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Sync Up podcast Episode – 3, November 2019 Transcript Sync Up podcast Episode – 3 (November) “Microsoft Ignite 2019” Transcript Running Time: 36:15 1. Show Intro [00:00:00:00] Topic of the Month – Microsoft Ignite 2019 2. Guest Perspective – Lauren Khoo and Andrey Esipov [01:04] 3. News and Announcements [29:05] 4. Special Topic of the Month - [32:10] 5. Show Wrap [34:15] TC VO Dialogue #1 SHOW INTRO THEME MUSIC 00:00:00:00 Ankita Kirti Greetings all, welcome to Sync Up a show about OneDrive, the intelligent files app for Microsoft 365 we are your hosts, Ankita Kirti and Jason Moore. I'm Ankita Kirti product manager on the OneDrive team Jason Moore And I'm Jason Moore, Group Program Manager for OneDrive. This show will take you behind the scenes of OneDrive shedding light on how OneDrive connects you to all of your files in Microsoft 365 so you can share and work together from anywhere while protecting your fork from accidental loss and malicious attacks. Ankita Kirti In each episode, we recover important subjects and information about Microsoft OneDrive, including a dedicated topic, guest interviews, news and announcements, and especially significant topic outside of the technology norm. Jason Moore Today, our guests are Lauren Khoo and Andrey Esipov, program managers on OneDrive. We'll be talking with them about the engineering and design behind some of the main highlights that Ignite, so don't go away. #2 TOPIC OF THE MONTH – Microsoft Ignite 2019 GUEST PERSPECTIVE – Lauren Khoo and Andrey Esipov TRANSITION 00:01:04:00 Ankita Kirti Today's broadcast is dedicated to Microsoft Ignite, our annual customer conference. We are going to discuss highlights, announcements and dot moments for OneDrive at Ignite as well as celebrate the team's accomplishments. Page 1 of 14 Sync Up podcast Episode – 3, November 2019 Transcript We did take you behind the scenes of those amazing feature rollouts and the work that led to those achievements, Jason Moore So we just had an awesome week at Ignite. There has been so much going on, so many different meetings. We had a cool presentations, brand new features that have rolled out a general availability announcements and of course hopefully all of you that are listening right now have been able to follow along with the blog post, the videos and everything else that's been posted if you weren't there in person. Now there's enormous amount of stuff that came out of Ignite and we don't have time for all of that in a single episode of Sync Up, but we do want to highlight three of my very favorite features from this past week, hundred gigabyte file sizes, differential sync and request files and to talk about them today. We've invited Lauren Khoo and Andrey Esipov who are two program managers from the OneDrive team. Now before we, again, we've all been to a lot of Ignites. This is our fifth Ignite, that Microsoft has put on. I thought it'd be fun to talk a little bit about some of our favorite memories, some of the things that, kind of were favorite moments out of that. Lauren, what was your kind of favorite Ignite moment? Lauren Khoo My favorite moment that I can reflect on actually happened at the last Ignite. So Ignite in 2018 I was at the booth talking to a lot of great people about OneDrive and someone came up to me and they said, I really enjoy the release notes that the OneDrive iOS app puts in the store each week. Jason Moore Well that's right. Oh my gosh. For those of you who don't know, Lauren and her partner, Jack Cohen, who on our design team, actually write the iOS release notes every single time themselves. It's a real labor of love. Lauren Khoo It really is. It's a lot of fun because we really believe that when we can put a, a bit of our own personality into our product, we are all better for it. So it is, it is and kind of extra thing that we do for fun and for delight. But it was absolutely awesome to talk to someone who enjoys those and is as seeing the fruits of our labor. Jason Moore Yeah, that's awesome. Ankita, what about you? Ankita Kirti Besides seeing you dress up like a wizard for Harry Potter world? I think that was the top moment. But I would say booth as well. For me, a great customer interactions, amazing feedback. It's just amazing to see, how widely the product that you're working it daily in and out has affected so many folks, across the globe who come to Ignite. So swag part is I think even more fun. And your session, Jason. Your session is a highlight. Jason Moore Yeah. You all kind of failed at this question. This was actually a test for five years now I've given the OneDrive keynote five years. No one mentioned it. For five years. I just want to clarify. I dressed up as a professor of wizardry at Hogwarts, not as a character from the movies. And I feel like that's a really important Page 2 of 14 Sync Up podcast Episode – 3, November 2019 Transcript distinction since members of the team, some of the people on this podcast included dressed up in the various house colors. Lauren Khoo That's right. We made those costumes ourselves at home. Another labor of love. Andrey, are you ready? Jason Moore 00:04:30:00 Andrey Esipov So it's tough to single out a single moment, that I enjoyed the most out of the past two nights that I've attended. But every single time I go to Ignite, it's just amazing to be able to communicate and, talk to all the different customers and really get energized by the fact that how they use OneDrive, and how it makes them more productive at work and at home as well. So, every year we'll learn something new and it's just absolutely amazing opportunity for both us as a product team, as well as, you know, the customers to actually, interact with us, on the person's personal basis. Ankita Kirti So Andrey, my first question to you is we, until a few days back, offered 15 GB file sites and we announced at Ignite that we would now offer a 100GB file, upload size four to all our customers and it's a huge jump hugely from where we were and what we are offering. Now. Can you take us through the journey of achieving the hundred GB file size moment? Andrey Esipov Yeah, absolutely. Ankita, the team worked extremely hard over the past months to really completely re-architect the way we store and represent files in the cloud in order for us to actually support that increase in file size. That re-architecture of the, the of this, the service component, really allowed us to not only increase the file size but also bring new exciting capabilities, to sync such as differential sync. So these two major improvements, really go hand in hand with each other and in a lot of ways they ultimately compliment each other because you can now store and effectively interact with very, very large files stored in your OneDrive for business or SharePoint online. Jason Moore Now we also brought a hundred gigabyte file sizes to OneDrive consumer users as well. Andrey Esipov Yeah, absolutely. Jason. that was our first step, in kind of moving in the direction of increasing the file size for our business users and it's been actually received extremely well. we were not expecting, many users to be actually uploading very large files, in their consumer wine drives. But we will prove wrong and we're seeing files in the range of 50 to 80 gigs, every single day being uploaded. it's actually pretty, pretty excited and fascinating. Awesome. That's so cool. I love that we're able to bring that both to folks at work Jason Moore as well as the folks at home so they can work with their files in whatever context in whatever purpose they have. So obviously going from something like 15 Page 3 of 14 Sync Up podcast Episode – 3, November 2019 Transcript gigabyte file sizes to a hundred gigabyte file sizes, it doesn't just happen because someone hit a switch. And you know, everyone always is kind of interested in to learn how do we do these things? What are the ways we do them? I thought it might be interesting if you could share a little bit some of the behind the scenes maybe what are some of the challenges in building a feature like this and rolling it out? As I understand we've had to really be thoughtful about that rollout process for example. Can you talk a little bit about that Andrey? Andrey Esipov Yeah, absolutely. And I like that you mentioned that it's not just a matter of flipping the switch. We actually have to do, put it, put a lot of thought into, figuring out how a large file such as say a hundred gigabyte file, we'll actually exist in the whole, you know, OneDrive for business or SharePoint online ecosystem because now it's not just one user having a hundred gigabyte file. It's multiple users having a hundred gigabyte files.