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Build a SharePoint Copilot Dashboard With a Single Prompt

WonderLaura — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 14:05:15 +0000

Have you ever been asked for a dashboard and immediately thought about how time consuming it would be to create? In this week’s Power Hour, I built an instant SharePoint Copilot dashboard HTML file straight from a regular SharePoint list. It has interactive filters, four kinds of charts, live search, and clickable rows that open a details popup. No Power

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AI Builder in Power Automate: Top 10 Tricks to Try

WonderLaura — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:50:51 +0000

For this post and video, I put together ten cool things you can do with AI Builder in Power Automate. I built demos for almost all of them. 🧾 1. Extract data from invoices Microsoft already knows what an invoice looks like. Because of that, there is a whole prebuilt action called Process invoices. Your trigger can be anything. For

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Managed Metadata Autofill in SharePoint: Stop Tagging Files by Hand

WonderLaura — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:11:05 +0000

Does this sound familiar? Someone at your company organized files by year, then someone else came along and reorganized everything by department. Now nobody knows which folder holds what, and everyone’s just guessing. This happens all the time with file organization, it’s one of the biggest reasons SharePoint pros like me have been pushing metadata instead of folders. But here’s

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Speaking at the Power Platform Community Conference #PPCC26

WonderLaura — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 19:05:26 +0000

I’m thrilled to share that I’ll be back on stage at the Power Platform Community Conference in Las Vegas again this year! Mark your calendars, because the dates are October 27-29, 2026. I’ll be presenting two sessions, and both are geared toward business users, makers, and anyone who wants to get more out of Power Platform without writing code. Here’s

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MCP in Copilot Studio: A No-Code Guide for Power Users

WonderLaura — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 22:26:04 +0000

You’ve probably started hearing the term “MCP” everywhere lately. So what is it, and why should a business user like you care? That’s exactly what we covered on this week’s Power Hour post and video, and I want to break it down here too, because MCP in Copilot Studio is genuinely one of the most exciting no-code capabilities I’ve seen.

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AI Web Parts in SharePoint, Explained

WonderLaura — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:41:48 +0000

When adding web parts to pages in SharePoint, you may have noticed a new category has shown up: AI. There are three AI web parts in SharePoint right now — Chart, Agent Link, and FAQ — and I spent this week’s Power Hour testing all three. In this post and video, we’ll walk through what I found. 📊 The AI

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Top 5 Reasons SharePoint Migrations Fail

WonderLaura — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:48:49 +0000

I started my SharePoint admin career 20 years ago, and if there’s one thing that hasn’t changed since then, it’s this: SharePoint migration planning is where projects succeed or fail — long before anyone opens a migration tool. I did a Power Hour this week about this, and I want to walk through what I covered, because I think a

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Microsoft 365 Governance: Keep Your Tenant Healthy

WonderLaura — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:04:00 +0000

As your Microsoft 365 environment grows — more sites, more teams, more users, more content — it gets harder to keep track of who has access to what, which sites are still active, and whether your sharing settings still make sense. That’s where Microsoft 365 governance comes in, and the good news is there are some really solid tools to

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New Filmstrip Layout in the SharePoint News Web Part

WonderLaura — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:43:58 +0000

The SharePoint News web part just got some exciting updates, and this post and video contains a full deep dive — not just what’s new, but into everything this web part can do. Because honestly, once you understand the News web part well, it becomes one of the most powerful communication tools in your entire Microsoft 365 toolkit. What Is

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Power Automate Input Parameters: A Form Inside Your Flows

WonderLaura — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:25:48 +0000

Power Automate input parameters let you collect information from users before a flow runs — no form product needed. Learn all six input types and how to use this form.

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