What we are learning, as we learn it.
318 posts on AI at work, Copilot, the Power Platform, SharePoint and Teams, plus the honest account of rebuilding a business while the ground moves.
Behind the Scenes
I'm Experienced. Why Does Starting Again Feel So Exposing?
Helen Jones reflects on becoming a beginner again at 55, why workplace learning feels riskier than experimenting at the allotment, and why …
Refreshed 24 Aug 2026 · 3 min
Behind the Scenes
Four Weeks In, I Had to Say: I Don't Know
Helen's account of returning to Collab365, getting stuck during a content migration and using a simple visible workflow instead of pretendi…
Refreshed 24 Aug 2026 · 2 min
Behind the Scenes
Could AI Agents Break Per-Seat SaaS Pricing?
A founder's view of how AI agents could change software interfaces, usage and pricing, grounded in what Microsoft is already doing with Cop…
Refreshed 24 Aug 2026 · 2 min
Behind the Scenes
If AI Cuts Every Cost, Who Is Left to Buy?
A founder's response to The AI Layoff Trap, separating the paper's economic model from claims about what automation will actually do to job…
Refreshed 24 Aug 2026 · 2 min
Behind the Scenes
Our Five-Day Challenge Taught Us the Wrong Lesson About Completion
What Collab365 learned from low completion in long-form Microsoft 365 programmes, and why useful support must fit the problem and the worki…
Refreshed 24 Aug 2026 · 2 min
Behind the Scenes
We Want AI to Help With Meta Ads. We Are Not Giving It the Credit Card.
How Mark and Helen are thinking about AI-assisted ad analysis, what Meta's Marketing API makes possible and why budgets and publishing stil…
Refreshed 24 Aug 2026 · 2 min
Behind the Scenes
I Freeze in Photos, So I Tried an AI Headshot
Helen's honest account of using an AI-generated professional photo, including what helped, what felt wrong and the checks to make before us…
Refreshed 24 Aug 2026 · 2 min
Behind the Scenes
I Was 55, Redundant and Getting No Interviews
Helen's account of redundancy, a difficult return to the job market and why varied small-business experience became useful again without pr…
Refreshed 24 Aug 2026 · 2 min
Behind the Scenes
Our Daughter Thinks AI Makes Career Planning Feel Pointless
A father's honest account of a difficult family conversation about AI, reception work and the difference between task exposure and a foreca…
Refreshed 24 Aug 2026 · 2 min
Power Apps
Add SharePoint List Attachments from a Power Apps Gallery
Use a gallery to select a SharePoint record and a form to add or remove its attachments. Understand why the standard attachment control can…
Refreshed 24 Aug 2026 · 3 min
Behind the Scenes
After 19 Years and 4,500 Registrations, I Still Don't Know How to Reach People
Mark Jones reflects on the change from 4,500 registrations for SP24 without paid advertising to a world of AI search, stricter inbox rules …
Refreshed 24 Aug 2026 · 4 min
Power Apps
Check SharePoint Group Membership in Power Apps Safely
Understand the difference between SharePoint and Microsoft Entra groups, choose a supported membership check, and keep UI visibility separa…
Refreshed 24 Aug 2026 · 3 min
Power BI & Data
Connect Microsoft Forms Responses to Power BI Safely
Choose a supported route from Microsoft Forms to Power BI using the response workbook or Power Automate, with clear ownership, refresh and …
Refreshed 24 Aug 2026 · 3 min
Power Automate
Dynamic Multiple Approvers in Power Automate: All, First or Parallel
Choose Everyone must approve, First to respond or true parallel approval branches for a dynamic approver list without editing Microsoft app…
Refreshed 24 Aug 2026 · 4 min
SharePoint & Microsoft 365
Fix 'We Couldn't Authenticate with the Credentials Provided' in Power Query
Repair Power Query authentication to SharePoint by checking the URL, clearing the correct data-source permission and testing tenant and Con…
Refreshed 24 Aug 2026 · 3 min
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