In this article you'll learn how to transform a normal SharePoint list into a cool chart. I'll drive you in every step to implement an existing open-source solution that leverages the capabilities of list views and columns formatting to bring amazing charts to life on SharePoint pages. Learn to take SharePoint data and display charts as vertical bars, circle (doughnut) charts, mixed vertical bars, pie charts, horizontal bar charts and line charts.

When your visions of sugar plums need to dance in your customers' heads, tell your digital story with Sway. Read all about it in this seventh installment of Shortcut Shari's Countdown to Christmas using technology.

Lots of third-party tool makers for Microsoft Windows—such as Piriform, IObit, and Glarysoft—offer simple utilities to optimize, speed up, and clean up Windows. With the introduction of Microsoft PC Manager, available in a free English-language Beta test version, there’s a home-grown option for users to consider also.

When you're as busy as one of Santa's elves, what you really need is a little help from automation. Read all about it in this sixth installment of Shortcut Shari's Countdown to Christmas using technology.

When it's hard to tell the naughty list from the good list, you need to organize your data. Power BI is just the tool to help you keep things straight in this fifth installment in Shortcut Shari's Countdown to Christmas using technology.

When more than just the elf on the shelf is watching, you need to make your PowerPoint presentations as interesting as possible. This is the fourth installment in Shortcut Shari's Countdown to Christmas using technology.

When Excel won't do for tracking tasks, and sticky notes go flying off your whiteboard with every breeze, you need Microsoft Lists to help keep you organized. This is the third installment in Shortcut Shari's Countdown to Christmas using technology.

Join me in this concise video tutorial where I demonstrate how to deploy a new Azure OpenAI resource within an existing Resource Group. Watch as I deploy two powerful language models, GPT-4 Turbo and GPT-3.5 Turbo, and then walk you through a quick setup in the Azure AI Studio Chat Playground. By the end, you'll learn how to configure and interact with these models to harness the power of Azure's AI capabilities for your applications.

You can use Planner to organize everything from ginormous tasks at work to holiday parties with your friends. This is the second installment in Shortcut Shari's Countdown to Christmas using technology.

Celebrate the countdown to Christmas with 12 tech-delicious offerings from Shortcut Shari. Learn to use Bookings in this first article to reserve calendar time for festivities and work.

This “how to” article shows how to create Microsoft 365 mail flow rules that reduce Outlook meeting-related notification emails using the Microsoft 365 Exchange admin center and Windows PowerShell. It also teaches you how to test these rules using Outlook on the web. Besides giving you the necessary details, it includes a 9-minute video version.

In this TekkiTalk, host Christian Buckley chats with guest Vesa Juvonen, Principal Product Manager for the M365 and Power Platform Community team at Microsoft, about the evolution of the Patterns and Practices (PnP) community, and how Microsoft continues to invest in open source and community initiatives.