ALT 🆕 #KashBox article | We at Sympraxis Consulting hold an open-to-all, bi-weekly, 🆓, knowledge-sharing meeting called, "Ask Sympraxis." In fact, we've our next one this coming Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2025, 9:30am PT -- Happy New Year! 🎉 I wanted to take a moment and share a little more info about Ask Sympraxis more broadly, so you get a clear picture of what it is AND hopefully decide to join in. It's all about two-way knowledge sharing, in-person or on your own time (each session goes to our YouTube channel). Learn more about our "Ask Sympraxis" offering, and see you soon: https://kashbox.substack.com/p/ask-sympraxis-free-bi-weekly-microsoft

ALT Viva Goals will be retired on December 31, 2025. Microsoft will continue to maintain Viva Goals’ availability, accessibility, and security through retirement. However, as of December 5, 2024, Microsoft will no longer invest in new feature development. While Viva Goals is being retired, Microsoft remains fully committed to the Viva suite, continuing to innovate and deliver tools to help our customers drive meaningful business impact.

ALT My Santa Bitmoji says hi and Happy Holidays.

ALT They say sharing is caring, and in 2025, SharePoint cared a lot—to give us useful, innovative features. This list focuses on new tech that arrived in 2025 AND fits the category of most useful; with a slight bias from your author here about the ones I actually use most (or oft recommend) in my day-to-day personal use and consultative guidance. So, grab your favorite beverage and let me scroll-walk you down through my top five SharePoint features of 2025—the ones that made me think “that helps!” And in the pace of change, choosing five was tough. So, the article rounds out at the end with honorable mentions, a few related tech winners from OneDrive and Teams, and yes, a moment of silence for products and services we lost this past year. #RIP

ALT Semantics in language help convey meaning and make communicating interesting. Semantics in technology is a magical middle layer that takes raw information and turns it into knowledge – aka, something relatable and clear; a bridge to understanding. So, let’s explore it from a few angles and make sense of it together. In this article, we’ll explore three semantic steppingstones: 1) Human Communication, 2) Microsoft Interactive Media Manager (IMM) – An early (2007) SharePoint-based media solution, and 3) Semantic Index for Microsoft 365 Copilot. Title "Semantics bridges gaps in the AI era" overlayed onto a photo of a bridge crossing water.

ALT Sympraxis Consulting at the Microsoft 365 Community Conference 2026 (Orlando, FL | April 21-23). Come meet a few Sympraxians in Orlando, FL during the Microsoft 365 Community Conference 2026: Marc Anderson, Julie Turner, Derek Cash-Peterson, and Mark Kashman.

ALT I'm honored to share that I've been accepted into the *Microsoft MVP Program* for SharePoint and Microsoft 365! This is a gift that comes with the ongoing commitment to gift others with knowledge, guidance, and an open ear to listen and advocate.

ALT AI generated image of a Scarecrow in a corn field drinking a too-cold Blizzard drink from Dairy Queen surrounded by laughing crows to support my following pun: What happens when a scarecrow drinks a glass of cold water: Grain freeze.

ALT Ask Sympraxis episode "Microsoft Ignite 2025 Recap" on November 26, 2025, at 9:30am PT / 12:30pm ET.

ALT Dive into Ignite 2025 updates for SharePoint and OneDrive with community legend, Mark Kashman. We explore what’s new across SharePoint plus Teams, Lists, Loop, and how Clipchamp ties in, using SharePoint as the anchor for what matters. We’ll map how SharePoint pages become the launchpad for news and knowledge at scale. Kash in your curiosity—this deep dive pays off big.

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