June 2021 brought some great new offerings: SharePoint Auto News Digest updates, SharePoint admin center updates (dashboard and new site information columns), Microsoft Lists - @mentions in comments, Power Apps can now display images from Microsoft Lists, Delete from within page details, Headspace mindfulness content comes to Microsoft Viva Insights, and more. We also hear from Rk Menon, program manager on the SharePoint team focused on the SharePoint admin center experience and capabilities in ...
Jun 30, 2021•33 min•Ep 114•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Chris and Mark talk with Thomas Trombley (Senior program manager - Windows Servicing and Delivery) and Jason Howard (Senior program manager - Windows, Developers, and Experiences (WDX)) about how the Windows desktop and ecosystem supports modern work in the context of Microsoft 365. We dig into helping customers plan for hybrid work, best practices for systems and services for IT to tune and optimize, and how to get into and remain in a good run state for managing it all from "t...
Jun 22, 2021•57 min•Ep 113•Transcript available on Metacast Get ready to take your diagramming skills to the next level! In this episode, Chris and I talk with Mukul Kumar (Senior product manager) and Nishant Kumar (Product manager) from the Visio team at Microsoft. They have some exciting news that’s ‘goodness at no cost’ to a lot of people in Microsoft 365. We'll dig into this and all things Visio – its place in the world of productivity, use cases for beginners to experts, web to desktop, and more. The goal of you finishing this episode is that you'll...
Jun 09, 2021•54 min•Ep 112•Transcript available on Metacast May 2021 brought some great new offerings: Yammer conversation highlights, Immersive Reader for SharePoint documents, content migration from Dropbox and Google Workspace into Microsoft 365, Microsoft Lists: Export to CSV, Microsoft Lists: Updated sharing experience, Microsoft Lists: Turn comments on/off, and more. We also hear from Yogesh Ratnaparkhi, principal program manager on the SharePoint team focused on the migration of content into Microsoft 365 - specifically release updates to the Shar...
Jun 01, 2021•30 min•Ep 111•Transcript available on Metacast It’s time to turn content into knowledge with the help of AI. Chris and Mark talk with CJ Tan (principal PM manager | Microsoft) about her role on the Project Cortex team focused on Viva Topics. We dig into knowledge roles, deployment practices, common scenarios, and top of mind for 'What's next?’ We don't think that AI is the only substitute for IA (Information Architecture). People, metadata and AI interact better together. CJ walks us through how it all works from pilot to broad-scale use and...
May 11, 2021•38 min•Ep 110•Transcript available on Metacast April 2021 brought some great new offerings: Immersive Reader: SharePoint pages and news posts, Events Web Part: Audience Targeting, SharePoint site templates, Microsoft Lists for iOS: iPad support, Manage Microsoft Lists for iOS using InTune APP, Microsoft Lists: Visualize data with Power BI, OneDrive sync 64-bit for Windows, and more. We also hear from Nicole Woon, program manager on the SharePoint at Microsoft focused on all things site templates, their history from the SharePoint Look Book –...
Apr 30, 2021•29 min•Ep 109•Transcript available on Metacast In this partner episode, we focus on the needs of a growing company, New Belgium Brewing, faced with numerous challenges. They desperately wanted to move away from paper-based processes. With their portfolio of beers growing, and a second brewing facility coming online, they needed help from partner KnowledgeLake to optimize digitize invoices, improve employee time and efficiency while maintaining environmental stewardship, making world class beer, and having fun. Click here for this episode's c...
Apr 27, 2021•42 min•Ep 108•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Chris and Mark talk with Sam Crewdson (senior program manager, Microsoft) about his role managing Microsoft Web (MSW) on SharePoint. MSW is Microsoft's internal company portal, built for its 163,000 full-time employees. We discuss MSW over time - from on-premises to the cloud, from classic to modern, establishing it as a home site, and now its role within Microsoft Viva Connections inside of Microsoft Teams. Lots of learning and insight from over the years across UX, innovation ...
Apr 13, 2021•57 min•Ep 107•Transcript available on Metacast March 2021 brought some great new offerings: Microsoft Viva Connections, SharePoint app bar, Focus mode for SharePoint pages and news, images in SharePoint Events web part, SharePoint page analytics, Integrate menu for Microsoft Lists, Graph-based people picker for Person columns, Box migration into Microsoft 365, guest access in Yammer, and more. We also hear from Melissa Torres, principal program manager, about the new SharePoint app bar, what it is and its new role in Microsoft Viva Connectio...
Mar 31, 2021•29 min•Ep 106•Transcript available on Metacast We talk with some of the people that built SharePoint and shaped it into what it is today. We’ll hear from SharePoint’s captain, Jeff Teper, taking us back to the days before SharePoint had a name: Project Tahoe. Other guests include some of the earliest members of the engineering team: Lauren Antonoff who led program management in the early connections to Office, Rob Lefferts who helped define document management, Adam Harmetz who rooted much of its ECM foundation, Bjørn Olstad who joined Micro...
Mar 27, 2021•46 min•Ep 105•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Chris and Mark talk with Stephanie Donahue (President and Co-founder, PAIT Group) and Dux Raymond Sy (Chief Brand Officer, AvePoint) – both Microsoft MVPs – about building your employee adoption drafting plan from a Microsoft Teams deployment perspective. We learn about their best practices and insights on how Microsoft Teams can help you be successful – from pilot to production. Tune in and turbocharge your Microsoft Teams adoption. Click here for this episode's corresponding b...
Mar 09, 2021•45 min•Ep 104•Transcript available on Metacast February 2021 brought some great new offerings: Microsoft Viva Topics (GA), SharePoint web part toolbox updates, Lightbox for images, Quick Links web part audience targeting, SharePoint portal launcher scheduler, Microsoft Lists: Number column updates, the Managed Metadata column, Microsoft Search in classic SharePoint sites, and more. We chat with Naomi Moneypenny, principal PM manager at Microsoft focused on building new capabilities in advanced content, knowledge, and search experiences in Mi...
Mar 01, 2021•40 min•Ep 103•Transcript available on Metacast Drag and drop emails and attachments from Outlook into SharePoint, without leaving Outlook. We talk with Microsoft partner harmon.ie , along with their customer, Bosch . We'll highlight their solution for how emails and attachments are now saved to SharePoint - readily available for future audits and e-discovery. The combined SharePoint plus harmon.ie solution helps Bosch manage millions of daily emails, including active business records that need to be accessed, shared, and worked on by numerou...
Feb 16, 2021•50 min•Ep 102•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Chris McNulty and Mark Kashman talk with Jared Spataro (CVP | Microsoft) about the new service offering, Microsoft Viva and it’s four main components: Connections, Insights, Learnings and Topics. Viva is an employee experience platform (EXP) designed around empowering people and teams to be their best. After listening to Jared, visit the main Viva landing page to learn more: https://aka.ms/Viva . Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post. Speakers: Jared Spataro | Tw...
Feb 04, 2021•44 min•Ep 101•Transcript available on Metacast January 2021 brought a lot of new tech: Yammer notifications in Teams, inclusive Yammer reactions, OneDrive settings in SharePoint admin center, 250GB file uploads, Microsoft Lists app for iOS, Lists rules, Lists forms customization, and more. We, too, get a bonus chat with Dan Holme, principal product manager lead on the Yammer and Groups team, about his recent career move, new Yammer tech and his new life in Arizona. Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post . Resource and Info Lin...
Feb 01, 2021•31 min•Ep 100•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Chris McNulty and Mark Kashman talk with Martina Grom (Co-founder, atwork and Microsoft MVP/RD) and Christophe Fiessinger (Principal program manager, Microsoft) about the role governance plays in regards to information and communication compliance. We dig into compliance strategy, technology like Microsoft 365 Compliance Manager, DLP, sharing, and more – with a nice dose of proven tips and tricks from two subject matter experts who know how to navigate the risky waters of securi...
Jan 19, 2021•51 min•Ep 99•Transcript available on Metacast We talk with Microsoft partner Circle T, along with their customer, Millennium Services Group. You'll hear about Millennium’s self-maintaining intranet strategy, including integration into Microsoft Teams – establishing an “enterprise knowledge platform.” We also learn about their policy center that helps “reduce time to content.” Millennium is interested in SharePoint Syntex to improve insider risk management and communication compliance. The goal to have an intranet that serves both employee s...
Jan 05, 2021•50 min•Ep 98•Transcript available on Metacast December 2020 brought many new offerings: SharePoint site header updates, send pages to Yammer, “SharePoint Success” site template, add Microsoft Teams to SharePoint team sites update (aka, Teamify), Microsoft Lists adoption center, Microsoft Graph Toolkit v2.0, and more. We share an exclusive chat with Tejas Mehta, principal program manager on the SharePoint team who owns content services integration work with Microsoft Teams. And Mark recaps The Intrazone's top episodes of 2020. Click here for...
Dec 30, 2020•44 min•Ep 97•Transcript available on Metacast Chris and Mark talk with Joanne Klein, Ruven Gotz and Daniel Glenn about what sent them to the SharePoint crazy farm, and back. You’ll hear their stories of tech-driven insanity, and why they've stuck with SharePoint through the years. Lessons learned promoted best practices and insights on a product that’s matured as a service year over year. Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post. View the transcript of this episode. Resources and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | ...
Dec 08, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Ep 59•Transcript available on Metacast Mark talks with Dag Eidesen , principal program manager on the Microsoft Search team who recently helped design and deliver the new SharePoint "My Feed" web part. November 2020 brought a lot more innovation: SharePoint site performance page, Lists undo and redo, at-a-glance and key points in sharing emails, an updated SharePoint tab app in Teams, new Microsoft Graph connectors, and more. Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post and resource outline. Resource and Info Links: SharePoi...
Nov 30, 2020•30 min•Ep 60•Transcript available on Metacast Chris and Mark dig into the breadth of SharePoint at Stanley Black & Decker over the last 15 years. We then delve into their recent success working with partner, Verinon, moving 9TB of content from OpenText Documentum eRoom to SharePoint in Microsoft 365. The result being updated and advanced productivity for their 9,400 users on this content, now more aligned with much of their active content. Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post. Resources and Info Links: SharePoint | @SharePo...
Nov 17, 2020•48 min•Ep 59•Transcript available on Metacast Chris and Mark talk with Jon Orton , Director of Microsoft 365 marketing focused on our small and medium business outreach. Throughout the discussion, we talk with Jon about the strains of COVID-19, offers from Microsoft to help ease change, and recent innovation for small and medium-sized businesses with up to 300 employees. Microsoft 365 Business is the IT for SMB, built to deliver the tools and security businesses need in a single, simple-to-manage product. The outcome, a means to run and gro...
Nov 10, 2020•57 min•Ep 58•Transcript available on Metacast In the spirit of Halloween, the Ghost of Roadmap Past shall be your guide – helping you to avoid becoming a Roadmap Scrooge. October 2020 brought some great new offerings: SharePoint Syntex, Organization Chart web part, new IT controls for Microsoft Lists, Microsoft Lists – commenting, OneDrive widget for iPhone, Task in Teams GA, and more. Warning: this episode is “ghostly-spirited" at times – all to help answer, "What rolled out to SharePoint and related technologies in Microsoft 365 during Oc...
Oct 30, 2020•24 min•Transcript available on Metacast Mark and Chris talk with Microsoft partner Mark and Chris talk with Microsoft partner Rightpoint , along with Rightpoint customer, Grant Thornton . You'll hear about various successes resulting from numerous integration points across the Microsoft 365 suite. With SharePoint as their intranet base, Grant Thornton uses the Power Platform, Stream, Yammer and Power BI – along with programmatic approach to custom development and governance. Grant Thornton helped establish their modern intranet as a h...
Oct 20, 2020•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this next episode of our Microsoft Partner series of the Intrazone. Mark and Chris talk with our partner Noorez Khamis from Creospark , along with Denise Strong, Director of Information at the Special Olympics Canada - a Creospark customer. The discussion centers around Special Olympics' need to further centralize and organize in a single, digital location. We focus on their extranet, moving away from Dropbox, and streamlining content and conversation from headquarters to branch office – and ...
Oct 06, 2020•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast September brought the ability to manage the duration of external guests' access, Microsoft Search plus Power BI, an updated list creation experience in SharePoint, Microsoft Lists calendar and gallery views, Quick Edit becomes “Edit in grid view," Yammer reactions, and more. Mark talks with Ankita Kirti, product marketing manager at Microsoft, who leads OneDrive marketing and is one of the co-hosts on the excellent podcast Sync Up . They discuss “Add to OneDrive” and several Ignite 2020 announce...
Oct 01, 2020•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast Microsoft Ignite 2020 is upon us. We’ve got a front-row seat with Omar Shahine, VP of OneDrive and SharePoint Program Management. Omar discusses the recent back-to-school surge, Ignite updates for Project Cortex, Microsoft Lists, Microsoft Stream, new SharePoint innovation in Microsoft Teams, the Leadership Connection site offering, OneDrive sync reports, and more. We round it all off hearing how he and his team take an overall design approach that best provides for consumers in the commercial s...
Sep 22, 2020•58 min•Ep 57•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Chris and Mark talk with Shane Young (Power Apps guru from PowerApps911) and Chris Kent (Office 365 Practice Lead at DMI) – *maker* magicians both – Shane, a Power Apps sorcerer, and Chris, a wizard of lists. Throughout the discussion, we learn how makers make, the approach to making, which tools, what techniques, and how you, too, can be a maker. Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post. Click here for a transcript of this episode . Resources and Info links: ShareP...
Sep 08, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Ep 56•Transcript available on Metacast August brought some nice innovations, some to help get back to school, some to help you stay more informed, with new ways to keep sharing and stay better connected. This month we discuss SharePoint site templates for Education, the retiring of SharePoint 2010 Workflows, accessing Visio as a tab within Teams, sharing of moved files, and more. Our guest is Lincoln DeMaris, a principal program manager on the SharePoint team focused on Microsoft Lists. We talk about the Lists roll out, how it evolve...
Aug 31, 2020•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast We talk with Bob German, Cloud developer advocate at Microsoft, and friend of the community who consistently puts complex concepts into simple, meaningful terms. He is also a contributor of samples and ideas via GitHub and PnP. Using his blog posts as a guide, we cover the evolution of SharePoint as a modern development platform, alongside the approach to brand and customize SharePoint – to develop once and deploy into SharePoint and Microsoft Teams. You’ll gain clarity and numerous tips and tri...
Aug 18, 2020•1 hr 14 min•Ep 55•Transcript available on Metacast 
