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The Microsoft 365 Conference
The Microsoft 365 Conference welcomes you back to the community, the learning, and the celebration. We invite you to come to Las Vegas for the largest, in-person gathering of the Microsoft community in the world. The conference embraces Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Sharepoint and Microsoft Power Platform. You’ll meet peers from around the world to share knowledge and experience, and you’ll be guided by dozens of Microsoft product team members and industry experts as you learn what you need to create the inclusive, hybrid workplace of the future. You’ll discover what’s new from Microsoft executives including Jeff Teper and Charles Lamanna. You’ll dive deep into Viva, Teams, SharePoint, Power Platform, Outlook, Yammer and more with Microsoft's product leaders including Karuana Gatimu, Naomi Moneypenny, Mark Kashman and Dan Holme. And you’ll gain real-world insights from Microsoft MVPs, experts and customers. No other event offers the breadth, the depth, and the practical, real-world guidance you’ll find at the Microsoft 365 Conference.
Foster Empathy in Your Team by Ending Your Teams Meetings 5 Minutes Earlier
Since the move to the cloud and the adoption of a hybrid office for remote work, we have found that there are days where we get back to back to back to back meetings. This leaves no time for washroom breaks, snack breaks, catch up [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Microsoft Viva Learning | Your New Study Buddy
* Viva Topics will be retired on Feb 22, 2025, and has ceased new feature developments as of February 22, 2024, due to Microsoft's focus on Copilot. * Whether you’re an expert in your field or have just switched professions or maybe you’re just a curious being, there are always more opportunities [...]
Understanding Microsoft Viva Topics | A Comprehensive Overview
* Viva Topics will be retired on Feb 22, 2025, and has ceased new feature developments as of February 22, 2024, due to Microsoft's focus on Copilot. * Artificial intelligence is taking over the world. Time to stop fearing SkyNet and embrace Johnny 5, friends! [...]
Microsoft Viva Connections | What Is It?
* Viva Topics will be retired on Feb 22, 2025, and has ceased new feature developments as of February 22, 2024, due to Microsoft's focus on Copilot. * One of the more obvious challenges presented by a remote work environment is the lack of social [...]
Viva Insights | What Is It and What Are the Benefits?
* Viva Topics will be retired on Feb 22, 2025, and has ceased new feature developments as of February 22, 2024, due to Microsoft's focus on Copilot. * Every single day that you show up to work, whether virtually or in the office, you’re releasing [...]
Microsoft Ignite 2021 Recap
* Viva Topics will be retired on Feb 22, 2025, and has ceased new feature developments as of February 22, 2024, due to Microsoft's focus on Copilot. * Another year is ending, and this means that Microsoft Ignite 2021 has taken place yet again. Microsoft [...]
Microsoft 365 Office Features to Empower Your Modern Work
Let’s start by thinking back on the massive shifts that have hit the work environment in the last year and a half and forced us all into a business transformation frenzy that we call modern work, shall we? Traditional work habits were put to [...]
What is Microsoft Viva | The Viva Platforms Explained
* Viva Topics will be retired on Feb 22, 2025, and has ceased new feature developments as of February 22, 2024, due to Microsoft's focus on Copilot. * As an organization, you’re constantly looking for the best tools, processes, and applications available to better [...]
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 [...]
Improve Your Remote Leadership with Microsoft Teams
Leadership is not always an easy skill to acquire. For some, it comes naturally but for many, it must be taught. The tricky part about leadership, however, is that remote leadership is completely different. A manager can't just walk by to get a quick update [...]
Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS) Licensing Explained!
How many devices do you own? A laptop, a tablet, a phone, maybe a gaming console, a smart TV, or a family desktop computer as well? How many of those have you ever used for work? Probably at least a couple. We check our emails [...]
Team Engagement in a Remote Environment Using Microsoft Teams
We now know that we’re capable of working remotely, and I think it’s fair to say that we have gotten pretty used to it, whether we wanted to or not! It has been such a long time! Seeing so many organizations adopt remote work simultaneously surely brought a lot of questions: are you [...]
6 Practical Tips for Using Microsoft Teams to Its Full Potential
What’s one thing that we could all use a little more of (and no I’m not talking about money)? Time. It can be hard to fit in work, family, a social life, physical activity (sometimes) all into one day. That’s why most people tend to [...]
Leverage Microsoft Forms During Teams Meetings
At this point, we’re all well aware of the struggles that arise when trying to ask a question during a large remote meeting. Either someone forgets to go off mute, there’s background noise or everyone starts talking at once – we’ve all been there. Microsoft Teams presents a much simpler option of asking a [...]
What is Microsoft Bookings?
We all live hectic professional lives, and finding ways to win back precious time is essential. Booking meetings in the corporate world should be an Olympic sport. Stop wasting precious time communicating back and forth to book meetings! Microsoft Bookings allows you and your customers [...]
Why Brand Your Virtual Background in Microsoft Teams?
These days practically everyone is connecting through virtual meetings. They provide the flexibility that so many people desire, even though we were slightly forced into it. However, some may say that despite all the benefits of virtual meetings, they still fall a little flat. They [...]
5 Quick Tips to Increase Your Efficiency in Microsoft Teams
We all have a few routine tasks and features we access in Microsoft Teams, depending on how you use the app and for what purpose. Believe it or not, there are still many people only using MS Teams for the purpose of chats and online [...]
