeddiaeth. Mae'n weithio c passaillio'n gwedddio'n meddwlodraeth ei wneud. Mae'n ei wneud ei achodig ymwiel yn cygalig depictio i'r rhaid i'r rhaid i'r blaenau caresnidig i'r cyflwyneidol iawn. Honestly, a wi't a fath a nation proud of its history and achievements, but equipping itées to seize the opportunities of the future, and a society determined to remain open, inclusive and welcoming in the face of rising forces of intolerance, isolation and protectionism. This programme for government today flows from that vision. It builds on the progress of the last year, indeed, of the last decade. It ensures that we remain focused on delivering for today and investing for tomorrow. It continues and accelerates the major reforms under way in our health, education and justice systems, underpinned, of course, by our new progressive system of income tax. It seeks to make further progress on tackling inequality and reducing poverty. It sets out the next steps in the operation of our new social security system, and it builds on our work to support Scotland's economy and encourage innovation. It does all of this, of course, in the shadow of Brexit. We simply cannot ignore Brexit or, indeed, the UK Government's shamefully shambolic handling of these negotiations. For our part, we will continue to make the case for EU membership. Short of that, we will press the UK Government to remain in the single market and the customs union. As the terms of Brexit become clearer in the months ahead, we will consider and set out our view on how Scotland's interests can best be protected and advanced. Of course, as we saw just yesterday, it is clear that an increasing number of our fellow citizens believe, as we do, that the best future for Scotland lies in becoming an independent country. This programme for government will be impacted by Brexit, but it is not defined by it. Instead, it sets out how we intend to deliver on our vision of a healthier, wealthier and fairer Scotland. Let me turn first to the economy. Economic growth in Scotland over the past year has been higher than in the rest of the UK. Exports of goods have increased by 12 per cent, the fastest growth of any UK nation. Youth and women's unemployment are lower than in the UK as a whole. In the last decade, Scotland has significantly narrowed our productivity gap with the rest of the UK. Those are strong foundations, but we must intensify our efforts now to build an economy fit for the future. Last year, we set out a range of bold measures this year that we will continue to deliver. First, we will ensure that the business environment in Scotland remains competitive and that we are providing the support that business needs to thrive. We have already implemented key recommendations of the Barclay review on business rates, such as relief for new builds and property improvements and for day nurseries. I can confirm today that we will introduce a non-domestic rates bill to implement its other recommendations, for example, reforming rate reliefs and moving to a three-year valuation cycle. In the past year, we also established the enterprise and skills strategic board. Drawing on its recommendations, we will publish a new economic action plan in October. We will again increase the number of modern apprenticeships in line with our commitment to 30,000 per year by 2020. We will work in partnership with industry and trade unions to produce by early next year a new skills action plan, ensuring a skilled and productive workforce for the short, medium and long term. We will continue to support the south of Scotland economic partnership with £10 million of funding. I can announce today that in the coming year, we will introduce legislation to establish a south of Scotland enterprise agency. We will continue to invest in the modern infrastructure as strong economy depends on. Around this time last year, the Queensford crossing opened and the M8 and Central Scotland motorway improvements were completed. This weekend, one of the largest new sections of the Aberdeen Western peripheral route will open to traffic and the road will be fully open by the end of this year. In the coming year, we will continue to make progress towards the dualling of the A9. We will take forward important projects, including the Mable bypass, and we will continue our on-going road maintenance programme. Last year, I announced that Scotland would aim to remove the need for new diesel in petrol cars by 2032. We will now make further progress towards that goal. We will invest £15 million to add a further £1,500 electric charge points in homes, businesses and council premises across the country. We are increasing our low-carbon transport loan fund from £8 million to £28 million, enabling more businesses and individuals to make the switch to electric and other ultra-low-emission vehicles. Over the next year, we will add 500 ultra-low-emission vehicles to public sector fleets. In the coming year, the benefits of our massive investment in rail will come to fruition. By the end of next year, there will be a 20 per cent increase in seating capacity and 200 new services will operate in eastern and central Scotland. Of course, we will take forward plans to enable a public sector bid for the next ScotRail franchise. On active travel, having doubled our investment in active travel last year, I can confirm that we will continue that level of investment in the year ahead. Digital infrastructure is now just as important as our transport links. We have exceeded our target of making fibre broadband, available to 95 per cent of properties across Scotland. I can confirm today that the three main contracts from our reaching 100 per cent programme will be awarded in the coming year, ensuring that superfast broadband is available to every business and residential property in every part of Scotland. That is a £600 million pledge of truly universal coverage, unmatched elsewhere in the UK, and it will give Scotland a real competitive edge in the economy of tomorrow. The infrastructure investments that I have talked about so far are important to the economy in the year and now. However, it is with an eye to the long term that I now turn to two potentially transformational commitments. Last year, I confirmed our intention to set up a Scottish national investment bank, and earlier this year, an implementation plan was published. I can confirm today that, in the coming year, we will introduce the legislation that will formally underpin the Scottish national investment bank. The bank will provide patient finance for ambitious companies and important infrastructure projects, and it will do so in line with defined national missions, such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It will be a cornerstone of the high innovation low-carbon economy that we want to create here in Scotland, and the finance secretary will set out more detail tomorrow. However, today, I also want to set a wider investment ambition for Scotland. Traditionally, the level of government infrastructure investment in the UK has lagged behind other G7 countries. For Scotland to close that gap, we would need to increase annual investment by around 1 per cent of GDP, equivalent to an additional £1.5 billion a year. I can announce today that we will aim to close that gap by the end of the next Parliament. The pledge that I am making today is to increase capital investment year on year so that, by 2025-26, it is £1.5 billion higher than the 2019-20 baseline of around £5 billion. Between now and then, that commitment will mean investment in our hospitals, schools, houses, transport, low-carbon technology and digital connections will be around £7 billion higher than our current spending projections. The infrastructure secretary will set out in the coming months the detail of how we will deliver on this pledge and the priorities for investment. However, I can confirm today that, in addition to traditional capital and borrowing, the Scottish Futures Trust will examine new profit-sharing finance schemes such as the Welsh Government's mutual investment model to help to secure both the investment that we need and best value for the taxpayer. I hope that the whole Parliament will get behind this national mission, a level of investment in our vital economic and social infrastructure that will protect and create jobs in the short term and support growth and productivity in the long term. Finally, on the economy, let me set out further action to protect and enhance Scotland's reputation as a trading nation. We have already taken steps to strengthen our presence in Europe and around the world, for example by doubling the SDI representation on mainland Europe and establishing new Scottish Government offices in Dublin and Berlin. Our new Paris and Ottawa offices will be open this autumn. In addition, I can announce today that we will launch a major new drive to increase exports. The value of our exports has grown strongly in the past year, but we need to do more. Right now, around 70 businesses account for approximately 50 per cent of our international exports. It is vital that we grow that base. The new national export plan will be published in full by Nick Spring, but after consultation with business, I can announce today some of the key strands that we will start on immediately. We will provide intensive support for 50 high-growth businesses each year to help them to grow their overseas activity. We will create 100 new business-to-business peer mentorships each year to help new exporters. We will expand the network of specialists working in key overseas markets to identify untapped potential. We will increase export finance support for companies looking to enter new markets. I can confirm that this work will be backed by £20 million of new funding over the next three years, helping to ensure that more of Scotland's world-class produce and innovations are enjoyed across the globe with the benefits realised here at home. We must also continue to retain and attract talent. We want to make clear that Scotland remains an open, inclusive and outward-looking nation, so let me make this very clear again today. This Government will always make the positive case for immigration. As part of that, we must protect EU citizens who already live here. We will argue that they should not have to pay settled status fees post Brexit. It is simply wrong that people already making a contribution to our country should have to pay to retain rights that they currently have to live and work here. However, if the UK Government persists, I can confirm that the Scottish Government will meet the settled status fees for EU citizens who work in our devolved public services. I can also announce that, alongside an electoral reform bill, we will introduce an electoral franchise bill to ensure that current EU citizens who live in Scotland can continue to vote in Scottish Parliament and local government elections. Those actions will provide practical help. They will also, I hope, send an important message that we highly value the contribution of EU citizens who have chosen to make Scotland their home and we want them to stay. Supporting growth in our economy is essential, but so too is ensuring that growth is environmentally sustainable. Many of our actions will help us to meet the target set out in the new climate change bill, which will progress through Parliament in the coming year. Scotland's greenhouse gas emissions have almost halved since 1990. By 2050, they will have reduced by at least 90 per cent. Achieving that target will mean that Scotland will be a carbon neutral country. By 2050, we will have no net emissions of carbon dioxide. I can also confirm our firm intention to move towards net zero emissions of all greenhouse gases, not simply carbon dioxide, as soon as we credibly can. It is worth being clear about the scale of our ambition. The targets in the climate change bill for 2020, 2030 and 2040 are the most stringent statutory targets anywhere in the world without exception. Our 2050 target is the most ambitious anywhere in the world that is based solely on domestic actions rather than relying on paying other countries to reduce emissions for us. We recognise that the transition to a low-carbon economy is first and foremost an overwhelming moral imperative, but it is also a huge economic opportunity, and we are by any reasonable benchmark a global leader in living up to our international obligations. This programme for government will build on that record. As well as progressing the climate change bill, we will continue to invest in projects such as the central Scotland green network and the water environment fund. I can confirm that in the coming year we will ban the manufacture and sale of plastic-stemmed cotton buds. Following recent consultation, we will design and implement a deposit return scheme for drinks containers, and we will ask the expert panel on environmental charges to recommend other actions to reduce plastic pollution. We will also establish a national deep sea marine reserve by the end of 2019. We also intend to establish an animal welfare commission to ensure that high standards of welfare are maintained for both domesticated and wild animals. I can announce today that we will, by the end of this Parliament, introduce what is commonly known as Finn's law to increase the available sentences for the worst forms of animal cruelty, including attacks on police dogs. In addition to creating a welfare and greener Scotland, we will also create a fairer country. 2018 is Scotland's year of young people, a celebration of the contribution that children and young people make to our society. However, the most important thing any Government can do is make sure that all of our young people have a fair chance to succeed. We are striving to do that at all stages of young people's lives. The baby box has been a huge success, with more than 56,000 already delivered. Our plan to almost double childcare will help to give every child the best possible start in life and save working families up to £4,500 a year for each child. Our work to deliver that commitment will continue in the year ahead, with almost 2,000 people starting on early learning and childcare apprenticeships, 1,500 additional college places and 400 extra graduate-level places. To ensure the quality of our early learning and childcare provision and use standard for funded providers will be published before the end of this year. Closing the attainment gap and raising standards in our schools remains the overriding mission of this Government. Progress is being made, but in the coming year our school reforms will accelerate. I can confirm today that by the end of this year a new headteachers charter backed by new national guidance will be published. The charter will put headteachers much more in control of the important decisions on curriculum staffing and budgets that are fundamental to the performance of their schools. We will also continue to invest an additional £180 million a year, including money direct to schools through the pupil equity fund, to help to close the attainment gap. We will commit £10 million in this academic year to enhance the high-quality practical support and expertise that is available to teachers through the regional improvement collaboratives and education Scotland. In the year ahead, we will pilot and roll out a new national survey of parents and carers as part of our recently published parental engagement plan. We will also continue to protect free tuition for higher education. However, as part of our work to widen access to university, we will also take the first steps to implement the recommendations of the independent review of student support. I can confirm that next year we will invest £16 million to increase college bursaries and university grants for students from the lowest income families. We will also invest more than £5 million to increase bursaries and grants for care experience young people at college or university to a level equivalent to the real living wage. Extensive research shows that adverse experiences in childhood aces directly affect outcomes later in life, so we will continue to embed across all areas of our work a greater focus on preventing aces and also on supporting the resilience of children and adults to overcome childhood adversity. Finally, I said last year that we would consider how to further embed the principles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child into domestic law and policy, including the option of incorporation. Having carefully considered this matter, I can announce today that we will incorporate the principles of the UN convention into Scots law. We will work with partners and with Parliament to do it in the most effective way possible, but in this year of young people there can be few more powerful symbols of this Government's commitment to our young people. Children will also benefit from our actions to address poverty. The new child poverty act sets targets for 2030 that will reduce child poverty to the lowest level in Scotland's history. We are now investing in the actions needed to achieve those targets. I can announce today that by June next year we will report on progress to develop a new income supplement. In the coming year, we will also invest £12 million in an intensive parental employment support programme to help parents on low incomes, gain employment and get on in their careers. We will also step up our work to eradicate holiday hunger, investing a further £2 million to tackle food insecurity among children. The coming year will see our work to create a Scottish social security system based on dignity and respect, step up a gear. Our new agency, Social Security Scotland, is already open for business and is moving firmly into its delivery phase. It is with great pride therefore that I can make those announcements today. Firstly, I can confirm that the first payments of the new carers allowance supplement will begin next week. The supplement will benefit more than 75,000 carers, increasing their allowance by more than £400 a year. I can also announce that the new young carer grant worth £300 a year will be paid from autumn next year, and in the coming year we will provide enhanced assistance for those on lower incomes struggling with funeral costs. Finally, the year ahead will see us deliver the new best start grant. That will provide the most extensive support anywhere in the UK for new parents on low incomes—£600 on the birth of a first child, £300 on the birth of any subsequent child, with no two-child limit or abhorrent rape clause and £250 for each child when they start nursery and again when they start school. The best start grant will benefit around 50,000 families each year. Last year, I said that the best start grant would be paid from summer next year. I am delighted to announce today that, assuming that we get the required DWP co-operation, the first pregnancy and baby payments will be made before Christmas this year, six months ahead of Christmas. Our work to build a fairer Scotland will also include in the year ahead a new consumer protection bill to secure fairer outcomes for consumers, and as part of our efforts to tackle fuel poverty, I can confirm that we will liaise with key stakeholders this year before formally consulting next year on our preferred model for a publicly owned not-for-profit energy company. We will also continue to take concerted action to address homelessness and eradicate rough sleeping. Last year, we established the homelessness and rough sleeping action group. It has already made its recommendations with some of them that we have already implemented. We have committed £21 million of additional funding, and I can confirm that, before the end of this year, we will publish a comprehensive action plan setting out how we will deliver all 70 of the action group's recommendations. However, I can announce today that implementation of the housing first approach will be central to our plans. That ensures that a homeless individual or household is moved directly into their own settled accommodation rather than through a variety of different housing options. In the first instance, from this autumn, we will work with SocialBite, the Glasgow Homelessness Network and the Cora Foundation to support housing first pathfinder projects in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Stirling and Dundee. We will also continue to invest in the supply of affordable housing. In this financial year, we will increase our support for affordable homes by more than a quarter, from £590 million to more than £750 million. Over this Parliament, we will ensure that more than 50,000 affordable homes are delivered, including at least 35,000 for social rent. Within that, we will work with councils and house builders to increase the supply of accessible housing for disabled people. We will also work with local governments, communities and businesses on short-term lets. We want to ensure that councils have the appropriate powers to balance the needs of their communities with wider economic interests. Of course, for investment in housing and infrastructure more generally, to benefit communities fully, we need a fair and effective planning system. In the coming months, we will progress the new planning bill through Parliament and ensure that people get a chance to have an early say in shaping developments in their area. The voice of local communities is vital to our partnership with local government. The programme reaffirms our commitment to a strong partnership between national and local government. That is reflected in our work with COSLA to take forward the local governance review to strengthen local decision making. I can also confirm today that we will extend the community land fund to 2021 to enable more community land purchases, support the work of the Scottish Land Commission as it shapes land reform for the future and steer the Scottish Crowny state bill through Parliament. I want to mention three further initiatives that will contribute to the strength and wellbeing of local communities. In two weeks' time, the new V&A museum in Dundee will open to the public—a stunning reminder of the potential of culture to regenerate and bring joy to communities across the country. Before the end of the year, we will publish a new national culture strategy that will demonstrate the intrinsic value that we attach to arts and culture and our determination to ensure that everyone can participate in cultural activities. Before the end of 2018, we will publish a national strategy to tackle social isolation and loneliness. It will draw on the results of our recent consultation and make Scotland one of the first countries in the world to develop a strategy to address an issue that is of growing importance right around the world. By March 2019, we will publish an older people's framework, setting out how we will achieve better outcomes in terms of services for older people as well as in their participation in the labour market and engagement in their local communities. The two final areas that I want to talk about today are justice and health. Recorded crime in Scotland is now at its lowest level since 1974. The reconviction rate is at its lowest level in almost 20 years, and 95 per cent of people in Scotland rate their own neighbourhood as being fairly or very good. By any reasonable measure, this is a significant record of achievement, but we are determined to improve on it. We will protect the police revenue budget in real terms throughout this Parliament. In addition, £31 million will be provided for police reform in this financial year, helping the police to invest in new technology and work more effectively with partners. The fire service budget is also being protected with an additional £15 million of spending capacity this year to help with, among other things, the introduction of rapid response vehicles and more full-time posts in our rural communities. As we reform the justice system, it remains absolutely vital that we improve the support that we give to the victims of crime. We are already taking important steps to do that through, for example, the vulnerable witnesses bill that we introduced to this Parliament last year. This year, we are determined that we will go even further. I am announcing today a major package of reforms that will better protect victims in the criminal justice system. First, we will work with Victim Support Scotland to reduce and, where possible, eliminate the need for victims to retell their story to different organisations when they need help. We will also expand the range of serious offences where the victim has the right to make an impact statement, setting out to the court how they have been affected physically, emotionally or financially. We will consult on the details of this early next year. We will improve the information and support that is available to victims and families when prisoners are released from prison and consult on proposals to increase the transparency of the parole system. Finally, we will establish a new support service to provide more and better help to families who have been bereaved by murder or culpable homicide. We will continue to improve the support that is available to victims of rape and sexual assault. We recently, over the summer, announced additional funding of £1.1 million to enable sexual offence trials to come to court as quickly as possible.  In the coming year, we will also consult on proposals to ensure that, in cases of rape or sexual assault, forensic medical examinations and access to healthcare more generally are a priority for the NHS and provided consistently across Scotland. We intend to bring forward legislation later in this Parliament. We will also work to continue to reduce and eliminate domestic abuse. The legislation that is already passed by Parliament to make coercive or controlling behaviours illegal will, of course, come into force this year. I can confirm today that we will now consult on the introduction of new protective orders that can bar perpetrators of domestic abuse from their victims' homes. In addition, we will introduce a new family law bill to provide further protection for domestic abuse victims in contact or residence cases and ensure that children's best interests are central to the consideration of all such cases. Finally, we will introduce a female genital mutilation bill to strengthen the protection provided to women and girls. There are a range of other important measures that we will take to improve the justice system. We will consult later this year on changes to modernise and improve the law on hate crime. We will extend the presumption against ineffective short sentences from three to 12 months once additional safeguards are in place for domestic abuse victims. In addition, legislation for new drug driving limits, covering 17 different drug types, will be introduced and will come into force in 2019. That, together with Scotland's already lower drink drive limit, will ensure that we continue to lead the way in the UK when it comes to improving road safety. A biometric data bill will provide for a code of practice for acquiring, using, retaining and disposing of data such as fingerprints and DNA samples. It will take forward the recommendations of the independent advisory group and modernise the law in an area of huge importance to the entire justice system. We will introduce a new disclosure bill to strike a better balance between helping people with convictions to gain employment and providing strong safeguards for vulnerable people and the general public. I can also announce today that, in the year ahead, we will consult on reforms to the law of defamation with a view to bringing forward legislation later in this Parliament. We are, as a Parliament, indeed as a country, proud of our reputation as one of the very best places anywhere in the world for LGBTI-plus people. We want to make further progress in the months and years ahead. I can therefore confirm that we will continue work to develop legislation to reform the law on gender recognition. In the coming year, we will introduce a census bill that will permit the national records of Scotland in future censuses to ask questions on sexual orientation and transgender status. The final important area that I want to talk about today is health. Last week's inpatient survey results showed that satisfaction with our national health service remains at a very high level. Our accident and emergency facilities have been the best performing in the whole of the UK for the last three years. Outcomes like this are, I believe, a tribute to the expertise, the dedication and the compassion of NHS staff across the country. It is therefore absolutely right that NHS staff will receive a minimum pay rise of 9 per cent over the next three years. Last year, we introduced to this Parliament two important health bills, which are due to come into force next year. The human tissue authorisation bill will implement an opt-out system for organ donation, and the health and care staffing bill will ensure that we have the right staff in the right places. However, all of us know that our national health service, in common with health services across the UK and elsewhere, faces significant challenges. The key challenge is adapting to an ageing population, which is, of course, a good thing and the rising demand that flows from that. We will continue to meet our pledge to invest record sums in the national health service. However, we will also progress important reforms to how care is delivered and take further action to improve population health. Over the next year, we will take forward work to implement the new GP contract, we will support integration of health and social care, and we will invest a higher proportion of the health budget in primary community and social care. From next year, we will also implement Frank's law, extending free personal care to eligible under 65-year-olds. We will continue to champion a preventative approach to Scotland's public health challenges. In May, we became the first country anywhere in the world to introduce minimum alcohol pricing. This year, we will take forward plans to reduce childhood obesity. Among other measures, we will consult on restricting the promotion and marketing of food and drink that is high in fat, sugar or salt. Preventing ill health and building up community services are absolutely essential to ensuring that a health service fits for the future, but so, too, is ensuring that acute services can meet the demands placed on them. We know that rising demand has put significant pressure on waiting times, and we recognise that current performance is not good enough. I can therefore announce today that the health secretary will later this month publish a waiting times improvement plan, setting out a range of short and medium-term actions to substantially and sustainably improve waiting times performance. Part of the longer-term plan to meet waiting time targets on a sustainable basis is the creation over this Parliament of five new elective treatment centres. I can therefore confirm today that work on the new west of Scotland centre at the Golden Jubilee hospital will start in the early part of next year, and work on the north of Scotland centre at Regmore and Inverness will be under way by the middle of next year. I can also confirm today that, as part of our work to create a specialist major trauma network, new major trauma centres will open in Aberdeen next month and in Dundee in November. Finally, I want to turn to mental health. As the stigma around mental health reduces, demand for services is rising. We have a duty to meet that demand quickly and to meet it appropriately. That means doing more to support positive mental health and prevent ill health. It means delivering greater provision of mental health support in communities, including in our schools, and it means ensuring that those experiencing serious illness can access specialist services more quickly. Today, I am announcing a package of measures that will complement our mental health strategy. It will be backed by a quarter of a billion pounds of additional investment starting this year and progressively increasing over the subsequent four years. The mental health minister will set out full details shortly, but let me cover some of the key elements now. First, we will develop a stronger network of care and support for the 1 in 5 new mothers around 11,000 a year who experience mental health problems during and after pregnancy. That will include greater access to counselling for those who experience mild symptoms and an expansion of specialist services for those with moderate or severe illness. Secondly, we will utilise technology to extend access for adults to a range of support services. That will include improvements to the NHS 24 breathing space service, extending online access to cognitive behavioural therapy, improving access to psychological assessment and therapy in our rural areas and strengthening the handling of mental health calls to the 111 service. However, most of our additional investment will support improvements to the provision of child and adolescent mental health services. The task force on children and young people's mental health will report this autumn. However, based on the early discussions held by its chair, Dr Dame Denise Coyer, there are a range of actions that we are committed to taking now. First, we will invest £60 million in additional school nursing and counselling services. That will support 350 counsellors and 250 additional school nurses and ensure that every secondary school has a counselling service. We will enhance support and professional learning materials for teachers and ensure that, by the end of academic year 2019-20, every local authority has access to mental health first aid training for teachers. We will fund an additional 80 counsellors to work across further and higher education and we will develop a community mental wellbeing service for five to 24-year-olds, offering immediate access to counselling, self-care advice and family and peer support.  As I said a moment ago, more detail will be published shortly, but I hope that the package that I have announced today underlines the commitment of this Government to ensuring that our health services value and support mental wellbeing just as much as physical wellbeing. The budget bill will complete and indeed underpin our legislative programme for the coming year. The 12 bills that we will introduce in the coming session are, of course, part of a much wider programme of work to tackle the major social and economic challenges of the day. Over the next 12 months, this Government will also make progress towards doubling free childcare provision, further narrow the attainment gap in our schools and widen access to our universities, pay the first benefits in Scotland's new social security system and take further action to tackle poverty and inequality. We will help our NHS to adapt to an ageing population and begin a transformation of mental health services. We will tackle major public health challenges and legislate for a Scottish national investment bank, invest for the future and support more businesses to sell their goods across the globe. We will support the transition to a low-carbon economy and we will do everything we possibly can to protect our economy from Brexit and to put Scotland on the right track for the future. I commend this programme for Government to Parliament.


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So we used to go over and play Where he set himself up where he was in the center and he created plight plywood and had built walls and move your physical lead figures through the dungeon and He was sitting in the center of this thing with it going around. It was just it was awesome. It sounds awesome I don't think and he was hanging out with with elementary school kids So I don't think in high school. He had many friends. I can understand that He sounds like one of those kids whose parents were always gone and trying to keep him busy with something But just really wanted companionship Yeah, yeah, I'm that's what it sounded like he went on Brian. I understand that he went on to Build software and gaming and did very well cool, but anyway, well, hey, we're we're live. We're streaming Thanks for those that are joining Thanks for joining as well and my pleasure and What's the t-shirt you have on there ambient? Oh is that what's his name late night? I am sporting mr. Keith Richie's Where's today? Nice? I am I would say I'm his number one fan, but I would be Contested I'm sure well. Yeah, I follow some of this stuff that his his antics. We've talked about that Even the possibility of doing a studio project and yeah, yeah, so he's a he is a fantastic Musician probably isn't the right word but composer Yeah artist He's really evolved over the years and created some really good stuff. So Keith Richie Yeah, people should go check them out Here we are so we've got a couple dozen folks that are watching across two different live stream locations and we have one person Who's joined on on zoom welcome if anyone has questions that they have around? Microsoft products or services and we're we're here to Do our best to answer them and we should have some other folks that will jump in For the next hour and then we'll do this again this evening as well and everybody's welcome. So yeah We're hoping people are gonna jump in. Yeah, somebody's got to show up with the answers Or or questions Questions. Yeah, yeah, enough in the last week any if you run into anything seen any questions Run into anything that you wanted to discuss to kick things off I'm trying to think of I've hit anything myself I'm looking in at See if there are any questions posted seeing anything currently But well a lot of people that that we know and love from the community that are liking the fact that we're doing this that's great thank you for those likes and Clifford, thank you for your hand-waving icon You say Clifford, I think the big red dog I'm sure that's not the case here, but I can't hear that name and not think that Look like the the large red doc. No, no Think not don't think it's him. So yeah So anyway, so any questions that you have will monitor and And and take them Yeah, I was just thinking I didn't Publish any I've got a couple this week of new productivity tips that I'll be posting over to My blog and Buckley Planet. I I don't you saw I've got I did like you know six in a row I think I've got one that just won like today. I've got two more recordings of the MVP buzz chat So I saw that you had a couple new ones.  Well, I'm doing the whole one post a day At least but then of course, it's all that I'm doing stuff for clients as well. That's impressive Yeah, so so Clifford is asking the question and I'm looking over here to the He's on the watch party on the office 365 group. He asked his hi I work in education. We don't use teams yet. What's the only way to start with it? That's a good question That's way to start with it So Clifford, do you have teams available to you as software right now? Have you downloaded it? See, sorry. I'm trying to Like we've got a little bit of delay on on that But yeah one of the things that I was gonna say look There's a lot of courseware that's out there some free stuff that's out there, but the best place to start is in docs.microsoft.com so they are adoption resources Are fantastic, so let me let me paste the the URL in the multiple locations Yeah, the one thing that's noteworthy about docs.microsoft.com for those who may not know it is the bulk of that information is authored and curated by the Community at large so folks like Mark Anderson and Sue Hanley and Julie Turner and a Whole host of people anybody who wants to contribute to the project and get in on it. I Think Mark kind of unofficially acts as track-fit cop or director for many of the poll requests but That stuff is authored By you guys it's it's good information and so if something comes up or is new or Looks like it's a sticking point in the community. There's a good chance if you talk about it And it's a forum like this or With another person who happens to be part of that project you can get information baked into the documentation So Docs is a good place to be. Yep. There we go Christian with the screen share Yes Yeah, so you can see there's just and this of course it gets modified the updated fairly regularly But this is a great place all the time and and and start, you know, the getting from the quick start And so they actually walk you through a methodology they give you provide you Templates as you're rolling this out with suggestions or best practices for adoption and engagement To how to kind of you know to measure that success So just The tools and downloads project plans example personas and work styles Just a ton of content that's out there. This is it's great. We always talk about it You know Sean and I both come from the share point community side of things we always talk about how the The SharePoint community really got underway and was so strong because of The lack of documentation What is the community the early days and so a lot of us that got involved back in the early to mid 2000s even later it you know came through providing a lot of this kind of guidance the fact that Microsoft learned from that There's so many community people me Karawana Gautima who has driven a lot of this effort and not not to put say It's all because of Karawana though. I think a lion's portion is Due to Karawana, but she was a you know huge community personality and influencer She co ran the SharePoint user group of Los Angeles. She joined Microsoft and Had this experience of lack of tools and just so she was very vocal and driving and creating a lot of these kinds of online assets So definitely take a look at that Yeah, lots of community folks Going to Microsoft and when they go into Microsoft they bring their tools and their ideas and thoughts with them so it's constant influx of good stuff and And they they often disappear from us from the community side They get busy or something. I don't know. Yeah, they're they're a little less prevalent I guess in the Events and what not so I see a question from new yin About how long until teams update the virtual background and more than four camera You know, we don't know that we hear this stuff. It's all forthcoming. We don't know when it's actually going to be made available Yeah, so yeah, I think that this the coronavirus stuff is kind of Delayed all of that they I believe it's all supposed to happen here in the first half of the year I don't know the latest though, but Yeah Yeah Clifford's also asking about using zoom and I answered for somebody you said, why aren't you using teams for this? It's the there's a couple reasons why we're using a zoom here Number one reason is because teams doesn't live stream teams is an enterprise technology It's really while you can have anybody invite anybody to a teams meeting. It's predominant It's core use case is within your organization And so it's really strong very secure has all of those other features When you're doing something like this just a webinar that's out That's anonymous access to the public and you want to simulcast in one or more locations Teams does not do that So for the longer version of that like we could go use some other third-party Technology do everything within teams and then simulcast on that It would mean that we would have to then use have a multiple points of potential failure Multiple technologies to get that all coordinated and working where zoom does it out of the box, right? You know, it's one of those things where for webinars I pay for zoom and I run my webinars off of it because it does a long list of things that Teams doesn't do for external webinars, but whenever I do community stuff User groups all of that stuff or internal meanings. Everything's on teams. I don't use them. Yeah Typically when I've done user group presentations to everybody has teams in their pocket So just a kind of a go-to tool for that situation. Yep And is that do I see is that Melinda Morales is that you hanging around there raise your hand if that's you I always add Melinda Melinda come join the conversation. What are you doing? Sitting over there on the sidelines. Don't be shy This is the end of her day. She is time to join. Hey Greetings, how are things from the from the middle of nowhere UK?  You're unmuted Hello. Hello How are things going? It's okay. I don't have a headset. So please not echo you or anything. No. No, you're good So what's the Melinda? What are the latest what what kinds of well actually maybe you comment on so pointing to those The Microsoft Teams adoption tools any other guidance? Where do you because you do this for a living? You you answer these kinds of questions for for Dyson Any other resources that are your go-to resources for new people? Well, I definitely use those that you are showing all the time myself and also to share with users As I'm sure you guys know you're continually learning too. It's not like you're the expert forever I mean you have to use those things. So I definitely do that Like you're losing your voice a little have you been screaming at customers all day I have been working on Really big project for about four weeks straight. So That's what it looks like. Plus everything UK where it's a little bit later for me getting a little run down then It's not the virus we don't talk about that Well, I don't know how you could get it you're in the middle that you are in the middle of nowhere. I am there's sheep around me. I Usually don't refer to my customers as sheep, but that's me, you know Yeah, so well very cool. So any other any other questions that you've run into I'm we're kind of monitoring the live stream. See if there's any other questions coming in any questions that you've seen Maybe that you've not been able to answer coming in from your customers. Let me think there. So right now I'm doing a lot of Like best practice type of stuff. That's always helpful In our organization. We've seen of course a major increase in usage in our team's environment So I'm having to do a lot of Retroactive education on how people can use teams and things like that and so I like a lot of the tips They're just the general things that most people don't even think of anymore when you've been using it for a while like Titling every conversation that you put in, you know, I think that's so important And one of the biggest things that I see people struggle with when they first adopt is just not replying in line to conversations things like that So I've definitely been spending a lot of time putting together some blog posts internally on on how to do those kind of things In our productivity tips webinars and we cover a lot once in a while we get somebody. It's like this has been around for years We're like right and yet half the audience has never seen it before and so it's you have to remember that Especially if you're more on the we're always all learning But if you're more on the expert side, you're sharing these things Finding these things is don't forget those kind of you know one-on-one tips that just because you know it doesn't mean others know it so like I like every once in a while I'll tweet out like how to get to the The keyboard shortcuts shortcuts list. It's been there since day one. So three and a half years It's not new and yet people are like wow. I had no idea that was there Yeah, I know with SharePoint Saturdays and whatnot. It's always the same conversation There's always somebody just coming in. It's their first SharePoint Saturday. They're getting their one-on-one information They're just trying to pick up tips to help them survive at work So session material that feels old to you might be new to someone else typically is have you guys talked about the light? What is it called the learning pathways thing as well? I don't believe so It's not what it's called The kind of training solution that Microsoft has out there you can like spin up in your tenant now Yeah, so the the actually blogged about that. Yeah learning pathways. There's there's kind of two parts to that So one it's a communication site template so it's something that you can go and do and if you have your SharePoint environment and you can download that and create a central place to go and provide all of these kinds of your resources What's great is on the second part of that is filling that with content so Microsoft then has Captured all of this knowledge across every individual workload or product And so you can go and curate which content is going to be most needed most relevant to your organization and then populate that that template with that content Just second. I'll go grab the link to the blog post on that. I've got some screenshots as well Yeah, it's a great solution. Have you guys deployed that yet? We use it. Yeah, it's something that's been really powerful for us actually So I took it and then I kind of built around it a lot of stuff that's specific to our organization So it became a really good way for us to communicate out the policies and guidelines and everything that relate to us As well as leveraging what Microsoft's put together with I think amazing Especially for getting started on just that high level kind of guidance, right? Well, and that's The key to is that you're you should tailor it for your organization You can take they they provide some out-of-the-box pathways But you can go and customize that and do a mix of of the Microsoft provided content community content Your own internal guidelines and content as well Let me post that link into Three different locations Yeah, as always look at the questions. There's always the We get three or four people every time we do this saying why aren't you using teams? To do this broadcast and I'll say it again is because out of the box with teams you cannot live stream and Yeah, if you are using a third-party solution like OBS to go and do that it can be done But then you have multiple technologies that you have to go and set up and to do that when of course this is out of the box and Yeah, and then the other the other piece of this is that as Pedro is saying is like no you can Know the live events on stream live or stream don't need to be configured it you know, so yeah, it's the it's Doing the the the live events is different has different functionality and that's great for webinars and For the interactive stuff. I'm you know Pedro. Thank you We all use both of those technologies and I'm aware of the limitations and I've still selected this technology as being easier Yeah, the cost of entry is very low with zoom. Yep So, yeah, we're we've got a list of requirements. In fact, it's a it's an open discussion right down on one of the RD lists Where we're talking about the same thing and I kind of outlined it said look for the stuff that I'm doing That's external and I have a list of four things. I said until Teams can do those four things. I'll continue to pay for zoom for webinars But I don't use you know the like this is the webinar capability for the live streaming I don't use Zoom for regular chat, you know one-on-one type stuff. So it's you know, a little bit different so There's a place for each one right like it's not I think people are getting caught up in making them competitors Like just because you have video streaming capability doesn't mean that you're head-to-head direct competitors Kind of apples and oranges, right? agreed How looks frozen in time? There he is Sorry about that Coffee first folks coffee first It is a necessity Good times well good morning and good evening to Melinda. Yeah Yeah, are you over in the UK Melinda? I am out in the Southwest So I'm in a little tiny village called Tetbury You'll have to look it up and they're sheep. Yeah, yeah, we've established that yes Melinda and sheep Melinda I got to hang out and just remember when I was over in in town So it was how long did it take you to get into London? It's about an hour and a half train Not so bad. No Back when I worked for Procter & Gamble I was sent over to do some work for a bit. We had a Facility in Egham Egham, England, which was I think just west of London somewhere. I don't know the topology. I Don't know either. I've been out here a year and I still don't know all the places That's fair So how'd you have a good weekend? Yeah, it was pretty nice. It was quiet Of course, they're always pretty nice and quiet around here. It could rain Saturday. That was kind of nice Yeah, one of the rare occurrences We got a little bit of brain out of the deal Sunday's nice and clear today looks like your typical Arizona day will be in the probably the low 80s It snowed in us on us yesterday in Salt Lake City it didn't stay on the ground, but most of the day snow was coming down. So that was hilarious 80 in one snow and another That happens here all I mean it's April it would not surprise me if it snowed before the end of the month was over at least At least stood up in the mountains Wow, not likely to get anything down here. It takes a pretty good storm for that to happen, but but The you know when you're a good guy in the valley with 9,000 foot mountains around the outside of you get the snow on them There's no me indeed at all. I remember my son My son was living in in Payson and spent some time in Sholo, Arizona and And he would talk about you know the the winter and and getting around he's like, oh, we're up in you know Up in the mountains. I'm like I had not been to that part of Arizona I've always flown in to Phoenix and you know Mesa and everything kind of around that and and I'm just like about mountains What are you talking about? So we did a road trip down there Did did the southern parks through southern Utah, which are incredible and yeah But then drove and went and visited friends in Payson and then spent the next what is it three hours? driving downhill to get down with Phoenix and you're just like We're still going downhill Like what what is this and and yeah, it was it's it's incredible to think especially we stopped off and Generally, I don't think of the thick forests. I don't think of Arizona.  I'm like a lookout. There's We're at the bottom of the of nothing, you know, and and we go over and there's this huge course It's the tributaries that become the Grand Canyon Little scratches in the ground Yeah, it's just just just beautiful Yeah, the upper end of the Colorado River about the Grand Canyon when it's just starting out Canyon walls are certainly not as steep, but they're colorful and the shapes and and so forth or As least as spectacular seeing the grave that the main canyon itself Like it's a somewhat it's somewhat better because you can actually see the water running Which from most of the workouts from the main Grand Canyon is a mile plus beneath you So he takes, you know pair of binoculars to see it and then only in select places And Clifford also brings up there's a wonderful Indian antique shop in Tetbury There are a lot of antique shops in Tetbury. That's what we have. I Just like it. It's it's very close to Swindon.  No, I we had a Presentation by some folks at a bright carbon I Think they put it on for the MVPs, but it was a PowerPoint presentation how to use the awesome. Yes, it was how they were showing the capabilities of PowerPoint now and how to use things like the zoom and morph capabilities that are now part of PowerPoint And I I was dumbfounded. It looks like I can probably drop that Prezi subscription that I've been using I use the back to PowerPoint. I use the morph a lot Which it could be it's really cool and do some really nice effects I've not done anything that has that zoom in zoom out capability. There's something similar in PowerPoint. Yeah called zoom Is that so is that Anything recorded anything you can point us towards to go take a look. Um, yeah, I So if you go out to bright carbon calm Those are the folks who did this and they had a number of compelling demos during the presentation Lots of very very cool stuff All right, so I think I'm gonna take my presentations in other direction I'll have to take a look at this. I just posted link there Posted there we go. Yep Zoom is amazing But just I think the last time I was playing it. I found out that with different versions of PowerPoint. It doesn't present the same So if you're presenting, it's great. But if you're distributing just be cautious of that. Ah Gotcha Good to know Well, I know the problem I have with Prezi I've used Prezi for many many years and I love being able to just manipulate the the canvas and zoom in and out and whatnot The only way I can distribute the materials is to dump my frames to a PDF And it works, but it is not nearly as condensed yeah Condensed I wasn't gonna say compelling Well, I mean that's part of it that's part of the strength of that a solution and as you know, I used it there for a couple years and and You know had some really some fun with it In fact, I I just put together a right a collection of my top 10 viewed slide decks on slide share like a week ago and one of them was one of my sp tech con joke decks where I was making fun of Todd Clint's hair and Richard Harbridge's haircuts and There's a slide around it But I used to have one where it would you showing some technical diagram and then it zoomed in dramatically to like Todd Clint's face and It's funny hearing you say that Christian because I swear I heard you present and say that you use like the design ideas because you can't put effort into how slides look Yeah, so well, that's that that's the thing I would spend so much time on Making slides and still you know, and I would I would painstakingly design my presentations And it still looked like crap compared to somebody would somebody some people just have that gift of making these beautiful slide decks It's kind of like it's like Tracy Vaynerchist gift doing her social images stuff I'm like she she's able to use like two or three tools and do these really cool little designs You're like it would take me a couple hours to do something like that. What do you what are you doing? She's like, oh, no, I just do it on my phone and So, yeah, it's Yeah, so I I love the ideas in fact I just in fact, I'm looking at my blog post now. I was looking for that list I'll show you this other slide, but yeah, I taught just presented on Visualize the data with ideas in Excel and so again it we hear about all this cool stuff in Power BI and how to create these advanced visual Visualizations around your data like I don't have the time for all that Well, now you can just literally go into an Excel spreadsheet select the table of data that you want to create a Visualization click on the ideas for Excel and it will you know the side menu comes open with a bunch of Visualizations you can then filter the view to focus in on specifically what you want to present about and then insert that that pivot table directly in as a tab and Cut and paste the little graph into your presentation. It's really slick One step removed from the presentation writing itself. Yeah So do we have are there ideas for any other we have ideas for Excel ideas in PowerPoint? Is it anywhere else that I've missed looking for that list? There it is. All right, I just I have to show you this this slide hang on. Let me find it. Oh, yeah, here It's right here. That's right All right Let me Let me share this just so you know what I'm talking about Where the disclaimer comes out and Sign this form Yeah, so here's the so this is the the list of most downloaded slide decks in the past decade So they go down so this one. Oh, this had Almost 7700 views SharePoint 2063 predictions on governance best practices for SharePoint Wave 87 So It's really short, but you know talking about governance and that was this this is the end of the content right there So here's the future SharePoint Skynet good. Yeah The world has changed dramatically, but I've seen if I did time traveling. I did it in a Ford Fiesta I learned what capacitors it's fake people apparently just a movie prop Clothing has changed Some things have been outlawed tapioca pudding anything related to Jeff Ross key posing modeling Bowling Mark Miller looking like a mountain man. Some hairstyles can get you arrested Interesting comparison being drawn there. Yeah, so I Implied that SharePoint has integrated advanced technology like the clapper The downside is that native metadata management still Yeah, something's don't change yeah Fantastic anyway good tabs good tabs All right, I'll go back and look and see do we have any other Any questions Euler Yeah, yeah Clifford makes the comments is when I do a PowerPoint, it looks like I made it on Windows 95. Yeah, you and me both Welcome to the club Clifford Yeah anyway Yeah, there's a it's it's it's cool to see I mean, it's nice to go to a conference and get kind of a big bang release of here's a new product Here's everything this new capability and what is is is is more difficult Is that we're seeing this this steady trickle come out? It's every week There's something new somewhere and we're you know chasing them down trying to figure out what those things are I've been paying attention obviously to teams capabilities SharePoint capabilities to some degree you know OneDrive Yammer so the collaboration technologies and then because of the productivity stuff I'm also paying attention to the off-suite Just at a high level I skim through the release notes of things like ooh Hey, there's a new feature that's coming out in PowerPoint online or you know Hey, there's this new thing that Sway has a new integration or capability And most people they miss those things because they're buried down in the in the blog posts Yeah, why don't you actually put the link out roadmap.office.com? For folks who look all this stuff up here. Hang on. No, just type what I said No lookup needed. I just got multiple screens Oh that excuse Yeah roadmap.office.com that's you know anybody who's asking for What's gonna be coming out when it's due to hit my tenants when it's due to go live? feature sets or features that maybe were planned but Aborted all that stuff is on roadmap.office.com. I haven't been out there for quite a while myself 271 in development Yeah, you can see it by product by platform When it's due to hit Of course when it's due to hit is that's kind of What's your finger and put it in the wind sort of thing because rolling out to a good Jillian tenants Takes more than 15 minutes. Unfortunately 20 tops That's the rumor the rumor We end up having little like feature release Celebrations and by champions groups because we wait and wait and wait might have finally somebody spots it and it's like We got it Yeah, that's awesome when you see one of those things show up Like the pop-out chats party is gonna be huge Really looking forward to that Yeah, it's in fact that's that's one of those like mini tests in the weekly meetings Whatever dial into is I test that is that there yet? Is it just gonna drop and suddenly I'll double-click on something and it'll work if you don't know we're talking about it's like in Inside of teams to be able to pop out a chat So that you're you're not having to change your primary view pop out videos pop out chats that kind of capability Yeah, that that is highly anticipated. Yeah, the first time it works. You'll actually hear angelic choirs in the background Yeah, so do we have any any other product questions anything anybody else that is watching through one of the live streams As we're live streaming in a couple locations Which again, somebody's came late is is again in wonderment that people within the Microsoft community are using zoom The other there's zoom is for webinars and for live streaming does things that teams cannot and Could we go rig it could we run all of this in a teams meeting? And or or use teams live and then use third-party solution to live stream Yes, we could do that or we could use one solution that does it all out of the box, which is what we've elected to do because our our goal here is to to get this information out and reach the broadest audience especially within Facebook and YouTube communities and so live streaming is the way to do that and keep it anonymous and not require people to download anything and That's the magic of live streaming So the flash product change short. Yes Clifford's asking. What are your favorite users features? We're talking about And maybe Clifford is responding But make has says I have a question is it possible to use teams within family? So you can so I don't know if So there is the free version of teams that's out there And so you can go and everybody go and download that and yes, you can invite anybody to those meetings You actually don't have to have the the client you can invite people via email any email and Join via the browser and so I was gonna say I Christian, you know this that I've got my family in a SharePoint online tenant office 365 plan We use teams to I am we've used it. We've used Skype for business Back when that was still alive. I know it's still alive, but I want to think it's dead But Yeah teams can be used Family-wide, you know, whatever you want if you have a Microsoft account and you have access to the teams client You can pretty much set up a teams meeting Yeah, we're doing the same thing so we have You know, my my wife doesn't use use it for a lot of the purposes She's a student right now. So she they use different platform for all the school stuff So that's just what she's familiar with but all of my family have E3 licenses and we have a space that's built and will share documentation I'm always proud when I I get a notification to go and review something and it's it's in teams it's you know if for a while there my oldest son was Who's married lives down south for here was Updating some things in SharePoint and that was a very proud moment, but life probably pretty surprising moment to yes, it was So are you using teams to communicate with your son in quarantine? We're using well, so we've got a couple other things going on So we have because my in-laws were international now. They're living with us They got sent home early from from the UK, but we were using So it is see I didn't know the name of his we're using WhatsApp for the kind of the text ring because it's all just text-based communication so we actually use that for the inter family chat more than anything else but and And then my daughter insists on using because we've got some extended family members cousins We do a weekly broader family across five six different states We just did we do that every Sunday evening and we use Facebook Facebook And so it does the same thing work as like zoom has the multiple You know multiple screens and it's what people have because a lot of them don't have Microsoft products don't they don't have teams, but it's Yeah, for all the community stuff that we do here the user groups that are a member of the organized committees All of that stuff is done in teams. So yeah, we you know five six different technologies Used sometimes on a daily basis If it ain't broke don't fix it Right. Well, yeah, you use a technology and you go where it's like why we're using zoom here with with Facebook and the The the live streaming is you know people say well, why why don't you live stream? You could go and do this set it up Why don't you live stream to YouTube and kind of cut out the middle man of having a poster recording? It's like well, I don't have hundreds of thousands of followers on YouTube yet so It would go out there And so we're bringing it to where the community is and so for some reason you people like Facebook Oh Well, yeah, anyway, you go with it I'd rather not fight people on the technology and rather just have the conversation. So sometimes that means using multiple technologies Yeah, find some common ground and use it See Clifford also asks is would you recommend using Office 365 your teams to share edit documents with people outside your enterprise Yes, I Do that every single day. Yeah, and that's the biggest ask from my organization as well You have written many Articles on external sharing. I'm in fact, I'm working on an e-book I've been working on it for like four months. I haven't finished it need to take the time go finish it But on external sharing, it's one of the most common use cases and There are depending on and what's what's powerful about like you could do something as simple as You know, obviously you can if you've got a SharePoint environment you can go and and make send in an externally available but time bomb the The you limit the Viewability of that or editability of that document and share that out via email or you can send it as a One-Drive URL Do that individually or do that from your organization share And then you can do that from teams as well if you have Specific requirements more detailed requirements of what your organization requires you to go in and Put various compliance security compliance rules in place around your content You have that ability with teams where you don't have that ability through The other cloud storage providers Yeah, so it just it lets you be much more granular But otherwise Yeah DLP as your rights management. So so Clifford now hopefully that answers the second part of your question around you and security concerns if like I've set out content where I say look, this is only open three days It's only I make it available only to this person and I put a password on it And you can password protect this so that's the item as well You could put a password on a word doc that you're sharing so you can be you know Selective about and you can even whitelist remove add or remove certain domains to ensure that it's not shared outside of that organization So there's a lot that you can do if you have again if it's very important intellectual property that you want to keep secure Let's all of these things. I mean just straight up with very very minimal configuration I mean you can audit all of them.  You have to verify who you are Authentication yep Yeah, MFA's been baked in for a while. No, this is a new thing. It's only for sharing I don't know what it is, but I don't have it on in my organization, but people have it on when they send us It's like a one-time pin thing Wasn't aware that that had rolled out, but it would be neat Yeah, and it may not be on your tenant yet. That's another wonderful thing about the evergreen updates It might still be preview actually Find that Melinda and share the link. Yeah, I'm looking how we're gonna say something. No, I'm just gonna ask her if that's Or to expand on what you were saying is that there's a lot of teams clients are in various states of Updates pretty much everywhere during the a couple weeks ago Everybody at Microsoft was counting the ability to do replacement backgrounds like I've got here And and soon but that's the teams and I haven't seen that yet. So I was wondering if that was one of the Same features. I'm sure they've got so many builds of the teams client out there In so many different forms. So Mike makes a great point. He says in his DLP policy I encrypt emails sharing sensitive information as well as get emails I also block external sharing with OneDrive and SharePoint. Yeah, so that's that's an organization's prerogative Is to go in there and say, hey, look, we're not gonna even allow this You can turn off The external sharing you can turn off guest users within your tenant So all of that can be done at the tech level as well So you can really lock things down now, of course the the word of warning for the organizations You're thinking I'll just go and turn all that stuff off Lock it down Is that people are like water running downhill Moving around a rock you put a place of stone in the way. They go right around it And so that that's where you you then also need to go and walk down the ability to go out to Gmail or hotmail because they'll send sensitive information on a personal Email platform to get around some of those rules. Um, right Get good at writing GPOs If there are you see it and I'm not saying that you know that those policies aren't valid But you need to understand what are our people trying to do and You know and am I keeping them from doing their jobs? And it's fine to go and say look there is a process in place for external sharing Here's what that is and you need to constantly be out there Preaching that standard in that pathway for them to get and collaborate with people on you know inside or outside Um that so it's yeah, as Mikey says is and drop box. Yeah drop boxes There's a huge surge in drop box and other third-party solutions And it's one reason why Microsoft is uh at least embracing that Partially through integrations and inviting, you know, google and box and drop box and Ignite and all of these other solutions that are used Rather Saying hey come integrate in with us work with us work within the the You know the the confines of these security and compliance rules that we put in place Um give people options if they're a native integration between that third-party solution that it's more likely that people will Do it in a secure approved way than in uh, unsecure way Because people will it's human nature. We'll find a way People have to do jobs Get their work done and they will find a way exactly you're either working with it or working around it It's one of my favorite buckly isms, which is the uh, the more rules that you put in place or the Now I forgot it. I just screwed it up. Dang it What was it the the phrasing oh, that's also a buckly isn't to do that. Yeah All right, you know what forget it never mind It's on the tip of my tongue, but my mind went elsewhere, but uh Yeah, essentially it's that the Um, the the the more rules you put in place the less likely people will use that system Little more eloquently, but I can't remember the more eloquent phrasing for that Yeah, the more you lock it down the more people will rebel against the system Back in my chemistry days. It was overcoming activation energy The threshold how much energy you got to put into the system to get the reaction to run Good times Yeah by the way question that uh, that uh presentation on uh, uh, bright gracious Bright carbon. Let me go. Bright carbon. Thank you. Yeah, uh, if you can if you can get into the mvp cam team It's it's recorded there on the file section. Oh, okay. Very cool. Yeah For those of us Yeah, that was like last Thursday, right? How yes Yeah, four days ago And it's it's it's sitting in the Can't I'm empty on our rd mpps in the meetings subsection The one consistent, uh thread through all the conversations that were going on where everybody felt it was an Incredibly professional well done presentation Hmm. Oh, yeah Yeah, clifford asks is is any good paid video resources of getting good with office 365? Uh, maybe if you could narrow it down office 365 is kind of a broad swath Is there any particular workload in office 365 clifford? Yeah, for example, like in teams, I know that uh, vlad just released like a week or two ago the uh, his Microsoft teams administration, uh out on plural sites. So that course is available now. It's fairly comprehensive Yeah, much of the plural site stuff is good So i'm not sure what's out there through, uh, linkedin learning Um, I know there's some linda resources, which is also owned by linkedin Um, that has some broader It's a lot of more business focused topics But it has a lot of one-on-one topics around office 365. So you can check there. It's a linda with a y Yeah, but otherwise I usually attend to point people towards, uh, plural site Um, and there are of course there are, um other resources out there, um, like we're good friends with, uh, Asif Ramani and his company visual sp I'm gonna say we have that, you know in context training resources and tons of content of their content and what I love about, uh A solution like that and I don't know if you know, like Are you using anything like that melinda inside of your company? I'm trying to as hard as I can. Yeah, there's some great tools like that. But what's cool about that is that Uh, it's this little icon you you're basically people are in working wherever they are within the system and they can You know, basically toggle on this service And it'll pop up all these little icons all over your screen of relevant content To where people are working in context of what they're doing. So how do I use this feature or What what are some best practices for this or what's our company policy? Around use of different things and so you can curate some of that content You can purchase out of the box content. So it's just a great You know a great training tool as you're working on adoption and engagement We've hit the top of the hour Wow Are we already there? Oh, we are there Yeah, we are Yeah, well, thanks a lot for everybody to uh for for joining this. Um, yeah You know clipper just the last comment here is because the constant changes. I always find a lot of it is out of date Yeah, I mean look that that's always that's always going to be the case with training material But microsoft is trying to stay on top of that That's why i'm a big believer in Kind of outsourcing a lot of that content creation to the community content because it's it's very quick of those updates It drives home to always check the date on anything you read Um anything older than six months to a year. You probably want to question it Yeah, so Yeah, and i'll then i'll make this the last question my so mickey since we started a couple minutes late Mikey says uh, would you guys say that the microsoft 365 security admin the enterprise admin expert? That certification is worth obtaining and to keep up to date I think it's look if it's relevant to your role now It's uh If you are if you get that a certification like that and stay on top of that I think it's going to be valuable There's going to be there's so much that's coming down the pipe and to be to have somebody in the organization That's on top of all of that it can answer those questions. I think that you'll uh become an invaluable asset to your organization If you have that Yeah Just recognize that it's not an endpoint that you're getting on a treadmill That you're going to be constantly Updating and integrating new information week after week So the certification is just a starting point. It is not a destination It's a journey not a race No, actually, it's a it's a it's a journey where you're on a full sprint the whole time More like a like a trainer or a plane ticket really You're holding on to the outside of the trainer plan Yeah, you hope you're strapped in yeah Well, thanks a lot everybody thinks how melinda shan and We'll be back in what is that? I don't know 10 hours seven eight hours Something like that. We're gonna do it again. So we'll do that for uh, asia pacific and uh In the evening for here in the americas, but thanks a lot everybody and we'll talk to you soon. Have a good day Bye Hi If all we have is this recording here, but we're having some problems with the live stream So we're just talking about some uh, no known issues and somebody posted out in the office 365 group that they Added a bunch of people to their To their team They sent out and they created a meeting so all within the uh, You know within the team's application. I don't know if it was browser or desktop But they created a meeting Invited a dozen people that included a mixture of people in the organization As well as outside the organization and and as well as he added himself And no one received the meeting invites None of the notifications the meeting shows up all the people the emails that he added the people that he added are all in there um And he's not seeing any of those people And I So i'm not sure what The the hang up is there's of course issues going back to 2017 of something similar And in all the posts i was looking through trying to find if there was a definitive answer to that and as Tends to happen when i'm looking for something that also affects me is that there's no answer To the problem just a lot of people ask the question and support Asking follow-up questions with no no answer So uh, yeah, so I I went into the exact same thing tried to replicate the problem Went and created a you know in the desktop Application went and created a meeting So as the creator I then I sent an email invites to my own gmail and to my wife's gmail accounts And uh, haven't seen either of those go through So the meeting's in there. I can see my name um But I don't see those invites I don't know if you've Sherman if you experienced that I haven't what I have had experience lately Especially over last week seems to be better today is just even my in my test environments. I have two test environments one for education one for enterprise The meetings weren't even just getting getting creative at all. I would Do it in teams and you could see the little spinner in there within the meeting. Yep And the recipient I believe got the email notification, but it would never appear in their calendar And I just kind of chalked up to Load issues and things like that. Uh, maybe maintenance over the weekend. I'm not sure but I can't remember if it was last week late last week or over the weekend I think it was late last week. Actually, I didn't do much. I'm gonna come weekend I've been trying to get caught up on Not to switch topics on but uh Is with pragma support and trying to get caught up on the microsoft teams or specifically after you get at Office 365 for education um, they have a different beast, especially when it comes to teams and One note. I never played with those and as we know a lot of teachers are Scrambling trying to get ramped up as their districts or or schools are using teams, so there's a microsoft teams for education facebook group and i'm trying to Help out in there and then realizing Maybe about three weeks ago That some of my answers weren't Relevant for that because it came from enterprise and not education So that was really interesting So I spun up. I thought I was finally able to spin up an a5 tenancy demo And it's interesting to see that in teams you have the classroom teams that looks very different And i'm also seeing my daughters Both of them in their high school. They're using it Some of the issues there they disabled one-on-one chats So I posted a question about that To get other feedback And yeah, I didn't even think about nefarious uses right using bad words If Johnny and billy are having private one-on-one chats and it gets on a hand, you know Who can see that and then can't really see that I guess they can She comes a nightmare right like they don't schools don't want to provide a platform where Um bullying or that kind of bad behavior can occur So Just interesting All right, I'm trying to solve this uh, this other issue here too. So sorry No worries. I'm actually answering a question right now It's just Spinning all right. I'm not yeah, it just did diet again. So yeah, there's obviously something going on with the feed there So which means that we're not going to have any questions coming in no people coming in so Um Yeah, gentlemen, I just say that this is not working. I'm just gonna call it And uh, we'll try again next week. I am uh, you know people are I noticed a couple observations Couple things one is that there were so I went and did Launched it as a watch party on the office 365 community I saw that two other people also did that one of them had a bunch of questions Not being answered And so because as other people are adding conversations to that community Obviously it pushes that watch party down in the feed So others were able to go off of my feed And host their own watch party But then we were never seeing those questions I didn't realize that it worked like that. So that's something to look at next week And uh Yeah, you know, and then my other my other thought is I'm looking at um restream or v mix As possible platforms to uh To set up for next week and going forward which would allow us then to create a teams meeting And do everything in teams, but then do a live stream on multiple channels So I'm getting tired of the whiny people and the people, you know, like who don't understand the technology Be like, oh look, they're talking about office 365 On zoom and isn't that funny? It's like Okay, so instead of using zoom We're going to use restream or v mix Or twitch or one of these other platforms to essentially do the same thing It's actually the same thing, but You know We'll have less whining because people who don't understand the technology at play then We'll still not understand and but it'll all be good because it'll it'll on the surface just all look like teams and they'll be happy Yep So All right gents. Anyway, thanks for joining Sorry didn't work out, but No problem. Yeah, sorry. I missed this morning's call. Yeah, no worries. It was it was a good discussion And we had melinda morales on there and got to poke fun at her. So yeah, it was great No, it was great discussion. She was sharing some of uh Her takeaways from dyson. I'm I'm still it's on my agenda to do. I've got a little bit of time tomorrow I'm gonna upload uh all of the recordings. So it should be good All right, cool. Well until next time then that's all right. Talk to you later. All right. Thanks. Bye Take care. Bye


Hi there out there lover! Welcome to another highcollege review. In this video I'll be giving you my review of the Kunlis Inquadalite Endurance Town Jacket. I'm a netform highcollege giving you gear reviews and hike videos this time from friends. And as you can see right behind me there's a really cozy fireplace so it's hot in here so I'll take off this jacket for the remainder of this review. Kunlis part is sponsored this jacket for us to use during our sweden adventure. We're a part of the kungslede and the whole trail of the hoca kustelede. If you haven't seen those videos yet make sure to check them out. We will leave a link in the description box below. Kunlis didn't ask us to do a review about this jacket we only review gear that we actually wear and use ourselves. Now on to the review of the Kunlis Inquadalite Endurance Town Jacket. So what are your specs? Let's start with the fit. I'm 1 meter and 72 centimeters and I wear a size medium of this jacket. The jacket is a slim fit with a technical cut so to be sure I ordered the medium size so I could fit my other layers underneath it. This jacket only weighs an astonishing 325 grams. It is filled with 140 grams 850 filled powered bunnish goose down that's hardware phobic. This means it will retain its warmth and insulating properties even when it gets wet. This jacket is manufactured without the use of pfcs and the down filling is ethically sourced. The jacket shell and liner are made with Pertex Quantum a durable lightweight material that has DWR finished to protect against the elements which stands for durable water repellent.  The ripsobs will prevent the fabric to rip up all the way. Last but not least you can buy this jacket for around 300 euros. Let's go to the features. The jacket has a 5 millimeter wide KK viscant zipper with two self locking sliders for a secure closure. At the end of the zipper is the zipper carrot so you don't feel a cold zipper against your chin. Behind the front zipper is an internal storm flag. The adjustable route is designed to fit over a helmet and can be adjusted for full visibility. There are two zipped hand warmer pockets. The jacket has two internal mesh pockets for gloves or other items. At the hem are two adjustable hem pores and the handcuffs are also adjustable with velcro. The jacket is stitched in a chamber design which ensures wound and durability. It can be packed easily into the hem pocket. And it comes with a small stuff sack with a capacity of one and a half liters. Let's talk about the brand. Cumulus is a European outer brand from Poland. It's not the most well-known brand yet especially if you're not from Europe. However in my opinion, Cumulus deserves way more attention and credit for their work. The goal for Cumulus is to make gear as light as possible while using world-class fabrics. And the company meets the highest ethical standards and uses only certified polished downed producers. Cumulus will become a climate news company by the end of 2020 so check out the website to find out more. So what do I like about this jacket? I like its weight and packability. How is this even possible? I am so impressed with how lightweight this jacket is from Cumulus and how small the packability is. This tiny jacket can keep me warm enough for autumn in Sweden. When I was standing outside during the night minus 60 degrees Celsius watching the northern light I wasn't cold. Little side note I wear all my proper layers. I also absolutely love the pink color and first I was a bit hesitant ordering this color since it looked super red on the pictures on the website and I don't like the color red on me. But when I unpacked the jacket I fell in love with the not so super bright color pink that this jacket is. I really love that the zipper has a storm flap inside and a little zipper garage. It's a small detail but I really really really don't like the feeling of a cold zipper against my chin. So the zipper garage is a huge pro for me. The other pro about the zipper is that the jacket has a top-down zipper which can open from the bottom as well from the top. So when climbing you can open up your jacket from the bottom to have full access to your climbing belt. I would probably use this feature to air a little without taking off the whole jacket. Cumulus also gives a lifetime warranty which is also a really big plus for me. So what don't I like about this jacket? I did not 100% love the cuffs at the end of the sleeves. It are cuffs with Velcro and that's not my favorite to be honest. With a elastic band and the Velcro it feels a little bit bulky for me. So my overall conclusion of the cumulus jacket. I really like this jacket. It's a super lightweight jacket and the small backability is amazing especially when you're an experienced hiker who go outdoors often this jacket is worth the investment. The only improvement I would suggest are the cuffs. I don't like the Velcro at the end of the sleeves. Overall I'm super happy with this jacket and it's a perfect level up if you're searching for a high-quality outer gear from Europe. So what do you think about the cumulus in credit lights and dirt jackets which consider buying gear from cumulus? Let us know in the comments below. If you'd like to see more gear reviews like this please subscribe to our channel and consider supporting us by also becoming part of the pageant hiker-holics family. This will help us create even more videos for you. So now let's wrap up this video and as we say goodbye in the Netherlands. Doei!