I work with SharePoint every day and I still think Microsoft does a terrible job of explaining what it is. So here's my attempt. SharePoint in one sentence SharePoint is where your business documents, pages, and data live inside Microsoft 365. It's the backend for Teams file storage, your company intranet, and your document management system — whether you've set it up that way or not. You're probably already using it If you use Microsoft Teams and share files in channels, you

Every business we work with uses Teams. Chat, video calls, maybe file sharing. Job done, right? Not quite. Teams is the front door, but there's a whole building behind it that most people never walk through. SharePoint — your actual file system When you share a file in a Teams channel, it doesn't live in Teams. It lives in SharePoint. Every Teams channel has a SharePoint site behind it. That matters because SharePoint has proper document management — versioning, permissions,

Microsoft is increasing prices on several Microsoft 365 plans from July 2026. If you're an Australian business on M365, here's what you need to know. What's changing The increases apply to several plans and vary by tier. Microsoft is positioning this as reflecting the addition of Copilot features and AI capabilities across the platform. The key plans affected include Microsoft 365 Business Basic, Business Standard, E3, and E5. The increases are in the range of 5-10% depending

I've looked at hundreds of Microsoft 365 environments over the years. I'd say the average business is using about 20% of what they're paying for. Sometimes less. It's not because they don't care. It's because Microsoft is genuinely terrible at telling you what you've got. You signed up for Business Premium or E3, got your Outlook and Teams working, and moved on. Fair enough — you had a business to run. But sitting behind that login is a stack of tools you're already paying fo

There's a lot of noise around Microsoft Copilot right now. Every vendor is talking about AI, and half of them can't explain what it actually does in plain terms. So let's fix that. What is Copilot? Copilot sits inside the Microsoft 365 apps your team already uses — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams. It's not a separate tool you need to learn. It works alongside you in the apps you're already in. Ask it to summarise a long email thread. Get it to draft a response based o

If you've been using SharePoint for a while, chances are it's turned into a bit of a mess. No judgement — it happens to everyone. Documents everywhere, team sites nobody uses, classic pages that look like they're from 2010, and a folder structure that only makes sense to the person who built it. That's what SharePoint modernisation is about. It's not throwing everything out and starting again. It's getting what you have into shape so it actually works for your team. What does