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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
Microsoft is moving quickly with how AI shows up in SharePoint. Every few weeks there seems to be a new announcement, a new feature, or a new promise about how AI will transform the modern intranet. AI-powered pages. Smarter content creation. Enhanced search experiences. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
