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January 2025: Elevate Your Year with AI-Driven Strategies and Tools

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January 2025: Elevate Your Year with AI-Driven Strategies and Tools

Looking back on 2024, it was a year of innovation and progress. This year, we’ll help you build on that momentum with curated resources, expert insights, and actionable strategies.

📅 5+ Events

📚 3+ Latest Features

📈 1 Resource To Increase Productivity

From AI-powered tools to updates in SharePoint and Microsoft Teams, this month’s highlights will equip you to streamline workflows, boost collaboration, and lead with confidence in the modern workplace.

As always you will love the way we learn. Together

2toLead Spotlight🎉

As we enter 2025, we’ve curated a list of our 10 Most Popular Resources from 2024, designed to empower professionals and organizations to excel in the modern digital workplace. These top resources reflect the challenges, trends, and innovations that defined the past year while offering actionable insights to shape your strategy.

From webinars on maximizing Microsoft 365 Copilot to toolkits for building modern SharePoint intranets, these resources cover essential topics like AI integration, team collaboration, compliance, and cost-effective tech adoption. Whether you’re looking to optimize workflows, improve productivity, or streamline your AI readiness, this collection has something for everyone.

Discover the tools and insights that helped shape 2024 and confidently equip yourself to lead in 2025. Explore the complete list and make the most of the year ahead!

GET AHEAD FOR THE NEW YEAR//

Featured Events 📅

Extend Copilot: Maximize ROI with Agents and Graph Connectors

📅 Date: Thursday, February 6, 2025 🕑 Time: 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM PT

Explore how advanced AI agents and Graph Connectors can maximize the potential of Microsoft Copilot. Hosted in collaboration with BA Insight, this event features insights from our CEO, Kanwal Khipple, and other industry leaders.

💡Get Crucial Insights On:

  • Discover how AI agents and Graph Connectors can enhance Copilot's capabilities.
  • Unlock hidden value in your organization's data with actionable strategies.
  • Streamline workflows and boost productivity using AI-powered tools.
  • Gain expert insights and best practices from industry leaders.

Register Now!

Our Latest Events This Month

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INDUSTRY NEWS //

📣 Latest announcement

Copilot

Updates to Microsoft 365 Copilot deliver powerful enhancements to boost productivity and streamline workflows across apps. Here are the key highlights:

  1. Outlook Enhancements: Copilot now drafts meeting summaries and follow-up emails automatically from calendar events. This streamlines communication and saves valuable time for professionals managing busy schedules.
  2. Excel Upgrades: Copilot has improved its data analysis capabilities, offering advanced insights and visualizations from natural language queries. Whether identifying trends or building financial models, these updates empower faster, data-driven decisions.
  3. Teams Integration:Copilot now enhances collaboration by summarizing meeting discussions, suggesting actionable items, and tracking follow-ups in real-time. It ensures teams stay aligned without missing critical details.
  4. Word and PowerPoint Innovations: In Word, Copilot can draft documents based on prompts with increased context awareness, while PowerPoint sees improvements in generating presentation designs and automating slide updates.
  5. Security and Compliance Updates: Copilot’s integration with Microsoft Purview ensures that data remains secure and compliant during usage. These enhancements reflect Microsoft’s commitment to safeguarding organizational data.
  6. Streamlined Onboarding and Usage: The new Copilot adoption tools offer tutorials and insights for businesses to maximize its potential, enabling smoother transitions for teams adopting the AI assistant.

These updates reinforce Copilot’s role as a comprehensive AI assistant, helping organizations achieve more intelligent, faster, and more connected workflows across the Microsoft 365 suite.

Microsoft Teams

In the latest update, Microsoft Teams continues to enhance collaboration with new features designed to streamline meetings and events. Notably, the ability to request control during screen sharing on the web app allows participants to engage more interactively. Additionally, event organizers can now download transcripts and view RTMP-In 708 captions, improving accessibility for webinars and town halls.

Teams also introduces exciting improvements for Teams Rooms, such as enhanced whiteboard functionality, allowing for seamless collaboration both in and outside of meetings. These updates ensure that Teams remains a powerful tool for driving productivity and engagement across all workspaces.

SharePoint

This month’s SharePoint updates focus on making your digital workplace more intelligent, intuitive, and connected. These advancements, from AI-powered document processing to enhanced integrations with Microsoft Viva, are designed to simplify workflows and elevate productivity. Here are the key updates:

  1. Microsoft Syntex Pay-As-You-Go Service: A powerful AI-driven tool for automating document processing. It uses OCR and language detection to extract data from contracts, invoices, and receipts, seamlessly populating library columns. The flexible Azure billing model makes it accessible for businesses of all sizes.
  2. Viva Connections Power Apps Card: This new addition allows organizations to embed Power Apps cards in Viva Connections dashboards, providing employees quick access to role-specific tools like leave requests, expense approvals, and sales trackers.
  3. Viva Pulse Integration with Copilot: Available with Microsoft 365 Copilot subscriptions, Viva Pulse enables leaders to gather actionable team feedback through quick surveys. Integrated Copilot features analyze and present trends to help teams drive continuous improvement.
  4. 2024 Highlights Recap: Standout innovations include SharePoint Premium’s autofill columns, enriched forms in Microsoft Lists, and OneDrive’s integration with Copilot—showcasing a year of transformative updates.

These updates ensure SharePoint remains at the forefront of digital collaboration and intelligent automation.

Our latest resources, whitepapers and articles 📚

Unlocking AI Power with the 50 Copilot Starter Prompts Toolkit

Ready to elevate how you work with Microsoft Copilot? The 50 Copilot Starter Prompts Toolkit is here to guide you. Whether you're a beginner exploring AI possibilities or an advanced user looking to refine your workflow, this toolkit is packed with expert-curated prompts to help you get the most out of Copilot.

Inside, you'll find practical prompts designed to streamline daily tasks, improve team collaboration, and gain actionable insights from your organizational data. From managing meetings to enhancing personal productivity, each prompt is structured with clear goals, context, and expectations to deliver precise, actionable results. Highlights include:

  • Simplifying Workflows: Tailored prompts to automate repetitive tasks.
  • Enhanced Collaboration: Tools to foster better communication and teamwork.
  • Optimized Meetings: Prompts that help summarize discussions, assign tasks, and track follow-ups.
  • Secure Integration: Learn how to use Copilot effectively while safeguarding your data.

This free resource empowers users to unlock Copilot's full potential, driving smarter and more efficient work. Download the toolkit today and start redefining your productivity with AI!

Transform Your Productivity!

Top 10 Trends Shaping Digital Workplaces by 2025

The workplace of the future is transforming at an unprecedented pace, and businesses must adapt to stay competitive. Our recent article delves into the Top 10 Trends for Digital Workplaces by 2025, uncovering how technology and culture will reshape the way we work. Highlights include the integration of AI-driven collaboration tools, the growing emphasis on employee well-being in hybrid environments, and the adoption of immersive technologies like AR/VR. Additionally, personalized employee experiences and robust cybersecurity measures will play pivotal roles in supporting distributed teams.

These trends offer a roadmap for building innovative, inclusive, and resilient workplaces. Ready to explore further? Check out the full article here and start preparing for the future today!

Optimizing Governance for Copilot Integration with SharePoint

As organizations integrate Microsoft 365 Copilot, strong governance becomes crucial for managing security, compliance, and efficiency. Krishna Kumar, our Solution Architect, explains how SharePoint Advanced Management (SAM) helps address these challenges by providing a centralized way to control content, manage user access, and ensure data protection.

SAM's features, like sharing controls, lifecycle management, and access oversight, support businesses in securing their digital environments while enhancing collaboration. Krishna’s article offers practical insights into how effective governance can help organizations optimize Copilot integration and maintain control in an evolving digital landscape.

🔗Discover how to strengthen governance and maximize your Copilot integration.

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