The Intrazone by Microsoft 365

Latest Episodes:

Figuring it out with Bob Aug 18, 2020

Show notes

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.

Microsoft Tech Community Home

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 Aug 11, 2020

Show notes

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

Mark Kashman |Twitter

Chris McNulty |Twitter

Jeffrey Willinger | LinkedIn | Twitter

Pete Schweiss | LinkedIn

Boys Hope Girls Hope | Site |Twitter

Fujitsu | 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

Microsoft Partner Network

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 Jul 31, 2020

Show notes

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]

The intelligent intranet

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

Subscribe to The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone

Listen and subscribe to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts

Tasks in Teams Jul 28, 2020

Show notes

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.

Microsoft Tech Community Home

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 Jul 21, 2020

Show notes

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 Lists "Look Book"

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

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 Jul 14, 2020

Show notes

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.

Microsoft Tech Community Home

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 Jun 30, 2020

Show notes

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

Mark Kashman |Twitter

Cathy Dew | LinkedIn | Twitter

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

Microsoft Tech Community Home

SharePoint community blog

Microsoft 365 public roadmap

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

Catching up with Jeff Teper Jun 23, 2020

Show notes

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!

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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.

Microsoft Tech Community Home

SharePoint community blog

Microsoft 365 public roadmap

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 Jun 16, 2020

Show notes

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]

Yammer | Site | Twitter

The New Yammer blog

Join the Yammer newsletter

Yammer Resource center

Yammer app for Teams

New Yammer mobile apps

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.

Microsoft Tech Community Home

SharePoint community blog

Microsoft 365 public roadmap

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 Jun 01, 2020

Show notes

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.

Resources and Information Links:

SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice

Mark Kashman |Twitter

Simon Bourdages | LinkedIn

Release notes for the SharePoint Migration Tool (SPMT)

Migration performance guidance

File share to Microsoft 365 guidance

Migrating from SharePoint Server on-premises guidance

Migrate from Box into Microsoft 365 guidance

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