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The State of Microsoft Viva & the Digital Workspace | Webinar
Walk away with practical applications to configure and architect your Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Viva-empowered digital workspace.
Microsoft Ignite 2022 | Creospark’s Session Picks
Registration for Microsoft Ignite 2022 is now available! The annual developer and IT conference for Microsoft will be held virtually and in-person from October 12th-14th. There are 818 sessions to assist you with discovering the newest technologies, gaining knowledge from industry experts, developing your talents, [...]
Which Personal Booking System is Right for You?
Did you know that professionals on average spend 5 hours per week trying to schedule meetings? Personal booking systems are here to help you reclaim your precious time! What are personal booking systems? Personal Booking Systems are platforms that allow you to create and schedule [...]
Intro to Intranet Success Metrics
A lot of effort went into implementing, building, and preparing your digital workspace. Whether you’ve passed a development milestone or are ready to go live today, you’ve come a long way. The next step — measuring your digital workspace's success — requires the same amount of [...]
Accelerate Custom Power App Creation | Convert Figma Designs to Power Apps Automatically
The Viva Dashboard is one of Viva Connections' most powerful yet misunderstood components. The Dashboard pulls the tools your employees need in a quick and easily consumable dashboard that they can access in the office or on the go. Dynamic interactive dashboard cards allow employees to complete simple tasks or review critical data right in the flow of their work.
Viva Goals and OKRs | Everything You Need to Know
Microsoft Viva—dedicated to the employee experience—delivers education, critical company information, and insights right in the flow of work. Now, they're adding a new application to the suite that helps teams achieve their goals more efficiently. Viva Goals’ foundation embraces the OKR framework helping companies align [...]
Microsoft 365 and Office 365 Enterprise | Which Plan Is Best for You?
Choosing a Microsoft plan can be overwhelming. With so many features available it can be daunting to decide which plan has the right mix for our team’s needs. With this post, you’ll be able to clearly identify which plan is the right fit for you! [...]
Office 365 Enterprise | Which Plan Meets Your Needs?
If you’re already using Microsoft’s services, you know that Microsoft helps you manage your daily tasks and important projects in an organized manner with its easy-to-use applications and services. Office 365 Enterprise is an all-in-one subscription that takes many of the standalone services and combines [...]
Viva Dashboard | What is it? How to use it. How to make it your own.
The Viva Dashboard is one of Viva Connections' most powerful yet misunderstood components. The Dashboard pulls the tools your employees need in a quick and easily consumable dashboard that they can access in the office or on the go. Dynamic interactive dashboard cards allow employees to complete simple tasks or review critical data right in the flow of their work.
An In-Depth SharePoint Version Comparison | 2013, 2016, 2019, SP Online
Need an in-depth comparison between the different versions of SharePoint? You found it! In this article, we will be discussing the features of SharePoint versions 2013, 2016, 2019 and Online. To develop a better understanding between the SharePoint Servers (2013, 2016, 2019) and SharePoint Online, [...]
Microsoft 365 Backup | Is Dropsuite Right for You?
Every day you and your co-workers spend hours on end working on Microsoft creating, editing, and using data that your company relies on. Losing this data would be a huge setback for the company and may even damage the company’s reputation if others get access [...]
Secure Your Staff’s Mobile Devices with Microsoft Intune
Nowadays, organization data can be accessed on multiple devices, offering flexibility, comfort, and increased productivity. These benefits also come with risks of exposing sensitive organization data to an unauthorized source. Intune allows users to manage and administer how the data is accessed across various devices [...]
Multifactor Authentication | Everything You Need To Know
Why should we care about cybersecurity? The importance of digital security in organizations cannot be emphasized enough in 2022. In order to stay proactive, today’s companies should take steps to protect their information from data breaches, unauthorized access, and other security threats to their business. [...]
The Dos and Don’ts of Scheduling Microsoft Teams Meetings
Over 500,000 organizations use Microsoft Teams as their primary messaging platform and Microsoft Teams meetings have become a daily occurrence. Whether it is an interview, a conference call, or catching up with a friend, virtual meetings are here to stay. With this comes the expectation [...]
Setting Up Your Design Space in PowerPoint
PowerPoint design and presentations have been a major part of most of our work lives for quite some time now. However, not everyone is leveraging this powerful corporate presentation tool to its fullest. For designers, it's often a frustrating environment, where Photoshop and other Adobe [...]
Templates in Microsoft Teams | An Easy Way to Customize Teams in Your Organization
Now that workplaces are increasing their online and work-from-home capabilities, Microsoft Teams is an important tool for ensuring information is delivered efficiently and effectively, and your people stay connected. It is hard for some users to understand their tasks, ask questions, and stay focused while [...]
How to Invite Hotmail and Gmail Users to a Microsoft Teams Meeting
Working remotely has been such a pleasure, right? Telecommuting as a concept has had a positive impact on the business environment, allowing organizations and their employees to be productive in remote locations. While the benefits of telecommuting are unprecedented and significant, working remotely has also [...]
Power Apps | How to Create a Temporary Delete Function Within a Gallery
The gallery in PowerApps is a customizable tool used to share important information from a SharePoint list. This can include emails and names of new leads, or information about your largest and most loyal clients. Accidentally losing that information could be extremely inconvenient. Oftentimes, we [...]
Modern Work, Process Transformation, and Secure Cloud | What It Means at Creospark
If you’ve been keeping up with us for a while, you probably know what we’re all about. If you don’t - that’s ok, we’ll cut you some slack (just this one time). At Creospark, we like to think of ourselves as an organization that [...]
4 Non-Meeting Related Communication Tips for Microsoft Teams
When you think about Microsoft Teams, the first thing that comes to mind is probably something along the lines of hosting meetings or chatting with co-workers – but there's so much more to it. Microsoft Teams promotes efficiency and productivity within your workspace through a variety of features – no meetings required! Let’s take a [...]
