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SharePoint Hackathon 2025: Developing an Emergency Management Portal - Part One

Howdy everyone! It's that time of year again folks! It is time for SharePoint Hackathon 2025. This year's challenge will incorporate SharePoint portals, SharePoint Agents, and SPFx extensibility. It is certainly looking like a great lineup this year, and it is also the first time I will be competing in this lovely competition. With this in mind, I want to take you all on my journey, documenting what I will be developing and the successes as well as lessons learned along the way. We'll be building a beautiful portal, integrating with Power BI and Power Automate, and expanding on our understanding of lists. My hope is that with this short series you'll gain some inspiration to make your own portal similar to what I have done. SharePoint is a versatile tool that really is limited by your imagination. This contest allows for your creativity and skill to soar, which we will be putting to the test over the next couple of weeks. Enough chit-chat, let's get into what we...
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Responsible AI and Academia

Hello everyone, hope you are all well on this cold Winter's day! I wanted to talk about something that has been brought up in conversation and is a concern not only for IT professionals working in Education but a concern for all in Education: Artificial Intelligence. Oftentimes when we put these two things together, you get a mixed reaction of both favour and disagreement. However, I think that it is important to discuss this in further detail and explain my opinions and views on the whole matter. In this post, I'll be talking about my views on AI in the Education sector, and how AI such as Copilot can be used responsibly to promote education and trust amongst instructors and students. So what is Responsible AI exactly? Well, the meaning is in the title itself. It is the concept of using Artificial Intelligence responsibly and in a fashion that protects business concerns, employees, and the organization as a whole. In Education however, this definition changes slightly- not onl...
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Making a SharePoint Knowledge Base Part Two: Knowledge is Power... Automate

Happy snow day folks! Well, at least for me. We saw up to 40+ centimeters last night which gave me plenty of time today to sit down and write the second part of this series which is adding templates and automation with Power Automate (in between all the shoveling and snow clearing of course). So this is where we get into some of the cool stuff that our knowledge base can do, as well as touch on some key points that may inspire you to go beyond even the knowledge base. However, if you're looking to finish off your knowledge base, here's the part that is for you! Templates Let's start with templates, as this is likely the most user-dependent part of the whole post. Before continuing, it's important to note that each template may differ, and it's really up to you and the stakeholders in your team or organization to determine the content to include. For the sake of demonstration, I'll keep this very barebones and focus on how to add a template to your knowledge base...
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