Every file you've ever uploaded to a Teams channel already lives in SharePoint. So the real question isn't whether you're using SharePoint in Teams. It's whether you're getting everything out of it. In this week's Power Hour, I walked through all the ways to bring SharePoint into Teams. In this post, we'll cover libraries, channel tabs, and a handy email trick.

Let's talk about a Power Automate action that's going to save you (and your end users) a ton of headaches and time. On this week's Power Hour, we dug into how to generate a document from a form — and specifically, how to do it after an approval process. Here's the thing: I've built a lot of approval workflows over the years, and the pain point is almost always the same.

Microsoft retired SharePoint alerts. That little Alert me option your users leaned on for years? Gone. So now everybody wants to know the same thing: how do I let people subscribe to changes in a list or library without it? There's a brand-new SharePoint trigger in Power Automate that sends a daily digest of everything that was added or changed. It's still in preview, and out of the box it only covers one site and one list.

Have you ever been asked for a dashboard and immediately thought about how time consuming it would be to create? In this week's Power Hour, I built an instant SharePoint Copilot dashboard HTML file straight from a regular SharePoint list. It has interactive filters, four kinds of charts, live search, and clickable rows that open a details popup. No Power BI license.

For this post and video, I put together ten cool things you can do with AI Builder in Power Automate. I built demos for almost all of them. 🧾 1. Extract data from invoices Microsoft already knows what an invoice looks like. Because of that, there is a whole prebuilt action called Process invoices. Your trigger can be anything. For example, a file landing in a SharePoint library or an email attachment arriving in your inbox.

Does this sound familiar? Someone at your company organized files by year, then someone else came along and reorganized everything by department. Now nobody knows which folder holds what, and everyone's just guessing. This happens all the time with file organization, it's one of the biggest reasons SharePoint pros like me have been pushing metadata instead of folders. But here's the thing — getting people to actually…

I'm thrilled to share that I'll be back on stage at the Power Platform Community Conference in Las Vegas again this year! Mark your calendars, because the dates are October 27-29, 2026. I'll be presenting two sessions, and both are geared toward business users, makers, and anyone who wants to get more out of Power Platform without writing code.

You've probably started hearing the term "MCP" everywhere lately. So what is it, and why should a business user like you care? That's exactly what we covered on this week's Power Hour post and video, and I want to break it down here too, because MCP in Copilot Studio is genuinely one of the most exciting no-code capabilities I've seen. It's not just a Microsoft thing, either.

I started my SharePoint admin career 20 years ago, and if there's one thing that hasn't changed since then, it's this: SharePoint migration planning is where projects succeed or fail — long before anyone opens a migration tool. I did a Power Hour this week about this, and I want to walk through what I covered, because I think a lot of you are either mid-migration right now or about to be.

As your Microsoft 365 environment grows — more sites, more teams, more users, more content — it gets harder to keep track of who has access to what, which sites are still active, and whether your sharing settings still make sense. That's where Microsoft 365 governance comes in, and the good news is there are some really solid tools to help you stay on top of it.

The SharePoint News web part just got some exciting updates, and this post and video contains a full deep dive — not just what's new, but into everything this web part can do. Because honestly, once you understand the News web part well, it becomes one of the most powerful communication tools in your entire Microsoft 365 toolkit. What Is the SharePoint News Web Part?

🤖 If you have a Microsoft 365 Copilot license, there are some seriously useful things sitting right inside your Copilot interface — and I want to make sure you know about all of them. Over the past couple of Power Hours, we covered two built-in Microsoft 365 Copilot agents plus the agent builder templates, which let you create your own custom agents from scratch.

📣 It's Finally Here I've been working on something big for the last several months, and I'm thrilled to finally share it with you. My newest course, Power BI for Power Users, is now live on my website, IW Mentor. If you've ever opened Power BI, stared at the screen for ten minutes, and then gone back to Excel — this course was built for you.

If you've opened a SharePoint list or library this week and noticed something different at the top of the command bar, you may have noticed a new button! Microsoft just rolled out the new SharePoint Workflows button, and it's a game-changer for end users who've may have seen Power Automate as intimidating. In this post and video, I'll walk you through exactly what's new, where to find it, and how the experience changes if you have a Microsoft 365 Copilot license.

Have you ever needed a quick confirmation pop-up in your canvas app — and ended up spending half an hour layering rectangles, buttons, text labels, and variables just to fake it? Well, those days are officially over! 🎉 The new Confirm function in Power Apps lets you create an instant pop-up confirmation box with a single line of code. No more rectangles.

Have you ever needed end users to fill out a form and have it instantly populate a professional Word document or PDF? If so, SharePoint structured documents is a brand new feature that does exactly that — and it's a total game changer! 🎉 In this post and video, I'll walk you through exactly how to set up SharePoint structured documents, including the very cool…

Did you know that Power Apps has a built-in calendar screen template that you can add to any app? Even better — you can swap out the default Outlook calendar data and point your Power Apps calendar to your own SharePoint list (or even a Dataverse or SQL table!) in just a few minutes. That's exactly what we covered on this week's…

Have you ever kicked off an approval process, only to have it sit there waiting because the approver is on vacation? 😩 In this blog and video, I tackle that problem — building a flow that automatically checks whether your approver has an out-of-office reply turned on, and if they do, routes the approval to someone else instead. No form-filling, no manual intervention.

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