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Exciting Update: Microsoft Lists Forms Now Support Conditional Branching for Smarter SharePoint Forms!
Exciting Update Microsoft Lists Forms Now Support Conditional Branching for Smarter SharePoint Forms! Show the Right Fields at the Right Time Without Power Apps TDLR Microsoft Lists forms now support conditional branching, allowing teams to show or hide fields [...]
How SharePoint Authoritative Sites Build Trust in AI Search
How SharePoint Authoritative Sites Build Trust in AI Search One of the most common concerns organizations have about Microsoft 365 Copilot isn't whether it can generate answers. It's whether employees can trust those answers. Copilot can summarize documents, surface knowledge, [...]
Viva Connections Is Now the SharePoint App in Teams: What Organizations Need to Know
Microsoft has officially renamed Viva Connections to the SharePoint app in Teams, marking a significant shift in how Microsoft positions its intranet and employee experience capabilities within Microsoft 365. While the underlying functionality remains largely the same, the change reflects Microsoft's broader strategy to simplify the user experience and strengthen [...]
Why Adding More Tools Is Slowing Your Organization Down
Why Adding More Tools Is Slowing Your Organization Down The Hidden Cost of Solving Every Problem with Another Tool If you're responsible for managing technology in your organization, you've likely experienced this scenario before. A department identifies a business [...]
Copilot’s New Security Controls for SharePoint: Understanding RCD and RSS
Copilot's New Security Controls for SharePoint Copilot Doesn't Create Oversharing Risks — It Exposes Them One of the most common concerns organizations have when evaluating Microsoft 365 Copilot is: "What stops Copilot from exposing sensitive SharePoint content?" It’s an understandable question but often a [...]
How SharePoint AI Skills Turn Expertise into Impact
Organizations seeing the most value from SharePoint AI Skills are not using them to replace expertise. They are using them to scale it. Here at Creospark, we’ve been exploring SharePoint AI Skills in close collaboration with Microsoft community leader Gokan Ozcifci, our MVPs Eric [...]
Automating SharePoint Page Translation with SPFx and Power Automate
SharePoint’s multilingual feature for site pages creates a copy of the source page for each language you specify, but someone needs to still manually translate every piece of content. At scale, across dozens of pages and multiple languages, this quickly becomes a serious bottleneck. [...]
Estimating Copilot Cowork Costs: How to Forecast AI Usage
Microsoft Copilot Cowork introduces a new way of working with AI, and a new way of budgeting it. Unlike traditional Microsoft 365 licensing, where organizations can forecast costs largely by counting seats, Copilot Cowork uses a consumption-based model. Organizations still need Microsoft 365 Copilot licensing, but Copilot Cowork activity is billed separately based [...]
Metadata That Matters: Designing IA for Legal
Most law firms already have plenty of documents, but inconsistent organizations make it difficult to find, reuse, and manage the information they need. When legal operations teams begin a taxonomy project, the first step should be understanding how lawyers work, how matters are managed, and [...]
Microsoft Copilot Cowork Explained: What Leaders Need to Know
For the past two years, most conversations about AI in the workplace have focused on productivity. How can AI help employees draft emails faster, summarize meetings more efficiently, or create presentations with less effort? Microsoft Copilot answered many of those questions. Copilot Cowork introduces [...]
Microsoft Copilot Credits Explained
Microsoft's new Copilot Cowork capability promises something different from traditional AI assistants. Instead of simply answering questions, Cowork can perform multi-step tasks, gather information, create deliverables, and take action across Microsoft 365 on your behalf. That shift from assistance to execution introduces a new [...]
What Copilot in SharePoint Actually Means for Your Intranet
Copilot in SharePoint is changing how organizations create, organize, find, and automate knowledge across the intranet.In our recent webinar, “What Copilot in Sharepoint Actually Means for Your Intranet,” our CIO, Eric Overfield, explored what these new capabilities mean in practice, and why intranet readiness matters [...]
Operating Model for Copilot at Scale: An Adoption Structure for Enterprise AI Success
Most organizations we work with have already purchased Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses. Many have even completed a pilot. But six months in, the question we hear most often is the same one: why aren't more people using it? The answer is rarely a technology problem. It's an adoption problem — [...]
The SharePoint App Bar Redesign
The SharePoint App Bar Redesign: A Shift in How Work Actually Happens Before the SharePoint app bar, there was no out of the box global navigation in SharePoint Online. Every site operated with its own navigation and often there was [...]
Is Now the Right Time to Invest in a Microsoft 365 Upgrade?
Yes, if your organization is on Microsoft 365 E3 or E5, 2026 may be the right time to upgrade. Five signals point in that direction: July 1, 2026 price increases, the arrival of Microsoft 365 E7 with bundled AI capabilities, growing security and compliance requirements, hidden [...]
How We Used Copilot Studio to Solve a Problem No One Planned For
A Copilot Studio agent can automate workshop credential assignment by validating event codes, collecting attendee details, triggering Power Automate flows, and assigning the next available training account from a SharePoint-hosted Excel file. This reduces manual work, prevents duplicate assignments, and helps attendees access lab [...]
Internal Comms Strategy in the Age of AI: Why Content Planning Matters
Internal communication has always been about helping people understand what matters, what’s changing, and what they need to do next. But that job is getting harder. Employees are navigating more channels, more content, and more noise. At the same time, communicators are being asked to move [...]
InfoPath Is Going Away. Here’s What to Do Next.
July 14, 2026. That's the date Microsoft fully retires InfoPath Forms Services in SharePoint Online. After that, InfoPath forms will stop opening, submitting, and rendering. No extension, no exceptions, including GCC and DoD environments. If you're an IT leader or operations lead responsible for [...]
Webinar Recap- Your Intranet Isn’t Ready for Copilot. Here’s What To Do First
Copilot is changing how employees find and interpret information. But for many organizations, the intranet content Copilot relies on is outdated, duplicated, unowned, or poorly structured. In our recent webinar, “Your Intranet Isn't Ready for Copilot. Here's What To Do First,” Creospark and Fresh [...]
Webinar Recap-Reduce Microsoft 365 Licensing Costs Before Your Next Renewal
Microsoft 365 licensing is changing, and for many organizations, the next renewal could be more expensive than expected. In our recent webinar, "Stop Overpaying for Microsoft 365: A Practical Licensing Cleanup Before Your Next Renewal," we walked through what’s changing, where organizations commonly overspend, and [...]
