SharePoint has been declared dead for two decades and somehow keeps showing up to work. I started with it in 2009 when people were already calling it outdated. Since then I have built intranets, migrated file shares with hundreds of thousands of documents, cleaned up permission disasters, over-customized sites, ripped customizations back out, and watched Teams and Copilot expose every weak decision in real time. This is not a history lesson. It is a field report from the trenches.

In this session, I will share hard-earned lessons from 25 years of SharePoint. Lessons about document libraries, folders, metadata, version history, search, governance, migrations, customization, and adoption. What actually breaks at scale. What users really struggle with. What admins ignore until it hurts. And what I would build differently today in a modern Microsoft 365 tenant.

SharePoint is not a website builder. It is a content platform that rewards clarity and punishes shortcuts. After this session, you will see it differently. And you will build it better.