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

Join Stephen Rice and Arvind Mishra for a fun look at what's new with OneDrive on Mac! In this episode of Sync Up, they chat with Jack Nichols, Partner Software Architect for OneDrive, about how the team is making OneDrive feel more native, reliable, and polished for Mac users.

From a refreshed Activity Center and updated settings experience, to the new Native Sync Engine and future support for syncing up to 1 million files, this episode is all about making OneDrive on Mac faster, smoother, and easier to trust in the background. You'll also hear how OneDrive is improving performance, battery life, Spotlight search, and overall sync reliability while continuing to listen closely to feedback from the Mac community.

Join Stephen Rice and Arvind Mishra for a fun look at what's new with photos in OneDrive! In this episode of Sync Up, they chat with Kalpana Berman, Niket Jain, and Shailesh Karri about how OneDrive is helping people find, enjoy, clean up, and get creative with their favorite memories.

From smarter Moments and easier photo cleanup, to a new desktop photos app and AI-powered Restyle features, this episode is all about making your photos feel easier to manage and more fun to rediscover. You'll also hear how OneDrive is using AI behind the scenes to make photo search, editing, and storytelling feel more natural while keeping you in control of your originals.

Stephen and Arvind welcome back Trent Green for a deep dive into one of the most requested follow-ups to site archive: file-level archive.

Trent explains how this new capability gives IT admins a more precise way to manage storage—archiving individual files or folders within active sites instead of entire sites. The team walks through how it works, what the end-user experience looks like, and how archived files can be reactivated (including a built-in seven-day undo window).

They also cover public preview timing, consumption-based billing, and what's coming next—like admin-driven policies based on last access dates. If you're looking for smarter ways to manage aging content without disrupting collaboration, this episode breaks it down clearly and practically!

Fresh off the biggest OneDrive moment of the year, Stephen and Arvind return with a full recap of the Copilot + OneDrive event—breaking down the announcements, the behind-the-scenes surprises, and the features that are already reshaping how we work.

From personalized intelligence with the FAB button to the future of search, photos, and Researcher, the team walks through the four major themes of the show and shares what it was like to step on camera as part of the launch. They even react to the unexpected blooper reel that made its way into the final cut!

This episode also features a special guest: Belle Podeanu, product manager behind the brand-new Transfer Ownership experience. Belle walks through how the team redesigned this critical workflow end-to-end—from modernized emails to shared-file filtering to smarter move-and-keep-sharing options—all built to reduce data loss and simplify transitions when employees leave.

Back from a short summer break, Stephen and Arvind return with a brand-new Sync Up episode—spotlighting audio overviews in OneDrive. From quick summaries to full podcast-style recaps, this new Copilot feature transforms how you catch up on documents.

Joining the conversation are Cass Weber and Cammi Mejia from the OneDrive team, who share the inside story of bringing Audio Overviews to life: the pivots they made along the way, the challenges of testing AI outputs, and even a few laugh-out-loud moments (pirate voices included).

Whether you're on the go, pressed for time, or just looking for a smarter way to digest dense content, this episode has something for you.

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