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SharePoint 2013 Workflows: Admins Should Act Now
November 11, 2025
SharePoint 2013 workflows are legacy technology and should be replaced. Microsoft is removing SharePoint 2013...more
Teams Premium Goes Beyond Meetings and Webinars
November 10, 2025
Teams Premium is an add-on User Subscription License (User SL) that adds capabilities to users...more
AI Comes to SharePoint Server Subscription Edition
November 4, 2025
Document Intelligence, a new feature for summarizing files in SharePoint Server SE, uses Azure OpenAI....more
SharePoint Knowledge Agent: A Boon for Content Management (with Caveats)
October 28, 2025
Knowledge Agent can simplify the challenges of maintaining SharePoint Online document libraries and Web content....more
Dynamics 365 License Compliance Enforcement Delayed to at Least Jan. 2026
October 20, 2025
Microsoft has delayed plans to lock the Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations front door from...more
Understanding Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Chat in Office Apps
October 20, 2025
M365 Copilot for Office Applications primarily assists individuals but can streamline Office-centric processes for some...more
Is Copilot Search the Next Generation of Enterprise Search?
October 13, 2025
Copilot Search is an AI assistant for Microsoft 365 that allows users to search using...more
Understanding Copilot for SharePoint
October 7, 2025
Copilot for SharePoint can reduce the effort of managing Web pages but does not offer...more
Project Online to Shut Down Sept. 30, 2026
Updated: September 22, 2025
The Project Online service will shut down in Sept. 2026 and remove access to all...more
Improving Data Analysis with Microsoft Analyst Agent
August 26, 2025
Microsoft Analyst can accelerate complex data analysis to deliver insights using a small reasoning model...more
Microsoft Researcher Agent Can Speed Decision-Making, But Check Your Work
August 8, 2025
Microsoft Researcher can accelerate complex decision-making by using deep reasoning and retrieval across business and...more
SharePoint Alerts Retiring: What You Need to Know
August 7, 2025
Microsoft appears to be moving aggressively to retire SharePoint alerts by July 2026, which could...more
Understanding SharePoint Agents
July 24, 2025
SharePoint agents can empower users with default and custom low-code AI solutions for SharePoint sites....more
Begin Move to Exchange Server SE to Keep Support
July 3, 2025
Organizations running Exchange in their own data centers must migrate quickly to Exchange Server SE. ...more
Viva Packaging for Microsoft 365 Users
June 30, 2025
The most commonly used end-user features of Viva are built into Microsoft 365 licenses. Customers...more
Exchange Server: Migrate Off Legacy Versions by Oct. 2025
Updated: June 27, 2025
Exchange Server 2016 and 2019 customers will have 90 days or less under product support...more
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Office Online Server
Office Online Server is retiring Dec. 31, 2026
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Project Online
Project Online is a cloud service for managing project schedules and resource data, reporting time...more
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Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft 365 Copilot is Microsoft’s AI-based productivity service for organizations featuring chat, search, and image...more
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Skype for Business Server
Skype for Business Server is an on-premises product that provides a unified communications solution for...more
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Exchange Server
Exchange Server provides e-mail communication and manages calendars, contacts, and tasks.
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Purview Message Encryption
Microsoft Purview Message Encryption is a Microsoft-hosted service that encrypts e-mail messages, providing end-to-end, persistent...more
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To Do
To Do is a service for managing a user’s task lists across devices that is...more
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Project Server
Project Server is a SharePoint Server application for managing project schedules and resource data, reporting...more
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Project Legacy Clients
The Project client applications provide project and resource management for project managers.
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Exchange Online
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Project for the Web
Project for the Web capabilities have been incorporated as a set of premium capabilities in...more
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Microsoft 365 Groups
Microsoft 365 Groups are a special type of Entra ID user group that grants access...more
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SharePoint Online
SharePoint Online is a cloud service that provides team collaboration, corporate portal hosting, enterprise search,...more
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SharePoint Server
SharePoint Server software is a Windows Server-based application that is used for customers who are...more
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OneDrive for Business
OneDrive for Business provides hosted file storage and sharing for Microsoft 365 users and for...more
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Microsoft Lists
Microsoft Lists is an information-tracking application based on SharePoint list technology that lets users create,...more
Podcasts
Get Ready for Microsoft’s Coming Licensing Changes
August 26, 2025
· Season - 4 · Episode - 14 · Duration - 19m Is No-Code Really Dead?August 8, 2025
· Season - 4 · Episode - 13 · Duration - 23mBlog
November 18, 2025
Microsoft Ignite 2025: Ten Things You Need to Know
by Mary Jo Foley
November 12, 2025
Microsoft’s Agent 365 digital ’employees’ are coming for your business
by Mary Jo Foley
September 10, 2025
Microsoft Is Fixing its Copilot Branding and Pricing (A Bit)
by Mary Jo Foley