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5 Problems Copilot Will Expose in SharePoint
5 Problems Copilot Will Expose in SharePoint Microsoft Copilot can make it easier for employees to find information, summarize documents, and work with the content already stored across Microsoft 365. But that also means organizations need to pay closer attention to [...]
Don’t Get Spooked: 5 Habits That Prove You’re Actually Covered
Don't Get Spooked: 5 Habits That Prove You're Actually Covered Three weeks of finding things lurking in the tenant, and here's the good news: most of it is fixed by boring, repeatable habits, and the rest just needs someone willing to prove it's [...]
Do You Need a Skill or an Agent? A Practical Guide
A Practical Guide Do You Need a Skill or an Agent? The most successful AI solutions don't start with technology. They start with a clearly defined business need. As organizations explore Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, and custom AI [...]
Stay in the Loop Without Another Meeting: Understanding Follow in Outlook
Stay in the Loop Without Another Meeting: Understanding the Follow Feature in Outlook Meetings remain one of the biggest contributors to workplace overload. Many employees attend meetings not because they need to actively contribute, but because they do not want [...]
Copilot Sees Dead Files: 5 AI Checks, From Governance to Scams
Copilot Sees Dead Files: 5 AI Checks, From Governance to Scams Over the past two weeks, we've gone looking for what's lurking in your permissions, your inbox and your data. This week, AI brings it all together. Copilot doesn't create new exposure, but [...]
Something’s Living in Your Data: 5 Signs Your Sensitive Info Isn’t as Protected as You Think
Something's Living in Your Data: 5 Signs Your Sensitive Info Isn't as Protected as You Think Last week we went looking for what's lurking in your permissions and your inbox. This week we go after what's lurking in your data itself: the files that [...]
5 Hidden SharePoint Security Risks Lurking in Your Microsoft 365 Tenant
The Haunted SharePoint Site: 5 Things Lurking in Your Tenant Every organization has a digital attic nobody has opened in years: a forgotten project site, an old shared folder, or a permission nobody remembers granting. None of it got there because someone was [...]
Microsoft’s New Sharing Experience in OneDrive & SharePoint: What Users and Admins Need to Know
Microsoft’s New Sharing Experience in OneDrive & SharePoint: Simpler, Smarter, and More Secure Sharing files is one of the most common actions in Microsoft 365. Whether you're collaborating on a proposal, working with external partners, or distributing critical business documents, the ability to [...]
Microsoft Made Sharing Easier. Do You Know Who Can Access Your Content?
Microsoft Made Sharing Easier. Do You Know Who Can Access Your Content? Microsoft's recent updates to the OneDrive and SharePoint sharing experience are a welcome improvement for organizations that rely on Microsoft 365 for collaboration. The redesigned interface introduces Hero [...]
What Will Copilot Find in Your Microsoft 365 Environment?
Microsoft Copilot can help employees find documents, emails, conversations, meeting notes, policies, and knowledge across Microsoft 365 faster than ever. But there’s one important reality organizations often overlook: Copilot inherits the environment you’ve already built. It doesn’t create new access to content. It works [...]
Why Overshared SharePoint Sites Are an AI Risk for Law Firms
Why Overshared SharePoint Sites Are an AI Risk for Law Firms As law firms explore Microsoft 365 Copilot, many are focused on the productivity upside: faster research, better knowledge discovery, document summarization, and more efficient administrative work. But AI can [...]
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 [...]
