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| 17 May 2022 | Get schooled on Viva Learning | 00:48:53 | |
Get ready to be a learn-it-all! On this episode, Chris and Mark chat with their peers from the Microsoft Viva Learning team, Andrea Lum and John Mighell. Viva Learning removes traditional obstacles paving pathways to learning culture success. They cover the demands of "enterprise learning," upskilling within Microsoft Teams, connecting 3rd-party content sources (Coursera, Harvard Business Publishing, Pluralsight, Skillsoft, to name a few), and a peek at what comes next. Time to get schooled on The Intrazone. Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post. Andrea Lum | LinkedIn | Twitter [guest] John Mighell | LinkedIn | Twitter [guest] Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host] SharePoint | @SharePoint | SharePoint community blog | Provide feedback Microsoft Viva Learning | @Microsoft365 | Website | Viva community blog | Provide feedback "Viva Learning news and feature update" March 8th, 2022 by John Mighell Learn more about Viva Learning: https://aka.ms/VivaLearning Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Upcoming Events: Build 2022 (May.24-26.2022 | Virtual) Thrive Conference (May.24-25.2022 | Slovenia) Microsoft Inspire 2022 (Virtual) (July 19-20, 2022) 365 EduCon - Dallas (Aug. 8-12, 2022) Microsoft Lists workshop [on-demand] Subscribe to and follow The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| 30 Sep 2019 | OneDrive Personal Vault | 00:45:57 | |
Microsoft announced today it is releasing OneDrive Personal Vault, an added layer of protection for your most important files, photos and videos — such as your passport, driver’s license, or insurance information — should someone gain access to your account or device. We talk with Ryan Hoge, principal group program manager for OneDrive, and Paul Diamond, product manager for OneDrive personal marketing. Also on the show, we talk with OneDrive personal user, Chris Leadley, to get his real-world perspective on using Personal Vault during preview. Running Time: 46min Show Intro [00:00] Topic of the Week – OneDrive Personal Vault Guest Perspective – Ryan Hoge and Paul Diamond, OneDrive Personal Vault [04:30] Guest Perspective – Chris Leadley, consumer [24:50]] FAQs [37:00] Upcoming Events [42:30] Show Wrap [44:55] Social and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook | Twitter | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice OneDrive Facebook | Twitter | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice Paul Diamond |LinkedIn Chris Leadley | LinkedIn |@ChrisLeadley Resources: “OneDrive Personal Vault and expandable storage now available worldwide” "OneDrive Personal Vault" Tech Community Blog post Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes "Your Phone app built into the Galaxy Note 10 and Galaxy Note 10+" Upcoming Events: SharePoint Saturdays | @SPS_Events Microsoft Ignite - November 4-8, Orlando, FL Microsoft Ignite | The Tour (various cities worldwide) | @MS_Ignite ESPC, European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference - December 2-5, Prague, Czech Republic | @EuropeanSP Microsoft Build - May 19-21, 2020, Seattle, WA Subscribe to The Intrazone: Show Page: https://aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| 12 Dec 2023 | Records compliance from the get-go | 00:52:01 | |
On today's episode, we chat with Joanne Klein - an expert on compliance in Microsoft 365. Joanne brings energy and technical expertise to real-world implementations of collaboration balanced with compliance. We spoke onsite during 365 EduCon - Chicago about records management and specific tooling (like Microsoft Purview), content lifecycle management best practices, and how to get it right from the get-go.
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15:52 Conversation with Joanne Klein 43:43 Upcoming Events
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Upcoming events: Microsoft Ignite now on-demand | from Nov. 14-17, 2023 Teams Nation 2024 | Feb. 21, 2024 | #TeamsNation + early tweet Microsoft Fabric Community Conference | March 26-28, 2024 in Las Vegas, NV AIIM | April 3-5, 2024 in San Antonio, TX North American Cloud & Collaboration Summit (NACS) | April 9-11, 2024 in Dallas, TX Microosft 365 Conference | April 28 - May 4, 2024 in Orlando, FL SharePoint Intranet Festival (Online) European Collaboration Summit | May 14-16, 2024 in Weisbaden, Germany 365 EduCon - Seattle | June 3-7, 2024 in Seattle, W
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| 05 Nov 2019 | Ignite 2019 Bonus: Jeff Teper live from Orlando | 00:41:18 | |
Live from Microsoft Ignite 2019 in Orlando, FL, we talk with Jeff Teper, CVP SharePoint, OneDrive and Office engineering on his thoughts about new innovations like Project Cortex, Mover acquisition, 100M monthly active users (MAU) & 100 GB file uploads, the Fluid Framework, Multi-lingual, SharePoint home sites, the updated SharePoint Look Book and more. Finally, we asked his thoughts about ensuring accessibility into every part of what his team ships. Social and Info Links: SharePoint @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice OneDrive @OneDrive | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice Resources: BLOG | "SharePoint, OneDrive, and Office enhancements showcase Microsoft 365 innovations at Microsoft Ignite" by Jeff Teper. SESSION (on-demand) | [#MSIgnite 11/4/19 #BRK2053]: "The latest innovations in SharePoint, OneDrive, and Office for content collaboration in Microsoft 365" #ProjectCortex: https://aka.ms/ProjectCortex SharePoint Look Book | lookbook.microsoft.com Microsoft Surface Earbuds Podcast Sweepstakes | aka.ms/MSIgnite/PodcastSweepstakes Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Upcoming Events: SharePoint Saturdays | @SPS_Events SharePoint Fest | @SharePointFest ESPC, European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference | @EuropeanSP Microsoft Ignite | The Tour (various cities worldwide) | @MS_Ignite Subscribe to The Intrazone: Show Page: https://aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| 16 Feb 2021 | Drag and drop: Outlook to SharePoint | 00:49:43 | |
Drag and drop emails and attachments from Outlook into SharePoint, without leaving Outlook. We talk with Microsoft partner harmon.ie, along with their customer, Bosch. We'll highlight their solution for how emails and attachments are now saved to SharePoint - readily available for future audits and e-discovery. The combined SharePoint plus harmon.ie solution helps Bosch manage millions of daily emails, including active business records that need to be accessed, shared, and worked on by numerous colleagues. Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post. SharePoint | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice David Lavenda | LinkedIn | Twitter | harmon.ie (Twitter) [guest] Daniel Stuch | LinkedIn | Bosch (Twitter) [guest] Mark Kashman | Twitter [co-host] Chris McNulty | Twitter [co-host] Events: Microsoft Ignite (Mar.2-4.2021) Collab365 GlobalCon5 (Mar.16-17.2021) | Twitter Reimagine Project Management with Microsoft (Mar.18.2021) SharePoint’s 20th Birthday Party (Mar.27.2021) The AIIM Conference (Apr.27-29.2021) SharePoint Fest Virtual Workshops (ongoing) CollabDays events (ongoing) SharePoint Saturdays events (ongoing) Resources: Microsoft 365 Content Services Partner Program Microsoft Viva https://aka.ms/Viva SharePoint Syntex https://aka.ms/SharePointSyntex Content Services https://aka.ms/sharepoint-contentservices Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Subscribe to The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone Listen and subscribe to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts | |||
| 22 Aug 2018 | TV on the Radio | 01:16:24 | |
Enterprise video is on the rise. It's keeping employees, customers and business partners engaged and informed. Today, we talk about how video integrates into our daily work habits with Microsoft's Stream Team. Mark and Chris also talk with Microsoft customer Wavemaker and their partner AddIn365 about planning and deploying their one stop shop intranet site, Work Hub. See photos of guests and read more about the episode on the SharePoint Tech Community Blog. Additional Resources: TRT: 01:16:24
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Primary resources and social: SharePoint site https://products.office.com/SharePoint/ SharePoint Community Blog http://office.com/sharepoint/community SharePoint Facebook https://www.facebook.com/MSSharePoint/ SharePoint Twitter https://twitter.com/SharePoint Mark Kashman Twitter https://twitter.com/mkashman Chris McNulty Twitter https://twitter.com/cmcnulty2000 SPS Events http://www.spsevents.org/ SPS Events Twitter https://twitter.com/SPS_Events Wavemaker Global site https://wavemakerglobal.com/ Wavemaker Global Twitter https://twitter.com/WavemakerGlobal Addin365 site https://www.addin365.com/ Addin365 Twitter https://twitter.com/AddIn365
Upcoming Events: SharePoint Fest - Seattle, August 20-24, 2018 SharePoint Tech Con - Boston, August 26-29, 2018 Microsoft Ignite, September 24-28, 2018 Office and SharePoint LIVE! 360, December 2-7, 2018
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| 07 Aug 2018 | Ready Player OneDrive | 01:15:01 | |
Accept your reality – or deploy OneDrive for a better one. The facts are right here, waiting for you. Ready, Player? Your OneDrive audible mission, should you choose to accept it, begins now! This week Mark and Chris talk with OneDrive team members Jason Moore and Stephen Rose, focusing on the latest innovations, best practices for use and adoption, plus a little history retrospective. We also hear from Mr. OneDrive himself, MVP Hans Brender, forecasting his thoughts on the future of OneDrive and what to do with the old workhorse – groove.exe. This episode will self-destruct in five seconds. See photos of guests and read more about the episode on the SharePoint Tech Community Blog. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND RESOURCES: TRT: 01:15:08:00
Articles: "Microsoft OneDrive named again as a leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Content Collaboration Platforms," July 11, 2018. https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/blog/2018/07/11/microsoft-onedrive-named-again-as-a-leader-in-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-content-collaboration-platforms/ "OneDrive - User activity within the Microsoft 365 usage analytics" https://support.office.com/article/navigate-and-utilize-the-reports-in-microsoft-365-usage-analytics-286fcf0b-ffc7-4593-8073-d7a4a5dd2b45?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US OneDrive (main website) https://products.office.com/en-US/onedrive-for-business/online-cloud-storage OneDrive User Voice https://onedrive.uservoice.com/ OneDrive (Microsoft Tech Community blog) https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-OneDrive-Blog/bg-p/OneDriveBlog OneDrive Video Training https://support.office.com/article/OneDrive-video-training-1f608184-b7e6-43ca-8753-2ff679203132 Hans Brender https://hansbrender.com/ Bright Skies https://bskies.io/
Primary resources and social: SharePoint site https://products.office.com/SharePoint/ SharePoint Community Blog http://office.com/sharepoint/community SharePoint Facebook https://www.facebook.com/MSSharePoint/ SharePoint Twitter https://twitter.com/SharePoint OneDrive Twitter https://www.twitter.com/OneDrive Mark Kashman Twitter https://twitter.com/mkashman Chris McNulty Twitter https://twitter.com/cmcnulty2000 Stephen Rose Twitter https://twitter.com/stephenlrose Jason Moore Twitter https://twitter.com/jasmo Hans Brender Twitter https://twitter.com/Hansbrender/ SPS Events http://www.spsevents.org/ SPS Events Twitter https://twitter.com/SPS_Events
Upcoming Events: SharePoint Fest - Seattle, August 20-24, 2018 SharePoint Tech Con - Boston, August 26-29, 2018 Microsoft Ignite, September 24-28, 2018 Office and SharePoint LIVE! 360, December 2-7, 2018
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| 07 Feb 2023 | Templates, templates, templates | 01:00:50 | |
It's a templates world, from start to finish - if you want to finish on time. In this episode, we first chat with Cathy Dew, senior product manager on the SharePoint team, about the value and design of SharePoint templates, Microsoft 365 templates, Lists templates, and more. We then connect with two of our partners from Pointwork in Copenhagen, Denmark: Peter Larsen, their CTO, and Lars Kristensen, a Principal consultant; we drill down into the real-world use and adoption of templates + governance and hear how they help streamline your business in production. Read this episode's corresponding blog post. Plus, click here for transcript of this episode. 06:55 Conversation with Cathy Dew 26:15 Conversation with Pointwork 53:30 Upcoming Events Cathy Dew (Microsoft - Senior product manager) | LinkedIn | Twitter Peter Larsen (Pointwork - CTO) | LinkedIn | Twitter Lars Kristensen (Pointwork - Principal consultant) | LinkedIn | Twitter Pointwork | Website | LinkedIn | Twitter SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | Feedback Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host] Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Upcoming events: Collab365 | Three-hour Microsoft Lists workshop online with Mark Kashman | Feb.8.2023 Reimagine Education | Feb.9.2023 (online) WorkPlaceDudes Summit | Feb.24.2023 Holland Modern Workplace Conference 2023 | March.27-29.2023 Paris, France Culturati | Apr.2-3.2023 Austin, Texas Microsoft 365 Conference | May.2-4.2023 Las Vegas, Nevada CollabDays Poland | May.13.2023 Warsaw, Poland Technorama Belgium - the Jungle Edition | May.15-17 Kinepolis Antwerp Power Automate & Power Apps Developer Bootcamp Automation Summit 2023 | May.19-20.2023 London, Paddington CollabDays Italy | May.20.2023 Milan, Italy European Collaboration Summit | May.22-24.2023 Dusseldorf, Germany Listen and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts. Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone. | |||
| 16 Jul 2024 | Amped up on Amplify | 01:03:07 | |
This episode is like a gift to your future work "comms pro" personality. All the heartache of manual copy/pasting into various internal distribution channels will fade away. And what shines through? The ability to communicate like a pro with the broadest reach and impact for your internal news and campaigns - big or small. We talk with Liz Sundet (Senior Customer Experience program manager at Microsoft), a wonderful technologist and trainer focused on getting Microsoft customers prepared to use Microsoft Viva Amplify. You'll hear insights about the tech, best practices for internal comms, and insights into how customers use Amplify to, you guessed it, amplify their internal comms, with solid reporting intact.
Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post. Note: We now publish posts for our regular episodes to the Community News Desk blog. We will continue to publish 'SharePoint roadmap pitstop' episodes to the SharePoint community blog.
Liz Sundet | LinkedIn | Twitter SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint community blog | Feedback OneDrive | @OneDrive | OneDrive community blog | Feedback Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host]
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Upcoming events: Community Days - Chicago | July 20, 2024 | Chicago, IL, United States M365 NYC (Community Days) | July 26, 2024 | New York, NY, USA TechCon365 - DC | August 12-16, 2024 | Washington, D.C. CollabDays Hamburg | August 31, 2024 - Hamburg, Germany Microsoft Power Platform Conference | Sept. 18-20, 2024 | Las Vegas, NV CollabDays Portugal Porto 2024 (previously known as CollabDays Lisbon)| Sept. 21, 2024, Venue: Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto CollabDays - New England | Oct. 18, 2024 | Burlington, MA TechCon365 - Dallas | Nov. 11-15, 2024 | Dallas, TX Microsoft Ignite (+ more info) | Nov 18-22, 2024, "Save the date" | Chicago, IL European SharePoint Conference [ESPC] | Dec 2-5, 2024 | Stockholm, Sweden + always review and share the CommunityDays.org website
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| 01 Apr 2019 | SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop March 2019 | 00:25:50 | |
This month you'll learn about a number of things in Employee Engagement and Teamwork. These updates include new capabilities of organization news, page templates, Yammer, Planner, SharePoint Admin Center, sticky headers and more. We also talk with Rachel Lambert, program manager on the SharePoint engineering team about all things page templates. Be sure to listen for the teasers of what's rolling out soon in connected web parts and audience targeting. Running Time: 26min Show Intro [00:00:00:00] What’s New [00:00:45:00] Guest Perspective – Rachel Lambert and page templates [00:04:45:00] What’s New Part 2 [00:12:55:00] Show Wrap [00:24:45:00] Social and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook @MSSharePoint SharePoint Twitter @SharePoint Mark Kashman Twitter @mkashman Chris McNulty Twitter @cmcnulty2000 Resources: Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. https://docs.microsoft.com Stay on top of Office 365 changes Subscribe to The Intrazone: Show Page: https://aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| 08 Sep 2020 | Makers make magic | 01:09:48 | |
In this episode, Chris and Mark talk with Shane Young (Power Apps guru from PowerApps911) and Chris Kent (Office 365 Practice Lead at DMI) – *maker* magicians both – Shane, a Power Apps sorcerer, and Chris, a wizard of lists. Throughout the discussion, we learn how makers make, the approach to making, which tools, what techniques, and how you, too, can be a maker. Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post. Click here for a transcript of this episode. Resources and Info links: SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice Mark Kashman | Twitter [co-host] Chris McNulty | Twitter [co-host] Shane Young | LinkedIn | Twitter | PowerApps911 Chris Kent | LinkedIn | Twitter | DMI “The great migration of SharePoint Workflow to Power Automate” by John Liu Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Listen and subscribe to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Upcoming Events: GlobalCon3 [Sept. 8-11, 2020] Microsoft Ignite [Sept. 22-24, 2020]| @MS_Ignite Microsoft 365 Saturday - Gurgaon | Sept. 19, 2020 Subscribe to The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| 03 Dec 2019 | External Sharing is extra caring | 00:46:20 | |
This episode covers various levels of “extranet” to discover best practices when using and configuring Microsoft Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive for external collaboration. We speak to SharePoint tech expert, Christian Buckley – Founder and CEO of CollabTalk, Microsoft Regional Director and MVP. Christian talks through many solutions that allow for collaboration inside and outside of your organization, with a focus on which tools work the best in each scenario. And special guest Howard Kashman, Mark's dad, talks about his pre-Cloud-days perspective on “external sharing” as an attorney.
Running Time: 46:15 Show Intro [00:00] Topic of the Week – External Sharing [08:30] Guest Perspective – Christian Buckley [14:45] Upcoming Events [42:00] Resources and Show Wrap [45:05] Social and Info Links: Tech Community Episode BLOG post SharePoint Facebook | Twitter | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice OneDrive Facebook | Twitter | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice Christian Buckley | CollabTalk | @CollabTalk Resources: External sharing in Microsoft 365 – an IT admin guide (docs.microsoft.com) Create a secure guest sharing environment (docs.microsoft.com) File protection (incl. external sharing) solutions in Office 365 (PDF) Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Listen to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Subscribe to The Intrazone: Show Page: https://aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| 24 Mar 2020 | Crisis management and remote work | 00:38:25 | |
We are committed to helping organizations stay connected and productive. From COVID-19 to weather emergencies, our focus is the importance of establishing open lines of communication and information flow. Chris and Mark highlight three solutions - across Microsoft Teams, SharePoint and Power Apps - that help everyone stay briefed on the situation and any business impacts. Through crisis management and good planning, technology can help keep business continuity in a move to increased remote working. Social and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice OneDrive Facebook | @OneDrive | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice Microsoft Teams | Twitter | Blog | Training Power Apps | Twitter | Blog | Training Resources: Build a crisis management site to connect people and information Keeping employees informed and engaged during difficult times Working remotely during challenging times. A 'letter to customers' from Lily Zheng, director Microsoft China. Our (Microsoft) commitment to customers during Covid-19 Staying productive while working remotely with Microsoft Teams 4 Tips for working from home with Microsoft Teams Support remote workers using Microsoft Teams [admin] Instructor-led training for Microsoft Teams [admin] Crisis Communication: a Power Platform template [Power Apps] Keeping employees informed and engaged during difficult times [Yammer] Good Twitter feeds to broadly keep informed: @CDCemergency, @CDCgov, & @WHO. Plus a few related ‘how to build SharePoint sites’ videos:
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| 19 Mar 2024 | Ubisoft—Custom search supports game development | 00:59:13 | |
We chat with game developer Ubisoft about their use of custom Search in Microsoft 365. Franck Cornu, Mihaela Nite and Stephanie Daigle discuss their journey to update their old global search application - originally built on SharePoint Server 2013, now fully on SharePoint in Microsoft 365. Learn why they moved to the cloud, how they customized the Search experience in the cloud, plus tips and tricks for your consideration.
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09:15 Conversation with Franck Cornu, Mihaela Nite and Stephanie Daigle 51:34 Upcoming Events
Franck Cornu | LinkedIn [guest] Mihaela Nita | LinkedIn [guest] Stephanie Daigle | LinkedIn [guest] SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | Feedback Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host]
"Ubisoft journey with Microsoft Search" [use case whitepaper] "Build Microsoft Graph connected web sites for a custom enterprise search experience" Jan 18, 2024 | Frank Cornu on Microsoft 365 & Power Platform Development community call. Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes
Upcoming events: Enterprise Connect | March 25-28, 2024 | Gaylord Palms, Orlando, FL Microsoft Fabric Community Conference | March 26-28, 2024, in Las Vegas, NV SharePoint Embedded Developer Summit | March 26-27, Redmond, WA Special Planner event | April 3 at 10am PDT - sharing more about the New Planner AIIM | April 3-5, 2024, in San Antonio, TX North American Cloud & Collaboration Summit (NACS) | April 9-11, 2024, in Dallas, TX Microsoft 365 Community Conference | April 30 - May 2, 2024, in Orlando, FL European Cloud Summit | May 14-16,2024, in Wiesbaden, Germany) TechCon365 - Seattle | June 3-7, 2024, in Seattle, WA Microsoft Ignite (+ more info) | Nov 18-22, 2024, "Save the date," Chicago, IL European SharePoint Conference | Dec 2-5, 2024 in Stockholm, Sweden
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| 30 Nov 2022 | SharePoint roadmap pitstop: November 2022 | 00:24:23 | |
Gobble, gobble - time to gobble up all the updates that landed for SharePoint and related tech on the month of November 2022 - a load of great new offerings: Briefing email enhancements, a new praise compose experience, a new Viva admin experience, SharePoint tenant URL rename (GA), three new SharePoint site templates, updated management for site information, sign language via in Microsoft Teams, Editor using Context IQ in Word, and more. We also pulled audio from Cathy Dew, Senior product manager from the SharePoint team, to give share more behind the design and application of SharePoint site templates. It's a packed edition, minus the tryptophan. Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post. Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host] SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | Feedback Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Upcoming Events: ESPC22 (Nov.28 - Dec. 1, 2022 | in-person Copenhagen, Denmark, Bella Center) Microsoft 365 Conference (Dec.6-8.2022 | In-person Las Vegas, NV MGM Grand) Follow The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| 10 Nov 2020 | IT for the SMB | 00:56:48 | |
Chris and Mark talk with Jon Orton, Director of Microsoft 365 marketing focused on our small and medium business outreach. Throughout the discussion, we talk with Jon about the strains of COVID-19, offers from Microsoft to help ease change, and recent innovation for small and medium-sized businesses with up to 300 employees. Microsoft 365 Business is the IT for SMB, built to deliver the tools and security businesses need in a single, simple-to-manage product. The outcome, a means to run and grow business. Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post. Click here for a transcript of this episode. Resources and Info Links: SharePoint @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice Mark Kashman | Twitter [co-host] Chris McNulty | Twitter [co-host] Jon Orton | LinkedIn | Twitter | Small and medium business community [guest] Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Listen and subscribe to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts "What's New with Microsoft 365?" Subscribe to the show via the Microsoft 365 YouTube channel by going to aka.ms/SubscribeToM365. Upcoming Events: Microsoft 365 - Chicago (Nov.13.2020) Document Strategy Forum (Nov.9-10.2020) KMWorld 2020 (Nov.16-19.2020) Quest TEC 2020 (Nov.17-18.2020) GlobalCon4 (Dec.1-4.2020) CollabDays – Munich-Vienna (Dec.4.2020) Microsoft 365 Collaboration Conference - Virtual (Dec.9-11.2020) SharePoint Fest - Virtual Workshops (Nov.2020 – Jan.2021) Subscribe to The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| 13 Apr 2022 | Loop, there it is! | 00:54:49 | |
On this episode, we get loop'y with Microsoft Loop. We chat with Greg Howard -- Principal product manager for Microsoft Loop and Fluid Framework (Office Experience Organization at Microsoft). Greg takes us through what Loop is - including common use scenarios, how it adds value throughout Microsoft 365, what's out now (Loop components), behind-the-scenes integration work (OneDrive component storage), and insights into what comes next. It's gonna be a Loop-the-loop thrill ride! Hop on. Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post. Social and Info Links: Greg Howard | LinkedIn | Twitter [guest] Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host] SharePoint | @SharePoint | SharePoint community blog Resources: Main Microsoft Loop product page: https://aka.ms/Loop Announcement blog: "Microsoft Office—Transforming for the hybrid world" [scroll to the 'Introducing Microsoft Loop. Think, plan, create--together' segment] "Overview of Loop components in Teams" (doc.microsoft.com) Greg Howard on the February 2022 #MSLUG chat Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Upcoming Events: AIIM 2022 (Apr.27-29, Denver, CO) SEF 2022 (planned for in-person with a few sessions delivered virtually, May.4-5.2022, Sweden) Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon (May.4-6.2022 | Virtual) 365 EduCon - Seattle (May.9-12.2022, Seattle, WA) (use code: KASHMAN to save $100) Microsoft Build 2022 (May.24-26.2022 | Virtual) Follow The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| 30 Apr 2020 | SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop April 2020 | 00:31:41 | |
April 2020 brought modernized MMS, file card “conversations”, stock images, audience targeting in navigation, SharePoint spaces preview, Yammer app for Teams, and more. We talk with Graham Kent, senior program manager at Microsoft, who works on intelligent file card experiences across Microsoft 365 to discuss broader design strategy for how the on-hover experience works and the breadth of content and information that is dynamically pulled into view where you are working. Resources and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice
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| 29 Feb 2024 | SharePoint roadmap pitstop—February 2024 | 00:20:05 | |
Busy February - taking advantage of that extra day. We leap into everything that landed this past month: Copilot Dashboard for Viva Insights, SharePoint Premium: Translation (GA), Sample: Custom copilot in SharePoint with SSO, Signaling Viva Topics retirement (Feb 2025), Custom document library templates, Updated Lists apps: Sites/Teams/PWA, Copilot in Teams, Microsoft Clipchamp: Automatic captions, Teams: Hide General Channels, Initial Microsoft 365 apps on Apple visionOS, and more. To the roadmap!
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01:34 Employee engagement updates 08:02 Teamwork updates 11:20 Related items and March Teasers
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| 05 Oct 2022 | SharePoint roadmap pitstop: September 2022 | 00:41:06 | |
September brought some great new offerings: Cultural site template for Hispanic Heritage Month, Manage site access based on sensitivity label, Viva Learning cards for the Viva Connections Dashboard, New 'Activity' column in OneDrive, Granular Policies for OneDrive: Request Files, Quick Access to SharePoint document libraries in Office backstage, Schedule send for Teams chat, Video clips in Teams chat (Preview), new Stream mobile app (beta) - iOS and Android, improved Adobe PDF experience in Microsoft Teams, and more. Plus, we chat with Sesha Mani, Principal group product manager on the SharePoint team focused on all the goodness SharePoint and OneDrive IT Pros can do to manage and control their collaborative, content management environments. Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post. Sesha Mani | Twitter | LinkedIn [guest] Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host] SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice Resources: SharePoint and OneDrive Security "cookbook": https://aka.ms/sharepointsecuritycookbook Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Upcoming Events: Microsoft Ignite (Oct.12-14, 2022; virtual + SCC + six regional "spotlights") North American Cloud Summit (Oct.12-14; Branson, MO) South Coast Summit (Oct.14-15, 2022; Ageas Bowl, Southampton, UK) European SharePoint Conference (ESPC22 | Nov.28 - Dec.1 | Copenhagen, Denmark) Microsoft Lists workshop [now available on-demand]
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| 14 Aug 2024 | Microsoft 365 Backup—Veeam | 00:21:20 | |
Back up your data with confidence. Microsoft 365 Backup offers lightning-fast restorability, ensuring business continuity. On this episode, guest host, Brad Gussin from the SharePoint engineering team, provides an overview of the core offering. You'll then hear an interview with our valued partner, Karinne Bessette from Veeam, about the Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 solution.
Read this episode's corresponding blog post. Plus, click here for transcript of this episode.
Karinne Bessette | LinkedIn | @Veeam [guest] Brad Gussin | LinkedIn [co-host] Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | Feedback Learn more about Microsoft 365 Backup (adoption.microsoft.com) Learn more about Veeam's Microsoft 365 Backup solution "Microsoft Announces General Availability of Microsoft 365 Backup and Microsoft 365 Backup Storage" by Zach Rosenfield [July 31, 2024] Watch "The Ins and Outs of Microsoft 365 Backup & Archive" Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Upcoming events: TechCon365 - DC | Aug. 12-16, 2024 |Washington, DC CollabDays Hamburg | Hamburg, Germany | August 31, 2024 Microsoft Power Platform Conference | September 18-20, 2024 | Las Vegas, NV CollabDays Portugal Porto 2024 (previously CollabDays Lisbon)| Sept. 21 Venue: Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto CollabDays New England | October 18-19, 2024 | Burlington, Massachusetts TechCon365 - Dallas | Nov. 11-15, 2024 | Dallas, TX Microsoft Ignite (+ more info) | Nov 18-22, 2024 | Chicago, IL ESPC | European SharePoint Conference | Dec 2-5, 2024 | Stockholm, Sweden + always review and share the CommunityDays.org website
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| 08 Jan 2019 | Age of Contentment – ECM for Everyone | 01:16:01 | |
Enterprise Content Management (ECM) has evolved into powerful content services. In this episode, we talk about the shift in use of ECM solutions to content services and what it means for organizations today. Hear solutions, strategies, and thoughts on future technologies for records and content management for organizations small to large. Guests include Ian Story, PPM of OneDrive and SharePoint, and AIIM Board Chair, along with past AIIM president John Mancini, Forrester Principal Analyst Cheryl McKinnon, and Microsoft ecosystem partner Record Point.
Running Time: 1hr 16min Show Intro + Topic of the Week – ECM [00:00:00:00] Guest Perspective – Ian Story, Principal Program Manager, OneDrive and SharePoint [00:05:45:00] Guest Perspective – ECM and AIIM Roundtable with Ian Story, John Mancini, Cheryl McKinnon [00:23:30:00] Guest Perspective – Erica Toelle and Anthony Woodward, Record Point [00:39:30:00] FAQ [01:04:10:00] Upcoming Events [01:10:50:00] Show Wrap [01:14:30:00]
Social and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook @MSSharePoint SharePoint Twitter@SharePoint Mark Kashman Twitter @mkashman Chris McNulty Twitter @cmcnulty2000 Record Point Twitter @recordpoint Erica Toelle Twitter @ericatoelle Anthony Woodward Twitter @woodwa
Resources: Microsoft Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Record Point Blog Posts related to topics discussed in conversation Artificial Intelligence for Records Management
Upcoming Events: SPS Events and on Twitter @SPS_Events SharePoint Fest and on Twitter @SharePointFest SharePoint Conference North America, May 21-23, 2019 SPTechCon, Austin, TX, February 10-13, 2019 AIIM Conference, San Diego, CA, March 26-28, 2019
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| 11 Dec 2018 | SharePoint from the Canadian POV | 01:08:13 | |
This episode is brought to you by SharePoint Saturday Toronto where host Mark Kashman attended as keynote speaker and attendee. We talk with four leading Canadian SharePoint developers and consultants: Yana Berkovich, Vincent Biret, Kate Wilson and Sherman Woo. You'll hear their expertise and guidance on classic to modern migration, information architecture and taxonomy, Power BI, governance, and large-scale implementations of Microsoft Teams.
Running Time: 68min
Social and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook @MSSharePoint SharePoint Twitter@SharePoint Mark Kashman Twitter @mkashman Chris McNulty Twitter @cmcnulty2000 Kanwal Khipple, CEO & Founder of 2toLead, Twitter @kkhipple, Eric Riz, Founder & CEO of Empty Cubicle, Twitter @RIZinsights and @empty_cubicle, Yana Berkovich, Microsoft Data Platform MVP, Data Solution Enabler Vincent Biret Twitter @baywet, Office Development MVP, Azure and Office 365 Developer at 2toLead Kate Wilson Twitter KwilsonTO, Office 365 Consultant at 2toLead Sherman Woo Twitter @SPSherm, Microsoft Office 365 Collaboration Specialist at MEC™ Habanero Twitter @HabaneroConsult Creospark Twitter @creospark
Resources: SharePoint "Look Book" aka.ms/SharePointLookBook
Upcoming Events: SPS Events and on Twitter @SPS_Events SharePoint Fest and on Twitter @SharePointFest SharePoint Conference North America, May 21-23, 2019
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| 03 Oct 2024 | SharePoint roadmap pitstop September 2024 | 00:27:56 | |
September 2024 brought a few nice updates and some key disclosures—SharePoint Brand center, Copilot in OneDrive (GA), Copilot in SharePoint: Text web part, Microsoft 365 Copilot: Wave 2 news, Bing Generative Search news, Microsoft Delve retirement, Microsoft AI Tour Live updates, completion of the Microsoft Loop Learning Series, and more.
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00:59 Employee engagement 03:25 Teamwork 07:42 Related technology 25:18 Teasers
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Upcoming events: Oct. 8th at 10am PDT | Microsoft OneDrive: AI Innovations for a New Era of Work and Home Oct. 14-18 | ESPC - SharePoint week (Seven virtual webinars | Free) Oct. 16th at 8am PDT "Create and share Copilot agents in SharePoint in a few clicks" with CJ Tan and Karuana Gatimu; our next "Meet the Makers" episode. CollabDays New England | October 18-19, 2024 | Burlington, Massachusetts TechCon365 - Dallas | Nov. 11-15, 2024 | Dallas, TX Microsoft Ignite (+ more info) | Nov. 18-22, 2024 | Chicago, IL ESPC | European SharePoint Conference | Dec. 2-5, 2024 | Stockholm, Sweden + always review and share the CommunityDays.org website
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| 31 Jul 2020 | SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop July 2020 | 00:36:56 | |
July 2020 brought many new features: a New Employee Onboarding Hub, Hub permissions for visitors, SharePoint Migration Tool (SPMT) support for SharePoint Server 2019 (GA), Microsoft Lists, Quick Edit improvements, Add to OneDrive, and more. Plus, we talk with John Sanders, a principal program manager on the SharePoint team focused on all things pages and web parts. We discuss improvements for page navigation and the continued focus on accessibility throughout the intranet. Click here for transcript of this episode. Click here for the corresponding Roadmap July 2020 Blog. Resources and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice Mark Kashman |@mkashman [host] John Sanders | LinkedIn | Twitter [guest] Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Subscribe to The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone Listen and subscribe to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts | |||
| 01 Sep 2021 | SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop August 2021 | 00:31:37 | |
August 2021 brought lots of great SharePoint and related tech releases: Teams meeting recordings in SharePoint, SharePoint spaces text updates, SharePoint Store modernization, Lists for iOS updates, File cards in Office for Android, Universal print with OneDrive, Yammer Topics API changes, and more. We also chat with Vesa Juvonen, our SharePoint principal program manager focused on all things OneDrive and SharePoint development - and an excellent Microsoft 365 developer community lead. Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post and transcript. Resources: Vesa Juvonen | LinkedIn | Twitter [guest] Mark Kashman | Twitter | Kashbox Substack blog [host] SharePoint Twitter | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice "Explore and deploy SharePoint Framework solutions from partners in SharePoint (Microsoft 365)" blog post by Vesa Juvonen Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Microsoft Ignite (Nov.2-4.2021; digital event) - Save the date just announced Microsoft Lists workshop [available now on-demand] Follow The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts | |||
| 27 Nov 2018 | The Security and Compliance Blanket of Microsoft 365 | 01:08:26 | |
Today we discuss security, compliance, privacy and transparency from the ground up within the trusted, enterprise-grade protection matrix of Microsoft 365 (Office 365). As more trust shifts to the cloud, this episode brings insights from experts behind and in front of threat protection and cloud security: Bill Baer, Debraj Ghosh, and Matt Swann. Also in the mix are more of our favorite three-letter acronyms, such as DLP, DRM, ATP, AIP, and the notable four-letter GDPR. You'll also learn the tactics behind Microsoft's Red Team and Blue Team. TRT: 68min
Social and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook @MSSharePoint SharePoint Twitter@SharePoint Mark Kashman Twitter @mkashman Chris McNulty Twitter @cmcnulty2000 Bill Baer Twitter @williambaer Debraj Ghosh Twitter @DebrajG_78 Matt Swann Twitter @MSwannMSFT Resources: Office 365 Security & Compliance Center documentation Microsoft Security and Compliance Resource Center page "Safeguard your data" Describes how you can protect your company against external threats and links with built-in privacy and compliance tools. "Defending the cloud: a look behind the scenes on how we secure MS OneDrive and SharePoint (in Office 365)" [VIDEO: Matt Swann & Jeff McDowell present #THR4008 from #MSIgnite18] "Scaling Incident Response - 5 Keys to Successful Defense at Scale" [VIDEO: Matt Swann from BlueHat IL 2017] "Defending the cloud (SharePoint Online and OneDrive in Office 365)" [VIDEO: Matt Swann from BlueHat IL 2017] Microsoft Secure Blog Site Microsoft Security, Privacy and Compliance Blog Site Securing Office 365 Blog Site Goodyear case study Upcoming Events: SPS Events and on Twitter @SPS_Events SharePoint Fest Chicago December 4-7, 2018 Office and SharePoint LIVE! 360, December 2-7, 2018 European SharePoint Conference and on Twitter @EuropeanSP SharePoint Fest and on Twitter @SharePointFest SharePoint Conference North America, May 21-23, 2019 Subscribe to The Intrazone: Show Page: https://aka.ms/TheIntrazone
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| 21 Jul 2020 | A home for all your lists | 01:05:45 | |
Microsoft Lists is a go! We talk with Harini Saladi (PM Lists home and templates) and her peer, Lyndsey Gill (lead designer on both home and the new list creation experience) about making Lists intuitive, friendly and consistent across the various locations where you can create lists - from Lists home, from within Teams and SharePoint - all with a consistent user experience for creating and using lists. Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post. Click here for a transcript of this episode. Social and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice Mark Kashman |Twitter [co-host] Chris McNulty |Twitter [co-host] Harini Saladi | LinkedIn | Twitter [guest] Lyndsey Gill | LinkedIn [guest] Resources: Microsoft Lists begins general availability roll out to Microsoft 365 by Seth Patton, GM, Microsoft 365 Announcing Microsoft Lists - Your smart information tracking app in Microsoft 365 by Seth Patton, GM, Microsoft 365 Microsoft Lists resource center 15-minute Lists product demo by Miceile Barrett, Program Manager, Microsoft Lists [video] Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Listen and subscribe to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Upcoming Events: Microsoft Inspire (partner event) [July 21-22] GlobalCon3 [Sept.8-11.2020] Microsoft Ignite [Sept.2020]| @MS_Ignite Subscribe to The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| 12 Jun 2018 | The Desktop Diet | 01:10:27 | |
Mark and Chris take the 'desktop diet' challenge and talk about what it was like going desktop free - productive using only browser and mobile. Special guests include the people who help make a desktop diet experience achievable, Dan Costenaro and Mike Morton from the Office Online Engineering Team, discussing how they build Office Online for Firstline workers and how they bring Office to the cloud for everyone. Mark and Chris also talk with Jason Himmelstein from Rackspace. See photos of guests and read more about the episode on the SharePoint Tech Community Blog.
1. Show Intro 2. News & Announcements – 00:01:20:00 3. Topic of the Week + Guest Perspective with Office Online Engineering Team – 00:09:43:00 4. App / Best Practice of the Week – 00:46:07:00 5. Partner Highlight with Jason Himmelstein, Rackspace – 00:49:18:00 6. FAQs of the Week – 00:58:21:00 7. Upcoming Events – 01:03:47:00 8. How to Find Mark and Chris 9. Show Wrap / Outro
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND RESOURCES:
"Get started with Office Online in Office 365"
"All workers welcome with Microsoft 365." Empowering Firstline Workers in the digital age and the introduction of Microsoft 365 F1 — a new offering that brings together Office 365, Windows 10, and Enterprise Mobility + Security to deliver a complete, intelligent solution to empower all workers.
"Lowe's moves to the cloud to empower employees and personalize customer service." Case Study.
"VCA creates a welcoming environment and boosts innovation with Microsoft [with their WoofConnect intranet site]." Venice Boulevard Animal Hospital
"6 Challenges Of Empowering Firstline Workers, And How To Overcome Them." Forbes.
"A Helicopter on Mars? NASA wants to try." New York Times.
SharePoint Twitter @SharePoint Mark Kashman Twitter @mkashman Chris McNulty Twitter @cmcnulty2000 SPS Events Twitter @SPS_Events
Rackspace https://www.rackspace.com/ Jason Himmelstein Twitter @jasehimm Jason Himmelstein's Blog SharePoint Longhorn BIFocal podcast hosted by Jason Himmelstein and John White
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| 04 Jun 2024 | SharePoint roadmap pitstop May 2024 | 00:33:55 | |
Built & Build. May 2024 brought some great new offerings and insights on future ones: OneDrive file cards for Viva Connections dashboard, Updated file viewer for non-office file, Link files from SharePoint in Teams mobile, SharePoint: Advanced tenant rename, SharePoint + Stream: Video page templates, Teams + Loop workspaces in meetings, improved version history controls for SharePoint document libraries, Microsoft Graph API for SharePoint pages (GA), and more. Plus, we highlight some of the SharePoint and Teams (and Surface) news from Microsoft Build 2024. Read this episode's corresponding blog post.
02:22 Employee Engagement 07:14 Teamwork 12:43 Related Technologies 31:38 Teasers
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Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes
Upcoming events: TechCon365 - Seattle | June 3-7, 2024 | Seattle, WA EU Power Platform Conference | June 11-13, 2024 | Brussels, Belgium "Using Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Lists to improve your productivity" #Collab365 '2-hr workshop' TechCon365 - DC | August 12-16, 2024 | Washington, D.C. Power Platform Community Conference | Sept. 18-20, 2024 | Las Vegas, NV CollabDays - New England | Oct. 18, 2024 | Burlington, MA TechCon365 - Dallas | Nov. 11-15, 2024 | Dallas, TX Microsoft Ignite (+ more info) | Nov 18-22, 2024, "Save the date" | Chicago, IL European SharePoint Conference | Dec 2-5, 2024 | Stockholm, Sweden + always review and share the CommunityDays.org website
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| 10 Jan 2023 | Fast Fridays with Jeff Teper | 00:28:33 | |
We chat with Jeff Teper to dig into what he calls "Fast Friday" - his use of technology to record his thoughts about what he's up to each week - where he spends time, anecdotes on internal and external meetings, and things he's working on - big and small. Fast Fridays are about capturing thoughts, putting them together, and then getting them out there - and that it's OK to be scrappy, consistent, and engaged versus over-polished and less available. For Jeff, it's all about transparency, communication, and leadership - every week. You'll learn about his approach to leadership, why he creates and publishes his Fast Fridays, and the importance of Microsoft Teams and other tools for communications. Get ready to grab some Teper tidbits on The Intrazone. Read this episode's corresponding blog post. Plus, click here for a transcript of this episode. Jeff Teper | LinkedIn | Twitter SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host] Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Upcoming events: M365 Twin Cities | Jan.21.2023 Brooklyn Park, Minneapolis Culturati | Apr.2-3.2023 Austin, Texas Microsoft 365 Conference | May.2-4.2023 Las Vegas, Nevada CollabDays Poland | May.13.2023 Warsaw, Poland European Collaboration Summit | May.22-24.2023 Dusseldorf, Germany European Power Platform Conference | Jun.20-22 Dublin, Ireland European SharePoint Conference | Nov.27-30 Amsterdam, Netherlands Listen and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts. Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone. | |||
| 18 Jun 2019 | The essential SharePoint toolkit | 00:58:12 | |
The SharePoint toolkit supports numerous tech personas: developers, IT, and business folk alike. The Intrazone connected with experts across development and business while at SPC19. Joining Mark and Chris are Laura Kokkarinen, a senior developer at Sulava, and Vesa Juvonen, principal program manager at Microsoft. Together, they discussed the current state of Office development, SharePoint Framework and more. Later in the episode, Mark and Chris chat with Dux Raymond Sy, chief marketing officer at AvePoint, about his thoughts on SPC19 keynote announcements, what he's hearing from AvePoint customers, and his rock star speaker training for presenters. Running Time: 58min Show Intro [00:00:00:00] Topic of the Week – Developers, Partners and the SharePoint Framework Guest Perspective – Vesa Juvonen + Laura Kokkarinen [00:01:25:00] Guest Perspective – Dux Raymond Sy [00:32:35:00] Upcoming Events [00:52:15:00] Show Wrap [00:57:00:00] Social and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook| Twitter| SharePoint Community Blog Dux Raymond Sy| MeetDux| @meetdux Resources: Microsoft Docs- The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes "Cloud Governance for Office 365: Automate Office 365 provisioning, management, & lifecycle" "Shining Light on our Marketing Department: Dux Raymond Sy" "Our Local Community: What D&I Means at AvePoint" "Q&A: Supercharging Microsoft Teams with NEW SharePoint Features" "#MicrosoftTeams and #Office365 Groups: To Self-Serve or to NOT Self-Serve" "Public Speaking Excellence: How to be a #RockstarPresenter in five steps" Upcoming Events: SharePoint Saturdays| @SPS_Events SharePoint Fest, @SharePointFest, Seattle, WA, August 19-23, 2019 ESPC, European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference - Dec.2-5 (Prague, Czech Republic) Microsoft Ignite | The Tour(various cities worldwide) Subscribe to The Intrazone: Show Page: https://aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| 28 Feb 2020 | SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop February 2020 | 00:33:14 | |
We talk with Chakkaradeep (Chaks) Chinnakonda Chandran, a senior program manager at Microsoft. Recently, he and his team completed the additional compliance work to enable Power Apps and Power Automate for our government cloud customers (GCC); a capability our commercial customers have been using for a number of months now. We talk about both the scenarios this unlocks, plus the process of moving a feature through to the various Microsoft 365 customer offerings. Also in the show, SharePoint roadmap updates on employee engagement, teamwork, related tech and more. "Roadmap Pitstop: February 2020 Blog" on Tech Community Resources and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice OneDrive Facebook | @OneDrive | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice Chakkaradeep (Chaks) Chinnakonda Chandran | Twitter | Blog "Which Microsoft Office product is each Democratic presidential candidate?," The Verge Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Subscribe to The Intrazone: Listen to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Show Page: https://aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| 30 Jun 2022 | SharePoint roadmap pitstop June 2022 | 00:40:35 | |
June 2022 brought a lot of new tech to Microsoft 365 - lots of SharePoint and related tech goodness: Pride Month | LGBTQ+ Employee Resource Group site template, Viva Topics in Teams chat, inline playback of videos in Hero web part, updated site logo management, multilingual UI when editing team sites, rename Add to OneDrive Shortcuts, OneDrive: Pin and unpin shared libraries, Planner cards in team site activity feed, SPS'2013 Workflows migration assessment tool, Teams chat with self, and more. We also hear from Adam Ford from the OneDrive and SharePoint design team share insights about the focus on UX - especially in SharePoint pages and how they appear in Microsoft Teams. So, design some listening time for this episode of The Intrazone. Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post.
Adam Ford | LinkedIn | [guest] Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host] SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint community blog | Feedback Resources: "Create and use modern pages on a SharePoint site" (Microsoft support 'how to' article) Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Upcoming Events: Microsoft Inspire 2022 (Virtual) (July.19-20.2022) 365 EduCon - Dallas (Aug. 8-12, 2022) Microsoft Power Platform Conference (Sept.20-22.2022; Orlando, FL) European Cloud Summit (Sept.26-28.2022; Mainz, DE) 365 EduCon - Chicago (Sept.26-30.2022) Microsoft Lists workshop [now available on-demand] Follow The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| 16 Jul 2019 | The Desktop Diet Revisited | 00:39:48 | |
With summer comes travel. This week we revisit the Desktop Diet challenge and discuss both the benefits and limitations of using only browser and mobile. Special guests include the people who make a desktop diet experience achievable, Dan Costenaro and Mike Morton from the Office Online Engineering Team. Plus your one-stop information shop segments, FAQs and Upcoming Events. Running Time: 39:47 Show Intro [00:00] Topic of the Week – The Desktop Diet revisited Guest Perspective – Dan Costenaro and Mike Morton [7:25] FAQs [27:20] Upcoming Events [32:50] Show Wrap [38:40]
Social and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook | Twitter | SharePoint Community Blog
Resources: Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Get started with Office Online in Office 365 Taligent, software development Top 5 benefits of the OneDrive mobile app "Microsoft wants to start marketing Microsoft 365 as a single product in its new fiscal year," ZDNet "All workers welcome with Microsoft 365." Empowering Firstline Workers in the digital age w5th Microsoft 365 F1 "How Microsoft’s Fluid Framework flows," VentureBeat
Upcoming Events: SharePoint Saturdays | @SPS_Events SharePoint Fest, @SharePointFest, August 19-23, Seattle, WA SPTechCon, August 25-28, Boston, MA ESPC, European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference - December 2-5, Prague, Czech Republic Microsoft Ignite | The Tour (various cities worldwide) The Experts Conference (TEC) by Quest, August 27-28, Charleston, South Carolina
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| 02 Aug 2021 | SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop July 2021 | 00:27:13 | |
Get ready to boost your July 2021 memory bank! Lots of great SharePoint and related tech releases this past month: News boost, collapsible page sections, edit pages and news in Teams, custom list templates, suggested attachments in Planner, SharePoint Server Subscription Edition (preview), 'post on-behalf' in Yammer, and more. We also hear from Nancy Handa, our SharePoint program manager focused on pages and news innovations - including work that brings them to life in Microsoft Teams. Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post and transcript. Resources: Nancy Handa | LinkedIn | Twitter [guest] Mark Kashman | Twitter | Kashbox Substack blog [host] SharePoint Twitter | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice "Edit a SharePoint page or news post in Microsoft Teams" blog post by Nancy Handa Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Events North American Collaboration Summit (Aug.9-11.2021) [hybrid; Branson, MI and online] Commsverse (Sept.15-16.2021); a Microsoft Teams Community Event) [hybrid: UK - in-person and online] SharePoint Fest DC + dedicated 'Teams Fest' track (Sept.20-24.2021) [in-person] HR Tech Conference 2021 (Sept.28-Oct.1.2021) [in-person] Microsoft Lists workshop [available now on-demand]
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| 01 Apr 2024 | SharePoint roadmap pitstop—March 2024 | 00:25:40 | |
Here's what landed in March 2024 | SharePoint: New section backgrounds, Answers in Viva content in Microsoft Search, SharePoint Premium: Enable/disable Unstructured, Structured, and Prebuilt Document Processing, Manage SharePoint Embedded containers, Microsoft Lists: New forms experience, New Planner app in Teams (Public Preview), OneDrive: Create with templates, Microsoft Viva Goals: New URL domain, and more. To the roadmap!
Read this episode's corresponding blog post.
05:13 Employee engagement updates 11:32 Teamwork updates 20:05 Related items and April Teasers
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Upcoming events: April 3, 2024, New Planner "Meet the Makers" (online) April 4, 2024, New Planner AMA (online) Microsoft 365 Community Conference | Orlando, FL, April 28 - May 4, 2024 Microsoft Ignite | Chicago, IL, Nov,18-22, 2024, a 360-degree tour of McCormick Place
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| 03 Apr 2023 | SharePoint roadmap pitstop: March 2023 | 00:46:36 | |
March 2023 brought both new updates and big announcements. In this episode, we cover: File web part now: “File and Media”, Viva Connections on iPad, Microsoft Edge + Adobe Acrobat PDF Engine, Microsoft Lists + Approvals app in Teams, OneDrive: Favorite/Unfavorite, Suggested files in 1:1 chat, Microsoft Word: Send to Kindle, and more. Plus, we have two guests: 1) Matt McKenzie, Director of Microsoft 365 product marketing, shares insights about the upcoming Microsoft 365 Conference in Vegas (May 2-3), and 2) Sudha Narayanan explains how Microsoft Lists supports approval scenarios natively within info tracking incorporating the Approvals app in Teams. Our related tech segment highlights three big disclosures: 1) Microsoft 365 Copilot, 2) the Loop app (Public Preview), and the New Teams app (Public Preview); #Speed. Read this episode's corresponding blog post. Click here for transcript of this episode. 1:46 Conversation with Matt McKenzie 12:09 Employee engagement updates 18:43 Conversation with Sudha Narayanan 33:18 Teamwork updates 37:15 Related tech + Teasers
Matt McKenzie | LinkedIn | Twitter Sudha Narayanan | LinkedIn Microsoft 365 Conference (May 2-4, 2023) | Website | Twitter | Register SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | Feedback Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host] Resources: Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Upcoming events: Adobe Summit 2023 (Past | keynote and breakout sessions now on-demand) Microsoft Viva Summit | April.20.2023 Online Microsoft 365 Conference | May.2-4.2023 Las Vegas, Nevada CollabDays Poland | May.13.2023 Warsaw, Poland Power Automate & Power Apps Developer Bootcamp Automation Summit 2023 | May.19-20.2023 London, Paddington European Collaboration Summit | May.22-24.2023 Düsseldorf Fair, Germany Microsoft Build 2023 | May 23-25, 2023. Register now. The AIIM Conference 2023 | May.25-27.2023 Hyatt Regency, New Orleans CollabDays Netherlands | June.10.2023 Vianen, Utrecht 365 EduCon - DC | June.12-16 Washington D.C. - USA
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| 16 Apr 2019 | Crawl, Walk, Run to the Cloud | 01:07:47 | |
In this episode we examine what customers do when they first move to the cloud, and review steps to compliment that move with search best practices and backup technologies. We hear firsthand from customer Love's Travel Stops & County Stores their ongoing process moving from on premises to the cloud. And Matt McDermott from Spanning Cloud Apps talks in depth about cloud data backup, protection, the 93-day recycle bin limit and retention policies. Running Time: 67min Show Intro [00:00:00:00] Topic of the Week – Early Cloud Adoption Guest Perspective with Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores [00:13:50:00] Guest Perspective with Matt McDermott Upcoming Events [00:55:15:00] FAQs Roundtable [00:58:35:00] Show Wrap [01:06:10:00] Social and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook @MSSharePoint SharePoint Twitter @SharePoint Mark Kashman Twitter @mkashman Chris McNulty Twitter @cmcnulty2000 Matt McDermott, Spanning Cloud Apps, principal technical marketing engineer Web | Twitter | LinkedIn Daryl Bowdoin, Manager of Business Systems, Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores – @LovesTravelStop | website | LinkedIn Marrell Sanders, Senior AppDev Administrator, Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores – @TechRevMarrell | @LovesTravelStop | website | LinkedIn Resources: 2018 Cost of a Data Breach Study by Ponemon Institute "Overview of retention policies" "Restore items in the Recycle Bin of a SharePoint site" Upcoming Events: SPS Events, Twitter @SPS_Events
SharePoint Fest, Washington, D.C., April 29 - May 3, @SharePointFest Microsoft Build 2019, Seattle, WA, May 6-8, SharePoint Conference North America, Las Vegas, NV, May 21-23, European Collaboration Summit, Wiesbaden, Germany, May 27-29 Microsoft Ignite | The Tour (various cities worldwide) Microsoft Business Applications Summit, Atlanta, GA, June 10-11 ESPC, European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference - Dec.2-5 (Prague, Czech Republic) Subscribe to The Intrazone: Show Page: https://aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| 22 Sep 2020 | Ignite news with Omar Shahine | 00:57:42 | |
Microsoft Ignite 2020 is upon us. We’ve got a front-row seat with Omar Shahine, VP of OneDrive and SharePoint Program Management. Omar discusses the recent back-to-school surge, Ignite updates for Project Cortex, Microsoft Lists, Microsoft Stream, new SharePoint innovation in Microsoft Teams, the Leadership Connection site offering, OneDrive sync reports, and more. We round it all off hearing how he and his team take an overall design approach that best provides for consumers in the commercial space. Lots of news. Lots of insights. Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post. Click here for a transcript of this episode. Resources and Info links: SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice Mark Kashman | Twitter [co-host] Chris McNulty | Twitter [co-host] Omar Shahine | LinkedIn | Twitter BLOG | "Microsoft Ignite announcements across Project Cortex, SharePoint, OneDrive, Microsoft Teams and more" by Jeff Teper. SESSION (on-demand soon) | [#MSIgnite 9/22/20 #DB158]: "Enabling collaboration, communication, and knowledge sharing with Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Project Cortex, and more" OmarKnows blog post "How are you doing?" Project Cortex and Cortex Ignite 2020 announcements Microsoft Lists and Lists Ignite 2020 announcements SharePoint education (EDU) templates Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Listen and subscribe to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Upcoming Events: Microsoft Ignite 2020 (Sept.22-24, 2020; aka, now) + the Adoption Center: Virtual Hub Teamsfest (Oct.7, 2020) European SharePoint Conference Online (Oct.14-16, 2020) GlobalCon4 (Dec.1-4, 2020) Subscribe to The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| 20 Oct 2020 | Partner Edition: Rightpoint with customer Grant Thornton | 00:48:33 | |
Mark and Chris talk with Microsoft partner Mark and Chris talk with Microsoft partner Rightpoint, along with Rightpoint customer, Grant Thornton. You'll hear about various successes resulting from numerous integration points across the Microsoft 365 suite. With SharePoint as their intranet base, Grant Thornton uses the Power Platform, Stream, Yammer and Power BI – along with programmatic approach to custom development and governance. Grant Thornton helped establish their modern intranet as a home for everything people need in the day-to-day when working with their peers and various communities of practice. Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post. Click here for transcript of this episode. Resources and Info Links: SharePoint | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice OneDrive | @OneDrive | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice Jesse Murray | Twitter | LinkedIn Doug Kalish | Twitter | LinkedIn Grant Thornton wins Knowledge Management award, "APQC Announces Inaugural Excellence in Knowledge Management Award; Names 13 Winning Organizations" Rightpoint on "Employee experience" Rightpoint on "Project Cortex" Grant Thornton LLP Case Study with Rightpoint SharePoint Fest Virtual Workshops (ongoing) Collaboration Summit's Learning Day (Oct.26.2020) and Networking Day [in VR] (Oct.27.2020) Collab365 GlobalCon4 | Twitter Microsoft 365 Content Services Partner Program Project Cortex aka.ms/projectcortex Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Subscribe to The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone Listen and subscribe to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts | |||
| 25 Aug 2021 | Implementing Microsoft Viva | 01:17:40 | |
It's time to go beyond what Microsoft Viva is, and move into implementation, deployment, and adoption. We've got a terrific "knowledge roundtable" discussion with four Microsoft MVPs: Dux Raymond Sy about Viva Connections, Susan Hanley about Viva Topics, Asif Rehmani about Viva Learning, and Robert Mulsow on Viva Insights. This episode is filled with great tips, tricks, and challenges when configuring and rolling it out Viva for your company and colleagues. Click here for this episode's companion blog post and links. 00:00 Intro 09:00 Roundtable 01:13:00 Events People: Dux Raymond Sy | LinkedIn | Twitter | AvePoint [guest] Susan Hanley | LinkedIn | Twitter | SusanHanley.com [guest] Asif Rehmani | LinkedIn | Twitter | VisualSP [guest] Robert Mulsow | LinkedIn | Twitter | SkillBridge [guest] Mark Kashman | Twitter [co-host] Chris McNulty | Twitter [co-host] Resources: SharePoint | @SharePoint | SharePoint community blog Microsoft Viva | #MSFTViva | LinkedIn | Site | Blog The Intrazone episode with Microsoft CVP, Jared Spataro: "Viva Las Microsoft" aka, the Viva 101 podcast. Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Events: Commsverse (Sept.15-16.2021); a Microsoft Teams Community Event) [hybrid: UK - in-person and online] SharePoint Fest DC + dedicated 'Teams Fest' track (Sept.20-24.2021) [in-person] HR Tech Conference 2021 (Sept.28-Oct.1.2021) [in-person] CollabDays New England (Oct.9.2021) [in-person] Jeff Teper kicking it off + Chris McNulty live. Check out Jeff Teper's related t-shirt tweet SharePoint Fest Dallas (Oct.11-15.2021) [in-person] - co-keynote (Chris & Mark) Microsoft Ignite (Nov.2-4.2021; digital event) Microsoft Lists workshop [available now on-demand] Follow The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone, and discover other Microsoft podcasts: aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts | |||
| 19 Sep 2023 | Communities in the enterprise | 00:46:21 | |
On today's episode, we chat Amy Dolzine, Microsoft alliance relationship director for the Americas at EY, based out of Cleveland, Ohio. We talk about some of the foundational "community" elements of Yammer, where Amy started her journey as an SME for planning and designing communities within the enterprise - what in the early days was referred to as "the social enterprise." We quickly got into the value and status quo of the evolvement into Viva Engage and some of the related tech around the corner that provides additional internal communications levers - Viva Amplify.
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07:19 Conversation with Amy Dolzine 38:13 Upcoming Events
Amy Dolzine | LinkedIn | X/Twitter [guest] SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | Feedback Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host]
Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes
Upcoming events: OneDrive event, "The Future of File Management" | Oct.3.2023 at 10am PT (online) Microsoft Power Platform Conference | Oct.3-5.2023 (Las Vegas) CollabDays New England | Oct.5.2023 (Burlington, MA) ARMA InfoCon | Oct 9-11, 2023 (Detroit, MI) ShiftHAPPENS | Oct 10-11, 2023 (Washington DC) 365 EduCon - Chicago | Oct.30 - Nov.4, 2023 (Chicago, IL) Community Days - Mexico City | Nov.2.2023 (HOTEL GALERÍA PLAZA REFORMA) Microsoft Ignite | Nov. 14-17, 2023 (Hybrid: Seattle, WA and online) European SharePoint Conference | Nov.27-30 in (Amsterdam, Netherlands) European Cloud Summit | Dec.4-6.2023 (Wiesbaden, Germany)
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| 16 May 2019 | Accessibility from the Start | 01:14:47 | |
'Accessibility from the start' means SharePoint, OneDrive and other Microsoft 365 apps aspire to "represent the voice of people with disabilities" throughout planning, development, design, testing and into production with continuous feedback. It's something that must be built into every product Microsoft makes so that our offerings are inclusive for everyone. In this episode, we hear from three accessibility experts: Megan Lawrence, PhD (senior technical evangelist - Microsoft), Eli Waalkes (senior program manager - SharePoint) and Lauren Back (usability engineering from HCL Technologies). Enjoy the show! Running Time: 75min Show Intro [00:00:00:00] Topic of the Week – Accessibility Guest Perspective – Megan Lawrence [00:05:45:00] Guest Perspective – Eli Waalkes [00:28:15:00] Guest Perspective – Lauren Back [00:45:00:00] Upcoming Events [01:06:05:00] FAQs Roundtable [01:07:55:00] Show Wrap [01:13:20:00] Social and Info Links: SharePoint @SharePoint Mark Kashman @mkashman Chris McNulty @cmcnulty2000 Eli Waalkes LinkedIn | Twitter Megan Lawrence LinkedIn | Twitter Lauren Back LinkedIn | HCL Technologies Microsoft Accessibility @MSFTEnable Resources: Microsoft Accessibility Blog - Making technology easier to see, hear and use! Microsoft Accessibility Features spotlight Sway "Hearing is Believing – Researchers’ innovation provides a richer web-browsing experience for people who are blind" GAAD | Facebook | Twitter May 1,6 2019 and marks the eighth Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). The purpose of GAAD is to get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital (web, software, mobile, etc.) access/inclusion and people with different disabilities. Office: Accessibility Checker, Live captioning in Teams & PowerPoint, Immersive Reader in Edge & Office apps, working with screen readers (ref: "An inclusive Office 365") Enable(ing) people to do more with Dr. Rico Malvar (Microsoft Research podcast) Accessibility Learning Webinar Series Windows 10 accessibility features empower everyone (video w/audio description) Microsoft Accessibility Standards (MAS) Microsoft Accessibility Site |Twitter | YouTube Autism Acceptance Month Site | Twitter | Facebook BrailleNote Touch "Still Tomorrow" (film) A rural poet becomes a sudden star in China, whose writings ponder life, love and pain. Ed Roberts, the Disability Rights Movement and the ADA virtual exhibit by the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) "The Grown-Ups" (film) In a school for individuals with Down Syndrome, four middle-aged friends yearn for a life of greater autonomy in a society that marginalizes them as disabled. Upcoming Events: SharePoint Fest @SharePointFest SharePoint Conference North America, May 21-23, Las Vegas, NV European Collaboration Summit, Wiesbaden, Germany, May 27-29, 2019 Microsoft Ignite | The Tour (various cities worldwide) Microsoft Business Applications Summit, Atlanta, GA, June 10-11, 2019 ESPC, European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference - Dec.2-5 (Prague, Czech Republic) CSUN Assistive Technology Conference - March 9-13, 2020, Anaheim, CA Subscribe to The Intrazone: Show Page: https://aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| 31 Dec 2019 | SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop December 2019 | 00:27:10 | |
This month on The Intrazone Microsoft 365 Roadmap Pitstop, we talk with Kaarin Shumate, senior content developer, who focuses on the strategy and management of SharePoint help documentation, UX writing to ensure accessibility for the global IT SharePoint admin community – on-premises and in Microsoft 365. Also in the show, roadmap updates plus a few predictions of what's to come in 2020. And a special treat for all, "Up on the Cloud Top" written and performed by Mark, Eli and Sophie Kashman. Running Time: 27min Resources and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook | Twitter | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice OneDrive Facebook | Twitter | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Listen to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Subscribe to The Intrazone: Show Page: https://aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| 31 Oct 2024 | SharePoint roadmap pitstop October 2024 | 00:32:42 | |
October 2024 brought a few spooky and exciting updates - no bones about it (ok, a skull or two, maybe): Copilot agents in SharePoint, Clipchamp for Microsoft 365 E3 and E5, Copilot in Viva Amplify, SharePoint eSignature: Adobe Acrobat Sign and Docusign integration, SharePoint: Design Ideas, Microsoft Lists: Add approvals to any list, Copilot agents in OneDrive (announced), Colorful folders in Windows File Explorer, SharePoint list and library rules will now send notifications from the no-reply@sharepointonline.com email address, New Planner for the Web and more. Plus, audio snippets from the OneDrive October 8th event, a new tech song for SharePoint Advanced Management, and a visit from Count Dracula 365.
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01:43 Employee engagement 11:32 Teamwork 23:44 Related technology 28:35 Teasers 31:00 "SAM Copiloting Securely" by Dustin Willard
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Upcoming events: Microsoft AI Tour | Ongoing, free, one-day events around the world. Up next: Hilversum (Nov.4), Casablanca (Nov.27), Bern (Nov.28), Warsaw (Nov.28), Toronto (Dec.3) and more to close out 2024 and continuing into 2025. TechCon365 - Dallas | Nov. 11-15, 2024 | Dallas, TX Microsoft Ignite (+ more info) | Nov 18-22, 2024 | Chicago, IL ESPC | European SharePoint Conference | Dec 2-5, 2024 | Stockholm, Sweden CollabCon 2024 + CollabCruise | Dec. 12, 2024 | Orlando, FL [CollabCruise Dec.13-16 on the brand new Royal Caribbean Utopia of the Seas] And always review and share the CommunityDays.org website to find your next event.
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| 04 Sep 2018 | Behind the Keynote with Dan Holme at SP Fest Seattle | 00:46:42 | |
Join in the Fest'ivities. SharePoint Fest Seattle's keynote Speaker, Dan Holme, joins Mark and Chris to discuss what he shared with attendees – an update on collaboration, communication and engagement in the modern workplace. Dan shares key elements of the SharePoint, OneDrive, Yammer, Stream and Teams roadmaps, and the broad vision for teamwork in Microsoft 365. Also, SharePoint consultant, MVP, business analyst, baker and musician Liz Sundet joined in the discussion and has some exciting breaking news of her own to share for the first time through The Intrazone. See photos of guests and read more about the episode on the SharePoint Tech Community Blog.
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Upcoming Events: Microsoft Ignite, September 24-28, 2018 Office and SharePoint LIVE! 360, December 2-7, 2018
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| 14 Nov 2018 | Microsoft trusted advisors at your fingertips | 01:21:22 | |
This week we focus on what it means to work with Microsoft and our partners throughout your technology journey. Hear from several customer-facing Microsoft roles about the on-going value you can expect from working with them. Technology Solutions Professional (TSP) Lori Gowin gives beneficial advice to future Microsoft customers. Chris Bortlik and Paul Summers, architects from the Boston Microsoft Technology Center (MTC), describe how they design visual proof-of-concepts and do live hackathons of real business challenges for customers throughout the year. Also, our new segment, "Try This" - an audible "how to" within SharePoint in Office 365. TRT: 1hr 21min
Primary resources and social: SharePoint Facebook @MSSharePoint SharePoint Twitter@SharePoint Mark Kashman Twitter @mkashman Chris McNulty Twitter @cmcnulty2000 Bill Baer Twitter @williambaer European SharePoint Twitter @EuropeanSP SharePoint Fest Twitter @SharePointFest Chris Bortlik on Twitter cbortlik, Technet Blog Paul Summers on Twitter Lori Gowin, on Twitter lorigowin
Articles: Article: "Build your modern intranet on SharePoint in Office 365" Microsoft FastTrack ["Request Assistance for Office 365" form] Productivity Library [numerous supported scenarios] Microsoft Technology Center (MTC) worldwide locations
Upcoming Events: SPS Events Twitter @SPS_Events European SharePoint Conference (ESPC; Copenhagen, Denmark Nov.26-29, 2018) SharePoint Fest Chicago (Dec.4-7.2018) Office and SharePoint LIVE! 360, December 2-7, 2018
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| 20 Dec 2021 | Reemergence of in-person events | 00:21:37 | |
This is a retrospective perspective episode based on three recent in-person tech events: 1) The European Collaboration Summit in Düsseldorf, Germany, 2) the Microsoft 365 Collaboration Conference in Vegas, and 3) 365 EduCon event in DC (formerly SharePoint Fest). We hear from Spencer Harbar (one of the EU Collab Summit leads), and Mark shares both first- and third-person thoughts on seeing others face-to-face to share and listen. Oh, to roam the conference halls, coffee chats, solution building in the expo with partners - plus a little SWAG. Explore the tactical notion of once again meeting others, training others, and getting feedback with smiles "in person" - after 2+ years. This episode is a glimpse into recent stirrings of the best community in tech. Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post. SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | Feedback Mark Kashman | @mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty | @cmcnulty2000 [co-host] Spencer Harbar | LinkedIn | Twitter [guest] Highlighted events: European Collaboration Summit (Nov.29 - Oct. 1.2021; in Dusseldorf, Germany) Microsoft 365 Collaboration Conference - Vegas (Dec.7-9.2021; Las Vegas, NV (MGM Grand)) 365 EduCon - DC (formerly SP Fest) (Dec.12-16.2021; Washington D.C., US (Walter E Washington Convention Center)) Resources: Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Listen and subscribe to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Planned in-person events in 2022: Microsoft 365 Conference (again in Vegas Apr.5-7.2022) 365 EduCon - Seattle (May.9-12.2022) 365 EduCon - Dallas (formerly SP Fest) (Aug.8-12.2022) European Cloud Summit in Mainz, DE (Sept.22-28.2022) 365 EduCon - Chicago (Sept.26-30.2022) North American Collaboration Summit in Branson, MO (Oct.12-14.2022) European SharePoint Conference 2022 returns live and in-person in Copenhagen (Nov.28-Dec.1.2022) Listen to and follow The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| 01 Mar 2021 | SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop February 2021 | 00:40:12 | |
February 2021 brought some great new offerings: Microsoft Viva Topics (GA), SharePoint web part toolbox updates, Lightbox for images, Quick Links web part audience targeting, SharePoint portal launcher scheduler, Microsoft Lists: Number column updates, the Managed Metadata column, Microsoft Search in classic SharePoint sites, and more. We chat with Naomi Moneypenny, principal PM manager at Microsoft focused on building new capabilities in advanced content, knowledge, and search experiences in Microsoft 365. You'll learn about the challenges of harnessing knowledge in the enterprise, the tech behind Viva Topics, and a future glimpse of what’s to come next from she and the Project Cortex team. Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post. Resources: SharePoint Twitter | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice Mark Kashman | Twitter [host] Naomi Moneypenny | LinkedIn | Twitter [guest] Pre-Ignite 2021 [Spring] guide [Blog] Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Subscribe to The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone Listen and subscribe to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts | |||
| 20 Apr 2022 | Optimizing SharePoint performance | 00:45:38 | |
On this episode, we break the sound barrier with Shyam Narayan (Principal Group Product Manager | Microsoft (SharePoint)) about optimizing SharePoint performance. It's all about scale, speed, and reliability of the SharePoint service in Microsoft 365, from page load times to file open/upload/download, and "not waiting for sync." We focused our discussion on all the recent service tweaks and innovations he and team have done to optimize the SharePoint content services platform. Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post. Social and Info Links: Shyam Narayan | LinkedIn | Twitter [guest] Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host] SharePoint | @SharePoint | SharePoint community blog | Provide feedback Resources: "Optimizing SharePoint performance in Microsoft 365" [blog] Network planning and performance tuning for Microsoft 365 [documentation] Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Discover and subscribe to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Upcoming Events: AIIM 2022 (Apr.27-29, Denver, CO) SEF 2022 (planned for in-person with a few sessions delivered virtually, May.4-5.2022, Sweden) Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon (May.4-6.2022 | Virtual) Microsoft Tech Days (For developers | May 5th, 13:30-15:30 BST) 365 EduCon - Seattle (May.9-12.2022, Seattle, WA) (use code: KASHMAN to save $100) Microsoft Build 2022 (May.24-26.2022 | Virtual)
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| 04 Jun 2019 | Does SharePoint bring you joy? | 00:45:30 | |
Live from SharePoint Conference 2019! The Intrazone goes live in Las Vegas at SPC19. Joining Mark and Chris are panelists Sue Hanley, Dave Feldman of Takeda, and Kerry Lambert of National Instruments, to discuss the evolution of SharePoint, key announcements from the conference, broad use adoption of Microsoft 365, as well as tips for success for IT pros, developers, admins and users - including the very important question: does SharePoint bring you joy? And later in the episode, the panel takes questions from the audience around GCC, best practices, governance, compliance, advice for Microsoft and more. Running Time: 45min Show Intro [00:00] Topic of the Week – SharePoint Conference 2019 Guest Perspective Panelists - Sue Hanley, Dave Feldman, Kerry Lambert [01:36] FAQ Round Table [23:05] Audience Questions for the Panel [30:10] Show Wrap [44:20]
Social and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook @MSSharePoint SharePoint @SharePoint Mark Kashman @mkashman Chris McNulty @cmcnulty2000 Jeff Teper @jeffteper Sue Hanley @susanhanley
Resources: Jeff Teper's SPC19 announcements blog "New SharePoint home sites headline Microsoft 365 innovations for the intelligent workplace" View the SharePoint 2019 keynote on-demand
Upcoming Events: SharePoint Fest, @SharePointFest Microsoft Ignite | The Tour (various cities worldwide) Microsoft Business Applications Summit, Atlanta, GA, June 10-11, 2019 ESPC, European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference - Dec.2-5 (Prague, Czech Republic)
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| 30 Jun 2021 | SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop June 2021 | 00:32:39 | |
June 2021 brought some great new offerings: SharePoint Auto News Digest updates, SharePoint admin center updates (dashboard and new site information columns), Microsoft Lists - @mentions in comments, Power Apps can now display images from Microsoft Lists, Delete from within page details, Headspace mindfulness content comes to Microsoft Viva Insights, and more. We also hear from Rk Menon, program manager on the SharePoint team focused on the SharePoint admin center experience and capabilities in Microsoft 365. Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post and transcript. Resources: Rk Menon | LinkedIn [guest] Mark Kashman | Twitter | Kashbox Substack blog [host] SharePoint Twitter | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice SharePoint admin center (primary Help content) Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Events: Inspire 2021 (July 14-15, 2021) [virtual] SharePoint Fest Chicago (July 26-30, 2021) Microsoft Lists workshop (on-demand) Follow The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts | |||
| 20 Mar 2023 | Topics is Engaged | 00:27:35 | |
Viva Topics in Engage doubles the impact and access of your knowledge at your fingertips - and how you pay it forward to others. On today's episode, we hear from Raj Jain (Principal product manager at Microsoft) about all things topical about Viva Topics, specifically - the role of Viva Topics within your Viva Engage community discussions, questions, and announcements posts. The real value gives you a built-in knowledge management system that balances and refines the length of your internal communications without sacrificing the depth you pay forward to each person that reads your comm. Two Viva apps, one great outcome. Read this episode's corresponding blog post. Plus, click here for transcript of this episode. 05:35 Conversation with Raj Jain 19:08 Upcoming Events Raj Jain | (Principal Product Manager - Viva Engage and Answers team) [guest] Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host] Viva Topics | Website | Viva adoption center | @MicrosoftViva Viva Engage | Website | Viva adoption center | @MicrosoftViva SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint community blog | Feedback Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Upcoming events: Modern Workplace Conference 2023 | March.27-29.2023 Paris, France Microsoft Secure | March.28.2023 Online Microsoft Viva Summit | April.20.2023 Online Microsoft 365 Conference | May.2-4.2023 Las Vegas, Nevada CollabDays Poland | May.13.2023 Warsaw, Poland Power Automate & Power Apps Developer Bootcamp Automation Summit 2023 | May.19-20.2023 London, Paddington European Collaboration Summit | May.22-24.2023 Düsseldorf Fair, Germany Microsoft Build 2023 | May 23-25, 2023. Register now. The AIIM Conference 2023 | May.25-27.2023 Hyatt Regency, New Orleans
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| 30 Oct 2020 | SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop October 2020 | 00:24:21 | |
In the spirit of Halloween, the Ghost of Roadmap Past shall be your guide – helping you to avoid becoming a Roadmap Scrooge. October 2020 brought some great new offerings: SharePoint Syntex, Organization Chart web part, new IT controls for Microsoft Lists, Microsoft Lists – commenting, OneDrive widget for iPhone, Task in Teams GA, and more. Warning: this episode is “ghostly-spirited" at times – all to help answer, "What rolled out to SharePoint and related technologies in Microsoft 365 during October 2020?" Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post. Click here for transcript of this episode. Resource and Info Links: SharePoint @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice Mark Kashman | Twitter [host] Harsh Agarwal | LinkedIn [guest] Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Subscribe to The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone Listen and subscribe to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts | |||
| 31 Jul 2024 | SharePoint roadmap pitstop July 2024 | 00:37:09 | |
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Live from Ignite in Orlando, Florida, The Intrazone team talks with Jeff Teper, CVP Microsoft Office. We learn the history behind the naming of SharePoint, Jeff's approach to Hitting Refresh, big announcements from Ignite, Microsoft 365's EDU support, and the voices of Ignite attendees. Where is it all going next? Listen here to find out. Post: "Have you ever asked what other companies do with their #SharePoint-based #intranet in #Office365?" TRT: 01:01:00:00
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| 19 May 2020 | Make a list and check it twice | 01:02:48 | |
In this episode, Chris and Mark talk to Miceile Barrett and Lincoln DeMaris – both from the Lists engineering team. Miceile and Lincoln discuss the innovation in development to bring Microsoft Lists to market – evolving SharePoint lists and beyond across Microsoft 365. You'll hear insights about the new Lists home page, ready-made templates, rules, the coming mobile app, Microsoft Teams integration and more – plus give some fun examples of real customer lists in use today.
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TRANSCRIPT (Music.) MARK KASHMAN: Welcome to the Intrazone, a show about the Microsoft 365 intelligent internet. I’m Mark Kashman here with my cohost today from the very far distant reaches of, well, about 10 or 13 miles away, Mr. Chris McNulty.
CHRIS MCNULTY: Well, thanks, Mark. It’s great to be back here when you. You’re always top of my list. And on top of our list this week, we’re talking with Miceile Barrett, program manager, and Lincoln DeMaris, principal PM manager, from the OneDrive and SharePoint engineering team.
MARK KASHMAN: Yes. And at the end of this episode, you will know that a list is a list is a list. And one of the newest extensions and evolutions of our story is Microsoft Lists. We’re going to talk with Miceile and Lincoln about the newest app in Microsoft 365 Portfolio, Microsoft Lists.
So, Chris, what are your thoughts on lists these days?
CHRIS MCNULTY: Oh, I have – I have a long list of things to say about lists. You know, it’s – it’s really interesting. If you look at something that seems as esoteric as a data construct, right, you have over the past 20 years, you’ve had a variety of technologies like Access and Access Web Apps, and Excel. How you store the data shouldn’t matter too much for these, you know, low-code/no-code, user-driven, lightweight application processes.
But one thing that we’ve really observed is making it very easy for people to start with their data, is how you open up the whole application process, if you think about it.
MARK KASHMAN: Yeah, you know, certainly off of our title, you know, you can make a list and check it twice. But I think when you start to do all the things beyond storing the data, you really start to see the value of lists. And you know, in a variety of products and services, you’re able to store data and – and present it and work with it.
And I think the unique value with lists in the past and certainly going forward is how you can represent that data, how you can share it, how you can visualize it, how you can augment it over time. It’s not something that just is here today and gone tomorrow, but changes.
And I think what’s nice about mapping it to a business process is the business process dictates what you need to see and what you need to know, and then asks you what you need to contribute. But I think it’s that representation of information, and with Microsoft Lists, it gets a lot more visible, it gets a lot more organized and aggregated together across multiple lists.
But you know, I want to dig in a little bit before we dive in with Miceile and Lincoln to know, you know, from your perspective, because I know you have had, both as a marketer here at Microsoft focused on content services and the lists role that plays into that, but before as an MVP, as a consultant, or anytime you’ve used lists in the past, how would you say you’ve used them in the past and how you see them growing up over time?
CHRIS MCNULTY: Well, it’s interesting, if you just think back over the past, you know, couple of decades, there’s been a sort of pendulum back and forth between high structure and high user touch.
And if you go back, you know, farthest back to mainframe or sophisticated computer databases, those are things that required the high priestesses and priests of data science to be able to construct for you.
And we saw, you know, over time, people sort of came down from the mountain and started breaking them into PC-based databases, like dBase, FoxPro and Access, and spreadsheets really kind of went – in many cases, have provided this data service, in addition to being a calculation service, because people started to find them a very easy place to be able to construct these two-dimensional matrixes, these two-dimensional tables, where they would put in people or locations or sales, or all sorts of things, sometimes to be able to model them and sometimes just to be able to capture the data.
And if you think about Excel, you know, Excel has been described as the number one data format in the world and the number one business intelligence tool in the world, and the number one calculation tool in the world because it’s ubiquitous, people are familiar with it, it’s flexible, you can make lots of copies. As data starts to explode, that whole “it’s in a file” starts to become a bit of a challenge.
That’s where SharePoint lists have come in. And SharePoint lists originally are foundational. They have been with the product since its earliest on-premises days. And I think that at their best, you know, they – we’re trying to capture some of the great usability features that people intuitively get about working in an Excel file, about I can see a matrix I can pick a single value, I can add formats, I can work with some calculations, but without all of the user error you can get into in Excel, that if you accidentally drag a column to the wrong place, it blows up all the calculations, or someone can email the file to someone else and you’ve lost the data. he advantage of a list is that it’s centralized.
And so, what we have done with lists historically, and I’m really mindful of is, how do you marry kind of the centralized power of a database with the ease of use of something like Excel? And that’s where that common structure, I think, really shines for something like a list.
MARK KASHMAN: Yeah, I think there is a role for everybody to play with lists, and it’s really across a lot of different scenarios and personas. You know, if you think about the ease of use that we’re targeting, already today, a lot of people at different skillsets come in and leverage lists either out of the box or start to extend them.
But I’ll say, you know, for myself, I would qualify as somebody that’s just about to be a maker, you know, but somebody that really benefits from the out-of-use ease of lists and creating views and ease of sharing.
And so, I know Microsoft Lists, the focus there around making that even easier and more powerful for the common user, but that there’s a real spectrum as you start to need a list to do more for you, or you want to start tinkering a little bit more with additional capabilities, either to configure, or really to move into that maker world.
You know, our peer and cohort that we’ve talked with on the show before, Chax (ph), he is clearly somebody that represents the maker in terms of connecting to the Power Platform and being able to use a list as a backend data source to a custom form with Power Apps or extending a more complex workflow with Power Automate.
And then if I switched over to that final persona, really a grow-up story with somebody that’s well known in our community Vesa Juvonen, who would represent that true professional developer, somebody that’s going to be leveraging the list API, building a custom solution around it to bring in both push and pull of data, possibly in a very custom user interface with a lot of logic and – and in between for that custom solution or that custom app.
But to know that the element of a list, which is that true data source, and the ease of use, and the spectrum of what you then can configure, customize, or truly build, it gets back to what we really want to make sure people are clear about is a list is a list is a list.
You know, we have talked about SharePoint lists with a lowercase L for a very long time. And now with Microsoft Lists, capital L, it really up-levels that and it makes it a little bit more ubiquitous for more people to engage with them, have a better view of all of your lists, and – and you know, that ease of getting in and out of different lists and configuring them, but that we don’t lose that value of being able to add more power, more complexity, when there’s that need.
CHRIS MCNULTY: You know, it’s interesting, one of the things that you alluded to there is kind of that grow-up story. You know, there’s a challenge when someone builds this almost calcified, multi-table database structure, and they built a number of applications screens and mobile apps to tie into it. And then someone says, “Hey, what if we have customers who have more than one office? How do we handle that?”
If you think about something that the software industry has snapped to for the last 20 years, the idea of agile development, that you should, you know, start small, go for quick wins, and just continue making incremental steps, rather than trying to boil the ocean.
And I think there’s value, especially in the early days, where you may not fully understand all the data you’re collecting, having some flexibility as to how am I going to capture it, do I need to add a couple of additional columns that I didn’t expect at the outset, and can I make it simple enough that adding those columns doesn’t break all the work that’s come before?
I think lists are a great place to have that centralized flexibility, and then you can add things on top of it over time, whether it’s reporting through Power BI, or interfaces that you extend into mobile with places like Power Apps, the fact that you can start smaller, you know, make a list you can check twice, avoid the naughty, focus on nice. See what I did there?
MARK KASHMAN: I did. I like it.
Yeah, I think when you look at that similar pattern, you know, it starts to be grounded in everything we’re talking about lists, but for SharePoint as a backend content service, its lists, its libraries, certainly files as a big part of that, working with pages, working with the sites themselves, and having that common structure so that people can use out of the box, build and configure.
But I think the true value what you’re touching on is that there is a common single source of truth, and that’s most important when you think about this type of data, as it fluctuates, as things change, as you make different plans and need to represent that. Changing in multiple locations can be cumbersome, and oftentimes a point of failure when something doesn’t get updated.
But with things built in a mindful way, knowing how people are going to leverage it, bringing in and pulling out data, that it’s that single source of truth, that is flexible over time, and is really meant to map to what do you need to have it represent at a point in time, and to a certain set of people. You know, you can create different views for different groups, a lot of flexibility.
And I know, our peer, Dan Holm (ph), jokes a lot in the past how he would have liked to have been paid by the list, because he puts so much effort and so much energy into the value that they brought, a lot of the solutions that he built for his customers.
You know, he was certainly a problem-solver then and is now, and I think that statement alone represents what it is that you’re saying, and I hope that we get across to our audiences, there is the power and flexibility, and it’s usable and powerful to those different personas.
CHRIS MCNULTY: And the thing about list is, you know, are they the place where I would keep track of all the retail transactions for a major online retailer on a second-by-second basis? No, that’s not what a list is. Is it a place limited to having a dozen entries? Well, no, that’s not what the list is either. It is a flexible, dynamic table. You can store up to 30 million items in it. And our announcements that we made this week, you know, I think really extend the relationships amongst lists.
If you think about it, in databases, you have to establish all these entity diagrams. In SharePoint, and now in Microsoft 365, you may have a couple of lists that are related to each other. And I don’t mean formally, but you may have a list of contacts, a list of events, and a list of collateral, and be – just being able to get all of those things, which might live across multiple teams or multiple sites, into a common experience that I can then take with me on a mobile device, you know, I think that’s just fantastic potential for what lists can do for us.
MARK KASHMAN: I agree, and I think as we move to now talk to Miceile and Lincoln. I just want to state that even if you hear something in the background, like clinking pans, or some kitchen noise in the background, that that is the Kashman kids. I know that they are currently making a really nice list and have been maintaining a list of recipes. And I think what you’re hearing is them trying out one of those new list items that I will tell you all about after I’ve had a bite, if they will share.
You know, making a list, as easy it is for the Kashman kids, as easy it has been for Chris and Dan and many others to really extend and bring value to customers and partners and now to this recipe that’s in the background, but Chris, I think it’s now time for us to turn to our experts, Miceile Barrett and Lincoln DeMaris from the SharePoint and OneDrive team, to hear more about Microsoft Lists.
I don’t know what’s going on behind us, but it’s fun. They do know that we’re recording. You know, make a list and interrupt it twice, I think is what they’re going after.
CHRIS MCNULTY: Today on the Intrazone, Mark, and I are talking, as we mentioned, with Miceile and Lincoln, from the SharePoint, and now Lists engineering team. So Miceile, Lincoln, welcome back to the Intrazone.
LINCOLN DEMARIS: Thank you very much. Mr. McNulty.
MICEILE BARRETT: Thanks, Chris,
CHRIS MCNULTY: Quite a week at Build for Microsoft Lists. And I really, Mark, should bring you in on that because I know you’ve been instrumental at helping formulate our story about what we’re doing with Microsoft Lists. It is really exciting to see all the investments that are out there.
As we’re getting going, can each of you tell us a little bit about kind of who you are, how you got to this crazy place called Microsoft in the first place, and what your journey was to start working on lists.
Miceile, if you could get us started.
MICEILE BARRETT: Yeah, thanks, Chris. So as mentioned, I’m Miceile Barrett. I joined Microsoft in 2016. The first product area I ever worked on was actually lists. When I joined, I met Lincoln DeMaris and back in 2016, he had just released the modern UI list experience. And the first thing I ever did when I joined Microsoft was work with Lincoln on this effort to make lists look even more beautiful. So the first thing I did was replace the managed metadata navigation with what we now know and love as the filters pane.
So it’s pretty crazy to see the full circle journey of Microsoft Lists, ultimately leading in this Microsoft Lists release, and it’s pretty cool to still be doing it with Lincoln, who I met day one of my job here.
MARK KASHMAN: Who is this Lincoln that you speak of Miceile? Maybe we can get Lincoln. Lincoln, who are you?
LINCOLN DEMARIS: Hi. Well, my name is Lincoln DeMaris. And let’s see, my journey at Microsoft. Well, boy, I guess it was around the year 2004. I was a plucky Midwestern youth attending a career fair, and I saw a career fair booth for this company called Microsoft. And I’m like, yeah, that sounds pretty cool. I’ll give them a resume. And 14 years later, I’m here.
I started on the SharePoint team working on web content management and ECM. I’ve been involved with a whole bunch of different parts of SharePoint, from OneDrive to document libraries to team sites. Now I’m the proud product owner of lists. And it’s been a fantastic journey, and I plan on sticking around for quite a while longer.
MARK KASHMAN: Your pluckiness is coming through loud and clear, and I think that is going to be my new favorite word for this week.
So Lincoln, let’s stay with you for a second. The Intrazone audience may be familiar with SharePoint lists, which is course lowercase L, and starting at Build and moving forward, we’re excited to share all the new work-tracking elements that you’re building into what we now refer to as Microsoft Lists, capital L.
Can you share more on how behind the scenes have been planning and designing with the team in this new phase of innovation for lists?
LINCOLN DEMARIS: As we all know, remote work is super-hot right now. And in particular, there’s this category of app that we see gaining a lot of traction, mindshare, winning a lot of fans, and frankly, generating a lot of venture capital, and sort of this category of apps we call work management apps.
And these are – these are really magical tools, because it allows just about anybody to sign up, sign in and create their own database. And from that database, just about anybody can build a lightweight tracking app for their team.
And so, I’m not going to name any names, but I’m sure most of you listening have – have your favorite app in this category, and you’re – you’re thinking of a few different examples right now. But these are really transformative tools, because they allow anybody to be a maker in a really real way that enables real productivity on their teams.
We looked at these apps, and we thought to ourselves, well, we do this already, we have this thing called SharePoint lists. In fact, we’ve had them for 20 years. I mean, that observation is correct. Lists today are a work management tool. But you know, when you look at them, and you compare it with some of the offerings in the marketplace, the UI is not quite there. The capabilities are powerful, but maybe accessible only for the most sort of dedicated SharePoint fans and makers, right? You can build incredible things with lists today, but it’s not quite a tool for everybody in the same way that these other apps in the Marketplace are.
And so, that’s – that’s really kind of the frame around what we’re doing with Microsoft Lists. We’re taking a 20-year-old technical asset, a great – a good product, and turning it really into a great product.
CHRIS MCNULTY: You know, it’s interesting hearing you talk about that, because, you know, we’ve been working in this space together for a while as well. And, you know, if you go back a couple years, you know, at the time, modern lists felt like the end of a journey. And I think we can look back and say, oh, that was really just the beginning of being able to do even more.
MARK KASHMAN: Only when you get philosophical, Chris, right.
MIKE MCCUNE: Yeah, but, I mean, like, you know, it’s funny, we’ve talked before about the year of the list. I’m really hoping we’re looking forward to the decade of the list.
MARK KASHMAN: Oh, absolutely, centuries even.
So, Miceile, we want to hear from you just to start to ground a little bit more of what is Microsoft Lists, what are the capabilities. Can you highlight one or two common scenarios before we get into the feature set that highlight these, you know, now easier to build and use lists like Lincoln was describing?
MICEILE BARRETT: Absolutely. The Microsoft Lists makes it, as everyone’s saying here, more easier than ever for someone to create a custom business solution. And so, the real value that this app adds is to helping our users get started faster and adding all the data that they need even easier so that they can ultimately have this app-like experience. And
so, when users start going into the new list app, they will start to see eight out-of-the-box templates that they can start using immediately. Two of my personal favorites that I want to call attention to here are Issue Tracker and the Event Itinerary.
I work in tech, and so specifically to me, the Issue Tracker has been most helpful for providing visibility into our flight rollouts and ensuring that any blocking issues are identified.
And with these templates, it’s, you know, two to three clicks, and you have a list created with all of the schema defined, a scenario right there that you’re ready to start using, and all the formatting there. So as soon as you start adding the data that matches your scenario, it looks beautiful, it’s easy to use, and there’s no barrier to getting started anymore, which makes this a very fast experience.
MARK KASHMAN: Yeah, you know, I saw a pretty early demo that you all shared as we we’re prepping, and you know, when you see the move from clicking and choosing one of the templates, like you had mentioned, and it starts with what effectively looks like a blank list to get started. And as you fill out the details, before you’ve done any formatting, any choices, any configuration, it’s already baked in that the color scheme is there, when you have certain criteria that’s met. When you change status to X or Y based on that template, it’s already there, it really became a magical experience that I knew you could do those things in the product, but that they were already there on the first day of the list, that was really nice to see.
MICEILE BARRETT: Yeah, absolutely. And I think that’s a pretty important step for us to take with the Microsoft List experience, where you no longer need to be a list pro or have years of experience to know where all of the hidden features are. Right now, we’re just putting them right in front of our users and giving them a scenario that’s common across multiple different industries, so that they could click and get inspired on how to use lists, while also being able to just start immediately.
And I think that that’s one of the greatest things that I really liked about this new experience is the second you click that new button, you’re staring at eight different scenarios that you don’t really have to think about. You get to just pick the one that matches what you’re doing today.
And that really removes that initial thought of what am I going to do, which columns do I need, are they going to be pretty, how do I make them a certain color, that type of thing, and it makes it just a great experience.
MARK KASHMAN: Yeah, I am so thrilled to – you know, I’m going to be honest and say we are reintroducing the concept of templates into the list universe. Longtime SharePoint fans in the audience will remember the good old days, when we used to have an event list, we used to have an issue tracking list, we had a contacts list; we had kind of all these lists templates, and they were really kind of the decade-old manifestation of what Miceile is talking about. It’s a quick way to get started along a particular use case.
When we went to modern in 2016, we sort of left those behind, because we observed there wasn’t a ton of usage on these things. And so, we made this sort of data-driven decision to leave them behind. And we since learned that people really miss these sorts of inspirational starting points. Longtime SharePoint fans maybe will have a built of nostalgia about our old template ecosystem, and it’s coming back in a new way.
MICEILE BARRETT: And then one of the other common scenarios that I am extremely excited to highlight is, when you do have these lists, we are now adding the ability to simply visualize it in a way that makes sense, so the ability to show and hide the columns easily, render them in a card-like structure, which I know we’ve been demoing a couple of times here.
But as you’ll see throughout the different releases, it’s becoming easier and more intuitive than ever. And so, it just makes it really straightforward and removes the barrier of having to think through what you want your data to look like at the end, because you could just do it so easily now that it makes it a really great experience. And you can save it, you can make them the default; it makes it a really powerful tool that no longer requires hours and hours of prep.
CHRIS MCNULTY: You know, it’s a really interesting time, I think, for us to expose the audience a bit to what we announced today. We’ll definitely have links to all of our announcements in the show notes.
But Lincoln, I was wondering if you could take our audience, you know, from your perspective. What are the top three or four things that we have announced this week that people can really come to expect on a list? You talked about templates, but what are some of the others?
LINCOLN DEMARIS: Yeah, templates is really big. I am most excited to announce is our brand-new list home experience. So everything we’re talking about today is an evolution of SharePoint lists, and we’re bringing SharePoint lists forward and adding a bunch of cool stuff. But we’re adding a new high-level entry point to the M365 suite nav. You’re going to see a tile in your suite nav menu, and it’s going to be called lists.
When you click lists, you’re going to see all the favorite and recent lists that you have accessed. And so, this includes lists across your team sites, and lists that you’ve created in your own personal space. So it’s like OneDrive is sort of a one-stop shopping place for all of your files; this app is a one-stop shopping place for all of your lists.
This experience also makes it easy to get started. So there’s a big new button at the top. You can create a new blank list, a new list from Excel, a new list from existing, or a list from one of our templates.
So I’m really excited about how this new list home experience makes it easier than ever before to jump in, get started, and get back to your list. Super excited about that one.
Really excited also about the improvements we’ve made to fundamental editing. We have an awesome new view type called grid, and it’s an evolution of what we’ve called Quick Edit in the past. And we’ve really poured a ton of energy into building an industry-leading experience there.
Miceile, you have anything to say about that?
MICEILE BARRETT: Yeah, absolutely. Lincoln’s been talking about the past here, and we’ve got Data Sheet, Quick Edit, and now we’re going to Grid.
And one of the goals that we set for this was users should be able to add their data as easily as possible. So I’m very excited for our users to start being able to use their keyboard to add everything and be able to use an inline experience that’s even faster than the form experience, with the same capabilities that we’ve supported, but with a refreshed UI that is significantly improved.
So we’ll still have our drag and drop to drag and fill, we’ll still have copy and paste, but really bringing in every single type of field type to be edited in line and showing them in visually appealing ways that makes sense so that the data is easily recognizable.
LINCOLN DEMARIS: Plus, it’s fast, it is so fast. Like you can’t blink when clicking on a list or you’re going to miss it. Lists just pop into view. The interactions are so crisp. It feels like a brand-new product. It’s really amazing to work with. I’m so excited about the GridView.
The last thing I’ll say, just I can’t have a discussion about lists without talking how excited I am about the new calendar view. So this is one of our top feature requests in lists ever since the modern days. I’m super pumped to announce that we’re bringing back beautiful calendar view to lists.
And so, any list, you can create a view that looks like a calendar, and you can view your items inside that calendar view. And so, that’s a great way to look at events or items or deliverables that are coming up in the past, do now plan for the future plan, plan for the present?
CHRIS MCNULTY: Well, I wouldn’t say we’re just bringing it back, because, you know, there was a classic calendar view. We’re bringing it forward. It’s all of the goodness of, you know, list home and templating and all those other things. You know, it’s going to get all of that and more.
LINCOLN DEMARIS: You’re right.
MARK KASHMAN: Miceile, one of the fairly new experiences, especially the Create experience that we’re bringing to Microsoft Teams, there is the concept of a lists app now in Teams. Can you explain or describe a little bit around that experience of creating or bringing in existing lists when it comes to working in Teams?
MICEILE BARRETT: Yeah, absolutely. So to give a little context here today, in Teams, you can go and copy a URL, and basically the URL will render inside of Teams. And we have taken a lot of strides to make that experience a lot more Teams focused. So you can now go into Teams, and without ever having to leave the Teams client, you’re able to create a new list using any of the templates, and Teams actually has three of their templates that are specific to them. And you can use anything else. You can create a custom list, a list from Excel, a list from an existing list, all with inside of Teams.
And then as you’ll see in some of these releases, the visual appearance in Teams, it feels native. It’s no longer this sense of just taking a website and putting it into Teams. It’s fast. It feels like it belongs inside of Teams. I almost like to think of it as like a theme that we put on the list, so that everything you would expect to work inside of Teams just does.
And then additionally, there’s a lot of value with using a list inside Teams. The one that I like to always call out is the fact that you can have a conversation on your list items in a Teams channel. And users might be familiar with this experience on a document or a file, where you can go into that file and have that conversation on that file in the context of the Teams channel. And so, bringing that ability to a list item really makes it easier than ever to collaborate on these individual records, so that you have all the contacts in the right place.
MARK KASHMAN: I think it’s a game changer anytime you bring in a mindful way content right next to the conversation, and to be able to do that at the list level is always important, but to really direct somebody’s attention, the call for, you know, them to help out, to fill out something or just to review whatnot, that ability to do that at the list item level, especially on lists that could be quite large, you know, several 100 or thousand items, it really makes it a more targeted, better experience for the person you’re bringing into the conversation.
MICEILE BARRETT: Absolutely. I want to add on one thing here. Another feature to kind of go off what Lincoln was talking about is a feature we’re releasing called Rules. And Rules generally speaking will allow our users to configure actions based on Item data changes.
And this is a really awesome experience I’m excited for people to try out, because it takes about five clicks in less than 20 seconds to set one up, and you can do some really cool things.
For example, the one that I use is the ability to send emails to a person in a person field when I update a status of another column. And so, having these rules that are easy to set up and fast are great.
I can also turn it off at any time. There’s a simple toggle switch, which makes it even more powerful. So I can determine which ones are running at which time.
So I’m excited for people to start trying them out and giving feedback on what they’re using them for.
LINCOLN DEMARIS: Yeah, it really transforms lists, like the Rules feature rules rules, I’ll just say that. It really transforms lists from something that feels like a pretty-looking database, maybe a single point of truth, into a true collaborative application, like really reaching out and bringing people back into the fold when there’s work to be done. It really transforms lists into a tool for productivity.
MARK KASHMAN: Yeah, I think it’s one of the key differentiators, too, when people start to not only try to understand what lists are and how they’ll use them, but you know, how is it different from me just writing down on a piece of paper or tracking it in something like a OneNote, or a Word document. It’s that nature of collaboration. And I think you all are building it in a way that is very tactile, and direct and certainly friendly, because it works just as you would expect it to.
MICEILE BARRETT: Yeah, and we can’t have this conversation without calling out the fact that we’re now building a list mobile app, because everything we’re talking about is just as necessary on the go.
And so, we should absolutely make a call out there that everything we’re doing with this collaboration will be available in a mobile app, so that there’s no – there’s no friction between where you’re working.
MARK KASHMAN: Yeah, and we were pretty open that we are getting started with disclosure around Build time. A lot of what you’re working on and we’ve been talking about will come in the summertime. The list mobile app will be later in the year.
But the value, you know, Lincoln or Miceile, that notion of accessing a list today through anything mobile has been maybe a bit of a blocker. And I see what you’re building, and I know when it comes, it’ll be a breath of fresh air for people to engage with lists, to edit them, to share them, to create them, which, you know, even seems like a crazy notion to do on a mobile. But I’ve seen what you’re working on, and I think that’s really exciting.
LINCOLN DEMARIS: When you look at our competitors, you realize, well, that isn’t a crazy notion. It’s just taking mobile further than we ever have before on the SharePoint team, frankly.
And when you – when you look at lists today inside the SharePoint, the SharePoint app, it’s at best a companion experience. You can view the data in your list, but you can’t edit it arbitrarily. And so, that’s – we’re really looking to make the list app more than just a companion app, but a first-class way to do anything and everything.
And so, if you’re a primarily a mobile user, and you like to do everything on your phone, including add the data, manage schema, tweak rules, you can do that all on the go.
We haven’t yet announced the timeline for this. It will be later this year. Pretty much everything else we’re talking about in this podcast is going to come out this summer, so you’ll be able to try it in June or July, but the mobile app is going to trail a little bit.
CHRIS MCNULTY: But I want to really kind of emphasize that to the audience. If we go back over the past year, you know, we’ve created this new, lightweight, form editing experience attached to lists because sometimes – and Lincoln, you and I’ve spoken about this many times – sometimes you want to do something that’s very fast and clean and quick. I just want to grab three or four fields, change the order, change the layout. I don’t need to build an entire application around it.
And one thing that we know customers have been doing is they’re going all the way to Power Apps and Power Platform to build basically a mobile app, when really all they want to do is they just want to take a list with them, so if they get a good idea, or they get a question, or they’re talking to a customer on the fly, they just have the convenience of that, without having to go through a whole application building experience.
LINCOLN DEMARIS: Oh, yeah, absolutely. We are as invested as we ever have been in our connection between lists and the Power Platform. And connecting lists to Power App or Power Automate is still the best way to build a totally custom line of business application using lists as the storage layer.
But as you pointed out, hey, Power Platform is great, but it’s the Power Platform, not the simple platform, right. And so, if all you want to do is open the form inside of a list, and the form is important, like the form is one of the things that makes a list special and distinguishes it from any other type of spreadsheet thing you might find like inside of Excel, or inside of a word table.
And so, if all you want to do is make some lightweight tweaks to that form, we’re working on – we have some great new features that make that quick and easy. And so, if you want to just drag and drop and change the order, we actually shipped that last year. We’re building in some more, a little more sophisticated capabilities there, like the ability to do simple branching.
And if you’re a little more sophisticated, you can create custom headers, footers, and multicolumn layouts directly in SharePoint forms without Power Apps. And so, we’re really excited to launch that and get feedback on that as well.
CHRIS MCNULTY: You know, but I do think it’s important to emphasize, there’s a grow-up story, isn’t there, that even though you can start with a completely no-code solution like Microsoft Lists, and as your needs grow and get more sophisticated, you can move up to the some code level of Power Platform, if you need to.
LINCOLN DEMARIS: You’re absolutely right, start simple, and as your team grows, and your requirements grow, gradually become more and more sophisticated and do more,
MARK KASHMAN: We want to turn the heat up just a little bit in the context that we, of course, have been talking about things that you’ve known and have been working on for a little bit, but there’s one area that we wanted to explore, which is what we hope to do is to provide that clarity on those common questions we get, usually when we talk about Microsoft 365 and various applications that are offered within the portfolio, just some common FAQs.
And so, Miceile, we wanted to ask you, when you think about Microsoft Lists, alongside a Task Manager or something like Excel, how do you differentiate knowing what you’re building and grounded it in those rights scenarios?
MICEILE BARRETT: Yeah, absolutely. I feel the heat, Mark.
LINCOLN DEMARIS: Turning up the heat.
MICEILE BARRETT: There are two ways that I want to think about this and walk through. The first way is in the most fundamental sense, Excel is a spreadsheet and lists is a database. And this means that in the list, you get that data integrity through our multiple field types. And in Microsoft Lists, each row of your data is a record.
And so, when you’re thinking of a record as a business entity, it can really help drive a process, which takes me to my second thought here, which is, Microsoft Lists allow you to drive a workflow. So yes, they are great to store large amounts of data in a schematized way, but the really unique value of the list that kind of differentiates it from a Task Manager or Excel is the ability to drive a project from start to finish in a way that’s completely customizable to you, based on the project that you’re driving.
And I think that that is something that takes a little while to sink in when I say it in the sentence, a very long sentence, but really using the product to take your – whether it’s a three-week project or a three-year project, and ensure everything is on track, and being able to easily identify any gaps or misses. And that’s where Microsoft Lists comes in and through, you know, being a database and having all these different integrations, it’s really powerful to help you land that project with the correct tools.
LINCOLN DEMARIS: Yeah, I’m sure we’ve all experienced scenarios where somebody, some project manager on a team starts this big old Excel file to track deliverables or tasks or track anything and everything, and sort of they ask for collaborative input across the team.
And these sort of giant Excel sheets kind of turned into messes, right? Like someone filters the list, and that filter sticks when they save it. And then people are confused when they come in, because there’s no notion of personal views. And so, it’s sort of bending Excel to a use case it was never really intended for.
You know, Excel is a spreadsheet. It’s meant to track numbers and do number crunching, and it can do a whole bunch else, because inherently tables are flexible data structures and you can do many different things, just given a table and a document.
But lists, as Miceile said, are really purpose built for that sort of collaborative tracking scenario where you have input from a bunch of stakeholders into a central point of truth, and you want to drive progress and next steps on those things.
MARK KASHMAN: And I would just add real simply, too, that, you know, the way that you’ve built both the current technology and things that existed already is there’s also a blend of how you can use Excel with a SharePoint list.
If you had started, for whatever reason, in Excel, you can import that, as Miceile had mentioned getting started, import a table of data as a list, new list. And at any point in time, you can choose to export to Excel sort of as a one-way view to do that analysis that Lincoln was talking about.
So I do like the new capabilities and the differentiators, but at the same time, it’s not always an or; it can be an end, especially when the scenario dictates.
LINCOLN DEMARIS: Totally right.
MICEILE BARRETT: Yeah, absolutely.
CHRIS MCNULTY: Come on, Mark. Turn up the heat. Turn up the heat a little bit more.
MARK KASHMAN: I’m trying.
LINCOLN DEMARIS: That was an easy one. I feel like Miceile knocked that one out of the park. Come on.
MARK KASHMAN: I think she did too. So I think if we turn to Lincoln – are you ready Lincoln? You might want to – you might want to get an ice pack for your forehead.
LINCOLN DEMARIS: Yeah, okay, I’m ready.
MARK KASHMAN: We know Microsoft Lists builds off of SharePoint lists. You lead with that, and we really want to ground that as the truth, as the data source. And we’ve talked about how you can integrate with the Power Platform using lists as a data source.
But what I really want to ask is, is this a new thing? Is this an old thing? Is this an evolution? Is this a revolution? What are we looking at here?
LINCOLN DEMARIS: Well, I think Chris was very philosophical and artful when he put that modern lists was the beginning of a journey, not the end of a journey. And I’d say we are at a similar inflection point now where we look back and we look forward and we realize that there’s just one lists product here, and we continue to bring it forward.
The key distinguishing thing that I’ll say, I’ll say again, is when we shipped modern lists, there was sort of a choice. We asked people to consider tradeoffs. Because there were tradeoffs between classic and modern. Classic had a set of capabilities that modern didn’t, but modern had this fresh look and feel, and – and it had its own set of capabilities that were unique to modern, and we made people choose.
There is – there is no choice anymore. There’s just one list product. Classic still does exist, by the way. We’ve – we’ve sort of officially removed the ability to opt in entire tenancy out of – out of modern lists, but the granular switches still exist, and they will exist for quite some time. So if you’re listening to this podcast, and you still have a dependency on classic lists, rest assured that we’re still there for you, and we have no plans to pull that out. But there is no additional bifurcation that’s happening between lists experiences.
So everything that we’ve talked about with templates and rules and calendar view and the new grid, if you use a list today, you’re going to benefit from all of those features. If you don’t use lists today, we invite you now to come in, get started, give it a try, and tell us what you think
MARK KASHMAN: Yeah, that last part was really what the – the habanero I was going to throw at you was, I’ve been using list classic. I moved it to modern. I accepted all of that. I’ve been using the list for two years now. And now this new functionality, which I’m really excited for, it comes in, and yes, I do get it. You already answered the question, but I think that was the habanero on top to make it the superheated question, which was, what about those existing lists? What’s the expectation? And really, I think the way that you’re building it and designing it is they just get all the goodness, and there won’t be an interruption whatsoever.
CHRIS MCNULTY: What I was just thinking about, as you were talking, is I remember in the 2012, 2013 era, we were talking kind of about the dawn of cloud, and there were people who were saying, you know, at some point in the next few years, there are going to be features that you, you know, can only get in cloud and you can’t get on premises. And there’s going to be a point where it’s just better than what you could do on premises. And people scoffed.
And I think we’re really in a similar junction right now, Miceile, with where we are with modern and classic. And, you know, we’ve been saying for a while, modern is the vehicle we use to deliver innovation to our customers. But I think we’re not just talking about a slogan; we’re saying specific things with mobile app and homepage experience and templating, and all of these things.
Like, do you think that, you know, five years from now, like, at some point, you know, what would – what do you think the role of classic becomes as we continue to drive Microsoft Lists forward?
LINCOLN DEMARIS: I see the role of classic as a host for legacy applications. There’s absolutely a defensible use case for classic even in today’s world, even – even a year from now with all of these improvements that we have coming down the line. And that’s if you’ve – if you’ve invested deeply in a legacy application that has specific customizations, be it on Custom Action, or JSLink, or any of those other extensibility points. And you know, think of that app as frozen in time and serving a purpose.
And I’m thrilled that I – that we run a service that powers those legacy applications, but they’re just that, they’re legacy. And they’re around because they’re important, they’re entrenched. But looking forward, from this point forward, I don’t see any – any reason to use classic lists for net new things. You’re just passing up on too much innovation, too much goodness, too much support, and too much continued innovation.
MARK KASHMAN: Well, one of the things we didn’t yet talk about, and I think is clearly there in classic, clearly there in modern, and clearly there as we go forward is the role that developers will tap into through the list API, leveraging the Microsoft Graph.
I am not a developer, so I don’t want to talk too far out of my comfort zone, but whenever I think of that grow-up story, we talked about going from the out-of-box list experience, using the Power Platform for that low code, you know, quick innovation, time to market. But there really is still a category of building true custom solutions with the Lists API, with a custom user interface, or other form or other technology. That’s a part of our classic history, but it is still grounded in, you can still use the Lists API today going forward as well.
LINCOLN DEMARIS: Oh, yeah, absolutely.
MARK KASHMAN: Okay, so well, let’s take you out of the hot seat and move us into the fun zone. I’m going to virtually put my clown nose on, if that makes it fun, maybe make it scary for some people. But without naming names, and I’d love to hear from both of you, we’ll start with Miceile, what – what is the craziest list or scenario that utilizes a list that you’ve seen a customer use or a partner build for a customer? Again, without naming names, can you describe a little bit about a crazy list thing that you’ve seen, Miceile?
MICEILE BARRETT: Yeah, absolutely. The – the one that’s coming to the top of my mind is maybe a little more inspiring than crazy, but it does have some crazy details here. So this list came about during the COVID-19 pandemic, and I saw a customer using this list to monitor chemical production across 200 different chemical plants. And ultimately, this list was then used to determine which plants could be leveraged to shift their priorities and meet this new demand of sanitation chemicals.
And that’s inspiring to see that our product could lead to such an effective approach, but the thing that kind of blew my mind was this list had over 70 fields, with 500 people collaborating on it weekly. And there were I’m not sure off the top my head how many items in this list, but it was a very crazy experience seeing the customer just scroll through those 70 fields, and they have, you know, descriptions on all of them. So it was – it was a very interesting use case of lists that worked. It worked very well for them. And I was also really excited to see so many people collaborating on it at once and just having great success with it.
And so, that is probably the craziest one that I have seen, that I can think of in the most recent times. I would also say the list is still in use, and last I heard from the customer, it’s getting adopted globally, which means that the 200 sites is going to expand to 2,000 sites. I’m extremely interested to see what this list looks like in a month, and different ways that they’re still using it.
One of the favorite things I saw in there was the fact that they added like a really cool hookup to Power BI. And so, when I was, you know, playing around with it, and they gave me control, it was just a really fast experience to filter and then see the Power BI board shift. I thought it was a really great implementation.
MARK KASHMAN: Cool.
CHRIS MCNULTY: Yeah, that’s crazy, crazy cool. That’s a great story of like, why lists are essential. And you know, that’s not something you would ever want to try to do in Excel. That’s a great story.
MARK KASHMAN: Lincoln, since you’ve been using lists for gosh, you know, since you were a plucky child.
LINCOLN DEMARIS: I just have to use it one more time.
MARK KASHMAN: Maybe let me ask this in a different way. What is the pluckiest list scenario that you’ve ever seen?
LINCOLN DEMARIS: Oh, man, you just – you had to change my answer. My answer before was going to be craziest list I’ve ever seen is the list of improvements that are coming later this year.
CHRIS MCNULTY: Oh stop.
LINCOLN DEMARIS: Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Cool. Is that – is that sufficient or do I have to keep talking? Okay, fine, I’ll keep talking.
Like, I don’t know, the thing that I love to use the most to tell the story of lists together with Power Platform. I wish I could name a name, but I’m not going to name a name. I’m just going to say that this is a scenario that’s used in an environment where you have to manage a lot of chaos, a lot of guests, people coming into a space, and it’s used as an incident management application.
So you know, somebody throws up, or flips over a table, or smokes in a hotel room, boy, a list is there to capture that and to orchestrate a response to that incident. That really gets to sort of the nature of having a central place to track everything and having great mobile applications for people on the ground, built on top of Power App, to actually do the – to actually click the buttons when there’s an incident that needs to be responded to.
MARK KASHMAN: This sounds like a great location for rock stars to visit.
CHRIS MCNULTY: Can I give you a crazy list I saw?
MARK KASHMAN: Yes.
CHRIS MCNULTY: It was a list of libraries. And this was for a compliance department for a pharmaceutical company, that they’ve gone through a number of integrations, and they wanted to assess the criticality, the ownership and so forth.
So they wrote scripting to go through, and anytime someone had or built a new library, they added it to a master list. And the list itself, it was a list – since libraries are also lists, it was a list of lists.
MARK KASHMAN: Awesome.
LINCOLN DEMARIS: Just about the geekiest thing you’ve ever heard.
MARK KASHMAN: I love it.
Well, I’m going to round us off with maybe not quite as crazy or as plucky as you all, but just one thing close to home for what Chris and I do, and of course, that Lincoln and Miceile contribute too often in the work that they do is the Microsoft 365 roadmap.
Now the public entity that you would go to, to see what we’re working on, is driven on a different content management platform, and that’s all good. But all the work that we do now across all the teams internally that work on Microsoft 365 apps for lists, for Yammer, for SharePoint, for OneDrive, for Exchange and Outlook, and the list goes on, that is a long list of apps, but every feature that gets put onto the roadmap now is actually managed and stored and put through a process with a Microsoft List. It’s actually now in a SharePoint list.
And they’ve really been building moving from a proprietary system that had its own logic and form and whatnot – it was a good system, but it certainly wasn’t as easy to use, it wasn’t functional at the scale that we were getting to. And now we’ve transitioned fully to that tool, which is a tool built on a SharePoint list.
And it really brings it to a much easier use case for Chris and I to contribute, and then get notifications and awareness for other stakeholders like Lincoln and Miceile, to make sure we’ve got it right. And there’s a review process before it goes live onto the site.
But it’s a crazy notion for us to have switched, I think very quickly from that proprietary system to standardizing on SharePoint lists for everything we do for the Microsoft 365 roadmap. It’s, I think, been a really great switch, and I’m really pleased and proud of how the product is supporting it.
CHRIS MCNULTY: Yeah, thanks for that mention.
MARK KASHMAN: Absolutely. Thank you for the tech.
So we’ve got the – we’ve got the features and scenarios. We’ve got the heat in the past. The last thing is, we just want to thank you for your time. Thank you for joining us on the Intrazone.
And as always, we want to hear a little bit more of how people can learn more about what you do as an individual, highlight to some of the things that your team is doing, whether that’s Twitter, whether that’s through blogs, any recent assets that you worked on closely that you want to highlight to point people to. Miceile, we’ll start with you. How can people find out more about you, and maybe some of the recent work you’ve been doing?
MICEILE BARRETT: Yeah, absolutely. To see a highlight reel of everything we’ve been talking about for this new product, check out the list demo video. It’s about 15-17 minutes of pure demos and will hopefully inspire folks to start making Microsoft Lists for their team.
And if you want details on me, personally, you can follow my twitter at Microsoft @MSFTMiceile.
MARK KASHMAN: We will make sure to put that in the show notes, the links to the video, and of course how people can see your LinkedIn profile, and of course, follow you on Twitter.
And Lincoln, what can we highlight and call out here for our audience?
LINCOLN DEMARIS: Yeah, I think there’s some upcoming virtual events that are happening this summer, that are going to be a great way to learn all sorts of things about what the – what the product team is working on across M365. And lists will have a seat at that table. I’m going to be recording a session for that. And so, when these guys give you the list of conferences, write them down and tune in for a more detailed update on what we’re working on at those events.
MARK KASHMAN: Yeah, I will just tell you, as your PMM peer, I appreciate all of the effort that you’ve been putting into making sure that we highlight and showcase Microsoft Lists, not just because you’re working on them, but because you’re also good at communicating what people do with it and these assets I’ve seen, and I’ve certainly been working on with you, and – and we’ll make sure that they’re front and center so that people can see more about what we’ve been talking about.
But thank you for your time. Thank you for your – your work on Microsoft Lists.
Chris, any final words?
CHRIS MCNULTY: Yeah, just you know, again, Lincoln and Miceile, it’s great to have you back on the Intrazone. And as always, we would love to present you with our basket of virtual gifts, which is fame in perpetuity on the Intrazone website. So thank you very much.
LINCOLN DEMARIS: Wonderful. I’m going to enjoy these virtual chocolates later this afternoon.
MARK KASHMAN: All right. Well, you all stay safe and have a great rest of your day.
LINCOLN DEMARIS: Wonderful time.
MICEILE BARRETT: Thanks, Mark. Thanks, Chris.
LINCOLN DEMARIS: Thanks, everyone.
CHRIS MCNULTY: Thank you. Bye-bye.
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MARK KASHMAN: So Chris, I think we’ve gotten a sense of what you and Dan and others that we know, and how they use Microsoft Lists, or SharePoint lists in the past. Do you have any good customer examples just to ground it in terms of what we know our customers are dealing with lists today?
CHRIS MCNULTY: Absolutely. So about a year and a half ago, I spent some time with Marks and Spencer, the global retailer that’s based in London. Marks and Spencer has a very traditional SharePoint intranet. It’s a modern intranet, but I think we can start to call it traditional. And it is orchestrated around lists.
And one of their major operations is, as they have sales promotions that they need to notify their sales staff, they just add an entry to a list. And that is something that has served them well because by adding something to a list, it automatically populates the page. People who work in a particular product line, such as home or food or clothing, they can see what’s going on there through the portal.
One of the things that I was talking to Marks and Spencer about out was they were then taking those, that promotional idea, which drove things to portals, and extending those to mobile devices using Power Apps.
Using exactly the same foundational technology, they were able to make sure that as new promotions were coming in, that they could alert people who might be out on the selling floor, and then be able to access that promotional information on the fly.
So if a customer asked them a question, they didn’t have to run to a back office to go run a search; they could just look up and say, yes, cranberry tea breads are going to be on sale for another two weeks, even though they’re in the clothing department.
And what they were looking at a year and a half ago, was kind of the next frontier for Microsoft Lists, was how can we also bring all of this great intranet and mobile experience into the Microsoft Teams world.
So it’s thinking about what we’ve been doing with lists historically. I’d love to kind of reach back and find out where Marks and Spencer and some of our other customers intend to take our next generation of technology here.
MARK KASHMAN: Yeah, super interested in that as well. And with that Marks and Spencer concept, or how they’re actually putting it into their production, I love the idea that there is a way to add an item very easily. There is that notion of awareness to notify an individual or a group. But moving beyond what might feel like you’re raising awareness or assigning somebody a task is then it becomes this additional source in their database to act like a FAQ, near or real time, for people that actually are on the show floor and answering questions or looking up ideas, or if they come across an issue, to be able to then put that in there to have some information added to it, which would be hopefully the answer.
But I really like that concept of an FAQ. But obviously, for where they take it next, we should check in with them and get back to our audience about it,
CHRIS MCNULTY: That would be great.
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CHRIS MCNULTY: Up next, the Intrazone takes a look at events going on in and around the virtual world.
So Mark and I are coming to you today from close by, or actually from the exact cloud location for Microsoft Build, May 19th and 20th.
How’s it out there in your cloud, Mark?
MARK KASHMAN: It’s feeling good, it’s feeling good. The news is flying and love to be a part of it.
Microsoft Lists is plugged in to Build. There’s a session that we’re a part of, with Mike Amerland. And of course, all of our news and disclosures and all that stuff is now out into the world, including this new episode.
Great thing about Build is it’s digital and free, like a lot of our events that we’re talking about today. It’s two days. It’s all online. And certainly, if you’re engaged today, and tomorrow, being May 19th through the 20th, feel free to jump in to Build and watch a lot of sessions. If you’re a developer, it’s very targeted to you, but there’s a lot of great new information. A lot of – lot of things were released today. But certainly if you can’t join in on these days, it’ll be available soon on-demand.
CHRIS MCNULTY: So there are also a number of Microsoft 365 focused virtual events coming up throughout May and June, and the next one up is the Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon, brought to you by the team behind the SharePoint conference, as well as Microsoft itself. It’ll be running May 27 through 28th at a cloud near you.
MARK KASHMAN: The next one by a third-party event that we work closely with is the Galactic Collaboration Summit. This is going to be two days on June 2nd and 9th, and across both those days there will be different content, so it’s not a repeat, and a lot of great speakers, a lot of great content. Again, Microsoft is taking a part in providing breakout sessions. There will be a keynote with Jeff Teper actually at all of these three events.
And the Galactic Collaboration Summit. I think as we mentioned before in a previous episode, Chris summarized it really nicely, has some of the best way to represent speakers. If you – if you’re a Star Trek fan, check out how the Galactic Collaboration Summit promotes speakers. It’s really cool
CHRIS MCNULTY: If you thought that the technology world should get introduced to science fiction since there wasn’t enough geekiness in it already, the Galactic Collaboration Summit is for you. It is happening in the Milky Way Galaxy, according to their collateral, which is interesting, because a Galactic Collaboration Summit suggests that it’s collaboration amongst galaxies.
MARK KASHMAN: I think they make sure that once you register, they certainly give you access to the Hubble Space Telescope, so you’ll make sure to be able to tune in that way
CHRIS MCNULTY: And back down on Earth, limited solely to the globe, GlobalCon 2, coming up June 15 through the 19th. It is a five-day event. Focused on Microsoft 365, following on the heels of GlobalCon 1, sure to be succeeded in the future by GlobalCon 3.
MARK KASHMAN: Yeah, and to wrap out our events here, just looking a little bit further down into July is our partner event, Inspire. That’s July 21st to the 22nd. That’s Inspire.Microsoft.com. It’s very partner oriented, but there certainly is to be product news and information that Microsoft pushes out at that time.
CHRIS MCNULTY: So if you are sponsoring an event, if there’s something that you’d like us to promote or share here on the Intrazone, feel free to reach back to Mark and to me through our channels. We’d be happy to feature it on an upcoming podcast.
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CHRIS MCNULTY: Well, Mark, we’ve checked another Intrazone episode off the list, haven’t we?
MARK KASHMAN: Yeah, I think so. I mean, on the list of Intrazone episodes, we’re getting up there. And in terms of a list of features that we covered about Microsoft Lists, that was – that was quite a list.
CHRIS MCNULTY: I think this is at the top of my list of list-oriented episodes of the Intrazone, 100%.
MARK KASHMAN: 100%. I love it. Yeah, I will – I will plus one that and maybe just add a column so that I can put my name next to your name, so that we can be a same row item in this list of lists.
CHRIS MCNULTY: That will be a quick edit, won’t it?
MARK KASHMAN: Sure will, sure will.
CHRIS MCNULTY: Before I make any more bad puns related to Microsoft technology, I’m just reminded, we will share links to all of the actual news that Lincoln and Miceile shared about Microsoft Lists. And many thanks to them for their time.
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CHRIS MCNULTY: And if you’re curious about other Microsoft programs, and why wouldn’t you be, check out aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts. Find a new show today.
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MARK KASHMAN: We are your hosts, a list of two, Mark Kashman and Chris McNulty, and you’ve been listening to the Intrazone, a show about the Microsoft 365 lists-driven intelligent intranet. [Music.] END | |||
| 01 Jun 2021 | SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop May 2021 | 00:29:33 | |
May 2021 brought some great new offerings: Yammer conversation highlights, Immersive Reader for SharePoint documents, content migration from Dropbox and Google Workspace into Microsoft 365, Microsoft Lists: Export to CSV, Microsoft Lists: Updated sharing experience, Microsoft Lists: Turn comments on/off, and more. We also hear from Yogesh Ratnaparkhi, principal program manager on the SharePoint team focused on the migration of content into Microsoft 365 - specifically release updates to the SharePoint admin center’s Migration Manager to move content from third-party cloud providers like Box, Dropbox and Google Workspace into Microsoft 365. Click here for the episode corresponding blog post with details and links to all resources discussed in the episode. Resources: Yogesh Ratnaparkhi | LinkedIn | Twitter [guest] Mark Kashman | Twitter | Kashbox Substack blog [host] SharePoint Twitter | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice "Migrate your content into Microsoft 365" [Tech Community blog + migration infographic] Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Events ESPC21 (June.1-2, 2021) - Virtual | Jeff Teper keynote, numerous Microsoft and MVP sessions + workshops Microsoft 365 Collaboration Summit (June.8-10, 2021) - Hybrid | Dan Holme, Karuana Gatimu, and Charles Lamanna keynotes, plus numerous Microsoft and MVP sessions + workshops Follow The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts | |||
| 06 Oct 2020 | Partner Edition: Creospark with guest customer Special Olympics Canada | 00:39:53 | |
On this next episode of our Microsoft Partner series of the Intrazone. Mark and Chris talk with our partner Noorez Khamis from Creospark, along with Denise Strong, Director of Information at the Special Olympics Canada - a Creospark customer. The discussion centers around Special Olympics' need to further centralize and organize in a single, digital location. We focus on their extranet, moving away from Dropbox, and streamlining content and conversation from headquarters to branch office – and back. And their focus never veers from their motto: "An inclusion movement powered by sport." Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post. Click here for a transcript of this episode. Resources and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice OneDrive Facebook | @OneDrive | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice Noorez Khamis | Twitter | LinkedIn Denise Strong | LinkedIn Creospark | Twitter | LinkedIn Special Olympics Canada | Twitter SharePoint Saturdays at SPS Events Microsoft 365 Content Services Partner Program Project Cortex aka.ms/projectcortex Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Microsoft Stories podcast *new* Listen and subscribe to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Subscribe to The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| 10 May 2023 | Jeff Teper is your Copilot | 00:59:27 | |
On today's episode, we dig into a slew of announcements with Jeff Teper (President of Collaborative Apps and Platforms at Microsoft). We spoke to Jeff onsite in Vegas shortly after he and his team delivered a 90-minute whirlwind opening keynote – one that covered the value of community, tech Copilot, Teams, SharePoint - including Copilot in SharePoint, OneDrive, Lists, and goodness for IT with recent admin and security innovation. There were a ton of new announcements, plus the culmination of what Jeff coined "The wave of AI" - meaning the past few weeks have been a surge of AI news across Microsoft 365, Teams, Viva, Security, Loop – the big reveal being the notion of bringing that same AI service value into our beloved SharePoint. Read this episode's corresponding blog post. Plus, click here for transcript of this episode. 00:00 Intro with Chris and Mark 07:25 Conversation with Jeff Teper 50:40 Upcoming Events Jeff Teper | LinkedIn | Twitter [guest] Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host] SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | Feedback “Welcome to the new era of SharePoint and OneDrive in Microsoft 365” by Jeff Teper. “SharePoint in the AI Era: Introducing 'Copilot in SharePoint' and 10 more innovations for creators” by Adam Harmetz. “Experience the New OneDrive: Fast, Organized, and Personalized” by Jason Moore. “Microsoft Lists: Easier, Better, Faster, Stronger” by Lincoln DeMaris. “Enhanced Video in Microsoft 365” by Owen Paulus. “New era in content management and security in SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams” by Sesha Mani. Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Upcoming events: CollabDays Poland | May.13.2023 Warsaw, Poland - formerly known as SPS Warsaw. Power Automate & Power Apps Developer Bootcamp Automation Summit 2023 | May.19-20.2023 London, Paddington CollabDays Italy | May.20.2023 in Milan European Collaboration Summit | May.22-24.2023 Düsseldorf Fair, Germany Microsoft Build 2023 |May 23-25, 2023 build.microsoft.com | Hybrid Global Digital and in-person in Seattle. Register now. Document Strategy Forum 2023 | May 22-24 in Charlotte, NC, USA (Le Méridien Charlotte) CollabDays Netherlands | June.10.2023 Vianen, Utrecht 365 EduCon - DC | June.12-16 Washington D.C. - USA
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| 04 Mar 2025 | SharePoint roadmap pitstop February 2025 | 00:49:52 | |
No extra day this year. No matter, the product team crammed a lot of goodness into the 28 days of Feb'2025. The busy'ness delivered: Viva Connections: User-created cards, Copilot Visual Creator powered by Clipchamp, Microsoft Lists: Forms updates, SharePoint: Updated document libraries, Improved Microsoft Lists links in Teams chats and channels, Preview mode for SharePoint Pages, Personal Loop workspaces, SharePoint spaces retirement, and more. Plus, we grabbed time with Matt Taylor to talk about getting started with SharePoint agents, including his own journey as a recent implant into the world of SharePoint from the Teams Rooms team.
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01:27 - SharePoint Hackathon info 04:00 - Employee engagement 07:43 - Interview with Matt Taylor 28:10 - Teamwork 38:04 - Related tech 44:00 - Teasers 45:42 - Microsoft 365 Community Conference info
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| 15 Feb 2022 | Lists for everyone | 00:53:45 | |
Have you heard? You can now sign into Microsoft Lists with your Microsoft account (MSA) - now in preview: lists.live.com. This is a lightweight version of the Microsoft Lists app designed for small business and individual use in conjunction with your MSA. In this episode, we talk with Miceile Barrett and Ben Truelove from the Lists engineering and design teams respectively. We discuss the innerworkings of the what, how, and why of the service and primary design elements that make it easy and powerful to track and manage information no matter what size the team - in work or life. Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post. Full transcript below and if you click here. Social and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host] Miceile Barrett - Senior product manager | LinkedIn | Twitter [guest] Ben Truelove - Principal designer | LinkedIn | Twitter [guest] #MicrosoftLists (Twitter) Resources: Sign up and try the Microsoft Lists - MSA Preview: https://lists.live.com "Try Microsoft Lists with your Microsoft account (MSA)" (Preview launch blog) Get to know the Microsoft Lists - MSA Preview (demo video) Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Upcoming Events: CollabDays - Bletchley Park, England (Feb.23.2022) + @CollabDays_Park Enterprise Connect (Mar.21-24.2022, Orlando, FL) Teams Nation 2022 (Mar.23.2022) CollabDays - Cologne (Mar.2022 - no specific day announced yet) Document Strategy Forum (DSF) 2022 (April 4-6.2022, Chicago, IL) Microsoft 365 Conference (in-person, Apr.5-7.2022, Las Vegas, NV) AIIM 2022 (Apr.27-29, Denver, CO) SEF 2022 (planned for in-person with a few sessions delivered virtually, May.4-5.2022, Sweden) 365 EduCon (May.9-12.2022, Seattle, WA) Microsoft Lists workshop on-demand Follow The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone
TRANSCRIPT MARK KASHMAN: Welcome to the Intrazzone, a show about the Microsoft 365 Intelligent Intranet. I’m Mark Kashman, flying Han Solo this week this week, to shine a light saber light on Lists. Heck, this episode is bound to make the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs. It will outrun the data center ships in milliseconds flat, not those on-premises, multi-minute bulk cruisers. I’m talking about the big AI-driven cloud ships. Trust me, this episode will be fast enough for you to upload and download your lists before we even know it, just like that (snaps fingers).
On today’s episode, we dig into the inner workings of the Microsoft Lists - MSA Preview that Microsoft launched on January 31st, 2022. We’re going to uncover the what and how and why of this service, and the design elements throughout. In a few minutes, I’ll be joined by Miceile Barrett and Ben Truelove, two of my colleagues from Lists Engineering and Design teams, respectively, but first, before we meet up with Miceile and Ben, have you heard, you can now sign up for the Lists preview using your Microsoft account, which is often referred to as an MSA. This is a lightweight version of the Microsoft Lists app that’s designed for small business and individual use, you guessed it, in conjunction with your MSA.
You may now already have a separate login if you are already working with Microsoft Lists as a part of the Microsoft 365 business plans where you use your or ID. The good news is, you can do both, and we hope that you give this MSA preview a try.
One of the big MSA Lists updates is the new top-level URL. I’m going to say it twice, so that you can type it in right now, Lists.live.com. That’s Lists.live.com. Go ahead, type it into your browser now. I’ll wait. I’m very excited to see what you see on the other end when that resolves to the new list experience with your MSA.
Go ahead. I’ll wait.
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Now, we would love for you to participate. We hope that you start creating and sharing Lists with your work colleagues, partners, your soccer team, or your neighborhood volunteer groups, whatever suits your fancy, to test and try out the MSA preview to the fullest. We’ve designed the app off the core of Microsoft Lists, plus we introduce a lot of new experiences like a new tabbed view experience for all of your views, or that you can share by just typing in somebody’s name, draw them in by typing their name, their email address into the person column, or a better way to work with images in-line and a lot more.
And of course, we carry forward all of the great Microsoft Lists product experience that you may already know. Either way, you’re going to find a lot of great ways to track and manage your information for work and for life.
A couple of examples I’ve been using the new Lists app MSA experience to track who’s who on my soccer team, tracking things like what position they play, and of course their email and telephone number, those kinds of things. I set up one classic example that we heard a lot of people wanted to do, either for movie clubs are book clubs, where you can track what movie or book you’re going to read or watch next. Or like our friends Stormin’ Norman Young in Canada, you can use it to track your home projects. That’s a real one out there. Stormin_30 on Twitter.
Maybe you want to create an ongoing list of gifts for friends, families or coworkers. Or this is one of my favorites that I came across on Twitter after we announced this by one of our friends and colleagues out there Simon Hudson. He created a quote "I got issues" list that helps him track and manage all of his worries and woes, so they’re not worrying or woe-ing him anymore. It’s real. I saw it on Twitter.
Anyway, it is time to liberate yourself from coordination chaos. It is time to clear your brain space and get organized. In short, it’s time to hear more about and then try the Microsoft Lists - MSA Preview. The best place to start beyond this episode is at the preview launch blog. And I’ve got a short aka.ms link to share, so you can go right to the blog. Just type in aka.ms/mslists/blog/msapreview.
All right, enough of the preamble. Let’s get to what you are really here for, to hear more about the Microsoft Lists - MSA Preview from my engineering and design colleagues, Miceile Barrett and Ben Truelove, aka, some of our best list experts here at Microsoft. And remember, as Han says, "It is not wise to up a Wookie," especially when they’re injecting JSON to customize and format a choice column. Good choice to stick around. Let us not upset Chewie #botharmsintact.
Okay, enough of the silliness. Let’s hop into the audible Let us not upset, Chewy, hashtag both arms intact. Okay, enough of the silliness. Let’s hop into the audible Millennium Falcon. And here we go with audible Miceile and Ben.
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So you’ve heard me talk a little bit about this thing we call the Lists MSA preview, but that’s not as exciting as really hearing it from the people at Microsoft who are making it, the product, designing it, thinking about all the use cases. I would like to welcome to the show, to the Intrazone, Miceile Barrett and Ben Truelove. Ben, Miceile, welcome to the Intrazone.
BEN TRUELOVE: Thanks, Mark.
MICEILE BARRETT: Thanks, Mark.
MARK KASHMAN: So nice to have you here and so nice to have you here in this special time. I bet that you both are buzzing. This is the – the week of launch, just for everybody listening. First starting with Miceile, can you give our audience a refresher of what you focus on, here at Microsoft?
MICEILE BARRETT: Absolutely. You’re right this week has been crazy with the launch. But like Mark said, my name is Miceile Barrett. And I am a Product Manager on the Lists app. I started at Microsoft in 2016 and actually joined the SharePoint team, where I worked on what were then called SharePoint Lists and Files. So it’s been a really awesome journey for me seeing the product evolve and grow. And I’m super excited to be on the podcast, especially during this week, when we’re getting all of your feedback coming in.
MARK KASHMAN: What is this thing you called SharePoint Lists? I don’t know what that means.
MICEILE BARRETT: We don’t – we don’t want to talk about them anymore.
MARK KASHMAN: That’s right. Lists are lists now. All right, Ben, similar question. Can you share what your focus is, here at Microsoft?
BEN TRUELOVE: I am a designer here at Microsoft. I’ve been here since 1997. And we focus on the user experience. So anytime that the software is in contact with a human and helps out humans, that is what we do is we make those experiences better from either the visuals to how it behaves and the basic flow of information and tasks.
MARK KASHMAN: Nice. So UX is your area, just in case we say the short, shorter version of UX, user experience. And really the design of Lists, what people interact with, for the most part, and of course, a lot of other things as they’re interacting with Lists in other applications. So a lot of great work I know that you both are doing and have done. This conversation, as we’ve already said at the front of the show, is all about this launch, this recent Microsoft Lists - MSA Preview, and our audience doesn’t really have a lot of detail on what that means. They may know what Microsoft Lists are, they may have worked with SharePoint Lists 10 or 15 years ago. They might have, you know, right before Ben joined Microsoft, been using Windows 95, but we’re going to really focus on this MSA preview.
So Miceile, I’ll throw it to you because I know you’ve been working probably the most on this of anybody on this call, as far as the end to end of what is this thing? Can you give us your 101 of what is this Microsoft Lists - MSA Preview?
MICEILE BARRETT: Absolutely. And Microsoft Lists - MSA Preview is quite a mouthful. So I kind of want to take it word by word here. So Microsoft Lists was an app that launched in 2020. And you could access the full power of Lists directly through your Azure Active Directory or your corporate account. And we saw a lot of value that our customers were getting from that product. And so over the last two years, we spent time trying to build something that anyone could use to get that value.
And so like I mentioned, in that launch in 2020, it was really focused on enterprises and existing people inside of the Microsoft 365 business area. And we wanted to launch something that would give that power to anyone who wants to use it. And so that’s what that MSA piece is. And for those who don’t know, MSA stands for Microsoft Account, and so could be something that’s Outlook email, it could be something that’s, you know, @gmail.com. It’s really something that you’ve set up for your personal Microsoft account.
And we’re calling it a preview because we just launched it and we do have a cap on it for now. We were only letting in the first 200,000 customers that want to sign up and experience the preview. So you’ll sign up today if you want to get into the preview. And I think the thing that I really want to emphasize is that this can be used by anybody, whether you want to use it for managing something related to your pet’s medical history, to running your hobby, all the way to a small business that just needs to organize and track things.
This free offering is something that you can use and take advantage of. And so I think that it’s really awesome to see that power getting put into the hands of anyone who has a simple Microsoft account. And it’s been great. Like Mark said, we launched this new offering on Monday at 8 a.m., so it’s been live for just about a week. And we’re seeing some really great usage adoption right now.
MARK KASHMAN: I think that’s important. The timestamp of the launch was January 31st, 2022, 8 a.m., all pistons firing. I think the other thing, as you were breaking down the parts that I thought was really good, you know, each word kind of leans into explaining what this is. The Microsoft account that we’re leveraging is really your authentication mechanism.
So if you have Outlook.com, if you’re using OneDrive Consumer, or for personal or family, that’s the same Microsoft account. If you have an MSA already, you don’t need to get a new one. If you don’t have an MSA, they’re free, very easy to get. It’s just another way of telling Microsoft, "I am this person, and I’d like to use that service." That service is Microsoft Lists, in that context that Microsoft Lists MSA preview I am this person. And I’d like to use that service. That service is Microsoft Lists in that context that Miceile has just walked through.
So this is nothing short of a really big lift for the team. Ben, I know we’re gonna get into features and whatnot with both you and Miceile, but I want to also take a step through the broader design strokes of just like Miceile said, we’ve been pitching Lists for a long time, whether it’s the lowercase L with SharePoint, or uppercase with L with Microsoft Lists. But we’ve also kind of said lists are lists are lists. It’s that same common platform. Can you talk about how that’s carried over from a design perspective, or carried forward or, or however you might want to think about when you think of Lists in the commercial space, and now Lists with the MSA preview, how do you think about it?
BEN TRUELOVE: Yeah, well, I’m going to start off a little metaphysical here, in that – so I like to say that everything is a list, and if you really get down to it, everything is a list, down DNA. The DNA of our lists of course, started off in SharePoint. But when we created the Microsoft Lists product, the one thing that we wanted to do to evolve it is to make it more open and adaptable, but still have that power, to still have that ability to organize and track things. Everyone organizes and tracks things, from a grocery list to large customer databases, for example. But we wanted to really bring that to the masses, as you would say, and make it easy for everyone to use.
MARK KASHMAN: So are you saying that Lists are the DNA of life?
BEN TRUELOVE: Yes. DNA is actually a list.
MARK KASHMAN: I like it. I mean, I know it’s one of the three core elements of SharePoint. And for our audience, who has for many years been tuned into, not just this show, but the ways of SharePoint, all up, I think that’s one big statement. Before we get into the first thing, I want to ask Miceile, that’s kind of product oriented, and a big decision that was made for this specific preview was the core of everything that we’re talking about is founded in based on SharePoint.
This is now SharePoint opening to how you both have articulated to new audiences, ones that are not maybe our enterprise or commercial customers, but a broader audience of smaller business, individuals, families, friends, all of those things. And to know that opening those doors to SharePoint, that’s extremely new. That, I know, has never been something that SharePoint has really taken a foot into.
MICEILE BARRETT: It is absolutely the first time anything like that has been done. It’s been three days, and so far, it’s good. I think you’re touching on a great point there, Mark, where, you know, when you look back at Lists, and you know, 10 – 15 years ago, they were nestled inside of SharePoint. And they were really a very powerful database that not a lot of average users could come in and get a lot out of. And we’ve seen a lot of improvements.
You know, in 2013, we launched a version of SharePoint that had a lot of Lists features in it. And then in 2016, we launched the modern Lists, and then 2020, we pulled list out as its own app. And so taking that, just the natural progression further where anyone can now use those Lists, regardless of if you’re a SharePoint expert.
And I think that’s where Ben’s design really comes in and shines is that we started seeing people really thriving in Lists that had no experience with them before, and that was what we wanted our product to become, something that is powerful, and anyone could get value out of. And so by, you know, redoing the design and making it much more customer facing as well as UX friendly, I think just shines, especially in this new launch, where we’ll talk about some of the changes and improvements we made, as we’re continuing that push to really empower anybody to make something in their list.
MARK KASHMAN: So if Lists are the DNA, what you’re saying, Miceile, is Ben is the DNA sequencer?
MICEILE BARRETT: Exactly. You could call them the tRNA, if you really wanted to.
MARK KASHMAN: Yeah, yeah. Well, I want to I want to kind of take it into that next level. We understand that SharePoint is the platform opening doors to new audiences. One of those doors, which is truly the door, is the kind of top-level Universal Resource Locator, the URL. The new URL is lists.live.com. You can type it in right now and your heart’s content while you’re listening to this podcast, but first lists.live.com. Miceile, can you talk about the – I want to say design behind it, but the actual design of how we built that, what our approach was?
MICEILE BARRETT: Yeah, I’m hoping that, for folks that are listening, hearing that URL, even if you’ve never heard of the word or product Lists before, I’m hoping it sounds familiar. the reason that it sounds familiar is because we have OneDrive Live, and we now have Teams Live, and Lists is a natural progression of that uniform URL structure that we’re building here.
So having lists.live will sound familiar, even if you’ve never heard of the product, Microsoft Lists. And you know, I’d mentioned it earlier in this podcast that I had joined in 2016, on SharePoint. And I think if you had tried to find Lists before, the URL is actually pretty – pretty obscure, it’s a little bit challenging to find. Even when we launched the Lists app in 2020, the URL is a my-sharepoint.com\lists, like it’s a crazy URL that’s very challenging to use.
So it was a huge priority for this launch that we did on Monday, to say it has got to be easy to find, people need to be able to type in three words in that URL and be able to get where they’re going. So it made me happy, a career high, personally, to be able to launch something that is so easy to get to your lists. It no longer requires saving those bookmarks, messaging an IT admin, or trying to navigate through your history. It really is just lists.live.com. And so that was probably the biggest focus of this launch, if I’m being honest here. Having that entry point that is consistent as well as easy to remember was something that we were not going to launch without.
You know, you call it a P zero, but I would say this was more fundamental than a P zero. This was something that, like started the entire project from the ground up, was having a unique space for Lists.
MARK KASHMAN: What is just the – kind of easiest way to let people know, when they get to lists.live.com, there’s an experience they’ll have if they haven’t been there before. And then once they’re signed up and signed in, they’ll have you know, kind of that direct experience. And that’s just during preview. Just I wanted to get from you, just so people know, if they try it right now what to expect.
MICEILE BARRETT: That is, that is a great thing to bring up. So right now, it’s super new, and we’re in a preview stage. So if you’ve never signed up or joined the preview, and you go to lists.live.com, we’ll actually load our marketing page. And that marketing page contains, you know, a couple of videos as to how, you know, a cookie company uses Lists, as well as some examples. And like descriptions of what the product is. And then you’ll also see a couple of disclaimers as to what the preview is.
And then once you click, you know, sign in or try the preview, and you get authenticated, you know, in the backend, what we’re doing is actually adding you to the preview. And so now, since you’ve seen all the content, and you’re a little bit more familiar, if you go back to lists.live.com, you’ll just load your Lists home, and the Lists app as you’ve – you know, as you want to see it.
So I think it’s a really nice experience with this preview, where we tried to put a little bit more learning in the front. So when you go to that lists.live.com, you’re going to see a really pretty marketing page that actually Mark Kashman, our very own, made. So if you guys – feedback on the words there, you’re going to go to Mark.
MARK KASHMAN: I do want to give full props to my peer Paul Diamond, who helped get it there, because – you know, to the 90% level, and then when I came and was working with Mikhail, and a lot of other folks like Ben, with getting the right images and getting maybe some not-so-fuzzy ones, but anyways, that’s just day one or two that we’ve been working through.
The other thing, before we kind of turn to Ben, I’ve got some questions around design, Ben, but the last thing I was just thinking, around the lists.live.com, is a reminder that, when you’re signed in, with your MSA, at lists.live.com, check in the upper-left and just hit the app expander so you can see that it’s just the same apps that you’ve been using, potentially – you know, office.com, and so outlook.com, you’ll see OneDrive. You can start a new Word document. All of that stuff is all there. It’s just now bringing Lists into that pool of apps when you’re signed in with an MSA.
So it’s not really a teaser of anything into the future, but just the reality that this is a nice new app for your use when you’re signed into office.com, with your MSA, but it adds a ton of new value. So that’s where we’re going next.
But Ben, I wanted to hear from you. I know you’ve been designing this new experience, or a unique experience for what we’re dealing with the MSA preview, but it also builds on a lot of the things that we’ve been doing in the commercial space, because it is the Lists product that we’re expanding. But from the design side, the way I want to ask you this question is, what are things that you’re looking for as feedback as people start to use this, maybe in a new way, maybe very new people? But if you think about our feedback tool asks you what you like, what things we can work on to make better, or even feature suggestions, but because you designed it, what are the things that you’re looking for based on what your team, you and your team did consciously?
BEN TRUELOVE: Well, I’m going to add a little nuance to that, actually. So I’m going to say that I didn’t design it alone, myself, but I actually work with a larger team. And like we say, at our company, we’re really not alone, we all work together. And that’s a really important thing. So feedback is central to our design process. So yeah, and the more feedback we get, the more diverse perspectives we get, the better it’s going to be.
Now, in terms of types of feedback we’d like, it’s great to hear exactly what happened. Like, if something broke for you, like if the experience ended, for some reason, like I could not complete this thing. It’s like, it’s good to know exactly what it is that stops that from – success from happening. And if there’s something that just doesn’t work out for you, like, how can we make it better? And what other ways would you like to do it in?
Also, we’d love to hear positive feedback, like this experience is great for this reason. It’s good to get details. And it’s great to hear what you all are feeling and how you all are doing because we like to – I like to think of designers as like storytellers. And really, we want to always have happy endings. And so help us get to that happy ending for you.
MARK KASHMAN: Before we turn to Miceile, on a similar question, I have to ask Ben, is there anything based on choices that you and the team made from a design perspective that you’re like excited/nervous about and awaiting feedback on a specific X or Y thing?
BEN TRUELOVE: So I would love to hear about the new things that we’ve added to make views easier, for example, code, the view tabs. I’d love to hear about filter pills, so making filters more transparent. And I’d love to hear about how the inline editing is working for you all. That’s another thing that we provided in this new consumer release is being forward about just instant editing of your lists right there on the canvas.
MARK KASHMAN: So Miceile, if we take that same question around what type of feedback are you interested in? I know you’re interested in it all, maybe some of those things that you’re a little nervous about, but excited to get so that we are turning in the right direction. But if we took it from, Ben was providing a little lens through design, if you think about the service, or the product itself, what are some of the things that you’re looking for as far as feedback?
MICEILE BARRETT: Absolutely. I think about this a lot, so I’m trying to condense it into only like two or three things. The first thing I think would be very interesting to hear from folks using it is what they’re using it for. And there’s actually a button in the suite nav where you can submit feedback. And I’m going to kind of make a call, a plea, where there’s an option that you can click saying, let the product team contact you. And so if you select that box, that means that when I actually get your feedback through the tools that we use, I’ll be able to reach out to you and talk with you about the experience.
And one of the things that I’m most interested in is kind of building out the portfolio of real customer use cases. I’ve really enjoyed doing this on the enterprise side, but I think that we just scratched the surface of what Lists can be used for. And you know, so far, I’ve seen some really incredible things being built on Lists - MSA preview.
One of them is managing a wood-turning hobby group and how they do their sales for the holiday season. And I just absolutely loved those conversations because, one, I got to understand why they’re using the list, two, what value it has added, and then three, understand what’s missing, right? Like what would make their experience better so that they could do things faster or with less overhead or reduce time to needing to – you know, organize so they can actually focus on what they want to be doing?
And so that brings me into the second thing of, if there’s something that you wish Lists did, send it in that feedback tool. We are building extremely agile for this offering here. So if there’s something that would just make the list experience better or more meaningful to you, I would like to know what that is. And you know, it’s very easy for me to sift through that feedback and find the top 10 things that we need to build next.
Really, the two that I want to call out is what are you building on it, and two, what’s missing? Is there anything that would make the experience better for you, or whoever you’re trying to get to adopt it?
MARK KASHMAN: I like it. I like that the woodworking group is building the would-work-on list. (Laughter.) That’s what they’re building. That’s a really nice way to think about it.
I have to tell both of you, I have officially submitted my first piece of feedback publicly through the tool. I know through the early phases of pre-beta, pre-getting it out there publicly, I sent a few things. And I know you all were doing lots of hammering on the product before we went live.
But my first piece of feedback actually came when somebody else who was using the MSA Preview did a public share of a list to me that was highlighting a show that we were working on. And they were advertising, and they were advertising a number of shows. That was just how they were going to represent upcoming shows, was to publicly produce it on this list.
But so, I went in, and I had some feedback that I wanted changed. And what I noticed was they had shared it in a view-only method to me, but to me, it looked like I could edit. I want to be very clear. I could not edit it; it was not possible for me to edit. But there was some user interface where it just felt like, gosh, it looks like I’m able to edit even though I couldn’t.
That was the feedback I sent. I was appreciative of that I could, and hearing that you’re open to it, I hope you don’t mind plus one more that I sent.
MICEILE BARRETT: Oh, absolutely. And I mean, this is a great example of I know that I have two other asks sitting in my feedback tool of that. So now, I get to add three to it, and it’s great to get that type of feedback and understand the scenario.
MARK KASHMAN: Good.
MICEILE BARRETT: Great example, Mark. You’re setting the bar high. (Laughter.)
MARK KASHMAN: There’s a lot that I think Ben kind of teased at it that I want to turn to next, which is there are some unique new features that the MSA Previewer is bringing for the first time, really. And we’ll see where this lands within the commercial space, but I think it’s really important to know that the design work, it is not just a copy/paste of what you know in the commercial space. But it’s intended to be unique for how people are going to use this. And it will be shaped by the feedback we were just talking about.
But Ben, let’s jump into one of the things you mentioned, and it doesn’t have to be a super-long example. I’d love to hear kind of the what it is and why you did it, but it’s the new tabbed experience for views. Maybe you can explain kind of the way it was and the way that you’re now doing it in the MSA Preview.
BEN TRUELOVE: Views in the past were accessed by a little menu in the command bar. It just had a little name up there, just a little footnote. And you’d click on that, and then if you created multiple views, you get all these views in the menu plus any commands that are related to a view. That could be a really long list, and then all the views were just kind of crammed up in that corner and hidden.
And so, what we’ve done with the tabs views, the view tabs, is we brought that up to the surface. We want to celebrate the views that you’ve created, the work you’ve created right on the top level. These tabs will be right along the top of the list itself, so you can quickly just, at your fingertips, go between all these different views.
And that also goes hand in hand with our new view types that we’ve had, too, like our calendar, and our gallery for showcasing things more visually as well. That was very, very different from what we had before. And we think that it’s going to resonate with people.
Another thing that we did, too, is when we brought the views out into the surface, we also were able to make that view command menu much shorter.
MARK KASHMAN: Oh, yeah, sure. I didn’t think about that part. I was just thinking as you were describing it. What I really liked about it is if I’m the one that creates the views, then I know they’re there. But if I didn’t create the views, and I didn’t know that they were there, and maybe I’m not as fluent to go to that drop down menu, just seeing them just calls to my attention. Oh, here’s another way to pivot this information, or here’s something that somebody else did, that they thought would be valuable for me to consume this in a different way. Same data, different view.
I really like it. It’s not any different as far as creating the views. All the consistent custom views and some of the unique ones that you walk through are all there, but it does bring them front and center. And I hope that that really increases the value of them, which we think will start with just the visibility of the use of them.
Miceile, this one might be a little funny to describe from an audio perspective, but I’m going to pitch it to you because I think it’s a really cool new feature. But can you walk through what the new sharing experience is within a person column?
MICEILE BARRETT: Let me just start by saying in this new experience, you’re signed in with your Microsoft account. And there’s not this concept of a directory or a company where you can kind of type in your coworker’s name or your friend’s name. And so, we know that collaboration is one of the biggest values out of Microsoft Lists. Being able to collaborate with your family, your peers, your fellow teammates is very important, and is actually where we see Lists being the stickiest amongst our customers.
And so, in the MSA Preview offering, you can add collaborators to your list. And a collaborator basically means that that person will be able to come into the list and contribute with whatever permissions you give them, whether it’s view only, or edit permissions, or the ability to edit the schema. And once they actually come into that list, they’re going to appear in that people column drop down menu, because they are what we’re calling a collaborator.
This sounds a little bit more complicated than it is. But what you do is you go into your people column, and you type in “Ben Truelove.” And you realize, oh, Ben’s not actually a collaborator yet in this list. And we will notify you that he’s not a collaborator, and we will give you a temporary placeholder for him, and a link that you can send to him. And so, then when Ben gets that link and signs in, that little temporary placeholder will get redeemed with his MSA. And he’s now a collaborator in that list with the permissions you granted him. It’s a way to kind of get you off the ground moving, but to pull in your team and your family as you need.
And the UI, again, just Ben and his team did a great job making sure that it’s clear, and intuitive and fast, because we want you to get as many collaborators into the list as possible.
And I realized we kind of dove straight in there, Mark. We might have wanted to take a step back as to what even is the people column. (Laughter.) Let me go ahead and just tackle that as well.
MARK KASHMAN: (Laughter.) Yeah. And honestly, I think hopefully, you’re going this direction. Explain kind of maybe there’s a limitation within the enterprise in who you can add to a person column, and maybe where this adds to that in terms of a potential in the future of how you can add people who aren’t part of your global address list.
MICEILE BARRETT: Yeah, exactly. The people column is one of the list column types that we have. Just like a choice field, or a date field or text field, people is one that we have. And we see people being used a lot, whether it’s to assign an owner to something, to assign the person responsible or the person you’re going to meet with, a way to just track different humans you’re interacting with. I guess I shouldn’t limit it to humans. You could use dog names in the system. But it’s a way to add people you need to rely on or work with in a list.
And in enterprise, that’s pulled from the Azure Active Directory, which is set up by your company’s IT department. And so, if you’re working with an external customer or someone, if they’re not in that Active Directory, it is not possible to add them to that people column.
And so, it’s a really cool kind of shift that we have here, where we want to, again, back to what we’re saying the beginning, anyone should be able to succeed in this product. It should not be scoped to people who have advanced Azure Active Directory setup. And that’s where our design was focused, right, making it so that anybody can be added to a list. And then you use a simple link to give them a way to kind of redeem that placeholder and come in. And so, it makes it really fast, simple, and removes any of those barriers where you might not see a name appear.
MARK KASHMAN: Okay. On The Intrazone, if you heard that clearly, all you animal lovers out there or animal adjacent friends, it is possible to add your pet. And I’m talking to you, Peanut. That’s my dog right behind me. Peanut is able to help me with my next list. That’s what you’re saying.
MICEILE BARRETT: Yep. And I think one thing, too, with this placeholder concept is you can add in people’s names and kind of see them rendered in a way that indicates it’s a person, and you don’t even need to share with them. If you want to do something that’s tracking just their information, and they don’t need to be a collaborator on the list, it’s also a great way to just track.
And so, I think that that’s one of the value props of Lists. You have track and organize, and part of that, you might not necessarily always need that person in the list. And so, it’d be very easy to kind of type in those names and get yourself moving. And if you discover later that you do want that person to be inside of the list, working with you, you just go ahead, copy that link and send it to them. And they’ll be right there as a collaborator like you need them.
MARK KASHMAN: That’s really cool.
Ben, I want to touch on, I think it’ll be two things, but I’m just kind of mashing them together before we kind of roll into maybe some of your personal use. When people are working with images, we know we have the image column, or for lack of maybe a more direct way, you could also add any attachment to a list item. But what are some of the ways that we’ve been thinking differently from a design perspective for images?
And the second thing just to throw in there, I don’t know how you want to talk about them both. But there’s also a new…. You had mentioned the new filter pill experience. And I don’t want to mash them together too much, but I think they’re important, both visually and how you can make your list really work for you.
BEN TRUELOVE: Yeah. Well, it’s funny you say visually. Thinking about images, well, they are visual. And one thing that we’ve done is to enable people to just go ahead and click in an image column cell and get a file picker, so they can go and look for their pictures, looking at pictures to upload to any list. That’s one change from the old SharePoint. The old SharePoint, you had to actually enter a URL or upload it to a site, and then add it to it. But now, you can just add pictures directly.
Imagine you’re creating a pet calendar, for example, and you’ve got all these pet pictures to upload. It’ll be that much easier, rather than having to upload them and then try to add them. Our regular consumers just have their pictures on their devices, and that’s the fastest way to get them on there.
Now, for the filter pill experience, one thing that we’ve found is that sometimes, someone might send you a link to a list, and it may not be read only, but it might be filtered. You might have a list that might be filtered, for example, to only approved videos, or something like that. And you’ll come there, and you’ll see these videos. And it’s like, oh, wait, where’s my video at? And people will think, oh, there’s data loss there. It’s like, oh, no, it’s lost because Lists lost my video or my list item.
But with filter pills, which are on the surface, as well, just like view tabs, which are going to sit right above the column header and right below the view tabs, you can tell right away, okay, this view is filtered by this parameter, by only approved. And it’s really a snap to then remove those filters just by clicking on the X on the filter pill, and it takes that away.
MARK KASHMAN: That, to me, has been – they’ve been both positive in terms of the use case of being able to add and see filters. But what I found really useful is if I have a filtered list, and I’m viewing something in a unique, but direct way of how I wanted to see something, and then to be able to un-filter to then navigate to some other way of viewing the information, because I want to then accomplish something next on a broader set, something that’s a little less filtered, just be able to remove a filter just with a click, huge, huge advancement in terms of just productivity gains, ease of use. Huge kudos to that, just from my perspective. And I know others have said the same to you directly.
So, if you haven’t seen them or used them, give them a try, especially when un-filtering. It’s very, very easy.
BEN TRUELOVE: And also, I just want to add, from a recognition point of view, we apply any formatting that you’ve applied to the list to those pills. If you’ve got a pill that’s approved, and it’s green, you’re going to see a green pill up there. If it’s a person you’re filtering by, you’re going to see that person pill up there.
MARK KASHMAN: Cool. The last area that I wanted to get while we’ve got time with you is personal. This is getting into the personal space of this new personalized offering. And I will certainly add my personal sense, just as a tag-on to what you share. But since you’ve been using Lists, beyond your tests of everything that you needed to walk through, end-to-end, to make sure the product was ready to stand up for the public, what are some of the scenarios or a scenario there you’re using for your personal use, now that you can with Lists kind of outside of the Microsoft space for us working at Microsoft?
Miceile, let’s start with you. What’s a personal use of this new technology that you’ve been taking on?
MICEILE BARRETT: Yeah. I think if anyone follows me on Twitter, they know that I like to ski. And over the last two-to-three months, ski resorts have been so crowded that I picked up a new hobby, where I go backcountry skiing now. I needed to get a new set of skis that were lighter, new boots, new bindings, my avalanche beacon and shovel. And as you can imagine, this list was getting very expensive. I decided to buy it used, and I used a list to track all of the different Craigslist vendors that I was buying from.
And so, as you can imagine, I wanted to make sure I was getting stuff that all worked together. Tech bindings only work with so many pairs of boots. And I was trying to do it all kind of just in my head or on a piece of paper, and it just was not working. So, I used my Microsoft Lists MSA Preview app to actually track all of the different ads, what they cost, what they cost new, when I could meet them, if it worked with a different set. And you’ll be happy to hear I now have a full setup, and it will be on my Twitter page soon.
MARK KASHMAN: Oh, that’s awesome. If we see in OOF message, we’ll know that you’re out on the slopes, or at least the moderately sloped slopes.
MICEILE BARRETT: Absolutely. (Laughter.)
MARK KASHMAN: And I just want to call out, if you do follow Miceile on Twitter, not too long ago, she posted a really fun picture of herself in not this gear, maybe, but I think you’re on a downhill ski. You were all geared up on your laptop, doing work from the slopes. I thought that was classic.
MICEILE BARRETT: It was great. Yeah, I was using Nucleus, taking Lists offline.
MARK KASHMAN: Oh, excellent. Oh, offline, too.
MICEILE BARRETT: I was sitting in the Canadian Rockies. And I was like, you know what, I’ve got my laptop on me. It’s sunny; I can take some meetings and work from here.
MARK KASHMAN: Awesome. Well, I hope that you let the Nucleus team know. If they didn’t see you on Twitter, I hope you sent that privately. That’s fun.
MICEILE BARRETT: Absolutely.
MARK KASHMAN: Ben, whether you’re on the ski slopes getting ready with all this new gear from a bunch of vendors, or not, what is your personal use that you’ve been using with the MSA Preview?
BEN TRUELOVE: My most recent use of Lists, I have a lot of lists, actually, but the one of my favorites now is, well, I’m getting married in fall. And we needed a wedding guest list because we need to figure out who are we inviting. And we have a limited size venue, so we needed to figure out who we could bring. It’s been really enjoyable, because we can use those filter pills, like I said before, to filter out whether they’re coming or they’re not, or just sending an invite.
But one of my favorite parts I’ve found is that we’ve started compiling addresses so we can mail out invitations and save the dates. And the location column, which is a column type, so great because you only have to type out just the first few characters of address. And for most addresses, the service that it’s connected to just finds these locations for you in the auto suggestions. And so, it’s been really a snap to start adding addresses, for example, to my wedding list.
MARK KASHMAN: Wow. First, congratulations or pre-congratulations. That is great news and a really fun use case, and very personal. I also just want to say that by bringing in the locations column as kind of one of your proof points of what you’re actually using, clear indication that this is bringing SharePoint forward. We’ve had the location column for a while, and it really is one of those magical ones where one column equals possibly three or four and gives you lots of pivot points. You might do some interesting analysis of your guests before they come.
Last thing I want to say, Ben, because you just made me think of it in a funny way if technically, SharePoint is on the backend managing your wedding list, you could potentially, per list, for this list have up to 30 million wedding guests. (Laughter.)
BEN TRUELOVE: Yeah. (Laughter.)
MARK KASHMAN: Are you ready for that? (Laughter.)
BEN TRUELOVE: I don’t think my venue’s ready for that. (Laughter.) I love company.
MARK KASHMAN: Oh good. Well, maybe we’ll keep your list into the realm of what’s possible in preview, and then that’ll help you manage not inviting 30 million people.
Well, thank you for sharing. Both of those are great, from the ski slopes to the wedding bells. Mine, maybe not as interesting, but I have been on a soccer team for over five years, maybe moving into the 10-year mark. And we’re always on a group thread, and there’s an e-mail chat with some of us internally at Microsoft. But we’ve never really had a list of who are all the players, especially as we get new people that join the team, what position they play, basic things like their e-mail and their phone number. And of course, I use the image column for people that are new, so they know who the other players are.
I created a soccer club list. I think it’s one of those easy ones for me where it’s like, gosh, that’ll be a really nice thing for our team to have. It’s a lowercase “t” team, and soccer list of all the players. Very easy to put together and got some good use of a bunch of different column types.
Ben and Miceile, thank you for the work that you do, both on the design and the product side. And of course, carry forth a thank you to the rest of the team, whether they’re in Redmond, in India, or wherever they might be. Working on Lists has been no small task in the last few years. And the lead up to this MSA Preview, I know there’s been a lot of really unique work, like we had mentioned before, to really get SharePoint running outside of the commercial space, but so that it adds that same value and maybe even more addresses what people who aren’t familiar with SharePoint will be able to do with Lists.
That’s a long list of why I’m thinking you but thank you for all that work. And thank you for being on The Intrazone.
BEN TRUELOVE: Thanks for having us.
MICEILE BARRETT: Thank you, Mark.
MARK KASHMAN: Any last words? Lists.live.com. Miceile?
MICEILE BARRETT: Yep, exactly. Lists.live.com. Go there, send feedback, contact me. My Twitter handle is @MicrosoftMiceile. Get out there and make a list and tell me what you made it for.
MARK KASHMAN: Nice. Last words, Ben?
BEN TRUELOVE: Ditto, ditto. My Twitter handle is @betruthfulness. And if you’re inclined, I’d love to see pictures of these lists. (Laughter.)
MARK KASHMAN: (Laughter.) Yeah, that’s one thing in the feedback tool. Check that little box if you’re okay to share what’s on your screen. It really helps the team better decipher your feedback, and it gives them a sense of how are people using it? What can we do better based on that feedback? I iterate all that and make sure to have all of your personal links that you’re willing to share in the show notes, and of course, lots of links to get started in the preview.
Thank you for your time, and really excited for where this goes in these coming months.
MICEILE BARRETT: Wonderful. Thank you, Mark. Bye!
BEN TRUELOVE: Thanks, Mark.
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MARK KASHMAN: You now have one of the best viewpoints. Your ability to see what is this thing Microsoft Lists MSA Preview. You should know at its core, from the depths of the outside all the way inside, what is this thing, because you heard it from Miceile and Ben. You heard it from a product side, a design side, examples of what you can do, and of course, we hope a lot of encouragement to try that preview. Again, lists.live.com. Get started today.
Now, if you want to dig in a little bit more and, of course, hear a lot of news and information, and best practices, and dig in with a lot of your colleagues around the world, there are a ton of events that I want to highlight, some of which I or my colleagues will be attending to share more about Lists, both Lists in Microsoft 365 for Business, and now with the use of your Microsoft account.
First up, a shoutout to the event in England. This is a Collab Days Bletchley Park, and that’s February 23rd. You can follow them and get all the news at collabdays_park.
The next event is Enterprise Connect. This is in March 21st to the 24th. It’s an in-person event in Orlando, Florida, and they truly cover all natures of product across OneDrive, SharePoint, the Power Platform, Azure. It’s a pretty pervasive spectrum of what they offer at the Enterprise Connect. Dig into their website. I’ll have a link in the blog and in the show notes, so that you can go and check out what it is that they offer.
Now, if you focus down, this next event is called Teams Nation 2022 because it is on March 23rd, 2022, so far now a yearly conference. And it’s a really great event that’s all about Microsoft Teams and everything you can do at the core of Teams, and of course, a lot that you can do in the ancillary with a lot of the integration work across our own apps and a lot of other third-party apps, or custom experiences that people are building on Teams.
A lot of great keynotes, a lot of great sessions, and I’ll have one that showcases a lot of how you can leverage lists from an events perspective, so how I use it to plan and manage across my whole team, plus a lot of other partner teams to get ready for multiple events throughout the year. We’re talking about events in this section. We just talked about Lists. Teams Nation, for me, is where I’m going to combine them both to show how I use Lists to prepare for events.
Anyway, the next event, Collab Days Cologne, this is March 2022. There is not a specific day announced yet, but it is listed on their site. I wanted to call it out. If they do update that, I’ll certainly update that in the future, in a future episode.
Next one that my team, through my co-host and friend, Chris McNulty, he’s going to be representing Microsoft, along with a lot of other partners and customers, showcasing a lot of work at the Document Strategy Forum. This is April 4th through the 6th, and it’s in person in Chicago, Illinois. And it’s bound to be one of those depth-type conferences that goes into all of those enterprise content management strategies for how you can really serve up content as a service throughout all of your employee experience, and your deeper level content management solutions that you want to put in place. If you go there, say hi to Chris for me.
Next is another in-person event in Las Vegas. This is the Microsoft 365 Conference, April 5th through the 7th. And this is where we’ll get that kind of real-time Chris. He’s going to be bouncing between the DSF conference and the Microsoft 365 conference.
But again, a load of people both from the community and from Microsoft, including Jeff Teper are going to be at the Microsoft 365 Conference April 5th through the 7th, a load of content from the OneDrive and SharePoint team. Viva will have a specific track, if you want to learn more about Microsoft Viva, and of course a track dedicated to Microsoft Teams and attract dedicated to the Power Platform. A lot of great people that I know both from the community and for Microsoft will be flying there in person to share what they know and, of course, answer any questions that you might have.
Next is another one of those specialized conferences, a little bit back to the content management days, is the AIIM 2022. This is April 27th through the 29th. And that will be in Denver, Colorado. Get your lungs ready to go into the altitude and learn from the AIIM conference.
Next one is the SEF 2022. This was planned to be in person for a lot of number of sessions, and it was postponed and moved around a little bit. But now it’s going to be a blended experience of some people in person, and some people delivering, like myself, virtually on May 4th through the 5th. The event, if you’re in person, is in Sweden, but you can certainly connect as a consumer, or if you’re wanting to fly over to Sweden, I’m sure they would love to have you. But look for SEF 2022, a lot of great sessions, especially if you want to have an in-person experience in Sweden.
Next is the 365 EduCon, and this is the one that will be in Seattle. They have about three to four cities a year, and the one in Seattle is May 9th through the 12th. It’s in our backyard, essentially just across the pond if you go from Redmond, Washington, where most of everybody from my team works at Microsoft, and then a lot of people flying in from all over the place from the community, Microsoft MVPs, to give a lot of workshop sessions. And of course, there will be a Jeff Teper keynote dropping over and spending time at 365 EduCon Seattle, early part of May.
And I just wanted to drop, since we’re talking about Lists in this episode, I just wanted to call attention that we still have a Microsoft List workshop that’s available on demand. This is primarily based on Lists in Microsoft 365 Business Plans. But since lists are lists are lists, you will find that a whole lot of the lessons that are in that training, cover what you can do with Lists, full stop, both work and life, the product with that common platform as it expands to all those different scenarios. We hope the core of the product is the same experience. If you do review the Microsoft List workshop on demand, you’ll get a lot of insights of what you can do both through Microsoft 365 Business or now with the MSA Preview.
I want to thank our guests, Miceile Barrett and Ben Truelove, for sharing product and design insights all about Microsoft Lists, especially the MSA Preview. And remember, try the Microsoft Lists MSA Preview. Not doing so would be a Wookie mistake. Remember, #allarmsintech.
We encourage you to check out our show page for links to all that we discussed today and more. Go to aka.ms/TheIntrazone. You can reach us any space, anytime. Send questions, send feedback, maybe send your quantum theories for hyperdrive. Send it to us via e-mail at TheIntrazone@microsoft.com or via Twitter @SharePoint, @MKashman and @CMcNulty 2000. Remember to rate, review and tell all your friends about the show. Follow the show wherever you get your favorite tech podcasts.
Thanks so much for listening. I’m your host, Mark Kashman. This has been The Intrazone a show about the Microsoft 365 lists for life, intelligent intranet.
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| 31 Dec 2018 | SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop December 2018 | 00:23:26 | |
This month on The Intrazone Roadmap Pitstop, we focus on what's rolling out for SharePoint and Office 365 in December and what's coming soon in January 2019. You'll learn about ways to inform and engage with dynamic employee experiences, improve teamwork in OneDrive and Yammer, and uses of the new SharePoint admin center in Office 365. Also, we talk with Sean Squires, Senior Program on the SharePoint Team Services Group. All Office 365 users, start your engines!
Running Time: 23min
Social and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook @MSSharePoint SharePoint Twitter@SharePoint Mark Kashman Twitter @mkashman Chris McNulty Twitter @cmcnulty2000 Sean Squires Twitter @iamseansquires
Resources: Stay on top of Office 365 changes
Upcoming Events: SPS Events and on Twitter @SPS_Events SharePoint Fest and on Twitter @SharePointFest SharePoint Conference North America, May 21-23, 2019
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| 01 Oct 2019 | SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop September 2019 | 00:34:12 | |
On this month's Intrazone Roadmap Pitstop we talk with Max Kulakov, a designer on the OneDrive SharePoint engineering team about the new web parts rolled out this month, with focus on the design approach and development. Also in the episode are September Office 365 release highlights, updates, and teasers for what's to come in October. Running Time: 34:15 Show Intro [00:00:00:00] What’s New [01:05] Guest Perspective with Max Kulakov, designer [06:00] What’s New Part 2 [20:45] Teasers [31:45] Resources and Show Wrap [33:00] Social and Info Links: SharePoint Roadmap September 2019 Blog Post SharePoint Facebook | Twitter | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice OneDrive Facebook | Twitter | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice Max Kulakov | LinkedIn Resources: Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Microsoft 365 public roadmap + pre-filtered URL for SharePoint, OneDrive, Yammer and Stream roadmap items Subscribe to The Intrazone: Show Page: https://aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| 12 May 2020 | Putting the Modern into Modern Workplace | 00:44:06 | |
Chris and Mark talk to Alex Bradley - senior product marketing manager and teamwork narrative lead focused on all things Modern Workplace. Alex shares more about how Microsoft has responded to the COVID-19 crisis to help customers adjust to a remote work force, move to recovery, reduce costs and manage risk. And learn about Alex's webcast and podcast series, Modern Workplace, where he's been talking a lot with Jared Spataro, CVP of Microsoft 365, about what we’ve learned about remote work and staying connected.
Resources and Info Links: Tech Community SharePoint Blog Post SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice Alex Bradley | LinkedIn Modern Workplace | site + webcast series| podcast
1 month in, what we've learned about remote work (recent Modern Workplace podcast episode) What we've learned about remote work (recent Modern Workplace video) COVID-19 Business Resource Center on LinkedIn How remote work impacts collaboration by Jared Spataro Working remotely during challenging times by Lily Zheng, Director, Microsoft China Stay productive while working remotely: Tips for effective remote work One architect's radical vision to replace the open office on WSJ
Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes
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| 16 Jan 2020 | One part solution, two parts inspiration | 00:34:47 | |
In this episode, Chris and Mark dig into three customer stories (Mott MacDonald, HAVI and Marks & Spencer) – highlighting three common solution areas many customers face. They chat about how each customer went about tackling their solutions and how this infers the art of the possible if you face the same desired outcome. Consider this a walk-through of best practices using common components of Microsoft 365. Social and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice OneDrive Facebook | @OneDrive | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice Resources: Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Mott MacDonald | @MottMacDonald | Customer Story video "Mott MacDonald extends connected thinking with Microsoft 365" Marks & Spencer | @MarksandSpencer | Customer story video "Marks & Spencer streamlines communication with Office 365" HAVI | @HAVItweets | HAVI Customer story video "HAVI slashes employee onboarding times with Microsoft PowerApps and Teams" Upcoming Events: SharePoint Saturdays | @SPS_Events Microsoft Ignite | The Tour (various cities worldwide) | @MS_Ignite Subscribe to The Intrazone: Listen to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Show Page: https://aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| 02 Mar 2022 | SharePoint roadmap pitstop February 2022 | 00:29:31 | |
February 2022 continued strong in Microsoft 365 with numerous SharePoint and related tech goodness: Updated My feed web part, Viva Topics integration with SharePoint Syntex taxonomy, new Microsoft Graph connectors, channel and folder rename between Teams and SharePoint, Microsoft 365 connected templates, OneDrive sync for macOS, and more. We talk with Raju Nagalinga - principal program manager at Microsoft focused on Microsoft Graph connectors in connection to Microsoft Search. Raju talks more about two new connectors for Jira and Confluence, plus the broader ways to connect your various content sources for a holistic end user search results experience. Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post. Click here for a transcript of this episode.
Social and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host] Raju Nagalinga | Twitter | LinkedIn [guest]
Resources: Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts
Upcoming Events: Enterprise Connect (Mar.21-24.2022, Orlando, FL) Teams Nation 2022 (Mar.23.2022) CollabDays - Cologne (Mar.2022 - no specific day announced yet) Document Strategy Forum (DSF) 2022 (April 4-6.2022, Chicago, IL) Microsoft 365 Conference (in-person, Apr.5-7.2022, Las Vegas, NV) AIIM 2022 (Apr.27-29, Denver, CO) SEF 2022 (planned for in-person with a few sessions delivered virtually, May.4-5.2022, Sweden) 365 EduCon (May.9-12.2022, Seattle, WA)
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| 18 Sep 2018 | Hitchhiker's Guide to the Cloud | 01:29:10 | |
Get ready to thumb a ride into the foundations of the cloud. Chris and Mark take you on an audible time hop through the stages of Microsoft data center innovation, planning and scale – into the foundational underpinnings of SharePoint in Office 365. First, they speak with Richard Harrison, data center technical architect, about how Microsoft invents at the physical data center layer (in a full-scale data center lab). Second, Mark speaks with Som Coelho, principal program manager, to understand large-scale, long-term hardware capacity planning. Thirdly, we chat with Zach Rosenfield, principal group program manager, charged with making SharePoint an elastic, reliable, scalable service worldwide. It's a longer episode, and it's worth every 90 minutes of it. Thumbs out. Here we go! ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND RESOURCES: TRT: 01:29:09:00
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Primary resources and social: SharePoint site https://products.office.com/SharePoint/ SharePoint Community Blog http://office.com/sharepoint/community SharePoint Facebook https://www.facebook.com/MSSharePoint/ SharePoint Twitter https://twitter.com/SharePoint SharePoint Fest https://sharepointfest.com/ SPS Events http://www.spsevents.org/ SPS Events Twitter https://twitter.com/SPS_Events Mark Kashman Twitter https://twitter.com/mkashman Chris McNulty Twitter https://twitter.com/cmcnulty2000 Richard Harrison LinkedIn Zack Rosenfield Twitter https://twitter.com/Zrosenfield
Upcoming Events: Microsoft Ignite, September 24-28, 2018 Office and SharePoint LIVE! 360, December 2-7, 2018
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| 05 Feb 2020 | Designing your intranet | 01:21:15 | |
In this episode, we talk with three intranet experts to unveil insights and best practices for planning, designing and implementing a new, beautiful, functional, engaging, personalized SharePoint-based intranet. Guests include Sue Hanley, Melissa Torres and Matt Wolodarsky on subjects like information architecture and the new flat world of SharePoint sites structuring, design possibilities, how to scale roll out with both executive buy-in and end user adoption – plus insights into what’s next. And as always, we announce upcoming events, resource links and more. Social and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice OneDrive Facebook | @OneDrive | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice Susan Hanley (Twitter | LinkedIn | Blog on Computer World | website) Melissa Torres (Twitter 1, Twitter 2 | LinkedIn) Matt Wolodarsky (Twitter | LinkedIn) Resources: “What to choose? A Communication or Team Site in SharePoint” blog by Susan Hanley “SharePoint adoption (resource center)” “Realize the value of an intelligent intranet in your organization” blog by Matt Wolodarsky Intelligent Intranet Ideation Workshop information Nielsen Norman’s "The Year's 10 Best Intranets" report; SharePoint, year-over-year is often a chosen platforms for numerous winners. @NNGroup SharePoint hub sites per tenant limit (article) Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Upcoming Events: SharePoint Saturdays | @SPS_Events Microsoft Ignite | The Tour (various cities worldwide) | @MS_Ignite SPTechCon | @SPTechCon, February 18-21, 2020 Collab365 #GLOBALCON1, March 2-6, 2020 ShareCamp, March 7-8, 2020 Office 365 Saturday, March 7, 2020 Subscribe to The Intrazone: Listen to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Show Page: https://aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| 24 Jul 2018 | SharePoint Server 2019 Preview - Go! | 00:57:22 | |
You've waited long enough. The SharePoint Server 2019 public preview starts today. As Microsoft begins releasing the bits, get the inside scoop from senior product managers Bill Baer and Mark Kashman. They cover the history of SharePoint Server, review all the new SPS'2019 features, and list out numerous scenarios for users, IT and devs to pilot during the public preview. Beyond SharePoint Server 2019, Mark and Bill talk with Kippi Lundgren about Project Server 2019 public preview and all it brings for customers on-premises as part of the SharePoint Server install package. And don't miss the end where Bill answers the question, "Is on-premises dead?" See photos of guests and read more about the episode on the SharePoint Tech Community Blog.
TRT: 57:27
Articles: Get the SharePoint Server 2019 Public Preview: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=2006095 "Welcome to SharePoint Server 2019," Bill Baer, Microsoft Tech Community Blog "SharePoint Server 2019: A First Look," Bill Baer and Hani Loza, SharePoint North America Conference 2018, PowerPoint "SharePoint Server: What You Can Expect!" Bill Baer and Brian Alderman, Mindsharp Presentation SharePoint Migration Tool: https://docs.microsoft.com/sharepointmigration/introducing-the-sharepoint-migration-tool Hybrid search related limits for SharePoint in Office 365: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Search-limits-for-SharePoint-Online-7C06E9ED-98B6-4304-A900-14773A8FA32F Microsoft Project UserVoice https://microsoftproject.uservoice.com/forums/218133-microsoft-project Project Server site https://products.office.com/en-us/project/enterprise-project-server Microsoft Docs for Project https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/project/index
Upcoming Events: SharePoint Fest - Seattle, August 20-24, 2018 SharePoint Tech Con - Boston, August 26-29, 2018 Microsoft Ignite, September 24-28, 2018 Office and SharePoint LIVE! 360, December 2-7, 2018
Primary resources and social: Get the SharePoint Server 2019 Public Preview: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=2006095 SharePoint site https://products.office.com/SharePoint/ SharePoint Community Blog http://office.com/sharepoint/community SharePoint Facebook https://www.facebook.com/MSSharePoint/ SharePoint Twitter https://twitter.com/SharePoint Project Twitter: https://twitter.com/Project Project blog: https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/blog/project/ Project Support / "how to" for end users: https://support.office.com/project Mark Kashman Twitter https://twitter.com/mkashman Bill Baer Twitter https://twitter.com/williambaer SPS Events http://www.spsevents.org/ SPS Events Twitter https://twitter.com/SPS_Events
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| 30 Nov 2021 | SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop November 2021 | 00:35:41 | |
November 2021 brought lots of great SharePoint and related tech releases: Microsoft Viva GA, private drafts for SharePoint news and pages, Embed web part for SharePoint spaces, SharePoint Framework (SPFx) v1.13, SharePoint admin center: Manage channel sites, Microsoft Lists: Fast and offline, updated site creation experience, Microsoft Feedback for OneDrive and SharePoint, and more – plus new disclosures from Microsoft Ignite. We also chat with Andrey Esipov, principal program manager on the SharePoint team working to make Microsoft Lists, OneDrive and other technologies fast and available for offline work. Andrey shares more about 'Project Nucleus' and how it combines Progressive Web App (PWA) tech with the new Microsoft.SharePoint.exe component. Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post. SharePoint | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | Feedback Andrey Esipov | LinkedIn [guest] Mark Kashman |@mkashman | Kashbox blog [host] Resources: “Building fast, offline-capable Microsoft 365 web applications” by Andrey Esipov Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Upcoming Events: European Collaboration Summit (Nov.29 - Oct. 1.2021) Microsoft 365 Collaboration Conference - Vegas (Dec.7-9.2021) 365 EduCon - DC (formerly SP Fest) (Dec.12-16.2021) 365 EduCon - Dallas (formerly SP Fest) (Jan.31-Feb.4.2021) Follow The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone Listen and follow to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts | |||
| 03 Feb 2022 | SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop January 2022 | 00:33:09 | |
January 2022 kicked us off right in Microsoft 365 with a slew of SharePoint and related tech goodness: Microsoft Editor in SharePoint pages, Viva Topics topic card improvements, SharePoint navigation switcher, conversation search in Office.com and SharePoint, migration updates, Microsoft Lists: Board view, Power BI for libraries, new library drop-down menu, Lists in the SharePoint app bar, and more. Mark also chats with Yogesh Ratnaparkhi - Microsoft principal program manager focused on migration of files and folder into Microsoft 365. We chat about progress on Migration Manager in the SharePoint admin center, recent updates with the SharePoint Migration Tool (SPMT), and highlight some of the key organizing and scheduling capabilities now available to admins. It's a packed half hour, and you'll find yourself more informed at the end. Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post. Social and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host] Yogesh Ratnaparkhi | LinkedIn [guest] Resources: Sign up and try the Microsoft Lists - MSA Preview Read and review the free ClearBox 'Intranet and Employee Experience Platforms 2022' Visit the Microsoft Viva adoption center within adoption.microsoft.com Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Upcoming Events: CollabDays - Bletchley Park, England (Feb.23.2022) + @CollabDays_Park Enterprise Connect (Mar.21-24.2022, Orlando, FL) Teams Nation 2022 (Mar.23.2022) CollabDays - Cologne (Mar.2022 - no specific day announced yet) Document Strategy Forum (DSF) 2022 (April 4-6.2022, Chicago, IL) Microsoft 365 Conference (in-person, Apr.5-7.2022, Las Vegas, NV) AIIM 2022 (Apr.27-29, Denver, CO) SEF 2022 (planned for in-person with a few sessions delivered virtually, May.4-5.2022, Sweden) 365 EduCon (May.9-12.2022, Seattle, WA)
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| 10 Sep 2019 | SharePoint is the elected official | 01:18:05 | |
This episode brings all the insights on the Government Community Cloud (GCC) offerings in Office 365. Mark and Chris talk with three Office 365 experts who specialize in working with government agencies; John Peluso (CTO – Public Sector; AvePoint), Adam Levithan (Digital Product Manager; Withum) and Richard Toland (Principal Architect; Perpetual Reality), across a number of topics including customer stories, scenarios, change management, and important tips to share with every government customer and prospect. Plus, Mark's mom, Mary Kashman, sneaks in to the studio and gives us a great intro into this episode! Running Time: 1hr 18min Show Intro [00:00] Topic of the Week – Government Community Cloud (GCC) Guest Perspective – Government Round Table with Richard Tolan, John Peluso and Adam Levithan [09:50] FAQs [01:07:45] Upcoming Events [01:11:30] Show Wrap [01:16:50] Hosts and Guests John Peluso (AvePoint) | @JohnConnected | LinkedIn Adam Levithan (Withum) | @CollabAdam | LinkedIn Richard Toland (Perpetual Reality, LLC) | @RRToland | LinkedIn Articles and Sites Office 365 government plans (G1, G3 and G5) - Includes eligibility requirements, what's included, etc. Microsoft 365 for government (evidence how government agencies use Microsoft cloud technology including AI, and IoT) Primary SharePoint Conference 2019 resources Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Get started with Office Online in Office 365 Events SharePoint Saturdays | @SPS_Events Microsoft Ignite | The Tour (various cities worldwide) Gartner Digital Workplace Summit - September 12-13, London UK ESPC, European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference - December 2-5, Prague, Czech Republic (@EuropeanSP) The Intrazone links Show page https://aka.ms/TheIntrazone Apple Podcasts https://aka.ms/TheIntrazone-iTunes Google Play Music https://aka.ms/TheIntrazone-GooglePlay Spotify https://aka.ms/TheIntrazone-Spotify Stitcher: https://aka.ms/TheIntrazone-Sticher Overcast: The Intrazone on Overcast | |||
| 07 Aug 2024 | Microsoft 365 Backup—Commvault | 00:23:42 | |
Microsoft 365 Backup is your in-place solution for lightning-fast restorability, ensuring business continuity. On this episode, guest host Brad Gussin from the SharePoint engineering team provides an overview of the core offering. You'll then hear an interview with our valued partner, Brad Kirby from Commvault, about their integration of Commvault Cloud with our Microsoft 365 Backup storage platform - extending data recoverability and searchability.
Read this episode's corresponding blog post. Plus, click here for transcript of this episode.
Brad Kirby (Commvault) | LinkedIn | @Commvault [guest] Brad Gussin | LinkedIn [co-host] Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | Feedback
Learn more about Microsoft 365 Backup (adoption.microsoft.com) Learn more about Commvault's Microsoft 365 Backup solution "Microsoft Announces General Availability of Microsoft 365 Backup and Microsoft 365 Backup Storage" by Zach Rosenfield [July 31, 2024] Watch "The Ins and Outs of Microsoft 365 Backup & Archive" Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes
Upcoming events: TechCon365 - DC | Aug. 12-16, 2024 |Washington, DC CollabDays Hamburg | Hamburg, Germany | August 31, 2024 Microsoft Power Platform Conference | September 18-20, 2024 | Las Vegas, NV CollabDays Portugal Porto 2024 (previously CollabDays Lisbon)| Sept. 21 Venue: Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto CollabDays New England | October 18-19, 2024 | Burlington, Massachusetts TechCon365 - Dallas | Nov. 11-15, 2024 | Dallas, TX Microsoft Ignite (+ more info) | Nov 18-22, 2024 | Chicago, IL ESPC | European SharePoint Conference | Dec 2-5, 2024 | Stockholm, Sweden + always review and share the CommunityDays.org website
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| 13 Mar 2025 | Deep M365Con learning with Laura and Rez | 00:43:08 | |
Are you ready for deep thoughts on deep learning with Laura Rogers and Noorez Khamis? Laura is an MVP and founder of IW Mentor, who brings a wealth of knowledge in SharePoint and Microsoft 365. Rez is also an MVP and CTO at Creospark with an extensive background on the depths of SharePoint and Microsoft 365. Together, they bring us insights of in-person events, based on their own workshop experiences and the benefits they see, and receive, during hands-on learning and the importance of networking at conferences. It's a great conversation about tech, learning, and sharing what you learn.
Read this episode's corresponding blog post.
02:03 Interview with Laura Rogers and Noorez Khamis 38:17 Upcoming Events
Laura Rogers (IW Mentor) | LinkedIn | Twitter Noorez Khamis (Creospark)| LinkedIn | Twitter SharePoint | @SharePoint & @MSSharePoint.Bsky.social| SharePoint Community blog | Feedback Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host]
Microsoft Learn - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Microsoft 365 changes
Upcoming events: Ability Summit | March 18, 2025 (Online) MVP Summit 2025 | March 24-27.2025 (Redmond, WA & online) Microsoft Fabric Community Conference | March 31 – April 2 (Las Vegas, NV) Microsoft's 50th Anniversary | April 4, 2025 (Worldwide) Comms vNext | April 15-16, 2025 (Denver, CO) Microsoft 365 Community Conference | May 5-8, 2025 (Vegas) Microsoft Build | May 19-22, 2025 (Seattle, WA | Online) SharePoint Intranet Festival (SWOOP Analytics) | May 21, 2025 (Online) European Collaboration Summit | May 26-28, 2025 (Düsseldorf, Germany) European Power Platform Conference | June 16-19 (Vienna, Austria) TechCon 365 - Seattle | June 23 – 27, 2025 (Seattle, WA) TechCon 365 - Atlanta | August 11-15, 2025 (Atlanta, GA)
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| 20 Mar 2025 | Get to know Copilot | 00:56:33 | |
There is so much to learn about Microsoft 365 Copilot, it helps to have someone translate Copilot into practical knowledge, tips, and tricks. We chat with TJ Devine, one of Microsoft's foremost experts in Copilot - to hear how it evolves AND how best to talk about it - to understand what you can do with AI in Microsoft 365. You'll hear TJ touch on key AI innovations, core integration touch points, customer journeys with Copilot adoption, some of his favorite tips when working with Copilot, and a glimpse into the future. Small note: TJ, Mark, and Chris recorded this themselves - their real voices - no AI augmentation, just pure AI education!
Read this episode's corresponding blog post.
08:57 - Interview with TJ Devine 44:55 - Upcoming Events
TJ Devine | LinkedIn SharePoint | @SharePoint & @MSSharePoint.Bsky.social| SharePoint Community blog | Feedback Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host] Copilot hub on adoption.microsoft.com Microsoft Learn - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Microsoft 365 changes
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| 11 Feb 2020 | Bobble and grow with Funko | 00:38:59 | |
Three superhero Microsoft MVPs swoop into the fantastical world of Funko, a worldwide purveyor of all things pop culture. The intrepid Funko IT department, led by Scott Christensen, was fighting to keep up with the company’s rapid growth. They needed to refine collaboration, enhance communication and set things in motion to automate as their business grew – and still grows. The MVPs had just three days and it was a nail-biting race to the last very last web part! Swoop showcases both Funko’s IT and business journey to the cloud with the help of community Swooperstar favorites and Microsoft MVPs: Sue Hanley, Laura Rogers and Benjamin Niaulin. Social and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice OneDrive Facebook | @OneDrive | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice Susan Hanley (@susanhanley | LinkedIn | Blog on Computer World | website) Benjamin Niaulin (@bniaulin | LinkedIn | ShareGate) Laura Rogers (@WonderLaura | LinkedIn | IW Mentor) Resources: Episode blog post with Q&A with Scott Christensen SharePoint SWOOP – The Intranet Makeover Show (via Microsoft Tech Community) “POP! Goes Funko!” (The Intrazone podcast, episode #15) “Bobblehead Boom: Funko Grows With Speed and Tech to Deliver More POP Culture Fun” (via the Microsoft Transform blog) POP! yourself funko.com/pop-yourself “Making fun: the story of Funko” on @Netflix Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Upcoming Events: SharePoint Saturdays | @SPS_Events Microsoft Ignite | The Tour (various cities worldwide) | @MS_Ignite SPTechCon | @SPTechCon, February 18-21, 2020 Collab365 #GLOBALCON1, March 2-6, 2020 ShareCamp, March 7-8, 2020 Office 365 Saturday, March 7, 2020 Subscribe to The Intrazone: Listen to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Show Page: https://aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| 18 Feb 2020 | An API for teamwork | 01:28:39 | |
We uncover the power and capabilities of Microsoft Teams as a platform. Hear from two experts inside and outside of Microsoft. First we learn about the design and strategy of how to extend Teams at the scale of the worldwide Microsoft 365 customer base from Bill Bliss, lead architect for Microsoft Teams platform engineering. Then, we turn to the real-world approach of one of our strong Microsoft MVP developers in this space, Wictor Wilén, about how he develops teamwork solutions for his company, Avanade, and their vast customer base. You’ll hear about bots, tabs and connectors – the basis of the what and how to approach extending the Microsoft Teams platform offering. Episode Blog Post on Tech Community Social and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice OneDrive Facebook | @OneDrive | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice Wictor Wilén (Avanade) | LinkedIn | Twitter | Blog Bill Bliss | Twitter | LinkedIn Resources: "Microsoft Teams architecture update" by Bill Bliss #MSIgnite19/#BRK3215 "CliffNotes: Bill Bliss on Microsoft Teams Architecture" by Brent Middleton, content marketing specialist - AvePoint, Inc. "Build a Microsoft Teams app from scratch in 20 minutes" by Wictor Wilén #MSIgnite19/#THR2005 "Building modern enterprise-grade collaboration solutions with Microsoft Teams and SharePoint" by Mike Ammerlaan #MSIgnite/#MDEV30 "Streamline business processes with the Microsoft Teams development platform" by Karan Nigam (Microsoft), Zakiullah Khan Mohammed (Microsoft) and Nicholas Gill (American Red Cross); #TMS50 “American Red Cross - Power Platform and Microsoft Teams” | case study video "A Yeoman Generator for Microsoft Teams": https://aka.ms/yoTeams Office 365 developer program; @Microsoft365Dev. Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Upcoming Events: SharePoint Saturdays | @SPS_Events Microsoft Ignite | The Tour (various cities worldwide) | @MS_Ignite SPTechCon | @SPTechCon, February 18-21, 2020 Collab365 #GLOBALCON1, March 2-6, 2020 ShareCamp, March 7-8, 2020 Office 365 Saturday, March 7, 2020 Subscribe to The Intrazone: Listen to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Show Page: https://aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| 04 Oct 2021 | SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop September 2021 | 00:30:27 | |
September 2021 brought lots of great SharePoint and related tech releases: Microsoft Viva Connections (Public Preview), updated video experiences, images in the Text web part, SharePoint team site navigation switcher, share Lists as links, Microsoft Lists: Applied filters, Planner updates, Whiteboard stored in OneDrive, and more. We also chat with Som Roy and Raagul Manoharan user experience designers on the broader OneDrive & SharePoint team focused on new Viva Connections experiences across Web and mobile. Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post. Social and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice Mark Kashman |@mkashman [host] Raagul Manoharan | Twitter [guest] Som Roy | LinkedIn [guest] Resources: Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Upcoming Events: Microsoft Ignite [Nov.2021]| @MS_Ignite Follow The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone Listen and follow to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts | |||
| 08 Dec 2020 | SharePoint drives me crazy! | 01:05:14 | |
Chris and Mark talk with Joanne Klein, Ruven Gotz and Daniel Glenn about what sent them to the SharePoint crazy farm, and back. You’ll hear their stories of tech-driven insanity, and why they've stuck with SharePoint through the years. Lessons learned promoted best practices and insights on a product that’s matured as a service year over year. Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post. View the transcript of this episode. Resources and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice Mark Kashman | Twitter [co-host] Chris McNulty | Twitter [co-host] Joanne Klein | Twitter | LinkedIn | Blog [guest] Ruven Gotz | Twitter | Instagram (wonderful portraits and landscapes)| LinkedIn | Avanade site [guest] Daniel Glenn | Twitter | LinkedIn | Blog [guest] Joanne’s fun pre-recording Twitter thread soliciting ‘crazy’ input from the community Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Relay FM is a podcast network for the technically creative, curious, and maybe even a little obsessive. Listen and subscribe to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Upcoming Events: Microsoft 365 Collaboration Conference [virtual] (Dec.9-11.2020) Microsoft Envision [Dec.15.2020] Project Cortex Office Hours – up next: ‘SharePoint trends & Gartner Content Services Platform Magic Quadrant (CSP MQ)’ | Dec 16th, 2020 9:00am PDT SharePoint Fest Virtual Workshops (ongoing) Subscribe to The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone y3MzGP625LeqjqbaPxon | |||
| 16 May 2023 | Adobe and Microsoft | 00:46:34 | |
How do Adobe and Microsoft work together? And what are the outcomes? In this episode, you'll hear from Ben Vanderberg - SaaS Tech Evangelist, Strategist, and Speaker from Adobe. We dig into the core of the partnership from a content collaboration perspective. We touch on Adobe integration with Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Teams, Edge, SharePoint and more. We, too, take a trip down PDF memory lane and some of the recent Adobe AI announcements like coming out of the recent Adobe Summit 2023 AND NAB 2023. Read this episode's corresponding blog post. Plus, click here for transcript of this episode. Ben Vanderberg | LinkedIn | Twitter [guest] Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host] SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | Feedback Learn more about the Adobe + Microsoft partnership: On MS.com and on Adobe business site Adobe Podcast: Recording and editing, all on the web - aka "Project Shasta" Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Upcoming events: Power Automate & Power Apps Developer Bootcamp Automation Summit 2023 | May.19-20.2023 London, Paddington CollabDays Italy | May.20.2023 in Milan European Collaboration Summit | May.22-24.2023 Düsseldorf Fair, Germany Document Strategy Forum 2023 | May 22-24 Le Méridien Charlotte, NC Microsoft Build 2023 | May 23-25, 2023 build.microsoft.com CollabDays Netherlands | June.10.2023 Vianen, Utrecht 365 EduCon - DC | June.12-16 Washington D.C. - USA European Power Platform Conference | Jun.20-22 Dublin, Ireland European SharePoint Conference | Nov.27-30 Amsterdam, Netherlands
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| 19 Mar 2019 | Going live in 3, 2, 1! | 00:36:35 | |
Empower everyone to share knowledge and expertise quickly and easily. Reach any audience, anywhere, anytime with immersive communications. That’s Microsoft 365 “Live Events." We’ve got the inside audible scoop from Live Events experts. Chris and Mark chat with Christina Torok, senior product manager (Stream/Live Events) and Amit Rajput, senior program manager (Live Events; Office Media Group (OMG)). Listen and learn about the breadth of events across Microsoft Teams, Yammer and Microsoft Stream.
Running Time: 37min Show Intro [00:00:00:00] Topic of the Week – Live Events Guest Perspective – Christina Torok and Amit Rajput [00:06:22:00] FAQs Roundtable [00:26:10:00] Upcoming Events [00:30:55:00] Show Wrap [00:35:36:00]
Social and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook @MSSharePoint SharePoint Twitter @SharePoint Mark Kashman Twitter @mkashman Chris McNulty Twitter @cmcnulty2000 Amit Rajput Twitter @rajputam Resources: "What are Microsoft Teams Live Events?" Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. 708 Captions and Accessibility Upcoming Events: SPS Events, Twitter @SPS_Events
SharePoint Fest, Washington, D.C. April 29 - May 3, 2019, Twitter @SharePointFest AIIM Conference, San Diego, CA, March 26-28, 2019 Microsoft Build 2019, May 6-8, Seattle, WA SharePoint Conference North America, May 21-23, Las Vegas, NV European Collaboration Summit, Wiesbaden, Germany, May 27-29, 2019 Microsoft Ignite | The Tour (various cities worldwide) Microsoft Business Applications Summit, Atlanta, GA, June 10-11, 2019 ESPC, European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference - Dec.2-5 (Prague, Czech Republic) Subscribe to The Intrazone: Show Page: https://aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| 01 May 2024 | SharePoint roadmap pitstop April 2024 | 00:25:27 | |
We focus on everything that landed this past April 2024: SharePoint brand center (Preview) with custom fonts support, Search from Viva Connections in Teams mobile, SharePoint: New feedback button, New Planner (GA), SharePoint eSignature and Approvals, SharePoint pages: New heading support, Clipchamp: Silence Removal, Microsoft Loop: Guest Sharing, and more. Plus a few audio clips from the recent New Planner launch events. And now, to the roadmap!
Read this episode's corresponding blog post. Plus, click here for transcript of this episode.
01:22 Employee Engagement 05:33 Planner + AI and Copilot 09:01 Teamwork 14:37 Related Technologies 23:00 Teasers
New Planner | GA Blog | "Meet the Makers" | New Planner AM SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | Feedback Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host]
Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes
Upcoming events: Microsoft 365 Community Conference | April 30 - May 2, 2024, Orlando, FL European Cloud Summit | May 14-16,2024, Wiesbaden, Germany SharePoint Intranet Festival (Online from SWOOP Analytics | May 22) TechCon365 - Seattle | June 3-7, 2024, Seattle, WA Microsoft Ignite (+ more info) | Nov 18-22, 2024, "Save the date," Chicago, IL European SharePoint Conference | Dec 2-5, 2024 in Stockholm, Sweden And always review and share the CommunityDays.org website
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| 15 May 2018 | When Search Becomes Intelligent | 01:09:58 | |
This week Hosts Mark Kashman and Naomi Moneypenny discuss SharePoint search and how intelligence on the back end brings forward content and people discovery – no more hunting and foraging for stuff throughout the intranet. Search is becoming a more personalized experience. Special guests this week include Agnes Molnar of Search Explained, and Jeff Fried from BA Insight. The Intrazone takes you inside the building blocks of your Microsoft SharePoint intranet. It's about how SharePoint fits into your everyday work life.
Show Outline: 1. News & Announcements – 00:01:24:00 2. Topic of the Week: Search and Discovery – 00:06:08:00 3. Guest Perspective with Agnes Molnar – 00:24:00:00 4. App or Best Practice of the Week – 00:43:40:00 a. Naomi Moneypenny’s Videos of Search Experiences b. Bob German – 00:44:57:00 5. Partner Highlight with Jeff Fried of BA Insight – 00:46:47:00 6. FAQs of the Week – 00:58:57:00 7. Upcoming Events – 01:06:12:00 8. Show Wrap and Information – 01:08:31:00
Additional Information and Resources: Mark Kashman Twitter @mkashman Naomi Moneypenny on Twitter @nmoneypenny
Agnes Molnar on Twitter @molnaragnes Search Explained on Twitter @SearchExplained Free search e-book from Search Explained Jeff Fried on Twitter @jefffried BA Insight on Twitter @BAInsight
Article of the week, from Bob German's "Vantage Point" blog post, "What is Modern SharePoint and Why Should I care?" Naomi Moneypenny excerpt taken from Ignite 2017 keynote (watch the full video): Accelerate your digital transformation with SharePoint and OneDrive FAQ about how news rolls up in SharePoint hub sites, “Use the news web part” support article
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| 02 Apr 2019 | Share with confidence | 01:10:44 | |
Share with confidence – both inside and outside your organization. When it comes to sharing, you must be mindful with whom you are sharing, what you are sharing, and how you are sharing it. And technology must support the balance of productive collaboration alongside policy compliance. This episode of The Intrazone brings two experts that shed light on best practices of working with people internally and externally. Joining us today are Richard Harbridge, CTO of 2toLead and David Lavenda, CPO of Harmon.ie.
Running Time: 70min
Social and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook @MSSharePoint SharePoint Twitter @SharePoint Mark Kashman Twitter @mkashman Chris McNulty Twitter @cmcnulty2000 Richard Harbridge – @RHarbridge - @2toLead | website | LinkedIn David Lavenda – @DLavenda - @TeamHarmonie | website | LinkedIn
Resources: 2toLead whitepaper “External sharing with Office 365" 2toLead whitepaper “Intranets with Office 365” Harmon.ie FREE Office 365/SharePoint Summits events – twelve events worldwide
Upcoming Events: SPS Events, Twitter @SPS_Events
SharePoint Fest, Washington, D.C. April 29 - May 3, 2019, Twitter @SharePointFest Microsoft Build 2019, May 6-8, Seattle, WA SharePoint Conference North America, May 21-23, Las Vegas, NV European Collaboration Summit, Wiesbaden, Germany, May 27-29, 2019 Microsoft Ignite | The Tour (various cities worldwide) Microsoft Business Applications Summit, Atlanta, GA, June 10-11, 2019 ESPC, European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference - Dec.2-5 (Prague, Czech Republic)
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| 19 Feb 2019 | SharePoint, You Look Marvelous | 00:53:26 | |
In this episode we go into the minds of the creative design team behind SharePoint. You'll learn about the elegant out-of-the-box experience and how that same rigor enables customers to make unique, beautiful, functional intranet sites. We talk with Denise Trabona, Principal Design Manager, and Omar Shahine, Partner Director of Program Management for OneDrive and SharePoint. And don't miss Mark's Transylvanian impression of Billy Crystal… (he tried – he really did).
Running Time: 53min Show Intro [00:00:00:00] Topic of the Week – DESIGN Guest Perspective with Omar Shahine [00:07:45:00] Guest Perspective with Denise Trabona [00:27:10:00] FAQs [00:42:00:00] Upcoming Events [00:48:35:00] Show Wrap [00:52:05:00]
Social and Info Links: SharePoint @MSSharePoint SharePoint @SharePoint Mark Kashman @mkashman Chris McNulty @cmcnulty2000 Denise Trabona, Principal Design Manager (LinkedIn | Twitter) Omar Shahine, Partner Director, Program Manager (LinkedIn | Twitter | Blog) Katie Swanson, SharePoint Product Designer
WINNERS of the recent #BillChrisBadges & #SPC19PassGiveaway contests
Resources: SharePoint design guidance site SharePoint Look Book also can be downloaded as a PDF: Nielsen Norman Group 2019 report: "10 best intranets award winners" and Video 3M Go was recognized with the 2019 Intranet Design Annual Award from the Nielsen Norman Group. A link to their story. Tenth of December by George Saunders
Upcoming Events: SPS Events, Twitter @SPS_Events SharePoint Fest Washington, D.C. April 29 - May 3, 2019, Twitter @SharePointFest SharePoint Conference North America, May 21-23, 2019, Las Vegas, NV Microsoft Ignite | The Tour (various cities worldwide) North American Collaboration Summit, Branson, MO, March 14-15, 2019 AIIM Conference, San Diego, CA, March 26-28, 2019 European Collaboration Summit, Wiesbaden, Germany, May 27-29, 2019 Microsoft Business Applications Summit, Atlanta, GA, June 10-11, 2019 ESPC, European SharePoint Conference, Office 365 & Azure Conference - December 2-5, 2019, Prague, Czech Republic Microsoft Build 2019, Seattle, WA
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| 30 Nov 2018 | SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop November 2018 | 00:30:48 | |
Welcome to The Intrazone Roadmap Pitstop, our bonus monthly podcast that answers, "What's rolling out now for SharePoint and related technologies into Office 365?" Hear about new updates that were rolled out in November 2018 and what's on deck for December. This show will keep you informed, current, and ahead of the ever-curving road'map. Special guest this week is John Sanders from the SharePoint engineering team, talking about web parts – the building blocks of your pages and sites of your Intranet.
Running Time: 31min
Social and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook @MSSharePoint SharePoint Twitter@SharePoint Mark Kashman Twitter @mkashman Chris McNulty Twitter @cmcnulty2000 John Sanders LinkedIn | Twitter | SCUBA
Resources: Stay on top of Office 365 changes" "Message center in Office 365" Microsoft 365 public roadmap + pre-filtered URL for SharePoint, OneDrive, Yammer and Stream roadmap items. Learn more about using web parts on SharePoint pages in Office 365. Learn more about the SharePoint Migration tool. Learn more about SharePoint Server 2019.
Upcoming Events: SPS Events and on Twitter @SPS_Events SharePoint Fest Chicago December 4-7, 2018 Office and SharePoint LIVE! 360, December 2-7, 2018 SharePoint Fest and on Twitter @SharePointFest SharePoint Conference North America, May 21-23, 2019
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| 01 Oct 2020 | SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop September 2020 | 00:39:28 | |
September brought the ability to manage the duration of external guests' access, Microsoft Search plus Power BI, an updated list creation experience in SharePoint, Microsoft Lists calendar and gallery views, Quick Edit becomes “Edit in grid view," Yammer reactions, and more. Mark talks with Ankita Kirti, product marketing manager at Microsoft, who leads OneDrive marketing and is one of the co-hosts on the excellent podcast Sync Up. They discuss “Add to OneDrive” and several Ignite 2020 announcements that span both OneDrive and SharePoint. Click here for transcript of this episode. Click here for corresponding blog post to this episode. Resource and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice Mark Kashman | Twitter [host] Ankita Kirti | Twitter [co-host] Sync Up, a OneDrive podcast Collaboration, communication and knowledge sharing with Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Project Cortex Ignite 2020 by Jeff Teper (CVP, OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams) Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Subscribe to The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone Listen and subscribe to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts | |||
| 30 Jan 2020 | SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop January 2020 | 00:25:01 | |
This month on SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop, we talk with Nicole Woon, program manager on the SharePoint engineering team focused on the "Next Steps" experience for site users. You'll learn what you can expect to see as suggestions based on what they are doing inside SharePoint sites, including Groupify. Plus, we talk about her involvement in Society of Women Engineers (SWE) and how it helped jump start her Microsoft career. Also in the show, SharePoint roadmap updates on employee engagement, teamwork, related tech and more.
Resources and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook | Twitter | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice OneDrive Facebook | Twitter | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice "Office 365 Video transition to Microsoft Stream overview" "SharePoint sites for highly regulated data" "Windows 7 support ended on January 14, 2020" Society of Women Engineers (SWE) | @SWETalk | SWE podcast Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Subscribe to The Intrazone: Listen to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Show Page: https://aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| 15 Nov 2021 | Review. Recap. Re-Ignite. | 00:43:44 | |
The news firehose of Microsoft Ignite has been capped, and now it's time for the recap to re-Ignite your synapses on all that was disclosed. Join Mark and Chris as they walk though tons of announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2021 across SharePoint, OneDrive, Microsoft Viva, Loop, Syntex, Lists, admin, security and more. There's a whole lot coming in the months ahead to improve your content and collaboration, with marked enhancements for employee experiences. Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host] SharePoint | @SharePoint | SharePoint community blog Microsoft Lists | Resource center | Adoption | Posts within Microsoft 365 community blog Resources: "Microsoft Viva is now generally available to help transform your hybrid work experience" by Seth Patton Microsoft Ignite 'Book of News' 2021 Microsoft Ignite 'ODSPV Guide' (list of related blogs, sessions, and more: Microsoft Lists resource center Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Listen and subscribe to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Upcoming Events: Microsoft Tech Community Live: Microsoft Viva Edition - a video AMA (Nov.16.2021 8am-12pm PST) Teams Day Online (Nov.17.2021) European Collaboration Summit (Nov.29 - Oct. 1.2021) Microsoft 365 Collaboration Conference - Vegas (Dec.7-9.2021) 365 EduCon - DC (formerly SP Fest) (Dec.12-16.2021) 365 EduCon - Dallas (formerly SP Fest) (Jan.31-Feb.4.2021) Follow and subscribe to The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| 03 May 2022 | SharePoint roadmap pitstop - April 2022 | 00:30:05 | |
April 2022 brought a lot of new tech to Microsoft 365 - lots of SharePoint and related tech goodness: Viva Topics in Outlook for the Web (4:40), Viva Topics insights, Microsoft Stream: Comment on a video or audio file, Create directly from the SharePoint app bar, Microsoft Lists for Android (9:30), Create and manage Power Apps from Microsoft Lists within Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Lists Calendar view: 'Unscheduled' Pane, OneDrive: Access your Teams standard and private channel files, OneDrive: Pin shared libraries to Quick Access, Viva Insights (20:20): Shared focus plans, Microsoft Purview, Bookmarks in New Yammer, Whiteboard files stored in SharePoint, and more. We also hear from two Microsoft Viva product leads - Naomi Moneypenny discuss progress we're seeing with Viva Topics and its latest feature in Outlook, plus insights about Viva Insights from Erik Anderson. Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post. Social and Info Links: Naomi Moneypenny | Twitter | LinkedIn [guest] Erik Anderson | LinkedIn [guest] Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host] SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint community blog | Feedback Resources: Viva Topics in Outlook for the Web click-through demo Microsoft Purview: Your home for Microsoft 365 compliance solutions .whiteboard files Tweet from Ian Mikutel (Head of Product at Microsoft Whiteboard for Teams and Surface) Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Upcoming Events: SEF 2022 (planned for in-person with a few sessions delivered virtually, May.4-5.2022 | Sweden) Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon (May.4-6.2022 | Virtual) Microsoft Tech Days (May5.2022) 365 EduCon (May.9-12.2022 | Seattle, WA) Microsoft Ability Summit (May10.2022 | Virtual) @MSFTEnable Build 2022 (May.24-26.2022 | Virtual) Thrive Conference (May.24-25.2022 | Slovenia) Microsoft Lists workshop [now available on-demand] Follow The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| 10 Dec 2019 | Partner Edition: Agilisys | 00:43:10 | |
This month's Microsoft partner highlight is Agilisys, a public sector cloud specialist who helps forward thinking organizations transform services that make a difference to millions of people across the UK. We talk with Agilisys's Zoe Wilson (Modern Teamwork Practice Lead), Luke Evans (Office 365 and SharePoint architect) and Ruben Hugo (Office 365 Solution Architect). Chris and Mark talk with them about Project Cortex, their customer stories, and their favorite Microsoft Ignite 2019 announcements. Plus, some personal discoveries about the people behind the partnership. Running Time: 43min Show Intro [00:00] Partner Profile – Agilisys [08:35] Upcoming Events [38:40] Resources and Show Wrap [41:55] Social and Info Links: SharePoint | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice OneDrive | @OneDrive | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice Resources: "City of London improves organization-wide collaboration with Microsoft Teams and Agilisys" Microsoft 365 Content Services Partner Program Azure AD (Active Directory) Project Cortex aka.ms/projectcortex - Join the preview and learn more about our vision and experiences in the Project Cortex Resource Center. Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Upcoming Events: Microsoft events — the year ahead: 2020 SharePoint Saturdays | @SPS_Events SharePoint Fest Chicago, December 9-13, 2019 Microsoft Ignite | The Tour (various cities worldwide) | @MS_Ignite Subscribe to The Intrazone: Microsoft podcasts aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Show Page: https://aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| 09 Aug 2022 | OneDrive turns 15! | 00:41:32 | |
It's OneDrive's 15th birthday, and all the presents are for you. On this episode, Ankita Kirti and Mark Kashman chat with Arwa Tyebkhan (Principal GPM | OneDrive) and Steven Bailey (CVP OneDrive and SharePoint engineering) to celebrate both OneDrive’s 15th lap around the sun AND to hear more about the new OneDrive Home experience. We first go into the way-back machine to learn about the evolution from Windows Live Mesh, Grove.exe and SharePoint Workspaces, into SkyDrive and SkyDrive Pro, and land on OneDrive as we know it today. We also discover that it’s not only OneDrive’s birthday… the team has been hard at work redesigning the OneDrive Home experience to help you easily resume your work and catch up on what you missed while you were away – everything at-a-glance and easy to prioritize where to start working. Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post. Steven Bailey (CVP OneDrive and SharePoint engineering lead) | LinkedIn Arwa Tyebkhan (Principal GPM - OneDrive) | LinkedIn Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Ankita Kirti | @Ankita_Kirti21 [co-host] OneDrive | @OneDrive | OneDrive community blog | Provide feedback SharePoint | @SharePoint | SharePoint community blog | Provide feedback Resources: "OneDrive turns 15!" - A brief history and introducing a new OneDrive Home experience | by Ankita Kirti (blog, customer video, podcast) Short "OneDrive turns 15!" video + screenshots of new OneDrive home experience Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Upcoming Events: 365 EduCon - Dallas (Aug. 8-12, 2022; Dallas, TX) HR Tech (Sept.13-16.2022; Mandalay Bay - Las Vegas, NV) Microsoft Power Platform Conference (Sept.20-22.2022; Orlando, FL) European Cloud Summit (Sept.26-28; Mainz, GE) 365 EduCon - Chicago (Sept.26-30; Chicago, IL) Microsoft Ignite (Oct.12-14; Hybrid) + FAQs + follow @MS_Ignite Microsoft Lists workshop [On-demand]
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| 19 Oct 2021 | From paper to auto-classified documents | 00:45:10 | |
One piece of paper might be easy to find. One document within twenty million – well, that leads to time-waste greater than a needle in a haystack. In this episode, we focus on Northumbrian Water's migration of 20M documents, the benefits of a Knowledge Discovery Workshop, applying both SharePoint Syntex and Viva Topics for improved intake recognition and better people and content discovery. Plus a fun story of a very important, nearly irreplaceable van. Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post. Resources: Gabriel Karawani | LinkedIn | Twitter || ClearPeople (Twitter | LinkedIn | Facebook | Vimeo) [guest] Craig Stanley | LinkedIn | Twitter || Northumbrian Water (Twitter | LinkedIn | Facebook | YouTube) [guest] Mark Kashman | Twitter [co-host] Chris McNulty | Twitter [co-host] Microsoft 365 Content Services Partner Program SharePoint | Syntex | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog Viva Topics | Resource center | #MSFTViva | Viva community blog Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Events: Microsoft Ignite (Nov.2-4.2021; digital event) European Collaboration Summit (Nov.29 - Oct. 1.2021) Microsoft 365 Collaboration Conference - Vegas (Dec.7-9.2021) Microsoft Lists workshop [available now on-demand] Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Follow The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| 25 Jul 2023 | Fighting crime in real time | 00:24:00 | |
In this episode, we dig into two real-time, data-driven public service scenarios -- both about systems and people that support policing at-scale. You'll hear solution-oriented clips pulled from two episodes of the 'Public Sector Future' podcast, with show host Olivia Neal - Director of Public Sector Center of Expertise at Microsoft. First, Olivia speaks to Ian Bell, CEO of the UK’s Police Digital Service, to give an inside look into harnessing the power of digital, data, and technology to better protect the communities they serve. Then a conversation with Joseph Courtesis, former Inspector of the NYPD who helped rationalize millions of data points from multiple data sources to save police time, in real time.
Read this episode's corresponding blog post. Plus, click here for transcript of this episode.
Olivia Neal | LinkedIn | Twitter | Public Sector Future podcast (Promoted by @MSFTNews) Ian Bell | Profile on PDS site | Twitter | LinkedIn | Police Digital (Twitter) | PDS on LinkedIn Joseph Courtesis | Twitter | LinkedIn | NYPDNews (Twitter) | NYPD (LinkedIn) | NYPD (Website) SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | Feedback Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host]
Public Sector Center of Expertise Microsoft for Public Safety and Justice Episode 51: The UK’s Police Digital Service Episode 14: Real Time Crime Center Lessons from the pandemic are shaping the future of public safety (article) UK Police Digital Service (website) Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes
Upcoming events: 365 EduCon - Seattle (plus PWR EduCon) | Aug.21-25.2023 SEF 2023 | Sept.11-12.2023 (Tekniska Museet – Stockholm, Sweden) Microsoft Power Platform Conference | Oct.3-5.2023 (Las Vegas) 365 EduCon - Chicago | Oct.30 - Nov.4, 2023 (Chicago, IL) European SharePoint Conference | Nov.27-30 in (Amsterdam, Netherlands) European Cloud Summit | Dec.4-6.2023 (Wiesbaden, Germany)
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| 02 Jan 2025 | SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop December 2024 | 00:36:40 | |
Happiest of holidays, and welcome to 2025! December 2024 brought some great new offerings: Microsoft Syntex pay-as-you-go: Simple document processing model, Viva Connections: Power Apps card, Viva Pulse now included in Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Search for Bing retirement, Outlook.cloud.microsoft, Add external content links to Viva Learning, Microsoft 365 data residency: New Zealand, the big, upcoming SharePoint Event + AMA (Jan.29.2025 - 9 AM PST), and more. Plus, a little year in review: The top five features of 2024, a quick list of apps we said goodbye to, and a few 2025 predictions.
Read this episode's corresponding blog post.
02:11 Employee engagement SPONSOR | Upcoming SharePoint event 09:36 Top 5 SharePoint features shipped in 2024 20:40 Related technology 26:29 January 2025 teasers 32:22 AI and agents insights from Jeff Teper
SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | Feedback Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes
Upcoming events ON DEMAND
UPCOMING
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| 25 Oct 2023 | The power of the web part | 00:48:43 | |
Web parts make the intranet go 'round. On this episode, we talk with Pat McGown (CEO, Cloudwell). In a world of SharePoint web parts, Pat and team build and deliver useful ones. We focus on developing web parts - past and present, some of their productivity-focused web part solutions, and tips and tricks for both developers and intranet managers. You can never get too much information about a good web part - be it one you use out of the box, one you procure from a partner, or one you build and design, and customize for your business.
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08:24 Conversation with Pat McGown 40:36 Upcoming Events
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Upcoming events: 365 EduCon - Chicago | Oct.30 - Nov.4, 2023 (Chicago, IL) Community Days - Mexico City | Nov.2.2023 (Juarez, Ciudad de Mexico) Microsoft Ignite | Nov. 14-17, 2023 (Hybrid: Seattle, WA and online with pre-day labs) European SharePoint Conference | Nov.27-30 in (Amsterdam, Netherlands) European Cloud Summit | NEW DATE: May.14-16.2024 (Wiesbaden, Germany)
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| 06 Feb 2025 | SharePoint roadmap pitstop January 2025 | 00:21:17 | |
Kicking off 2025 with a bang, and a BIG SharePoint event. January 2025 brought a lot of new offerings: Viva Connections on the SharePoint app bar, Pay-as-you-go billing model for SharePoint agents, Re-imagined Hero web part, Viva Engage: Leadership feed, Editorial card web part, Accessibility assistant tool for SharePoint pages, SharePoint pages: Flexible sections, Microsoft Teams: New DVR capabilities, and more. Plus, we grabbed a few important audio snippets from the BIG SharePoint Event with Jeff Teper and the SharePoint team - focused on AI and your intranet.
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02:00 Snippets from the BIG SharePoint event 05:31 Employee engagement 13:06 Teamwork 16:29 Related items 19:01 Roadmap teasers
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Upcoming events: NOW ON DEMAND | "SharePoint: From Concept to Creation to Impact + Live AMA" with Jeff Teper and team + plus our new 5-part SharePoint learning series, new customer studies (Amey, Takeda, and Avanade), insights about the upcoming SharePoint Hackathon (March 2025), and more. M365 Miami 2025 | Feb.6-7, 2025 (Miami, FL) SharePoint Hackathon | March 3-26, 2025 (Global | Online) MVP Summit 2025 | March 24-27, 2025 (Redmond, WA & online) Microsoft 365 Community Conference | May 5-8, 2025 (Vegas) SharePoint Intranet Festival (SWOOP Analytics) | May 21, 2025 (Online) European Collaboration Summit | May 26-28, 2025 (Düsseldorf, Germany)
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| 31 Mar 2020 | SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop March 2020 | 00:31:51 | |
This past month brought a lot to SharePoint and related technologies: multi-lingual publishing, wiki-linking for pages, custom theming for the SharePoint mobile app, updated “add a tab” experience in Microsoft Teams, conditional formatting for lists and more. In this episode, we talk with Matt Mooty, senior software engineer, who works on multi-lingual support within the SharePoint-powered, intelligent intranet. We're here to help you stay informed of the now, plus a few teasers of what's to come. Episode Tech Community Blog Post Resources and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice OneDrive Facebook | @OneDrive | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice Matt Mooty | LinkedIn "Create multilingual communication sites, pages, and news" "What’s New in Microsoft Teams: 3rd Anniversary Edition" by Marissa Salazar "Deep Dive into SharePoint Multilingual Webinar Recording and Questions" on Vlad Talks Tech "Plan for multilingual sites in SharePoint Server" Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Extras: Subscribe to The Intrazone: Listen to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Show Page: https://aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
