From BPOS to E7: A Short Journey I started working with SharePoint back in 2007, and over the last decade and a half I’ve worked as an enterprise architect and cloud governance specialist in the UK, watching Microsoft’s collaboration and productivity stack evolve from on‑prem farms and BPOS to Office 365, Microsoft 365 E3/E5 and… READ MORE
There’s a new SharePoint web part, and it’s really exciting – the FAQ web part. This little gem is part of Microsoft 365 Copilot, and let me tell you, it’s going to save you so much time when it comes to creating frequently asked questions for your sites. It actually creates them FOR you! This is… READ MORE
Summary SharePoint One-Time Passcode (SPO OTP) authentication will retire by August 31, 2026, transitioning external sharing and authentication in OneDrive and SharePoint to Microsoft Entra B2B starting May 2026. External users must have Entra B2B guest accounts for access, enabling consistent governance and Conditional Access across Microsoft 365. Introduction We are retiring SharePoint One‑Time Passcode (SPO… READ MORE
Microsoft has enhanced AI-generated audio briefings in Viva Connections and SharePoint. This update brings broader language support to the Viva Connections news reader and introduces AI-generated audio summaries for SharePoint site pages and news posts. Timeline The rollout should be completed for users with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license. Government tenants are excluded from this rollout. What… READ MORE
Microsoft has been rolling out a refreshed look for SharePoint Document Libraries, aligning them more closely with the new OneDrive experience. Visually, it’s clean, modern, and unquestionably consistent with Microsoft’s current design language. Functionally… well, things have moved. A lot. If you’ve been following my Pulse updates, you already know I’m not exactly the biggest… READ MORE
We’ve all been there: you’re finishing a project, you hit “Share,” and you send a link to “People in my organization.” It feels efficient in the moment, but have you ever thought about that link six months later? Or two years down the line? In our fast-paced digital workspaces, we often leave “digital doors” wide… READ MORE
One of my clients, takes many photos as part of their data entry process using a Canvas app. We need to compress the photos as the collected data, including the photos, is used to generate a PDF. This PDF generation was timing out every now and then. How to compress photos Table of Contents In… READ MORE
If you’ve ever tried to explain a Dataverse schema to a client, onboard a new developer to a complex Dynamics 365 project, or simply wrap your head around how 50+ tables relate to each other—you know the struggle. There’s no built-in ERD tool in the Power Platform. Sure, you can export metadata, draw diagrams in… READ MORE
When Power Automate flows start failing, the traditional approach involves manually navigating through the Power Automate portal, clicking through run histories, and examining individual actions to find the root cause. With my Power Platform MCP server, I can streamline this entire investigation process using natural language prompts that automatically gather context, analyze failures, and provide… READ MORE
If you’ve been working with SharePoint and Power Automate for any length of time and you work with SharePoint approval requests to get some form or file approved, you’ve probably experienced the frustration of trying to create approval workflows that feel seamlessly integrated with your SharePoint lists and libraries. The traditional Power Automate approval actions… READ MORE
