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Practitioner guides for Copilot in SharePoint. What it is, what changes in June, how to opt in or out, and the Skills you can ship today. Written from real work in client tenants.

Copilot in SharePoint, the 2026 practitioner guideGuide

Copilot in SharePoint, the 2026 practitioner guide

What Copilot in SharePoint is, what changes in the June 2026 opt-out rollout, and what your team should do this week. Written by a Microsoft MVP who has built with every preview since September 2025.

By Daniel Anderson15 min read
The three capabilities of Copilot in SharePoint explainedCapabilities

The three capabilities of Copilot in SharePoint explained

What to Know, How to Act, What to Produce — what each capability does, with worked examples from real client tenants. By Daniel Anderson, Microsoft MVP.

By Daniel Anderson11 min read
SharePoint Skill walkthrough: cross-report analysis across three weeksSkills

SharePoint Skill walkthrough: cross-report analysis across three weeks

A live demo of a SharePoint AI Skill running cross-report analysis across three weeks of project site reports. Plus updating metadata through chat and improving library readability with no JSON.

By Daniel Anderson9 min read
The SharePoint.md file, your site's context for Copilot in SharePointSkills

The SharePoint.md file, your site's context for Copilot in SharePoint

How the SHAREPOINT.md context file loads into every Copilot in SharePoint chat, what to put in it, and a live demo of renaming eight policies sequentially using one Markdown file.

By Daniel Anderson8 min read
Build a SharePoint contract review Skill, walkthrough with 24 changes flaggedSkills

Build a SharePoint contract review Skill, walkthrough with 24 changes flagged

How to build a contract review Skill in Copilot in SharePoint that compares a returned client contract against your base template and flags every change in a priority-ordered table.

By Daniel Anderson10 min read
SharePoint AI Skills, the practitioner deep-diveSkills

SharePoint AI Skills, the practitioner deep-dive

What a SharePoint AI Skill actually is, where it lives, how to write one, and how Skills differ from Copilot Studio agents. By a Microsoft MVP who has been building Skills in client tenants since the September 2025 preview.

By Daniel Anderson14 min read
Create a SharePoint list with voice, the 5-minute challengeCapabilities

Create a SharePoint list with voice, the 5-minute challenge

A live demo of building a SharePoint list from voice, importing Excel data, applying pill formatting, and adding conditional formatting in under five minutes with Copilot in SharePoint.

By Daniel Anderson7 min read
Create a SharePoint document library with AI, voice command demoCapabilities

Create a SharePoint document library with AI, voice command demo

How to create a SharePoint document library with custom metadata columns using natural language. Live demo: an Agreements library with date, status, and type columns in under 90 seconds.

By Daniel Anderson5 min read
Build a ticketing dashboard from 22 SharePoint files with Copilot CoworkCapabilities

Build a ticketing dashboard from 22 SharePoint files with Copilot Cowork

Inside a Copilot Cowork build that ingests 22 SharePoint files — 1,000 tickets and 500 call transcripts — and produces a fully interactive HTML ticketing dashboard with SLAs, sentiment, and agent heat maps.

By Daniel Anderson9 min read
Build an interactive dashboard from SharePoint files with Copilot, no uploadsCapabilities

Build an interactive dashboard from SharePoint files with Copilot, no uploads

How to point Copilot Cowork at a SharePoint library, build a full interactive HTML dashboard, and archive the source files into a dated folder all in one workflow.

By Daniel Anderson7 min read
Copilot in SharePoint opt-out, the admin guide for the June rolloutAdmin

Copilot in SharePoint opt-out, the admin guide for the June rollout

The PowerShell, the decision tree, and the EU/UK Anthropic guidance for admins managing the Copilot in SharePoint opt-out rollout in mid-June 2026.

By Daniel Anderson12 min read
Does Microsoft Copilot use Anthropic Claude in SharePoint?Models & Architecture

Does Microsoft Copilot use Anthropic Claude in SharePoint?

The honest reconciliation. Microsoft Learn says Anthropic, MC1311968 says GPT-5.4. What is actually running in your tenant, when, and what the EU/UK sub-processor decision means.

By Daniel Anderson9 min read
Copilot Cowork + Design MD, on-brand PowerPoint in one workflowCapabilities

Copilot Cowork + Design MD, on-brand PowerPoint in one workflow

How a single Design MD file plus Copilot Cowork produces fully on-brand PowerPoint presentations. Plus the trick to flip Cowork into interview mode and have it build your Design MD for you.

By Daniel Anderson9 min read
Copilot Agent Mode in Word, rewriting against a brand voice guideCapabilities

Copilot Agent Mode in Word, rewriting against a brand voice guide

How Copilot Agent Mode (Edit with Copilot) inside Word rewrites a document against a brand voice guide, flagging every rule violation and asking for clarification on tone.

By Daniel Anderson7 min read
AI in Microsoft Lists, the practitioner walkthroughCapabilities

AI in Microsoft Lists, the practitioner walkthrough

How Copilot in SharePoint changes Microsoft Lists. Create a list from a spreadsheet, query data conversationally, update records, and apply formatting — all through chat, no JSON, no UI navigation.

By Daniel Anderson8 min read