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How to Build a SharePoint Intranet

How to Build a SharePoint Intranet – That Actually Works

A strategic SharePoint Intranet guide for CIOs, IT leaders, HR, and Internal Comms on building a governed, AI-ready intranet on Microsoft 365

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SharePoint Is Getting a New Look. Use It as a Readiness Checkpoint, Not Just an Update.

What the new SharePoint experience rolling out in 2026 changes — and why it’s the visual face of the same structural story Ignite already told you

Microsoft 365 E7 Is Here. Before You Upgrade, Ask Whether You Are Ready for What It Actually Requires.

What the Frontier Suite includes, who it is genuinely for, and why the licensing math is only half the decision

Tool Sprawl Is a Governance Problem. Microsoft 365 Is Not the Solution — Until You Fix That First.

Why digital workplace consolidation keeps failing — and what needs to happen before Microsoft 365 can deliver on its promise

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Your SharePoint Is Already Part of Your AI Operating Model — Is It Ready?

What Microsoft Ignite 2025 revealed about Copilot performance — and what enterprise leaders need to fix before scaling

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Microsoft Places Is Now Included in Your Microsoft 365 License — But Is Your Organization Ready to Use It?

Starting April 1, 2026, Microsoft is making Microsoft Places available to virtually all Microsoft 365 users at no additional cost.

CIO Guide to Copilot, Agents, and the Emerging AI Operating Model

A CIO Guide to Copilot, Agents, and the Emerging AI Operating Model

This article reframes the Frontier Firm concept through an enterprise lens, connecting Copilot, Work IQ, agents, and Agent 365 into a coherent architectural and operating model CIOs can actually run.

What’s new in Copilot Studio

What’s New in Copilot Studio

We walk through the newest Copilot Studio capabilities and explain what they mean for your organization—from both an IT and business perspective

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Modern & Hybrid Workplace mit Microsoft 365: Transforming Work in the Digital Age

Discover how Microsoft 365 empowers secure, compliant hybrid workplaces in Germany & EU. Boost productivity, compliance, and employee engagement.

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AI-Powered Content in SharePoint: Smarter Pages with FAQ and Agent Webparts

Whether you’re building a help center, launching a new product, or streamlining internal communications, these new AI-powered components offer flexible, future-ready solutions.

Microsoft 365: Business Process Automation with Power Automate

Microsoft 365: Business Process Automation with Power Automate

Automate business processes with Power Automate. Streamline workflows & boost efficiency. Discover rapid business process automation solutions today.

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SharePoint New Landing Page and Templates Gallery

Microsoft is refining the SharePoint experience to make content creation easier, more visual, and faster.

AI Agents in SharePoint Online

Empower Your Team with AI Agents in SharePoint Online

Microsoft has introduced Copilot agents in SharePoint Online, enabling teams to harness AI for enhanced collaboration and productivity.

Top 5 New SharePoint Features for Publishing

Top 5 New SharePoint Features for Publishing

SharePoint is the primary tool in the M365 suite for designing and building your organization’s intranet.

SharePoint Brand Center

SharePoint Brand Center

SharePoint’s new brand center allows users to choose fonts, colors, and other design elements that represent the identity of their organization, company, products, and more.

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SharePoint Premium

SharePoint Premium introduces innovative methods to interact with essential content, overseeing and safeguarding it throughout its lifecycle.

Microsoft Copilot Studio

Learn Microsoft Copilot Studio & Customise AI Agents

Microsoft Copilot Studio is a powerful tool designed to streamline and enhance the process of creating applications and integrating AI capabilities into workflows.

Microsoft Loop

What is Microsoft Loop

Microsoft Loop is a web-based text editing tool that simplifies the process of taking and sharing notes and information with everyone, including coworkers and guests.

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Power Pages – Create websites with Microsoft Power Pages

Microsoft Power Pages is a powerful, low-code platform designed to help businesses quickly create secure, data-driven websites.

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What is Microsoft Clipchamp

Microsoft Clipchamp is a web-based video editing tool that simplifies the process of video creation for everyone, including those without any editing background.

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Introduction to Power BI

Power BI is designed for individual users and large organizations. It offers tools for all analytical needs, from simple visualizations to complex enterprise-level reporting.

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Introduction to Power Automate & Unlocking Business Efficiency

Power Automate, formerly known as Microsoft Flow, is a cloud-based service from Microsoft that empowers users to automate workflows between various applications and services—no coding skills required.

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Top 5 Most Effective Power Automate Templates for Modern Businesses

Experiment with these Power Automate templates to discover the perfect fit for your needs and see firsthand how they can transform your business operations.

Microsoft Power Platform

What is Microsoft Power Platform?

Microsoft Power Platform is more than just a set of tools; it’s a catalyst for change, enabling businesses to harness the power of digital innovation to solve real-world problems, improve efficiency, and drive growth.

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Microsoft Teams Phone

Microsoft Teams telephony has established itself as an effective solution that not only improves communication, but also offers significant cost savings compared to conventional PBX systems.

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Microsoft Power Apps

Power Apps is a suite of apps, services, and connectors, as well as a data platform, that provides a rapid development environment to build custom apps for your business needs.

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Microsoft 365 Apps

Microsoft 365 Apps are available in various subscription plans for both individual users and businesses, with different levels of features and services.

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What is Microsoft Whiteboard?

Microsoft Whiteboard in Microsoft 365 is a free-form, digital new canvas where people, content, and ideas come together.

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What is Microsoft Sway

Microsoft Sway is often used for creating educational materials, marketing presentations, reports, newsletters, and more.

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What is Microsoft Stream

Microsoft Stream is an enterprise video management service that lets people in your organization create, store, share, and view videos securely.

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Microsoft OneDrive: Your Ultimate Cloud Storage Solution

Embrace the future of cloud storage with Microsoft OneDrive and experience the convenience, security, and productivity it brings to your digital life.

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What is Microsoft Forms?

Microsoft Forms allows you to quickly and easily create custom knowledge checks, surveys, polls, questionnaires, registrations, and more.

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How to use Microsoft Bookings?

Microsoft Bookings gives you the opportunity to stay in contact with your clients and customers, allowing them the schedule meetings.

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What is Microsoft To Do?

Microsoft To Do is a valuable companion that simplifies your daily routines and helps you stay on top of your tasks.

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What is Microsoft Planner and how to use it?

Microsoft Planner is a web-based visual task management tool that comes with Microsoft 365. The application is available to premium, business, and educational subscribers to Microsoft 365.

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What is Microsoft 365 Copilot?

Adding the capabilities of ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, to Microsoft 365 Apps, such as Word, Excel & PowerPoint is a real game-changer.

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How to Start with Microsoft Graph API

By using Microsoft Graph, you can take advantage of a secured, unified API to connect to data located in various Microsoft 365 services.

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What is Microsoft Teams Premium, and what are the benefits?

Microsoft Teams Premium is a Teams add-on license that allows organizations with Microsoft 365 subscriptions to enhance their Teams experience.

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Cloud vs Own Infrastructure

When planning your resources you have to consider the costs and benefits of owning your own IT infrastructure or use IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) from a CSP (Cloud Service Provider).

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Microsoft Viva Modules

Microsoft Viva is an employee experience platform that brings together communications, knowledge, learning, resources, and insights in the flow of work.

SharePoint Guide

The Complete SharePoint Guide

Find out how to use SharePoint for document management, project management, intranet portals, and more. SharePoint is a web-based collaboration and document management platform that allows teams to store, organize, and share information and files.

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Microsoft Viva – the New Employee Experience Platform

Microsoft Viva is the new employee experience platform that’s designed to empower people and teams to be their best.

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What is an Intranet? Definition, Benefits and Features.

Having a good intranet means it’s used by your employees. If they don’t ever open it, that simply means it’s not done right.

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Top 5 SharePoint (and Intranet) must have features & benefits

We‘ve reviewed the 5 most vauable features/benefits of a SharePoint Online Intranet.

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How to get Started with SharePoint & Document Management

SharePoint helps organizations to store, retrieve, search, manage, track, archive, and report on various electronic documents and records.

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Ultimate Guide on How to Use SharePoint (and Intranet)

With Microsoft’s SharePoint new concept of Modern Intranet, things can get really beautiful, nice and easy to use and in a much quicker way.

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How to make SharePoint Intranet GDPR Compliant

The tools and resources presented here can help you manage and protect your PII data but are not a guarantee of GDPR compliance.

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How to get started with SharePoint Intranet integration

SharePoint Online integrations with Power Platform enable you to work with variety of data sources and other tools on the market.

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Essential SharePoint (and Intranet) Review by Experts

SharePoint is suited for organizations of all sizes and from virtually any industry, but there could be better choices at a better cost?

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Confluence vs. SharePoint – Which Collaboration tool is right for me?

Both Confluence and SharePoint have pros and cons and one can be a better fit for you, depending on your needs.

SharePoint Migration

How to migrate your Intranet to SharePoint Online?

What if you could create an intranet with SharePoint Online, and migrate all of your documents and data with the highest availability in the cloud? Now you can.

SharePoint Site Templates

Ultimate Review of TOP 3 SharePoint Templates for Intranet and Collaboration

The new SharePoint scenario-based site templates can help you meet a variety of business needs, but only if they’re understood and implemented correctly.

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[UPDATED] Microsoft Viva – Employee Experience Platform EXP

With the introduction of Microsoft Viva, Microsoft’s goal is to strengthen the position of Teams as a hub for everyone’s workday, connecting everything to make it more convenient.

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Microsoft 365 Learning Pathways – What’s In It For You

The Microsoft 365 Learning Pathways solution is a quick and easy entry point to Microsoft 365 knowledge & organizations’ training strategies.

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SharePoint Home Site – The Why and The How

The SharePoint Home Site is a key feature of your organization’s Modern Intranet information architecture.

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SharePoint App Bar Quick Start

The SharePoint app bar is a significant change to the user experience and your organization’s intranet information architecture.

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Get Started with the SharePoint Look Book

The SharePoint look book service is a nice and inspiring starting point for your journey to a Modern Intranet with SharePoint Online.

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Modern Workplace Updates – Ignite 2021 News Summary

Ignite came in a different season this year, and maybe we’ll see two editions this year? Who knows… tech is moving fast…

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Top 10 Teams News

As you can see, Microsoft was busy developing some nice new features. We’ve recently posted about an important update to Teams Guest Access and did a deep dive on the SharePoint Home site app coming to Teams.

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SharePoint Viva Connections (formerly known as the Home site app)

With the new Homesite app, you will be able to integrate your intranet based on SharePoint Online right into Teams with a few clicks.

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[UPDATE] Teams Guest Access will be ON by default

Be prepared, stay in the know, plan for action, and monitor the Microsoft 365 Message Center frequently. While Guest access is a valuable feature, be aware of the risks it brings if left unmanaged.

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Speed up Your Compliance Journey with Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365 comes with many built-in and predefined templates and gives you the freedom to create your own rules. Start today.

Microsoft 365 (previously Office 365) MS Forms, Power Automate and SharePoint for business processes with a practical example: Efficient Data protection (GDPR) Inquiry

In this blog post, we propose an efficient and user-friendly way to implement a data protection contact form based on existing Microsoft Office 365 solutions. …