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The Intrazone is a show about the Microsoft 365 intelligent intranet, taking 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.
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G'day, I'm Neil Benson. In this limited-edition podcast series, I'd love to teach you how to quickly, accurately and confidently estimate how long it’ll take and how much it’ll cost to build your Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365 business applications. You'll be able to persuade your stakeholders to approve your proposals and win more projects. I'm a 14x Microsoft MVP who has been using an agile approach to estimating and building Microsoft business apps since 2008. This podcast is a ...
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Microsoft Business Applications MVP Andrew Bibby is joined by the superstars of the Power Platform and Dynamics 365 Community. Find out what makes our community so special, and how you can join in the fun! PowerApps, Microsoft Flow, Dynamics 365.
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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. P…
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Here's what landed in March 2024 | SharePoint: New section backgrounds, Answers in Viva content in Microsoft Search, SharePoint Premium: Enable/disable Unstructured, Structured, and Prebuilt Document Processing, Manage SharePoint Embedded containers, Microsoft Lists: New forms experience, New Planner app in Teams (Public Preview), OneDrive: Create …
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We grabbed time with three Microsoft tech event experts: Sharon Weaver (Founder & CEO | Smarter Consulting), Sean Bugler (Principal Innovation Architect | Metropolitan Transportation Commission), and Derek Cash-Peterson (Principal Architect | Sympraxis Consulting LLC) - to get their insights about in-person events. The goal is to give you, future a…
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Ubisoft—Custom search supports game development
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We chat with game developer Ubisoft about their use of custom Search in Microsoft 365. Franck Cornu, Mihaela Nite and Stephanie Daigle discuss their journey to update their old global search application - originally built on SharePoint Server 2013, now fully on SharePoint in Microsoft 365. Learn why they moved to the cloud, how they customized the …
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Busy February - taking advantage of that extra day. We leap into everything that landed this past month: Copilot Dashboard for Viva Insights, SharePoint Premium: Translation (GA), Sample: Custom copilot in SharePoint with SSO, Signaling Viva Topics retirement (Feb 2025), Custom document library templates, Updated Lists apps: Sites/Teams/PWA, Copilo…
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On this episode, we hear from Drew Madelung (Microsoft MVP | Solution Architect - Protoviti) who expertly focuses on all things OneDrive, specifically all the deep diving details admins need to know about. Drew is all about how to think about managing OneDrive to the fullness of your organization; how to make it better, how to optimize using what y…
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5. Amazing Estimates for Power Platform and Dynamics 365 Teams
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Welcome to Estimating Business Apps episode 5. This is the final episode in the Estimating Business Apps podcast mini-series. In this episode, I introduce the final section of the Estimating Business Apps course. Join me as I answer 20 frequently asked questions about how my teams estimate Power Platform and Dynamics 365 applications: How can we ex…
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What a great start to 2024 - tantalizing tech for everyone. We focus on everything that landed this past month: Microsoft 365 Backup (Public Preview), SharePoint Premium: Document translation, new image and video experiences in Viva Engage, Community Campaigns in Viva Engage, SharePoint “News for email” custom tab, Microsoft Search: ServiceNow Tick…
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4. How to Estimate Entire Apps or Projects for Power Platform or Dynamics 365
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Welcome to Estimating Business Apps episode 4. In this episode, I introduce the fourth section of the Estimating Business Apps course. Join me to learn how to: Scale up from estimating requirements to estimating complex business applications. Determine your team's initial velocity even if you've never worked together before. Derive the cost of your…
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3. How to Estimate Requirements for Power Platform and Dynamics 365
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Welcome to Estimating Business Apps episode 3. In this episode, I introduce the third section of the Estimating Business Apps course. Join me to learn how to: Slice user stories into an appropriate size for estimation. Agree a standard story against the relative size of other stories can be estimated. Use affinity estimation to quickly estimate a l…
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2. Using Story Points to Estimate Power Platform and Dynamics 365 Apps
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Welcome to Estimating Business Apps episode 2. In this episode, I introduce the second section of the Estimating Business Apps course. Join me to learn how: Estimating a requirement is like estimating a running trail. Effort and the three other factors need to be included in your estimate. Your team can choose an estimation scale for your business …
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1. Why Estimate Business Applications At All?
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Welcome to Estimating Business Apps episode 1. In this episode, I introduce the first section of the Estimating Business Apps course. Join me to learn why: Stakeholders deserve accurate estimates. Estimates are notoriously inaccurate. Estimating in units of time doesn't work. Estimating in t-shirts doesn't work either. Estimates are different from …
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G'day, I'm Neil Benson. In this limited-edition podcast series, I'd love to teach you how to quickly, accurately and confidently estimate how long it’ll take and how much it’ll cost to build your Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365 business applications. You'll be able to persuade your stakeholders to approve your proposals and win more proje…
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WWSD: What would Sue do (for your intranet)
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On this episode, we hear from Sue Hanley who expertly focuses on change -- evolving and improving your intranet. Sue is an information architect, a knowledge management expert, and she doesn't shy away from the word: Portal. Sue is steeped in all sorts of governance and collaboration consultation in the grandiose enterprise content services and app…
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Ho ho ho, Merry SharePoint! December 2023 brought a lot to review AND a lot to look forward to. We'll focus on everything that landed this past month: SharePoint eSignature, Stream: Add a survey, poll, quiz, link or text, Viva Engage: Community creation API, OneDrive app for Teams, OneDrive: Open in app, Microsoft 365 Backup (Public Preview), Micro…
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On today's episode, we chat with Joanne Klein - an expert on compliance in Microsoft 365. Joanne brings energy and technical expertise to real-world implementations of collaboration balanced with compliance. We spoke onsite during 365 EduCon - Chicago about records management and specific tooling (like Microsoft Purview), content lifecycle manageme…
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A blend of disclosure and rollout news this past month. We cover the following: Stream: Videos 'in Outlook', Stream: Collaborative notes in Teams meeting recordings, Microsoft 365 Archive: Public Preview, SharePoint: Out-of-the-box document library templates, Offline mode in OneDrive for Web, OneDrive: Add Individual File Shortcuts, Loop components…
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Never take the shortcut to learning, take the Huneycutt! On today's episode, we talk with Andy Huneycutt from Upskill Tech about his use and best practices across two areas: AI and Automation; namely his use and experiences with Power Automate and Copilot We delve into his expertise across both, plus benefit from his tinkerings with generative AI –…
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October 2023 brought some spooky new offerings: Power Apps leader in 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Low-Code Applications Platform, Video search improvements, new Intelligence & Search admin homepage, OneDrive colorful folders, New Microsoft Teams, Viva Goals + Planner, SharePoint: BCS retirement in Microsoft 365, and much much mwahaha…
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Web parts make the intranet go 'round. On this episode, we talk with Pat McGown (CEO, Cloudwell). In a world of SharePoint web parts, Pat and team build and deliver useful ones. We focus on developing web parts - past and present, some of their productivity-focused web part solutions, and tips and tricks for both developers and intranet managers. Y…
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SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop September 2023
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September 2023 brought some great news and new offerings: Answer Analytics in Microsoft Search, introduction of Microsoft 365 Chat, a GA date for Microsoft 365 Copilot (Nov. 1, 2023), introduction of Copilot in Microsoft Stream, Favorite and Unfavorite additional file types and folders in OneDrive and SharePoint document libraries, Microsoft Lists …
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On today's episode, we chat Amy Dolzine, Microsoft alliance relationship director for the Americas at EY, based out of Cleveland, Ohio. We talk about some of the foundational "community" elements of Yammer, where Amy started her journey as an SME for planning and designing communities within the enterprise - what in the early days was referred to a…
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August 2023 brought some great new offerings: SharePoint news to email inbox, two new SharePoint site theme options, accessibility improvements to SharePoint page authoring, announcements in Viva Connections, Restricted Access Control for SharePoint and OneDrive, OneDrive: Colors for folders, OneDrive: Meetings and People views, SharePoint pages sh…
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Viva Connections adoption best practices
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On this episode, we chat with Liz Sundet and Luis Enrique Torres who work directly with customers to help them best land a variety of technology in the category of 'Corporate Communications excellence,' especially when it comes to leveraging Microsoft Viva tailored to internal communications. We discuss common patterns, best practices, and key reso…
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In this episode, we talk with Sesha Mani, Partner Group Product Manager at Microsoft focused on security and compliance. We spoke with Sesha about SAM - that's SharePoint Advanced Management. We cover its core benefits – helping SharePoint and IT Admins address sprawl and oversharing – mapped to what it gives you beyond the core management aspects …
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