No extra day this year. No matter, the product team crammed a lot of goodness into the 28 days of Feb'2025. The busy'ness delivered: Viva Connections: User-created cards, Copilot Visual Creator powered by Clipchamp, Microsoft Lists: Forms updates, SharePoint: Updated document libraries, Improved Microsoft Lists links in Teams chats and channels, Preview mode for SharePoint Pages, Personal Loop workspaces, SharePoint spaces retirement, and more. Plus, we grabbed time with Matt Taylor to talk about getting started with SharePoint agents, including his own journey as a recent implant into the world of SharePoint from the Teams Rooms team.

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01:27 - SharePoint Hackathon info

04:00 - Employee engagement

07:43 - Interview with Matt Taylor

28:10 - Teamwork

38:04 - Related tech

44:00 - Teasers

45:42 - Microsoft 365 Community Conference info

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Upcoming events:

• NOW ON DEMAND | "SharePoint: From Concept to Creation to Impact + Live AMA" webinar with Jeff Teper, CJ Tan, and Melissa Torres
• SharePoint Hackathon, including six webinars | March 3-17, 2025 (Online)
• Ability Summit | March 18, 2025 (Online)
• MVP Summit 2025 | March 24-27.2025 (Redmond, WA & online)
• Microsoft Fabric Community Conference | March 31 – April 2 (Las Vegas, NV)
• Microsoft's 50th Anniversary | April 4, 2025 (Worldwide)
• Comms vNext | April 15-16, 2025 (Denver, CO)
• Microsoft 365 Community Conference | May 5-8, 2025 (Vegas)
• Microsoft Build | May 19-22, 2025 (Seattle, WA | Online)
• SharePoint Intranet Festival (SWOOP Analytics) | May 21, 2025 (Online)
• European Collaboration Summit | May 26-28, 2025 (Düsseldorf, Germany)
• European Power Platform Conference | June 16-19 (Vienna, Austria)
• TechCon 365 - Seattle | June 23 – 27, 2025 (Seattle, WA)
• TechCon 365 - Atlanta | August 11-15, 2025 (Atlanta, GA)

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Take an audio tutorial tour that covers 10 ways to make a SharePoint page work for you, after you publish them! After your page looks great and is ready for your audience—make a plan to put that page as close to your reader as possible. Share it directly to them - intact - without requiring them to click away from where they are already focused and working. All are built-in features of SharePoint and related technology, geared to help you get the word out. It’s not sorcery. It IS truly magical. Get ready to flex your post-publication page amplification!

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Upcoming events:

"SharePoint: From Concept to Creation to Impact + Live AMA" webinar with Jeff Teper | Jan. 29, 2025, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PST

Ability Summit | March 18, 2025 (Online)

MVP Summit 2025 | March 24-27.2025 (Redmond, WA & online)

Microsoft Fabric Community Conference | March 31 – April 2 (Las Vegas, NV)

Microsoft's 50th Anniversary | April 4, 2025 (Worldwide)

Comms vNext | April 15-16, 2025 (Denver, CO)

Microsoft 365 Community Conference | May 5-8, 2025 (Vegas)

Microsoft Build | May 19-22, 2025 (Seattle, WA | Online)

SharePoint Intranet Festival (SWOOP Analytics) | May 21, 2025 (Online)

European Collaboration Summit | May 26-28, 2025 (Düsseldorf, Germany)

European Power Platform Conference | June 16-19 (Vienna, Austria)

TechCon 365 - Seattle | June 23 – 27, 2025 (Seattle, WA)

TechCon 365 - Atlanta | August 11-15, 2025 (Atlanta, GA)

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Kicking off 2025 with a bang, and a BIG SharePoint event. January 2025 brought a lot of new offerings: Viva Connections on the SharePoint app bar, Pay-as-you-go billing model for SharePoint agents, Re-imagined Hero web part, Viva Engage: Leadership feed, Editorial card web part, Accessibility assistant tool for SharePoint pages, SharePoint pages: Flexible sections, Microsoft Teams: New DVR capabilities, and more. Plus, we grabbed a few important audio snippets from the BIG SharePoint Event with Jeff Teper and the SharePoint team - focused on AI and your intranet.

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02:00 Snippets from the BIG SharePoint event

05:31 Employee engagement

13:06 Teamwork

16:29 Related items

19:01 Roadmap teasers

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Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host]

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Upcoming events:

NOW ON DEMAND | "SharePoint: From Concept to Creation to Impact + Live AMA" with Jeff Teper and team + plus our new 5-part SharePoint learning series, new customer studies (Amey, Takeda, and Avanade), insights about the upcoming SharePoint Hackathon (March 2025), and more.

M365 Miami 2025 | Feb.6-7, 2025 (Miami, FL)

SharePoint Hackathon | March 3-26, 2025 (Global | Online)

MVP Summit 2025 | March 24-27, 2025 (Redmond, WA & online)

Microsoft 365 Community Conference | May 5-8, 2025 (Vegas)

SharePoint Intranet Festival (SWOOP Analytics) | May 21, 2025 (Online)

European Collaboration Summit | May 26-28, 2025 (Düsseldorf, Germany)

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Happiest of holidays, and welcome to 2025! December 2024 brought some great new offerings: Microsoft Syntex pay-as-you-go: Simple document processing model, Viva Connections: Power Apps card, Viva Pulse now included in Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Search for Bing retirement, Outlook.cloud.microsoft, Add external content links to Viva Learning, Microsoft 365 data residency: New Zealand, the big, upcoming SharePoint Event + AMA (Jan.29.2025 - 9 AM PST), and more. Plus, a little year in review: The top five features of 2024, a quick list of apps we said goodbye to, and a few 2025 predictions.

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02:11 Employee engagement

SPONSOR | Upcoming SharePoint event

09:36 Top 5 SharePoint features shipped in 2024

20:40 Related technology

26:29 January 2025 teasers

32:22 AI and agents insights from Jeff Teper

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Upcoming events

ON DEMAND

• Microsoft Ignite 2024 | Incl. SharePoint "event guide"
• ESPC | Dec 2-5, 2024 in Stockholm, Sweden (incl. Jeff Teper's ESPC24 keynote on demand)

UPCOMING

• "SharePoint: From Concept to Creation to Impact + Live AMA" webinar with Jeff Teper | Jan. 29, 2025, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PST
• M365 Miami 2025 | Feb.6-7.2025
• MVP Summit 2025 | March 24-27.2025 (Redmond, WA & online)
• Microsoft 365 Community Conference | May 5-8, 2025 (Vegas)
• SharePoint Intranet Festival (SWOOP Analytics) | May 21, 2025 (Online)
• European Collabroation Summit | May 26-28, 2025 (Düsseldorf, Germany)

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On today's episode, Michelle Caldwell (CEO – Synozur) shares how best to envision and plan for employee effectiveness within the AI era. Michelle puts focus on seeing your company as a comprehensive and integrated framework – a Company Operating System – across people, content, processes, key product use, and more. You’ll discover how to take an empathetic approach to modern workplace experiences, to operate more effectively and achieve your strategic goals.

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Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host]

Synozur (website) + Polaris Pathways (podcast)

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ON DEMAND Events

• Microsoft Ignite 2024 | Incl. SharePoint "event guide"
• ESPC | Dec 2-5, 2024 | Stockholm, Sweden (incl. Jeff Teper's ESPC24 keynote on demand)

UPCOMING Events

• "SharePoint: From Concept to Creation to Impact + Live AMA" webinar with Jeff Teper | Jan. 29, 2025, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PST
• M365 Miami 2025 | Feb.6-7.2025
• MVP Summit 2025 | March 24-27.2025 | Redmond, WA, and online
• Microsoft 365 Community Conference | May 5-8, 2025 | Las Vegas
• SharePoint Intranet Festival (SWOOP Analytics) | May 21, 2025 (Online)
• European Collabroation Summit | May 26-28, 2025 | Düsseldorf, Germany

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This month's pitstop looks at everything that landed in November 2024: Viva Engage: Updates for the Copilot adoption community, Copilot Pages, Add Approvals to any SharePoint document library, Teams: New chat and channels experience, Teams: New calendar experience, and Windows Server 2025 (GA). Plus, we share highlights from Microsoft Ignite 2024 - Five announcements from across the Microsoft portfolio. You'll also hear a segment of audio from Maya Rodrig - from the Microsoft Loop team - summarizing Copilot Pages alongside BizChat. It's a busy pitstop to get up to speed AND look ahead.

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01:24 Employee engagement

07:13 "Copilot Pages" by Maya Rodrig

11:17 Teamwork

13:23 Related technology

31:25 Teasers

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Upcoming events:

Microsoft Ignite 2024 | Now on demand (incl. SharePoint "event guide")

ESPC | European SharePoint Conference | Dec 2-5, 2024 in Stockholm, Swede

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October 2024 brought a few spooky and exciting updates - no bones about it (ok, a skull or two, maybe): Copilot agents in SharePoint, Clipchamp for Microsoft 365 E3 and E5, Copilot in Viva Amplify, SharePoint eSignature: Adobe Acrobat Sign and Docusign integration, SharePoint: Design Ideas, Microsoft Lists: Add approvals to any list, Copilot agents in OneDrive (announced), Colorful folders in Windows File Explorer, SharePoint list and library rules will now send notifications from the no-reply@sharepointonline.com email address, New Planner for the Web and more. Plus, audio snippets from the OneDrive October 8th event, a new tech song for SharePoint Advanced Management, and a visit from Count Dracula 365.

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01:43 Employee engagement

11:32 Teamwork

23:44 Related technology

28:35 Teasers

31:00 "SAM Copiloting Securely" by Dustin Willard

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Upcoming events:

Microsoft AI Tour | Ongoing, free, one-day events around the world. Up next: Hilversum (Nov.4), Casablanca (Nov.27), Bern (Nov.28), Warsaw (Nov.28), Toronto (Dec.3) and more to close out 2024 and continuing into 2025.

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

CollabCon 2024 + CollabCruise | Dec. 12, 2024 | Orlando, FL [CollabCruise Dec.13-16 on the brand new Royal Caribbean Utopia of the Seas]

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Follow The Intrazone at aka.ms/TheIntrazone + explore Mondays at Microsoft with Karuana Gatimu and Heather Cook.