Sync Up will take you behind the scenes of OneDrive. Hosts Ankita Kirti and Jason Moore will shed light on how OneDrive connects you to all your files in Microsoft 365 so you can share and work together from anywhere. Hear from experts behind the design and development of OneDrive, as well as customers and Microsoft MVPs. Each episode will also give you news and announcements, tips and best practices for your OneDrive experience. Transcripts provided with each episode.
The Intrazone, a show about the Microsoft 365 intelligent intranet. This show takes 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. Hosted by the Microsoft 365 team, along with special guests and experts from both behind the scenes and out in the field, the sho ...
February 2021 brought some great new offerings: Microsoft Viva Topics (GA), SharePoint web part toolbox updates, Lightbox for images, Quick Links web part audience targeting, SharePoint portal launcher scheduler, Microsoft Lists: Number column updates, the Managed Metadata column, Microsoft Search in classic SharePoint sites, and more. We chat with…
Ankita and Jason talk with Cory Kincaid, a Customer Success Manager for Modern Work, who advises customers on how to use technologies like Teams and OneDrive to improve their business. We also talk with Ryan Voelki and Taty Castillo, also customer success managers, who take a #HumansFirst approach to helping customers navigate their digital transfo…
Drag and drop emails and attachments from Outlook into SharePoint, without leaving Outlook. We talk with Microsoft partner harmon.ie, along with their customer, Bosch. We'll highlight their solution for how emails and attachments are now saved to SharePoint - readily available for future audits and e-discovery. The combined SharePoint plus harmon.i…
In this episode, Chris McNulty and Mark Kashman talk with Jared Spataro (CVP | Microsoft) about the new service offering, Microsoft Viva and it’s four main components: Connections, Insights, Learnings and Topics. Viva is an employee experience platform (EXP) designed around empowering people and teams to be their best. After listening to Jared, vis…
January 2021 brought a lot of new tech: Yammer notifications in Teams, inclusive Yammer reactions, OneDrive settings in SharePoint admin center, 250GB file uploads, Microsoft Lists app for iOS, Lists rules, Lists forms customization, and more. We, too, get a bonus chat with Dan Holme, principal product manager lead on the Yammer and Groups team, ab…
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Consolidating OneDrive and SharePoint admin centers
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We talk with Dave Minasyan, Principal Program Manager, to discuss the increased need for collaboration, which has been driving Microsoft to invest heavily into interconnectivity of tools across the Microsoft 365 suite, and how his team's focus is to evolve the admin experiences to gradually address the increasing management complexity that comes wi…
In this episode, Chris McNulty and Mark Kashman talk with Martina Grom (Co-founder, atwork and Microsoft MVP/RD) and Christophe Fiessinger (Principal program manager, Microsoft) about the role governance plays in regards to information and communication compliance. We dig into compliance strategy, technology like Microsoft 365 Compliance Manager, D…
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How Millennium SG established a self-maintaining intranet with Circle T
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We talk with Microsoft partner Circle T, along with their customer, Millennium Services Group. You'll hear about Millennium’s self-maintaining intranet strategy, including integration into Microsoft Teams – establishing an “enterprise knowledge platform.” We also learn about their policy center that helps “reduce time to content.” Millennium is int…
December 2020 brought many new offerings: SharePoint site header updates, send pages to Yammer, “SharePoint Success” site template, add Microsoft Teams to SharePoint team sites update (aka, Teamify), Microsoft Lists adoption center, Microsoft Graph Toolkit v2.0, and more. We share an exclusive chat with Tejas Mehta, principal program manager on the…
In this year's final episode, we look back over 2020, discussing product highlights, our team’s learnings and achievements, and what we are looking forward to in 2021. Today's guest is Randy Wong. Principal PM Manager, responsible for customer success, sharing, and collaboration. OneDrive played a critical role for customers all over the world this…
Chris and Mark talk with Joanne Klein, Ruven Gotz and Daniel Glenn about what sent them to the SharePoint crazy farm, and back. You’ll hear their stories of tech-driven insanity, and why they've stuck with SharePoint through the years. Lessons learned promoted best practices and insights on a product that’s matured as a service year over year. Clic…
Mark talks with Dag Eidesen, principal program manager on the Microsoft Search team who recently helped design and deliver the new SharePoint "My Feed" web part. November 2020 brought a lot more innovation: SharePoint site performance page, Lists undo and redo, at-a-glance and key points in sharing emails, an updated SharePoint tab app in Teams, ne…
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OneDrive helps SMBs achieve secure productivity
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Ankita and Jason talk with Paul Diamond, Product Marketing Manager for OneDrive personal as well as small and medium businesses, and Matthew Woodget, founder of Go Narrative, which helps companies improve their team alignment, marketing engagement and sales conversions by building narratives and optimizing messaging. The group discusses tools avail…
Chris and Mark dig into the breadth of SharePoint at Stanley Black & Decker over the last 15 years. We then delve into their recent success working with partner, Verinon, moving 9TB of content from OpenText Documentum eRoom to SharePoint in Microsoft 365. The result being updated and advanced productivity for their 9,400 users on this content, now …
Chris and Mark talk with Jon Orton, Director of Microsoft 365 marketing focused on our small and medium business outreach. Throughout the discussion, we talk with Jon about the strains of COVID-19, offers from Microsoft to help ease change, and recent innovation for small and medium-sized businesses with up to 300 employees. Microsoft 365 Business …
In the spirit of Halloween, the Ghost of Roadmap Past shall be your guide – helping you to avoid becoming a Roadmap Scrooge. October 2020 brought some great new offerings: SharePoint Syntex, Organization Chart web part, new IT controls for Microsoft Lists, Microsoft Lists – commenting, OneDrive widget for iPhone, Task in Teams GA, and more. Warning…
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Best practices for external sharing and sharing Halloween candy
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There are multiple aspects to consider regarding external sharing for your business. These considerations include establishing boundaries, industry regulations, information protection, security, shadow IT and more. Ankita and Jason talk with Stephen Rice, Senior Program Manager, and Noorez Khamis of Creospark, and Microsoft MVP, to discuss best pra…
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Partner Edition: Rightpoint with customer Grant Thornton
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Mark and Chris talk with Microsoft partner Mark and Chris talk with Microsoft partner Rightpoint, along with Rightpoint customer, Grant Thornton. You'll hear about various successes resulting from numerous integration points across the Microsoft 365 suite. With SharePoint as their intranet base, Grant Thornton uses the Power Platform, Stream, Yamme…
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Partner Edition: Creospark with guest customer Special Olympics Canada
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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, digita…
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SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop September 2020
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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 …
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Microsoft Ignite 2020 and the big OneDrive reveals
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Microsoft Ignite is in full swing, and the OneDrive team is here to talk the latest and greatest product developments, innovations and celebrate the team's accomplishments. Guest Ryan Hoge recaps some of the big features at this year's Ignite, including Add to OneDrive, OneDrive Home (iOS), Edit Office offline from OneDrive (iOS), Surface Duo and m…
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 r…
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,…
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 gu…
It's back to school time with OneDrive! Ankita and Jason talk with Erdina Francillon, an M365 Education Specialist, who supports universities and school districts across the Mid-Atlantic with their modern work and learning needs from identity, security, collaboration, automation and of course storage. This month's special topic is the importance of…
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 appr…
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Partner Edition: Fujitsu with guest customer Boys Hope Girls Hope
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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 scannin…
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 pag…
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, t…