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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.

SharePoint & Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365 Search: How It Works and How to Fix Missing Results

Fix missing Microsoft 365 and SharePoint search results by checking permissions, indexing, scope, metadata, answers and connectors in the r…

Refreshed 24 Aug 2026 · 9 min

Business Strategy & Learning

10 Small Power Platform Projects That Build Real Skill

Build Power Platform skill through ten bounded projects with acceptance tests, safe data, licensing checks and a clear route from prototype…

Refreshed 24 Aug 2026 · 3 min

Business Strategy & Learning

13 Power Platform Use Cases, with the Hard Parts Included

Thirteen practical Power Platform use cases with suitable products, data choices, licensing questions, security risks and proof boundaries.

Refreshed 24 Aug 2026 · 3 min

AI & Copilot Strategy

A 30-Day Plan to Test AI at Work Without Pretending It Is Magic

A measured 30-day AI practice plan for knowledge workers: choose real tasks, protect data, verify outputs and record what genuinely helps.

Refreshed 24 Aug 2026 · 3 min

Power BI & Data

A Practical 12-Week Power BI Data Analyst Roadmap

A realistic 12-week Power BI roadmap covering Power Query, modelling, DAX, reports, the service, security and one documented portfolio case…

Refreshed 24 Aug 2026 · 3 min

SharePoint & Microsoft 365

A Team Leader's Guide to Power Platform Environments

Choose Developer, Sandbox and Production environments for Power Platform work, with current role, licensing, isolation and promotion bounda…

Refreshed 24 Aug 2026 · 3 min

Power Apps

Advanced Power Platform Skills: A Practical Development Roadmap

A current roadmap for moving beyond single-environment Power Apps into solutions, ALM, security, testing, observability, connectors and gov…

Refreshed 24 Aug 2026 · 3 min

AI & Copilot Strategy

Agentic AI and MCP: What the Integration Layer Changes

MCP can standardise how agents discover tools, but it does not remove authentication, least privilege, prompt-injection risk, monitoring or…

Refreshed 24 Aug 2026 · 3 min

Power Apps

Agile Testing for Power Apps: A Practical Release Loop

Build a repeatable Power Apps test loop with acceptance criteria, risk-based manual checks, Test Studio automation, separate environments a…

Refreshed 24 Aug 2026 · 4 min

AI & Copilot Strategy

AI Data Security: What Happens to Your Business Data?

Understand how Copilot, Azure OpenAI, ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini handle business data today, and what settings, contracts and connectors ch…

Refreshed 24 Aug 2026 · 8 min

AI & Copilot Strategy

AI Is Changing My Job: How Do I Show I Am Ready for Promotion?

Build promotion evidence around a real task, a measured baseline, a safe AI-assisted improvement and a clear account of what still needs hu…

Refreshed 24 Aug 2026 · 3 min

Business Strategy & Learning

AI Will Change Tasks Before It Replaces Whole Jobs

AI exposure is not a job-loss forecast. Use task-level evidence to see what may automate, what changes shape and where human judgement, acc…

Refreshed 24 Aug 2026 · 5 min

Power Automate

Archive or Delete Completed Planner Tasks with Power Automate

Use Planner filters first, or build a cautious Power Automate cleanup that archives completed task data before using Planner's preview Dele…

Refreshed 24 Aug 2026 · 3 min

Microsoft Teams

Azure App Service vs Kinsta for WordPress Hosting

Choose between Azure App Service and Kinsta for a WordPress membership or learning site by comparing ownership, identity, recovery, support…

Refreshed 24 Aug 2026 · 4 min

Power Automate

Build a Curated Daily Digest with SharePoint and Power Automate

Collect RSS items in SharePoint, review them, send one controlled daily email with Power Automate and prevent duplicate stories or duplicat…

Refreshed 24 Aug 2026 · 3 min

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