Ankita and Jason talk with Ihcene Cheriet, Product Manager on the OneDrive Sharing and Collab team. They discuss her team's goal and approach to provide the best customer experience around sharing and to make collaboration easier to all customers. The special segment this week is about VUCA, an acronym developed to describe the challenges of navigating an unpredictable environment. And as a bonus, the group shares their favorite summer song. 

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OneDrive | Twitter | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice

Ankita Kirti | Twitter [co-host]

Jason Moore | Twitter [co-host]

Ihcene Cheriet | LinkedIn | Twitter [guest]

"We Haven't Been Here Before: An Audacious Journey to Innovation in a VUCA World" Entrepreneur

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Our guest today is Chenying Yang, a senior Program Manager on OneDrive focusing on making OneDrive Sync great across consumer and enterprise. OneDrive Sync Admin Reports empowers IT admins with actionable insights about the adoption and health of the sync client. These reports give visibility into who in your company is running the OneDrive Sync app, how is Known Folder Move rollout going, as well as surfacing any errors that end users might be experiencing so you can proactively address them. We built this feature because we want to help our customers be successful when managing OneDrive deployment and adoption, and Sync Reports has been a top customer request over the years. You'll also learn the team's favorite go-to beverages to wind up or wind down.

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Mental Health Month 2021

Elevating Mental Health and Well-being for a Resilient Workplace

OneDrive | Twitter | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice

Ankita Kirti | Twitter [co-host]

Jason Moore | Twitter [co-host]

Chenying Yang| LinkedIn | Twitter [guest]

OneDrive Tech Community Blog

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In this new world of hybrid work, Yammer offers employees a way to come together socially to share what’s going on in their lives, both inside and outside work. In this episode, we learn more about Yammer and discuss how OneDrive supports tech engagement among your employees. Out guest is Michael Holste, Product Manager on the Microsoft 365 Product Marketing team responsible for employee engagement, including products like Yammer and Viva connections.

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Resources:

OneDrive | Twitter | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice

Ankita Kirti | Twitter [co-host]

Jason Moore | Twitter [co-host]

Michael Holste | Twitter [guest]

Microsoft Yammer Blog

Microsoft Viva

OneDrive Tech Community Blog

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Ankita and Jason talk with Joshua Badach, Project Manager within the ODSP Customer Engineering Migration Team, and is responsible for creating a bridge between the field, Engineering, and Migration tools and teams such as Mover, FastTrack and Microsoft Consulting Services. We discuss common questions like, "Why should I migrate?" and "How does Microsoft FastTrack help?" and "What are the best practices of running a migration?" You'll also learn about how to collaborate with and support your colleagues during remote and hybrid work, as well as the best wellness recommendation of 2021, so far, morning bubble baths.

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Best practices for migrating to SharePoint and OneDrive (Tech Community)

Webinars: Migration tools and best practices (Tech Community)

Migrate your content to Microsoft 365 easily and securely

OneDrive | Twitter | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice

Ankita Kirti | Twitter [co-host]

Jason Moore | Twitter [co-host]

Joshua Badach | LinkedIn | Twitter [guest]

OneDrive Tech Community Blog

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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 transformation. You'll also learn about the team's favorite article of "pandemic clothing." 

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Resources:

OneDrive | Twitter | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice

Ankita Kirti | Twitter [co-host]

Jason Moore | Twitter [co-host]

Cory Kincaid | LinkedIn [guest]

What's new in Microsoft Teams aka.ms/teamsresources

Do it on Teams [training] aka.ms/doitonteams

Exploring the Science of Work and Ingenuity: WorkLab: Vital facts about the future of work. (microsoft.com)

Welcome to Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Docs

Creating customized meetings experiences with apps in Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Tech Community

Tips for Teams meetings (Video)

Microsoft Lists aka.MSLists

OneDrive Tech Community Blog

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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 with this interconnectivity ecosystem we are building. He shares some of the changes admins can expect with new rollouts in the ODB and SPO admin centers in 2021. Also in this episode, new OneDrive feature releases, the team's 2021 resolutions, and the importance of focusing on wellbeing both at home and at work.

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"Bringing OneDrive settings into SharePoint admin center for streamlined, centralized control" [post]

OneDrive | Twitter | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice

Ankita Kirti | Twitter [co-host]

Jason Moore | Twitter [co-host]

Dave Minasyan | LinkedIn [guest]

SharePoint admin and migration announcements at Microsoft Ignite 2020 [blog]

Monitor and manage SharePoint in Microsoft 365 [video]

OneDrive Tech Community Blog

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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 year in essential jobs in governments, schools, pharmaceutical companies and more. We also share other important learning lessons from this year, including our focus on empathy, health, gratitude, and Jason's "No Meetings Friday" policy.

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Favorite holiday movies: Home Alone, Elf, Wonder Woman 1984, Die Hard, Scrooged

Resources and Info Links:

OneDrive | Twitter | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice

Ankita Kirti | Twitter [co-host]

Jason Moore | Twitter [co-host]

Randy Wong | LinkedIn [guest]

OneDrive Tech Community Blog

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Relay FM is a podcast network for the technically creative, curious, and maybe even a little obsessive. 

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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 available for small and medium businesses (SMBs) to assist in the adaptation to remote work, the most useful OneDrive features for SMBs, tips, personal favorites and more. Also, each person shares a fun activity to do over a video call with friends and family.

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Resources and Info Links:

OneDrive | Twitter | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice

Ankita Kirti | Twitter [co-host]

Jason Moore | Twitter [co-host]

Matthew Woodget | LinkedIn | Twitter | GoNarrative [guest]

Paul Diamond | LinkedIn [guest]

"How to Give and Receive Compliments at Work"

OneDrive Tech Community Blog

OneDrive Webinars

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

Microsoft Tech Community Home

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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 practices and policy examples to ensure successful and secure collaboration for your organization. And this month's treat is learning about the team's favorite Halloween candies.

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Resources and Info Links:

OneDrive | Twitter | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice

Ankita Kirti | Twitter [co-host]

Jason Moore | Twitter [co-host]

Stephen Rice | Twitter | Ion Cannon Star Wars podcast [guest]

Noorez Khamis | Twitter | LinkedIn | Creospark [guest]

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OneDrive Tech Community Blog

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

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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 more. We also highlight that September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, the importance of mental and emotional wellbeing, and resources to learn more. Finally, you'll learn about the team's favorite collectibles.

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Resources and Info Links:

OneDrive Facebook | Twitter | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice

Ankita Kirti | Twitter [co-host]

Jason Moore | Twitter [co-host]

Ryan Hoge | LinkedIn | Twitter [guest]

Microsoft Ignite 2020 [September 22-24, 2020] | Twitter

Microsoft OneDrive Ignite 2020 Blog

5-Steps from the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention 

Suicide Prevention Lifeline 

International Association of Suicide Prevention Crisis Centers 

OneDrive Tech Community Blog

OneDrive Webinars

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

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