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Top 10 Microsoft Ignite 2025 Highlights Every Microsoft 365 Administrator Should Know

November 25, 2025December 5, 2025Brian Alderman

Microsoft Ignite 2025 delivered one of the most transformative sets of announcements we’ve seen in years — especially for Microsoft 365 administrators responsible for productivity, security, governance, and now AI-driven operations. The shift toward agent-based workflows, deeper intelligence layers, and unified governance means the admin role is rapidly evolving from “systems operator” to “AI orchestrator.” If you’re a Microsoft 365 admin, consultant, architect, or IT decision-maker, here are the top 10 Ignite highlights that will shape how you manage and secure your environment in 2025 and beyond. Agent 365: A Unified Governance Platform for AI Agents The star of Ignite was Agent 365, Microsoft’s new central control plane for managing… Read More

Top 10 SharePoint Online Announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2019

November 14, 2019January 17, 2020Brian Alderman

SharePoint Online Home Sites, built on top of Communication sites are now rolled out, providing a more dynamic and modern landing page that contains news and content relative to your employees Hub sites being updated to include Hub permissions management, analytics capability, and Search and audience targeting is in progress Expanded views of lists and libraries with one click to clear the site header and the left-hand navigation Since we are talking about libraries; Power Apps now integrates with SharePoint libraries, not just lists To view your rows easier, there is an option to display every other row with your color choice, making information in libraries and lists easier to… Read More

Microsoft Ignite 2018 – SharePoint Related Announcements

September 28, 2018September 30, 2018Brian Alderman

If you weren’t able to attend Microsoft Ignite 2018, as I wasn’t, there were a lot of great announcements by Microsoft in all product areas. I’ve done some research and pulled together the highlights of the announcements and in this blog post I’m going to focus on the key announcement areas specific to SharePoint Online, and the associated Microsoft online services. Unfortunately, there wasn’t a lot announced about SharePoint Server 2019. NOTE: Not all of these announced features and capabilities are in production at this point and time. The expected release date for these features and capabilities is between 2018 Q4 and by the end of the first half of… Read More