Podcast appearances and mentions of chris mcnulty

AI strategy is the starting point for every organization navigating digital transformation — and in this episode, product visionary Chris McNulty (ex-Microsoft, now at Syner) breaks down exactly how to get it right.Whether you're overwhelmed by automation tools, struggling with digital leadership, or trying to scale efficiently in a tech-driven world, this conversation has the answers. Chris offers practical, no-hype guidance on how to align your AI strategy with your business goals, avoid common mistakes, and create scalable processes that actually work.He explains why so many leaders fail to move from experimentation to execution, and how to fix that by understanding your operating pain points before deploying AI. With his deep experience from Microsoft and Dell, Chris shows how enterprise automation, product marketing in SaaS, and business growth through AI intersect in real, profitable ways.If you're searching for how to build a winning AI strategy, you'll get high-value insight into:Why generative AI in the workplace isn't a magic bulletThe truth about Microsoft Copilot vs custom LLMsHow to drive digital business transformation through clear choices, not tech fads

Cian McCormack speaks to Joe Joyce of Lough Swilly Lifeboat service, Chris McNulty, Journalist with Donegal Live and Faloke Bruce, a resident at the IPAS centre in Buncrana about Emmanuel Familola and Matt Sibanda who tragically died at the weekend.

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. Microsoft Tech Community Home Stay on top of Microsoft 365 changes   Upcoming events: "SharePoint: From Concept to Creation to Impact + Live AMA" webinar with Jeff Teper | Jan. 29, 2025, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PST Ability Summit | March 18, 2025 (Online) MVP Summit 2025 | March 24-27.2025 (Redmond, WA & online) AIIM 2025 | Atlanta, GA March 31- Apr. 2 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)   + always review and share the CommunityDays.org website Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts. Follow The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.  

For this episode, I spoke with Chris McNulty (@cmcnulty2000), Chief Marketing Officer at Synozur Alliance, on the business value of SharePoint Premium, highlighting its advanced content management, automation, and security features. You can find more information about my guest on my blog at https://buckleyplanet.com/2025/02/ollabtalk-podcast-episode-161-with-chris-mcnulty/

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.   Read this episode's corresponding blog post.   02:00 Snippets from the BIG SharePoint event 05:31 Employee engagement 13:06 Teamwork 16:29 Related items 19:01 Roadmap teasers   SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | Feedback Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host]   Microsoft Learn - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals.  Microsoft Tech Community Home Stay on top of Microsoft 365 changes Listen to and follow Sync Up, our podcast from the OneDrive team.    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)   + always review and share the CommunityDays.org website   Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts.   Follow The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

Ground your SharePoint agent curiosities in real-world AI use and insights. We talk with customer success expert, Matt Wolodarsky, who recently worked with 80+ of our early adopter customers to best understand their use of SharePoint agents and how we can craft and shape their future. We also talk with Brent Sanders and Anna Henke-Gunvaldson from the Microsoft Legal team (CELA) who share how they put SharePoint agents to work on our internal legal portal called CELAWeb - to help others navigate the nuance and complexity of legal matters as they engage with customers and partners year-round. Get ready to go beyond what SharePoint agents are, and dive into how they can be used to save time, time and time again.   Read this episode's corresponding blog post. Plus, click here for transcript of this episode. Listen to all of the episodes on our Intrazone YouTube channel here.    04:57 Interview with Matt Wolodarsky 36:49 Interview with Brent Sanders and Anna Henke-Gunvaldson 01:08:09 Upcoming Events   Matt Wolodarsky | LinkedIn  Brent Sanders | LinkedIn  Anna Henke-Gunvaldson | LinkedIn  SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint community blog | Feedback  Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host]   Related resources Microsoft Legal | SharePoint agent case study (coming soon from Microsoft) NEW SharePoint agent adoption guide (adoption.microsoft.com) SharePoint agents (adoption.microsoft.com) GA BLOG | “SharePoint agents now in general availability“ by Adam Harmetz (VP - SharePoint, Microsoft); published on day one of Microsoft Ignite 2024. CJ Tan's “One-click AI agents in SharePoint and Teams - focused on files you select” video from the Microsoft Mechanics show “Create and share SharePoint agents in a few clicks” from the Meet the Makers series - Karuana Gatimu interviews CJ Tan. Microsoft Learn - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Microsoft Tech Community Home Stay on top of Microsoft 365 changes   Upcoming events "SharePoint: From Concept to Creation to Impact + Live AMA" webinar with Jeff Teper | Jan. 29, 2025, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PST M365 Miami 2025 | Feb.6-7.2025 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) + always review and share the CommunityDays.org website   Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts. Follow The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

On today's episode, Michelle Caldwell (CEO – Synozur) shares how best to envision and plan for employee effectiveness within the AI era. Michelle puts focus on seeing your company as a comprehensive and integrated framework – a Company Operating System – across people, content, processes, key product use, and more. You'll discover how to take an empathetic approach to modern workplace experiences, to operate more effectively and achieve your strategic goals.   Read this episode's corresponding blog post.   Michelle Caldwell | LinkedIn | Twitter SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | Feedback Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host]   Synozur (website) + Polaris Pathways (podcast) Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals.  Microsoft Tech Community Home Stay on top of Office 365 changes   ON DEMAND Events Microsoft Ignite 2024 | Incl. SharePoint "event guide"  ESPC | Dec 2-5, 2024 | Stockholm, Sweden (incl. Jeff Teper's ESPC24 keynote on demand)   UPCOMING Events "SharePoint: From Concept to Creation to Impact + Live AMA" webinar with Jeff Teper | Jan. 29, 2025, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PST M365 Miami 2025 | Feb.6-7.2025 MVP Summit 2025 | March 24-27.2025 | Redmond, WA, and online Microsoft 365 Community Conference | May 5-8, 2025 | Las Vegas SharePoint Intranet Festival (SWOOP Analytics) | May 21, 2025 (Online) European Collabroation Summit | May 26-28, 2025 | Düsseldorf, Germany + always review and share the CommunityDays.org website   Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts.   Follow The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

Chris McNulty, Journalist in Donegal and Rob Osborne, ITV Wales National Correspondent

Chris McNulty is a Queer Community leader. We discuss Astrology, Queer Theory, Catholicism, C section birth charts, dancing Donnie, celebration vs help, Gay voting statistics, the Florida political barometer, Queer Keys, the quality of healthcare in the Keys, how the Dems F'd up and more.

Chris McNulty, Donegal Journalist

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]   Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Microsoft Tech Community Home Stay on top of Office 365 changes   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   Follow The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone. Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts.

It's official - summer is here (in the Northern Hemisphere); happy Wintering Southern Hemi. No matter the latitude, the attitude and altitude of tech delivery continued with verve and zest. June 2024 brought some great new offerings—Viva Amplify supports SharePoint audience targeting, SharePoint Premium: Autofill columns, SharePoint: Apply shapes to images, updated CLI for Microsoft 365 v7.10, Teams: File previews in messages, SharePoint: Text web part updates, OneDrive: Shortened URLs, Microsoft Designer updates + new icon, planner.cloud.microsoft, and more. We also hear from Dave Cohen about how the SharePoint team plans, designs, and delivers ongoing value to your intranet of today and tomorrow.   Read this episode's corresponding blog post.   04:40 Employee Engagement 10:55 "The intranet of tomorrow: beautiful, flexible, and AI ready" with Dave Cohen 15:09 Teamwork 20:22Related Technologies 29:35 Teasers   Dave Cohen | LinkedIn Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host] SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint community blog | Feedback   Join the Community News Desk blog  Learn from Dave Cohen and Denise Trabona about SharePoint: The intranet of tomorrow: beautiful, flexible, and AI ready Watch in-depth, Microsoft 365 product learning videos at aka.ms/M365ConSessions Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals.  Microsoft Tech Community Home Stay on top of Office 365 changes   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 - 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   Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts. Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

You might call this episode ShareDrive or OnePoint, if you dare. We hear from Stephen Rice (Principal product manager) from our OneDrive companion pod, Sync Up - and he chats/interviews your Intrazone host, Mark Kashman. It's a little bit of a M365 multi-verse as they interview each other - pod-to-pod, Intrazone-to-Sync Up. You'll hear their takes on their respective products - Stephen on OneDrive and Mark on SharePoint. In the end, it's a double bonus benefit for you - the best of both pods.   Read 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.   09:40 Conversation with Stephen Rice 25:03 Upcoming Events Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host] Stephen Rice | LinkedIn SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint community blog | Feedback OneDrive | @OneDrive | OneDrive community blog | Feedback  Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals.  Microsoft Tech Community Home Stay on top of Office 365 changes Upcoming events: Intranets and AI on Microsoft 365 | June 19-20, 2024 - Virtual Community Days - Chicago | July 20, 2024 - Chicago, Illinois M365 NYC (Community Days) | July 26, 2024 - New York City, NY TechCon365 - DC | August 12-16, 2024 | Washington, D.C. CollabDays Hamburg | August 31, 2024 - Hamburg, Germany 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   Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts.

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   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.  Microsoft Tech Community Home 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   Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts.   Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

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. Microsoft Tech Community Home 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   Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts.   Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

It's time to unveil the mysteries of productivity within the Apple Vision Pro. The question is, is your persona ready? This episode brings you John Moore, a tech tinkering persona as your guide. John takes us into the realm of spatial computing as it blends with the productivity stack of Microsoft 365.   Read this episode's corresponding blog post. Plus, click here for transcript of this episode.   02:50 Conversation with John Moore, Enterprise Architect - EY 29:15 Upcoming Events   John Moore | LinkedIn | Twitter | YouTube + 365 Deep Dive show [guest] Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host] SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint community blog | Feedback   “Announcing Microsoft 365 apps available on Apple Vision Pro” By Gabriel Valdez Malpartida (Microsoft) Apple Vision Pro (product page) Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals.  Microsoft Tech Community Home Stay on top of Office 365 changes   Upcoming events: North American Cloud & Collaboration Summit (NACS) | April 9-11, 2024, Dallas, TX Comms vNext (Denver, CO | April 24-25) Intranet Insights 2024 (Online | April 24) 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 + always review and share the CommunityDays.org website   Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts. Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

We grabbed time with three Microsoft tech event experts: Sharon Weaver (Founder & CEO | Smarter Consulting), Sean Bugler (Principal Innovation Architect | Metropolitan Transportation Commission), and Derek Cash-Peterson (Principal Architect | Sympraxis Consulting LLC) - to get their insights about in-person events. The goal is to give you, future attendee, tips, tricks and best practices to optimize your in-person event experience. We also got a sense of what each person plans to present, and each shared a fun story from their past in-person event memory box. Lots of laughs. Lots to get you prepped before boarding your flight to Orlando, FL.   Read this episode's corresponding blog post. Plus, click here for transcript of this episode.   02:26 Conversation with Sharon Weaver, Sean Bugler, and Derek Cash-Peterson 33:30 Upcoming Events   Sharon Weaver | LinkedIn | Twitter Derek Cash-Peterson | LinkedIn | Twitter Sean Bugler | LinkedIn | Twitter SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | Feedback Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host]   Watch the video of our conversation in YouTube here https://youtu.be/E3wpmDlxiN0 Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals.  Microsoft Tech Community Home Stay on top of Office 365 changes   Upcoming events: Microsoft Fabric Community Conference | March 26-28, 2024, Las Vegas, NV SharePoint Embedded Developer Summit | March 26-27, 2024, Redmond, WA Special Planner event | April 3 at 10am PDT - sharing more about the New Planner Special Planner AMA | April 4 at 10am PDT AIIM | April 3-5, 2024, San Antonio, TX North American Cloud & Collaboration Summit (NACS) | April 9-11, 2024, Dallas, TX Microsoft 365 Community Conference | April 30 - May 2, 2024, Orlando, FL European Cloud Summit | May 14-16,2024, Wiesbaden, Germany 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, Stockholm, Sweden   Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts.   Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

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.   Read this episode's corresponding blog post. Plus, click here for transcript of this episode.   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.  Microsoft Tech Community Home 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     Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts.   Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

Keith Treacy and Mark Langdon on Champions League Tuesday; Chris McNulty talks about the Irish boxers qualifying for the Olympics; Ruby reflects on Day 1 of Cheltenham and Hannah Thornton from fitrwoman.com on how women can reach their full potential as athletes while tracking their menstrual cycle.

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!   Read this episode's corresponding blog post.   01:34 Employee engagement updates 08:02 Teamwork updates 11:20 Related items and March Teasers   SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | Feedback Copilot | Adoption center | @MSFTCopilot (X/Twitter) | LinkedIn Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host]   Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals.  Microsoft Tech Community Home Stay on top of Office 365 changes   Upcoming events: 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   Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts. Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

On this episode, we hear from Drew Madelung (Microsoft MVP | Solution Architect - Protoviti) who expertly focuses on all things OneDrive, specifically all the deep diving details admins need to know about. Drew is all about how to think about managing OneDrive to the fullness of your organization; how to make it better, how to optimize using what you have AND investing in the right places to keep with the times -- aka, your trusted advisor for all things OneDrive in overdrive - at your disposal and within your control.   Read this episode's corresponding blog post. Plus,  click here for transcript of this episode.   08:31 Conversation with Drew Madelung 41:17 Upcoming Events   Drew Madelung | LinkedIn | X | Blog 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.  Microsoft Tech Community Home Stay on top of Office 365 changes   Upcoming events: CollabDays - Bremen 2024 | Feb 9-10, 2024 near Hamburg in Germany Teams Nation 2024 | Feb 21, 2024 9:00 - 19:30 CET CollabDays - Calgary 2024 | Feb. 24, 2024 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   Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts. Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

What a great start to 2024 - tantalizing tech for everyone. We focus on everything that landed this past month: Microsoft 365 Backup (Public Preview), SharePoint Premium: Document translation, new image and video experiences in Viva Engage, Community Campaigns in Viva Engage, SharePoint “News for email” custom tab, Microsoft Search: ServiceNow Tickets connector GA, Teams: Discover Feed in Channels, and more. This month, we cover numerous Viva Engage updates. So many that we decided to include a short primer on what Engage is and how it supports community engagement with your organization. To the roadmap!   Read this episode's corresponding blog post.   01:26 Employee Engagement 11:23 Teamwork 16:04 Related items 22:50 Teasers   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.  Microsoft Tech Community Home Stay on top of Office 365 changes   Upcoming events: Community Days - Miami | Feb 2, 2024 (Miami, FL) CollabDays - Bremen 2024 | Feb 9-10, 2024 near Hamburg in Germany M365 Saturday DC | Feb 10, 2024 (Reston, VA) Teams Nation 2024 | Feb 21, 2024 9:00 - 19:30 CET CollabDays - Calgary 2024 | Feb. 24, 2024 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 TechCon365 - Seattle (formerly 365 EduCon) | June 3-7, 2024 in Seattle, WA     Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

On this episode, we hear from Sue Hanley who expertly focuses on change -- evolving and improving your intranet. Sue is an information architect, a knowledge management expert, and she doesn't shy away from the word: Portal. Sue is steeped in all sorts of governance and collaboration consultation in the grandiose enterprise content services and app: SharePoint. We grabbed time with Sue to discover how to make intranets better, how to make them work for you AND be worthy for people to go to and come back. Employees need to find things quickly and get things done – or your intranet doesn't get a second visit.   Read this episode's corresponding blog post. Plus, click here for transcript of this episode.   08:23 Conversation with Sue Hanley 34:35 Upcoming Events   Sue Hanley | 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.  Microsoft Tech Community Home Stay on top of Office 365 changes   Upcoming events: CollabDays - Bremen 2024 | Feb 9-10, 2024 near Hamburg in Germany Teams Nation 2024 | Feb 21, 2024 9:00 - 19:30 CET CollabDays - Calgary 2024 | Feb. 24, 2024 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 TechCon365 - Seattle (formerly 365 EduCon) | June 3-7, 2024 in Seattle, WA   Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts.   Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

Shane Byrne previews the European Professional Club Rugby. Chris McNulty speaks about Jim McGuinness winning his appeal. Horse Racing with Jane Mangan. Alan Cawley, Feargal Brennan, & Peter Smith look ahead to the weekend's Soccer fixtures.

Ho ho ho, Merry SharePoint! December 2023 brought a lot to review AND a lot to look forward to. We'll focus on everything that landed this past month: SharePoint eSignature, Stream: Add a survey, poll, quiz, link or text, Viva Engage: Community creation API, OneDrive app for Teams, OneDrive: Open in app, Microsoft 365 Backup (Public Preview), Microsoft Loop moves to loop.cloud.microsoft, and indicating the retirement of Delve in Dec. 16, 2024. And then, we'll highlight the top 5 SharePoint tech items of 2023, peek ahead at 5 anticipated features slated for CY24-Q1, shine a light on a few related items, hit up the always fun teasers AND stick around: We've cooked up a bonus festive song for you titled, "It's beginning to look a lot like SharePoint" - it's queried at number one on the Power BI charts :).   Read this episode's corresponding blog post.   01:49 Employee engagement 06:45 Top 5 SharePoint features shipped in 2023 12:26 Teamwork 16:50 Related Technology 27:55 "It's beginning to look a lot like SharePoint" [parody] 29:49 Teasers + 5 features of interest on the public Microsoft 365 roadmap: CY24-Q1 35:55 Closing 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.  Microsoft Tech Community Home Stay on top of Office 365 changes   Upcoming events: 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   Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

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.   Read this episode's corresponding blog post.   15:52 Conversation with Joanne Klein 43:43 Upcoming Events   Joanne Klein | LinkedIn | X | Website [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.  Microsoft Tech Community Home Stay on top of Office 365 changes   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   Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

A blend of disclosure and rollout news this past month. We cover the following: Stream: Videos 'in Outlook', Stream: Collaborative notes in Teams meeting recordings, Microsoft 365 Archive: Public Preview, SharePoint: Out-of-the-box document library templates, Offline mode in OneDrive for Web, OneDrive: Add Individual File Shortcuts, Loop components in Channels, Teams: Files app updating to OneDrive app, and more. We also cover highlights from Microsoft Ignite 2023 - including an audio snippet from Jeff Teper publicly introducing *SharePoint Premium* for the first time.   Read this episode's corresponding blog post. Plus, click here for transcript of this episode.   01:12 Employee Engagement 05:45 Audio of Jeff Teper announcing "SharePoint Premium" 08:05 Nov.2023 Teamwork features 15:57 Related Technology 26:44 Dec.2023 Teasers   Jeff Teper | LinkedIn | X/Twitter SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | Feedback Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host]   "Introducing SharePoint Premium – the future of AI powered content management and experiences" by Jeff Teper "Announcing SharePoint Embedded Public Preview at ESPC23" by Zach Rosenfield "SharePoint Roadmap Update – Fall 2023" by Dave Cohen Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals.  Microsoft Tech Community Home Stay on top of Office 365 changes   Upcoming events: European SharePoint Conference | Nov.27-30 in (Amsterdam, Netherlands) DEVintersection | Dec.5-7.2023 Viva Engage Festival  (SWOOP Analytics) | Dec. 6, 202 Teams Nation 2024 | Feb. 21, 2024 | #TeamsNation + early tweet Inaugural Microsoft Fabric Community Conference | March 26-28, 2024 (Vegas)   Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts. Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

Never take the shortcut to learning, take the Huneycutt! On today's episode, we talk with Andy Huneycutt from Upskill Tech about his use and best practices across two areas: AI and Automation; namely his use and experiences with Power Automate and Copilot We delve into his expertise across both, plus benefit from his tinkerings with generative AI – based on practical use working on a children's book full of AI generated story and characters.   Read this episode's corresponding blog post. Plus, click here for transcript of this episode.   04:45 Conversation with Andy Huneycutt 37:30 Upcoming Events   Andy Huneycutt | LinkedIn | YouTube | Upskill Tech | Charlotte Area SPUG  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.  Microsoft Tech Community Home Stay on top of Office 365 changes   Upcoming events: Now on-demand | Microsoft Ignite | Nov. 14-17, 2023 CollabDays - Lisbon @CollabDaysLIS | Nov. 25 (Lisbon, Portugal - University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL)) European SharePoint Conference | Nov.27-30 in (Amsterdam, Netherlands) DEVintersection | Dec.5-7.2023 Viva Engage Festival  (SWOOP Analytics) | Dec. 6, 2023 (and keep your eye out for a similar offering in May 2024 - a 'festival for SharePoint')… Teams Nation 2024 | Feb. 21, 2024 | Early info from MVPs Chris Hoard, Chirag Patel, and team: #TeamsNation + early tweet Inaugural Microsoft Fabric Community Conference | March 26-28, 2024 (Vegas)   Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts. Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

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October 2023 brought some spooky new offerings: Power Apps leader in 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Low-Code Applications Platform, Video search improvements, new Intelligence & Search admin homepage, OneDrive colorful folders, New Microsoft Teams, Viva Goals + Planner, SharePoint: BCS retirement in Microsoft 365, and much much mwahahaaaa more. We talk with Miceile Barrett and Arvind Mishra, Principal product managers on the OneDrive team about recently released features like colorful folders and new shared views for People and Meetings. And we dive into the Oct. 3rd moment focused on all the news and announcements about what's next for OneDrive - including Copilot in OneDrive, full OneDrive experiences in Teams and Outlook, the new "Open in app" feature, and more. Boo!   Read this episode's corresponding blog post. Plus, click here for transcript of this episode.   02:28 Employee engagement 07:52 Conversation with Miceile Barrett and Arvind Mishra (from the OneDrive team) 28:33 Teamwork 33:03 Related Technology 38:01 Events 40:54 Teasers   Miceile Barrett | LinkedIn | X Arvind Mishra | LinkedIn 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.  Microsoft Tech Community Home Stay on top of Office 365 changes   Upcoming events: 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) CollabDays - Lisbon @CollabDaysLIS | Nov. 25 (Lisbon, Portugal (ISCTE-IUL)) European SharePoint Conference | Nov.27-30 in (Amsterdam, Netherlands)   Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts.   Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

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.   Read this episode's corresponding blog post. Plus, click here for transcript of this episode.   08:24 Conversation with Pat McGown 40:36 Upcoming Events   Pat McGown | LinkedIn | X/@PMcGown X/@Cloudwell_io 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.  Microsoft Tech Community Home Stay on top of Office 365 changes   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)   Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts.   Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

September 2023 brought some great news and new offerings: Answer Analytics in Microsoft Search, introduction of Microsoft 365 Chat, a GA date for Microsoft 365 Copilot (Nov. 1, 2023), introduction of Copilot in Microsoft Stream, Favorite and Unfavorite additional file types and folders in OneDrive and SharePoint document libraries, Microsoft Lists - MSA Preview support on iOS and Android, Planner Loop Component, and more. This month you'll hear more about the recent Copilot news, including a snippet of audio from Colette Stallbaumer about Microsoft 365 Copilot and the newly announced Microsoft 365 Chat.   Read this episode's corresponding blog post. Plus, click here for transcript of this episode.   01:30 Employee Engagement 11:23 Teamwork 16:30 Related Technology 21:48 Teasers   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.  Microsoft Tech Community Home Stay on top of Office 365 changes   Upcoming events: 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)   Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts. Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

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.    Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post.   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.  Microsoft Tech Community Home 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)   Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts.   Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

August 2023 brought some great new offerings: SharePoint news to email inbox, two new SharePoint site theme options, accessibility improvements to SharePoint page authoring, announcements in Viva Connections, Restricted Access Control for SharePoint and OneDrive, OneDrive: Colors for folders, OneDrive: Meetings and People views, SharePoint pages sharing update, Teams Meet app, new Search experience within chat and channels, and more. In this episode, we hear from my colleagues, Denise Trabona (Partner design director) and Sara Cummings (Product manager on the SharePoint pages team) - both helping design and deliver the value of SharePoint news directly into your inbox. Read this episode's corresponding blog post.   01:30 Employee engagement 11:23 Teamwork 16:30 Related tech 21:48 Teasers   SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | Feedback Denise Trabona | Twitter | LinkedIn [guest] Sara Cummings | LinkedIn [guest] Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host]   Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals.  Microsoft Tech Community Home Stay on top of Office 365 changes   Upcoming events: SEF 2023 | Sept.11-12.2023 (Tekniska Museet – Stockholm, Sweden) 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.3, 2023 (Chicago, IL) Community Days - Mexico City | Nov.2.2023 (HOTEL GALERÍA PLAZA REFORMA) Microsoft Ignite | Nov. 15-16, 2023 (Hybrid: Seattle, WA and online) European SharePoint Conference | Nov.27-30 in (Amsterdam, Netherlands) European Cloud Summit | Dec.4-6.2023 (Wiesbaden, Germany)   Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts. Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

On this episode, we chat with Liz Sundet and Luis Enrique Torres who work directly with customers to help them best land a variety of technology in the category of 'Corporate Communications excellence,' especially when it comes to leveraging Microsoft Viva tailored to internal communications. We discuss common patterns, best practices, and key resources to both assess, plan and successfully deploy Viva Connections - the gateway to the overall employee experience from Microsoft for business leaders and developers. We also dig into the coming Viva Amplify offering that compliments and extends the overall management and reporting on communications effectiveness.   Read this episode's corresponding blog post. Plus, click here for transcript of this episode.   Liz Sundet | LinkedIn  Luis Enrique Torres | LinkedIn SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | Feedback  Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host]   Viva Connections adoption recommendations Viva Connections on adoption.microsoft.com Corporate Communications Community within the Microsoft Tech Community   Upcoming events: 365 EduCon - Seattle (plus PWR EduCon) | Aug.21-25.2023  Microsoft 365 Summer Soiree | Sept. 7.2023 (Vancouver, Canada)  SEF 2023 | Sept.11-12.2023 (Tekniska Museet – Stockholm, Sweden) 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)   Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts.   Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

In this episode, we talk with Sesha Mani, Partner Group Product Manager at Microsoft focused on security and compliance. We spoke with Sesha about SAM - that's SharePoint Advanced Management. We cover its core benefits – helping SharePoint and IT Admins address sprawl and oversharing – mapped to what it gives you beyond the core management aspects within the SharePoint admin center. SAM expands on the principles of securing and managing content and data with advanced access policies for secure content collaboration AND advanced sites content lifecycle management.   Read this episode's corresponding blog post. Plus, click here for transcript of this episode.   08:32 Conversation with Sesha Mani 39:05 Upcoming Events   Sesha Mani | LinkedIn SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | Feedback Mark Kashman |@MKashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@CMcNulty2000 [co-host]   "Microsoft Syntex – SharePoint Advanced Management (SAM) Add-on – Announcing General Availability" by Sesha Mani Learn more about SharePoint Advanced Management (SAM) on Microsoft Learn Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals.  Microsoft Tech Community Home 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) CollabDays New England | Oct.5.2023 (Burlington, MA) 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 | Dec.4-6.2023 (Wiesbaden, Germany)   Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts.   Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

You can always rely on July to bring goodness to SharePoint and Microsoft 365: New SharePoint site creation experience, Viva Pulse GA, Viva Connections platform updates, new Search layouts for results, OneDrive: Simplified sharing, Lists UX update, Stream playback in Teams chat and channels, AAD > MSeID, Inspire announcements highlights, and more. We also hear from our friend Chris McNulty about the Microsoft 365 Backup and Archive announcements - from Microsoft Inspire. Plus, a bonus love song all about OneDrive, "King of the Cloud."   Read this episode's corresponding blog post. Plus, click here for transcript of this episode.   03:25 Employee engagement 10:04 OneDrive song, "King of the Cloud" 12:23 Teamwork 15:19 Related tech 25:31 Teasers   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.  Microsoft Tech Community Home Stay on top of Office 365 changes   Upcoming events: Scottish Summit | Aug.5.2023 (Manchester, UK) 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) CollabDays New England | Oct.5.2023 (Burlington, MA) 365 EduCon - Chicago | Oct.30 - Nov.4, 2023 (Chicago, IL) Community Days - Mexico City | Nov.2.2023 (Juarez, Ciudad de Mexico) Microsoft Ignite | Nov. 15-16, 2023 (Hybrid: Seattle, WA and online) European SharePoint Conference | Nov.27-30 in (Amsterdam, Netherlands) European Cloud Summit | Dec.4-6.2023 (Wiesbaden, Germany)   Visit CommunityDays.org to discover more events throughout the year.   Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts.   Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

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.  Microsoft Tech Community Home 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)   Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts.   Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

June had wonderful new offerings for SharePoint and Microsoft 365: New Stream (on SharePoint) web part, Playlist view in the SharePoint List  web part, Viva Connections supports different audiences, OneDrive Home update, Loop Components sync with Planner and To Do, get ready for Microsoft 365 Copilot, and more. We also added a sneak peek of Sync Up - The OneDrive podcast (it's back!). And pulled audio of Jason Moore (VP of Lists and OneDrive) to frame the essence of OneDrive and the new Home experience. Stay to the end for a bonus snippet of the conversation between Jeff Teper and his manager Rajesh Jha - where they talk about the early days and decisions evolving BPOS > Office 365 > Microsoft 365.   Read this episode's corresponding blog post. Plus, click here for transcript of this episode.   03:18 Sync Up podcast snippet with Stephen Rice and Arvind Mishra 04:33 Employee Engagement 09:30 Jason Moore on OneDrive innovation 13:17 Teamwork 16:15 Related Technology 21:42 Teasers 23:08 Jeff Teper and Rajesh Jha (Fireside chat on Office 365 customer journey)   SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | Feedback OneDrive | Website | Help and learning | @OneDrive | OneDrive community blog | Feedback Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host]   Sync Up - The OneDrive podcast with Stephen Rice and Arvind Mishra Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals.  Microsoft Tech Community Home Stay on top of Office 365 changes   Upcoming events: Microsoft Inspire (Partner event) | July.18-19.2023 (virtual only) 365 EduCon - Seattle (plus PWR EduCon) | Aug.21-25.2023 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)   Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts.   Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

A swell of innovation is coming, aiming to boost the creator in us all – to create faster, more intuitively, and with the help of AI – your intranet web design partner. In this episode, we talk with Adam Harmetz, Vice President of SharePoint Experiences at Microsoft. We get his perspective on the recent SharePoint announcements disclosed at the Microsoft 365 Conference on May 2, 2023, in Las Vegas, Nevada. These include insights on Copilot in SharePoint, all the coming site design goodness – including custom fonts and 'brand center', the updated capabilities when working with images and videos, plus one of the core aspects - design goals, if you will - to evolve the SharePoint start experience for when you're in creator mode.   Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post.   02:04 Conversation with Adam Harmetz 16:10 Upcoming Events 20:03 Related Blogs   Adam Harmetz | LinkedIn | Twitter SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | Feedback Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host]   "SharePoint in the AI Era: Introducing 'Copilot in SharePoint' and 10 more innovations for creators" by Adam Harmetz. "Welcome to the new era of SharePoint and OneDrive in Microsoft 365" by Jeff Teper. Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals.  Microsoft Tech Community Home Stay on top of Office 365 changes   Upcoming events: 365 EduCon - DC | June.12-16 Washington D.C. - USA CollabDays Central Europe | June 17th - in Technopark Zürich | 4 Tracks, with up to 20 Sessions in one day Microsoft Inspire | July 18-19 (virtual only event) European Power Platform Conference | June 20-22, 2023 in Dublin, Ireland Commsverse 2023 - June 21-22, 2023 - Surrey, United Kingdom CollabDays Zagreb - July 1, 2023 - Zagreb, Croatia 365 EduCon Seattle – August 21-25, 2023 - Seattle, WA, USA European SharePoint Conference | Nov.27-30 in Amsterdam, Netherlands   Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts.   Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

May 2023 brought great new offerings to SharePoint and Microsoft 365: Customizable Viva Connections mobile dashboard, Syntex image tagger, Syntex prebuilt model for contracts, OneDrive: Simplified sharing, Loop components in Outlook Mobile, and more.  We also highlight public disclosures from two recent events, Microsoft 365 Conference and Microsoft Build. We also share an audio clip of Rajesh Jha, EVP for experiences and devices at Microsoft, when he spoke recently at the Microsoft 365 Conference about his first time seeing ChatGPT 4 with Bill Gates, Sam Brockman from OpenAI and others - that initial wow impact that laid the foundation for Copilot innovation at Microsoft.   Read this episode's corresponding blog post and transcript.   01:15 Two upcoming June events: 1) Viva Round the World, and 2) AMA - SharePoint, OneDrive, Lists, and Stream 04:30 Employee engagement 08:53 Audio snippet of Rajesh Jha about ChatGPT and AI (from the Microsoft 365 Conference keynote) 11:35 Teamwork 13:51 Related items 18:58 Announcements from Microsoft 365 Conference and Microsoft Build) 26:35 Teasers   SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | Feedback Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host]   “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 Build "Book of News" (May 23, 2023) Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals.  Microsoft Tech Community Home Stay on top of Office 365 changes   Upcoming events: Viva Round the World | June.2.2023 CollabDays Netherlands | June.10.2023 Vianen, Utrecht 365 EduCon - DC | June.12-16 Washington D.C. - USA AMA | SharePoint, OneDrive, Lists, and Stream | June.14.2023 at 10am PT (90 minutes) CollabDays - Central Europe | June.17.2023 Technopark Zuerich European Power Platform Conference | Jun.20-22 Dublin, Ireland Microsoft Inspire (Partner event) | July.18-19.2023 (virtual only) 365 EduCon - Seattle (plus 365 PWRCon) | Aug.21-25.2023   Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts.   Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

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 document cloud Adobe Summit 2023  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.  Microsoft Tech Community Home 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   Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts. Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

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.  Microsoft Tech Community Home 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   Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts. Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

April 2023 brought some great new offerings to SharePoint and Microsoft 365: Project integration in Viva Goals, Viva Connections: Mobile SharePoint site navigation, improved Graph Connector content results, eDiscovery document version shared, Microsoft Lists: Applied filters, Microsoft Loop: .fluid > .loop, new files experience in Teams, Create pages and news in the SharePoint app bar, and more. We chat with Ben Truelove, Principal Designer at Microsoft focused on Microsoft Lists about recent user interface updates - narrowing in on the new experiences when working with and creating views + what was released this past month: Applied Filters. April showers truly brought May Features. Click here to view this episode's corresponding blog post. Click here for this episode's full transcript.  01:13 Employee engagement 05:54 Conversation with Ben Truelove 18:11 Teamwork 23:05 Related Items 29:41 Teasers SharePoint | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | Feedback Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host] Ben Truelove | LinkedIn [guest] Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals.  Microsoft Tech Community Home Stay on top of Office 365 changes Upcoming events: 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   Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts. Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

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.  Microsoft Tech Community Home 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   Listen and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts. Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

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.  Microsoft Tech Community Home 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   Listen and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts. Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

In this episode, we cover: Yammer > Engage rebrand, Viva Topics in Viva Engage, Stream Playlists, SharePoint Advanced Management, updated OneDrive Home and Shared, external file requests for SharePoint document libraries, export Microsoft Lists as datasets for Power BI, update to rules email notifications, and more. Plus, we talk with Sesha Mani, Principal group product manager on the SharePoint team focused on admin, security, and compliance. Sesha highlights the value of new SharePoint Advanced Management capabilities when working with proposals, contracts, invoices, and more - to help IT address sprawl and oversharing with a new set of advanced security and content management capabilities - broadly speaking advanced access policies for secure content collaboration AND advanced sites content lifecycle management. Read this episode's corresponding blog post. Click here for full transcript.  1:30 Employee Engagement 7:40 Conversation with Sesha Mani 21:10 Teamwork 28:25 Related Technology   Sesha Mani | LinkedIn | Twitter SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | Feedback Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host]   "Microsoft Syntex – SharePoint Advanced Management (SAM) Add-on – Announcing General Availability" (blog post) Learn more about SharePoint Advanced Management (MS Learn) Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals.  Microsoft Tech Community Home Stay on top of Office 365 changes   Upcoming events: 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.

You have questions. Viva has answers. On today's episode, we chat with Michael Holste and Steve Nguyen, Microsoft employees who focus on Microsoft Viva Engage and all the goodness it brings - with many exciting announcements disclosed today. You'll learn about things geared toward leadership communications, ways to host and run internal AMAs, and the general notion of getting answers to your questions when using Microsoft Viva, what is referred to as Answers in Viva. Plus, a little future news on Yammer branding… it's a packed episode that will warm the community part of your heart. Read this episode's corresponding blog post. Plus, click here for transcript of this episode. 06:10 Conversation with Michael and Steve 37:06 Upcoming Events Michael Holste | LinkedIn | Twitter [guest] Steve Nguyen | LinkedIn | Twitter [guest] Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host] Viva Engage | Website | Viva adoption center | @Microsoft365 SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint community blog | Feedback “New Leadership, Analytics, and Knowledge Experiences for Viva Engage are now rolling out” by Michael Holste Yammer rebrand 2023 (blog) Insights for Yammer customers (blog) Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals.  Microsoft Tech Community Home Stay on top of Office 365 changes Upcoming events: Microsoft Viva Engage AMA | Feb.23.2023 online at 9am PST 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 Listen and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts. Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

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.  Microsoft Tech Community Home 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.

In this episode, you'll hear about all the new features and updates: Microsoft Feed, Planner integration with Viva Goals, extracting PDFs in OneDrive for Android, Microsoft Lists: Calendar week layout, Microsoft Teams @Everyone, Microsoft named a Leader in 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Insight Engines, Stream (Classic) sets to retire: February 15, 2024, and more. Plus, we talk with Bill Bär from the 'content AI' team focused on Search, Syntex, and a whole lot of AI. Bill shares insights into the design and value of Microsoft Feed - a smart aggregate of all sorts of things happening around - content, people, videos, reminders, actionable tasks, and more -- coming to Outlook and the Office mobile apps. Read this episode's corresponding blog post. Plus, click here for transcript of this episode. Bill Bär | LinkedIn | Twitter SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host] Learn about Outlook mobile search, aka - Microsoft Feed in Outlook Deploying Outlook for iOS and Android app config in Exchange Download your own complimentary copy of the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Insight Engines. Make Your Goals a Reality with OKRs and New Capabilities from Microsoft Viva Goals Panel discussion at #ESPC22 w/Jeff Teper & Suzy Dean (AddIn365): https://youtu.be/gmltQ85QM54 Timeline for Stream (Classic) retirement:  https://aka.ms/StreamClassicRetireTimeline Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals.  Microsoft Tech Community Home Stay on top of Office 365 changes Upcoming 2023 events: Collab365 | Three-hour Microsoft Lists workshop online with Mark Kashman 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.