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Send us Fan Mail For twenty years I've walked into organisation after organisation and said the same things: nobody can find the right document, nobody knows which version is current, nobody actually owns half the content in the business. People nodded politely. Then went back to what they were doing. Then AI arrived — and suddenly, when Copilot confidently answers a question using the wrong...

Send us Fan Mail  The shift from filing cabinets to organisational intelligence  In this episode of Simply SharePoint, Liza Tinker explores the mindset shift that is quietly changing everything about Microsoft 365, SharePoint and Copilot adoption. For years, organisations have treated SharePoint like a digital filing cabinet — a place to dump documents and hope people can find them later. But in t...

Send us Fan Mail SharePoint has entered its AI era — and this is not just another feature release. In this episode, I walk through what’s actually changed, based on what I’ve been testing myself. From the new SharePoint AI agent that can build lists and libraries from a simple description, to the newly announced Skills capability that lets you teach SharePoint how your organisation works — this is...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the SharePoint at 25 series, I tackle one of the longest-running and most misunderstood debates in the SharePoint world: folders versus metadata . For years, the conversation has been framed as a binary choice — either you use folders or you use metadata. But in reality, modern SharePoint environments require a much more balanced approach. In this episode, I unp...

Send us Fan Mail For years, governance in SharePoint has been treated as a document. We write policies, frameworks, and rules at the start of a project, get them approved, upload them to SharePoint… and then quietly hope they’ll influence how people work. In reality, those documents rarely shape day-to-day behaviour. They sit on shelves while environments drift into inconsistent structures, fragil...

Send us Fan Mail As SharePoint approaches its 25th birthday this March, this episode kicks off a new series focused on how the platform has evolved — and why many organisations are still working in ways that no longer serve them. In this first episode, I tackle one of the most persistent and controversial habits in SharePoint: naming conventions. Almost every organisation has a naming convention d...

Send us Fan Mail This end-of-year episode wasn’t planned — it unfolded naturally around my family’s Christmas table. As we gathered early this year, missing family members, reflecting on work and life, and celebrating a small but significant personal milestone — recovering from back surgery after six months of pain — the conversation drifted to AI. What surprised me wasn’t how advanced the technol...

Send us Fan Mail Building a SharePoint agent looks simple in the marketing demos — just click Create, add your site, and you’re done. But anyone who has tried to build a truly accurate, enterprise-ready agent knows the reality is far more complex. In this episode, I share what I’ve learned after spending the past several weeks deep in the trenches building a real SharePoint agent. This is not the...

Send us Fan Mail After a month away from the podcast, I'm back with an episode that perfectly captures why Simply SharePoint is evolving into something bigger. Because what happened in October 2025 proves something I've been thinking about for a while: you can't talk about SharePoint anymore without talking about the entire Microsoft 365 ecosystem—and you definitely can't ignor...

Send us Fan Mail Ever opened a SharePoint library so messy you didn’t know where to start? The kind full of “final_final_really_final.docx” chaos, folders from 2016, and documents with no owner in sight? In this episode, we stage a SharePoint intervention . I’ll walk you through how I took one out-of-control document library and transformed it into a clean, structured container that actually works...

Send us Fan Mail Traditional SharePoint training fails because it focuses on clicks, not concepts. After two decades of watching adoption stall, I developed something different — The Container Method™. In this episode, I share the story behind this new approach, why it works, and how it transforms SharePoint from a confusing tool into something intuitive and usable. You’ll hear: Why traditional Sh...

Send us Fan Mail Ever sat through a two-hour metadata committee meeting? Or clicked into a SharePoint subsite only to find… one lonely document? Or maybe you’ve heard the cubicle chorus of “You left it checked out!” echo across the office? In this episode, I’m spilling my SharePoint confessions — the good, the bad, and the downright messy. From 13 mandatory metadata fields to 800 empty subsites an...

Send us Fan Mail Microsoft 365 Copilot is rolling out across organizations worldwide, promising unprecedented productivity gains. Yet there’s a hidden danger many companies aren’t prepared for. Years of casual SharePoint sharing have created exposure risks that AI is about to amplify in ways you may never have imagined. In this episode, I unpack the critical difference between SharePoint’s “Share”...

Send us Fan Mail In this short episode, I talk about the new features in Excel Copilot — and why they matter so much to me. I have dyscalculia, a learning difference that makes numbers incredibly difficult. For most of my career, Excel has been the tool that left me behind. I can’t hold more than four digits of a phone number in my head, I still count on my fingers, and sevens and nines in the tim...

Send us Fan Mail Is Artificial Intelligence a threat to your career, or is it the most powerful tool you'll ever have? In this episode, we cut through the hype and get to the facts by breaking down a groundbreaking new study from Microsoft Research that analysed over 200,000 real-world AI interactions. Join us as we translate the academic findings into a practical guide for today's profe...

Send us Fan Mail Copilot is transforming the way we work – but with all its power, comes one big question: Are you absolutely sure it won’t surface the wrong thing? In this episode of Simply SharePoint , we break down the real truth about Copilot and security. You’ll learn why Copilot doesn’t override permissions – but also why every forgotten sharing link, outdated draft, or “everyone in the orga...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Liza introduces the 5-Day SharePoint Reset , a fast, practical, and stress-free way to get your SharePoint environment under control—no massive overhaul required. Born from real workplace frustration and chaos (yes, including those dreaded "final_final_final" file names), this approach is tailored for busy teams dealing with inherited mess, deeply nested...

Send us Fan Mail Staring at your screen wondering whether to create that project in Teams, SharePoint, or Loop? You're not alone. Microsoft 365's abundance of tools has created a hidden productivity crisis: decision paralysis that's costing organisations millions in lost time and frustration. In this episode, we dive deep into what I call 'The Microsoft 365 Tool Chaos' – t...

Send us Fan Mail Microsoft Copilot is rolling out now, but most SharePoint environments aren't ready for AI. In this episode, Liza Tinker reveals why your current SharePoint setup will likely fail with Copilot and what you can do about it. Discover the critical information architecture foundations that make AI effective, learn how to finally resolve the folders vs. metadata debate with hybrid...

Send us Fan Mail Tired of feeling lost and frustrated in Microsoft 365?   This episode of the Simply SharePoint Podcast is for you! This week I'm tackling a critical issue in the modern workplace: why so much Microsoft 365 training falls short, leaving millions of users struggling to harness the platform's incredible power. We'll dive deep into the daily frustrations of not knowing...

Send us Fan Mail As Microsoft Copilot becomes deeply embedded in every part of the Microsoft 365 ecosystem—Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint—we're entering an era of accelerated content creation. Presentations, summaries, documents, and even entire training modules can now be generated at the click of a button. But where do we draw the line? In this episode, I reflect on what’s gained—a...

Send us Fan Mail Let’s face it—most SharePoint sites end up messy. Files are scattered, no one knows what’s current, and people start saying, “I hate SharePoint.” But it’s not SharePoint’s fault—it’s how it’s been set up. In this first episode of the Simply SharePoint Podcast, I break down why things go wrong, how SharePoint actually works (spoiler: it’s just a big container), and what you need to...