Archive

OK, this is the “biggie”!  I’ve had a few customers ask this question so I thought it would be worth exploring as I’m sure there are lots of people scratching their heads about this. For purposes of this post I’m going to use BlogCo, a mythical 5 person company run by Joe Blogs, as the …

In my last post in this series I highlighted OneNote and SharePoint as being tools provided with O365 that can significantly enhance communications within any organization.   This post will focus on InfoPath and SharePoint and on the ongoing themes of capability and linkage. InfoPath has been around for a long time and, in fact, Microsoft …

In other posts I have hammered away on the point that Office365 is much more than just email (the usual driver for organizations to switch to O365) and I have talked about the various components such as SharePoint and Lync.   I’ve also made numerous mentions to the smoking deal you get with Office (5 copies …

Office 365 migration error I was doing some mailbox migrations (remote move) from our on premise Exchange 2013 server to the cloud and I ran into the following error on one user. “The target mail user doesn’t have an SMTP address that matches the target delivery domain ‘Service.company.com” For once this was an easy error …

0x80070005 issue Activating Office 365 I often run into this activation issue at clients and the first thing they always check is their Office 365 Licensing portal. If you are on the right plan Microsoft Office should be activated when you download and install it from the portal. So it’s a little odd when it …

For a small company (10 people), itgroove sure pours on the coals so I get to thump on our drum a little today.  I’m pleased to announce that as of today (April 9, 2014) we have 3 certified Microsoft Office365 Professionals on staff – Colin Philips, Louis Warren and Stephanie Kahlam – as well as …

Hey, Uncle Rob!  How do I decide if I should go with on-premise servers or Office365?  I’m confused! Well, that’s a good (if loaded) question and I’m glad you asked.  I’ll do my best to give some sort of coherent answer. The first determining factor is “Can my data be stored outside of my national …

Thoughts on Office 365’s Spam Settings Recently I have been looking into the Spam settings in Office 365 as I am more familiar with on-premises and services such as Trend. I just wanted to setup some basic BADWORDS like I was used to in Exchange 2013 and be able to modify them as needed. First …

The driver for many businesses to go to O365 is email, specifically Exchange Online, and there is nothing wrong with that.  As I noted in an earlier post, the combination of O365 and Windows Server Essentials is a damn fine successor to SBS and that is all based on the premise that your email is …

One of the big things that seems to trip up a lot of people when they attempt to move to Office 365 are the DNS requirements that Microsoft expects you to have in place.  If you are not used to messing about with DNS the requirements can look a bit daunting.  And if your present …