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Best Practice Content management Microsoft 365 OneDrive SharePoint

Shortcuts vs Sync in SharePoint: What Really Happens

Add shortcut to OneDrive seems like such a nice idea; a useful alternative to the oft-maligned Sync function for those needing desktop access to their files.

But all is not well in Wonderland

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AI Best Practice Content management Copilot Metadata Microsoft 365 SharePoint

Mastering Content Types in SharePoint Online

To build a great content management solution in SharePoint you should use Content Types. Simon Hudson and Mats Warnolf tell you how and why.

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AI Best Practice Business Process

Who Watches the Watchmen

There’s a need for Human In The Loop (HITL) when using AI Agents, but also consider the role of AIITL when people need supervision.

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AI Communication Content management Intranet Microsoft 365 Microsoft Office SharePoint UI and UX

Easy File Extension Formatting in SharePoint

This blog describes a method for separating ‘proper’ templates from ‘kind-of’ templates in SharePoint libraries, using the file extension and some nifty column formatting courtesy of Microsoft Copilot.

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Best Practice Browsers Cloud Content management Intranet Microsoft 365 SharePoint

How to Open PDFs in Adobe from SharePoint

You want to open PDFs into Acrobat so you can sign them, add comments etc.
Your browser wants to open them in its PDF viewer which can’t do that.

This blog tells you how to be the victor in this mighty battle.

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AI Best Practice Communication Improvement Microsoft Office

Text to Text – Using AI to transform transcripts

Some individuals prefer video content for learning, while others find written text more efficient. This blog details a quest to convert a messy video transcript into readable text using AI tools. Various attempts with Copilot and ChatGPT are explored, highlighting the potential for AI to transform video and audio content into professional written material.

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Hardware Microsoft Teams Remote Meetings Wearables

Blucalm UCH30 wired headset review

The UC30 conference headphones deals admirably with background voices, not just ambient noise.

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Intranet Microsoft Teams UI and UX

Teams channel and tab navigation

In this short blog I talk about an option to provide signposting within a Teams area to channels and tabs elsewhere in Teams.

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Browsers Microsoft 365 Microsoft Teams SharePoint UI and UX

Keyboard Shortcuts in SharePoint & Teams

Keyboard shortcuts are built into Microsoft Teams and, to an extent to SharePoint Online. This is a useful list of them.

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Best Practice Collaboration Microsoft Microsoft 365 Microsoft Teams Remote Meetings

Microsoft Teams Best Practices, Hints & Tips

Over a quarter of a billion people and 1 million organisations use Microsoft Teams. A shinkingly small proportion of those know all the neat tricks and good practices at the front end. Watch this New York City user group session to help fill in the blanks.

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Best Practice Cloud Compliance Microsoft 365

To Backup or Not to Backup? That really is the question.

The question of whether you need backup when everything is in the cloud continues to prompt debate. The debate continues here. Some light has been shed…

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Best Practice Branding Content management Intranet SharePoint

Give your intranet some personality

Intranets should be engaging as well as functional; it’s often useful for them to have a personality and a name that resonates. Picking a name needs some thought. This blog should help with that.