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SharePoint architecture, Microsoft 365 Copilot and AI workflows. Written from what's running in real tenants, not from the roadmap.
New Outlook for Windows Features Worth Using: Pinning, Search, Categories and My Day
I showed five features of the new Outlook for Windows in 2023. Four are still there and worth setting up: pinned emails, filtered search, categories in Favorites and To Do in the My Day pane. The fifth, calendar Boards, was retired two months after I recorded it.
20 April 2023 · 5 min read
How Teams and SharePoint Work Together: Where Your Teams Files Actually Live
Teams is the front end and SharePoint stores the files. Every team gets a Microsoft 365 group and a SharePoint team site, every standard channel gets a folder in its Documents library, private and shared channels get sites of their own, and files shared in chats go to the sender's OneDrive.
29 January 2023 · 7 min read
How to Build a Tools and Apps Dashboard in SharePoint
A tools dashboard puts every app, system and shortcut people need on one SharePoint page. I build the catalogue as a Microsoft List shown in gallery view, and use the Quick links web part for the short list of things people click every day.
27 December 2022 · 8 min read
How to Post Microsoft Forms Responses to Teams with Power Automate
One Power Automate flow can take every Microsoft Forms response, post it to a Teams channel, add a follow-up task in To Do and log it in a Microsoft List. Here are the current trigger and action names, the steps, and what I'd check before building it.
20 May 2022 · 7 min read
What Is the SharePoint Highlighted Content Web Part and How Does It Work?
The Highlighted content web part shows content on a page by rule instead of by hand: every video in a library, every page tagged Christmas, every info sheet. Here's how it finds content, the filters that matter, and when I'd use something else.
17 August 2021 · 8 min read
How to Create an FAQ Page in SharePoint with Collapsible Sections
Collapsible sections turn a long SharePoint page into a list of questions people can open one at a time. I build an FAQ page with them step by step, cover the settings that have changed since I first recorded it, and explain how I'd keep the page useful once it's live.
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