Finding Lease Data in Giant Scanned Packets
Giant scanned packets of leases, rental agreements, cancellations and letters. How we pulled the files from SharePoint, ran OCR on a local …
OpenClaw, Hermes, Grok Bot: My Search for a Personal AI Assistant
I wanted a personal assistant I could talk to, to keep up with my email, calendar and projects. It took three AI agents, two extra computers, and a lot of my own connectors to get …
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Web Parts Are Coming
I’m pulling together the SharePoint web parts I’ve built over my career, plus the ones people keep asking for. Here’s …
Just Showing Up: Why I Drive to Community Events I'm Not Running
I’m not a Microsoft regional lead, but if a community event is a few hours’ drive away, I’m probably there. What I do when …
M365 NYC 2026: Learning From the Person Next to You
A short look back at M365 Community Days NYC 2026: full rooms, a scavenger hunt that gets strangers talking, and the volunteers who made it …
Letting an Azure Function Send Email as One Mailbox — and Only One
Mail.Send lets an Azure Function send as any mailbox in your tenant. How to scope it to one mailbox with Exchange, and the traps along the …
Automated Lease Routing with Microsoft Foundry, Azure Functions, and SharePoint
How I used Azure AI to read lease documents and file them in the right SharePoint folder, and the surprises that didn’t show up until …
Ten Years as a Microsoft MVP
Renewed as a Microsoft MVP for 2026-2027 — my tenth year in the program, what it has meant, and why I keep showing up.
Why We Rebuilt a Power App as a Web App (And How AI Helped Us Ship It Fast)
A boutique camera parts dealer outgrew their Power App. Here’s why we moved to a custom web app, the problems that forced the switch, …
Three Years of Community Days: Built by the Community, For the Community
CommunityDays.org turns three. A look back at how it started, what we’ve built, and the people who made it happen.
Renewed as Microsoft MVP for 2025-2026
Renewed as a Microsoft MVP for 2025-2026 — what the program means to me and why it matters for our community.
Managing Document Library Versioning and Expiration Across a SharePoint Tenant
Version history in SharePoint can quietly eat your storage. Here’s how we enforce consistent versioning and auto-expiration across …
Building a Two-Stage AI Pipeline for Invoice Processing with AWS Textract and Amazon Bedrock
How I built a serverless pipeline using AWS Textract for OCR and Amazon Bedrock for AI normalization to extract structured data from …