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Copilot as an Instructional Designer: Building Interactive Policy Training

Copilot as an Instructional Designer: Building Interactive Policy Training

Company policy documents are important. They are also rarely anyone’s favorite thing to revisit. That makes them an interesting candidate for Microsoft 365 Copilot. Instead of simply asking Copilot to summarize a policy, I wanted to see what would happen if I gave it a more specific job: act

Using AutoML Thinking to Build Smarter SharePoint Dashboards with Copilot

Using AutoML Thinking to Build Smarter SharePoint Dashboards with Copilot

Copilot’s ability to create live-linked HTML dashboards from SharePoint lists is impressive. But what happens if we borrow a page from AutoML and let Copilot analyze the list before deciding what the dashboard should show? It does exactly what you’d hope. It effectively puts on several different

Preparing Your Enterprise for Microsoft Copilot

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Preparing Your Enterprise for Microsoft Copilot

Successful AI in the enterprise requires preparation. When you build a house, the quality of the finished product is determined long before the walls go up. Having a solid foundation isn't optional... it's what everything else depends on. The same principle applies to building a modern

Tearing Down Boundaries: SharePoint, Teams & Microsoft’s Focus on Context

Tearing Down Boundaries: SharePoint, Teams & Microsoft’s Focus on Context

The other day, I was listening to the Microsoft 365 Voice podcast where they did an episode on collaborating in SharePoint vs. Teams and the language that consultants use to frame these decisions when talking to customers. It was a great episode, and the topic is certainly popping up a

Office 365 Themes – Good, Bad & Ugly

Office 365 Themes – Good, Bad & Ugly

I’ve had a few customers ask about Microsoft’s new personalization options for Office 365 this week and I wanted to take the opportunity to provide some details. Earlier this month, Microsoft announced new features for customers wanting to add a little personalized flair to their Office 365 tenants.

CSS Reference: SharePoint Online & 2013 Branding for IT Pros

CSS Reference: SharePoint Online & 2013 Branding for IT Pros

While there are plenty of reasons not to apply heavy branding to collaboration-focused SharePoint sites, sometimes you (or your customers) want to apply just enough branding to make the site feel at home in your environment. The following sections provide examples of some of the CSS classes & elements

CSS Reference: Branding the Office 365 Suite Bar

CSS Reference: Branding the Office 365 Suite Bar

This is a quick reference guide for using CSS to modify the Office 365 Suite Bar that lives at the top of SharePoint Online sites. While fleshing out a larger CSS reference / light branding guide that will be focused on IT Pro’s, it occurred to me that this portion

The Problem with the Office 365 Roadmap

The Problem with the Office 365 Roadmap

As many of you know, Microsoft recently released its Office 365 Roadmap, an up to date list of planned updates, new features and other changes in the pipeline for Office 365 customers. Not only does the Roadmap provide these sorts of critical insights, enabling customers to incorporate these future capabilities

Logo Library: Building Better SharePoint Presentations & Deliverable Docs

As a SharePoint consultant, you often wear multiple hats. Not only are you designing solutions for your customers, but there’s also a good chance that you’re the one tapped to create deliverable documentation. Sure…on paper, there are tech writers, designers and other roles that may exist somewhere

SharePoint 2010: Test Your Recovery Plan Before You Need It

SharePoint 2010: Test Your Recovery Plan Before You Need It

Having backups and having a working recovery plan are not the same thing. That distinction became painfully clear for one customer recently. The organization had a backup strategy in place for its SharePoint 2010 environment and, like most organizations with regular backups running successfully, there was a reasonable level of

Building a Resource Forest for Cross-Organization SharePoint Collaboration

Building a Resource Forest for Cross-Organization SharePoint Collaboration

Using a Resource Forest for Cross-Organization SharePoint Collaboration Sometimes the most interesting SharePoint riddle is figuring out how to make it work across the boundaries that exist between organizations. Consider a scenario where several large organizations need a common SharePoint environment for collaboration. Each organization already has its own