The Intrazone by Microsoft

In this episode we go into the minds of the creative design team behind SharePoint. You'll learn about the elegant out-of-the-box experience and how that same rigor enables customers to make unique, beautiful, functional intranet sites. We talk with Denise Trabona, Principal Design Manager, and Omar Shahine, Partner Director of Program Management for OneDrive and SharePoint. And don't miss Mark's Transylvanian impression of Billy Crystal… (he tried – he really did).

This episode turns up the volume on two heartbeats of the SharePoint community – Ignite and SharePoint Conference events. Special guests include Jeff Medford, Director of Product Marketing for Microsoft 365, and Bill Baer, SharePoint Senior Product Marketing Manager. We bring to light the work behind the scenes, planning, purpose, audience goals, engagement highlights – and SWAG. Also, for Intrazone listeners, we announce several big discount offers and prizes for our biggest SharePoint event, SPC19.

SharePoint is in the pole position again for January. This month's race sponsors are Inform and Engage, Teamwork, Related Items, Corrections, and The Future. In the pit crew this month, we talk with Tejas Mehta, principal program manager on the SharePoint engineering team, about SharePoint and Microsoft Teams - better together. We'll cover the whys and hows to make your organization one of high performance individuals working together exceptionally well as a team.

This episode is all about SharePoint lists and Microsoft Flow. Learn about the foundation of SharePoint lists, the core fundamental things you can do with them, and what features are coming next. We talk with SharePoint program manager Miceile Barrett who focuses on lists and libraries. Co-host Chris McNulty shares his expertise and knowledge of Microsoft Flow. This is the year of the lists (and libraries). And our regular segments of FAQs and Upcoming Events keep you informed and up to date.

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) has evolved into powerful content services. We talk about the shift in use of ECM solutions to content services and what it means for organizations today. You'll hear solutions, strategies, and thoughts on future technologies for records and content management for organizations small to large. Guests include Ian Story, PPM and AIIM Board Chair, past AIIM president John Mancini, Forrester Principal Analyst Cheryl McKinnon, and Microsoft partner Record Point.

This month on The Intrazone Roadmap Pitstop, we focus on what's rolling out for SharePoint and Office 365 in December and what's coming soon in January 2019. You'll learn about ways to inform and engage with dynamic employee experiences, improve teamwork in OneDrive and Yammer, and uses of the new SharePoint admin center in Office 365. Also, we talk with Sean Squires, Senior Program on the SharePoint Team Services Group. All Office 365 users, start your engines!

Live from SharePoint Fest Chicago! Joining Mark and Chris are panelists Sarah Haase, Wes Preston, Drew Madelung, and Treb Gatte to discuss strategy, solution architecture, PowerApps, business intelligence, transitioning to the cloud, and their 2019 SharePoint predictions. Chris and Mark also chat with Rachel Davis from Rockwell Automation. You'll also hear our audience Q&A directed to Microsoft. Wrapping up 2018 is our notable “'Twas the night before SharePoint” poem written and read by host Mark Kashma

This episode is brought to you by SharePoint Saturday Toronto where host Mark Kashman attended as keynote speaker and attendee. We talk with four leading Canadian SharePoint developers and consultants: Yana Berkovich, Vincent Biret, Kate Wilson and Sherman Woo. You'll hear their expertise and guidance on classic to modern migration, information architecture and taxonomy, Power BI, governance, and large-scale implementations of Microsoft Teams.

Welcome to The Intrazone Roadmap Pitstop, our bonus monthly podcast that answers, "What's rolling out now for SharePoint and related technologies into Office 365?" Hear about new updates that were rolled out in November 2018 and what's on deck for December. This show will keep you informed, current, and ahead of the ever-curving road'map.  Special guest this week is John Sanders from the SharePoint engineering team, talking about web parts – the building blocks of your pages and sites of yo

Today we discuss security, compliance, privacy and transparency from the ground up within the trusted, enterprise-grade protection matrix of Microsoft 365 (Office 365). This episode brings insights from experts behind and in front of threat protection and cloud security: Bill Baer, Debraj Ghosh and Matt Swann. Also in the mix are more of our favorite three-letter acronyms, such as DLP, DRM, ATP, AIP, and the notable four-letter GDPR. You'll also learn the tactics behind Microsoft's Red Team and Blue Team. 

This week we focus on what it means to work with Microsoft and our partners throughout your technology journey. Technology Solutions Professional (TSP) Lori Gowin gives beneficial advice to future Microsoft customers. Chris Bortlik and Paul Summers, architects from the Boston Microsoft Technology Center (MTC), describe how they design visual proof-of-concepts and do live hackathons of real business challenges for customers. And "Try This," an audible "how to" within SharePoint in Office 365.

The Community is both subject matter expert and friend. It is who you can turn to with questions, or ask to validate a thought or strategy decision. Community is a familiar face to reach out to and catch up with while you're on the go. Chris and Mark talk with community leads from two of the prominent SharePoint events: Tracy O'Connell of European SharePoint Conference and David Wilhelm of SharePoint Fest. We address the value of the SharePoint Community; a community that Shares together, stays together.

The cloud represents a big opportunity for IT Pros. It means a new, often second title emerges: cloud admin. In this episode, Mark and Chris check in with Bill Baer, senior product manager focused on SharePoint admin and SharePoint spaces, and talk SharePoint IT news from Microsoft Ignite 2018. They then check in with  Ben Stegink, SharePoint Consultant at Intelligink and host of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro podcast, who further helps unravel what it means to be a cloud admin for SharePoint in Office 365.

We follow-up with Funko Inc. one year after Microsoft's team + MVPs swooped in for an intranet makeover: SharePoint Swoop. Hear from Funko's Kurt Dicus, VP of IT, and Scott Christensen, SharePoint Consultant, and their product development team, The Shire, to hear all they have implemented since Nov. 2017. We also talk with Sean Squires, senior program manager SharePoint's engineering team, and Bob German, Partner Technology Architect, about how they helped create a custom SharePoint site design for Funko.

Live from Microsoft Ignite in Orlando, Florida, The Intrazone team talks with Jeff Teper, CVP Microsoft Office. We learn the history behind the naming of SharePoint, Jeff's approach to Hitting Refresh, big announcements from Ignite, Microsoft 365's EDU support, and the voices of Ignite attendees. Where is it all going next? Listen here to find out.