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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: Microsoft Live Events.

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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 integration and more – plus give some fun...

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 talking a lot with Jared Spatar...

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 and information that is dynamically...

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.

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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 making it easier for people to tag and ...

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, intelligent intranet. We're here to h...

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 and good planning, technology can ...

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 business innovation, allowing Arden &am...

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 a feature through to the various Mi...

We uncover the power and capabilities of Microsoft Teams as a platform. Hear from two experts inside and outside of Microsoft. First we learn about the design and strategy of how to extend Teams at the scale of the worldwide Microsoft 365 customer base from Bill Bliss, lead architect for Microsoft Teams platform engineering. Then, we turn to the real-world approach of one of our strong Microsoft MVP developers in this space, Wictor...

Three superhero Microsoft MVPs swoop into the fantastical world of Funko, a worldwide purveyor of all things pop culture. The intrepid Funko IT department, led by Scott Christensen, was fighting to keep up with the company’s rapid growth. They needed to refine collaboration, enhance communication and set things in motion to automate as their business grew – and still grows. The MVPs had just three days and it was a nail-biting rac...

In this episode, we talk with three intranet experts to unveil insights and best practices for planning, designing and implementing a new, beautiful, functional, engaging, personalized SharePoint-based intranet. Guests include Sue Hanley, Melissa Torres and Matt Wolodarsky on subjects like information architecture and the new flat world of SharePoint sites structuring, design possibilities, how to scale roll out with both executiv...

This month on SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop, we talk with Nicole Woon, program manager on the SharePoint engineering team focused on the "Next Steps" experience for site users. You'll learn what you can expect to see as suggestions based on what they are doing inside SharePoint sites, including Groupify.  Plus, we talk about her involvement in Society of Women Engineers (SWE) and how it helped jump start her Microsoft car...

In this episode, Chris and Mark dig into three customer stories (Mott MacDonald, HAVI and Marks & Spencer) – highlighting three common solution areas many customers face. They chat about how each customer went about tackling their solutions and how this infers the art of the possible if you face the same desired outcome. Consider this a walk-through of best practices using common components of Microsoft 365.

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This month on The Intrazone Microsoft 365 Roadmap Pitstop, we talk with Kaarin Shumate, senior content developer, who focuses on the strategy and management of SharePoint help documentation, UX writing to ensure accessibility for the global IT SharePoint admin community – on-premises and in Microsoft 365. Also in the show, roadmap updates plus a few predictions of what's to come in 2020. And a special treat for all, "Up on ...

This month's Microsoft partner highlight is Agilisys, a public sector cloud specialist who helps forward thinking organizations transform services that make a difference to millions of people across the UK. We talk with Agilisys's Zoe Wilson (Modern Teamwork Practice Lead), Luke Evans (Office 365 and SharePoint architect) and Ruben Hugo (Office 365 Solution Architect). Chris and Mark talk with them about Project Cortex, the...

This episode covers various levels of “extranet” to discover best practices when using and configuring Microsoft Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive for external collaboration. We speak to SharePoint tech expert, Christian Buckley – Founder and CEO of CollabTalk, Microsoft Regional Director and MVP. Christian talks through many solutions that allow for collaboration inside and outside of your organization, with a focus on which tools w...

This month on The Intrazone Microsoft 365 Roadmap Pitstop, we talk with DC "Divyachapan" Padur from the SharePoint engineering team about SharePoint home sites. Other news includes the new files experience in Microsoft Teams, Save for later, Sensitivity labels (preview), Power Apps for SharePoint libraries, File card - conversations, Request files - OneDrive, and more. 

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