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Josh Walters


Josh Walters is a technical architect for CDW in the Microsoft Collaboration and Communications space. Josh is a leader of the Microsoft Collaboration virtual team and develops service offerings for these technologies including Exchange, OneDrive, Skype for Business, SharePoint and Teams.

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7 Important Steps to Office 365 Happiness

A strategic implementation roadmap helps ensure that Office 365 deployments deliver on their business goals.

By Brandon Pierce  and Josh Walters
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December 1, 2020
Digital Workspace, Cloud

[sayit]In 2020, we’ve seen to what happens when companies roll out cloud collaboration solutions in a hurry. Forced by the COVID-19 pandemic to support remote work in new ways, many organizations struggled to deploy tools that met their performance needs, complied with their data safety regulations or even addressed their employees’ most common use cases.…

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Microsoft 365 Unlocked ― 4 Effective Workplace Tools (Not Named Teams)

Looking beyond Teams, Microsoft 365 offers several lesser-known but very helpful applications.

By Josh Walters
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October 7, 2020
Services, Software

It’s hard to talk about Microsoft 365 and not mention the elephant in the room: Microsoft Teams. As remote work and the “new normal” continue to drive business decisions and the way we work, Microsoft Teams continues to be at the center of these collaboration conversations. Learn how to gain value from CDW’s partnership with…

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4 Unique Use Cases for Microsoft Teams

This constantly evolving Microsoft product offers opportunities for many industries including healthcare, manufacturing, education and food service.

By Josh Walters
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June 29, 2020
Services, Digital Workspace, Software

2020 has been an incredible year for Microsoft and especially for Microsoft Teams. With many organizations quickly adopting new ways for employees to work from anywhere, Microsoft Teams has seen a meteoric rise in usage for meetings and collaboration. In fact, Microsoft recently announced that by the end of April 2020, usage of Microsoft Teams…

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8 Things to Consider Prior to Deploying Microsoft Teams

Careful planning before execution will lead to a better overall project experience.

By John Weber  and Josh Walters
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March 26, 2020
Digital Workspace

So, you’re going to do this. The executive stakeholders at your organization have made the strategic decision to enable Microsoft Teams. It is your job to accomplish this task while limiting the impact to end users, and also creating a path that will provide the best adoption and user experience possible. Learn how CDW can…

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Video: Getting Started with the Office 365 E1 Trial

This setup offers a great opportunity to test drive the Office 365 suite.

By Josh Walters
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March 12, 2020
Digital Workspace

[sayit]As the supporting technology has improved and the delivery has grown more simple, remote work is becoming a mainstay for many organizations. If you are an organization looking to provide state-of-the-art collaboration capabilities without breaking the budget, you might be asking yourself: What’s the quickest way to get started? Thankfully, Microsoft has come to the…

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Considerations for Building the Perfect Huddle Room — Part 2

These four additional pointers will help you find the right collaboration solution for small spaces.

By Patrick Nowicki  and Josh Walters
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November 12, 2019
Digital Workspace

In part 1 of this blog series, we looked at several factors including meeting platform support and integration capabilities, audio quality and ease of support when shopping around for the right huddle room solution. We will now wrap things up by considering the solution’s ease of use and its overall cost as important factors to…

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Considerations for Building the Perfect Huddle Room — Part 1

Evaluate these key factors when choosing a collaboration solution for your small meeting spaces.

By Patrick Nowicki  and Josh Walters
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November 7, 2019
Digital Workspace

Huddle room spaces are dramatically growing in the business space over the next three to four years, and many companies are starting to evaluate collaboration solutions so they can plan for and make use of these new workspaces in their offices. With a plethora of technologies on the market, and more rapidly being developed by…

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How to Make Office 365 Even More Secure — Part 2

By Josh Walters  and Brandon Pierce
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October 15, 2019
Security, Software

In our previous post, we shared some tips on how to better secure your Office 365 deployment. We covered: Applying multifactor authentication to your synced Active Directory and cloud passwords Addressing common security exposure points we’ve seen in Exchange Online Enabling the audit features in Office 365 These are all relatively simple steps that can…

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How to Make Office 365 Even More Secure — Part 1

Make these three tweaks to take full advantage of Microsoft’s security capabilities.

By Josh Walters  and Brandon Pierce
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October 9, 2019
Security, Cloud, Software

Cybersecurity — one word that can inspire many different tactical approaches depending on its definition. If you feel overwhelmed by the idea of defining cybersecurity and developing a plan for its inclusion within your environment, then you’re not alone. Many organizations have started down the path of addressing exposure points, defining red and blue teams,…

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Top 5 Myths about Microsoft Teams

This collaboration solution can do more than you think it can.

By Josh Walters
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July 2, 2019
Digital Workspace, Software

Last month, I had the luxury of spending three days discussing the state of collaboration in the marketplace by participating in CDW’s Collaboration Roadshow. These Collaboration Roadshow sessions are an opportunity for customers or potential customers to join some of CDW’s best and brightest at one of our local offices and discuss their organization’s collaboration…

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Simplify Your Transition to Microsoft Teams — Part 2

Understanding how coexistence modes interact is key to a smooth migration to Teams.

By Josh Walters
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April 16, 2019
Digital Workspace, Software

In my earlier blog post about migrating to Microsoft Teams, I covered the variety of coexistence modes available to organizations as they consider their migration to this communication and collaborations platform. With many organizations needing to maintain both Skype for Business and Microsoft Teams for a period of time, it’s important to have some insight…

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Simplify Your Transition to Microsoft Teams — Part 1

Knowing which coexistence mode is right for your organization will make this migration much easier.

By Josh Walters
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April 9, 2019
Digital Workspace, Software

For many organizations, Skype for Business (formerly Lync, and before that, Communications Server) has been a staple communication and collaboration platform. This type of application — one that provides the ability to communicate quickly and effectively through instant messaging, check someone’s availability via presence status, place a phone call and spin up an ad hoc…

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7 Considerations before Jumping into Microsoft Teams Real-Time Workloads

Minding the details of this offering can save you serious headaches down the road.

By Patrick Nowicki  and Josh Walters
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January 17, 2019
Digital Workspace, Cloud, Software

If you have evaluated or use Office 365 for any of your collaboration and productivity needs, I don't need to tell you how popular Microsoft Teams has become in the marketplace, even recently surpassing Slack in user adoption. However, many organizations have been more tentative about moving to Microsoft Teams for calling and meetings. This…

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