Hero Links are rolling out — and after a two-plus-year journey, we're taking you behind the scenes. Arvind Mishra and Stephen Rice sit down with... Stephen Rice (yes, really) to unpack the biggest change to OneDrive and Microsoft 365 sharing in years: one link per file, permissions you can change on the fly, and address bar sharing that finally just works.

We cover the three guiding principles — Simple, Smart, and Secure — with live demos of the new share dialog, the first run experience, per-file controls like blocking reshare and breaking folder inheritance, and the new admin controls.

Plus: what's next, including the #1 piece of feedback we've gotten — Hero Link expiration — targeting early next year.

Recorded on set during filming for the OneDrive + Copilot event on October 20. Register: aka.ms/OneDriveEvent

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HTML and Markdown are back in the spotlight, and AI is a big reason why. In this episode of Sync Up, hosts Stephen Rice and Arvind Mishra sit down with Dorine Rassaian (OneDrive Sr. Product Manager) and Nicole Woon (SharePoint Sr. Product Manager) to explore how AI-generated content is driving renewed interest in HTML and Markdown files across Microsoft 365.

Learn how organizations are using HTML dashboards, newsletters, reports, presentations, and interactive experiences generated with AI, and how OneDrive and SharePoint are evolving to make these files easier to view, edit, collaborate on, and share.

The conversation covers:

✅ Why HTML and Markdown are experiencing a resurgence

✅ How AI tools like Copilot generate HTML and Markdown content

✅ New OneDrive experiences for HTML and Markdown files

✅ WYSIWYG editing, inline text editing, and anchor comments

✅ Human-to-agent collaboration and the future of AI-powered work

✅ HTML-powered SharePoint pages and intranet experiences

✅ Real-world examples, dashboards, presentations, newsletters, and more

Whether you're a developer, IT professional, SharePoint administrator, or simply curious about how AI is changing the way we create and communicate, this episode offers a look at the future of content creation in Microsoft 365.

Guests

🎙️ Dorine Rassaian Senior Product Manager, OneDrive

🎙️ Nicole Woon Senior Product Manager, SharePoint

Resources

🔗 OneDrive Blog: https://aka.ms/OneDriveBlog

🔗 OneDrive Office Hours: https://aka.ms/OneDriveOfficeHours

🔗 Microsoft Podcasts: https://aka.ms/MicrosoftPodcasts

This month on Sync Up, Stephen Rice and Arvind Mishra are joined by Joe Komban, a Principal Product Manager on SharePoint, to explore two connected leaps forward for Copilot in SharePoint and OneDrive. First, the new file tools — watch Copilot build a quarterly report from a template, spreadsheet, and meeting transcript in minutes, convert it to PDF, grant every meeting attendee access, and even spin up an animated HTML dashboard. Then the star of the show: Copilot Skills, a way to teach Copilot your team's exact process — from legal reviews to file-naming conventions — so anyone can get expert-level output, even if they're not the expert. The team digs into how Skills work, where they live (just markdown files in SharePoint), the human-in-the-loop transparency built in, the community GitHub repo, and why "you're only limited by your imagination." Skills are available today with Copilot in SharePoint, with OneDrive file tools rolling out to frontier customers in the July–August timeframe.

Your SyncUp cohosts:

Stephen Rice | Arvind Mishra