This month's Microsoft partner highlight is Agilisys, a public sector cloud specialist who helps forward thinking organizations transform services that make a difference to millions of people across the UK. We talk with Agilisys's Zoe Wilson (Modern Teamwork Practice Lead), Luke Evans (Office 365 and SharePoint architect) and Ruben Hugo (Office 365 Solution Architect). Chris and Mark talk with them about Project Cortex, their customer stories, and their favorite Microsoft Ignite 2019 announcemen...
Dec 10, 2019•43 min
This episode covers various levels of “extranet” to discover best practices when using and configuring Microsoft Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive for external collaboration. We speak to SharePoint tech expert, Christian Buckley – Founder and CEO of CollabTalk, Microsoft Regional Director and MVP. Christian talks through many solutions that allow for collaboration inside and outside of your organization, with a focus on which tools work the best in each scenario. And special guest Howard Kashman, M...
Dec 03, 2019•46 min•Season 1Ep. 41
This month on The Intrazone Microsoft 365 Roadmap Pitstop, we talk with DC "Divyachapan" Padur from the SharePoint engineering team about SharePoint home sites . Other news includes the new files experience in Microsoft Teams, Save for later, Sensitivity labels (preview), Power Apps for SharePoint libraries, File card - conversations, Request files - OneDrive, and more. Running Time: 37min Social and Info Links: Roadmap November 2019 BLOG SharePoint Facebook | Twitter | SharePoint Community Blog...
Dec 02, 2019•38 min
The content collaboration side of the Power Platform (Power Apps & Power Automate) combines seamlessly with Microsoft Teams delivering productivity apps in hours/days alongside ongoing discussion. The outcome is productivity apps where and when you need them. We talk with our experts behind the Power Platform + Microsoft Teams: Karan Nigam , group product marketing manager (Microsoft Teams), Stephen Siciliano , principal program manager director (Power Automate), and Ryan Cunningham , partner pr...
Nov 19, 2019•43 min•Season 1Ep. 40
Introducing The Intrazone's new series spotlighting our Microsoft partners, the people who deliver solutions and services to empower our customers to achieve more in their businesses. In this initial episode, we talk with Ron Cameron, CEO and Founder of KnowledgeLake, which helps customers win at processing their transactional content in the cloud. Running Time: 40:20 Show Intro + Topic – Partner Edition Guest Perspective – Ron Cameron, KnowledgeLake [04:20] FAQs [33:20] Upcoming Events [37:30] ...
Nov 12, 2019•40 min•Season 1Ep. 40
Microsoft recently announced the acquisition of Mover who specialize in migrating content, including admin-led and self-service offerings. Mover helps make it easier than ever for customers to migrate files to Microsoft 365. In this episode, we talk with Hani Loza (Microsoft principal program manager) and Eric Warnke (Co-founder and CEO of Mover) about the many migration options and tools offered to help customers move to the cloud with confidence. Running Time: 42:30 Topic of the Week – Mover a...
Nov 06, 2019•43 min
Live from Microsoft Ignite 2019 in Orlando, FL, we talk with Jeff Teper, CVP SharePoint, OneDrive and Office engineering on his thoughts about new innovations like Project Cortex, Mover acquisition, 100M monthly active users (MAU) & 100 GB file uploads, the Fluid Framework, Multi-lingual, SharePoint home sites, the updated SharePoint Look Book and more. Finally, we asked his thoughts about ensuring accessibility into every part of what his team ships. Social and Info Links: SharePoint @SharePoin...
Nov 05, 2019•41 min
In this bonus episode, we're excited to publicly reveal Project Cortex, Microsoft's mission to be able to reinvent content services, enterprise content management, in a way that takes advantage of the cloud and our investments in AI, and allows you - the user - to create your knowledge network - the union between people, content and work processes. Mark and Chris talk with Adam Harmetz, Partner GPM over SharePoint experiences, and Naomi Moneypenny, director of content services and insights in Mi...
Nov 04, 2019•48 min
This month on the SharePoint 365 Roadmap Pitstop, we talk with Adriana Wood from the SharePoint team about the new site URL rename feature. Other news includes Microsoft's acquisition of Mover, updates with the SharePoint Migration Tool, Microsoft Stream, lists and libraries customization, Microsoft Learn, recent technology events and announcements, as well as Mark's documentary recommendation. Running Time: 35min Show Intro [00:00] What’s New [01:10] Guest Perspective with Adriana Wood [09:40] ...
Oct 31, 2019•35 min
We talk with Office 365 for Education customers Alexander Strauss-Köhn and Mats Öström, experts from the educational department from Stockholm City Schools. They discuss the implementation and benefits of using Office 365 for students, teachers and parents. Also, we talk with Dominic Williamson from Microsoft Teams for Education and Debjani Mitra from SharePoint. We learn about specific features and use cases designed from customer feedback that are now built into the products themselves, bringi...
Oct 15, 2019•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 39
On this month's Intrazone Roadmap Pitstop we talk with Max Kulakov , a designer on the OneDrive SharePoint engineering team about the new web parts rolled out this month, with focus on the design approach and development. Also in the episode are September Office 365 release highlights, updates, and teasers for what's to come in October. Running Time: 34:15 Show Intro [00:00:00:00] What’s New [01:05] Guest Perspective with Max Kulakov, designer [06:00] What’s New Part 2 [20:45] Teasers [31:45] Re...
Oct 01, 2019•34 min
Microsoft announced today it is releasing OneDrive Personal Vault, an added layer of protection for your most important files, photos and videos — such as your passport, driver’s license, or insurance information — should someone gain access to your account or device. We talk with Ryan Hoge, principal group program manager for OneDrive, and Paul Diamond, product manager for OneDrive personal marketing. Also on the show, we talk with OneDrive personal user, Chris Leadley, to get his real-world pe...
Sep 30, 2019•46 min•Season 1Ep. 38
This episode brings all the insights on the Government Community Cloud (GCC) offerings in Office 365. Mark and Chris talk with three Office 365 experts who specialize in working with government agencies; John Peluso (CTO – Public Sector; AvePoint), Adam Levithan (Digital Product Manager; Withum) and Richard Toland (Principal Architect; Perpetual Reality), across a number of topics including customer stories, scenarios, change management, and important tips to share with every government customer...
Sep 10, 2019•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 37
On this month's SharePoint Intrazone Roadmap Pitstop we talk with Wayne Ewington , program manager on the SharePoint engineering team, about the 'site swap' feature. August was a busy delivery month, and this is the all-inclusive recap. Other release highlights include comments on non-Office files, news about Samsung plus OneDrive, "Popular around me", Yammer mobile app updates and more, as well as two teasers of what's to come in September. Running Time: 20:15 Social and Info Links: SharePoint ...
Sep 03, 2019•20 min
Our Microsoft experts answer your most frequently asked questions (FAQs). This episode includes key highlights from the Ask Microsoft Anything (AMA) session from the recent SharePoint Conference 2019 (SPC19). Topics include SharePoint home sites, classic to modern updates, government services and GCC, Office 365 Groups, site URL rename and more. Running Time: 23:40 Show Intro [00:00] Topic of the Week – FAQs, Ask Microsoft Anything Guest Perspective – SPC 2019 Ask Microsoft Anything (AMA) panel ...
Aug 27, 2019•24 min•Season 1Ep. 36
What does it take to move to the cloud? We talk with two Microsoft MVP's about moving to the cloud and what that enables for customers' collaboration, development and security. Martina Grom , CEO of atwork, and Marc Anderson , president of Sympraxis Consulting, share their expertise from both the technology and customer perspectives. Running Time: 44:46 Show Intro [00:00:00:00] Topic of the Week – Moving to the cloud and what that enables for customers' collaboration, development and security. G...
Aug 13, 2019•45 min•Season 1Ep. 35
July 2019 brought the heat to many cities across the world – so Microsoft brought a little heat, too, with updates that rolled out this month. This is the all-inclusive recap bonus monthly episode to help answer, "What's rolling out now for SharePoint and related technologies into Microsoft 365?" We also talk with Lauren Khoo, program manager on the OneDrive engineering team, who focuses on OneDrive app for iOS. Our conversation focuses on the redesign and new features. Social and Info Links: Sh...
Jul 31, 2019•29 min
With summer comes travel. This week we revisit the Desktop Diet challenge and discuss both the benefits and limitations of using only browser and mobile. Special guests include the people who make a desktop diet experience achievable, Dan Costenaro and Mike Morton from the Office Online Engineering Team. Plus your one-stop information shop segments, FAQs and Upcoming Events. Running Time: 39:47 Show Intro [00:00] Topic of the Week – The Desktop Diet revisited Guest Perspective – Dan Costenaro an...
Jul 16, 2019•40 min•Season 1Ep. 34
Welcome to June 2019. We’ve got a lot of change management info to share with you. This is the all-inclusive recap for all things SharePoint and related technology. We talk with Kaleem Rahman, product manager on the Yammer engineering team, who focuses on supporting customers to better aid knowledge creation and consumption throughout their organization. Our conversation focuses on the new Yammer Q&A capabilities. In new features, we talk about the Stream mobile app, Adobe Document Cloud, Micros...
Jul 01, 2019•26 min
The SharePoint toolkit supports numerous tech personas: developers, IT, and business folk alike. The Intrazone connected with experts across development and business while at SPC19. Joining Mark and Chris are Laura Kokkarinen , a senior developer at Sulava , and Vesa Juvonen, principal program manager at Microsoft. Together, they discussed the current state of Office development, SharePoint Framework and more. Later in the episode, Mark and Chris chat with Dux Raymond Sy, chief marketing officer...
Jun 18, 2019•58 min•Season 1Ep. 33
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 take...
Jun 04, 2019•46 min•Season 1Ep. 32
In this Roadmap podcast episode, I talk with Edgar Banguero ( LinkedIn ), principal engineering manager, and Thomas Michon ( LinkedIn ), senior software engineer – both from the OneDrive-SharePoint engineering team. Our conversation focuses on all things full-fidelity shared libraries in OneDrive – plus all powerful, consistent file experiences when working throughout Microsoft 365. We discuss how they approach the design, development and deployment of these pervasive experiences across SharePoi...
May 31, 2019•28 min
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 – J...
May 22, 2019•46 min•Season 1Ep. 31
'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 (sen...
May 16, 2019•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 30
This month at the Roadmap Pitstop, we cover Yammer conversations, audience targeting for news, Modern Document Sets, Connected web parts for SharePoint, new integrations with Autodesk AutoCAD for Microsoft OneDrive and SharePoint, Office 365 Group card enhancements, along with resources and teasers for May. Also, this month, we talk with Marc Windle, senior program manager on the SharePoint engineering team, about all things Files restore for SharePoint and Microsoft Teams. Start your engines! R...
Apr 30, 2019•23 min
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...
Apr 16, 2019•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 29
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...
Apr 02, 2019•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 28
This month you'll learn about a number of things in Employee Engagement and Teamwork. These updates include new capabilities of organization news, page templates, Yammer, Planner, SharePoint Admin Center, sticky headers and more. We also talk with Rachel Lambert, program manager on the SharePoint engineering team about all things page templates. Be sure to listen for the teasers of what's rolling out soon in connected web parts and audience targeting. Running Time: 26min Show Intro [00:00:00:00]...
Apr 01, 2019•26 min
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 Strea...
Mar 19, 2019•37 min•Season 1Ep. 27
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 SharePo...
Mar 05, 2019•56 min•Season 1Ep. 26
