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The Intrazone is a show about the Microsoft 365 intelligent intranet, taking you into the building blocks of your Microsoft 365 intranet. It's about how SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, Yammer and more fit into your everyday work life – with the goal being to share and manage content, knowledge, and applications to empower teamwork throughout your organization.
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May 10, 2023 • 59min
Jeff Teper is your Copilot
On today's episode, we dig into a slew of announcements with Jeff Teper (President of Collaborative Apps and Platforms at Microsoft). We spoke to Jeff onsite in Vegas shortly after he and his team delivered a 90-minute whirlwind opening keynote – one that covered the value of community, tech Copilot, Teams, SharePoint - including Copilot in SharePoint, OneDrive, Lists, and goodness for IT with recent admin and security innovation. There were a ton of new announcements, plus the culmination of what Jeff coined "The wave of AI" - meaning the past few weeks have been a surge of AI news across Microsoft 365, Teams, Viva, Security, Loop – the big reveal being the notion of bringing that same AI service value into our beloved SharePoint. Read this episode's corresponding blog post. Plus, click here for transcript of this episode. 00:00 Intro with Chris and Mark 07:25 Conversation with Jeff Teper 50:40 Upcoming Events Jeff Teper | LinkedIn | Twitter [guest] Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host] SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | Feedback “Welcome to the new era of SharePoint and OneDrive in Microsoft 365” by Jeff Teper. “SharePoint in the AI Era: Introducing 'Copilot in SharePoint' and 10 more innovations for creators” by Adam Harmetz. “Experience the New OneDrive: Fast, Organized, and Personalized” by Jason Moore. “Microsoft Lists: Easier, Better, Faster, Stronger” by Lincoln DeMaris. “Enhanced Video in Microsoft 365” by Owen Paulus. “New era in content management and security in SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams” by Sesha Mani. 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 Poland | May.13.2023 Warsaw, Poland - formerly known as SPS Warsaw. Power Automate & Power Apps Developer Bootcamp Automation Summit 2023 | May.19-20.2023 London, Paddington CollabDays Italy | May.20.2023 in Milan European Collaboration Summit | May.22-24.2023 Düsseldorf Fair, Germany Microsoft Build 2023 |May 23-25, 2023 build.microsoft.com | Hybrid Global Digital and in-person in Seattle. Register now. Document Strategy Forum 2023 | May 22-24 in Charlotte, NC, USA (Le Méridien Charlotte) CollabDays Netherlands | June.10.2023 Vianen, Utrecht 365 EduCon - DC | June.12-16 Washington D.C. - USA Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts. Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

May 1, 2023 • 32min
SharePoint roadmap pitstop April 2023
April 2023 brought some great new offerings to SharePoint and Microsoft 365: Project integration in Viva Goals, Viva Connections: Mobile SharePoint site navigation, improved Graph Connector content results, eDiscovery document version shared, Microsoft Lists: Applied filters, Microsoft Loop: .fluid > .loop, new files experience in Teams, Create pages and news in the SharePoint app bar, and more. We chat with Ben Truelove, Principal Designer at Microsoft focused on Microsoft Lists about recent user interface updates - narrowing in on the new experiences when working with and creating views + what was released this past month: Applied Filters. April showers truly brought May Features. Click here to view this episode's corresponding blog post. Click here for this episode's full transcript. 01:13 Employee engagement 05:54 Conversation with Ben Truelove 18:11 Teamwork 23:05 Related Items 29:41 Teasers SharePoint | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | Feedback Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host] Ben Truelove | LinkedIn [guest] 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 365 Conference | May.2-4.2023 Las Vegas, Nevada CollabDays Poland | May.13.2023 Warsaw, Poland Power Automate & Power Apps Developer Bootcamp Automation Summit 2023 | May.19-20.2023 London, Paddington European Collaboration Summit | May.22-24.2023 Düsseldorf Fair, Germany Microsoft Build 2023 | May 23-25, 2023. Register now. The AIIM Conference 2023 | May.25-27.2023 Hyatt Regency, New Orleans CollabDays Netherlands | June.10.2023 Vianen, Utrecht 365 EduCon - DC | June.12-16 Washington D.C. - USA Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts. Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

Apr 3, 2023 • 47min
SharePoint roadmap pitstop: March 2023
March 2023 brought both new updates and big announcements. In this episode, we cover: File web part now: “File and Media”, Viva Connections on iPad, Microsoft Edge + Adobe Acrobat PDF Engine, Microsoft Lists + Approvals app in Teams, OneDrive: Favorite/Unfavorite, Suggested files in 1:1 chat, Microsoft Word: Send to Kindle, and more. Plus, we have two guests: 1) Matt McKenzie, Director of Microsoft 365 product marketing, shares insights about the upcoming Microsoft 365 Conference in Vegas (May 2-3), and 2) Sudha Narayanan explains how Microsoft Lists supports approval scenarios natively within info tracking incorporating the Approvals app in Teams. Our related tech segment highlights three big disclosures: 1) Microsoft 365 Copilot, 2) the Loop app (Public Preview), and the New Teams app (Public Preview); #Speed. Read this episode's corresponding blog post. Click here for transcript of this episode. 1:46 Conversation with Matt McKenzie 12:09 Employee engagement updates 18:43 Conversation with Sudha Narayanan 33:18 Teamwork updates 37:15 Related tech + Teasers Matt McKenzie | LinkedIn | Twitter Sudha Narayanan | LinkedIn Microsoft 365 Conference (May 2-4, 2023) | Website | Twitter | Register SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | Feedback Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host] Resources: 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: Adobe Summit 2023 (Past | keynote and breakout sessions now on-demand) Microsoft Viva Summit | April.20.2023 Online Microsoft 365 Conference | May.2-4.2023 Las Vegas, Nevada CollabDays Poland | May.13.2023 Warsaw, Poland Power Automate & Power Apps Developer Bootcamp Automation Summit 2023 | May.19-20.2023 London, Paddington European Collaboration Summit | May.22-24.2023 Düsseldorf Fair, Germany Microsoft Build 2023 | May 23-25, 2023. Register now. The AIIM Conference 2023 | May.25-27.2023 Hyatt Regency, New Orleans CollabDays Netherlands | June.10.2023 Vianen, Utrecht 365 EduCon - DC | June.12-16 Washington D.C. - USA Listen and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts. Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

Mar 20, 2023 • 28min
Topics is Engaged
Viva Topics in Engage doubles the impact and access of your knowledge at your fingertips - and how you pay it forward to others. On today's episode, we hear from Raj Jain (Principal product manager at Microsoft) about all things topical about Viva Topics, specifically - the role of Viva Topics within your Viva Engage community discussions, questions, and announcements posts. The real value gives you a built-in knowledge management system that balances and refines the length of your internal communications without sacrificing the depth you pay forward to each person that reads your comm. Two Viva apps, one great outcome. Read this episode's corresponding blog post. Plus, click here for transcript of this episode. 05:35 Conversation with Raj Jain 19:08 Upcoming Events Raj Jain | (Principal Product Manager - Viva Engage and Answers team) [guest] Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host] Viva Topics | Website | Viva adoption center | @MicrosoftViva Viva Engage | Website | Viva adoption center | @MicrosoftViva SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint community blog | Feedback 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: Modern Workplace Conference 2023 | March.27-29.2023 Paris, France Microsoft Secure | March.28.2023 Online Microsoft Viva Summit | April.20.2023 Online Microsoft 365 Conference | May.2-4.2023 Las Vegas, Nevada CollabDays Poland | May.13.2023 Warsaw, Poland Power Automate & Power Apps Developer Bootcamp Automation Summit 2023 | May.19-20.2023 London, Paddington European Collaboration Summit | May.22-24.2023 Düsseldorf Fair, Germany Microsoft Build 2023 | May 23-25, 2023. Register now. The AIIM Conference 2023 | May.25-27.2023 Hyatt Regency, New Orleans Listen and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts. Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

Mar 1, 2023 • 35min
SharePoint roadmap pitstop: February 2023
In this episode, we cover: Yammer > Engage rebrand, Viva Topics in Viva Engage, Stream Playlists, SharePoint Advanced Management, updated OneDrive Home and Shared, external file requests for SharePoint document libraries, export Microsoft Lists as datasets for Power BI, update to rules email notifications, and more. Plus, we talk with Sesha Mani, Principal group product manager on the SharePoint team focused on admin, security, and compliance. Sesha highlights the value of new SharePoint Advanced Management capabilities when working with proposals, contracts, invoices, and more - to help IT address sprawl and oversharing with a new set of advanced security and content management capabilities - broadly speaking advanced access policies for secure content collaboration AND advanced sites content lifecycle management. Read this episode's corresponding blog post. Click here for full transcript. 1:30 Employee Engagement 7:40 Conversation with Sesha Mani 21:10 Teamwork 28:25 Related Technology Sesha Mani | LinkedIn | Twitter SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | Feedback Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host] "Microsoft Syntex – SharePoint Advanced Management (SAM) Add-on – Announcing General Availability" (blog post) Learn more about SharePoint Advanced Management (MS Learn) 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: Modern Workplace Conference 2023 | March.27-29.2023 Paris, France Culturati | Apr.2-3.2023 Austin, Texas Microsoft 365 Conference | May.2-4.2023 Las Vegas, Nevada CollabDays Poland | May.13.2023 Warsaw, Poland Technorama Belgium - the Jungle Edition | May.15-17 Kinepolis Antwerp Power Automate & Power Apps Developer Bootcamp Automation Summit 2023 | May.19-20.2023 London, Paddington CollabDays Italy | May.20.2023 Milan, Italy European Collaboration Summit | May.22-24.2023 Dusseldorf, Germany Listen and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts. Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

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Feb 13, 2023 • 44min
Viva Engage has the answer
You have questions. Viva has answers. On today's episode, we chat with Michael Holste and Steve Nguyen, Microsoft employees who focus on Microsoft Viva Engage and all the goodness it brings - with many exciting announcements disclosed today. You'll learn about things geared toward leadership communications, ways to host and run internal AMAs, and the general notion of getting answers to your questions when using Microsoft Viva, what is referred to as Answers in Viva. Plus, a little future news on Yammer branding… it's a packed episode that will warm the community part of your heart. Read this episode's corresponding blog post. Plus, click here for transcript of this episode. 06:10 Conversation with Michael and Steve 37:06 Upcoming Events Michael Holste | LinkedIn | Twitter [guest] Steve Nguyen | LinkedIn | Twitter [guest] Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host] Viva Engage | Website | Viva adoption center | @Microsoft365 SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint community blog | Feedback “New Leadership, Analytics, and Knowledge Experiences for Viva Engage are now rolling out” by Michael Holste Yammer rebrand 2023 (blog) Insights for Yammer customers (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 Upcoming events: Microsoft Viva Engage AMA | Feb.23.2023 online at 9am PST WorkPlaceDudes Summit | Feb.24.2023 Holland Modern Workplace Conference 2023 | March.27-29.2023 Paris, France Culturati | Apr.2-3.2023 Austin, Texas Microsoft 365 Conference | May.2-4.2023 Las Vegas, Nevada CollabDays Poland | May.13.2023 Warsaw, Poland Technorama Belgium - the Jungle Edition | May.15-17 Kinepolis Antwerp Power Automate & Power Apps Developer Bootcamp Automation Summit 2023 | May.19-20.2023 London, Paddington Listen and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts. Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

Feb 7, 2023 • 1h 1min
Templates, templates, templates
It's a templates world, from start to finish - if you want to finish on time. In this episode, we first chat with Cathy Dew, senior product manager on the SharePoint team, about the value and design of SharePoint templates, Microsoft 365 templates, Lists templates, and more. We then connect with two of our partners from Pointwork in Copenhagen, Denmark: Peter Larsen, their CTO, and Lars Kristensen, a Principal consultant; we drill down into the real-world use and adoption of templates + governance and hear how they help streamline your business in production. Read this episode's corresponding blog post. Plus, click here for transcript of this episode. 06:55 Conversation with Cathy Dew 26:15 Conversation with Pointwork 53:30 Upcoming Events Cathy Dew (Microsoft - Senior product manager) | LinkedIn | Twitter Peter Larsen (Pointwork - CTO) | LinkedIn | Twitter Lars Kristensen (Pointwork - Principal consultant) | LinkedIn | Twitter Pointwork | Website | 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: Collab365 | Three-hour Microsoft Lists workshop online with Mark Kashman | Feb.8.2023 Reimagine Education | Feb.9.2023 (online) WorkPlaceDudes Summit | Feb.24.2023 Holland Modern Workplace Conference 2023 | March.27-29.2023 Paris, France Culturati | Apr.2-3.2023 Austin, Texas Microsoft 365 Conference | May.2-4.2023 Las Vegas, Nevada CollabDays Poland | May.13.2023 Warsaw, Poland Technorama Belgium - the Jungle Edition | May.15-17 Kinepolis Antwerp Power Automate & Power Apps Developer Bootcamp Automation Summit 2023 | May.19-20.2023 London, Paddington CollabDays Italy | May.20.2023 Milan, Italy European Collaboration Summit | May.22-24.2023 Dusseldorf, Germany Listen and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts. Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

Jan 31, 2023 • 33min
SharePoint roadmap pitstop: January 2023
In this episode, you’ll hear about all the new features and updates: Microsoft Feed, Planner integration with Viva Goals, extracting PDFs in OneDrive for Android, Microsoft Lists: Calendar week layout, Microsoft Teams @Everyone, Microsoft named a Leader in 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Insight Engines, Stream (Classic) sets to retire: February 15, 2024, and more. Plus, we talk with Bill Bär from the 'content AI' team focused on Search, Syntex, and a whole lot of AI. Bill shares insights into the design and value of Microsoft Feed - a smart aggregate of all sorts of things happening around - content, people, videos, reminders, actionable tasks, and more -- coming to Outlook and the Office mobile apps. Read this episode's corresponding blog post. Plus, click here for transcript of this episode. Bill Bär | LinkedIn | Twitter SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host] Learn about Outlook mobile search, aka - Microsoft Feed in Outlook Deploying Outlook for iOS and Android app config in Exchange Download your own complimentary copy of the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Insight Engines. Make Your Goals a Reality with OKRs and New Capabilities from Microsoft Viva Goals Panel discussion at #ESPC22 w/Jeff Teper & Suzy Dean (AddIn365): https://youtu.be/gmltQ85QM54 Timeline for Stream (Classic) retirement: https://aka.ms/StreamClassicRetireTimeline 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 2023 events: Collab365 | Three-hour Microsoft Lists workshop online with Mark Kashman Reimagine Education | Feb.9.2023 (online) WorkPlaceDudes Summit | Feb.24.2023 Holland Modern Workplace Conference 2023 | March.27-29.2023 Paris, France Culturati | Apr.2-3.2023 Austin, Texas Microsoft 365 Conference | May.2-4.2023 Las Vegas, Nevada CollabDays Poland | May.13.2023 Warsaw, Poland Technorama Belgium - the Jungle Edition | May.15-17 Kinepolis Antwerp Power Automate & Power Apps Developer Bootcamp Automation Summit 2023 | May.19-20.2023 London, Paddington CollabDays Italy | May.20.2023 Milan, Italy European Collaboration Summit | May.22-24.2023 Dusseldorf, Germany Listen and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts. Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

Jan 10, 2023 • 29min
Fast Fridays with Jeff Teper
We chat with Jeff Teper to dig into what he calls "Fast Friday" - his use of technology to record his thoughts about what he's up to each week - where he spends time, anecdotes on internal and external meetings, and things he's working on - big and small. Fast Fridays are about capturing thoughts, putting them together, and then getting them out there - and that it's OK to be scrappy, consistent, and engaged versus over-polished and less available. For Jeff, it's all about transparency, communication, and leadership - every week. You'll learn about his approach to leadership, why he creates and publishes his Fast Fridays, and the importance of Microsoft Teams and other tools for communications. Get ready to grab some Teper tidbits on The Intrazone. Read this episode's corresponding blog post. Plus, click here for a transcript of this episode. Jeff Teper | LinkedIn | Twitter SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice 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: M365 Twin Cities | Jan.21.2023 Brooklyn Park, Minneapolis Culturati | Apr.2-3.2023 Austin, Texas Microsoft 365 Conference | May.2-4.2023 Las Vegas, Nevada CollabDays Poland | May.13.2023 Warsaw, Poland European Collaboration Summit | May.22-24.2023 Dusseldorf, Germany European Power Platform Conference | Jun.20-22 Dublin, Ireland European SharePoint Conference | Nov.27-30 Amsterdam, Netherlands Listen and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts. Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

Dec 29, 2022 • 27min
SharePoint roadmap pitstop: December 2022
Our team spent most of December 2022 refining the cloud, improving it for your return to work – whenever that may be. In this episode, you’ll find details about a load of great new offerings: Microsoft Syntex Pay-as-you-go (Preview), search video transcript for Stream (on SharePoint), SharePoint Apps: Add to teams when enabling an app, OneDrive: Sensitivity labels appear on the sharing dialog, OneDrive sync reports (GA), SharePoint sites search in usage analytics, Microsoft Teams Premium (Preview), Microsoft Whiteboard mobile apps, and more. Plus, we included audio from my co-host Chris McNulty, Director of product marketing for Syntex and Viva Topics – from his recent keynote segment during the European SharePoint Conference - to provide an update on all things Microsoft Syntex. Happy holidays, and welcome to 2023. Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post. Click here for transcript of this episode. Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host] SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | Feedback Microsoft 365 Setup site (Getting started and deployment guides) 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 Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Follow The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone