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 …
A Resume Inbox with Microsoft Foundry: Let AI Read, Let People Decide
Two hundred resumes for one job. How I’d use Microsoft Foundry to read them, pull out the facts and check them against the job’s must-haves, without letting the AI pick …
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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 …
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 …
From a 68-Column Spreadsheet to an App: The Hard Part Wasn't the Code
A small resort ran its whole week from one giant spreadsheet. Turning that into an app meant watching how each team really worked, and …
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 …
My East Coast AICO Tour: New York, DC, and New Jersey
Three AI Community Conference events in three months: how much fun they were, the tight crew of organizers who run them together, and …
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.