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I put together a presentation on the new Microsoft Stream App in Office 365, and presented it on Aug 8, 2017 at the Sydney Office 365 User Group in Sydney, Australia.  Feel free to check it out and let me know if you have any questions.  🙂 Microsoft Stream – The Video Evolution from Colin …

I recently put together a presentation on the new Microsoft Forms solution that came out in Office 365 (in public preview).  I’ve presented the below presentation at the Sydney (Australia) SharePoint User Group on July 18th, 2017, and again on Aug 4th, 2017 in Adelaide, South Australia.  Please check it out below. Microsoft Forms 101 …

I recently put together a presentation on my experience in New York / New Jersey over the course of a 9 (or maybe 10) month project trying to migrate SharePoint data from one company to another, and then into the cloud. I gave this presentation at the Office 365 Saturday event in Sydney, Australia on …

One of the key steps of being able to utilize services in Office 365 from Office 2016 is to connect the two together. This a fairly simple procedure, and I’ve created an easy step by step process to set this up as seen below.     Start by launching Word 2016.         …

Recently I was trying to sync a new SharePoint library in a site I have setup in Office 365, and after having tried many other blog posts, none of them worked, and I had to come up with my own solution.     The error I was seeing was as follows.   “Microsoft OneDrive for …

Recently I was using Office 2016 to save to a new location that I’d never saved to previously. Unfortunately, it turns out I was already connected to a large number of services (as I work as a consultant and am often working on many projects at once). Before I could connect to a new service, …

itgroove has just launched the Gallery, a new website dedicated to inspiring you with solutions for your SharePoint portal. These widgets are derived from solving problems that we see “in the field” working as consultants in the SharePoint and Office 365 space everyday. The Gallery showcases what’s possible, and the site provides options for developers …

I’m humbled and pleased to say that I’ve been renewed as a Microsoft MVP in Office Servers and Services (formerly SharePoint) for a 4th year in a row. Thanks go out to all those who helped me in this effort along the way over the past year. Special thanks to my former boss Sean Wallbridge, …

A while ago Microsoft announced the end of life for the InfoPath product in the Office suite. Since that time, Office 2016 has been released, and there’s still a large demand for the InfoPath product by a number of my colleagues and clients alike. Microsoft has not produced a new version of InfoPath for the …