OneDrive's Year in Review & Unlicensed User Changes
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With 2024 coming to a close, the Sync Up crew is reflecting on our favorite OneDrive features of the year, and looking forward to the Unlicensed User changes coming in 2025! Stephen Rice and Arvind Mishra are joined by keeper of the OneDrive roadmap, Irfan Shahdad, and Archive and unlicensed user expert Trent Green! Irfan will take you through the OneDrive 2024 experience to make sure you don't miss any of the great improvements in the product! Trent will guide you through the upcoming changes to unlicensed users in OneDrive, what it means, and how you can prepare! . ...
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AI Innovations for Work and Home
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In this special episode of the Sync Up podcast, join Stephen Rice as he takes you behind the scenes of the OneDrive Fall Event "AI Innovations for Work and Home." Get exclusive insights from interviews with key speakers like Jason Moore, Arwa Tyebkhan and more as they reveal their favorite features, and share some of the exciting upcoming developments like how personalized pivots, Copilot Agents, and the new OneDrive Photos experience are set to transform your digital life. Make sure to check out the full event at aka.ms/OneDriveEvent2024! Click . Stephen Rice | |...
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In Focus—Designing for Copilot
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In this episode of the Sync Up Podcast, hosts Stephen Rice and Arvind Mishra dive into the design of Copilot in OneDrive with special guest Ben Truelove, a veteran designer at Microsoft. Ben shares insights from his 27-year journey at Microsoft, including how the team designed and iterated to deliver the best Copilot experience to our customers. Tune in to learn about the innovative features and user-centric design that make Copilot a game-changer for OneDrive users. Click to watch the video version of this episode on YouTube: "" Stephen Rice | | co-host Arvind Mishra | |...
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(Re) Searching for OneDrive
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Curious about how user research shapes OneDrive? In this episode of Sync Up, Stephen Rice, Arvind Mishra, and Rachel Hungerford dive into the world of UX research! Discover how the team gathers insights to improve your OneDrive experience, from Home to Sharing to much more! Research is key to how we learn and evolve the product to meet our users' needs, so don't miss out on these fascinating behind-the-scenes stories! Click . Stephen Rice | | co-host Arvind Mishra | | co-host Rachel Hungerford | | guest OneDrive | | |
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Live from M365 Conference!
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We're back! Stephen was on the ground at the Microsoft 365 Community Conference in Orlando, and this week he's catching Arvind up on all the amazing announcements from the conference! From Copilot to Colored Folders to Sync Health Report Exports, the conference was overfull with great features that will help you get the most out of OneDrive! Stephen Rice | | co-host Arvind Mishra | | co-host OneDrive | | |
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Data on the Move—Migrating to OneDrive
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Hold onto your hats, it's time for another episode of the Sync Up podcast! This week, hosts Stephen and Arvind are talking to migration and customer experts Vishal Lodha and Yogesh Ratnaparkhi about how to effectively migrate your content to OneDrive, whether you're starting on-prem or with another cloud provider. The team busts common migration myths and gives you the tools you need to get your own migration started! Click . Stephen Rice | | co-host Arvind Mishra | | co-host Vishal Lodha | | guest Yogesh Ratnaparkhi | | guest OneDrive | | | ...
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Creating a new future in OneDrive
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This week on Sync Up, hosts Stephen Rice and Arvind Mishra sit down with Liz Scoble and Libby McCormick to talk about how we're creating new creation experiences in OneDrive, and across Microsoft 365! After discussing our favorite underrated snacks, the team talks about Create.Microsoft.Com and the power of intent, then the new Create New experience that's rolling out in OneDrive soon! Don't forget to sign up for the OneDrive newsletter at aka.ms/OneDrive/Join. of the episode. Stephen Rice | | co-host Arvind Mishra | | co-host Liz Scoble | | guest Libby McCormick...
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From Waterfalls to Weekly Releases—Engineering Excellence with Steven Bailey and John Selbie
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On this episode of Sync Up, hosts Stephen Rice and Arvind Mishra sit down with two never-before-heard guests! First up, hear directly from the Corporate Vice President of OneDrive Engineering, Steven Bailey, as he talks through the joys and challenges of managing one of Microsoft's largest services. Then, go deep with John Selbie, one of OneDrive's esteemed engineering managers as he walks through the history of engineering at Microsoft and shares how the product gets made! Don't forget to sign up for the OneDrive newsletter at aka.ms/OneDrive/Join. of the episode. ...
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A Copilot for your OneDrive
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This month's episode of Sync Up is all about Copilot and AI! With Ignite wrapped up, it's time to talk about how we're bringing the power of AI to OneDrive, from your documents to your photos! Join Stephen Rice and Arvind Mishra as they talk with AI experts Arjun Tomar and Lisa Miao about document summarization, organization, semantic search, face identification and more. If you're interested in learning more about the future of OneDrive, you won't want to miss this episode! Got questions? E-mail us at ! Click of this episode. Stephen Rice | | co-host Arvind Mishra | |...
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Behind the Scenes—The Future of File Management
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OneDrive: The Future of File Management is here! On October 3rd, the team shared all the great news about the next generation of the OneDrive experience! This week, we're taking you behind the scenes with presenters Jason Moore, Arwa Tyebkhan and Gaia Carini as they walked off the stage of this momentous occasion! Then, we dive deep with Sesha Mani on how OneDrive keeps your content secure, and your users productive! You won't want to miss this jam-packed episode of Sync Up! Click of this episode. Stephen Rice | | co-host Arvind Mishra | | co-host Sesha Mani| |...
info_outlineAnkita and Jason talk with Joshua Badach, Project Manager within the ODSP Customer Engineering Migration Team, and is responsible for creating a bridge between the field, Engineering, and Migration tools and teams such as Mover, FastTrack and Microsoft Consulting Services. We discuss common questions like, "Why should I migrate?" and "How does Microsoft FastTrack help?" and "What are the best practices of running a migration?" You'll also learn about how to collaborate with and support your colleagues during remote and hybrid work, as well as the best wellness recommendation of 2021, so far, morning bubble baths.
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