Teach Your Copilot—Skills in SharePoint & OneDrive

Teach Your Copilot—Skills in SharePoint & OneDrive

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 [https://www.linkedin.com/in/srice08/] | Arvind Mishra [https://www.linkedin.com/in/arvindmishra1/] Main resources: Review and subscribe to Sync Up [https://aka.ms/SyncUp] | Keep up to date on the OneDrive blog [https://aka.ms/OneDrive/blog] | Follow us on: Apple Podcasts [https://aka.ms/SyncUp/Apple] | Spotify [https://aka.ms/SyncUp/Spotify] | RSS [https://aka.ms/SyncUp/RSS]

What's new with OneDrive on Mac

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.

What's new in OneDrive photos

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.

File archive in OneDrive

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!

Copilot + OneDrive event recap & transfer ownership

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.