August 2023 brought some great new offerings: SharePoint news to email inbox, two new SharePoint site theme options, accessibility improvements to SharePoint page authoring, announcements in Viva Connections, Restricted Access Control for SharePoint and OneDrive, OneDrive: Colors for folders, OneDrive: Meetings and People views, SharePoint pages sharing update, Teams Meet app, new Search experience within chat and channels, and more. In this episode, we hear from my colleagues, Denise Trabona (P...
Sep 05, 2023•24 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this episode, we chat with Liz Sundet and Luis Enrique Torres who work directly with customers to help them best land a variety of technology in the category of 'Corporate Communications excellence,' especially when it comes to leveraging Microsoft Viva tailored to internal communications. We discuss common patterns, best practices, and key resources to both assess, plan and successfully deploy Viva Connections - the gateway to the overall employee experience from Microsoft for business leade...
Aug 22, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Ep 174•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, we talk with Sesha Mani, Partner Group Product Manager at Microsoft focused on security and compliance. We spoke with Sesha about SAM - that's S harePoint A dvanced M anagement. We cover its core benefits – helping SharePoint and IT Admins address sprawl and oversharing – mapped to what it gives you beyond the core management aspects within the SharePoint admin center. SAM expands on the principles of securing and managing content and data with advanced access policies for secur...
Aug 08, 2023•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast You can always rely on July to bring goodness to SharePoint and Microsoft 365: New SharePoint site creation experience, Viva Pulse GA, Viva Connections platform updates, new Search layouts for results, OneDrive: Simplified sharing, Lists UX update, Stream playback in Teams chat and channels, AAD > MSeID, Inspire announcements highlights, and more. We also hear from our friend Chris McNulty about the Microsoft 365 Backup and Archive announcements - from Microsoft Inspire. Plus, a bonus love song ...
Aug 02, 2023•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, we dig into two real-time, data-driven public service scenarios -- both about systems and people that support policing at-scale. You'll hear solution-oriented clips pulled from two episodes of the 'Public Sector Future' podcast, with show host Olivia Neal - Director of Public Sector Center of Expertise at Microsoft. First, Olivia speaks to Ian Bell, CEO of the UK’s Police Digital Service, to give an inside look into harnessing the power of digital, data, and technology to better...
Jul 25, 2023•24 min•Ep 171•Transcript available on Metacast June had wonderful new offerings for SharePoint and Microsoft 365: New Stream (on SharePoint) web part, Playlist view in the SharePoint List web part, Viva Connections supports different audiences, OneDrive Home update, Loop Components sync with Planner and To Do, get ready for Microsoft 365 Copilot, and more. We also added a sneak peek of Sync Up - The OneDrive podcast (it's back!). And pulled audio of Jason Moore (VP of Lists and OneDrive) to frame the essence of OneDrive and the new Home expe...
Jul 06, 2023•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast A swell of innovation is coming, aiming to boost the creator in us all – to create faster, more intuitively, and with the help of AI – your intranet web design partner. In this episode, we talk with Adam Harmetz, Vice President of SharePoint Experiences at Microsoft. We get his perspective on the recent SharePoint announcements disclosed at the Microsoft 365 Conference on May 2, 2023, in Las Vegas, Nevada. These include insights on Copilot in SharePoint, all the coming site design goodness – inc...
Jun 15, 2023•23 min•Transcript available on Metacast May 2023 brought great new offerings to SharePoint and Microsoft 365: Customizable Viva Connections mobile dashboard, Syntex image tagger, Syntex prebuilt model for contracts, OneDrive: Simplified sharing, Loop components in Outlook Mobile, and more. W e also highlight public disclosures from two recent events, Microsoft 365 Conference and Microsoft Build. We also share an audio clip of Rajesh Jha, EVP for experiences and devices at Microsoft, when he spoke recently at the Microsoft 365 Conferen...
Jun 01, 2023•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast How do Adobe and Microsoft work together? And what are the outcomes? In this episode, you'll hear from Ben Vanderberg - SaaS Tech Evangelist, Strategist, and Speaker from Adobe. We dig into the core of the partnership from a content collaboration perspective. We touch on Adobe integration with Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Teams, Edge, SharePoint and more. We, too, take a trip down PDF memory lane and some of the recent Adobe AI announcements like coming out of the recent Adobe Summit 2023 AND ...
May 16, 2023•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today's episode, we dig into a slew of announcements with Jeff Teper (President of Collaborative Apps and Platforms at Microsoft). We spoke to Jeff onsite in Vegas shortly after he and his team delivered a 90-minute whirlwind opening keynote – one that covered the value of community, tech Copilot, Teams, SharePoint - including Copilot in SharePoint, OneDrive, Lists, and goodness for IT with recent admin and security innovation. There were a ton of new announcements, plus the culmination of wh...
May 10, 2023•59 min•Ep 166•Transcript available on Metacast April 2023 brought some great new offerings to SharePoint and Microsoft 365: Project integration in Viva Goals, Viva Connections: Mobile SharePoint site navigation, improved Graph Connector content results, eDiscovery document version shared, Microsoft Lists: Applied filters, Microsoft Loop: .fluid > .loop, new files experience in Teams, Create pages and news in the SharePoint app bar, and more. We chat with Ben Truelove, Principal Designer at Microsoft focused on Microsoft Lists about recent us...
May 01, 2023•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast March 2023 brought both new updates and big announcements. In this episode, we cover: File web part now: “File and Media”, Viva Connections on iPad, Microsoft Edge + Adobe Acrobat PDF Engine, Microsoft Lists + Approvals app in Teams, OneDrive: Favorite/Unfavorite, Suggested files in 1:1 chat, Microsoft Word: Send to Kindle, and more. Plus, we have two guests: 1) Matt McKenzie, Director of Microsoft 365 product marketing, shares insights about the upcoming Microsoft 365 Conference in Vegas (May 2...
Apr 03, 2023•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast Viva Topics in Engage doubles the impact and access of your knowledge at your fingertips - and how you pay it forward to others. On today's episode, we hear from Raj Jain (Principal product manager at Microsoft) about all things topical about Viva Topics, specifically - the role of Viva Topics within your Viva Engage community discussions, questions, and announcements posts. The real value gives you a built-in knowledge management system that balances and refines the length of your internal comm...
Mar 20, 2023•28 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, we cover: Yammer > Engage rebrand, Viva Topics in Viva Engage, Stream Playlists, SharePoint Advanced Management, updated OneDrive Home and Shared, external file requests for SharePoint document libraries, export Microsoft Lists as datasets for Power BI, update to rules email notifications, and more. Plus, we talk with Sesha Mani, Principal group product manager on the SharePoint team focused on admin, security, and compliance. Sesha highlights the value of new SharePoint Advance...
Mar 01, 2023•35 min•Ep 162•Transcript available on Metacast You have questions. Viva has answers. On today's episode, we chat with Michael Holste and Steve Nguyen, Microsoft employees who focus on Microsoft Viva Engage and all the goodness it brings - with many exciting announcements disclosed today. You'll learn about things geared toward leadership communications, ways to host and run internal AMAs, and the general notion of getting answers to your questions when using Microsoft Viva, what is referred to as Answers in Viva. Plus, a little future news o...
Feb 13, 2023•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast It's a templates world, from start to finish - if you want to finish on time. In this episode, we first chat with Cathy Dew, senior product manager on the SharePoint team, about the value and design of SharePoint templates, Microsoft 365 templates, Lists templates, and more. We then connect with two of our partners from Pointwork in Copenhagen, Denmark: Peter Larsen, their CTO, and Lars Kristensen, a Principal consultant; we drill down into the real-world use and adoption of templates + governan...
Feb 07, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep 160•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, you’ll hear about all the new features and updates: Microsoft Feed, Planner integration with Viva Goals, extracting PDFs in OneDrive for Android, Microsoft Lists: Calendar week layout, Microsoft Teams @Everyone, Microsoft named a Leader in 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Insight Engines, Stream (Classic) sets to retire: February 15, 2024, and more. Plus, we talk with Bill Bär from the 'content AI' team focused on Search, Syntex, and a whole lot of AI. Bill shares insights into...
Jan 31, 2023•33 min•Ep 159•Transcript available on Metacast We chat with Jeff Teper to dig into what he calls "Fast Friday" - his use of technology to record his thoughts about what he's up to each week - where he spends time, anecdotes on internal and external meetings, and things he's working on - big and small. Fast Fridays are about capturing thoughts, putting them together, and then getting them out there - and that it's OK to be scrappy, consistent, and engaged versus over-polished and less available. For Jeff, it's all about transparency, communic...
Jan 10, 2023•29 min•Ep 158•Transcript available on Metacast Our team spent most of December 2022 refining the cloud, improving it for your return to work – whenever that may be. In this episode, you’ll find details about a load of great new offerings: Microsoft Syntex Pay-as-you-go (Preview), search video transcript for Stream (on SharePoint), SharePoint Apps: Add to teams when enabling an app, OneDrive: Sensitivity labels appear on the sharing dialog, OneDrive sync reports (GA), SharePoint sites search in usage analytics, Microsoft Teams Premium (Previe...
Dec 29, 2022•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast Sink your ears into clip highlights from each of the four Microsoft keynotes from the European SharePoint Conference 2022 (ESPC22 | Copenhagen, Denmark). You'll hear from Jeff Teper covering the approach Microsoft takes in making Microsoft 365 the best productivity offering, from Karuana Gatimu sharing insights about the metaverse in Teams, Scott Hanselman about how many keystrokes you have left, Vesa Juvonen on the continuum of opportunity for developers -- no-to-low-to-pro code. And last, a fu...
Dec 20, 2022•49 min•Ep 156•Transcript available on Metacast Gobble, gobble - time to gobble up all the updates that landed for SharePoint and related tech on the month of November 2022 - a load of great new offerings: Briefing email enhancements, a new praise compose experience, a new Viva admin experience, SharePoint tenant URL rename (GA), three new SharePoint site templates, updated management for site information, sign language via in Microsoft Teams, Editor using Context IQ in Word, and more. We also pulled audio from Cathy Dew, Senior product manag...
Nov 30, 2022•24 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this episode, we hear from Gaia Carini and Katy Erlandson from the OneDrive engineering team. We dig into OneDrive to distinguish the value between the "Add to OneDrive" feature and general sync of team site document libraries - sometimes referred to as "Shared libraries". You’ll hear more about what each capability does, the path forward by design to make it easy for you, plus guidance for today and going forward. The whole of this episode spawned from a Twitter thread request, and we think ...
Nov 22, 2022•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast To the echoes of ghostly gasps and looming, deadly fog - the spirit of Halloween cast an eerie shadow this past month. No need to fear. October 2022 brought some great new, welcome offerings: Viva Engage GA, Viva Insights: Focus mode in Teams, Stream (on SharePoint) GA, Excel Live in Teams, OneDrive: Folder backup for macOS, conditional access improvement for Lists for Android, Office app becoming Microsoft 365 app, and more. You’ll hear more about Viva Engage and Yammer Storylines that both hit...
Nov 02, 2022•32 min•Ep 153•Transcript available on Metacast Time to turn the crank on your Syntex knowledge - now an elevated brand and loads of new innovation. Every workday, Microsoft customers add 1.6 billion documents to Microsoft 365. That content is essential to your organization -- carrying knowledge, decisions, and transactions that are vital to the flow of work. Microsoft Syntex, announced this week at Microsoft Ignite 2022, brings the power of content management and AI together to transform the way we work. We chat with Ian Story, Principal GPM...
Oct 12, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Transcript available on Metacast September brought some great new offerings: Cultural site template for Hispanic Heritage Month, Manage site access based on sensitivity label, Viva Learning cards for the Viva Connections Dashboard, New 'Activity' column in OneDrive, Granular Policies for OneDrive: Request Files, Quick Access to SharePoint document libraries in Office backstage, Schedule send for Teams chat, Video clips in Teams chat (Preview), new Stream mobile app (beta) - iOS and Android, improved Adobe PDF experience in Micr...
Oct 05, 2022•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast Chris and Mark chat with April Dunnam, Principal cloud advocate on Power Platform Developer Advocacy Team at Microsoft. April is also a Power Platform MVP alumni, a Microsoft Certified Trainer, and previously a SharePoint developer out of Tulsa, OK. This episode brings the live Intrazone breakout session from 365 EduCon - Dallas right into your Intrazone ears. We asked April to share insights and best practices for user experiences designed to build 'sticky apps', plus her take on new Power Plat...
Sep 28, 2022•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast August 2022 brought a lot of new tech to Microsoft 365 - lots of SharePoint and related tech goodness: Viva Goals GA, Viva Engage GA, Viva Insights updates, Microsoft Lists - MSA Preview for iOS (beta), new SharePoint team site templates, new web parts and site theme, co-authoring encrypted documents on mobile, new OneDrive home experience, To Do in Outlook for Windows, and more. We also hear from Ankur Madan and Sahil Baid discuss progress in the mobile Lists space, namely bringing access to th...
Sep 07, 2022•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this episode, Chris and Mark chat with Sean Emam (Principal GPM for all datacenters) and Jon Farmer (our lead datacenter PMM). We highlight news about the recent opening of a new datacenter in Qatar, and the value of operating Microsoft datacenters at scale across various product groups, partners, and ultimately out to customer. You’ll hear more about the history and design behind our go local efforts, choosing locations, and the focus on sustainability across all datacenters to enable great ...
Aug 31, 2022•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast It's OneDrive's 15th birthday, and all the presents are for you. On this episode, Ankita Kirti and Mark Kashman chat with Arwa Tyebkhan (Principal GPM | OneDrive) and Steven Bailey (CVP OneDrive and SharePoint engineering) to celebrate both OneDrive’s 15th lap around the sun AND to hear more about the new OneDrive Home experience. We first go into the way-back machine to learn about the evolution from Windows Live Mesh, Grove.exe and SharePoint Workspaces, into SkyDrive and SkyDrive Pro, and lan...
Aug 09, 2022•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast July 2022 brought a lot of new tech to Microsoft 365 - lots of SharePoint and related tech goodness: Record a new video from Stream start page, Video collections page, One-time passcodes from no-reply@notify.microsoft.com, AAD memberOf “Nested” Groups, Power Automate flows in Lists templates, Microsoft Lists: Calendar view conditional formatting, Review mode for Word documents, news from Microsoft Inspire 2022, and more. We also hear from Kristina Hotz from the Microsoft Identity and network acc...
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