Aug. 27, 2026

SharePoint Isn't Boring Anymore: How Copilot Is Reinventing the Modern Workplace with Marcin Siewnicki [MVP]

SharePoint Isn't Boring Anymore: How Copilot Is Reinventing the Modern Workplace with Marcin Siewnicki [MVP]
SharePoint Isn't Boring Anymore: How Copilot Is Reinventing the Modern Workplace with Marcin Siewnicki [MVP]
M365 FM Podcast
SharePoint Isn't Boring Anymore: How Copilot Is Reinventing the Modern Workplace with Marcin Siewnicki [MVP]

Key Takeaways

  • SharePoint's historical reputation for being complicated and outdated largely stemmed from IT-led implementations that lacked user feedback and proper information architecture.
  • Establishing a simple, clean information architecture with basic metadata before adding content is crucial to preventing SharePoint environments from turning into chaotic shared folders.
  • Copilot for Microsoft 365 fundamentally changes how employees interact with SharePoint, shifting the platform from a traditional document storage layer into an intelligent enterprise knowledge base.
  • Regular governance policies, such as periodic permission reviews and lifecycle management for inactive sites and teams, are essential to preventing sprawl and over-sharing.
  • AI can significantly reduce the manual burden of document management by analyzing content and automatically populating metadata columns based on natural language.

For years, SharePoint has carried a reputation for complicated document libraries, outdated intranets, confusing navigation, too many sites, and information that employees simply cannot find. But Microsoft 365 is changing, and Copilot is making SharePoint more important than it has been in a long time.In this episode of the M365 FM Podcast, Mirko Peters talks with Microsoft MVP Marcin Siewnicki about how SharePoint is evolving from a traditional document and intranet platform into a central information and knowledge layer for the modern workplace. Marcin has worked with SharePoint since the SharePoint 2003 era, giving him more than two decades of perspective on how the platform has changed.

WHY SHAREPOINT GOT A BAD REPUTATION
Much of SharePoint’s reputation was created by the way organizations implemented it. Intranets were often designed by IT, heavily customized, difficult to use, and disconnected from what employees actually needed.Instead of continuously gathering feedback and improving the experience, many companies delivered an intranet and expected employees to adapt to it. The result was complex navigation, outdated content, overloaded pages, and systems people avoided whenever possible.

INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE BEFORE TECHNOLOGY
One of the biggest problems is not SharePoint itself but how information is organized inside it. Without a clear information architecture, SharePoint can quickly become a huge shared folder filled with duplicated files, outdated information, unclear ownership, and multiple versions of the same document.Marcin explains why organizations should start with a simple structure, understand their data, remove unnecessary content, and introduce basic metadata. Information architecture does not have to be complicated to make SharePoint significantly easier to use.

BUILDING A MODERN SHAREPOINT WORKPLACE
A modern SharePoint homepage should not become an endless collection of web parts, corporate announcements, applications, and links. It should be simple, personalized, visually clear, and focused on what employees actually need.Communication sites can provide departments and organizations with modern, mobile-friendly publishing experiences without requiring the enormous custom intranet projects that were common in the past. The focus should be on useful information, important applications, relevant documents, straightforward navigation, and strong search capabilities.

SOLVING THE SHAREPOINT NAVIGATION PROBLEM
Navigation remains one of SharePoint’s biggest challenges. Organizations frequently attempt to expose every department, application, resource, and internal page through a single navigation structure.Marcin explains why simpler navigation usually works better. Global navigation should focus on the most important destinations, while detailed navigation can be provided closer to individual departments, sites, and business areas. Otherwise, navigation itself becomes another information problem.

SHAREPOINT AND TEAMS SPRAWL
Microsoft Teams and SharePoint are deeply connected. Every new Team and many Teams channels can introduce additional SharePoint resources, which means uncontrolled Teams creation can quickly become uncontrolled SharePoint growth.Organizations therefore need simple creation processes, templates, basic metadata, lifecycle management, and user education. Employees should understand when they need a Team, when a SharePoint site is sufficient, and what happens behind the scenes when these collaboration environments are created.One useful way of looking at the relationship is to think of Microsoft Teams as the collaboration interface while SharePoint provides much of the document and information layer underneath it.

GOVERNANCE WITHOUT KILLING INNOVATION
Governance does not need to mean preventing employees from using new technology. The goal is to provide enough freedom for people to work effectively while maintaining control over information, permissions, external sharing, security, and lifecycle management.Marcin discusses periodically reviewing inactive SharePoint sites and Teams, identifying environments that are no longer needed, checking ownership, reviewing permissions, and archiving or removing obsolete workspaces.Governance also cannot remain exclusively an IT exercise. Business stakeholders and users need to be involved because overly complicated policies often lead employees to find their own workarounds.

PERMISSIONS, SHARING AND SECURITY
Permissions become increasingly difficult to understand as SharePoint environments grow. Users add colleagues, external partners, vendors, and sharing links over time, but access is rarely reviewed with the same frequency.Regular permission reviews should therefore become part of the governance model. Site and Team owners need responsibility for checking who still requires access and whether external sharing remains necessary.Microsoft Purview sensitivity labels can add another security layer by helping organizations classify and protect information based on its sensitivity.

AUTOMATING SHAREPOINT GOVERNANCE
Governance does not have to be completely manual. PowerShell, Microsoft Graph, Power Automate, Azure Logic Apps, and specialized third-party platforms can automate many administrative and governance processes.Marcin sees PowerShell and Microsoft Graph as fundamental tools for administrators, while Power Automate can provide practical automation for provisioning, approvals, notifications, lifecycle processes, and many other SharePoint scenarios.

MODERN DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT
SharePoint is still heavily associated with documents, and documents remain an important part of the platform. The challenge is managing them properly.Metadata, naming conventions, permissions, versioning, storage management, and sensitivity labels all contribute to a healthier information environment. Versioning deserves particular attention because large documents with many retained versions can consume significant amounts of SharePoint storage.

METADATA VS. FOLDERS
The old SharePoint debate between folders and metadata has not completely disappeared. Marcin argues that metadata remains extremely valuable, but organizations need to keep their metadata models simple.If users need to spend too much time deciding how to classify every document, adoption will suffer. Metadata should support the way employees work rather than creating another administrative task.

COPILOT CAN AUTOMATE METADATA
Copilot changes this equation because AI can reduce the manual work associated with metadata. SharePoint can analyze documents, extract relevant information, and populate columns based on the content.Organizations still need to decide which metadata is useful, but employees no longer necessarily have to enter everything manually. This can make structured information much more practical at scale.

COPILOT CHANGES SHAREPOINT
Copilot significantly lowers the amount of SharePoint knowledge employees need before they can start accomplishing useful work.Users can increasingly create content, work with documents, extract information, generate pages, and interact with organizational knowledge using natural language instead of understanding every technical SharePoint concept.Many of the repetitive tasks traditionally associated with maintaining SharePoint environments can therefore become easier.

FROM FINDING DOCUMENTS TO GETTING ANSWERS
This may be the biggest change of all.Traditional SharePoint experiences required employees to find the right site, navigate to the right library, locate the correct document, open it, and search for the information they needed.Copilot changes that interaction. Instead of only finding documents, employees can increasingly ask questions and receive answers based on information stored across their Microsoft 365 environment.SharePoint therefore starts moving from document storage toward becoming an enterprise knowledge layer.

COPILOT CAN UNDERSTAND MORE THAN OFFICE DOCUMENTS
Organizational knowledge is not limited to Word documents, Excel files, and PowerPoint presentations.Copilot can work with different types of information, including text, HTML, Markdown, SharePoint lists, and content extracted from video transcripts.That means training videos, recorded meetings, presentations, and other media stored within the Microsoft 365 environment can become part of the knowledge available through AI.

WHAT HAPPENED TO SHAREPOINT AGENTS?
SharePoint Agents provide dedicated AI experiences grounded in selected SharePoint sites, document libraries, or information sources.Marcin discusses where these agents fit into the current Copilot landscape and why the concept has become less prominent as Copilot itself gains broader capabilities for interacting directly with SharePoint information.

IS SHAREPOINT REALLY COPILOT’S KNOWLEDGE LAYER?
There is certainly marketing around the idea, but there is also a strong technical reality behind it.Organizations already store enormous amounts of business information in SharePoint and Microsoft Teams. Copilot can use this information, which means the quality of the underlying environment directly affects the quality of the AI experience.Poor permissions, outdated documents, duplicated information, weak metadata, and uncontrolled SharePoint sprawl do not disappear because Copilot has been introduced. They potentially become even more important

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Frequently Asked Questions

Why did SharePoint get a bad reputation in organizations?

SharePoint often gained a negative reputation because intranets were built by IT based on management demands rather than employee needs, resulting in complex navigation, cluttered pages, and poor user adoption.

How does Copilot change the way we use SharePoint?

Copilot allows users to interact with organizational knowledge using natural language, moving the experience from navigating complex folder structures and searching for documents to getting direct answers.

What is the relationship between Microsoft Teams and SharePoint?

Microsoft Teams acts primarily as the collaboration user interface, while SharePoint serves as the underlying document and information management layer.

How can organizations prevent SharePoint and Teams sprawl?

Organizations can control sprawl by implementing simple provisioning processes that require business justification, using basic metadata templates, and regularly reviewing inactive workspaces for archiving.

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Hello everybody and welcome back to the Amsti65FAM podcast.

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For years SharePoint has had a reputation problem.

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Ask many employees what they think about SharePoint and you will hear

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familiar answers, complicated document libraries, outdated

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intranets, impossible navigation, too many sites and

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information nobody can find.

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Microsoft 365 is changing and AI could fundamentally change the

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role SharePoint plans inside modern workplaces because when co-pilot needs

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organization knowledge documents permissions context and business

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information, suddenly the way we structure SharePoint becomes extremely

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important. My guest today is Martin C. Vesnik,

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Microsoft 365 solution architect with more than 20 years experience of

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creating an implementing business application based on SharePoint

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and Microsoft 365. Massive specialized in building modern workplaces using

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SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Power Platform, Power Automate and

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increasingly co-pilot. He is also active in the Microsoft community,

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co-organized the SharePoint Saturday, Waslove and regulated speaks at community

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events. Today we are going to explore how SharePoint and Teams fit

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together, why traditional intranets need to evolve and how

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co-pilot change information is covering, what organizations need to fix

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before introducing AI and what AI power modern workplaces could look like in the

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next few years. Martin, welcome to the MC65athon podcast.

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Hello everyone, thank you for the great introduction.

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Awesome, so you started in the IT 20-5, how did you only get into SharePoint?

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old one, looking from now. So I started working at SharePoint

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as a user, power user, add the mean and customizing in building

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solutions based on SharePoint. It was pretty interesting,

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no path from the simple user so I had to use documents, upload documents,

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create lists, items, records and so on.

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within a few years. Awesome, and now yeah, I think

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when, what will you say with did SharePoint look like when you started

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compared to the platform we have today?

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back in the days. You had to know what you want to do,

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how you want to do that task and so on, you had to understand the platform

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correctly. It was a pretty complex solution because

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portal. So yeah, it was a complex solution, you had to use additional tools

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to create pages, to create complex library views or

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list views or add some automation. You had to use additional tools and

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know really you had to know what you are doing.

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because that knowledge level is pretty low. You can start quickly working SharePoint,

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you can work with your documents, sites, with your data in general

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comparing to 20 years ago or even 10 years ago, it was just, you know, like day and night.

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reputation so we also titled it, "Shaport is boring anymore"

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intranet solutions with a lot of wet parts, a lot of, you know,

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customizations, it was, first of all, usually it was ugly, simply ugly.

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on the very first date. And I had to use some of those

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intranets and it wasn't the best experience to be honest.

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IT guys, IT staff, built that reputation,

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and future actually. So is it because I don't know the IT

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things, they build something great or build, we build, we

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intranets based on what the management things instead of what

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looks or something? Yes, I saw it many times that, that thing

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architecture and how much comes from governance?

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know how to use, how to build it, don't know even what it is.

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use it. So usually SharePoint is a

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shared folder for huge bucket for everything. So there's no

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information architecture. And then it's hard to find information, hard to find

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documents. Usually you have five, ten, twenty versions of the same document

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currently used, which one is outdated.

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biggest pain point in Manage SharePoint implementation.

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information architecture is the biggest thing I think.

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modern SharePoint architecture look like?

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something that has been always in the SharePoint. So metadata

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properly implemented or it can be based, basically, metadata implementation,

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but it must be created before we start

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working with documents. And then we need to understand our own data and

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hit it, simple, remove all those duplicates, all those

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unnecessary data because it makes just chaos in inside SharePoint.

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even basic one, actually, that's good enough for most of

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implementation, most of companies.

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what should it actuary accomplish? Home page, that's interesting.

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Home page, well, the best one is that it's a bit personalized, so it shows

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what I need to do, my data, my own information,

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and so on. So it should be somehow attached to my own

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information. Of course, it should be good looking

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home page because we have nice and beautiful pages,

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but it should be personalized and it should contain all those information that I

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probably need, should use. So my applications, my documents,

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pretty simple navigation, not too complex. This is

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GQ1, not too complex. And of course, search, right now, copy lots,

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it's a bit different, but

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that's the thing, not too complex. So pretty simple, I saw many, many

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home pages that I don't know, maybe even four pages,

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hate, so it's, you know, scroll down, scroll down, and oh, that's the thing that I was

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looking for. No, if it's not on that top page, it won't be used to be honest.

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I think this is the most important part because if we use SharePoint sites,

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we need to come, we want to communicate something,

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and communication sites are, though, pretty, they are properly implemented,

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those out of the box templates are, I think, good enough for most

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organizations. And if it's implemented with basic information, it's good enough.

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You can easily, I use it as even as your intranet portal,

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simply good enough, basic information, basic news, some links,

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good looking, mobile, friendly, that's great. And I think,

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also about mobile, that this is extremely important right now because usually

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I spend a lot of time on my phone and store my SharePoint

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sites or my customer sites. And if it's not working on my mobile, I probably

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won't use it. Yeah, and we have the other,

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I think, how do they fit into the architecture?

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Yeah, it's a nice concept, but many organizations don't know how to use it,

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because it's simply connection between sites. Right now we don't have,

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no, this commonly used back in the days, architecture,

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when you have site and multiple subsides, but that pattern is gone

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fortunately. But now we can connect different sites together to just know,

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to make it simple and consistent navigation between sites consistent,

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template, look and feel. So it's nice, nice concept,

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pretty simple, pretty simple to continue to use. But my experience,

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many organizations simply don't use it. I don't know why, maybe to

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complex, maybe to, maybe they don't know. I just simple and

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quite powerful. I like it. Yeah, and I think when I talk to,

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to organize data, but when I talk to people, the one of the core problems I think they have,

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it's the navigation, they don't understand the navigation.

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How should organizations think about navigation on SharePoint pages?

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because it should be simple, but contains all required information, all required links,

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and usually you don't have links properly divided into categories or so,

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but if you create or gather all links, filter only, or filter out all those

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unnecessary, leave only those required and important, usually you have pretty long list,

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and it's not so simple to put all those links in modern SharePoint navigation, because

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and so on, and it's complex in SharePoint still. So what works is that it must be simple,

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really, only basic links to the most important part of your organization,

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to departments, to their critical applications, and on that target site, you can have no more

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detailed navigation, because otherwise it just complex, you know, monster with hundreds of links,

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and you usually use those as well, lost in those links, and last, it's, I don't know,

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it's still a thing in SharePoint that it's not so easy to create navigation, to modify it,

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you need to go and write for a while with this editing tool, so I think this is the thing,

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the part of the store point that there are a lot of no space for improvement right now.

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it's, yeah, we have the SharePoint sprawl problem, and it's so much stuff in there, because it's

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connected to two teams, and so some companies have connected it to one drive and so on.

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every single customer, they use it that way, so they create a lot of teams, a lot of SharePoint sites,

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in SharePoint, and they are lost, because you have a lot of teams, a lot of

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no channels, and every channel can have our SharePoint sites, and then

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the dedicated SharePoint sites, so it's pretty complex for managing, for finding information,

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and for governance, and for permissions, it can be a really painful one, but

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the best, or maybe not the best, but it works pretty good, pretty well, this is

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approach that people need to create sites based on some kind of template, and even teams,

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so they need to provide information about why they need to create that site, and provide basic

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metadata for a site, and the same way for teams, so then you can create a list, manage those sites,

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manage those teams, and more or less you will be able to know what is inside each site, or inside

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each team, but from the end user perspective, well, it's still a thing to understand

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what's the difference between SharePoint and Teams, usually they don't know, so you need to simply

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educate them, provide some training, because otherwise they will still use SharePoint as

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something, storage, bucket, and teams have a storage bucket in Teams, so they don't know what's

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the difference, and they put everything inside, no matter what it is.

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closely connected technically, but yeah, you say many users don't understand that

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relationship, how do you explain it?

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and use cases, so when you need to use SharePoint, when you need to use Teams, what's good for

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this specific use cases for this specific scenario, so users can simply know, check, oh, I need to

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communicate a lot, so I should create a team, a team inside Teams, or maybe I need just documents

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and share them with my external parties, partners, vendors, whatever, so I don't need Teams,

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need to create all those additional layers of communication, and it must be tailored to the

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specific organization, because usually wherever organization is different, so it should be,

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a dose scenario should be, should match specific organization, then users will be, no, they will

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more, they will understand it better simply.

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Can we say Teams should be considered the user interface while SharePoint becomes the information

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layout, then is it? Yeah, that's, yeah, we can say that. And what I see is also when we talk about

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SharePoints Pro, we also have to talk about Teams Pro, so a lot of organizations create, so-so-so-them,

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many Teams, Locals, Birthday Party, and Project Final 7, and so on, how should we

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take care or of it? Yeah, this is the governance part, and the best way is to start with

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governance before we let users create a lot of Teams, but usually right now everyone has Teams,

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so it's a lot of Teams inside Teams, but implementing proper governance I think is the

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critical part, because then we can, or admins can understand what's going on in their own tenant,

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how many Teams are used, outdated, orphaned, and so on, so proper governance, it can be

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even simple, simple SharePoint or maybe Microsoft Forms, Form with basic information that

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users should provide, and basic SharePoint list with approval and so on, so nothing, nothing

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fancy, just simple, simple stuff, and then, and to be honest, even in large, I have one customer,

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50, more than 50,000 users, so it's not the simple, not the small one, basic Microsoft Form,

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basic SharePoint list, it's good enough, and it is working, really, really good, really well,

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and class, there are many, many sort of features, yeah, features, many features inside SharePoint,

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admin center right now, that you can use to simply add some governance layer, so admins can

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send dedicated messages to SharePoint site owners, so in fact, Teams as well,

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to check if there's still need that site, need that team, if not that

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site can be archived automatically, or put to, or simply removed if you need it,

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you don't need those data anymore, so Microsoft implemented a few really, really needed features

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in that, in that governance area. I think when people are going and they often

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figure, for they often sounds like the opposite of innovation, how do you balance these two

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yeah, sites? Yeah, innovations, of course it's nice to have the best to create everything,

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not to be governed, but usually there must be some kind of governor, some, someone

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should check what we are doing, what users are doing, otherwise there will be mess chaos,

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ants, data will be no leaking everywhere, so there must be a balance between

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you know, those innovations extremely useful, many times features,

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on the security part, ad-keyf, or maybe configure it properly, then users can use what's

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new, what's, you know, best for the work, but still keep their own data secured and

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properly governed, that's always tricky one, because you find that balance between what's new,

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what's, you know, innovations, you've users everything, but still keep everything secured.

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did you think governance is an IT topic and should it be governed centrally or is it?

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for information, for teams, for sites, for third-party applications, not from Microsoft,

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so it must be created or managed centrally, but IT is the critical part, but together with

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management and with key business users, because they will use that system anyway, and if you create

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these two complex, they will, as usual, find a workout and don't use it, or maybe for example,

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skip a sensitivity labels or safe data on, on devices, not on the SharePoints, so it's, I think

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that everything must be involved in the governance process, otherwise it's just, no, people will

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always find a workout, if not, no, say the best, the best workout is if you do not provide a proper

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governance for AI, for example, and proper tools for users, they will use own devices, create

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screenshots and send it to own charge PT, so anyway, data will be lost, but people will do what they want.

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should start with governance at the first time, so what are the main governance policies you

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should establish for SharePoint and Teams? So the very first one is that SharePoint or SiteWare

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Teams is still in use, so check every, no, periodically, for example, every six months, if that specific

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site or team is still in use, if not, maybe we should archive it, maybe we should remove it, maybe

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is accessible, so some kind of test, test one, there are plenty of test sites, test teams, we can

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simply remove it from our tenant. The next one is, no, check permissions, it's obligatory to have

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that policy to check periodically every few months, at least once a year, so push site owner or site

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owners, team owners to check their own permissions, because usually users, they would have many

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colleagues, so that's site or Teams. External practice, external users, usually after some time,

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you have nice, beautiful SharePoint site with hundreds or even thousands, external links,

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and you are not able to check who has access to that specific file, and simply you can create it,

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well, you create that and over sharing problem, so you can't control data, you can't control

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permissions, and you can even share your own data outside of your organization, and this is critical.

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to a file or to a folder, and you can simply add more permissions to that link, remove some permissions,

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so only one specific link, so it will be much, much easier to manage, but still, this is critical

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policy to check every few months permissions, if it's correct, if they are correct, not correct,

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maybe you should remove. Many, many obsolete permissions, you know, those links with permissions,

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this is critical, and of course, I think the basic one is to, of course, it depends on the organization,

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but a form or a simple process that users should use to create size or teams, at some level,

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it is critical, so you should somehow create that process, it can be very basic, and to be honest,

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it should be basic, even in large enterprise, huge enterprises, it must be simple one, so simple

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information, but then people think twice before they create a site or a team, so provide business

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justification, why you need that site, is it so important to create another test site, or test

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birthday party, or whatever, or maybe you can use your own one drive to put those files inside it,

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so this will greatly minimize those no theft, test sites, test teams, and provide some

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no basic metadata for your content, this is important.

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what did you think, should companies, world-based, power, share, graph, ARP, or use tools like,

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because they can provide you with the data, they provide everything you need, access to sites,

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manage sites, other permissions, and so on, so power share and graph, I think, is the basic.

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fair-party tools, why not RENCORE, share gate, whatever you need, but of course, they take cost more,

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but you don't deal with automation, and those scripts, that's great, but usually, I think,

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and usually I use power-alchemy with graph, or maybe, as your logic apps for,

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for more demanding tasks, but graph is great.

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what do people think about SharePoint is still heavily associated with documents?

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document storage, in general, it's a storage for documents for data. So, first of all, of course,

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well, the best one is to understand your data, so you need to provide some kind of metadata

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management, model, maybe, and it's something that will help users' tag documents at some categories,

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something, something, and version 1, version 2, final version, something, test version,

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whatever, draft, second draft, so naming convention is important, some basic metadata is also

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important, so they simply can be discovered easily. And a few things about configuration also is

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important from IT perspective, so the very basic, very important, very critical one is, of course,

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version, so how many versions you will keep, and this is critical because it costs storage,

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so each version of your document is additional megabytes of your storage, and it costs a lot

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of problems in large organization, because one PowerPoint, one version of PowerPoint with

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a few slides, videos inside can cost you one gigabyte, so imagine that you have 50 versions of

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that file, so it will cost you 50 gigabytes, and usually organizations and with, you know,

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storages gone, and they need to buy additional storage, because they don't control versions,

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I'm envisioning is great for users, because I don't need to think about backup, I can go and

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check by the very first version of my document, and so on, but usually it doesn't need

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500 versions of a file, and this is very helpful from IT perspective to configure it before

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remove all those unnecessary versions, create communication with users, and so on,

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naming, conversion, and of course this versioning stuff, plus for security to provide additional

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security layer sensitivity, libraries from Microsoft PURV, this is also important, because it

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will add additional layer of security, so you can tag document if it's secured, not secured,

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maybe highly confidential, so add some additional encryption, add some additional header,

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footer information to those documents, this is also important, but add some additional layer of

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security. That's very useful, PURV, yes, I think what also often

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metadata, is these four or versus metadata debates still relevant actually?

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implement and requires no proper training, so usually we end up with list columns with some

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lazy information or naming or some tags inside the document, but I'm from the metadata part,

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so I always encourage people to build or implement even basic metadata, policy metadata model,

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because it will help them later, and metadata are supported by copilot, so it's always also a good

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thing to, that's why you should use metadata. Then I think for a lot of people,

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as a normal user, they hear metadata and I think, oh I have to handle this,

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how many, how should they do it, or can I automate it to reduce this burden, or how did it

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show people handle their metadata? This is a good question, metadata model should be really

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simple, so users don't need to think about, you don't need to spend much time on finding proper

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tag for a document, so it must be simple, very basic, and tailored to data needs, class,

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right now we have a lot of automation tools, even from Microsoft, if you have copilot license,

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you can create a autofill columns in SharePoint in document libraries,

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so SharePoint will handle those no metadata extraction for you, so a SharePoint will

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or copilot will analyze the document and extract metadata and put inside columns,

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this is great stuff because you can upload documents, of course you should prepare those metadata

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so later on users can use those metadata to find documents, to use copilot, to find documents,

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to create some tables and so on, so right now if you have copilot license, you can use it and you can

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even configure it for your sites or user can upload documents and they will get those metadata

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just for free, of course generated by AI, but still it's much, much better than nothing.

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when copilot enter the SharePoint environment?

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so you don't need to understand all those, you know, fancy things, like content,

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type and so on, of course they are important, but for you you can start quickly

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creating your sites, managing your data, and treating your content, this is important,

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so that means all power users can create your templates or, you know, that basic configuration,

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but then users can quickly start working data without thinking about creating proper columns,

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extracting data, creating nice sites, nice pages from content, just they can do that like that,

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just five minutes pages ready to go, good looking, with proper information, you can just check it

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if it's correct, not correct, add something, so all those boring things

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are done by copilot, and this is great.

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When, will you say, do scopilot effectively turn SharePoint into an enterprise knowledge layer?

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No, or yes, it's going into that way, because now if you have a lot of information inside

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your SharePoint, you can use copilot to find it easier, to get to extract all those information from

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your documents, even right now from your SharePoint lists, properly tag them and use and build

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something based on those data, this is fantastic, so because if you have 5,000 documents in your site,

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you need to find the document, exor data manually, and do something with it, right now you can ask

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copilot, and copilot will find that document or relate documents, extract information, and even

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can build for your presentation, or HTML5, dynamic file with some dashboard related connected to your data,

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and this is fantastic, so those you can just focus on your work, on the data quality,

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not on those boring stuff, finding information and digging what's inside, and moving parts in PowerPoint,

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which is always quite thank you.

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So we can say it's copilot moving the SharePoint from finding the documents to give the answers,

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and when it do it, what kind of content can copilot understand from SharePoint content?

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Of course, Microsoft documents, this is the basic source of documents,

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back, all those text files, HTML files, markdown files, that's standard right now,

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back even, and this is great thing, even if you have videos in your SharePoint,

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copilot can understand it, copilot can, of course, you have to create all those no transcripts

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from your videos, but this is out of the box SharePoint, so then copilot can use those transcripts and

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give you information from your videos, from your training videos, from your meetings, and so on,

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so you have so many information right now in SharePoints, so you can use copilot to understand

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everything inside SharePoint, to be honest, and this, I mean, I love that, got it, can understand

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transcripts from my videos, this is, I have a lot of videos on my side, so

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and we think a lot about how can SharePoint help me to use SharePoint,

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can copilot also develop SharePoint, I don't know, web paths or something?

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At very basic level, right now yes, of course you can create HTML files,

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and this is very basic level of developing new content, but Microsoft will implement

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support for HTML files, so if you create an HTML file with some task board report, whatever,

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you will be able to insert into your asset library or pages library,

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and then it will be rendered inside SharePoint as a native SharePoint page, so in fact,

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every copilot user will be able to create some kind of application in HTML, using of course

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copilot out of the box, just like that, and it will be automatically displayed in SharePoint,

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it should be available, I think September or October, something like that,

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and this is the data, this basic level for power users, I would say that,

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but for if you need to create your own web paths, then copilot can be helpful, but it's not

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application designed for creating code, so you should skip, well you should move to

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a GitHub copilot, to create such web paths or something like that.

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And I think another topic, a lot of people actually discussed especially in SharePoint,

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but we talk a lot about copilot, and we talk about copilot, we talk about now at agents,

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and there are SharePoint agents, what are these SharePoint agents,

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what use case is there?

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Well, I think this feature, so SharePoint agents,

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where Microsoft released it last year, released that feature,

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so it was simply an dedicated agent grounded on your specific SharePoint site,

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dedicated document library, so that agent understands your content and gives you answers,

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so like that, so specific agent grounded on your selected data sources,

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so it simply can ask a given information about specific, for example, knowledge base,

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only your, all your HR data. Nice feature, but to be honest, it's kind of forgotten, because

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it's not so simple to find your agents right now, with the newest user interface,

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and well, it was a thing, right now it's kind of a abandoned feature, but the people don't use it so often.

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Well, I don't think that we lose something without agents, that's just, you can,

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anyway, you can use those agents, anyway, using copilot in SharePoint, so you can ask a question,

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and you will get answers, if there is an dedicated agent or not, so it's up to you, how you can,

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how you will configure it, just an additional thing.

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So, a lot of people say, SharePoint becomes the, yeah, the knowledge base of copilot,

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did you also see it, or is it more marketing story?

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Well, it is marketing, of course, but because we store documents in SharePoint,

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well, in fact, it is a data source for copilot, there's not a way.

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So, it is, if it's, you know, properly configured, properly governed,

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it's great, you will get great results, if not, you will get, no, well, sometimes even bad results,

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but bad information from copilot. So, this is, that's why you should think about SharePoint as

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your main data source in your organization, SharePoint and Teams in general.

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At SharePoint, this is the main knowledge source for everything in site copilot.

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Maze, even transcripts, one write, yes, but no SharePoint is the biggest one, the most critical one,

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so yeah, that's, of course, a lot of marketing, but for sure,

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because of the architecture, so it is the main source of your data, and copilot will use it,

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if you want, if you like it or not, simply. I think you are also, since years,

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passionable with automation, where do you power automate fit into modern world places,

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slash SharePoint? Yes, I do love power automate, because it gives me a lot of freedom,

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so I can automate my everyday tasks, I can move documents between libraries, I can know

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transfer data between data sources, I can create content inside SharePoint or do something,

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for example, if I get an email from specific customer, I can put it, save it in my SharePoint

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folder, in my SharePoint library, dedicated site, and maybe send additional notification to my team,

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to my colleagues, and so on, so it's great, it can automate a lot of stuff,

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even of course, you can automate SharePoint itself, so create sites, create libraries,

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add additional permissions to your site based on something, based on, for example, new employees,

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so it's great, and now with copilot, you can even create your own

436
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power automate flows, or ask copilot to help you with power automate, so it's so simple that it's

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a thing to not to use it really. Okay, I think is there when or why show what

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place has power automate now, because we can do all sorts of code pilot, when we

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show it shows power automate instead of a copilot or an AI.

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Right now still copilot is not able to know, to fully automate a lot of tasks,

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while it can give you answers, it can give you information about your content,

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and it can do something right now, even in SharePoint, for example, create documents,

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yeah, so HTML files in the future, so it's great, but if you, but it's still AI, it's

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generally it can behave a bit different each time, so your results can be different from time to time,

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today it can create a document that way, but next month it can be a bit different, or even tomorrow,

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but with power automate you are sure that each outcome, each output will be the same, because you can

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clearly define it, you can use copilot inside power automate as well, but still you define it from

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the very first step to the very last step, so you have full control over what's going on your

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automation, so copilot yes can do a lot, but more from information perspective, our automates more

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from no automation from first step, last step, so if you need that, if you must be sure,

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so you will use power automate. Yeah, awesome, I have every round, a rapid fire round, so I give

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short questions and you give a short, short answer, so yeah, power mate or AI agent,

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power automate, search for our copilot, copilot I think, most underrated SharePoint feature,

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oh, underrated, oh well I think search, okay, what should I take to eat when I come to Warsaw?

455
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I would bet, I think Polish dumplings, pierogi, oh yeah they are really good,

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Cheap Chat or channel? Well I'm channel the guy, channel, when sat yandere calls today and say you

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get all the money and resources you need to build your dream feature for SharePoint, what will it be?

458
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Oh, oh, that's that's tricky one, I don't know, I don't have so many of them,

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well I will simplify permissions inside SharePoint, managing permissions,

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what is the biggest SharePoint mistake? Oh,

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last mistake,

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item tall, when, who should I invite next and what question should I ask?

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Who I think from my perspective, the most positive because he's a great guy and he knows a lot about

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bar or homemade? Awesome, okay, yeah then, yeah then my, I can say thank you for for for for

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this round, this was really cool and yeah I think yeah we have learned a lot with the what mistakes

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people do or organizations and I think yeah for for the most people I can say give SharePoint another chance

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for sure definitely, when you handle it great it's a great great tool especially in the age of AI

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and yeah I think they are it's I don't know 25 years or so as SharePoint also I think that

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even the next 25 years brings and for all the listeners you find the vaccines,

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information all in the show notes on the M65M page and yeah thank you so many for for the time

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you have spent here with me and give give your insights. Thank you very much.

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(wind blowing)