Just a suggestion why dont we organise an IRMS Roundtable to finalise a list of the problems that our community is currently having. I can organise and host this on Teams but it would be key to have Robert and Andrew and I will invite Vivek Batt as well who has closely worked with Microsoft to join us in the discussion.
We could identify current problems from potential ones in this space. One lesson from years of working on this platform is, no point worrying on potential problems because any time a change could happen to address these. Note though, not worrying doesn't equate to forgetting and ignoring them, not worrying for me means I will not let it stop any initiative I am currently doing. Besides there are always workarounds with the APIs and SDKs which Microsoft will always share with Partners anyway, so you can surface some of these functionalities on E3.
Years of working with a variety of projects of all sizes taught me that if you want change, we can make it happen immediately if we can collectively identify how many licenses we hold as a community and hook that on the changes we want Microsoft to make. They wont give in to all but we can get their attention quicker and push the changes, I think that was mentioned on this thread as well. I know this can happen because a recent project I was involved in early in the lockdown, which is a major financial organisation made Microsoft stop several functionalities from General Availability which was causing a compliance headache for us, but this organisation has a USD17.5M license invested with Microsoft. We can only match this as a collective.
The above paired with making as much noise as possible:
1. Through your Microsoft representatives or Partners you are working with. (I can raise this with our Microsoft Partner Representative as a personal initiative)
2. Through User Voice the link I think Robert has shared. My Microsoft contacts tell me that works as they do regular active review of the user voice feedback.
3. Through the Microsoft Conferences - (I am attending the European one in November and those who are going we can get together and target the sessions where we could raise these current concerns)
4. Lets go straight to the guardian of M365 Jeff Teper of Microsoft, so all of us LinkedIn with him let us send him the note.
5. The MVPs in this space like Joanne Klein who have quite strong voices inside Microsoft
So my message here is lets not just talk about it lets take action to make these changes happen.
Maria Lim
Scotland Chair
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