At the Microsoft 365 Community Conference 2026, I hosted and moderated a livestream about where SharePoint is headed and what SharePoint professionals need to learn if they want to stay useful.

I was joined by fellow MVPs Vlad Catrinescu, Pete Simpkins, Richard Harbridge, Laura Rogers, and Sean Bugler for a real conversation about the future of SharePoint work.

The title says it all: SharePoint is not dying, but lazy SharePoint skills probably should.

SharePoint is still very much alive, but the work has changed. It is no longer enough to know how to create a site, add a library, throw everything into folders, and call it collaboration. The next version of SharePoint work is tied closely to AI-enabled governance, better content lifecycle management, metadata that actually helps people find things, and practical adoption that does not require a 90-page training deck nobody will read.

We talked about the new Governance Hub, including ways to identify outdated pages and clean up sites more efficiently. We also touched on the evolving certification path for 2026, including AB-730, AB-731, AP-900, and AB-620, along with simple training ideas that can help SMBs, public-sector teams, and everyday users start improving without turning the whole thing into a massive program.

The biggest takeaway was simple: SharePoint is not the problem. Stale skills are.

If you work with SharePoint, this is the time to refresh how you think about governance, content, AI readiness, and user enablement. The platform is changing whether we are ready or not, and pretending it is still 2013 with a nicer interface is not a career strategy.

Watch the full livestream here: