Microsoft 365

The Ultimate Guide to Microsoft Forms

Microsoft Forms empowers all users with the tools they need to gather and review important insights, no matter their level of code-savviness. Here at Creospark, we’ve been Microsoft Forms fans from day 1 of the preview. We leverage the tool in nearly all departments and have found [...]

Microsoft Ignite’s Hybrid Office Recap

Microsoft Ignite 2022 was full of exciting updates and inspiring stories, leaving us with a lot to digest! If you didn't get the chance to attend or still reeling from information overload, put your worries aside because this recap will deliver you all the essential [...]

Prevent Microsoft 365 Teams Sprawl

Microsoft Teams is an intuitive, user-friendly chat-based app within Microsoft 365 that makes digital collaboration a breeze. In fact, it’s so user-friendly that anyone can create a new Team and get a group of users working together in no time.  While creative freedom seems promising, we’ve found this [...]

Microsoft Ignite 2022: Satya Nadella Keynote Takeaways

Microsoft Ignite sure has grown since its TechEd Florida days of the early 90s. The annual Microsoft conference usually lasts three to five days, and we look forward to every minute of it each year. It's where Microsoft unveils product roadmaps and its latest innovation. [...]

Viva Engage: What Is It?

Microsoft Viva is Microsoft 365's Employee Experience Platform with a goal to unite communications, knowledge, learning, resources, and insights in the flow of work. Viva modules are accessed through Teams so that employees are encouraged to be their best selves from anywhere! The latest module [...]

Viva Goals and the Employee Experience—What 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 [...]

Office 365: Business or Enterprise?

Microsoft 365, formerly known as Office 365, is an all-in-one package of work-related applications and services. As a cloud-based model, it lets participants use a variety of tools and features to improve their organization’s productivity.  Microsoft 365 has three plans: Microsoft 365, Microsoft 365 Business, [...]

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. 

Microsoft Teams Essential vs Microsoft 365 

How do I know which Microsoft product is right for my organization?   With different, yet similar products like Microsoft Teams (free), Microsoft Teams Essential, Microsoft 365 Business, and Microsoft 365 Enterprise, it’s no wonder we can get lost in deciding which product is right for us. [...]

Tighten Your Security with Microsoft 365

After a stressful day, Evan, your employee, opens his email inbox.  Another email from work, and so late? Great.  He opens the email, and it's from your IT colleague, asking him to click the link in the email. Something about it looks a bit off... [...]

Microsoft 365 Conference confirms we’re better together

Our combined team’s recent trip to Vegas for the Microsoft 365 Conference 2022 was a time for community, enlightenment, and celebration. The conference served as a reminder that Microsoft continues to be future-forward and innovative. As PixelMill’s Eric Overfield points out, “that’s where we need them to [...]

Setting up your first Virtual Agent

What is a Virtual Agent?  Having a Virtual Agent on your website or intranet is the closest thing to replicating the experience of greeting your customers when they walk into your store. Virtual Agents are chatbots that can answer questions from your customers, employees, or [...]

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