Author: sfennah

I am a freelance learning professional with over 22 years’ experience including holding 30+ Microsoft certifications and Microsoft Certified Trainer status since 2008.

Blog Writing with AI – Productive or Waste of Time?

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Blog Writing with AI - Productive or Waste of Time? Here's an example

Reflections on Scottish Summit 2023

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Scottish Summit 2023 had too many things to highlight to fit into a traditional social media post, so you are getting a blog from me instead.

Choosing My Day Calendars in Outlook

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Are you using the New Outlook for Windows or Outlook Web? Do you use the My Day side pane? If so, did you know that you can choose which calendars are displayed there? I was unaware till I stumbled across it today. Here's how you choose. First display the My Day pane using the My … Continue reading Choosing My Day Calendars in Outlook

Enabling Bing Chat Enterprise

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At Microsoft Inspire today (18th July 2023), Bing Chat Enterprise was launched.  There is more detail in the Microsoft 365 blog post about the announcement.  Bing Chat Enterprise builds on Microsoft Search and the public edition of Bing Chat to bring the power of AI to your enterprise data.  The advantage of using Bing Chat Enterprise for work tasks … Continue reading Enabling Bing Chat Enterprise

Search Folders in New Outlook

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The Unread Mail folder is back! Search folders are supported in the latest builds of New Outlook.

Hybrid Work Settings in Outlook

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Now available in the New Outlook for Windows is the hybrid work setting.  You'll notice a plus in a location pin icon on the date header to set your location with. Location Pin Icon If it's newly arrived for you, you may also see an informational message as shown below which says New hybrid work … Continue reading Hybrid Work Settings in Outlook

Add to Calendar

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In this article, I'll look at using the new Outlook for Windows client (in preview May 2023) use the My Day pane to turn an email into a calendar entry.

May 2nd 2023 – A Huge Leap for SharePoint

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At the M365 Conference in Las Vegas on May 2nd 2023 Microsoft announced a raft of updates, most around SharePoint. There were many tweets about the updates including this one from @LeonArmston summarising the blog posts about the announcements. All new features appear on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap and here are those announcements starting to … Continue reading May 2nd 2023 – A Huge Leap for SharePoint

What are Copilot and Business Chat announced at the “Reinventing Productivity with AI” event

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Following the Microsoft The Future of Work: Reinventing Productivity with AI virtual event on March 16th 2023, I was asked to summarize what Copilot and Business Chat are. Here is my summary plus the available resources to learn more. Copilot sits alongside existing Microsoft 365 tools and can be used to help us whilst we … Continue reading What are Copilot and Business Chat announced at the “Reinventing Productivity with AI” event

Welcome to 2023 MCTs!

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Recently, the MCT program team send out a series of emails to MCTs introducing them to some of the regional leads in their area. In the UK we do have a few (8 + 1 recently moved to the UK from South Africa). So if you are based in the UK, you probably got the … Continue reading Welcome to 2023 MCTs!