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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 [...]
Your Intranet Isn’t Ready for Copilot. Here’s What To Do First
Copilot is Already Pulling From Your SharePoint Content. Every time someone asks it a question, summarizes a document, or drafts a response, Copilot is retrieving and surfacing information from across your intranet. That makes SharePoint more than a content repository. It's the knowledge [...]
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 [...]
Is It Worth the Money? The Real ROI of AI in 2026
Every leadership team is asking the same question right now Are we actually getting value from AI or just increasing our spend? Over the past two years, organizations have moved quickly from experimentation to deployment. Tools like Microsoft 365 Copilot [...]
Skills in Copilot in SharePoint for Regulated Industries
Part 3 of a series on Skills in Copilot in SharePoint. Start with Extending AI in SharePoint with Skills or read Getting Started with Skills. Picture this: it's 9:08 a.m., and a team inbox lights up with a request that sounds simple. "Please provide all records related to X." In reality, it triggers a [...]
Getting Started with Skills in SharePoint: What a Real Implementation Looks Like
Part 2 of a series on Copilot in SharePoint Skills. If you're new to Skills, start with Extending AI in SharePoint with Skills. In Part 1 of this series, we covered what Skills can do. The response we heard most after that post was some version of: "This sounds [...]
Webinar Recap – Is Microsoft 365 E7 Worth It?
Microsoft 365 licensing has changed and this time, it's not just a pricing update. In our recent webinar, we explored a question that's now landing on the desks of IT leaders, security teams, finance, and procurement simultaneously: Is Microsoft 365 E7 actually worth it? [...]
Agents Are Users. It’s Time to Secure Them Like One.
Are AI agents in Microsoft 365 treated like users? Yes and they must be managed as such. In the Microsoft 365 environment, AI agents independently access data, trigger workflows, and make decisions. Microsoft Agent 365 provides the centralized control plane to govern, monitor, and [...]
Beyond the Chatbot: How Law Firms Can Build AI That Actually Understands Their Work
Most law firms have experimented with AI by now. A chatbot here, a drafting assistant there. But there is a significant gap between using AI as a novelty and deploying it as a genuine capability, one that understands your firm's matters, documents, workflows, and compliance [...]
See the Whole Firm: Using Power BI to Drive Better Legal Decisions
Every day, your firm generates a wealth of data. From matter progress and billable hours to client activity and financial performance. The challenge isn't accessing this data. It's turning those bits of fragmented information into something your leadership can act on. Most firms are still [...]
Creating Practical Legal Apps with Power Apps
We understand legal teams face growing caseloads and tighter budgets, yet still must deliver consistent results. Many legal departments know their processes need work. What slows progress isn’t lack of ideas; it’s the time, cost, and complexity associated with building software. This is where Microsoft [...]
Extending AI in SharePoint with Skills: Teaching AI in SharePoint to Work the Way You Do
Here's a challenge most organizations quietly wrestle with: AI tools are generic by design. They respond well to broad questions but struggle with the specifics that make your organization tick such as your naming conventions, your review processes, the way your team builds a [...]
Your Clients Deserve A Better Portal
Every client knows this well: they send an email asking for a status update on their matter, wait two days, only to receive a five-line reply that answers half their question. They call the front desk. They leave a voicemail. They follow up again [...]
Webinar Recap – AI-Assisted Legal Workflows: Practical Automation for Legal Teams
How can legal teams automate workflows using Copilot and Power Automate? Legal teams today are under increasing pressure to move faster, manage growing workloads, and maintain accuracy all without scaling headcount at the same pace. In our recent webinar, we explored how organizations can [...]
Microsoft 365 E3 vs E5 vs E7: Which is the right plan for your business?
With the release of Microsoft 365 E7 coming to the general public May 1, 2026, it’s time for businesses to consider which plan is the best for them. Each enterprise tier has its own features and strengths, and we’ll dive into each one. What's included in Microsoft 365 E3? [...]
How Vibe Coding in the Power Platform Is Challenging Legal SaaS
Goodbye iManage? That question may sound dramatic, but it is becoming harder for law firms to ignore. Vibe coding lowers the cost of experimentation in legal technology. For firms that are already investing in Microsoft 365, this shift is less about replacing vendors and [...]
