In our fifth partner episode, we talk with Jeff Willinger (Digital Workplace Innovator and Microsoft MVP, Fujitsu) and his customer, Pete Schweiss (Data and Support Specialist, Boys Hope Girls Hope). BHGH is a not-for-profit helping academically capable and motivated children-in-need to meet their full potential. Fujitsu delivers innovative scanning solutions and services to streamline operations and overcome critical business productivity challenges. Click here for transcript of this episode. C...
Aug 11, 2020•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast July 2020 brought many new features: a New Employee Onboarding Hub, Hub permissions for visitors, SharePoint Migration Tool (SPMT) support for SharePoint Server 2019 (GA), Microsoft Lists, Quick Edit improvements, Add to OneDrive, and more. Plus, we talk with John Sanders, a principal program manager on the SharePoint team focused on all things pages and web parts. We discuss improvements for page navigation and the continued focus on accessibility throughout the intranet. Click here for transcr...
Jul 31, 2020•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Chris and Mark talk with Shin-Yi Lim (Senior PMM) and Howard Crow (Partner GPM) about Tasks in Teams. The new Tasks app brings a cohesive task management experience to Microsoft Teams, integrating personal tasks powered by Microsoft To Do and team tasks powered by Planner - all in one place. We dive into Microsoft tasks’ journey, task coherence, app integration, the use of AI, and the overall user experience. Click here for transcript of this episode. Click here for the correspo...
Jul 28, 2020•53 min•Ep 54•Transcript available on Metacast Microsoft Lists is a go! We talk with Harini Saladi (PM Lists home and templates) and her peer, Lyndsey Gill (lead designer on both home and the new list creation experience) about making Lists intuitive, friendly and consistent across the various locations where you can create lists - from Lists home, from within Teams and SharePoint - all with a consistent user experience for creating and using lists. Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post. Click here for a transcript of this ep...
Jul 21, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Ep 53•Transcript available on Metacast This episode is our update on Project Cortex – digging into the manage metadata service (MMS), classification and knowledge curation – to learn how you and your company will further the union between people, content, and work processes. Mark and Chris talk with CJ Tan and Sean Squires, principal program managers on the Cortex team in Microsoft 365 engineering. Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post. Click here for a transcript of this episode. Social and Info Links: SharePoint Fac...
Jul 14, 2020•52 min•Ep 52•Transcript available on Metacast June 2020 brought 100GB file uploads, Microsoft Search: Acronym Answers, site analytics updates, Quick Edit updates, a new default teal site theme, sharing links to block downloads of PDFs, images and audio, and more. Also this month, Mark talks with Cathy Dew, senior program manager and design expert managing user experiences across the whole of SharePoint - most recently aligning with and adopting to the Microsoft Fluent Design System , providing consistency throughout. Click here for the Road...
Jun 30, 2020•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast Chris and Mark sit down with Jeff Teper (CVP SharePoint, OneDrive and Teams) to get his take on “how things are going” personally, with Microsoft Teams and the Microsoft 365 service, and his recent connections with the tech community. We discuss the recent response to the COVID-19 crisis, progress on #ProjectCortex, the coming Microsoft Lists, service performance and more. Plus, Jeff reveals a big education metric number about a new feature in Teams; I’ll raise my hand to hear that one! Click he...
Jun 23, 2020•1 hr•Ep 51•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, #YearOfYammer – part 2, Chris and Mark talk to Angus Florance and Michael Holste – from the Yammer marketing team. We discuss insight into customer use and adoption, best practices, and big news in features lined up for the Year of Yammer. Click here for full transcript of this episode. Resources and Info Links: SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice Mark Kashman | Twitter [co-host] Chris McNulty | Twitter [co-host] Angus Florance | LinkedIn ...
Jun 16, 2020•41 min•Ep 50•Transcript available on Metacast May 2020 brought the Save for later web part, updated Yammer Conversations web part, scheduling pages and news, an extended site footer, ease of migration into Microsoft Teams, lists flexibility, and more. In this episode, Mark talks with Simon Bourdages, senior program manager at Microsoft, who works on content migration technology. Learn about the broader migration portfolio and capabilities offered by Microsoft and our partners – with a highlight on how you can bring content in from on-premis...
Jun 01, 2020•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, #YearOfYammer – part 1, Chris and Mark talk to Murali Sitaram and Luc Feuvrier-Danziger – from the Yammer engineering team. They reveal the strategy and vision of Yammer within the intelligent intranet. You’ll learn more about Yammer history, engineering excellence, integrations with Microsoft Teams and SharePoint, and about the cross-service employee engagement solution: Microsoft Live Events. Click here for full transcript of this episode. Resources and Info Links: SharePoint ...
May 26, 2020•48 min•Ep 49•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Chris and Mark talk to Miceile Barrett and Lincoln DeMaris – both from the Lists engineering team. Miceile and Lincoln discuss the innovation in development to bring Microsoft Lists to market – evolving SharePoint lists and beyond across Microsoft 365. You'll hear insights about the new Lists home page, ready-made templates, rules, the coming mobile app, Microsoft Teams integration and more – plus give some fun examples of real customer lists in use today. Full transcript below ...
May 19, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Ep 48•Transcript available on Metacast Chris and Mark talk to Alex Bradley - senior product marketing manager and teamwork narrative lead focused on all things Modern Workplace. Alex shares more about how Microsoft has responded to the COVID-19 crisis to help customers adjust to a remote work force, move to recovery, reduce costs and manage risk. And learn about Alex's webcast and podcast series, Modern Workplace , where he's been talking a lot with Jared Spataro, CVP of Microsoft 365, about what we’ve learned about remote work and s...
May 12, 2020•44 min•Ep 47•Transcript available on Metacast April 2020 brought modernized MMS, file card “conversations”, stock images, audience targeting in navigation, SharePoint spaces preview, Yammer app for Teams, and more. We talk with Graham Kent , senior program manager at Microsoft, who works on intelligent file card experiences across Microsoft 365 to discuss broader design strategy for how the on-hover experience works and the breadth of content and information that is dynamically pulled into view where you are working. Resources and Info Link...
Apr 30, 2020•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Chris and Mark chat with Benjamin Niaulin (Head of product at ShareGate) and Tejas Mehta (Principal program manager on the SharePoint team at Microsoft) all about the deployment and value of SharePoint team sites plus Microsoft Teams. They cover how people can get from classic to modern, broad scale adoption, and the importance of governance best practices. Resources and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice OneDrive Facebook | @On...
Apr 28, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Ep 46•Transcript available on Metacast In our fourth partner episode, we talk with Roland Reddekop (Presales Engineer | Colligo) and his customers, Jean-Francois Thibeault (VP | Ovivo) and Michel Guenette (VP of Technology | Ovivo). We talk with them about how the Colligo solution helps Ovivo achieve effective knowledge transfer between and across projects (content and people). Colligo helped Ovivo centralize content storage while making it easier for people to tag and place that content from their preferred tool – Outlook. Resources...
Apr 14, 2020•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast This past month brought a lot to SharePoint and related technologies: multi-lingual publishing, wiki-linking for pages, custom theming for the SharePoint mobile app, updated “add a tab” experience in Microsoft Teams, conditional formatting for lists and more. In this episode, we talk with Matt Mooty, senior software engineer, who works on multi-lingual support within the SharePoint-powered, intelligent intranet. We're here to help you stay informed of the now, plus a few teasers of what's to com...
Mar 31, 2020•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast We are committed to helping organizations stay connected and productive. From COVID-19 to weather emergencies, our focus is the importance of establishing open lines of communication and information flow. Chris and Mark highlight three solutions - across Microsoft Teams, SharePoint and Power Apps - that help everyone stay briefed on the situation and any business impacts. Through crisis management and good planning, technology can help keep business continuity in a move to increased remote worki...
Mar 24, 2020•38 min•Ep 45•Transcript available on Metacast In our third partner episode, we talk with Colin Truran (Principal strategist at Quest Software) and his customer Chris Reynolds (Head of Systems and Applications Development Services at Arden and GEM Commissioning Support Unit in the UK). We discuss moving, managing and securing data in Office 365, and how Quest provides solutions to their customers, spending less time on IT and more time on business innovation, allowing Arden & Gem to focus on population health management within the broader Na...
Mar 10, 2020•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast We talk with Chakkaradeep (Chaks) Chinnakonda Chandran, a senior program manager at Microsoft. Recently, he and his team completed the additional compliance work to enable Power Apps and Power Automate for our government cloud customers (GCC); a capability our commercial customers have been using for a number of months now. We talk about both the scenarios this unlocks, plus the process of moving a feature through to the various Microsoft 365 customer offerings. Also in the show, SharePoint road...
Feb 28, 2020•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast We uncover the power and capabilities of Microsoft Teams as a platform. Hear from two experts inside and outside of Microsoft. First we learn about the design and strategy of how to extend Teams at the scale of the worldwide Microsoft 365 customer base from Bill Bliss, lead architect for Microsoft Teams platform engineering. Then, we turn to the real-world approach of one of our strong Microsoft MVP developers in this space, Wictor Wilén, about how he develops teamwork solutions for his company,...
Feb 18, 2020•1 hr 29 min•Ep 44•Transcript available on Metacast Three superhero Microsoft MVPs swoop into the fantastical world of Funko , a worldwide purveyor of all things pop culture. The intrepid Funko IT department, led by Scott Christensen , was fighting to keep up with the company’s rapid growth. They needed to refine collaboration, enhance communication and set things in motion to automate as their business grew – and still grows. The MVPs had just three days and it was a nail-biting race to the last very last web part! Swoop showcases both Funko’s I...
Feb 11, 2020•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, we talk with three intranet experts to unveil insights and best practices for planning, designing and implementing a new, beautiful, functional, engaging, personalized SharePoint-based intranet. Guests include Sue Hanley, Melissa Torres and Matt Wolodarsky on subjects like information architecture and the new flat world of SharePoint sites structuring, design possibilities, how to scale roll out with both executive buy-in and end user adoption – plus insights into what’s next. A...
Feb 05, 2020•1 hr 21 min•Ep 43•Transcript available on Metacast This month on SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop, we talk with Nicole Woon , program manager on the SharePoint engineering team focused on the "Next Steps" experience for site users. You'll learn what you can expect to see as suggestions based on what they are doing inside SharePoint sites, including Groupify. Plus, we talk about her involvement in Society of Women Engineers (SWE) and how it helped jump start her Microsoft career. Also in the show, SharePoint roadmap updates on employee engagement, team...
Jan 30, 2020•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Chris and Mark dig into three customer stories (Mott MacDonald, HAVI and Marks & Spencer) – highlighting three common solution areas many customers face. They chat about how each customer went about tackling their solutions and how this infers the art of the possible if you face the same desired outcome. Consider this a walk-through of best practices using common components of Microsoft 365. Social and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | U...
Jan 16, 2020•35 min•Ep 42•Transcript available on Metacast This month on The Intrazone Microsoft 365 Roadmap Pitstop, we talk with Kaarin Shumate , senior content developer, who focuses on the strategy and management of SharePoint help documentation, UX writing to ensure accessibility for the global IT SharePoint admin community – on-premises and in Microsoft 365. Also in the show, roadmap updates plus a few predictions of what's to come in 2020. And a special treat for all, "Up on the Cloud Top" written and performed by Mark, Eli and Sophie Kashman. Ru...
Dec 31, 2019•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 41•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 40•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 40•Transcript available on Metacast 
