The Intrazone by Microsoft 365

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 aw...

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-host...

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...

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 cor...

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 manage...

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 develo...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 corresp...

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 adopti...

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...

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...

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 off...

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: Microso...

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 integratio...

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 talk...

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...

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 Link...

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 maki...

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, intell...

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...

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 busi...

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...