The Intrazone by Microsoft 365

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 Wilén, about how he develops teamwork solutions for his company, Avanade, and their vast customer base. You'll hear about bots, tabs and connectors – the basis of the what and how to approach extending the Microsoft Teams platform offering.

Episode Blog Post on Tech Community

Social and Info Links:

SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice

OneDrive Facebook | @OneDrive | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice

Mark Kashman |@mkashman

Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000

Wictor Wilén (Avanade) | LinkedIn | Twitter | Blog

Bill Bliss | Twitter | LinkedIn

Resources:

"Microsoft Teams architecture update" by Bill Bliss #MSIgnite19/#BRK3215

"CliffNotes: Bill Bliss on Microsoft Teams Architecture" by Brent Middleton, content marketing specialist - AvePoint, Inc.

"Build a Microsoft Teams app from scratch in 20 minutes" by Wictor Wilén #MSIgnite19/#THR2005

"Building modern enterprise-grade collaboration solutions with Microsoft Teams and SharePoint" by Mike Ammerlaan #MSIgnite/#MDEV30

"Streamline business processes with the Microsoft Teams development platform" by Karan Nigam (Microsoft), Zakiullah Khan Mohammed (Microsoft) and Nicholas Gill (American Red Cross); #TMS50

"American Red Cross - Power Platform and Microsoft Teams" | case study video

"A Yeoman Generator for Microsoft Teams": https://aka.ms/yoTeams

Office 365 developer program; @Microsoft365Dev.

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:

SharePoint Saturdays | @SPS_Events

Microsoft Ignite | The Tour (various cities worldwide) | @MS_Ignite

SPTechCon | @SPTechCon, February 18-21, 2020

Collab365 #GLOBALCON1, March 2-6, 2020

ShareCamp, March 7-8, 2020

Office 365 Saturday, March 7, 2020

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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 race to the last very last web part! Swoop showcases both Funko's IT and business journey to the cloud with the help of community Swooperstar favorites and Microsoft MVPs: Sue Hanley, Laura Rogers and Benjamin Niaulin.

Social and Info Links:

SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice

OneDrive Facebook | @OneDrive | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice

Mark Kashman |@mkashman

Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000

Susan Hanley (@susanhanley | LinkedIn | Blog on Computer World | website)

Benjamin Niaulin (@bniaulin | LinkedIn | ShareGate)

Laura Rogers (@WonderLaura | LinkedIn | IW Mentor)

Funko @OriginalFunko

Resources:

Episode blog post with Q&A with Scott Christensen

SharePoint SWOOP – The Intranet Makeover Show (via Microsoft Tech Community)

"POP! Goes Funko!" (The Intrazone podcast, episode #15)

"Bobblehead Boom: Funko Grows With Speed and Tech to Deliver More POP Culture Fun" (via the Microsoft Transform blog)

POP! yourself funko.com/pop-yourself

"Making fun: the story of Funko" on @Netflix

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:

SharePoint Saturdays | @SPS_Events

Microsoft Ignite | The Tour (various cities worldwide) | @MS_Ignite

SPTechCon | @SPTechCon, February 18-21, 2020

Collab365 #GLOBALCON1, March 2-6, 2020

ShareCamp, March 7-8, 2020

Office 365 Saturday, March 7, 2020

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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 executive buy-in and end user adoption – plus insights into what's next. And as always, we announce upcoming events, resource links and more.

Social and Info Links:

SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice

OneDrive Facebook | @OneDrive | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice

Mark Kashman |@mkashman

Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000

Susan Hanley (Twitter | LinkedIn | Blog on Computer World | website)

Melissa Torres (Twitter 1, Twitter 2 | LinkedIn)

Matt Wolodarsky (Twitter | LinkedIn)

Resources:

"What to choose? A Communication or Team Site in SharePoint" blog by Susan Hanley

"SharePoint adoption (resource center)"

"Realize the value of an intelligent intranet in your organization" blog by Matt Wolodarsky

SharePoint "look book"

Intelligent Intranet Ideation Workshop information

Nielsen Norman's "The Year's 10 Best Intranets" report; SharePoint, year-over-year is often a chosen platforms for numerous winners. @NNGroup

SharePoint hub sites per tenant limit (article)

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:

SharePoint Saturdays | @SPS_Events

Microsoft Ignite | The Tour (various cities worldwide) | @MS_Ignite

SPTechCon | @SPTechCon, February 18-21, 2020

Collab365 #GLOBALCON1, March 2-6, 2020

ShareCamp, March 7-8, 2020

Office 365 Saturday, March 7, 2020

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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 career. Also in the show, SharePoint roadmap updates on employee engagement, teamwork, related tech and more.

Resources and Info Links:

SharePoint Facebook | Twitter | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice

OneDrive Facebook | Twitter | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice

Mark Kashman |@mkashman

Nicole Woon

"Office 365 Video transition to Microsoft Stream overview"

"SharePoint sites for highly regulated data"

"Windows 7 support ended on January 14, 2020"

Society of Women Engineers (SWE) | @SWETalk | SWE podcast

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

Microsoft Tech Community Home

SharePoint community blog

OneDrive community blog

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Microsoft 365 public roadmap

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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.

Social and Info Links:

SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice

OneDrive Facebook | @OneDrive | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice

Mark Kashman |@mkashman

Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000

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

Mott MacDonald | @MottMacDonald | Customer Story video "Mott MacDonald extends connected thinking with Microsoft 365"

Marks & Spencer | @MarksandSpencer | Customer story video "Marks & Spencer streamlines communication with Office 365"

HAVI | @HAVItweets | HAVI Customer story video "HAVI slashes employee onboarding times with Microsoft PowerApps and Teams"

Upcoming Events:

SharePoint Saturdays | @SPS_Events

Microsoft Ignite | The Tour (various cities worldwide) | @MS_Ignite

SPTechCon | @SPTechCon

Collab365 #GLOBALCON1

AIIM Conference

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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 the Cloud Top" written and performed by Mark, Eli and Sophie Kashman.

Running Time: 27min

Resources and Info Links:

SharePoint Facebook | Twitter | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice

OneDrive Facebook | Twitter | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice

Mark Kashman |@mkashman

Kaarin Shumate

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Microsoft 365 public roadmap

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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, their customer stories, and their favorite Microsoft Ignite 2019 announcements. Plus, some personal discoveries about the people behind the partnership.

Running Time: 43min

Show Intro [00:00]

Partner Profile – Agilisys [08:35]

Upcoming Events [38:40]

Resources and Show Wrap [41:55]

Social and Info Links:

SharePoint | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice

OneDrive | @OneDrive | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice

Mark Kashman |@mkashman

Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000

Agilisys |@Agilisys

Zoe Wilson

Ruben Hugo

Luke Evans

Resources:

Agilisys episode BLOG post

"City of London improves organization-wide collaboration with Microsoft Teams and Agilisys"

Microsoft 365 Content Services Partner Program

Microsoft Partner Network

Azure AD (Active Directory)

Project Cortex aka.ms/projectcortex - Join the preview and learn more about our vision and experiences in the Project Cortex Resource Center.

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 events — the year ahead: 2020

SharePoint Saturdays | @SPS_Events

SharePoint Fest Chicago, December 9-13, 2019

Microsoft Ignite | The Tour (various cities worldwide) | @MS_Ignite

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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 work the best in each scenario.

And special guest Howard Kashman, Mark's dad, talks about his pre-Cloud-days perspective on "external sharing" as an attorney.

Running Time: 46:15

Show Intro [00:00]

Topic of the Week – External Sharing [08:30]

Guest Perspective – Christian Buckley [14:45]

Upcoming Events [42:00]

Resources and Show Wrap [45:05]

Social and Info Links:

Tech Community Episode BLOG post

SharePoint Facebook | Twitter | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice

OneDrive Facebook | Twitter | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice

Mark Kashman |@mkashman

Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000

Christian Buckley | CollabTalk | @CollabTalk

Resources:

External sharing in Microsoft 365 – an IT admin guide (docs.microsoft.com)

Create a secure guest sharing environment (docs.microsoft.com)

File protection (incl. external sharing) solutions in Office 365 (PDF)

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

Microsoft Tech Community Home

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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.

Running Time: 37min

Social and Info Links:

Roadmap November 2019 BLOG

SharePoint Facebook | Twitter | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice

OneDrive Facebook | Twitter | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice

Mark Kashman |@mkashman

DC Padur | @DCPadur

SharePoint home sites (documentation)

"Rich, new file and sharing experiences throughout Microsoft 365, now in Microsoft Teams" [10/30/19]

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

Microsoft Tech Community Home

SharePoint community blog

OneDrive community blog

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Microsoft 365 public roadmap

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The content collaboration side of the Power Platform (Power Apps & Power Automate) combines seamlessly with Microsoft Teams delivering productivity apps in hours/days alongside ongoing discussion. The outcome is productivity apps where and when you need them. We talk with our experts behind the Power Platform + Microsoft Teams: Karan Nigam, group product marketing manager (Microsoft Teams), Stephen Siciliano, principal program manager director (Power Automate), and Ryan Cunningham, partner program manager director (Power Apps).

Running Time: 43:10

Show Intro and Topic of the Week – Power Platform [00:00]

Guest Perspective – Ryan Cunningham, Karan Nigam, Stephen Siciliano [01:20]

FAQ Roundtable [30:45]

Upcoming Events [38:50]

Resources and Outro [42:00]

Social and Info Links:

SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice

Mark Kashman |@mkashman

Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000

Ryan Cunningham (Partner Program Manager Director; Power Apps) @rc_says

Karan Nigam (Group Product Marketing Manager; Microsoft Teams) @NigamKaran

Stephen Siciliano (Principal Program Manager Director; Power Automate) @iscsus

Resources:

Power Platform https://powerplatform.microsoft.com

Power Apps https://powerapps.microsoft.com

Power Automate https://PowerAutomate.microsoft.com (NEW SITE)

American Red Cross - Power Platform and Microsoft Teams (video)

Microsoft Teams blog

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

Microsoft Tech Community Home

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Listen to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts

Upcoming Events:

SharePoint Saturdays | @SPS_Events | @SPSToronto | @SPSBangalore | @SPS Munich | @SPSLisbon

ESPC, European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference @EuropeanSP; related blog, "European SharePoint Conference 2019 (#ESPC19) guide to Microsoft 365 sessions & community activities"

Microsoft Ignite | The Tour (various cities worldwide) | @MS_Ignite; related blog, "Ignite The Tour 2019/2020 guide to SharePoint, OneDrive, Yammer and Stream sessions"

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