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AI in SharePoint Public Preview: Agentic Building

Microsoft has launched AI in SharePoint in public preview, introducing natural-language tools that can build and refine pages, libraries, lists, and soon entire sites as part of an "intent-to-solution" workflow. This matters because SharePoint is becoming a key foundation for Copilot and agent experiences, helping organizations create content and business solutions faster while making governance and secure AI adoption more important for administrators.

3 min read · Mar 2, 2026
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SharePoint Embedded for Legacy ECM and DMS Apps

The post explains how SharePoint Embedded can modernize legacy ECM and DMS applications by providing API-based document management inside the Microsoft 365 tenant boundary, without requiring a full rip-and-replace of existing business apps. This matters because it makes legacy document content more accessible to Microsoft 365 Copilot, Purview, and collaboration tools, helping organizations turn isolated content repositories into AI-ready, governed infrastructure.

3 min read · Feb 25, 2026
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SharePoint Embedded for Legacy Document Modernization

Microsoft is positioning SharePoint Embedded as an API-based, Azure-delivered way to modernize legacy document and content management applications without fully replacing existing systems. The key benefit is that organizations can bring legacy content into Microsoft 365’s collaboration, Purview governance, and Copilot/AI ecosystem while keeping documents resident in their own tenant, making older repositories more secure, compliant, and useful in future AI-driven workflows.

3 min read · Feb 24, 2026
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SharePoint SPFx Extensions: Secure Native Apps

Microsoft’s latest SharePoint Partner Showcase highlights how Cloudwell is using SharePoint Framework (SPFx) to build native SharePoint extensions that inherit Microsoft 365 identity, permissions, and security controls. The session matters because it shows organizations how to deliver richer SharePoint experiences—like consolidated calendar views—while reducing IT complexity, avoiding separate authentication models, and maintaining tenant-aligned security.

3 min read · Feb 17, 2026
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SharePoint Online Custom Forms with Plumsail SPFx

Microsoft’s latest Partner Showcase highlights Plumsail Forms for SharePoint Online, including customizable internal SharePoint forms and secure public web forms for collecting data from external users. The key takeaway is that Plumsail’s solution is built on SPFx and operates within the customer’s Microsoft 365 tenant, which matters because it supports modern SharePoint experiences while preserving native security, governance, data residency, and performance.

3 min read · Feb 5, 2026
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OneDrive Agents GA: Build Copilot Assistants from Files

Microsoft has made Agents in OneDrive generally available worldwide on OneDrive for the web, letting users build project-specific Copilot assistants from up to 20 selected files plus custom instructions. This matters because teams can turn recurring questions across plans, notes, decks, and reports into a reusable AI experience that surfaces decisions, owners, deadlines, risks, and other key context more consistently and with less manual searching.

3 min read · Feb 4, 2026
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Microsoft 365 Archive Preservica for SharePoint

Microsoft is promoting a combined solution that pairs Microsoft 365 Archive with Preservica’s Preserve365 to help organizations not only archive inactive SharePoint sites at lower cost, but also keep their contents readable over decades. This matters because long-term retention alone does not prevent file-format obsolescence, and the added active digital preservation features aim to reduce future compliance, legal, and operational risks tied to inaccessible archived data.

3 min read · Feb 2, 2026
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SharePoint Automation Updates: Workflows, Approvals

Microsoft is updating SharePoint automation with a unified Workflows experience across SharePoint and Teams, plus guided, template-based workflow creation that makes it easier for users to build approvals and process automations in context. This matters because it lowers the barrier to self-service automation while giving IT admins more consistent governance and scalability as Microsoft 365 workflows become more embedded in everyday collaboration.

3 min read · Jan 29, 2026
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SharePoint 25th Anniversary Event and 2026 Hackathon

Microsoft will hold a global digital “SharePoint at 25” event on March 2, 2026, highlighting new content AI capabilities, updates to content creation and collaboration, and SharePoint’s growing role as the knowledge platform behind Copilot and agent experiences. This matters for IT pros and Microsoft 365 admins because governance, information architecture, and content quality in SharePoint will increasingly affect AI response quality and how organizations manage knowledge at scale.

3 min read · Jan 14, 2026
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SharePoint SPFx Apps: Lightning Tools Showcase

Microsoft’s latest Partner Showcase highlights how Lightning Tools uses SharePoint Framework (SPFx) to deliver business-ready apps that extend SharePoint while staying aligned with Microsoft 365 security, authentication, and admin controls. The episode emphasizes tools like DeliverPoint for permissions visibility and Lightning Forms for no-code list form design, underscoring why better governance, cleaner data capture, and stronger content discoverability matter for compliance, reducing oversharing, and preparing organizations for Copilot and AI.

3 min read · Dec 9, 2025