The Hidden Tax of Context Switching in Workflow Automation
There is a cost to workflow automation that almost never shows up in project plans or budget spreadsheets, and it has nothing to do...
Category: SharePoint
The Label on the Door Does Not Protect What Is Inside
Here is the misconception that derails more sensitivity label deployments than any other: if I label the Teams site or SharePoint container as Confidential,...
CollabTalk Podcast | Episode 188 with Michal Pisarek
In Episode 188 of the CollabTalk Podcast, we discuss how AI is changing the Microsoft partner/ISV landscape—and why governance work has become AI...
More Than Code: A Thank You to the SharePoint Community
Microsoft recently released a short film called More Than Code, produced in honor of SharePoint’s 25th birthday. If you haven’t watched it yet, I’d...
Governance Is a Practice, Not a Project
Most governance initiatives fail. Not immediately, and not dramatically. They fade. A team runs a cleanup effort, documents the standards, gets some early momentum,...
The Proof-of-Concept Trap
Deloitte’s 2026 State of AI in the Enterprise report has a section I keep coming back to. They call it “the proof-of-concept trap,” and...
SharePoint at 25: The Biggest Refresh Since 2016
Today, March 2, 2026, Microsoft celebrated SharePoint’s 25th anniversary with a live broadcast, a documentary preview, a wave of product announcements, and the kickoff...
How SharePoint Became the Backbone of the Modern Enterprise
In 2001, Microsoft quietly launched SharePoint Portal Server alongside Windows SharePoint Team Services, a web-based platform that promised to bring order to the chaos...
The CollabTalk TweetJam’s 2025 M365 Mega Recap & 2026 Bold Bets
In case you missed it, we wrapped the year with our biggest “recap + predictions” TweetJam format: seven questions designed to surface what actually...
Notes from ESPC25
ESPC25 in Dublin has always had a bit of a “family reunion” feel for me as I’ve been attending every year since they started...
