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Agents AI Microsoft 365 SharePoint

Enabling Knowledge Agents in SharePoint: Pain control

Microsoft’s Knowledge Agent rollout promises smarter content discovery across SharePoint. But for many SharePoint admins, the setup hits unexpected snags, especially if you’re strong in SharePoint but less familiar with PowerShell’s quirks. It would be handy to know where the troubles are and how to work around them.

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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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Microsoft 365 Planner SharePoint Task Management

Planner roadmap – from SharePoint to Dataverse

I use Microsoft Planner and To Do for lightweight project management, preferring its simplicity. The announcement of a unified Planner experience merging Planner, To Do, and Project, had me spooked.
This blog unpicks the impacts for the ordinary user.

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AI Content management Copilot Microsoft 365 Mobile apps

AI and Handwritten Notes

AI has become great at many things; it can even transform terrible handwriting into typewritten text. I share the journey of discovery from scrawl to near perfect transcription.

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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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Microsoft 365 SharePoint

Unlocking SharePoint’s Brand Centre for Your Organisation

The SharePoint Brand Centre (or Center if you must) started appearing throughout September 2024, following announcements the previous year. It offers organisations a central place to manage and internally promote their brand, while also enabling brand fonts and themes to be applied throughout SharePoint and Viva Connections.
This article explores it in more depth; helps you get up and running and talks about what it can, and currently cannot do.

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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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Microsoft Microsoft 365 SharePoint

Why is the “created date” incorrect in a SharePoint List or Library?

If your dates appear to be wrong in SharePoint or Microsoft Lists there is a good chance that you haven’t set the Regional Format and Time Zone for the site and the tenant defaults.
Find out how to fix that.

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Collaboration Communication Microsoft 365 Microsoft Teams

Which one is reliable, Google Chat or MS Teams?

Is a dedicated chat client better or more reliable than MS Teams. Is that even a sensible question to ask?