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On the minds of OneDrive admins Feb 07, 2024

Show notes

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

Drew Madelung | LinkedIn | X | Blog

SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | Feedback

Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host]

Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host]

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:

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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SharePoint roadmap pitstop January 2024 Feb 01, 2024

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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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Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host]

Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host]

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

Microsoft Tech Community Home

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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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WWSD: What would Sue do (for your intranet) Jan 17, 2024

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On this episode, we hear from Sue Hanley who expertly focuses on change -- evolving and improving your intranet. Sue is an information architect, a knowledge management expert, and she doesn't shy away from the word: Portal. Sue is steeped in all sorts of governance and collaboration consultation in the grandiose enterprise content services and app: SharePoint. We grabbed time with Sue to discover how to make intranets better, how to make them work for you AND be worthy for people to go to and come back. Employees need to find things quickly and get things done – or your intranet doesn't get a second visit.

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08:23 Conversation with Sue Hanley

34:35 Upcoming Events

Sue Hanley | LinkedIn | Twitter

SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | Feedback

Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host]

Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host]

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:

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

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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Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

SharePoint roadmap pitstop December 2023 Jan 02, 2024

Show notes

Ho ho ho, Merry SharePoint! December 2023 brought a lot to review AND a lot to look forward to. We'll focus on everything that landed this past month: SharePoint eSignature, Stream: Add a survey, poll, quiz, link or text, Viva Engage: Community creation API, OneDrive app for Teams, OneDrive: Open in app, Microsoft 365 Backup (Public Preview), Microsoft Loop moves to loop.cloud.microsoft, and indicating the retirement of Delve in Dec. 16, 2024. And then, we'll highlight the top 5 SharePoint tech items of 2023, peek ahead at 5 anticipated features slated for CY24-Q1, shine a light on a few related items, hit up the always fun teasers AND stick around: We've cooked up a bonus festive song for you titled, "It's beginning to look a lot like SharePoint" - it's queried at number one on the Power BI charts :).

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01:49 Employee engagement

06:45 Top 5 SharePoint features shipped in 2023

12:26 Teamwork

16:50 Related Technology

27:55 "It's beginning to look a lot like SharePoint" [parody]

29:49 Teasers + 5 features of interest on the public Microsoft 365 roadmap: CY24-Q1

35:55 Closing

SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | Feedback

Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host]

Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host]

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

Microsoft Tech Community Home

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Upcoming events:

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

365 EduCon - Seattle | June 3-7, 2024 in Seattle, W

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

Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

Records compliance from the get-go Dec 12, 2023

Show notes

On today's episode, we chat with Joanne Klein - an expert on compliance in Microsoft 365. Joanne brings energy and technical expertise to real-world implementations of collaboration balanced with compliance. We spoke onsite during 365 EduCon - Chicago about records management and specific tooling (like Microsoft Purview), content lifecycle management best practices, and how to get it right from the get-go.

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15:52 Conversation with Joanne Klein

43:43 Upcoming Events

Joanne Klein | LinkedIn | X | Website [guest]

SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | Feedback

Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host]

Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host]

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:

Microsoft Ignite now on-demand | from Nov. 14-17, 2023

Teams Nation 2024 | Feb. 21, 2024 | #TeamsNation + early tweet

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

365 EduCon - Seattle | June 3-7, 2024 in Seattle, W

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

Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

SharePoint roadmap pitstop November 2023 Nov 30, 2023

Show notes

A blend of disclosure and rollout news this past month. We cover the following: Stream: Videos 'in Outlook', Stream: Collaborative notes in Teams meeting recordings, Microsoft 365 Archive: Public Preview, SharePoint: Out-of-the-box document library templates, Offline mode in OneDrive for Web, OneDrive: Add Individual File Shortcuts, Loop components in Channels, Teams: Files app updating to OneDrive app, and more. We also cover highlights from Microsoft Ignite 2023 - including an audio snippet from Jeff Teper publicly introducing *SharePoint Premium* for the first time.

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01:12 Employee Engagement

05:45 Audio of Jeff Teper announcing "SharePoint Premium"

08:05 Nov.2023 Teamwork features

15:57 Related Technology

26:44 Dec.2023 Teasers

Jeff Teper | LinkedIn | X/Twitter

SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | Feedback

Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host]

Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host]

"Introducing SharePoint Premium – the future of AI powered content management and experiences" by Jeff Teper

"Announcing SharePoint Embedded Public Preview at ESPC23" by Zach Rosenfield

"SharePoint Roadmap Update – Fall 2023" by Dave Cohen

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

Microsoft Tech Community Home

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Upcoming events:

European SharePoint Conference | Nov.27-30 in (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

DEVintersection | Dec.5-7.2023

Viva Engage Festival (SWOOP Analytics) | Dec. 6, 202

Teams Nation 2024 | Feb. 21, 2024 | #TeamsNation + early tweet

Inaugural Microsoft Fabric Community Conference | March 26-28, 2024 (Vegas)

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Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

Andy puts the A in AI Nov 21, 2023

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Never take the shortcut to learning, take the Huneycutt! On today's episode, we talk with Andy Huneycutt from Upskill Tech about his use and best practices across two areas: AI and Automation; namely his use and experiences with Power Automate and Copilot We delve into his expertise across both, plus benefit from his tinkerings with generative AI – based on practical use working on a children's book full of AI generated story and characters.

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Plus, click here for transcript of this episode.

04:45 Conversation with Andy Huneycutt

37:30 Upcoming Events

Andy Huneycutt | LinkedIn | YouTube | Upskill Tech | Charlotte Area SPUG

SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | Feedback

Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host]

Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host]

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:

Now on-demand | Microsoft Ignite | Nov. 14-17, 2023

CollabDays - Lisbon @CollabDaysLIS | Nov. 25 (Lisbon, Portugal - University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL))

European SharePoint Conference | Nov.27-30 in (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

DEVintersection | Dec.5-7.2023

Viva Engage Festival (SWOOP Analytics) | Dec. 6, 2023 (and keep your eye out for a similar offering in May 2024 - a 'festival for SharePoint')…

Teams Nation 2024 | Feb. 21, 2024 | Early info from MVPs Chris Hoard, Chirag Patel, and team: #TeamsNation + early tweet

Inaugural Microsoft Fabric Community Conference | March 26-28, 2024 (Vegas)

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

Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

SharePoint roadmap pitstop October 2023 Oct 31, 2023

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October 2023 brought some spooky new offerings: Power Apps leader in 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Low-Code Applications Platform, Video search improvements, new Intelligence & Search admin homepage, OneDrive colorful folders, New Microsoft Teams, Viva Goals + Planner, SharePoint: BCS retirement in Microsoft 365, and much much mwahahaaaa more. We talk with Miceile Barrett and Arvind Mishra, Principal product managers on the OneDrive team about recently released features like colorful folders and new shared views for People and Meetings. And we dive into the Oct. 3rd moment focused on all the news and announcements about what's next for OneDrive - including Copilot in OneDrive, full OneDrive experiences in Teams and Outlook, the new "Open in app" feature, and more. Boo!

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02:28 Employee engagement

07:52 Conversation with Miceile Barrett and Arvind Mishra (from the OneDrive team)

28:33 Teamwork

33:03 Related Technology

38:01 Events

40:54 Teasers

Miceile Barrett | LinkedIn | X

Arvind Mishra | LinkedIn

SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | Feedback

Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host]

Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host]

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:

365 EduCon - Chicago | Oct.30 - Nov.4, 2023 (Chicago, IL)

Community Days - Mexico City | Nov.2.2023 (HOTEL GALERÍA PLAZA REFORMA)

Microsoft Ignite | Nov. 14-17, 2023 (Hybrid: Seattle, WA and online)

CollabDays - Lisbon @CollabDaysLIS | Nov. 25 (Lisbon, Portugal (ISCTE-IUL))

European SharePoint Conference | Nov.27-30 in (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

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

Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

The power of the web part Oct 25, 2023

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Web parts make the intranet go 'round. On this episode, we talk with Pat McGown (CEO, Cloudwell). In a world of SharePoint web parts, Pat and team build and deliver useful ones. We focus on developing web parts - past and present, some of their productivity-focused web part solutions, and tips and tricks for both developers and intranet managers. You can never get too much information about a good web part - be it one you use out of the box, one you procure from a partner, or one you build and design, and customize for your business.

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08:24 Conversation with Pat McGown

40:36 Upcoming Events

Pat McGown | LinkedIn | X/@PMcGown X/@Cloudwell_io

SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | Feedback

Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host]

Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host]

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:

365 EduCon - Chicago | Oct.30 - Nov.4, 2023 (Chicago, IL)

Community Days - Mexico City | Nov.2.2023 (Juarez, Ciudad de Mexico)

Microsoft Ignite | Nov. 14-17, 2023 (Hybrid: Seattle, WA and online with pre-day labs)

European SharePoint Conference | Nov.27-30 in (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

European Cloud Summit | NEW DATE: May.14-16.2024 (Wiesbaden, Germany)

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

Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop September 2023 Oct 04, 2023

Show notes

September 2023 brought some great news and new offerings: Answer Analytics in Microsoft Search, introduction of Microsoft 365 Chat, a GA date for Microsoft 365 Copilot (Nov. 1, 2023), introduction of Copilot in Microsoft Stream, Favorite and Unfavorite additional file types and folders in OneDrive and SharePoint document libraries, Microsoft Lists - MSA Preview support on iOS and Android, Planner Loop Component, and more. This month you'll hear more about the recent Copilot news, including a snippet of audio from Colette Stallbaumer about Microsoft 365 Copilot and the newly announced Microsoft 365 Chat.

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01:30 Employee Engagement

11:23 Teamwork

16:30 Related Technology

21:48 Teasers

SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | Feedback

Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host]

Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host]

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