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This is episode 190 recorded on May 5th, 2021 where John & Jason interview Arun Ulag, General Manager of Power BI Engineering at Microsoft, about all things Power BI from Microsoft Business Applications Summit 2021. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

In this episode, a.k.a "telemetelrelny", Alexander and Simon talk about data compliance, the deluge of Power BI announcements from Microsoft Business Applications Summit, news in Intune, the search for a new default M365 font and Microsoft's Q3 earnings. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Thanks for checking out The UP Podcast! In the 45th episode we cover:Everything Microsoft Business Applications Summit related!Announcements on Power AppsDynamics 365 Customer Engagement sessionsPower BI Goals!Humans of IT session featuring LisaWatching cheesy movies and reading new booksCheck out the full show notes:https://theuppodcast.com/podcast/episode-45-microsoft-business-applications-eventIf you enjoyed this episode, we'd love to know! All reviews are appreciated and help us reach a wider audience:⭐ https://up.theuppodcast.com/reviews ⭐

Monthly blog updatesThe Premier Field Engineer team for Dynamics 365 published a monthly update to our blog.Dynamics 365 Monthly Update-May 2020 2020 Release Wave 1 ScheduleRelease Wave 1 is currently available and is being rolled out automatically in May. North America will receive updates starting May 22. Includes updates for Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Power Apps, Automate and others.Overall schedule Unified InterfaceLegacy web client is deprecated. Deadline to move to Unified Interface has moved to December 2020. Start planning now if you haven't already.Legacy web client is deprecated Transition existing web app Microsoft Business Applications Summit and BuildOn demand content available for both of these events:Microsoft Business Applications Summit Build Updates & ReleasesOn-Premises https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3142345/microsoft-dynamics-365-onpremise-cumulative-updates Online https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/business-applications-release-notes/dynamics/released-versions/dynamics-365ce#all-version-availability

In this episode of "Steve has a Chat", I catch up again with Alysa Taylor, Corporate Vice President for Microsoft, to get the latest from the Queen of Marketing for Microsoft Business Applications Group. We chat about the success of Virtual Events, Customer Insights, Power Apps vs Power Apps, and touched on SMB.  Enjoy! BTW, don't forget, Mark Smith (@nz365guy) and I do PowerUpLive every Tuesday at 4PM EST, click here to be alerted, and here's a link to the replays! Transcript below: Alysa Taylor: Hello? Steve Mordue: Alysa. Steve Mordue. How are you? Alysa Taylor: I'm doing well, Steve, how are you? Steve Mordue: Well, you know why I'm calling, right? Alysa Taylor: I have a hunch. Steve Mordue: Yes, yes. I've got the record button on and I just wanted to see if you had a few minutes to talk about just things. It's been a while since we caught up. Alysa Taylor: Yeah, absolutely. Would love to spend some time and just chat. It has been a little while. Steve Mordue: So we just came off Business Applications Summit the first pivot over to a virtual conference. And at least from the rumors I hear the attendance was off the charts compared to an in person conference. Alysa Taylor: It was off the charts. It was actually our first Microsoft virtual, we classify events and this is a tier one event, so it was our first one that we executed as a first party tier one event in a virtual capacity. So we were both nervous and excited. We had over 50,000 people registered. So it really was... And it's a very different format. We condensed two and a half days into a half day. But I would agree, we were very pleased with both the online turnout. And then I think, from what I heard from the community, the format worked well. It was a nice mix, we did a prerecorded keynote, then we had live sessions that were moderated with subject matter experts. And then we were able to do some networking and fun interstitial type activities in between the programming. Steve Mordue: You know, I would have to think that if I were Microsoft, having done in person events for so long and the expense of doing those and the coordination of putting those together, because it's a production when you guys do those. And then looking at the number of attendees there were able to make it because of schedule or cost because of getting approval by their employers and versus now suddenly a virtual event at no cost. I mean, there was no limits to anybody being able to get into that. And while we might lose some of that in person networking amongst one another, from Microsoft's standpoint getting the information out to as broad an audience as possible seems like this is a better way to do it. Alysa Taylor: You know, my team and I have talked a lot about that and I think in the post COVID-19 world, because we're learning so much about virtual events, I think we'll end up, and no timeline on this, but we'll end up probably in the future in some kind of a hybrid type scenario. Because I do think there is always that benefit of face to face, being able to network, shake people's hands, see old friends. So I think that in person will never completely go away, but I think we're learning how to do virtual events that will compliment the in person. And so I think, and again, this isn't an official statement, but I think there'll be a world of probably smaller, more intimate events. And then the big scale events will be virtual because at the end of the day we've had over 150,000 views of our content from Microsoft Business Application Summit, compared to we do 7,000 to 10,000 in person. So it's a very different scale. Steve Mordue: Yeah. It really is. When you think about the ability to touch just so many people that way and the expense. I think that, obviously, we all got thrown into this virtual event motion when we weren't quite ready for it and our tools weren't quite built for it but ready or not, here we come. And I was, I can't remember the earlier virtual event that you guys did that I... Oh, I think it was the launch maybe? Alysa Taylor: Yes, we always do the virtual launch event. That we've been doing for a long time. Steve Mordue: And that was pretty good, but then you still thinking about as a large scale event, which we've historically done in person, how does that translate in a way digitally, virtually that it feels as valuable to the people? Not withstanding the fact that we've now got 10 times as many people that can see what's there, but that the event feels as much like a live in person event. And I think the tools are getting... Obviously you guys are tweaking the tools for just that kind of experience, like you said, with some of the networking and we're kind of figuring it out, but as we get this stuff figured out, and these tools for virtual events are just 100% rock solid and exactly the way everybody would want. And I don't know, it seems like the future of live events across, not just Microsoft, but industry-wide, is going to be tough. Alysa Taylor: Well I think the thing that we're learning is how to do programming to your point. Because when we did the virtual launch event, it's our engineering leads and our product marketers doing content and then demos. Content, then demos. And I think what we learned with the Microsoft Business Applications Summit is that how much that programming matters, the back and forth, being able to do moderated forums, because it keeps people engaged. And we do it in much shorter segments. Like the virtual launch event is two hours. We were doing 35 minutes segments in the Business Application Summit. And yes, so to your point, I think doing the right programming allows us to have virtual events that are engaging. And then we get the benefit of being able to scale to such a degree that we can't do in person. Steve Mordue: Yeah. Obviously time zones will be a challenge for anything like that because you're going to have people doing multiple versions of their session at different time slots to be able to capture everybody. And that's a trick. I think one of the things, some of the feedback I heard from some of the folks was that they thought the sessions times might've been a little short because oftentimes the presenters were pressed right up to the time limit with their content and there wasn't much opportunity for questions. In those live events we're just peppering the person with questions throughout the whole thing. So that would be an interesting one to... Alysa Taylor: We got that feedback as well. And I think that's right. I think that's good that we spend a little bit more time and we're learning as we go. And I sort of said that, so I think that is one thing you will see us is more Q&A time. I think the presentation time was probably the right amount of content, but then allowing for more Q&A is important. Steve Mordue: Yeah, I thought it was nice in the new, whatever the platform you guys were displaying all that in, that, typically at a live event, I'll walk into a session and five minutes into it I might decide, "You know what? This isn't what I thought." And I want to bounce out and go down the hall to another one. And the virtual equivalent of that to be able to drop out of one and see below it, "Here's the other ones that are going on right now." And just click a button and bounce from one to another, I felt like we're getting closer to that kind of experience with the tooling and stuff now too, which is handy. Alysa Taylor: Good. I'm glad you had that experience. That's great to hear. Steve Mordue: Yeah. And of course they're all being recorded and available immediately or as soon as possible, is just huge. Because then you don't feel... Like I can remember at live events feeling like there were three different things I wanted to see, but I could only see one, and since they weren't necessarily all recorded, you just had to miss some content. But now, of course, they can all be recorded by default and you have no excuse to miss anything today. So I think it's pretty cool. Looking forward to see where that goes. Steve Mordue: So what are some of the exciting things in your mind? Because you look at this through a different lens than some of the other folks, because you look at it through that marketing lens. And so you would see things differently than maybe Googs or Phillips as interesting or important. What are some of the things you think we should all be really paying attention to? Alysa Taylor: Well, I think there's probably two things and I think James and I would say the same probably on both, which is, I think we've continued to bring some pretty remarkable innovation to the portfolio. And when you see things, products like Dynamics 365 Customer Insights, that has been one that's just been phenomenal to see the customer adoption on this. And I don't know if you saw like Chipotle was a big customer, wall-to-wall sales floor shop that is adopting Customer Insights. We'll announce here Walgreens is doing the same. Alysa Taylor: So the customer data platform and being able to have a 360 degree view of the customer, even in times of crisis as people are moving to digital selling and remote service, knowing your customers is even more important. And so it's been very exciting to see the innovation that's been built over the course of the last couple of years in market and seeing the customer adoption on that. And then I think the broader vision of how Dynamics 365 in the Power platform fits into the Microsoft Cloud. Alysa Taylor: You see very large customers like Coca Cola that are moving their entire IT and cloud infrastructure to the Microsoft Cloud. That's inclusive of Dynamics 365 and the Power platform and doing some pretty cool things with it. Power platform, just even in the recent environment, we released a set of crisis response templates that have just gone like wildfire throughout healthcare organizations, first responders, organizations needing to be able to get in touch with employees, with volunteers, with those that are on the front lines. So you see the direct impact that it can have and it's pretty incredible and pretty inspiring at the same time. Steve Mordue: I mean, I think we're all pretty amazed at what citizen developer has been able to do when given some tools that could actually do things with, which they never had before and I'm continuously seeing citizens building apps to solve problems that they have in their department or their area that there never would have been budget approved for a partner SI to come in and build something like that, or go buy an ISB solution, all these problems that have gone unsolved forever, it seems like suddenly are getting solved and they're getting solved quickly and easily without great expense. Steve Mordue: Problems that never would have been solved. They just had no other way they were going to get solved before this. That's been phenomenal to see the change of the platform, frankly, just in the last couple of years, that huge pivot towards that citizen has just opened up so much. You're talking about Coca-Cola. I mean, that's a lot of what's driving that there I'm sure is department heads, line of business people, seeing something that's accessible and fiddling around over a weekend and creating a solution to a problem they've had for years. Alysa Taylor: Absolutely. And we have the Unilever executive team in to meet with [Sati 00:12:04] and his directs. And they have done this whole movement to empower their frontline workers with the Power platform to give them the tools to solve problems. And we always say the value of the Power platform is putting tools in the hands of those closest to the problem. And Unilever is just an incredible story of creating a digital factory of the future that is completely from bottoms up, it's from frontline factory workers that are giving input, using Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI to automate manual tasks that would take them way too long to do, to have insights and analytics to the health of the supply chain and the factory line, having a digital command center that they could access through a power app. Alysa Taylor: So you see all of this. And then the great thing about the Unilever story is they've been really working to empower their frontline workers with these tools. And then as COVID-19 happened, they actually just took that same rapid innovation model and use it to do things like pivot to being able to scale up production and ventilators because they had, if you think about their IT their traditional IT and developer workforce is everyone. It's not just limited to one department or one set of individuals. Steve Mordue: Yeah. That's still a challenge for Power Apps. I know in big organizations, we're frequently running up against the wall known as IT that is resistant to almost anything in a lot of organizations. Sometimes they're very intransigent to get them to think about new things. You know, the, oh, it's escaping me now, the name of the enterprise management tool that you guys released for templates... At any rate- Alysa Taylor: You talking about EMS? Steve Mordue: No, the stuff that was released by the team to help enterprise manage Power App growth in their organization. Alysa Taylor: Oh, yes. Yes. So yeah, within Power apps, absolutely. And that you saw that Toyota is a great example of that. They actually use that enterprise management, so enabled their organization, all of their employees, to train them, enable them with Power Apps as a technology, but then they have within the IT department, to make sure they can do things like handle confidential data sharing, they used a set of control mechanisms with Power Automate and Power Apps. And so this gives the IT department that final sort of go, no, go on what gets published. But you still have the empowerment of the citizen developers across the organization. Steve Mordue: Center of Excellence. Alysa Taylor: Yes. Steve Mordue: That's the term I was thinking of. So, Center of Excellence. Yeah, I think that was key to really having this thing takeoff because before the Center of Excellence, I know that there was some concern with IT about, "People are going to go crazy out there with our data. We don't know what's going on." And that Center of Excellence toolkit really should allay a lot of those concerns. It seems like it has. And we still have a couple of challenges in the market that I know I hear a lot of partners and I struggle with around licensing. Steve Mordue: And I know licensing is a necessary thing, but man, does it ever get challenging. And it seems like, I guess, it's just the downside of having lots of innovation is every new thing that comes out we need to figure out, "Okay, now how're we going to license this?" And we end up with lots and lots and lots of licensing conversations with customers trying to figure things out. It's one of those things, they sit back and say, "Microsoft needs to solve that." But then when you think about it, it's not an easy problem to solve having lots of different models of licensing. Alysa Taylor: Well, we have lots of products. I will say, our design principle is on simplicity. And I think we have, if you look at what we've done with Power Apps in particular, we reconstructed the licensing model to be on a per app per user. It used to be, if you remember, based on feature, right? What was canvas versus model driven application development, which is incredibly hard for an organization to figure out. And so we've really worked to try and simplify the licensing, but at the end of the day, we have a lot of products. Alysa Taylor: In licensing, I always tell our internal teams this, licensing, we go for the 80-20 rule, we designed for 80% of the scenarios and there's always going to be the 20%, and we actually strive to do 90-10, can we hit 90% of the core scenarios? But there's always going to be very unique scenarios that we can't solve for, which is why we do different custom type deals. But our licensing, our principles are simplicity, customer centric and designed for as much scale as possible. Steve Mordue: Yeah. I've started to take the position with other partners that are complaining about the old days when we only had like three licenses to sell, and now there's maybe 100 different or more SKUs out there, that this is just a new part of your practice. This is something that you need to be proficient in and competent in, just like anything else that you're doing, and that is how to help a customer navigate the licensing. To make sure they're not over licensed or under licensed, that they're using licenses the right way. It's just a whole new motion that we didn't have to worry about before that you're just going to need to learn and understand. Have somebody on your staff that understands the licensing or can reach out and get answers because it's part of the business now, it's just part of the business model. I think the worst thing that happens is a partner just gets lazy. And frankly, we saw this even with Microsoft seller, just go in and sell the enterprise plan to everybody. Alysa Taylor: [crosstalk 00:18:19] Yeah, when I started three years ago, we sold two things. That was it. We sold the customer engagement plan and the finance and operations plan. We'd two things that we... There was maybe six standalone SKUs under those two things, but everyone just sold the plan. And so yeah, going from two to a number significantly higher than that, I do have empathy. We've ramped and changed a lot in three years, but I think we are at a place right now where we think we have the right model for how we bring new products in and we're trying to drive for consistency now. So we don't have a unique pricing, I had this meeting with my team yesterday, we don't want to have, three different types of pricing models for the insights line. We want to have one. And so we're trying to now strive for consistency across the different product lines. But yeah, you're right, going from two to 100 is a leap. Steve Mordue: Yeah. And then ditching the plan, I think, was great because not just Microsoft sellers, but you know, partners and SIs, it didn't require any thinking about what kind of license the customer needs, just put everybody on the plan. But that wasn't in the customer's best interest. They're paying for all this functionality that this particular user doesn't need. And just because somebody didn't want to go to the effort of figuring out, "You know? That user could probably get by with some lesser license or some other license." Or something like that. And it's forcing us to have to do more work to figure it out. But I think the winner at the end of the day is the customer. They're just not overpaying. Overpaying doesn't help any of us because if they're over purchasing, then they end up churning because they don't see the value. So we want to put them on the right SKU that gives them the right level of value and then they won't churn. So I think it's definitely important. Alysa Taylor: Yeah I mean, that such a huge thing. When I say the principles are simplicity, customer centricity and scale, having a plan where you're... I don't know, Steve, if you've ever met a human being that's a marketer, a salesperson, a customer service person, a field service person, all in one, but I haven't yet, that'd be a superhuman, I think. But that's how we sold. We sold a per user license with five different job descriptions against it. Steve Mordue: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's interesting because it's also changed the landscape of the partner community, because as you guys launch new products, these are new skillsets. Alysa Taylor: Right. Steve Mordue: And almost each one of these is deep enough that, with the exception of maybe the largest partners out there, you're just not going to find one that has the skill set across all of these different things. AI on the insight side and development of Power Apps, the canvas apps and flow. There's just so many different pieces that we really, as partners, are having to look at how we build our organizations differently. "I need a Power Automate expert. I need an expert in this. I need an expert in that and the other thing." Whereas before, everybody was an expert in everything. Now there's just too much. Alysa Taylor: Right. Yeah. Now it's got to be deeper. Deeper levels of expertise. Absolutely. Steve Mordue: So one of the things that's not... It's not negative, I'm not going to go negative on you, but one of the things that has concerned me and I still see confusion in the marketplace is about Power Apps. What I call Power Apps versus Power Apps. Alysa Taylor: Oh, interesting. Say more. Steve Mordue: Well Power Apps started out of the Office 365 side with canvas, mostly on SharePoint, embedded in the Office 365 licensing, all these enterprise customers using Power Apps. And then Power Apps also became a name used for something that technically was completely different, right? Model driven Power Apps. And there still is confusion, consistent confusion, among partners also, but mainly among customers, about the difference between these two things that have the same name. I know we've talked about converging them, and there is some convergence going on, but not at the license level, right? That Office 365, that customer who thinks they have Power Apps licensing because they have Office 365, they can't build a model driven app on CDS, that's a different Power Apps license. And how do you think we can make that story clearer to end customers that there's two things called Power Apps, essentially? Alysa Taylor: Well, I think we're a little early on this podcast because we'll provide some clarity in July to the market. But what I would say is today, what is seeded in Office is exactly what you're talking about. Which is Power Apps the maker, but it does not have the common data service underneath it. And so it's effectively the head of Power Apps without the CDS back engine on that. And so you have a lot of people that are using Power Apps, but they're their data source is SharePoint list. We'll release in July what we are doing to make that a more seamless story. And I think you'll be pretty excited. But we're just a little early for me to talk about it. Steve Mordue: Understood. Well, good to hear there's some thinking about it. Alysa Taylor: So it's coming. And it's coming very soon. Steve Mordue: Obviously I come from the CRM world, so I'm a CDS guy and I think model driven, but I don't have anything against, or any problem with, canvas apps on SharePoint list. I think there's tons of scenarios where that makes perfect sense, but there's tons of scenarios where the customer would be infinitely better off having built that on top of the common data service than on top of SharePoint. And right now I think there's a lot of customers out there that think they're using Power Apps. Steve Mordue: I mean they don't have any reason to think that they're not using all of Power Apps when they're just building on top of SharePoint list and kind of making some things much more difficult or much less effective than they could be, and not realizing that, "Hey, there's a whole other side here that is way more powerful, depending on what it is you're trying to do that you should be looking at." And I continuously find myself having that customer conversation. "Well, we already have Power Apps. We already know all about Power Apps." And then pulling up a demo of a model driven app. And they're like, "What's that?" "That's Power App." So looking forward to the clarity. [crosstalk 00:24:58] Looking forward to the clarity in July. Alysa Taylor: Well, and it's not negative. Know that your feedback and the MVP community, our partner community, the feedback that you guys give us is what allows us to be able to learn and adjust, and that's what we're doing. And so I think you'll be pleased in July. Steve Mordue: So one of the other customer segments that we've focused on for years, and is still an important segment to us is that SMB customer. And I go back and forth from feeling like Microsoft is very concerned about that customer to Microsoft is not very concerned about that customer. Almost weekly I see motions that seem like they're helping and then motions that we've got such a revolving door with some of the folks that have looked at SMB. How do you feel about that SMB customer? And how we should be attacking that customer base? Alysa Taylor: Well, it's an incredibly important customer base for us. And I think that we have a model in which we have a workforce, in my mind they're sort of two discrete workforces that work with our SMB customers. So we have a digital sales team that allows for both inbound and outbound triaging of those customers. And then, as you know Steve, we spend a lot of time making sure that our partner workforce has the right incentives, offers, skills to be able to service that community as well. And so I think those are the two facets in which we deploy against our SMB community. Alysa Taylor: And we've seen some really phenomenal customer wins that are in the SMB space. And so we want to make sure we've got the technology and the right resources for that customer base. But there is a very, very high commitment through our partner channel and through our telesales team to service that customer segment base. And I think in our world we say SMB, but there's managed and unmanaged really. Because there are some very, very large customers that we would classify historically as SMB, which I've always had a little bit of heartburn about because they're [inaudible 00:27:16] they're a big business, they're just not managed under our management. Steve Mordue: Well you got a whole rack of levers. Alysa Taylor: I'm going to have to wrap here in a second. I have, speaking customers, a customer meeting that I need to attend to. Steve Mordue: Perfect. Perfect. All right. Well, I appreciate the time and look forward to catching up with you again soon. And maybe seeing you again in person some point in the future. Who knows when that'll be. Alysa Taylor: Yeah. We don't know when, but definitely. So thank you, Steve. Thank you for everything. Steve Mordue: Yeah, thank you very much for the call. Bye. Alysa Taylor: Same. Bye.

This is episode 144 recorded on May 7, 2020 where John & Jason recap announcements made during the Microsoft Business Applications Summit like connecting to multiple models in a single report, expansion of Direct Query support, Power BI Template layouts, and deeper SharePoint & Teams integrations. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 143 recorded on May 4, 2020 where John & Jason talk about Microsoft Business Applications Summit, the delay of the April Desktop, Subreports now available in Paginated Reports, and John does a mea culpa. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

In this episode the trio talk about Windows Virtual Desktop updates, Microsoft Business Applications Summit going virtual (and free!) and staggering numbers for Teams! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode the trio talk about the finally unveiled dates and location for Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft Business Applications Summit switching dates and locations, Microsoft planning on a horrible browser hijack, a weird Power BI performance issue and the recent security announcements. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Todd and Shane spend a little time this week joking about the logos that could be on Todd's wall, then move into a review of the Microsoft Business Applications Summit. Shane tells us all of the great announcements that came out of the event. They also talk a little bit about SharePoint and Yammer updates as they wrap up the podcast.

The Microsoft Business Applications Summit is over and there is an overwhelming number of new features coming. So I sat down with Rami Mounla, former Microsoft MVP and Enterprise Solution Architect to discuss how can organizations get the most value out of Dynamics 365 and these features that are coming, as well as ways that organizations are leaving money on the table by paying for access to potentially game changing functionality they don't even know they have access to! Guest: Rami Mounla: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramimounla/  

In this episode the trio discuss some of the Power BI news coming out of Microsoft Business Applications Summit, on-prem MFA going the way of the dodo, Azure Bastion, new Windows 10 insider previews as well as the Salesforce aquisition of Tableu and Microsoft and Oracle working together! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

En este episodio especial, Marco Amoedo nos comenta su experiencia en la conferencia Microsoft Business Applications Summit 2019.

This is episode 103 recorded on June 7th, 2019 where John & Jason talk about the Microsoft Community, plans for the Microsoft Business Applications Summit, a few bits of news, and some recent helpful blog posts from John. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

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 Community Blog 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 SharePoint Virtual Summit Microsoft 365 Roadmap   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)   Subscribe to The Intrazone: Show Page: https://aka.ms/TheIntrazone Apple Podcasts Google Play Spotify Stitcher Overcast RadioPublic iHeart RSS

Microsoft Business Applications Summit 2019: What to Look Forward To with Steve Mordue Full show notes available here: https://www.nz365guy.com/112

Live from SharePoint Conference 2019 (#SPC19) in Las Vegas, NV, The Intrazone team talks with Jeff Teper, CVP Microsoft Office. We discuss how SharePoint is turbocharging user experiences, the importance of design, the big announcements from SPC19, and a meaningful segment on diversity and inclusion in the workplace. What's powering the intelligent workplace? Listen here to find out. Running Time: 46min Show Intro [00:00:00:00] Topic of the Week – SharePoint Conference 2019 Guest Perspective – Jeff Teper [00:03:05:00] Show Wrap [00:43:55:00]    Social and Info Links: SharePoint Community Blog SharePoint Facebook @MSSharePoint SharePoint @SharePoint Mark Kashman @mkashman Chris McNulty @cmcnulty2000 Jeff Teper @jeffteper Women in SharePoint @WomeninSP   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 SharePoint Look Book SharePoint Virtual Summit Microsoft Global Diversity and Inclusion Women in SharePoint Microsoft 365 Roadmap Microsoft Fluid Framework Vision Keynote Demo // Microsoft Build 2019 (video) Berlin Marathon 2019   Upcoming Events: SharePoint Fest, @SharePointFest  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 Apple Podcasts Google Play Spotify Stitcher Overcast RadioPublic iHeart RSS

'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 Community Blog 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")  Xbox: Adaptive Controller 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  Section 508 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 Apple Podcasts Google Play Spotify Stitcher Overcast RadioPublic iHeart RSS

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 Community Blog 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 April 20th - Boise, Idaho (St. Luke's Anderson Center). April 27th - Doha - Microsoft Campus, Qatar. May 4th - Chicago at the DeVry University #SPSChiBurbs, @SPSChicagoBurbs 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 Apple Podcasts Google Play Spotify Stitcher Overcast RadioPublic iHeart RSS

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 Community Blog 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 Saturday Houston, TX, April 6, 2019 SharePoint Saturday Johannesburg, South Africa, April 6, 2019 SharePoint Saturday Twin Cities, Minnesota, April 6, 2019 SharePoint Saturday Warsaw, Poland, April 6, 2019 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)    Subscribe to The Intrazone: Show Page: https://aka.ms/TheIntrazone Apple Podcasts Google Play Spotify Stitcher Overcast RadioPublic iHeart RSS

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 Community Blog SharePoint Facebook @MSSharePoint SharePoint Twitter @SharePoint Mark Kashman Twitter @mkashman Chris McNulty Twitter @cmcnulty2000 Christina Torok  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.   @Yammer  @MicrosoftTeams @MicrosoftStream  708 Captions and Accessibility Upcoming Events: SPS Events, Twitter @SPS_Events SharePoint Saturday Houston, TX, April 6, 2019 SharePoint Saturday Johannesburg, South Africa, April 6, 2019 SharePoint Saturday Twin Cities, Minnesota, SApril 6, 2019 SharePoint Saturday Warsaw, Poland, April 6, 2019 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 Apple Podcasts Google Play Spotify Stitcher Overcast RadioPublic iHeart RSS

This episode of The Intrazone brings two mixed reality experts to you in full surround sound. Joining us are Vidya Srinivasan, senior program manager and Bill Baer, senior product manager – your interactive tour guides ready to share and point all about SharePoint spaces. You’ll interact with content and information in real-time—visualizing data in your mind from every angle. It’s an audible expedition into mixed reality experiences deigned for everyone, on any device. Tune in - don't SharePoint space out!   Running Time: 56min Show Intro [00:00:00:00] Topic of the Week – SharePoint spaces Guest Perspective – Bill Baer and Vidya Srinivasan [00:02:15:00] FAQs Roundtable [00:43:45:00] Upcoming Events [00:48:00:00] Show Wrap [00:53:45:00]   Social and Info Links: SharePoint Community Blog SharePoint Facebook @MSSharePoint SharePoint Twitter @SharePoint Mark Kashman Twitter @mkashman Chris McNulty Twitter @cmcnulty2000   Resources: Bill Baer – Site, Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn Vidya Srinivasan – Site, Twitter, LinkedIn Explore SharePoint spaces  WebVR  Babylon.JS  Grace Hopper Celebration 2019, Oct. 2-4, Orlando, FL. "Announcing New File Viewers Available for OneDrive For Business" (blog)   Upcoming Events: SPS Events, @SPS_Events SharePoint Fest Washington, D.C. April 29 - May 3, 2019, @SharePointFest  North American Collaboration Summit, Branson, MO, March 14-15, 2019 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 Apple Podcasts Google Play Spotify Stitcher Overcast RadioPublic iHeart RSS

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 site SharePoint Community Blog 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 Petr Štěpka (@PetrStepka) SharePoint consultant and developer from Prague – winner of the #SharePoint spaces drone Mike Hatheway (@MikeHatheway13) Digital Transformation Consultant in O365 and SharePoint – winner of the full SharePoint Conference 2019 pass   Resources: Microsoft Tech Community 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 The Intrazone Audience Survey   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   Subscribe to The Intrazone: Show Page: https://aka.ms/TheIntrazone Apple Podcasts Google Play Spotify Stitcher Overcast RadioPublic iHeart RSS

This episode turns up the volume on two heartbeats of the SharePoint community – Ignite and SharePoint Conference (SPC) events. Special guests include Jeff Medford, Director of Product Marketing for Microsoft 365 (Ignite), and Bill Baer, SharePoint Senior Product Marketing Manager (SPC). We bring to light the work behind the scenes, planning, purpose, audience goals, engagement highlights – and SWAG. Also, for Intrazone listeners, we announce several big discount offers and prizes for our biggest SharePoint event, SPC19.   Running Time: 64min Show Intro [00:00:00:00] Topic of the Week – Microsoft Events [00:01:50:00] Guest Perspective – Jeff Medford, Microsoft Ignite and Ignite The Tour [00:07:15:00] Guest Perspective – Bill Baer, SharePoint Conference (SPC19), speakers, highlights and more [00:25:00:00] FAQs [00:47:50:00] Upcoming Events [00:55:30:00] Show Wrap [01:03:25:00]   Social and Info Links: SharePoint site SharePoint Community Blog SharePoint Facebook @MSSharePoint SharePoint Twitter@SharePoint Mark Kashman Twitter @mkashman Chris McNulty Twitter @cmcnulty2000 Jeff Medford, Twitter @medford, Director Product Marketing for Microsoft 365 Bill Baer Twitter @williambaer   Resources: Tech Community Intrazone Blog The Intrazone Audience Survey SharePoint Conference 2019 Discount Registration Codes "The Story of SPC" by Bill Baer Microsoft Demos Microsoft Tech Community   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) SPTechCon, Austin, TX, February 10-13, 2019 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   Subscribe to The Intrazone: Show Page: https://aka.ms/TheIntrazone Apple Podcasts Google Play Spotify Stitcher Overcast RadioPublic iHeart RSS

This episode is brought to you by KingswaySoft and D365UG. We are live at the Microsoft Business Applications Summit in Seattle, and the release notes for Oct '18 are out. In this episode we cover the highlights of the release notes and what we have learned from the summit: Field Service Project Service Customer Service Sales Marketing This episode is a production of Dynamic Podcasts LLC. Subscribe to the  CRM Audio network of podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.