SharePoint roadmap pitstop July 2024

August 2024 brought a slew of updates and information—Microsoft 365 Backup (GA), SharePoint: A new Start experience, SharePoint: New Banner web part, Stream Playlist card on Viva Connections dashboard, Viva Amplify: Video templates, OneDrive: Annotate PDFs (text boxes), Microsoft Lists: Row reorder, Clipchamp: Image background removal, Microsoft Loop components in OneNote, and more. Plus, you'll hear audio from a recent live AMA - specifically a question to David Johnson (Principal PM Architect from the Microsoft Digital team) asking him to share one good story and one bad story about managing Microsoft's Microsoft 365 tenant over the years. As you can imagine, he's got stories. And to round it out, we have insights about a few timely events for SharePoint, Planner, Loop, and more.    Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post.   01:43 Employee engagement 10:35 AMA audio snippet with David Johnson (MS IT) 13:53 Teamwork 18:32 Related tech 35:00 Teasers   Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint community blog | Feedback   "Learn governance from Microsoft Digital, Microsoft’s own IT department" (blog) "Reimagining content management at Microsoft with SharePoint Premium" (Inside Track) 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: "Meet Copilot in Microsoft Loop" (webinar) | September 4th at 10:00am PDT Next episode of Mondays at Microsoft | September 9th at 8:00am PDT (online) Microsoft Loop AMA (90 minutes) | September, 12th from 10:00am - 11:30am PDT (online) "The new Microsoft Planner: What’s New and What’s Coming Next" + Live AMA | September 17 at 9am PDT Metaverse One 2024 | September 18 (online) Microsoft Power Platform Conference | Sept. 18-20, 2024 | Las Vegas, NV CollabDays - Portugal Porto 2024 | Seopt.21, 2024 | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto European Microsoft Fabric Community Conference | Sept.24-27, 2024 | Stockholm, Sweden CollabDays - New England | Oct. 18, 2024 | Burlington, MA TechCon365 - Dallas | Nov. 11-15, 2024 | Dallas, TX Microsoft Ignite (+ more info) | Nov 18-22, 2024, "Save the date" | Chicago, IL European SharePoint Conference [ESPC]| Dec 2-5, 2024 | Stockholm, Sweden + always review and share the CommunityDays.org website   Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts. Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

Back up your data with confidence. Microsoft 365 Backup offers lightning-fast restorability, ensuring business continuity. On this episode, guest host, Brad Gussin from the SharePoint engineering team, provides an overview of the core offering. You'll then hear an interview with our valued partner, Karinne Bessette from Veeam, about the Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 solution.   Read this episode's corresponding blog post. Plus, click here for transcript of this episode.   Karinne Bessette | LinkedIn | @Veeam  [guest] Brad Gussin | LinkedIn [co-host] Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | Feedback Learn more about Microsoft 365 Backup (adoption.microsoft.com) Learn more about Veeam's Microsoft 365 Backup solution "Microsoft Announces General Availability of Microsoft 365 Backup and Microsoft 365 Backup Storage" by Zach Rosenfield [July 31, 2024]  Watch "The Ins and Outs of Microsoft 365 Backup & Archive" 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: TechCon365 - DC | Aug. 12-16, 2024 |Washington, DC  CollabDays Hamburg | Hamburg, Germany | August 31, 2024  Microsoft Power Platform Conference | September 18-20, 2024 | Las Vegas, NV CollabDays Portugal Porto 2024 (previously CollabDays Lisbon)| Sept. 21 Venue: Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto CollabDays New England | October 18-19, 2024 | Burlington, Massachusetts TechCon365 - Dallas | Nov. 11-15, 2024 | Dallas, TX Microsoft Ignite (+ more info) | Nov 18-22, 2024 | Chicago, IL  ESPC | European SharePoint Conference | Dec 2-5, 2024 | Stockholm, Sweden + always review and share the CommunityDays.org website   Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts. Follow The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

Microsoft 365 Backup is your in-place solution for lightning-fast restorability, ensuring business continuity. On this episode, guest host Brad Gussin from the SharePoint engineering team provides an overview of the core offering. You'll then hear an interview with our valued partner, Brad Kirby from Commvault, about their integration of Commvault Cloud with our Microsoft 365 Backup storage platform - extending data recoverability and searchability.   Read this episode's corresponding blog post. Plus, click here for transcript of this episode.   Brad Kirby (Commvault) | LinkedIn | @Commvault [guest] Brad Gussin | LinkedIn [co-host] Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | Feedback   Learn more about Microsoft 365 Backup (adoption.microsoft.com) Learn more about Commvault's Microsoft 365 Backup solution "Microsoft Announces General Availability of Microsoft 365 Backup and Microsoft 365 Backup Storage" by Zach Rosenfield [July 31, 2024]  Watch "The Ins and Outs of Microsoft 365 Backup & Archive" 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: TechCon365 - DC | Aug. 12-16, 2024 |Washington, DC  CollabDays Hamburg | Hamburg, Germany | August 31, 2024  Microsoft Power Platform Conference | September 18-20, 2024 | Las Vegas, NV CollabDays Portugal Porto 2024 (previously CollabDays Lisbon)| Sept. 21 Venue: Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto CollabDays New England | October 18-19, 2024 | Burlington, Massachusetts TechCon365 - Dallas | Nov. 11-15, 2024 | Dallas, TX Microsoft Ignite (+ more info) | Nov 18-22, 2024 | Chicago, IL  ESPC | European SharePoint Conference | Dec 2-5, 2024 | Stockholm, Sweden + always review and share the CommunityDays.org website   Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts.   Follow The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

July 2024 brought some great new offerings—New SharePoint content pane, co-authoring in SharePoint, OneDrive: Additional file types to filter, OneDrive: Updated shared folder experience, new Copilot in Planner (preview), the 2024 release wave 2 plans for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform, details about how to enter the Deadpool Xbox giveaway sweepstakes, and more. Plus, we also hear from Melissa Torres from the SharePoint team who focuses on pages and news. You'll hear Melissa talk about recent updates and then dive into learning more behind the scenes co-authoring in SharePoint pages.   Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post.   7:50 Interview with Melissa Torres 24:45 Teamwork 28:35 Related Technology 35:00 Teasers   Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Melissa Torres|LinkedIn | Twitter [guest] SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint community blog | Feedback   BLOG + DEMO VIDEO | "Introducing Coauthoring for SharePoint Pages and News" by Melissa Torres Get Loop'ed in on the upcoming Microsoft Loop 5-Part Learning Series. Register today Watch | "Content Management and Collaboration for the AI Era" Watch | "The intranet of tomorrow: beautiful, flexible, and AI ready" Watch all 55 product learning videos on demand. Enter the #XboxCheekyControllerSweepstakes [More details + complete rules] Join the Power Platform community   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: TechCon365 - DC | August 12-16, 2024 | Washington, D.C. CollabDays Hamburg | August 31, 2024 - Hamburg, Germany Microsoft Power Platform Conference | Sept. 18-20, 2024 | Las Vegas, NV CollabDays - New England | Oct. 18, 2024 | Burlington, MA TechCon365 - Dallas | Nov. 11-15, 2024 | Dallas, TX Microsoft Ignite (+ more info) | Nov 18-22, 2024, "Save the date" | Chicago, IL European SharePoint Conference [ESPC]| Dec 2-5, 2024 | Stockholm, Sweden + always review and share the CommunityDays.org website   Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts. Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

This episode is like a gift to your future work "comms pro" personality. All the heartache of manual copy/pasting into various internal distribution channels will fade away. And what shines through? The ability to communicate like a pro with the broadest reach and impact for your internal news and campaigns - big or small. We talk with Liz Sundet (Senior Customer Experience program manager at Microsoft), a wonderful technologist and trainer focused on getting Microsoft customers prepared to use Microsoft Viva Amplify. You'll hear insights about the tech, best practices for internal comms, and insights into how customers use Amplify to, you guessed it, amplify their internal comms, with solid reporting intact.    Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post. Note: We now publish posts for our regular episodes to the Community News Desk blog. We will continue to publish 'SharePoint roadmap pitstop' episodes to the SharePoint community blog.   Liz Sundet | LinkedIn | Twitter  SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint community blog | Feedback OneDrive | @OneDrive | OneDrive community blog | Feedback Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host]   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: Community Days - Chicago | July 20, 2024 | Chicago, IL, United States M365 NYC (Community Days) | July 26, 2024 | New York, NY, USA TechCon365 - DC | August 12-16, 2024 | Washington, D.C. CollabDays Hamburg | August 31, 2024 - Hamburg, Germany Microsoft Power Platform Conference | Sept. 18-20, 2024 | Las Vegas, NV CollabDays Portugal Porto 2024 (previously known as CollabDays Lisbon)| Sept. 21, 2024, Venue: Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto CollabDays - New England | Oct. 18, 2024 | Burlington, MA TechCon365 - Dallas | Nov. 11-15, 2024 | Dallas, TX Microsoft Ignite (+ more info) | Nov 18-22, 2024, "Save the date" | Chicago, IL European SharePoint Conference [ESPC] | Dec 2-5, 2024 | Stockholm, Sweden + always review and share the CommunityDays.org website   Follow The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone. Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts.

It's official - summer is here (in the Northern Hemisphere); happy Wintering Southern Hemi. No matter the latitude, the attitude and altitude of tech delivery continued with verve and zest. June 2024 brought some great new offerings—Viva Amplify supports SharePoint audience targeting, SharePoint Premium: Autofill columns, SharePoint: Apply shapes to images, updated CLI for Microsoft 365 v7.10, Teams: File previews in messages, SharePoint: Text web part updates, OneDrive: Shortened URLs, Microsoft Designer updates + new icon, planner.cloud.microsoft, and more. We also hear from Dave Cohen about how the SharePoint team plans, designs, and delivers ongoing value to your intranet of today and tomorrow.   Read this episode's corresponding blog post.   04:40 Employee Engagement 10:55 "The intranet of tomorrow: beautiful, flexible, and AI ready" with Dave Cohen 15:09 Teamwork 20:22Related Technologies 29:35 Teasers   Dave Cohen | LinkedIn Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host] SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint community blog | Feedback   Join the Community News Desk blog  Learn from Dave Cohen and Denise Trabona about SharePoint: The intranet of tomorrow: beautiful, flexible, and AI ready Watch in-depth, Microsoft 365 product learning videos at aka.ms/M365ConSessions 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: Community Days - Chicago | July 20, 2024 | Chicago, IL, United States M365 NYC (Community Days) | July 26, 2024 | New York, NY, USA TechCon365 - DC | August 12-16, 2024 | Washington, D.C. CollabDays Hamburg | August 31, 2024 - Hamburg, Germany Microsoft Power Platform Conference | Sept. 18-20, 2024 | Las Vegas, NV CollabDays - New England | Oct. 18, 2024 | Burlington, MA TechCon365 - Dallas | Nov. 11-15, 2024 | Dallas, TX Microsoft Ignite (+ more info) | Nov 18-22, 2024, "Save the date" | Chicago, IL European SharePoint Conference [ESPC]| Dec 2-5, 2024 | Stockholm, Sweden + always review and share the CommunityDays.org website   Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts. Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

You might call this episode ShareDrive or OnePoint, if you dare. We hear from Stephen Rice (Principal product manager) from our OneDrive companion pod, Sync Up - and he chats/interviews your Intrazone host, Mark Kashman. It's a little bit of a M365 multi-verse as they interview each other - pod-to-pod, Intrazone-to-Sync Up. You'll hear their takes on their respective products - Stephen on OneDrive and Mark on SharePoint. In the end, it's a double bonus benefit for you - the best of both pods.   Read this episode's corresponding blog post. Note: We now publish posts for our regular episodes to the Community News Desk blog. We will continue to publish 'SharePoint roadmap pitstop' episodes to the SharePoint community blog.   09:40 Conversation with Stephen Rice 25:03 Upcoming Events Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host] Stephen Rice | LinkedIn SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint community blog | Feedback OneDrive | @OneDrive | OneDrive community blog | Feedback  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: Intranets and AI on Microsoft 365 | June 19-20, 2024 - Virtual Community Days - Chicago | July 20, 2024 - Chicago, Illinois M365 NYC (Community Days) | July 26, 2024 - New York City, NY TechCon365 - DC | August 12-16, 2024 | Washington, D.C. CollabDays Hamburg | August 31, 2024 - Hamburg, Germany Power Platform Community Conference | Sept. 18-20, 2024 | Las Vegas, NV CollabDays - New England | Oct. 18, 2024 | Burlington, MA TechCon365 - Dallas | Nov. 11-15, 2024 | Dallas, TX Microsoft Ignite (+ more info) | Nov 18-22, 2024, "Save the date" | Chicago, IL European SharePoint Conference | Dec 2-5, 2024 | Stockholm, Sweden + always review and share the CommunityDays.org website   Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts.

Built & Build. May 2024 brought some great new offerings and insights on future ones: OneDrive file cards for Viva Connections dashboard, Updated file viewer for non-office file, Link files from SharePoint in Teams mobile, SharePoint: Advanced tenant rename, SharePoint + Stream: Video page templates, Teams + Loop workspaces in meetings, improved version history controls for SharePoint document libraries, Microsoft Graph API for SharePoint pages (GA), and more. Plus, we highlight some of the SharePoint and Teams (and Surface) news from Microsoft Build 2024. Read this episode's corresponding blog post.   02:22 Employee Engagement 07:14 Teamwork 12:43 Related Technologies 31:38 Teasers   Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host] SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint community blog | Feedback   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: TechCon365 - Seattle | June 3-7, 2024 | Seattle, WA EU Power Platform Conference | June 11-13, 2024 | Brussels, Belgium "Using Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Lists to improve your productivity" #Collab365 '2-hr workshop' TechCon365 - DC | August 12-16, 2024 | Washington, D.C. Power Platform Community Conference | Sept. 18-20, 2024 | Las Vegas, NV CollabDays - New England | Oct. 18, 2024 | Burlington, MA TechCon365 - Dallas | Nov. 11-15, 2024 | Dallas, TX Microsoft Ignite (+ more info) | Nov 18-22, 2024, "Save the date" | Chicago, IL  European SharePoint Conference | Dec 2-5, 2024 | Stockholm, Sweden + always review and share the CommunityDays.org website   Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts.   Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

We focus on everything that landed this past April 2024: SharePoint brand center (Preview) with custom fonts support, Search from Viva Connections in Teams mobile, SharePoint: New feedback button, New Planner (GA), SharePoint eSignature and Approvals, SharePoint pages: New heading support, Clipchamp: Silence Removal, Microsoft Loop: Guest Sharing, and more. Plus a few audio clips from the recent New Planner launch events. And now, to the roadmap!   Read this episode's corresponding blog post. Plus, click here for transcript of this episode.   01:22 Employee Engagement 05:33 Planner + AI and Copilot 09:01 Teamwork 14:37 Related Technologies 23:00 Teasers   New Planner | GA Blog | "Meet the Makers" | New Planner AM SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | Feedback  Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host]   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 365 Community Conference | April 30 - May 2, 2024, Orlando, FL European Cloud Summit | May 14-16,2024, Wiesbaden, Germany SharePoint Intranet Festival (Online from SWOOP Analytics | May 22) TechCon365 - Seattle | June 3-7, 2024, Seattle, WA Microsoft Ignite (+ more info) | Nov 18-22, 2024, "Save the date," Chicago, IL European SharePoint Conference | Dec 2-5, 2024 in Stockholm, Sweden And always review and share the CommunityDays.org website   Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts.   Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.

It’s time to unveil the mysteries of productivity within the Apple Vision Pro. The question is, is your persona ready? This episode brings you John Moore, a tech tinkering persona as your guide. John takes us into the realm of spatial computing as it blends with the productivity stack of Microsoft 365.   Read this episode's corresponding blog post. Plus, click here for transcript of this episode.   02:50 Conversation with John Moore, Enterprise Architect - EY 29:15 Upcoming Events   John Moore | LinkedIn | Twitter | YouTube + 365 Deep Dive show [guest] Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host] Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host] SharePoint | Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint community blog | Feedback   “Announcing Microsoft 365 apps available on Apple Vision Pro” By Gabriel Valdez Malpartida (Microsoft) Apple Vision Pro (product page) 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: North American Cloud & Collaboration Summit (NACS) | April 9-11, 2024, Dallas, TX Comms vNext (Denver, CO | April 24-25) Intranet Insights 2024 (Online | April 24) Microsoft 365 Community Conference | April 30 - May 2, 2024, Orlando, FL European Cloud Summit | May 14-16,2024, Wiesbaden, Germany SharePoint Intranet Festival (Online from SWOOP Analytics | May 22) TechCon365 - Seattle | June 3-7, 2024, Seattle, WA Microsoft Ignite (+ more info) | Nov 18-22, 2024, "Save the date," Chicago, IL  European SharePoint Conference | Dec 2-5, 2024 in Stockholm, Sweden + always review and share the CommunityDays.org website   Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts. Follow the Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone.