This demo walks through adding a floor plan to a building in Microsoft Places to improve the Places experience for users—making it easier to understand floor layouts and find points of interest like restrooms, stairs, rooms, and desks. It calls out prerequisites (aka.ms/PlacesRequirements), including having desks, desk pools, and conference rooms already configured and waiting 24 hours before building the floor plan. The video explains that Places uses the IMDF (Indoor Mapping Data Format) standard for interactive maps, then shows the PowerShell workflow: connect with Connect-MicrosoftPlaces, grab the building Place ID with Get-PlaceV3, export spatial data and a mapfeatures.csv via Import-MapCorrelations (alongside an export .csv like Contosohqexport.csv), copy the Place ID/Name/Type columns into the right IMDF elements, create a correlated IMDF file, and upload the floor plan using New-Map. Once uploaded, users can toggle maps on in Places Finder to locate nearby features and resources.
We produced this as a streamlined, low-noise demo built for clarity and retention—starting with preproduction to understand the feature, lock messaging, and script the exact click-and-command path. In production we captured clean screens and recorded professional voiceover with music that keeps the pace moving, then in post we tightened the flow and emphasized the steps that matter most. The result: a demo that makes a technical workflow feel simple, confident, and production-ready—so your audience leaves remembering the process, not the clutter.
The inevitable sequels
Hollywood keeps stretching good ideas into progressively worse sequels. We don’t. These are the related videos—spiritual siblings of the one you just watched—as good or better than this video. Expect callbacks, new plot twists, and maybe even a scene-stealing cameo from a lower third.
