Over the last few weeks my MVP colleague Luise Freese and I joined up to create a sway about “10 signs your are an Office 365 Consultant.” Hope you enjoy the read!
10 signs you are an Office 365 Consultant
Your answer to nearly everything begins with… “It depends…”
Given the complexity, there are no simple answers. And although “it depends” is a cliché, it is simply an expression of the fact that as consultants we try hard to look at the customer with all his peculiarities before we answer.
You work in more tenants than you can remember the passwords for.
And although we know exactly which tool we would recommend for which application, we use quite different services that work independently of Office 365.
You have to scroll through your Microsoft Authenticator App* and provide a keychain for RSA tokens.
* ..and did create a folder on your smartphone’s home screen to have all the authenticator apps in one place.
Your single browser is Google Chrome because you need different profiles.
With Google Chrome you have the ability to create several user profiles and use them simultaneously. This is a great help and the only way to
- do demos in Office 365 that require more than one active user.
- keep up to date in your customers tenants
Your Laptop has more stickers than keys 🙂
In order to show our nerd status credibly and uniquely, we stick many geek stickers on our Laptops 🙂
While your devices are slim and elegant, your bag with cables and dongles becomes bigger and bigger.
With slim laptops a new challenge arises: You run out of ports. By now there are several standards on how to connect a laptop to a beamer: VGA, DisplayPort, DVI, HDMI, Thunderbold, Ethernet or via a ClickShare Dongle (which requires USB). You know there are even more but can’t list them.
You have at minimum three personal devices.
Seriously? Private, Business, Demo.
You are a travel pro.
You are on the road a lot, because you need to see your customers and spend a lot of time at conferences, SharePoint Saturdays and other community events – this makes you a #TravelPro.
Recently you thought about cleaning up your test and demo environments…
You have a messy pile of Site Collections, test-users and documents with random text in it.
Your parents describe your job using the words “does something with computers and clouds”.
Since you started working with computers you are RESPONSIBLE for every computer, smartphone and anything related to internet connectivity issues and the configuration of any television.
You are a WiFi and LTE addict.
All cloud services rely on a reliable internet connection. There are time, there is no such thing like a gigabyte direct route into a Microsoft data center. In these times you start to honor your very own LTE or WiFi network.
SharePoint and Microsoft 365 