Laurent Carlier

Laurent is an experienced Microsoft 365 consultant and has a unique combination of technical and functional expertise.

He works daily with worldwide clients in business and education sectors, helping them building, designing and implementing modern workplace & modern teaching with Microsoft Teams and many other Microsoft 365 tools, such as Microsoft Viva.

Covering all aspects from strategies to change management & IT governance, he is always advocating about the importance of human-first approach and the necessary but always forgotten bridges between IT staff, end users & stakeholders.

He loves sharing as a Microsoft MVP his dual expertise in adoption change management & technical governance and can be found presenting in many languages (french, english, japanese) at international conferences and user groups.

Published by Laurent Carlier

Managing Microsoft Teams for Education as an IT Professional

- 13 min read-Laurent Carlier

This article will walk you through some best practices as an IT administrator for a Teams for Education environment. Covering class creation, policy hierarchies and details, file management, external sharing, and controlling other student and teacher capabilities, you'll learn the how and the why for all of Teams for Education's settings.

Organize Your Digital Classroom With Microsoft Teams for Education

- 13 min read-Laurent Carlier

The education version of Teams differs from the business version in important ways. The channel structures, organisation of learning resources, and access paths for students are all important considerations for smoothly running the class throughout the year. This article is a deep dive into those considerations, as well as some best practices to help you build your classroom teams with confidence, whether you're teaching alone or with a group of teachers.