The Intrazone by Microsoft 365

Latest Episodes:

Top 5 hidden gems of Microsoft Lists Jul 13, 2021

Show notes

Did you know Microsoft Lists could do this or that? In this episode, we hope you'll find a few useful, hidden gems to jumpstart your information tracking in Microsoft 365. Maybe you're just getting started or have been at it for a while. Regardless, Lists can help you and your team across numerous scenarios - tracking issues, managing assets, supporting an internal event. Lists are simple to create and highly customizable based on whatever you want to track, organize and automate. And we're here to help you. Gem hunters, ready? Give it a listen and learn as you go.

Click here for this episode's companion blog post (includes 5 more gems, a new demo video, screenshots, and links to further documentation)

People:

Jeff Teper | LinkedIn | Twitter [guest]

Andrea Lum | LinkedIn | Twitter [guest]

Mark Kashman | Twitter [co-host]

Chris McNulty | Twitter [co-host]

Resources:

SharePoint | @SharePoint | SharePoint community blog

Get the Lists app for iOS today (App Store; works on iPhone and iPad)

Microsoft Lists resource center

Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals.

Microsoft Tech Community Home

Stay on top of Office 365 changes

Events:

Microsoft Inspire 2021 (July 14-15, 2021) [virtual]

SharePoint Fest Chicago (July 26-30, 2021) [in-person]

North American Collaboration Summit (Aug.9-11, 2021) [hybrid; Branson, MI and online]

Microsoft Lists workshop (on-demand + materials to redeliver in your organization)

Follow The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone, and discover other Microsoft podcasts: aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts

SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop June 2021 Jun 30, 2021

Show notes

June 2021 brought some great new offerings: SharePoint Auto News Digest updates, SharePoint admin center updates (dashboard and new site information columns), Microsoft Lists - @mentions in comments, Power Apps can now display images from Microsoft Lists, Delete from within page details, Headspace mindfulness content comes to Microsoft Viva Insights, and more. We also hear from Rk Menon, program manager on the SharePoint team focused on the SharePoint admin center experience and capabilities in Microsoft 365.

Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post and transcript.

Resources:

Rk Menon | LinkedIn [guest]

Mark Kashman | Twitter | Kashbox Substack blog [host]

SharePoint Twitter | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice

SharePoint admin center (primary Help content)

Microsoft 365 public roadmap

Microsoft Tech Community Home

Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals.

Microsoft Tech Community Home

Stay on top of Office 365 changes

Events:

Inspire 2021 (July 14-15, 2021) [virtual]

SharePoint Fest Chicago (July 26-30, 2021)

Microsoft Lists workshop (on-demand)

Follow The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone

Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts

Windows plus Microsoft 365, from chip to cloud Jun 22, 2021

Show notes

In this episode, Chris and Mark talk with Thomas Trombley (Senior program manager - Windows Servicing and Delivery) and Jason Howard (Senior program manager - Windows, Developers, and Experiences (WDX)) about how the Windows desktop and ecosystem supports modern work in the context of Microsoft 365. We dig into helping customers plan for hybrid work, best practices for systems and services for IT to tune and optimize, and how to get into and remain in a good run state for managing it all from "the chip to the cloud."

Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post.

Click here for transcript of this episode.

People and related products:

Thomas Trombley (Senior program manager - Windows Servicing and Delivery) LinkedIn [guest]

Jason Howard (Senior program manager - Windows, Developers, and Experiences (WDX)) LinkedIn | Twitter (@NorthFaceHiker) [guest]

Mark Kashman | Twitter [co-host]

Chris McNulty | Twitter [co-host]

Windows | Twitter

Windows Insider Program | Twitter | Windows Insider Podcast

SharePoint | @SharePoint | SharePoint community blog

Resources:

"Microsoft 365 - Modernize your enterprise deployment with Windows 10 and Microsoft 365 apps" (Learning pathway on docs.microsoft.com)

Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals.

Microsoft Tech Community Home

Stay on top of Office 365 changes

Events:

Microsoft Viva AMA (June 23, 2021 at 9am PT) [Within the Microsoft Tech Community]

What's next for Windows event (June 24, 2021 at 11am ET) [Livestream]

Inspire 2021 (July 14-15, 2021) [virtual]

SharePoint Fest Chicago (July 26-30, 2021)

Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts

Follow The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone, and discover other Microsoft podcasts: aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts

Visio for everyone Jun 09, 2021

Show notes

Get ready to take your diagramming skills to the next level! In this episode, Chris and I talk with Mukul Kumar (Senior product manager) and Nishant Kumar (Product manager) from the Visio team at Microsoft. They have some exciting news that's 'goodness at no cost' to a lot of people in Microsoft 365. We'll dig into this and all things Visio – its place in the world of productivity, use cases for beginners to experts, web to desktop, and more. The goal of you finishing this episode is that you'll be fluent on diagramming in your sleep.

Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post.

Click here for transcript of this episode.

Resources:

Mukul Kumar | Twitter | LinkedIn [guest]

Nishant Kumar | LinkedIn [guest]

Mark Kashman | Twitter [co-host]

Chris McNulty | Twitter [co-host]

SharePoint | @SharePoint | SharePoint community blog

Visio | @MSVisio | Visio community blog

"Announcing Visio in Microsoft 365 - Visual collaboration for teams everywhere" (related Visio announcement blog post)

"Recapping Ignite with the five biggest Visio updates" (recent Ignite blog post)

Visualize with Visio (video series)

Learn more about Microsoft Visio (support.microsoft.com)

Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals.

Microsoft Tech Community Home

Stay on top of Office 365 changes

Events:

Microsoft 365 Collaboration Summit (June 8-10, 2021)

Microsoft Viva AMA (June 23, 2021) [Within the Microsoft Tech Community]

Inspire 2021 (July 14-15, 2021) [virtual]

SharePoint Fest Chicago (July 26-30, 2021)

Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts

Follow The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone

SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop May 2021 Jun 01, 2021

Show notes

May 2021 brought some great new offerings: Yammer conversation highlights, Immersive Reader for SharePoint documents, content migration from Dropbox and Google Workspace into Microsoft 365, Microsoft Lists: Export to CSV, Microsoft Lists: Updated sharing experience, Microsoft Lists: Turn comments on/off, and more. We also hear from Yogesh Ratnaparkhi, principal program manager on the SharePoint team focused on the migration of content into Microsoft 365 - specifically release updates to the SharePoint admin center's Migration Manager to move content from third-party cloud providers like Box, Dropbox and Google Workspace into Microsoft 365.

Click here for the episode corresponding blog post with details and links to all resources discussed in the episode.

Resources:

Yogesh Ratnaparkhi | LinkedIn | Twitter [guest]

Mark Kashman | Twitter | Kashbox Substack blog [host]

SharePoint Twitter | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice

"Migrate your content into Microsoft 365" [Tech Community blog + migration infographic]

Microsoft 365 public roadmap

Microsoft Tech Community Home

Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals.

Microsoft Tech Community Home

Stay on top of Office 365 changes

Events

ESPC21 (June.1-2, 2021) - Virtual | Jeff Teper keynote, numerous Microsoft and MVP sessions + workshops

Microsoft 365 Collaboration Summit (June.8-10, 2021) - Hybrid | Dan Holme, Karuana Gatimu, and Charles Lamanna keynotes, plus numerous Microsoft and MVP sessions + workshops

Follow The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone

Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts

Viva Topics is the on-hovercraft of knowledge May 11, 2021

Show notes

It's time to turn content into knowledge with the help of AI. Chris and Mark talk with CJ Tan (principal PM manager | Microsoft) about her role on the Project Cortex team focused on Viva Topics. We dig into knowledge roles, deployment practices, common scenarios, and top of mind for 'What's next?' We don't think that AI is the only substitute for IA (Information Architecture). People, metadata and AI interact better together. CJ walks us through how it all works from pilot to broad-scale use and adoption.

Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post.

Click here for transcript of this episode.

Resources:

CJ Tan| LinkedIn [guest]

Mark Kashman | Twitter [co-host]

Chris McNulty | Twitter [co-host]

Get started with Microsoft Viva Topics New Learning Paths in doc.ms.com:

Main resource center: https://akak.ms/Viva/Topics

SharePoint | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog

Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals.

Microsoft Tech Community Home

Stay on top of Office 365 changes

Events:

Teams Nation (May 12, 2021)

M365 Virtual Philly (May 14-15, 2021)

Microsoft Build (May 25-27, 2021)

ESPC21 (June 1-2, 2021)

Microsoft 365 Collaboration Summit (June 8-10, 2021)

SharePoint Saturdays (ongoing)

Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts

Follow The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone

SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop April 2021 Apr 30, 2021

Show notes

April 2021 brought some great new offerings: Immersive Reader: SharePoint pages and news posts, Events Web Part: Audience Targeting, SharePoint site templates, Microsoft Lists for iOS: iPad support, Manage Microsoft Lists for iOS using InTune APP, Microsoft Lists: Visualize data with Power BI, OneDrive sync 64-bit for Windows, and more. We also hear from Nicole Woon, program manager on the SharePoint at Microsoft focused on all things site templates, their history from the SharePoint Look Book – moving into Microsoft 365, and insights into what you can expect next for templatizing your intranet.

Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post.

Resources:

Nicole Woon | LinkedIn | Twitter [guest]

Mark Kashman | Twitter | Kashbox Substack blog [host]

SharePoint Twitter | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice

Microsoft 365 public roadmap

Microsoft Tech Community Home

Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals.

Microsoft Tech Community Home

Stay on top of Office 365 changes=

Follow The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone

Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts

Invoice optimization, one sip at a time Apr 27, 2021

Show notes

In this partner episode, we focus on the needs of a growing company, New Belgium Brewing, faced with numerous challenges. They desperately wanted to move away from paper-based processes. With their portfolio of beers growing, and a second brewing facility coming online, they needed help from partner KnowledgeLake to optimize digitize invoices, improve employee time and efficiency while maintaining environmental stewardship, making world class beer, and having fun.

Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post.

Resources:

Jason Burian | LinkedIn | Twitter || KnowledgeLake (Twitter | LinkedIn | Facebook | YouTube) [guest]

Tye Eyden | LinkedIn | Twitter || New Belgium Brewing (Twitter | LinkedIn | Facebook | YouTube) [guest]

Mark Kashman | Twitter [co-host]

Chris McNulty | Twitter [co-host]

"New Belgium leverages KnowledgeLake solution to support national expansion" [KnowledgeLake customer case study]

Microsoft 365 Content Services Partner Program

Microsoft Partner Network

Project Cortex aka.ms/projectcortex

SharePoint | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog

Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals.

Microsoft Tech Community Home

Stay on top of Office 365 changes

Events:

SharePoint Saturdays (ongoing)

Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon 2021 (April 26-28, 2021)

The AIIM Conference (April 27-29, 2021)

Ability Summit (May.5-6, 2021)

Teams Nation (May 12, 2021)

Microsoft Build (May 25-27, 2021)

ESPC21 (June.1-2, 2021)

Microsoft 365 Collaboration Summit (June.8-10, 2021)

Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts

Follow The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone

A portal's journey: MSW Apr 13, 2021

Show notes

In this episode, Chris and Mark talk with Sam Crewdson (senior program manager, Microsoft) about his role managing Microsoft Web (MSW) on SharePoint. MSW is Microsoft's internal company portal, built for its 163,000 full-time employees. We discuss MSW over time - from on-premises to the cloud, from classic to modern, establishing it as a home site, and now its role within Microsoft Viva Connections inside of Microsoft Teams. Lots of learning and insight from over the years across UX, innovation and consistent user feedback.

Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post.

Resources

Sam Crewdson | Twitter | LinkedIn [guest]

Mark Kashman | Twitter [co-host]

Chris McNulty | Twitter [co-host]

"Microsoft moves its main employee portal to latest version of SharePoint - IT Showcase Blog"

"Redefining the intranet site experience with SharePoint in Office 365"

Microsoft Viva Connections resource center: aka.ms/VivaConnections

SharePoint | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog

Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals.

Microsoft Tech Community Home

Stay on top of Office 365 changes

Events

SharePoint Fest Virtual Workshops (ongoing)

SharePoint Saturdays (ongoing)

Shift Happens by AvePoint (April 20-22, 2021)

Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon 2021 (April 26-28, 2021)

The AIIM Conference (April 27-29,2021)

Teams Nation (May 12, 2021)

Listen and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts

Follow The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone

SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop March 2021 Mar 31, 2021

Show notes

March 2021 brought some great new offerings: Microsoft Viva Connections, SharePoint app bar, Focus mode for SharePoint pages and news, images in SharePoint Events web part, SharePoint page analytics, Integrate menu for Microsoft Lists, Graph-based people picker for Person columns, Box migration into Microsoft 365, guest access in Yammer, and more. We also hear from Melissa Torres, principal program manager, about the new SharePoint app bar, what it is and its new role in Microsoft Viva Connections.

Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post.

Resource and Info Links:

SharePoint Twitter | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice

Mark Kashman | Twitter | Kashbox Substack blog [host]

Melissa Torres | LinkedIn | Twitter

Microsoft 365 public roadmap

Microsoft Tech Community Home

Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals.