Explore every episode of the podcast The Intrazone by Microsoft 365
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| Microsoft 365 Backup—Veeam | 14 Aug 2024 | 00:21:20 | |
Back up your data with confidence. Microsoft 365 Backup offers lightning-fast restorability, ensuring business continuity. On this episode, guest host, Brad Gussin from the SharePoint engineering team, provides an overview of the core offering. You'll then hear an interview with our valued partner, Karinne Bessette from Veeam, about the Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 solution.
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Karinne Bessette | LinkedIn | @Veeam [guest] Brad Gussin | LinkedIn [co-host] Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | Feedback Learn more about Microsoft 365 Backup (adoption.microsoft.com) Learn more about Veeam's Microsoft 365 Backup solution "Microsoft Announces General Availability of Microsoft 365 Backup and Microsoft 365 Backup Storage" by Zach Rosenfield [July 31, 2024] Watch "The Ins and Outs of Microsoft 365 Backup & Archive" Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Upcoming events: TechCon365 - DC | Aug. 12-16, 2024 |Washington, DC CollabDays Hamburg | Hamburg, Germany | August 31, 2024 Microsoft Power Platform Conference | September 18-20, 2024 | Las Vegas, NV CollabDays Portugal Porto 2024 (previously CollabDays Lisbon)| Sept. 21 Venue: Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto CollabDays New England | October 18-19, 2024 | Burlington, Massachusetts TechCon365 - Dallas | Nov. 11-15, 2024 | Dallas, TX Microsoft Ignite (+ more info) | Nov 18-22, 2024 | Chicago, IL ESPC | European SharePoint Conference | Dec 2-5, 2024 | Stockholm, Sweden + always review and share the CommunityDays.org website
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| Microsoft 365 Backup—Commvault | 07 Aug 2024 | 00:23:42 | |
Microsoft 365 Backup is your in-place solution for lightning-fast restorability, ensuring business continuity. On this episode, guest host Brad Gussin from the SharePoint engineering team provides an overview of the core offering. You'll then hear an interview with our valued partner, Brad Kirby from Commvault, about their integration of Commvault Cloud with our Microsoft 365 Backup storage platform - extending data recoverability and searchability.
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Brad Kirby (Commvault) | LinkedIn | @Commvault [guest] Brad Gussin | LinkedIn [co-host] Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | Feedback
Learn more about Microsoft 365 Backup (adoption.microsoft.com) Learn more about Commvault's Microsoft 365 Backup solution "Microsoft Announces General Availability of Microsoft 365 Backup and Microsoft 365 Backup Storage" by Zach Rosenfield [July 31, 2024] Watch "The Ins and Outs of Microsoft 365 Backup & Archive" Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes
Upcoming events: TechCon365 - DC | Aug. 12-16, 2024 |Washington, DC CollabDays Hamburg | Hamburg, Germany | August 31, 2024 Microsoft Power Platform Conference | September 18-20, 2024 | Las Vegas, NV CollabDays Portugal Porto 2024 (previously CollabDays Lisbon)| Sept. 21 Venue: Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto CollabDays New England | October 18-19, 2024 | Burlington, Massachusetts TechCon365 - Dallas | Nov. 11-15, 2024 | Dallas, TX Microsoft Ignite (+ more info) | Nov 18-22, 2024 | Chicago, IL ESPC | European SharePoint Conference | Dec 2-5, 2024 | Stockholm, Sweden + always review and share the CommunityDays.org website
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| In-person events tips and tricks | 27 Mar 2024 | 00:38:13 | |
We grabbed time with three Microsoft tech event experts: Sharon Weaver (Founder & CEO | Smarter Consulting), Sean Bugler (Principal Innovation Architect | Metropolitan Transportation Commission), and Derek Cash-Peterson (Principal Architect | Sympraxis Consulting LLC) - to get their insights about in-person events. The goal is to give you, future attendee, tips, tricks and best practices to optimize your in-person event experience. We also got a sense of what each person plans to present, and each shared a fun story from their past in-person event memory box. Lots of laughs. Lots to get you prepped before boarding your flight to Orlando, FL.
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02:26 Conversation with Sharon Weaver, Sean Bugler, and Derek Cash-Peterson 33:30 Upcoming Events
Sharon Weaver | LinkedIn | Twitter Derek Cash-Peterson | LinkedIn | Twitter Sean Bugler | LinkedIn | Twitter SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | Feedback Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host]
Watch the video of our conversation in YouTube here https://youtu.be/E3wpmDlxiN0 Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes
Upcoming events: Microsoft Fabric Community Conference | March 26-28, 2024, Las Vegas, NV SharePoint Embedded Developer Summit | March 26-27, 2024, Redmond, WA Special Planner event | April 3 at 10am PDT - sharing more about the New Planner Special Planner AMA | April 4 at 10am PDT AIIM | April 3-5, 2024, San Antonio, TX North American Cloud & Collaboration Summit (NACS) | April 9-11, 2024, Dallas, TX Microsoft 365 Community Conference | April 30 - May 2, 2024, Orlando, FL European Cloud Summit | May 14-16,2024, Wiesbaden, Germany TechCon365 - Seattle | June 3-7, 2024, Seattle, WA Microsoft Ignite (+ more info) | Nov 18-22, 2024, "Save the date," Chicago, IL European SharePoint Conference | Dec 2-5, 2024, Stockholm, Sweden
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| How Millennium SG established a self-maintaining intranet with Circle T | 05 Jan 2021 | 00:50:12 | |
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 self-service needs and programmatic compliance for IT is one born from human-centric design that safeguards operations at scale. Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post. Resources and Info Links: SharePoint | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice Hamish Toll | LinkedIn | Circle T [guest] David Benjamin | LinkedIn | Millennium Services Group | Twitter [guest] Mark Kashman | Twitter [co-host] Chris McNulty | Twitter [co-host] Microsoft 365 Friday California (Jan.22.2021) | SharePoint Saturdays Microsoft Ignite (Mar.2-4.2021) Collab365 GlobalCon5 (Mar.16-17.2021)| Twitter SharePoint Fest Virtual Workshops (ongoing) CollabDays events (ongoing) Microsoft 365 Content Services Partner Program Project Cortex aka.ms/projectcortex Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Listen and subscribe to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Subscribe to The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop December 2020 | 30 Dec 2020 | 00:43:52 | |
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 this episode's corresponding blog post. Resource and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook | Twitter | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice Mark Kashman | Twitter [host] Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Subscribe to The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone: Listen and subscribe to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts | |||
| SharePoint drives me crazy! | 08 Dec 2020 | 01:05:14 | |
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 | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice Mark Kashman | Twitter [co-host] Chris McNulty | Twitter [co-host] Joanne Klein | Twitter | LinkedIn | Blog [guest] Ruven Gotz | Twitter | Instagram (wonderful portraits and landscapes)| LinkedIn | Avanade site [guest] Daniel Glenn | Twitter | LinkedIn | Blog [guest] Joanne’s fun pre-recording Twitter thread soliciting ‘crazy’ input from the community Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Relay FM is a podcast network for the technically creative, curious, and maybe even a little obsessive. Listen and subscribe to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Upcoming Events: Microsoft 365 Collaboration Conference [virtual] (Dec.9-11.2020) Microsoft Envision [Dec.15.2020] Project Cortex Office Hours – up next: ‘SharePoint trends & Gartner Content Services Platform Magic Quadrant (CSP MQ)’ | Dec 16th, 2020 9:00am PDT SharePoint Fest Virtual Workshops (ongoing) Subscribe to The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone y3MzGP625LeqjqbaPxon | |||
| SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop November 2020 | 30 Nov 2020 | 00:29:35 | |
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: SharePoint Facebook | Twitter | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice Mark Kashman | Twitter [host] Dag Eidesen | LinkedIn [guest] Microsoft Search | Twitter Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Subscribe to The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone Listen and subscribe to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts. | |||
| Migrations from 'A' to better | 17 Nov 2020 | 00:48:29 | |
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 | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice Tewabe “Joro” Ayenew | LinkedIn | Verinon [guest] Gary Moss | LinkedIn | Stanley Black & Decker [guest] Mark Kashman | Twitter [co-host] Chris McNulty | Twitter [co-host] Stanley Black & Decker migrates from eRoom to Office 365 with Verinon [case study] Events: SharePoint Fest Virtual Workshops Microsoft 365 Collaboration Conference Collab365 GlobalCon4 | Twitter
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| IT for the SMB | 10 Nov 2020 | 00:56:48 | |
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 grow business. Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post. Click here for a transcript of this episode. Resources and Info Links: SharePoint @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice Mark Kashman | Twitter [co-host] Chris McNulty | Twitter [co-host] Jon Orton | LinkedIn | Twitter | Small and medium business community [guest] Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Listen and subscribe to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts "What's New with Microsoft 365?" Subscribe to the show via the Microsoft 365 YouTube channel by going to aka.ms/SubscribeToM365. Upcoming Events: Microsoft 365 - Chicago (Nov.13.2020) Document Strategy Forum (Nov.9-10.2020) KMWorld 2020 (Nov.16-19.2020) Quest TEC 2020 (Nov.17-18.2020) GlobalCon4 (Dec.1-4.2020) CollabDays – Munich-Vienna (Dec.4.2020) Microsoft 365 Collaboration Conference - Virtual (Dec.9-11.2020) SharePoint Fest - Virtual Workshops (Nov.2020 – Jan.2021) Subscribe to The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop October 2020 | 30 Oct 2020 | 00:24:21 | |
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 October 2020?" Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post. Click here for transcript of this episode. Resource and Info Links: SharePoint @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice Mark Kashman | Twitter [host] Harsh Agarwal | LinkedIn [guest] Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Subscribe to The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone Listen and subscribe to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts | |||
| Partner Edition: Rightpoint with customer Grant Thornton | 20 Oct 2020 | 00:48:33 | |
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 home for everything people need in the day-to-day when working with their peers and various communities of practice. Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post. Click here for transcript of this episode. Resources and Info Links: SharePoint | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice OneDrive | @OneDrive | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice Jesse Murray | Twitter | LinkedIn Doug Kalish | Twitter | LinkedIn Grant Thornton wins Knowledge Management award, "APQC Announces Inaugural Excellence in Knowledge Management Award; Names 13 Winning Organizations" Rightpoint on "Employee experience" Rightpoint on "Project Cortex" Grant Thornton LLP Case Study with Rightpoint SharePoint Fest Virtual Workshops (ongoing) Collaboration Summit's Learning Day (Oct.26.2020) and Networking Day [in VR] (Oct.27.2020) Collab365 GlobalCon4 | Twitter Microsoft 365 Content Services Partner Program Project Cortex aka.ms/projectcortex Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Subscribe to The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone Listen and subscribe to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts | |||
| Partner Edition: Creospark with guest customer Special Olympics Canada | 06 Oct 2020 | 00:39:53 | |
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 back. And their focus never veers from their motto: "An inclusion movement powered by sport." Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post. Click here for a transcript of this episode. Resources and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice OneDrive Facebook | @OneDrive | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice Noorez Khamis | Twitter | LinkedIn Denise Strong | LinkedIn Creospark | Twitter | LinkedIn Special Olympics Canada | Twitter SharePoint Saturdays at SPS Events Microsoft 365 Content Services Partner Program Project Cortex aka.ms/projectcortex Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Microsoft Stories podcast *new* Listen and subscribe to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Subscribe to The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop September 2020 | 01 Oct 2020 | 00:39:28 | |
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 announcements that span both OneDrive and SharePoint. Click here for transcript of this episode. Click here for corresponding blog post to this episode. Resource and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice Mark Kashman | Twitter [host] Ankita Kirti | Twitter [co-host] Sync Up, a OneDrive podcast Collaboration, communication and knowledge sharing with Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Project Cortex Ignite 2020 by Jeff Teper (CVP, OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams) Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Subscribe to The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone Listen and subscribe to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts | |||
| Ubisoft—Custom search supports game development | 19 Mar 2024 | 00:59:13 | |
We chat with game developer Ubisoft about their use of custom Search in Microsoft 365. Franck Cornu, Mihaela Nite and Stephanie Daigle discuss their journey to update their old global search application - originally built on SharePoint Server 2013, now fully on SharePoint in Microsoft 365. Learn why they moved to the cloud, how they customized the Search experience in the cloud, plus tips and tricks for your consideration.
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09:15 Conversation with Franck Cornu, Mihaela Nite and Stephanie Daigle 51:34 Upcoming Events
Franck Cornu | LinkedIn [guest] Mihaela Nita | LinkedIn [guest] Stephanie Daigle | LinkedIn [guest] SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | Feedback Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host]
"Ubisoft journey with Microsoft Search" [use case whitepaper] "Build Microsoft Graph connected web sites for a custom enterprise search experience" Jan 18, 2024 | Frank Cornu on Microsoft 365 & Power Platform Development community call. Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes
Upcoming events: Enterprise Connect | March 25-28, 2024 | Gaylord Palms, Orlando, FL Microsoft Fabric Community Conference | March 26-28, 2024, in Las Vegas, NV SharePoint Embedded Developer Summit | March 26-27, Redmond, WA Special Planner event | April 3 at 10am PDT - sharing more about the New Planner AIIM | April 3-5, 2024, in San Antonio, TX North American Cloud & Collaboration Summit (NACS) | April 9-11, 2024, in Dallas, TX Microsoft 365 Community Conference | April 30 - May 2, 2024, in Orlando, FL European Cloud Summit | May 14-16,2024, in Wiesbaden, Germany) TechCon365 - Seattle | June 3-7, 2024, in Seattle, WA Microsoft Ignite (+ more info) | Nov 18-22, 2024, "Save the date," Chicago, IL European SharePoint Conference | Dec 2-5, 2024 in Stockholm, Sweden
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| Ignite news with Omar Shahine | 22 Sep 2020 | 00:57:42 | |
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 space. Lots of news. Lots of insights. Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post. Click here for a 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] Omar Shahine | LinkedIn | Twitter BLOG | "Microsoft Ignite announcements across Project Cortex, SharePoint, OneDrive, Microsoft Teams and more" by Jeff Teper. SESSION (on-demand soon) | [#MSIgnite 9/22/20 #DB158]: "Enabling collaboration, communication, and knowledge sharing with Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Project Cortex, and more" OmarKnows blog post "How are you doing?" Project Cortex and Cortex Ignite 2020 announcements Microsoft Lists and Lists Ignite 2020 announcements SharePoint education (EDU) templates Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Listen and subscribe to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Upcoming Events: Microsoft Ignite 2020 (Sept.22-24, 2020; aka, now) + the Adoption Center: Virtual Hub Teamsfest (Oct.7, 2020) European SharePoint Conference Online (Oct.14-16, 2020) GlobalCon4 (Dec.1-4, 2020) Subscribe to The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| Makers make magic | 08 Sep 2020 | 01:09:48 | |
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: SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice Mark Kashman | Twitter [co-host] Chris McNulty | Twitter [co-host] Shane Young | LinkedIn | Twitter | PowerApps911 Chris Kent | LinkedIn | Twitter | DMI “The great migration of SharePoint Workflow to Power Automate” by John Liu Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Listen and subscribe to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Upcoming Events: GlobalCon3 [Sept. 8-11, 2020] Microsoft Ignite [Sept. 22-24, 2020]| @MS_Ignite Microsoft 365 Saturday - Gurgaon | Sept. 19, 2020 Subscribe to The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop August 2020 | 31 Aug 2020 | 00:32:16 | |
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 evolves from what we know as SharePoint lists, the early feedback, and some common frequently asked questions. Click here for this episode's corresponding blog. Click here for a transcript of this episode. Resource and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice Mark Kashman | Twitter [host] Lincoln DeMaris | LinkedIn [guest] Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Subscribe to The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone Listen and subscribe to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts | |||
| Figuring it out with Bob | 18 Aug 2020 | 01:14:22 | |
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 tricks along the way. Click here for transcript of this episode. Click here for this episode's corresponding Blog. Resources and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice Mark Kashman | Twitter[co-host] Chris McNulty | Twitter[co-host] Bob German | Blog | LinkedIn | Twitter Bob German articles mentioned in this episode:
SharePoint Framework (SPFx) bots and adaptive cards (coding samples) Bob German on a recent Microsoft 365 Developer Podcast episode, “Teams development from the field with Bob German” “Page optimization” for the intelligent intranet Microsoft Lists – early thoughts on admin controls & My lists (from comments on the GA blog) Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Listen and subscribe to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Upcoming Events: GlobalCon3 [Sept. 8-11, 2020] Microsoft Ignite [Sept. 22-24, 2020]| @MS_Ignite Supercharge Microsoft Teams with the Newest Apps: Tasks and Lists (Dux Raymond Sy & Mark Kashman) [Aug.27, 2020] - reserve your spot today. Microsoft 365 Global Virtual Community - virtual party [Sept.25, 2020, after Ignite] Project Cortex Office Hours "Microsoft Ignite news and updates" [Sept.30, 2020] - download the invite today Subscribe to The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| Partner Edition: Fujitsu with guest customer Boys Hope Girls Hope | 11 Aug 2020 | 00:51:14 | |
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. Click here for this episode's corresponding Blog post. Resources and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice OneDrive Facebook | @OneDrive | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice Jeffrey Willinger | LinkedIn | Twitter Pete Schweiss | LinkedIn Boys Hope Girls Hope | Site |Twitter Los Angeles SharePoint User Group "Microsoft Ignite 2020: Empowering the technical community to help customers innovate and rebuild in a changing world" by Chris Capossela, CMO, Microsoft Microsoft 365 Content Services Partner Program Project Cortex aka.ms/projectcortex - Join the preview and learn more about our vision and experiences in the Project Cortex Resource Center. Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Listen and subscribe to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Upcoming Events: Microsoft Ignite [September 22-24, 2020]| @MS_Ignite Subscribe to The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop July 2020 | 31 Jul 2020 | 00:36:56 | |
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 transcript of this episode. Click here for the corresponding Roadmap July 2020 Blog. Resources and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice Mark Kashman |@mkashman [host] John Sanders | LinkedIn | Twitter [guest] Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Subscribe to The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone Listen and subscribe to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts | |||
| Tasks in Teams | 28 Jul 2020 | 00:53:10 | |
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 corresponding Blog post. Resources and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host] Shin-Yi Lim | LinkedIn [guest] Howard Crow | LinkedIn [guest] Upcoming AMA | Microsoft Planner AMA (July 28, 2020 from 9-10 AM PT) Manage the Tasks app in Microsoft Teams Announcing Tasks in Microsoft Teams Tasks in Microsoft 365 - our vision for a unified experience Reimagining virtual collaboration for the future of work and learning by Jared Spataro, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft 365 Introducing Tasks in Microsoft Teams (video) Get started with Microsoft Planner: https://tasks.office.com/ (Sign-in with your Microsoft 365 ID) Microsoft Planner help center & download the Planner mobile app (iOS & Android) “The collaborative work management opportunity with Teams and Microsoft 365” by Angela Byers and Mark Kashman (Microsoft Inspire on-demand session) Planner | Twitter | Blog | UserVoice To Do | Twitter | Blog | UserVoice Microsoft Teams | Twitter | Blog | UserVoice The Seattle Kraken Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Upcoming Events: GlobalCon3 [Sept.8-11.2020] Microsoft Ignite [Sept.2020]| @MS_Ignite Subscribe to The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone Listen and subscribe to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts | |||
| A home for all your lists | 21 Jul 2020 | 01:05:45 | |
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 episode. Social and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice Mark Kashman |Twitter [co-host] Chris McNulty |Twitter [co-host] Harini Saladi | LinkedIn | Twitter [guest] Lyndsey Gill | LinkedIn [guest] Resources: Microsoft Lists begins general availability roll out to Microsoft 365 by Seth Patton, GM, Microsoft 365 Announcing Microsoft Lists - Your smart information tracking app in Microsoft 365 by Seth Patton, GM, Microsoft 365 Microsoft Lists resource center 15-minute Lists product demo by Miceile Barrett, Program Manager, Microsoft Lists [video] Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Listen and subscribe to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Upcoming Events: Microsoft Inspire (partner event) [July 21-22] GlobalCon3 [Sept.8-11.2020] Microsoft Ignite [Sept.2020]| @MS_Ignite Subscribe to The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| Prefrontal Project Cortex | 14 Jul 2020 | 00:51:56 | |
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 Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host] CJ Tan [guest] Sean Squires | @iamseansquires [guest] Resources: Project Cortex resource center Microsoft 365 Content Services Partner Program Project Cortex Update [July 2020] by Chris McNulty The knowledge of Project Cortex [announcement Intrazone episode from Ignite 2019] Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Listen and subscribe to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Upcoming Events: Microsoft Inspire (partner event) [July 21-22] GlobalCon3 [Sept.8-11.2020] Microsoft Ignite [Sept.2020]| @MS_Ignite Subscribe to The Intrazone: Show Page: https://aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop June 2020 | 30 Jun 2020 | 00:34:18 | |
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 Roadmap June 2020 Blog post. Click here for full transcript. Resources and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice Cathy Dew | LinkedIn | Twitter Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Subscribe to The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone Listen to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts | |||
| SharePoint roadmap pitstop—February 2024 | 29 Feb 2024 | 00:20:05 | |
Busy February - taking advantage of that extra day. We leap into everything that landed this past month: Copilot Dashboard for Viva Insights, SharePoint Premium: Translation (GA), Sample: Custom copilot in SharePoint with SSO, Signaling Viva Topics retirement (Feb 2025), Custom document library templates, Updated Lists apps: Sites/Teams/PWA, Copilot in Teams, Microsoft Clipchamp: Automatic captions, Teams: Hide General Channels, Initial Microsoft 365 apps on Apple visionOS, and more. To the roadmap!
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| Catching up with Jeff Teper | 23 Jun 2020 | 00:59:53 | |
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 here for full transcript of this episode. Resources and Info Links: The Intrazone #51 "Catching up with Jeff Teper" Blog post SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice Mark Kashman |Twitter [co-host] Chris McNulty |Twitter [co-host] Jeff Teper | Twitter [guest] Microsoft Inspire, July 21-22, 2020 #CollabDays, Italy (virtual 6/23), Netherlands & London - both on June 27th Microsoft Ignite 2020 (September 2020; in planning) KPMG adopts Microsoft Teams for it's 200,000 employees (video via LinkedIn with Jeff Teper & KPMG) Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Subscribe to The Intrazone Listen to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts The Intrazone show page: https://aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| Year of Yammer, part 2: Use and Adoption | 16 Jun 2020 | 00:41:25 | |
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 [guest] Michael Holste | Twitter | LinkedIn [guest] The New Yammer blog Join the Yammer newsletter Meet the New Yammer webinar series: Keep employees informed and engaged in difficult times Customer case study: Shell + Yammer GlobalCon2, June 15-19, 2020 Microsoft Inspire, July 21-22, 2020 Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Subscribe to The Intrazone: Listen to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Show Page: https://aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop May 2020 | 01 Jun 2020 | 00:30:43 | |
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-premises directly into Microsoft Teams. Click here for full transcript of this episode. Click here for the SharePoint Roadmap May 2020 Blog.
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| Year of Yammer, part 1: Strategy and Vision | 26 May 2020 | 00:48:29 | |
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 Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice Mark Kashman | Twitter [co-host] Chris McNulty | Twitter [co-host] Murali Sitaram | Twitter | LinkedIn [guest] Luc Feuvrier-Danziger | Twitter | LinkedIn [guest] The New Yammer blog Join the Yammer newsletter Meet the New Yammer webinar series: Keep employees informed and engaged in difficult times Customer case study: Shell + Yammer Recent external podcast with Murali: "TalkingHeadz Podcast: Murali Sitaram, Yammer" Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon, May 27-28, 2020 Galactic Collaboration Summit, June 2nd & 9th, 2020 GlobalCon2, June 15-19, 2020 Microsoft Inspire, July 21-22, 2020 Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Subscribe to The Intrazone: Listen to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Show Page: https://aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| Make a list and check it twice | 19 May 2020 | 01:02:48 | |
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.
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Announcing Microsoft Lists - Your smart information tracking app in Microsoft 365 by Seth Patton, GM, Microsoft 365 Microsoft Lists resource center 15-minute Lists product demo by Miceile Barrett, Program Manager, Microsoft Lists (video) From Microsoft Teams to Fluid Framework—here’s what’s new and coming soon to Microsoft 365 by Jared Spataro, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft 365 What’s new in Microsoft Teams | Build Edition | May 2020 by Aya Tange, Product Marketing Manager, Teams Microsoft Mechanics “Teams Build 2020 announcements” video with Jeremy Chapman, Director, Microsoft 365
Microsoft Build, May 19-20, 2020 Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon, May 27-28, 2020 Galactic Collaboration Summit, June 2 and June 9, 2020 Microsoft Inspire, July 21-22, 2020
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TRANSCRIPT (Music.) MARK KASHMAN: Welcome to the Intrazone, a show about the Microsoft 365 intelligent internet. I’m Mark Kashman here with my cohost today from the very far distant reaches of, well, about 10 or 13 miles away, Mr. Chris McNulty.
CHRIS MCNULTY: Well, thanks, Mark. It’s great to be back here when you. You’re always top of my list. And on top of our list this week, we’re talking with Miceile Barrett, program manager, and Lincoln DeMaris, principal PM manager, from the OneDrive and SharePoint engineering team.
MARK KASHMAN: Yes. And at the end of this episode, you will know that a list is a list is a list. And one of the newest extensions and evolutions of our story is Microsoft Lists. We’re going to talk with Miceile and Lincoln about the newest app in Microsoft 365 Portfolio, Microsoft Lists.
So, Chris, what are your thoughts on lists these days?
CHRIS MCNULTY: Oh, I have – I have a long list of things to say about lists. You know, it’s – it’s really interesting. If you look at something that seems as esoteric as a data construct, right, you have over the past 20 years, you’ve had a variety of technologies like Access and Access Web Apps, and Excel. How you store the data shouldn’t matter too much for these, you know, low-code/no-code, user-driven, lightweight application processes.
But one thing that we’ve really observed is making it very easy for people to start with their data, is how you open up the whole application process, if you think about it.
MARK KASHMAN: Yeah, you know, certainly off of our title, you know, you can make a list and check it twice. But I think when you start to do all the things beyond storing the data, you really start to see the value of lists. And you know, in a variety of products and services, you’re able to store data and – and present it and work with it.
And I think the unique value with lists in the past and certainly going forward is how you can represent that data, how you can share it, how you can visualize it, how you can augment it over time. It’s not something that just is here today and gone tomorrow, but changes.
And I think what’s nice about mapping it to a business process is the business process dictates what you need to see and what you need to know, and then asks you what you need to contribute. But I think it’s that representation of information, and with Microsoft Lists, it gets a lot more visible, it gets a lot more organized and aggregated together across multiple lists.
But you know, I want to dig in a little bit before we dive in with Miceile and Lincoln to know, you know, from your perspective, because I know you have had, both as a marketer here at Microsoft focused on content services and the lists role that plays into that, but before as an MVP, as a consultant, or anytime you’ve used lists in the past, how would you say you’ve used them in the past and how you see them growing up over time?
CHRIS MCNULTY: Well, it’s interesting, if you just think back over the past, you know, couple of decades, there’s been a sort of pendulum back and forth between high structure and high user touch.
And if you go back, you know, farthest back to mainframe or sophisticated computer databases, those are things that required the high priestesses and priests of data science to be able to construct for you.
And we saw, you know, over time, people sort of came down from the mountain and started breaking them into PC-based databases, like dBase, FoxPro and Access, and spreadsheets really kind of went – in many cases, have provided this data service, in addition to being a calculation service, because people started to find them a very easy place to be able to construct these two-dimensional matrixes, these two-dimensional tables, where they would put in people or locations or sales, or all sorts of things, sometimes to be able to model them and sometimes just to be able to capture the data.
And if you think about Excel, you know, Excel has been described as the number one data format in the world and the number one business intelligence tool in the world, and the number one calculation tool in the world because it’s ubiquitous, people are familiar with it, it’s flexible, you can make lots of copies. As data starts to explode, that whole “it’s in a file” starts to become a bit of a challenge.
That’s where SharePoint lists have come in. And SharePoint lists originally are foundational. They have been with the product since its earliest on-premises days. And I think that at their best, you know, they – we’re trying to capture some of the great usability features that people intuitively get about working in an Excel file, about I can see a matrix I can pick a single value, I can add formats, I can work with some calculations, but without all of the user error you can get into in Excel, that if you accidentally drag a column to the wrong place, it blows up all the calculations, or someone can email the file to someone else and you’ve lost the data. he advantage of a list is that it’s centralized.
And so, what we have done with lists historically, and I’m really mindful of is, how do you marry kind of the centralized power of a database with the ease of use of something like Excel? And that’s where that common structure, I think, really shines for something like a list.
MARK KASHMAN: Yeah, I think there is a role for everybody to play with lists, and it’s really across a lot of different scenarios and personas. You know, if you think about the ease of use that we’re targeting, already today, a lot of people at different skillsets come in and leverage lists either out of the box or start to extend them.
But I’ll say, you know, for myself, I would qualify as somebody that’s just about to be a maker, you know, but somebody that really benefits from the out-of-use ease of lists and creating views and ease of sharing.
And so, I know Microsoft Lists, the focus there around making that even easier and more powerful for the common user, but that there’s a real spectrum as you start to need a list to do more for you, or you want to start tinkering a little bit more with additional capabilities, either to configure, or really to move into that maker world.
You know, our peer and cohort that we’ve talked with on the show before, Chax (ph), he is clearly somebody that represents the maker in terms of connecting to the Power Platform and being able to use a list as a backend data source to a custom form with Power Apps or extending a more complex workflow with Power Automate.
And then if I switched over to that final persona, really a grow-up story with somebody that’s well known in our community Vesa Juvonen, who would represent that true professional developer, somebody that’s going to be leveraging the list API, building a custom solution around it to bring in both push and pull of data, possibly in a very custom user interface with a lot of logic and – and in between for that custom solution or that custom app.
But to know that the element of a list, which is that true data source, and the ease of use, and the spectrum of what you then can configure, customize, or truly build, it gets back to what we really want to make sure people are clear about is a list is a list is a list.
You know, we have talked about SharePoint lists with a lowercase L for a very long time. And now with Microsoft Lists, capital L, it really up-levels that and it makes it a little bit more ubiquitous for more people to engage with them, have a better view of all of your lists, and – and you know, that ease of getting in and out of different lists and configuring them, but that we don’t lose that value of being able to add more power, more complexity, when there’s that need.
CHRIS MCNULTY: You know, it’s interesting, one of the things that you alluded to there is kind of that grow-up story. You know, there’s a challenge when someone builds this almost calcified, multi-table database structure, and they built a number of applications screens and mobile apps to tie into it. And then someone says, “Hey, what if we have customers who have more than one office? How do we handle that?”
If you think about something that the software industry has snapped to for the last 20 years, the idea of agile development, that you should, you know, start small, go for quick wins, and just continue making incremental steps, rather than trying to boil the ocean.
And I think there’s value, especially in the early days, where you may not fully understand all the data you’re collecting, having some flexibility as to how am I going to capture it, do I need to add a couple of additional columns that I didn’t expect at the outset, and can I make it simple enough that adding those columns doesn’t break all the work that’s come before?
I think lists are a great place to have that centralized flexibility, and then you can add things on top of it over time, whether it’s reporting through Power BI, or interfaces that you extend into mobile with places like Power Apps, the fact that you can start smaller, you know, make a list you can check twice, avoid the naughty, focus on nice. See what I did there?
MARK KASHMAN: I did. I like it.
Yeah, I think when you look at that similar pattern, you know, it starts to be grounded in everything we’re talking about lists, but for SharePoint as a backend content service, its lists, its libraries, certainly files as a big part of that, working with pages, working with the sites themselves, and having that common structure so that people can use out of the box, build and configure.
But I think the true value what you’re touching on is that there is a common single source of truth, and that’s most important when you think about this type of data, as it fluctuates, as things change, as you make different plans and need to represent that. Changing in multiple locations can be cumbersome, and oftentimes a point of failure when something doesn’t get updated.
But with things built in a mindful way, knowing how people are going to leverage it, bringing in and pulling out data, that it’s that single source of truth, that is flexible over time, and is really meant to map to what do you need to have it represent at a point in time, and to a certain set of people. You know, you can create different views for different groups, a lot of flexibility.
And I know, our peer, Dan Holm (ph), jokes a lot in the past how he would have liked to have been paid by the list, because he puts so much effort and so much energy into the value that they brought, a lot of the solutions that he built for his customers.
You know, he was certainly a problem-solver then and is now, and I think that statement alone represents what it is that you’re saying, and I hope that we get across to our audiences, there is the power and flexibility, and it’s usable and powerful to those different personas.
CHRIS MCNULTY: And the thing about list is, you know, are they the place where I would keep track of all the retail transactions for a major online retailer on a second-by-second basis? No, that’s not what a list is. Is it a place limited to having a dozen entries? Well, no, that’s not what the list is either. It is a flexible, dynamic table. You can store up to 30 million items in it. And our announcements that we made this week, you know, I think really extend the relationships amongst lists.
If you think about it, in databases, you have to establish all these entity diagrams. In SharePoint, and now in Microsoft 365, you may have a couple of lists that are related to each other. And I don’t mean formally, but you may have a list of contacts, a list of events, and a list of collateral, and be – just being able to get all of those things, which might live across multiple teams or multiple sites, into a common experience that I can then take with me on a mobile device, you know, I think that’s just fantastic potential for what lists can do for us.
MARK KASHMAN: I agree, and I think as we move to now talk to Miceile and Lincoln. I just want to state that even if you hear something in the background, like clinking pans, or some kitchen noise in the background, that that is the Kashman kids. I know that they are currently making a really nice list and have been maintaining a list of recipes. And I think what you’re hearing is them trying out one of those new list items that I will tell you all about after I’ve had a bite, if they will share.
You know, making a list, as easy it is for the Kashman kids, as easy it has been for Chris and Dan and many others to really extend and bring value to customers and partners and now to this recipe that’s in the background, but Chris, I think it’s now time for us to turn to our experts, Miceile Barrett and Lincoln DeMaris from the SharePoint and OneDrive team, to hear more about Microsoft Lists.
I don’t know what’s going on behind us, but it’s fun. They do know that we’re recording. You know, make a list and interrupt it twice, I think is what they’re going after.
CHRIS MCNULTY: Today on the Intrazone, Mark, and I are talking, as we mentioned, with Miceile and Lincoln, from the SharePoint, and now Lists engineering team. So Miceile, Lincoln, welcome back to the Intrazone.
LINCOLN DEMARIS: Thank you very much. Mr. McNulty.
MICEILE BARRETT: Thanks, Chris,
CHRIS MCNULTY: Quite a week at Build for Microsoft Lists. And I really, Mark, should bring you in on that because I know you’ve been instrumental at helping formulate our story about what we’re doing with Microsoft Lists. It is really exciting to see all the investments that are out there.
As we’re getting going, can each of you tell us a little bit about kind of who you are, how you got to this crazy place called Microsoft in the first place, and what your journey was to start working on lists.
Miceile, if you could get us started.
MICEILE BARRETT: Yeah, thanks, Chris. So as mentioned, I’m Miceile Barrett. I joined Microsoft in 2016. The first product area I ever worked on was actually lists. When I joined, I met Lincoln DeMaris and back in 2016, he had just released the modern UI list experience. And the first thing I ever did when I joined Microsoft was work with Lincoln on this effort to make lists look even more beautiful. So the first thing I did was replace the managed metadata navigation with what we now know and love as the filters pane.
So it’s pretty crazy to see the full circle journey of Microsoft Lists, ultimately leading in this Microsoft Lists release, and it’s pretty cool to still be doing it with Lincoln, who I met day one of my job here.
MARK KASHMAN: Who is this Lincoln that you speak of Miceile? Maybe we can get Lincoln. Lincoln, who are you?
LINCOLN DEMARIS: Hi. Well, my name is Lincoln DeMaris. And let’s see, my journey at Microsoft. Well, boy, I guess it was around the year 2004. I was a plucky Midwestern youth attending a career fair, and I saw a career fair booth for this company called Microsoft. And I’m like, yeah, that sounds pretty cool. I’ll give them a resume. And 14 years later, I’m here.
I started on the SharePoint team working on web content management and ECM. I’ve been involved with a whole bunch of different parts of SharePoint, from OneDrive to document libraries to team sites. Now I’m the proud product owner of lists. And it’s been a fantastic journey, and I plan on sticking around for quite a while longer.
MARK KASHMAN: Your pluckiness is coming through loud and clear, and I think that is going to be my new favorite word for this week.
So Lincoln, let’s stay with you for a second. The Intrazone audience may be familiar with SharePoint lists, which is course lowercase L, and starting at Build and moving forward, we’re excited to share all the new work-tracking elements that you’re building into what we now refer to as Microsoft Lists, capital L.
Can you share more on how behind the scenes have been planning and designing with the team in this new phase of innovation for lists?
LINCOLN DEMARIS: As we all know, remote work is super-hot right now. And in particular, there’s this category of app that we see gaining a lot of traction, mindshare, winning a lot of fans, and frankly, generating a lot of venture capital, and sort of this category of apps we call work management apps.
And these are – these are really magical tools, because it allows just about anybody to sign up, sign in and create their own database. And from that database, just about anybody can build a lightweight tracking app for their team.
And so, I’m not going to name any names, but I’m sure most of you listening have – have your favorite app in this category, and you’re – you’re thinking of a few different examples right now. But these are really transformative tools, because they allow anybody to be a maker in a really real way that enables real productivity on their teams.
We looked at these apps, and we thought to ourselves, well, we do this already, we have this thing called SharePoint lists. In fact, we’ve had them for 20 years. I mean, that observation is correct. Lists today are a work management tool. But you know, when you look at them, and you compare it with some of the offerings in the marketplace, the UI is not quite there. The capabilities are powerful, but maybe accessible only for the most sort of dedicated SharePoint fans and makers, right? You can build incredible things with lists today, but it’s not quite a tool for everybody in the same way that these other apps in the Marketplace are.
And so, that’s – that’s really kind of the frame around what we’re doing with Microsoft Lists. We’re taking a 20-year-old technical asset, a great – a good product, and turning it really into a great product.
CHRIS MCNULTY: You know, it’s interesting hearing you talk about that, because, you know, we’ve been working in this space together for a while as well. And, you know, if you go back a couple years, you know, at the time, modern lists felt like the end of a journey. And I think we can look back and say, oh, that was really just the beginning of being able to do even more.
MARK KASHMAN: Only when you get philosophical, Chris, right.
MIKE MCCUNE: Yeah, but, I mean, like, you know, it’s funny, we’ve talked before about the year of the list. I’m really hoping we’re looking forward to the decade of the list.
MARK KASHMAN: Oh, absolutely, centuries even.
So, Miceile, we want to hear from you just to start to ground a little bit more of what is Microsoft Lists, what are the capabilities. Can you highlight one or two common scenarios before we get into the feature set that highlight these, you know, now easier to build and use lists like Lincoln was describing?
MICEILE BARRETT: Absolutely. The Microsoft Lists makes it, as everyone’s saying here, more easier than ever for someone to create a custom business solution. And so, the real value that this app adds is to helping our users get started faster and adding all the data that they need even easier so that they can ultimately have this app-like experience. And
so, when users start going into the new list app, they will start to see eight out-of-the-box templates that they can start using immediately. Two of my personal favorites that I want to call attention to here are Issue Tracker and the Event Itinerary.
I work in tech, and so specifically to me, the Issue Tracker has been most helpful for providing visibility into our flight rollouts and ensuring that any blocking issues are identified.
And with these templates, it’s, you know, two to three clicks, and you have a list created with all of the schema defined, a scenario right there that you’re ready to start using, and all the formatting there. So as soon as you start adding the data that matches your scenario, it looks beautiful, it’s easy to use, and there’s no barrier to getting started anymore, which makes this a very fast experience.
MARK KASHMAN: Yeah, you know, I saw a pretty early demo that you all shared as we we’re prepping, and you know, when you see the move from clicking and choosing one of the templates, like you had mentioned, and it starts with what effectively looks like a blank list to get started. And as you fill out the details, before you’ve done any formatting, any choices, any configuration, it’s already baked in that the color scheme is there, when you have certain criteria that’s met. When you change status to X or Y based on that template, it’s already there, it really became a magical experience that I knew you could do those things in the product, but that they were already there on the first day of the list, that was really nice to see.
MICEILE BARRETT: Yeah, absolutely. And I think that’s a pretty important step for us to take with the Microsoft List experience, where you no longer need to be a list pro or have years of experience to know where all of the hidden features are. Right now, we’re just putting them right in front of our users and giving them a scenario that’s common across multiple different industries, so that they could click and get inspired on how to use lists, while also being able to just start immediately.
And I think that that’s one of the greatest things that I really liked about this new experience is the second you click that new button, you’re staring at eight different scenarios that you don’t really have to think about. You get to just pick the one that matches what you’re doing today.
And that really removes that initial thought of what am I going to do, which columns do I need, are they going to be pretty, how do I make them a certain color, that type of thing, and it makes it just a great experience.
MARK KASHMAN: Yeah, I am so thrilled to – you know, I’m going to be honest and say we are reintroducing the concept of templates into the list universe. Longtime SharePoint fans in the audience will remember the good old days, when we used to have an event list, we used to have an issue tracking list, we had a contacts list; we had kind of all these lists templates, and they were really kind of the decade-old manifestation of what Miceile is talking about. It’s a quick way to get started along a particular use case.
When we went to modern in 2016, we sort of left those behind, because we observed there wasn’t a ton of usage on these things. And so, we made this sort of data-driven decision to leave them behind. And we since learned that people really miss these sorts of inspirational starting points. Longtime SharePoint fans maybe will have a built of nostalgia about our old template ecosystem, and it’s coming back in a new way.
MICEILE BARRETT: And then one of the other common scenarios that I am extremely excited to highlight is, when you do have these lists, we are now adding the ability to simply visualize it in a way that makes sense, so the ability to show and hide the columns easily, render them in a card-like structure, which I know we’ve been demoing a couple of times here.
But as you’ll see throughout the different releases, it’s becoming easier and more intuitive than ever. And so, it just makes it really straightforward and removes the barrier of having to think through what you want your data to look like at the end, because you could just do it so easily now that it makes it a really great experience. And you can save it, you can make them the default; it makes it a really powerful tool that no longer requires hours and hours of prep.
CHRIS MCNULTY: You know, it’s a really interesting time, I think, for us to expose the audience a bit to what we announced today. We’ll definitely have links to all of our announcements in the show notes.
But Lincoln, I was wondering if you could take our audience, you know, from your perspective. What are the top three or four things that we have announced this week that people can really come to expect on a list? You talked about templates, but what are some of the others?
LINCOLN DEMARIS: Yeah, templates is really big. I am most excited to announce is our brand-new list home experience. So everything we’re talking about today is an evolution of SharePoint lists, and we’re bringing SharePoint lists forward and adding a bunch of cool stuff. But we’re adding a new high-level entry point to the M365 suite nav. You’re going to see a tile in your suite nav menu, and it’s going to be called lists.
When you click lists, you’re going to see all the favorite and recent lists that you have accessed. And so, this includes lists across your team sites, and lists that you’ve created in your own personal space. So it’s like OneDrive is sort of a one-stop shopping place for all of your files; this app is a one-stop shopping place for all of your lists.
This experience also makes it easy to get started. So there’s a big new button at the top. You can create a new blank list, a new list from Excel, a new list from existing, or a list from one of our templates.
So I’m really excited about how this new list home experience makes it easier than ever before to jump in, get started, and get back to your list. Super excited about that one.
Really excited also about the improvements we’ve made to fundamental editing. We have an awesome new view type called grid, and it’s an evolution of what we’ve called Quick Edit in the past. And we’ve really poured a ton of energy into building an industry-leading experience there.
Miceile, you have anything to say about that?
MICEILE BARRETT: Yeah, absolutely. Lincoln’s been talking about the past here, and we’ve got Data Sheet, Quick Edit, and now we’re going to Grid.
And one of the goals that we set for this was users should be able to add their data as easily as possible. So I’m very excited for our users to start being able to use their keyboard to add everything and be able to use an inline experience that’s even faster than the form experience, with the same capabilities that we’ve supported, but with a refreshed UI that is significantly improved.
So we’ll still have our drag and drop to drag and fill, we’ll still have copy and paste, but really bringing in every single type of field type to be edited in line and showing them in visually appealing ways that makes sense so that the data is easily recognizable.
LINCOLN DEMARIS: Plus, it’s fast, it is so fast. Like you can’t blink when clicking on a list or you’re going to miss it. Lists just pop into view. The interactions are so crisp. It feels like a brand-new product. It’s really amazing to work with. I’m so excited about the GridView.
The last thing I’ll say, just I can’t have a discussion about lists without talking how excited I am about the new calendar view. So this is one of our top feature requests in lists ever since the modern days. I’m super pumped to announce that we’re bringing back beautiful calendar view to lists.
And so, any list, you can create a view that looks like a calendar, and you can view your items inside that calendar view. And so, that’s a great way to look at events or items or deliverables that are coming up in the past, do now plan for the future plan, plan for the present?
CHRIS MCNULTY: Well, I wouldn’t say we’re just bringing it back, because, you know, there was a classic calendar view. We’re bringing it forward. It’s all of the goodness of, you know, list home and templating and all those other things. You know, it’s going to get all of that and more.
LINCOLN DEMARIS: You’re right.
MARK KASHMAN: Miceile, one of the fairly new experiences, especially the Create experience that we’re bringing to Microsoft Teams, there is the concept of a lists app now in Teams. Can you explain or describe a little bit around that experience of creating or bringing in existing lists when it comes to working in Teams?
MICEILE BARRETT: Yeah, absolutely. So to give a little context here today, in Teams, you can go and copy a URL, and basically the URL will render inside of Teams. And we have taken a lot of strides to make that experience a lot more Teams focused. So you can now go into Teams, and without ever having to leave the Teams client, you’re able to create a new list using any of the templates, and Teams actually has three of their templates that are specific to them. And you can use anything else. You can create a custom list, a list from Excel, a list from an existing list, all with inside of Teams.
And then as you’ll see in some of these releases, the visual appearance in Teams, it feels native. It’s no longer this sense of just taking a website and putting it into Teams. It’s fast. It feels like it belongs inside of Teams. I almost like to think of it as like a theme that we put on the list, so that everything you would expect to work inside of Teams just does.
And then additionally, there’s a lot of value with using a list inside Teams. The one that I like to always call out is the fact that you can have a conversation on your list items in a Teams channel. And users might be familiar with this experience on a document or a file, where you can go into that file and have that conversation on that file in the context of the Teams channel. And so, bringing that ability to a list item really makes it easier than ever to collaborate on these individual records, so that you have all the contacts in the right place.
MARK KASHMAN: I think it’s a game changer anytime you bring in a mindful way content right next to the conversation, and to be able to do that at the list level is always important, but to really direct somebody’s attention, the call for, you know, them to help out, to fill out something or just to review whatnot, that ability to do that at the list item level, especially on lists that could be quite large, you know, several 100 or thousand items, it really makes it a more targeted, better experience for the person you’re bringing into the conversation.
MICEILE BARRETT: Absolutely. I want to add on one thing here. Another feature to kind of go off what Lincoln was talking about is a feature we’re releasing called Rules. And Rules generally speaking will allow our users to configure actions based on Item data changes.
And this is a really awesome experience I’m excited for people to try out, because it takes about five clicks in less than 20 seconds to set one up, and you can do some really cool things.
For example, the one that I use is the ability to send emails to a person in a person field when I update a status of another column. And so, having these rules that are easy to set up and fast are great.
I can also turn it off at any time. There’s a simple toggle switch, which makes it even more powerful. So I can determine which ones are running at which time.
So I’m excited for people to start trying them out and giving feedback on what they’re using them for.
LINCOLN DEMARIS: Yeah, it really transforms lists, like the Rules feature rules rules, I’ll just say that. It really transforms lists from something that feels like a pretty-looking database, maybe a single point of truth, into a true collaborative application, like really reaching out and bringing people back into the fold when there’s work to be done. It really transforms lists into a tool for productivity.
MARK KASHMAN: Yeah, I think it’s one of the key differentiators, too, when people start to not only try to understand what lists are and how they’ll use them, but you know, how is it different from me just writing down on a piece of paper or tracking it in something like a OneNote, or a Word document. It’s that nature of collaboration. And I think you all are building it in a way that is very tactile, and direct and certainly friendly, because it works just as you would expect it to.
MICEILE BARRETT: Yeah, and we can’t have this conversation without calling out the fact that we’re now building a list mobile app, because everything we’re talking about is just as necessary on the go.
And so, we should absolutely make a call out there that everything we’re doing with this collaboration will be available in a mobile app, so that there’s no – there’s no friction between where you’re working.
MARK KASHMAN: Yeah, and we were pretty open that we are getting started with disclosure around Build time. A lot of what you’re working on and we’ve been talking about will come in the summertime. The list mobile app will be later in the year.
But the value, you know, Lincoln or Miceile, that notion of accessing a list today through anything mobile has been maybe a bit of a blocker. And I see what you’re building, and I know when it comes, it’ll be a breath of fresh air for people to engage with lists, to edit them, to share them, to create them, which, you know, even seems like a crazy notion to do on a mobile. But I’ve seen what you’re working on, and I think that’s really exciting.
LINCOLN DEMARIS: When you look at our competitors, you realize, well, that isn’t a crazy notion. It’s just taking mobile further than we ever have before on the SharePoint team, frankly.
And when you – when you look at lists today inside the SharePoint, the SharePoint app, it’s at best a companion experience. You can view the data in your list, but you can’t edit it arbitrarily. And so, that’s – we’re really looking to make the list app more than just a companion app, but a first-class way to do anything and everything.
And so, if you’re a primarily a mobile user, and you like to do everything on your phone, including add the data, manage schema, tweak rules, you can do that all on the go.
We haven’t yet announced the timeline for this. It will be later this year. Pretty much everything else we’re talking about in this podcast is going to come out this summer, so you’ll be able to try it in June or July, but the mobile app is going to trail a little bit.
CHRIS MCNULTY: But I want to really kind of emphasize that to the audience. If we go back over the past year, you know, we’ve created this new, lightweight, form editing experience attached to lists because sometimes – and Lincoln, you and I’ve spoken about this many times – sometimes you want to do something that’s very fast and clean and quick. I just want to grab three or four fields, change the order, change the layout. I don’t need to build an entire application around it.
And one thing that we know customers have been doing is they’re going all the way to Power Apps and Power Platform to build basically a mobile app, when really all they want to do is they just want to take a list with them, so if they get a good idea, or they get a question, or they’re talking to a customer on the fly, they just have the convenience of that, without having to go through a whole application building experience.
LINCOLN DEMARIS: Oh, yeah, absolutely. We are as invested as we ever have been in our connection between lists and the Power Platform. And connecting lists to Power App or Power Automate is still the best way to build a totally custom line of business application using lists as the storage layer.
But as you pointed out, hey, Power Platform is great, but it’s the Power Platform, not the simple platform, right. And so, if all you want to do is open the form inside of a list, and the form is important, like the form is one of the things that makes a list special and distinguishes it from any other type of spreadsheet thing you might find like inside of Excel, or inside of a word table.
And so, if all you want to do is make some lightweight tweaks to that form, we’re working on – we have some great new features that make that quick and easy. And so, if you want to just drag and drop and change the order, we actually shipped that last year. We’re building in some more, a little more sophisticated capabilities there, like the ability to do simple branching.
And if you’re a little more sophisticated, you can create custom headers, footers, and multicolumn layouts directly in SharePoint forms without Power Apps. And so, we’re really excited to launch that and get feedback on that as well.
CHRIS MCNULTY: You know, but I do think it’s important to emphasize, there’s a grow-up story, isn’t there, that even though you can start with a completely no-code solution like Microsoft Lists, and as your needs grow and get more sophisticated, you can move up to the some code level of Power Platform, if you need to.
LINCOLN DEMARIS: You’re absolutely right, start simple, and as your team grows, and your requirements grow, gradually become more and more sophisticated and do more,
MARK KASHMAN: We want to turn the heat up just a little bit in the context that we, of course, have been talking about things that you’ve known and have been working on for a little bit, but there’s one area that we wanted to explore, which is what we hope to do is to provide that clarity on those common questions we get, usually when we talk about Microsoft 365 and various applications that are offered within the portfolio, just some common FAQs.
And so, Miceile, we wanted to ask you, when you think about Microsoft Lists, alongside a Task Manager or something like Excel, how do you differentiate knowing what you’re building and grounded it in those rights scenarios?
MICEILE BARRETT: Yeah, absolutely. I feel the heat, Mark.
LINCOLN DEMARIS: Turning up the heat.
MICEILE BARRETT: There are two ways that I want to think about this and walk through. The first way is in the most fundamental sense, Excel is a spreadsheet and lists is a database. And this means that in the list, you get that data integrity through our multiple field types. And in Microsoft Lists, each row of your data is a record.
And so, when you’re thinking of a record as a business entity, it can really help drive a process, which takes me to my second thought here, which is, Microsoft Lists allow you to drive a workflow. So yes, they are great to store large amounts of data in a schematized way, but the really unique value of the list that kind of differentiates it from a Task Manager or Excel is the ability to drive a project from start to finish in a way that’s completely customizable to you, based on the project that you’re driving.
And I think that that is something that takes a little while to sink in when I say it in the sentence, a very long sentence, but really using the product to take your – whether it’s a three-week project or a three-year project, and ensure everything is on track, and being able to easily identify any gaps or misses. And that’s where Microsoft Lists comes in and through, you know, being a database and having all these different integrations, it’s really powerful to help you land that project with the correct tools.
LINCOLN DEMARIS: Yeah, I’m sure we’ve all experienced scenarios where somebody, some project manager on a team starts this big old Excel file to track deliverables or tasks or track anything and everything, and sort of they ask for collaborative input across the team.
And these sort of giant Excel sheets kind of turned into messes, right? Like someone filters the list, and that filter sticks when they save it. And then people are confused when they come in, because there’s no notion of personal views. And so, it’s sort of bending Excel to a use case it was never really intended for.
You know, Excel is a spreadsheet. It’s meant to track numbers and do number crunching, and it can do a whole bunch else, because inherently tables are flexible data structures and you can do many different things, just given a table and a document.
But lists, as Miceile said, are really purpose built for that sort of collaborative tracking scenario where you have input from a bunch of stakeholders into a central point of truth, and you want to drive progress and next steps on those things.
MARK KASHMAN: And I would just add real simply, too, that, you know, the way that you’ve built both the current technology and things that existed already is there’s also a blend of how you can use Excel with a SharePoint list.
If you had started, for whatever reason, in Excel, you can import that, as Miceile had mentioned getting started, import a table of data as a list, new list. And at any point in time, you can choose to export to Excel sort of as a one-way view to do that analysis that Lincoln was talking about.
So I do like the new capabilities and the differentiators, but at the same time, it’s not always an or; it can be an end, especially when the scenario dictates.
LINCOLN DEMARIS: Totally right.
MICEILE BARRETT: Yeah, absolutely.
CHRIS MCNULTY: Come on, Mark. Turn up the heat. Turn up the heat a little bit more.
MARK KASHMAN: I’m trying.
LINCOLN DEMARIS: That was an easy one. I feel like Miceile knocked that one out of the park. Come on.
MARK KASHMAN: I think she did too. So I think if we turn to Lincoln – are you ready Lincoln? You might want to – you might want to get an ice pack for your forehead.
LINCOLN DEMARIS: Yeah, okay, I’m ready.
MARK KASHMAN: We know Microsoft Lists builds off of SharePoint lists. You lead with that, and we really want to ground that as the truth, as the data source. And we’ve talked about how you can integrate with the Power Platform using lists as a data source.
But what I really want to ask is, is this a new thing? Is this an old thing? Is this an evolution? Is this a revolution? What are we looking at here?
LINCOLN DEMARIS: Well, I think Chris was very philosophical and artful when he put that modern lists was the beginning of a journey, not the end of a journey. And I’d say we are at a similar inflection point now where we look back and we look forward and we realize that there’s just one lists product here, and we continue to bring it forward.
The key distinguishing thing that I’ll say, I’ll say again, is when we shipped modern lists, there was sort of a choice. We asked people to consider tradeoffs. Because there were tradeoffs between classic and modern. Classic had a set of capabilities that modern didn’t, but modern had this fresh look and feel, and – and it had its own set of capabilities that were unique to modern, and we made people choose.
There is – there is no choice anymore. There’s just one list product. Classic still does exist, by the way. We’ve – we’ve sort of officially removed the ability to opt in entire tenancy out of – out of modern lists, but the granular switches still exist, and they will exist for quite some time. So if you’re listening to this podcast, and you still have a dependency on classic lists, rest assured that we’re still there for you, and we have no plans to pull that out. But there is no additional bifurcation that’s happening between lists experiences.
So everything that we’ve talked about with templates and rules and calendar view and the new grid, if you use a list today, you’re going to benefit from all of those features. If you don’t use lists today, we invite you now to come in, get started, give it a try, and tell us what you think
MARK KASHMAN: Yeah, that last part was really what the – the habanero I was going to throw at you was, I’ve been using list classic. I moved it to modern. I accepted all of that. I’ve been using the list for two years now. And now this new functionality, which I’m really excited for, it comes in, and yes, I do get it. You already answered the question, but I think that was the habanero on top to make it the superheated question, which was, what about those existing lists? What’s the expectation? And really, I think the way that you’re building it and designing it is they just get all the goodness, and there won’t be an interruption whatsoever.
CHRIS MCNULTY: What I was just thinking about, as you were talking, is I remember in the 2012, 2013 era, we were talking kind of about the dawn of cloud, and there were people who were saying, you know, at some point in the next few years, there are going to be features that you, you know, can only get in cloud and you can’t get on premises. And there’s going to be a point where it’s just better than what you could do on premises. And people scoffed.
And I think we’re really in a similar junction right now, Miceile, with where we are with modern and classic. And, you know, we’ve been saying for a while, modern is the vehicle we use to deliver innovation to our customers. But I think we’re not just talking about a slogan; we’re saying specific things with mobile app and homepage experience and templating, and all of these things.
Like, do you think that, you know, five years from now, like, at some point, you know, what would – what do you think the role of classic becomes as we continue to drive Microsoft Lists forward?
LINCOLN DEMARIS: I see the role of classic as a host for legacy applications. There’s absolutely a defensible use case for classic even in today’s world, even – even a year from now with all of these improvements that we have coming down the line. And that’s if you’ve – if you’ve invested deeply in a legacy application that has specific customizations, be it on Custom Action, or JSLink, or any of those other extensibility points. And you know, think of that app as frozen in time and serving a purpose.
And I’m thrilled that I – that we run a service that powers those legacy applications, but they’re just that, they’re legacy. And they’re around because they’re important, they’re entrenched. But looking forward, from this point forward, I don’t see any – any reason to use classic lists for net new things. You’re just passing up on too much innovation, too much goodness, too much support, and too much continued innovation.
MARK KASHMAN: Well, one of the things we didn’t yet talk about, and I think is clearly there in classic, clearly there in modern, and clearly there as we go forward is the role that developers will tap into through the list API, leveraging the Microsoft Graph.
I am not a developer, so I don’t want to talk too far out of my comfort zone, but whenever I think of that grow-up story, we talked about going from the out-of-box list experience, using the Power Platform for that low code, you know, quick innovation, time to market. But there really is still a category of building true custom solutions with the Lists API, with a custom user interface, or other form or other technology. That’s a part of our classic history, but it is still grounded in, you can still use the Lists API today going forward as well.
LINCOLN DEMARIS: Oh, yeah, absolutely.
MARK KASHMAN: Okay, so well, let’s take you out of the hot seat and move us into the fun zone. I’m going to virtually put my clown nose on, if that makes it fun, maybe make it scary for some people. But without naming names, and I’d love to hear from both of you, we’ll start with Miceile, what – what is the craziest list or scenario that utilizes a list that you’ve seen a customer use or a partner build for a customer? Again, without naming names, can you describe a little bit about a crazy list thing that you’ve seen, Miceile?
MICEILE BARRETT: Yeah, absolutely. The – the one that’s coming to the top of my mind is maybe a little more inspiring than crazy, but it does have some crazy details here. So this list came about during the COVID-19 pandemic, and I saw a customer using this list to monitor chemical production across 200 different chemical plants. And ultimately, this list was then used to determine which plants could be leveraged to shift their priorities and meet this new demand of sanitation chemicals.
And that’s inspiring to see that our product could lead to such an effective approach, but the thing that kind of blew my mind was this list had over 70 fields, with 500 people collaborating on it weekly. And there were I’m not sure off the top my head how many items in this list, but it was a very crazy experience seeing the customer just scroll through those 70 fields, and they have, you know, descriptions on all of them. So it was – it was a very interesting use case of lists that worked. It worked very well for them. And I was also really excited to see so many people collaborating on it at once and just having great success with it.
And so, that is probably the craziest one that I have seen, that I can think of in the most recent times. I would also say the list is still in use, and last I heard from the customer, it’s getting adopted globally, which means that the 200 sites is going to expand to 2,000 sites. I’m extremely interested to see what this list looks like in a month, and different ways that they’re still using it.
One of the favorite things I saw in there was the fact that they added like a really cool hookup to Power BI. And so, when I was, you know, playing around with it, and they gave me control, it was just a really fast experience to filter and then see the Power BI board shift. I thought it was a really great implementation.
MARK KASHMAN: Cool.
CHRIS MCNULTY: Yeah, that’s crazy, crazy cool. That’s a great story of like, why lists are essential. And you know, that’s not something you would ever want to try to do in Excel. That’s a great story.
MARK KASHMAN: Lincoln, since you’ve been using lists for gosh, you know, since you were a plucky child.
LINCOLN DEMARIS: I just have to use it one more time.
MARK KASHMAN: Maybe let me ask this in a different way. What is the pluckiest list scenario that you’ve ever seen?
LINCOLN DEMARIS: Oh, man, you just – you had to change my answer. My answer before was going to be craziest list I’ve ever seen is the list of improvements that are coming later this year.
CHRIS MCNULTY: Oh stop.
LINCOLN DEMARIS: Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Cool. Is that – is that sufficient or do I have to keep talking? Okay, fine, I’ll keep talking.
Like, I don’t know, the thing that I love to use the most to tell the story of lists together with Power Platform. I wish I could name a name, but I’m not going to name a name. I’m just going to say that this is a scenario that’s used in an environment where you have to manage a lot of chaos, a lot of guests, people coming into a space, and it’s used as an incident management application.
So you know, somebody throws up, or flips over a table, or smokes in a hotel room, boy, a list is there to capture that and to orchestrate a response to that incident. That really gets to sort of the nature of having a central place to track everything and having great mobile applications for people on the ground, built on top of Power App, to actually do the – to actually click the buttons when there’s an incident that needs to be responded to.
MARK KASHMAN: This sounds like a great location for rock stars to visit.
CHRIS MCNULTY: Can I give you a crazy list I saw?
MARK KASHMAN: Yes.
CHRIS MCNULTY: It was a list of libraries. And this was for a compliance department for a pharmaceutical company, that they’ve gone through a number of integrations, and they wanted to assess the criticality, the ownership and so forth.
So they wrote scripting to go through, and anytime someone had or built a new library, they added it to a master list. And the list itself, it was a list – since libraries are also lists, it was a list of lists.
MARK KASHMAN: Awesome.
LINCOLN DEMARIS: Just about the geekiest thing you’ve ever heard.
MARK KASHMAN: I love it.
Well, I’m going to round us off with maybe not quite as crazy or as plucky as you all, but just one thing close to home for what Chris and I do, and of course, that Lincoln and Miceile contribute too often in the work that they do is the Microsoft 365 roadmap.
Now the public entity that you would go to, to see what we’re working on, is driven on a different content management platform, and that’s all good. But all the work that we do now across all the teams internally that work on Microsoft 365 apps for lists, for Yammer, for SharePoint, for OneDrive, for Exchange and Outlook, and the list goes on, that is a long list of apps, but every feature that gets put onto the roadmap now is actually managed and stored and put through a process with a Microsoft List. It’s actually now in a SharePoint list.
And they’ve really been building moving from a proprietary system that had its own logic and form and whatnot – it was a good system, but it certainly wasn’t as easy to use, it wasn’t functional at the scale that we were getting to. And now we’ve transitioned fully to that tool, which is a tool built on a SharePoint list.
And it really brings it to a much easier use case for Chris and I to contribute, and then get notifications and awareness for other stakeholders like Lincoln and Miceile, to make sure we’ve got it right. And there’s a review process before it goes live onto the site.
But it’s a crazy notion for us to have switched, I think very quickly from that proprietary system to standardizing on SharePoint lists for everything we do for the Microsoft 365 roadmap. It’s, I think, been a really great switch, and I’m really pleased and proud of how the product is supporting it.
CHRIS MCNULTY: Yeah, thanks for that mention.
MARK KASHMAN: Absolutely. Thank you for the tech.
So we’ve got the – we’ve got the features and scenarios. We’ve got the heat in the past. The last thing is, we just want to thank you for your time. Thank you for joining us on the Intrazone.
And as always, we want to hear a little bit more of how people can learn more about what you do as an individual, highlight to some of the things that your team is doing, whether that’s Twitter, whether that’s through blogs, any recent assets that you worked on closely that you want to highlight to point people to. Miceile, we’ll start with you. How can people find out more about you, and maybe some of the recent work you’ve been doing?
MICEILE BARRETT: Yeah, absolutely. To see a highlight reel of everything we’ve been talking about for this new product, check out the list demo video. It’s about 15-17 minutes of pure demos and will hopefully inspire folks to start making Microsoft Lists for their team.
And if you want details on me, personally, you can follow my twitter at Microsoft @MSFTMiceile.
MARK KASHMAN: We will make sure to put that in the show notes, the links to the video, and of course how people can see your LinkedIn profile, and of course, follow you on Twitter.
And Lincoln, what can we highlight and call out here for our audience?
LINCOLN DEMARIS: Yeah, I think there’s some upcoming virtual events that are happening this summer, that are going to be a great way to learn all sorts of things about what the – what the product team is working on across M365. And lists will have a seat at that table. I’m going to be recording a session for that. And so, when these guys give you the list of conferences, write them down and tune in for a more detailed update on what we’re working on at those events.
MARK KASHMAN: Yeah, I will just tell you, as your PMM peer, I appreciate all of the effort that you’ve been putting into making sure that we highlight and showcase Microsoft Lists, not just because you’re working on them, but because you’re also good at communicating what people do with it and these assets I’ve seen, and I’ve certainly been working on with you, and – and we’ll make sure that they’re front and center so that people can see more about what we’ve been talking about.
But thank you for your time. Thank you for your – your work on Microsoft Lists.
Chris, any final words?
CHRIS MCNULTY: Yeah, just you know, again, Lincoln and Miceile, it’s great to have you back on the Intrazone. And as always, we would love to present you with our basket of virtual gifts, which is fame in perpetuity on the Intrazone website. So thank you very much.
LINCOLN DEMARIS: Wonderful. I’m going to enjoy these virtual chocolates later this afternoon.
MARK KASHMAN: All right. Well, you all stay safe and have a great rest of your day.
LINCOLN DEMARIS: Wonderful time.
MICEILE BARRETT: Thanks, Mark. Thanks, Chris.
LINCOLN DEMARIS: Thanks, everyone.
CHRIS MCNULTY: Thank you. Bye-bye.
[Music.]
MARK KASHMAN: So Chris, I think we’ve gotten a sense of what you and Dan and others that we know, and how they use Microsoft Lists, or SharePoint lists in the past. Do you have any good customer examples just to ground it in terms of what we know our customers are dealing with lists today?
CHRIS MCNULTY: Absolutely. So about a year and a half ago, I spent some time with Marks and Spencer, the global retailer that’s based in London. Marks and Spencer has a very traditional SharePoint intranet. It’s a modern intranet, but I think we can start to call it traditional. And it is orchestrated around lists.
And one of their major operations is, as they have sales promotions that they need to notify their sales staff, they just add an entry to a list. And that is something that has served them well because by adding something to a list, it automatically populates the page. People who work in a particular product line, such as home or food or clothing, they can see what’s going on there through the portal.
One of the things that I was talking to Marks and Spencer about out was they were then taking those, that promotional idea, which drove things to portals, and extending those to mobile devices using Power Apps.
Using exactly the same foundational technology, they were able to make sure that as new promotions were coming in, that they could alert people who might be out on the selling floor, and then be able to access that promotional information on the fly.
So if a customer asked them a question, they didn’t have to run to a back office to go run a search; they could just look up and say, yes, cranberry tea breads are going to be on sale for another two weeks, even though they’re in the clothing department.
And what they were looking at a year and a half ago, was kind of the next frontier for Microsoft Lists, was how can we also bring all of this great intranet and mobile experience into the Microsoft Teams world.
So it’s thinking about what we’ve been doing with lists historically. I’d love to kind of reach back and find out where Marks and Spencer and some of our other customers intend to take our next generation of technology here.
MARK KASHMAN: Yeah, super interested in that as well. And with that Marks and Spencer concept, or how they’re actually putting it into their production, I love the idea that there is a way to add an item very easily. There is that notion of awareness to notify an individual or a group. But moving beyond what might feel like you’re raising awareness or assigning somebody a task is then it becomes this additional source in their database to act like a FAQ, near or real time, for people that actually are on the show floor and answering questions or looking up ideas, or if they come across an issue, to be able to then put that in there to have some information added to it, which would be hopefully the answer.
But I really like that concept of an FAQ. But obviously, for where they take it next, we should check in with them and get back to our audience about it,
CHRIS MCNULTY: That would be great.
[Music.]
CHRIS MCNULTY: Up next, the Intrazone takes a look at events going on in and around the virtual world.
So Mark and I are coming to you today from close by, or actually from the exact cloud location for Microsoft Build, May 19th and 20th.
How’s it out there in your cloud, Mark?
MARK KASHMAN: It’s feeling good, it’s feeling good. The news is flying and love to be a part of it.
Microsoft Lists is plugged in to Build. There’s a session that we’re a part of, with Mike Amerland. And of course, all of our news and disclosures and all that stuff is now out into the world, including this new episode.
Great thing about Build is it’s digital and free, like a lot of our events that we’re talking about today. It’s two days. It’s all online. And certainly, if you’re engaged today, and tomorrow, being May 19th through the 20th, feel free to jump in to Build and watch a lot of sessions. If you’re a developer, it’s very targeted to you, but there’s a lot of great new information. A lot of – lot of things were released today. But certainly if you can’t join in on these days, it’ll be available soon on-demand.
CHRIS MCNULTY: So there are also a number of Microsoft 365 focused virtual events coming up throughout May and June, and the next one up is the Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon, brought to you by the team behind the SharePoint conference, as well as Microsoft itself. It’ll be running May 27 through 28th at a cloud near you.
MARK KASHMAN: The next one by a third-party event that we work closely with is the Galactic Collaboration Summit. This is going to be two days on June 2nd and 9th, and across both those days there will be different content, so it’s not a repeat, and a lot of great speakers, a lot of great content. Again, Microsoft is taking a part in providing breakout sessions. There will be a keynote with Jeff Teper actually at all of these three events.
And the Galactic Collaboration Summit. I think as we mentioned before in a previous episode, Chris summarized it really nicely, has some of the best way to represent speakers. If you – if you’re a Star Trek fan, check out how the Galactic Collaboration Summit promotes speakers. It’s really cool
CHRIS MCNULTY: If you thought that the technology world should get introduced to science fiction since there wasn’t enough geekiness in it already, the Galactic Collaboration Summit is for you. It is happening in the Milky Way Galaxy, according to their collateral, which is interesting, because a Galactic Collaboration Summit suggests that it’s collaboration amongst galaxies.
MARK KASHMAN: I think they make sure that once you register, they certainly give you access to the Hubble Space Telescope, so you’ll make sure to be able to tune in that way
CHRIS MCNULTY: And back down on Earth, limited solely to the globe, GlobalCon 2, coming up June 15 through the 19th. It is a five-day event. Focused on Microsoft 365, following on the heels of GlobalCon 1, sure to be succeeded in the future by GlobalCon 3.
MARK KASHMAN: Yeah, and to wrap out our events here, just looking a little bit further down into July is our partner event, Inspire. That’s July 21st to the 22nd. That’s Inspire.Microsoft.com. It’s very partner oriented, but there certainly is to be product news and information that Microsoft pushes out at that time.
CHRIS MCNULTY: So if you are sponsoring an event, if there’s something that you’d like us to promote or share here on the Intrazone, feel free to reach back to Mark and to me through our channels. We’d be happy to feature it on an upcoming podcast.
[Music.]
CHRIS MCNULTY: Well, Mark, we’ve checked another Intrazone episode off the list, haven’t we?
MARK KASHMAN: Yeah, I think so. I mean, on the list of Intrazone episodes, we’re getting up there. And in terms of a list of features that we covered about Microsoft Lists, that was – that was quite a list.
CHRIS MCNULTY: I think this is at the top of my list of list-oriented episodes of the Intrazone, 100%.
MARK KASHMAN: 100%. I love it. Yeah, I will – I will plus one that and maybe just add a column so that I can put my name next to your name, so that we can be a same row item in this list of lists.
CHRIS MCNULTY: That will be a quick edit, won’t it?
MARK KASHMAN: Sure will, sure will.
CHRIS MCNULTY: Before I make any more bad puns related to Microsoft technology, I’m just reminded, we will share links to all of the actual news that Lincoln and Miceile shared about Microsoft Lists. And many thanks to them for their time.
MARK KASHMAN: Check out our show page at aka.ms/the Intrazone.
CHRIS MCNULTY: And if you’re curious about other Microsoft programs, and why wouldn’t you be, check out aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts. Find a new show today.
MARK KASHMAN: You can email us at theIntrazone@microsoft.com, or on Twitter @SharePoint, @Mkashman, and @CMcNulty2000. We’d love to hear from you about ideas that you have for the show, or anything that you want to provide as feedback.
CHRIS MCNULTY: Spread the news about podcasts, especially this one. If you enjoy this show, please help us help more people. Share the SharePoint love and subscribe at a local Oort cloud at the top of your list and wherever you get your podcasts.
MARK KASHMAN: We are your hosts, a list of two, Mark Kashman and Chris McNulty, and you’ve been listening to the Intrazone, a show about the Microsoft 365 lists-driven intelligent intranet. [Music.] END | |||
| Putting the Modern into Modern Workplace | 12 May 2020 | 00:44:06 | |
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 staying connected.
Resources and Info Links: Tech Community SharePoint Blog Post SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice Alex Bradley | LinkedIn Modern Workplace | site + webcast series| podcast
1 month in, what we've learned about remote work (recent Modern Workplace podcast episode) What we've learned about remote work (recent Modern Workplace video) COVID-19 Business Resource Center on LinkedIn How remote work impacts collaboration by Jared Spataro Working remotely during challenging times by Lily Zheng, Director, Microsoft China Stay productive while working remotely: Tips for effective remote work One architect's radical vision to replace the open office on WSJ
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| SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop April 2020 | 30 Apr 2020 | 00:31:41 | |
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 Links: SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice
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| Teams plus team sites | 28 Apr 2020 | 01:03:23 | |
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 | @OneDrive | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice Benjamin Niaulin | Twitter | LinkedIn | blog Tejas Mehta | Twitter | LinkedIn What’s the difference between classic and modern SharePoint sites? By Jasper Oosterveld Microsoft Teams and SharePoint integration: How to adopt Teams when you already use SharePoint By Quinn Mason SharePoint information architecture: Benefits to creating a flat site structure By Jean-Philippe Beaulieu Top 10 most important powers of your SharePoint team sites in Office 365 4 topnotch teamwork tips for Microsoft Teams plus SharePoint Rich, new file and sharing experiences throughout Microsoft 365, now in Microsoft Teams Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Subscribe to The Intrazone: Listen to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Show Page: https://aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| Partner Edition: Colligo with guest customer Ovivo | 14 Apr 2020 | 00:38:07 | |
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 and Info Links: Tech Community episode blog post: “Colligo” [Manage, capture, and classify] SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice
Read the full Ovivo case study at Colligo.com: "Ovivo Uses Colligo Email Manager to Capture Multimillion-dollar Knowledge to Profitably Manage Projects"
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| SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop March 2020 | 31 Mar 2020 | 00:31:51 | |
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 come. Episode Tech Community Blog Post Resources and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice OneDrive Facebook | @OneDrive | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice Matt Mooty | LinkedIn "Create multilingual communication sites, pages, and news" "What’s New in Microsoft Teams: 3rd Anniversary Edition" by Marissa Salazar "Deep Dive into SharePoint Multilingual Webinar Recording and Questions" on Vlad Talks Tech "Plan for multilingual sites in SharePoint Server" Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Extras: Subscribe to The Intrazone: Listen to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Show Page: https://aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| On the minds of OneDrive admins | 07 Feb 2024 | 00:50:33 | |
On this episode, we hear from Drew Madelung (Microsoft MVP | Solution Architect - Protoviti) who expertly focuses on all things OneDrive, specifically all the deep diving details admins need to know about. Drew is all about how to think about managing OneDrive to the fullness of your organization; how to make it better, how to optimize using what you have AND investing in the right places to keep with the times -- aka, your trusted advisor for all things OneDrive in overdrive - at your disposal and within your control.
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08:31 Conversation with Drew Madelung 41:17 Upcoming Events
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Upcoming events: CollabDays - Bremen 2024 | Feb 9-10, 2024 near Hamburg in Germany Teams Nation 2024 | Feb 21, 2024 9:00 - 19:30 CET CollabDays - Calgary 2024 | Feb. 24, 2024 Microsoft Fabric Community Conference | March 26-28, 2024 in Las Vegas, NV AIIM | April 3-5, 2024 in San Antonio, TX North American Cloud & Collaboration Summit (NACS) | April 9-11, 2024 in Dallas, TX Microosft 365 Conference | April 28 - May 4, 2024 in Orlando, FL
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| Crisis management and remote work | 24 Mar 2020 | 00:38:25 | |
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 working. Social and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice OneDrive Facebook | @OneDrive | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice Microsoft Teams | Twitter | Blog | Training Power Apps | Twitter | Blog | Training Resources: Build a crisis management site to connect people and information Keeping employees informed and engaged during difficult times Working remotely during challenging times. A 'letter to customers' from Lily Zheng, director Microsoft China. Our (Microsoft) commitment to customers during Covid-19 Staying productive while working remotely with Microsoft Teams 4 Tips for working from home with Microsoft Teams Support remote workers using Microsoft Teams [admin] Instructor-led training for Microsoft Teams [admin] Crisis Communication: a Power Platform template [Power Apps] Keeping employees informed and engaged during difficult times [Yammer] Good Twitter feeds to broadly keep informed: @CDCemergency, @CDCgov, & @WHO. Plus a few related ‘how to build SharePoint sites’ videos:
Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Listen to other Microsoft podcasts Upcoming Events: SharePoint Saturdays | @SPS_Events (numerous cities have been postponed) Microsoft Ignite | The Tour (remaining cities worldwide have been canceled) MS Business Applications Summit (May.6-7; virtual) SharePoint Conference 2020 in-person has been postponed; moved to March 2021 Collab365 #GlobalCon2, June 15-19, 2020 Subscribe to The Intrazone: Listen to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Show Page: https://aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| Partner Edition: Quest | 10 Mar 2020 | 00:39:54 | |
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 National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom. Social and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice OneDrive Facebook | @OneDrive | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice Colin Truran | LinkedIn Quest | Site | LinkedIn | Twitter | YouTube Chris Reynolds | LinkedIn Arden & GEM CSU | Site | LinkedIn | Twitter | YouTube Quest Case Study with Arden GEM CSU - "NHS Arden & GEM Commissioning Support Unit migrates seamlessly and securely with Quest Metalogix solutions" "How one NHS support unit is automating migration to Office 365" To learn more about Quest Metalogix software solutions for SharePoint and Office 365, visit https://www.quest.com/metalogix/. Download a Quest Metalogix E-book that presents seven key lessons learned from customers during their content migrations. Resources: Microsoft 365 Content Services Partner Program Project Cortex aka.ms/projectcortex - Join the preview and learn more about our vision and experiences in the Project Cortex Resource Center. Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Upcoming Events: SharePoint Saturdays | @SPS_Events Microsoft Ignite | The Tour (various cities worldwide) | @MS_Ignite Microsoft events — the year ahead: 2020 The Experts Conference (TEC) 2020 - November 17-18, 2020, Atlanta, sponsored by Quest Subscribe to The Intrazone: Listen to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Show Page: https://aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop February 2020 | 28 Feb 2020 | 00:33:14 | |
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 roadmap updates on employee engagement, teamwork, related tech and more. "Roadmap Pitstop: February 2020 Blog" on Tech Community Resources and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice OneDrive Facebook | @OneDrive | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice Chakkaradeep (Chaks) Chinnakonda Chandran | Twitter | Blog "Which Microsoft Office product is each Democratic presidential candidate?," The Verge Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Subscribe to The Intrazone: Listen to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Show Page: https://aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| An API for teamwork | 18 Feb 2020 | 01:28:39 | |
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, Avanade, and their vast customer base. You’ll hear about bots, tabs and connectors – the basis of the what and how to approach extending the Microsoft Teams platform offering. Episode Blog Post on Tech Community Social and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice OneDrive Facebook | @OneDrive | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice Wictor Wilén (Avanade) | LinkedIn | Twitter | Blog Bill Bliss | Twitter | LinkedIn Resources: "Microsoft Teams architecture update" by Bill Bliss #MSIgnite19/#BRK3215 "CliffNotes: Bill Bliss on Microsoft Teams Architecture" by Brent Middleton, content marketing specialist - AvePoint, Inc. "Build a Microsoft Teams app from scratch in 20 minutes" by Wictor Wilén #MSIgnite19/#THR2005 "Building modern enterprise-grade collaboration solutions with Microsoft Teams and SharePoint" by Mike Ammerlaan #MSIgnite/#MDEV30 "Streamline business processes with the Microsoft Teams development platform" by Karan Nigam (Microsoft), Zakiullah Khan Mohammed (Microsoft) and Nicholas Gill (American Red Cross); #TMS50 “American Red Cross - Power Platform and Microsoft Teams” | case study video "A Yeoman Generator for Microsoft Teams": https://aka.ms/yoTeams Office 365 developer program; @Microsoft365Dev. Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Upcoming Events: SharePoint Saturdays | @SPS_Events Microsoft Ignite | The Tour (various cities worldwide) | @MS_Ignite SPTechCon | @SPTechCon, February 18-21, 2020 Collab365 #GLOBALCON1, March 2-6, 2020 ShareCamp, March 7-8, 2020 Office 365 Saturday, March 7, 2020 Subscribe to The Intrazone: Listen to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Show Page: https://aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| Bobble and grow with Funko | 11 Feb 2020 | 00:38:59 | |
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 IT and business journey to the cloud with the help of community Swooperstar favorites and Microsoft MVPs: Sue Hanley, Laura Rogers and Benjamin Niaulin. Social and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice OneDrive Facebook | @OneDrive | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice Susan Hanley (@susanhanley | LinkedIn | Blog on Computer World | website) Benjamin Niaulin (@bniaulin | LinkedIn | ShareGate) Laura Rogers (@WonderLaura | LinkedIn | IW Mentor) Resources: Episode blog post with Q&A with Scott Christensen SharePoint SWOOP – The Intranet Makeover Show (via Microsoft Tech Community) “POP! Goes Funko!” (The Intrazone podcast, episode #15) “Bobblehead Boom: Funko Grows With Speed and Tech to Deliver More POP Culture Fun” (via the Microsoft Transform blog) POP! yourself funko.com/pop-yourself “Making fun: the story of Funko” on @Netflix Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Upcoming Events: SharePoint Saturdays | @SPS_Events Microsoft Ignite | The Tour (various cities worldwide) | @MS_Ignite SPTechCon | @SPTechCon, February 18-21, 2020 Collab365 #GLOBALCON1, March 2-6, 2020 ShareCamp, March 7-8, 2020 Office 365 Saturday, March 7, 2020 Subscribe to The Intrazone: Listen to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Show Page: https://aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| Designing your intranet | 05 Feb 2020 | 01:21:15 | |
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. And as always, we announce upcoming events, resource links and more. Social and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice OneDrive Facebook | @OneDrive | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice Susan Hanley (Twitter | LinkedIn | Blog on Computer World | website) Melissa Torres (Twitter 1, Twitter 2 | LinkedIn) Matt Wolodarsky (Twitter | LinkedIn) Resources: “What to choose? A Communication or Team Site in SharePoint” blog by Susan Hanley “SharePoint adoption (resource center)” “Realize the value of an intelligent intranet in your organization” blog by Matt Wolodarsky Intelligent Intranet Ideation Workshop information Nielsen Norman’s "The Year's 10 Best Intranets" report; SharePoint, year-over-year is often a chosen platforms for numerous winners. @NNGroup SharePoint hub sites per tenant limit (article) Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Upcoming Events: SharePoint Saturdays | @SPS_Events Microsoft Ignite | The Tour (various cities worldwide) | @MS_Ignite SPTechCon | @SPTechCon, February 18-21, 2020 Collab365 #GLOBALCON1, March 2-6, 2020 ShareCamp, March 7-8, 2020 Office 365 Saturday, March 7, 2020 Subscribe to The Intrazone: Listen to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Show Page: https://aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop January 2020 | 30 Jan 2020 | 00:25:01 | |
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, teamwork, related tech and more.
Resources and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook | Twitter | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice OneDrive Facebook | Twitter | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice "Office 365 Video transition to Microsoft Stream overview" "SharePoint sites for highly regulated data" "Windows 7 support ended on January 14, 2020" Society of Women Engineers (SWE) | @SWETalk | SWE podcast Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Subscribe to The Intrazone: Listen to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Show Page: https://aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| One part solution, two parts inspiration | 16 Jan 2020 | 00:34:47 | |
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 | UserVoice OneDrive Facebook | @OneDrive | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice Resources: Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Mott MacDonald | @MottMacDonald | Customer Story video "Mott MacDonald extends connected thinking with Microsoft 365" Marks & Spencer | @MarksandSpencer | Customer story video "Marks & Spencer streamlines communication with Office 365" HAVI | @HAVItweets | HAVI Customer story video "HAVI slashes employee onboarding times with Microsoft PowerApps and Teams" Upcoming Events: SharePoint Saturdays | @SPS_Events Microsoft Ignite | The Tour (various cities worldwide) | @MS_Ignite Subscribe to The Intrazone: Listen to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Show Page: https://aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop December 2019 | 31 Dec 2019 | 00:27:10 | |
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. Running Time: 27min Resources and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook | Twitter | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice OneDrive Facebook | Twitter | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Listen to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Subscribe to The Intrazone: Show Page: https://aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| Partner Edition: Agilisys | 10 Dec 2019 | 00:43:10 | |
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 announcements. Plus, some personal discoveries about the people behind the partnership. Running Time: 43min Show Intro [00:00] Partner Profile – Agilisys [08:35] Upcoming Events [38:40] Resources and Show Wrap [41:55] Social and Info Links: SharePoint | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice OneDrive | @OneDrive | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice Resources: "City of London improves organization-wide collaboration with Microsoft Teams and Agilisys" Microsoft 365 Content Services Partner Program Azure AD (Active Directory) Project Cortex aka.ms/projectcortex - Join the preview and learn more about our vision and experiences in the Project Cortex Resource Center. Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Upcoming Events: Microsoft events — the year ahead: 2020 SharePoint Saturdays | @SPS_Events SharePoint Fest Chicago, December 9-13, 2019 Microsoft Ignite | The Tour (various cities worldwide) | @MS_Ignite Subscribe to The Intrazone: Microsoft podcasts aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Show Page: https://aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| SharePoint roadmap pitstop January 2024 | 01 Feb 2024 | 00:25:02 | |
What a great start to 2024 - tantalizing tech for everyone. We focus on everything that landed this past month: Microsoft 365 Backup (Public Preview), SharePoint Premium: Document translation, new image and video experiences in Viva Engage, Community Campaigns in Viva Engage, SharePoint “News for email” custom tab, Microsoft Search: ServiceNow Tickets connector GA, Teams: Discover Feed in Channels, and more. This month, we cover numerous Viva Engage updates. So many that we decided to include a short primer on what Engage is and how it supports community engagement with your organization. To the roadmap!
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01:26 Employee Engagement 11:23 Teamwork 16:04 Related items 22:50 Teasers
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Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes
Upcoming events: Community Days - Miami | Feb 2, 2024 (Miami, FL) CollabDays - Bremen 2024 | Feb 9-10, 2024 near Hamburg in Germany M365 Saturday DC | Feb 10, 2024 (Reston, VA) Teams Nation 2024 | Feb 21, 2024 9:00 - 19:30 CET CollabDays - Calgary 2024 | Feb. 24, 2024 Microsoft Fabric Community Conference | March 26-28, 2024 in Las Vegas, NV AIIM | April 3-5, 2024 in San Antonio, TX North American Cloud & Collaboration Summit (NACS) | April 9-11, 2024 in Dallas, TX Microosft 365 Conference | April 28 - May 4, 2024 in Orlando, FL SharePoint Intranet Festival (Online) European Collaboration Summit | May 14-16, 2024 in Weisbaden, Germany TechCon365 - Seattle (formerly 365 EduCon) | June 3-7, 2024 in Seattle, WA
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| External Sharing is extra caring | 03 Dec 2019 | 00:46:20 | |
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, Mark's dad, talks about his pre-Cloud-days perspective on “external sharing” as an attorney.
Running Time: 46:15 Show Intro [00:00] Topic of the Week – External Sharing [08:30] Guest Perspective – Christian Buckley [14:45] Upcoming Events [42:00] Resources and Show Wrap [45:05] Social and Info Links: Tech Community Episode BLOG post SharePoint Facebook | Twitter | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice OneDrive Facebook | Twitter | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice Christian Buckley | CollabTalk | @CollabTalk Resources: External sharing in Microsoft 365 – an IT admin guide (docs.microsoft.com) Create a secure guest sharing environment (docs.microsoft.com) File protection (incl. external sharing) solutions in Office 365 (PDF) Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Listen to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Subscribe to The Intrazone: Show Page: https://aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop November 2019 | 02 Dec 2019 | 00:37:37 | |
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: SharePoint Facebook | Twitter | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice OneDrive Facebook | Twitter | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice SharePoint home sites (documentation) "Rich, new file and sharing experiences throughout Microsoft 365, now in Microsoft Teams" [10/30/19] Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Listen to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Subscribe to The Intrazone: Show Page: https://aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||
| All Aboard the Power Platform | 19 Nov 2019 | 00:43:14 | |
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 program manager director (Power Apps). Running Time: 43:10 Show Intro and Topic of the Week – Power Platform [00:00] Guest Perspective – Ryan Cunningham, Karan Nigam, Stephen Siciliano [01:20] FAQ Roundtable [30:45] Upcoming Events [38:50] Resources and Outro [42:00] Social and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice Ryan Cunningham (Partner Program Manager Director; Power Apps) @rc_says Karan Nigam (Group Product Marketing Manager; Microsoft Teams) @NigamKaran Stephen Siciliano (Principal Program Manager Director; Power Automate) @iscsus Resources: Power Platform https://powerplatform.microsoft.com Power Apps https://powerapps.microsoft.com Power Automate https://PowerAutomate.microsoft.com (NEW SITE) American Red Cross - Power Platform and Microsoft Teams (video) Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Stay on top of Office 365 changes Listen to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Upcoming Events: SharePoint Saturdays | @SPS_Events | @SPSToronto | @SPSBangalore | @SPS Munich | @SPSLisbon ESPC, European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference @EuropeanSP; related blog, "European SharePoint Conference 2019 (#ESPC19) guide to Microsoft 365 sessions & community activities" Microsoft Ignite | The Tour (various cities worldwide) | @MS_Ignite; related blog, "Ignite The Tour 2019/2020 guide to SharePoint, OneDrive, Yammer and Stream sessions" Subscribe to The Intrazone: Show Page: https://aka.ms/TheIntrazone | |||