13 years of blogging and 2 000 000 views

Ståle Hansen Leave a comment

Today, January 26th 2023, I hit a huge milestone. 2 000 000 views since I started blogging in 2009. msunified.net has been the home for me to share technical nuggets about Exchange, OCS, Lync, Skype for Business, Teams and Microsoft 365 for over 13 years. I have even shared productivity tips which has culminated in to my Digital Wellbeing thinking. I want to reflect and share my 10 all time most visited blogposts, my 5 favorited blogposts, some external articles I have written and share what I am working on these days.

If you have found any of my articles useful at some point, give this article or the social media post you found this through a like 👍 :)

10 all time most viewed blogposts

My 5 favorite blogposts which I often use today

External articles I have written for other sites and Tech Community

Office 365 for IT Pros

For four years, between 2018 and 2022, I contributed to the calling and meetings chapter for Office 365 for IT Pros. I strongly believe in that format, because it gets updated monthly😱 Tony Redmond heads up that book and the author team does a fantastic job of keeping you up do date on best practices and technical facts in Office 365. Blogposts are seldom kept up to date and that is why you have seen less blogposts here these years, since they get outdated faster than you can type :) I recommend you go and buy a subscribtion to Office 365 for IT Pros right now👍

msunified.net moving forward and what I am currently working on

Do I think blogposts are still worth it today? yes and no. No for “how to” blogposts because learn.microsoft.com is so much better than Microsoft documentation has ever been. Maybe you would rather suggest a change to the learn article if you find information missing. Yes when you want to share a routine, script, your understanding and design principles. I would say no to opinion pieces on a personal blog, maybe you want to share those on LinkedIn or a third party blogsite

These days I work mainly in two areas

  • Digital Wellbeing and working smart with Microsoft 365 combined with Microsoft Viva
    • I published 8 hours of deep dive training for free on YouTube which are indexed here
    • I recently rebranded as a Digital Wellbeing coach delivering inspiration talks, keynotes, leadership training and organizational training based on my Digital Wellbeing thinking :)
    • I run workshops, proof of concepts and talk at conferences about Microsoft Viva
    • I am part of the #VivaExplorers an enthusiastic gang of over 60 MVPs who bring their own angle in to the broad world of Microsoft Viva thought leadership and understanding.
  • Complex hybrid deployment for Exchange/Skype for Business/Teams
    • I see larger more complex and risk averse companies stretching or migrating to Microsoft 365
    • In those more locked down environments we need to be more precise in knowing what works and how
    • These past years i have spent a lot of time as advisor and hands-on with hybrid Exchange solving problems like free/busy, Autodiscover, oauth, hybrid modern auth, Outlook Mobile and making sure nothing is more open than it should be, some of it resulted in this blogpost and I might blog more about troubleshooting these scenarios
    • Same for hybrid Skype for Business, but that is easier than hybrid Exchange, if you have gone down the route and set up a proper Edge server topology :)
  • Make sure you check out my YouTube channel to get my latest videos and talks I do that other channels shares

Thanks to everyone who visits my blog on a daily basis and I think I struck a nerve when blogging about Set the custom Focusing status in Microsoft Teams from PowerShell using Power Automate which is daily the most visited blogpost on my site :)

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