With Teams Phone you can have an entire business phone system within Microsoft Teams. This can be a game changer for productivity, ease of management, and modernizing your processes. This video outlines the basics of what Teams Phone is, 5 big advantages in using it, 3 issues you might want to consider before you try it, and aims to give you all the information you need to determine whether to check it out.

Your business probably has processes you need to modernize, they might depend on Excel. But what's the right path? Is Therman's instinct for SharePoint right? Or what about Nick's favored technology, Power Platform? What about other old technologies like Infopath or Access? And what exactly is going on with Planner?

At Microsoft Ignite a brand new Planner experience was announced to better integrate your tasks across To Do, Planner, and Project, to bring a more holistic work management experience to Microsoft 365.

With the inclusion of new capabilities like Copilot AI, this new tool might be a one-stop location whether you are looking to create a personal task list, manage group work, or orchestrate a complex project.

As AI continues to rise in prominence for making work more productive and efficient, a big question hangs over its head. What data was it trained on, and did the company doing the training have the right to use that data?

Content owners are restricting access to their data, they are looking for ways to make more money from its use, and some are even poisoning the AI's knowledge through creative means. But what does this mean for this innovative new technology, and, more importantly, what does it mean for how knowledge gets transferred between us in the future?

At Ignite 2023 some new upgrades or add-ons to our base Microsoft 365 licenses were announced. This adds to a growing stable of potential add-ons for the core Microsoft 365 apps to turn your subscription from basic to premium - but is this really what these extra cost items achieve?

Let's look at the history of cloud-based licensing, why it's great value, and why you probably don't need to turn everything in your subscription up to premium unless you have some very specific needs.

One of the ways to boost your business with technology is to work with specialist consultants. But, if you're just starting with this approach, why should you use consultants, what should those relationships look like, and how should you work with the consultants you choose?

Ensuring you have the right team to achieve your goals is one of the most important foundations to success. Whether you are a small business owner or an IT leader in a larger business, technology focused consulting can be one of the tools you use to achieve that success.

Ignite 2023 has seen a wide range of updates and announcements related to Microsoft 365 Copilot, Bing Chat, and Microsoft's other AI products. This video provides an overview of some of the highlights.

Microsoft Word has been the core of Microsoft's apps for 40 years, and with the inclusion of new features that are part of Microsoft 365 Copilot, it may well be cementing in usefulness for 40 more.

In this video we overview the new features available in Word using Copilot's AI, consider how they are similar or different to other services like ChatGPT or Claude, and think about who these may be targeted at.