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.

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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:

summit.html">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

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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.

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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

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Upcoming events:

workplace.pro/">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

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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.

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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

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Upcoming events:

workplace.pro/">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

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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.

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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

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Upcoming events:

Microsoft Viva Engage AMA | Feb.23.2023 online at 9am PST

WorkPlaceDudes Summit | Feb.24.2023 Holland

workplace.pro/">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

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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.

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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

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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

workplace.pro/">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

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Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

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.

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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

workplace.pro/">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

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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.

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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.

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.

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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. 

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Sink your ears into clip highlights from each of the four Microsoft keynotes from the European SharePoint Conference 2022 (ESPC22 | Copenhagen, Denmark). You'll hear from Jeff Teper covering the approach Microsoft takes in making Microsoft 365 the best productivity offering, from Karuana Gatimu sharing insights about the metaverse in Teams, Scott Hanselman about how many keystrokes you have left, Vesa Juvonen on the continuum of opportunity for developers -- no-to-low-to-pro code. And last, a fun selection of questions and answers from the Microsoft AMA. Tons of insights on Microsoft technology for all roles, plus an audible glimpse on the value of content and community.

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European SharePoint Conference Twitter | Instagram | Website

SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice

Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host]

Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host]

Scott Hanselman's KeysLeft.com site

Microsoft Graph Developer Proxy

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

Microsoft Tech Community Home

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Upcoming 2023 EU Events from the ESPC event team:

• European Power Platform Conference (EPPC23) | Jun.20-22 Dublin, Ireland
• European SharePoint Conference (ESPC23) | Nov.27-30 Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Gobble, gobble - time to gobble up all the updates that landed for SharePoint and related tech on the month of November 2022 - a load of great new offerings: Briefing email enhancements, a new praise compose experience, a new Viva admin experience, SharePoint tenant URL rename (GA), three new SharePoint site templates, updated management for site information, sign language via in Microsoft Teams, Editor using Context IQ in Word, and more. We also pulled audio from Cathy Dew, Senior product manager from the SharePoint team, to give share more behind the design and application of SharePoint site templates. It's a packed edition, minus the tryptophan.

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Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host]

Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host]

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

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

Upcoming Events:

ESPC22 (Nov.28 - Dec. 1, 2022 | in-person Copenhagen, Denmark, Bella Center)

Microsoft 365 Conference (Dec.6-8.2022 | In-person Las Vegas, NV MGM Grand)

Follow The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone