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Articles on Microsoft 365, Copilot, AI agents and process automation, by Stadler & Partners.
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- Data analytics
- AI agents
Why Power BI matters more in the age of AI agents
An AI agent builds a dashboard from a file. For a company, what matters is the source of the agent's figures and who is responsible for them.
Denis Stadler ·
- Business apps
- Microsoft 365 governance
Apps built with AI in your Microsoft tenant: cost, limits and governance decisions
Anyone in your organisation can now build an app with AI and publish it into Microsoft 365. Before this is opened up, the organisation decides on data, access, spend and ownership.
Denis Stadler ·
- AI agents
- Automation
Copilot Studio vs n8n: when each one fits
Both platforms build AI agents and automations. What separates them is who uses the result, where it runs and who operates it. Below: the criteria, the limits of each one, and the cases where you should pick neither.
Denis Stadler ·
- Adoption and training
- Microsoft 365 governance
Microsoft 365 Copilot: ten tenant settings that determine the results
You bought the licences and switched them on, and the results are modest. Ten settings from the Microsoft list determine the results; in many tenants they are still on the defaults.
Denis Stadler ·
- Intranet
- Internal communication
Viva Connections becomes the SharePoint app in Teams: what changes for your intranet
From May to June 2026, Microsoft renamed the Viva Connections app in Teams to the SharePoint app in Teams. The intranet experience in Teams is now part of the SharePoint home site, with setup in the SharePoint admin center and two new web parts.
Denis Stadler ·
- Document management
- Microsoft 365 governance
- AI agents
From SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to AI agents: two decades of SharePoint
I started on SharePoint Portal Server 2003 in 2005. The platform has gone from file storage to the content base that Copilot and AI agents answer from. That history explains why permissions and governance decide today whether agents give correct answers.
Denis Stadler ·
- AI agents
- Microsoft 365 governance
Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 3: from assistant to agent that executes
On 9 March 2026 Microsoft announced Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 3. Copilot changes from an assistant in a side panel to an agent that edits documents in place and runs multi-step tasks across apps, with Agent 365 as the control plane for the agents.
Denis Stadler ·
- Business apps
- Permissions and security
Building a business app in Microsoft 365: SharePoint, Dataverse or Azure?
A business app in Microsoft 365 can keep its data in SharePoint lists, in Dataverse or in an Azure SQL database. The choice depends on data volume, relationships, security and the interface you need.
Denis Stadler ·
- AI agents
- Intranet
- Permissions and security
SharePoint agents: the AI assistant that answers from your intranet content
A SharePoint agent answers questions from the content of a site, a library or selected files, with the permissions of the user who asks. Answer quality depends on how well the intranet is organised.
Denis Stadler ·
- Collaboration
- Microsoft 365 governance
Microsoft Teams thread view: threaded conversations in chats and channels
Thread view in Microsoft Teams ties every reply to the message it answers, in chats and in channels. Conversations, files and decisions stay in your Microsoft 365 tenant, under your retention policies.
Denis Stadler ·
- Adoption and training
- Permissions and security
Microsoft 365 Copilot in your company: four steps to a rollout that delivers
Microsoft 365 Copilot works in Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams and SharePoint, with the data each user can access. The result depends on four things: the use cases you pick, order in data and permissions, training, and a measured pilot.
Denis Stadler ·
- Intranet
SharePoint site header and footer: the new layout and branding options
In August 2025 Microsoft announced new header and footer options for SharePoint sites: more header layouts, control over logo size and alignment, and a footer with more links and logos. They matter for any intranet that has to follow the company brand.
Denis Stadler ·
- Automation
- Return on investment
Maximizing ROI with robotic process automation (RPA)
The return on an RPA project comes from licensing, development and maintenance costs set against the manual work removed. The calculation is done on the chosen process, before the project, with real volumes.
Denis Stadler ·
- Automation
- Return on investment
The discovery phase in robotic process automation (RPA): choosing what to automate
The discovery phase decides which processes get automated and in what order. It maps the processes, checks their stability and data, estimates the return and lists the risks, before any robot is built.
Denis Stadler ·
- Collaboration
- Document management
- Intranet
Seven SharePoint capabilities for team collaboration
SharePoint Online is the document and intranet layer of Microsoft 365. Seven capabilities make it the base for collaboration: libraries with versions and permissions, integration with Teams and OneDrive, Power Automate flows, intranet sites, search, mobile access and usage analytics.
Denis Stadler ·
- Internal communication
Running an internal communication campaign with Viva Amplify
A Viva Amplify campaign holds the goal, the audiences, the publications and the report in one place. The team writes once, publishes to Outlook, SharePoint and Teams, approves before release and reads the results per channel.
Denis Stadler ·
- Internal communication
A step-by-step guide to setting up Microsoft Viva Amplify
Viva Amplify is the Microsoft 365 app for internal communication campaigns: one draft, published to Outlook, SharePoint and Teams, with approvals and reporting. Below, the setup steps from our own tenant, from licensing to the first published message.
Denis Stadler ·
- Automation
Does RPA replace people? What software robots take over, and what stays with the team
RPA takes over operations that follow fixed rules: copying data between systems, posting documents, building routine reports. Decisions that need judgement, exceptions and contact with people stay with the team.
Denis Stadler ·
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