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​Quite often you need to be able to send email out of a device (printer, mfp, fax machine, whatever) or a program and you have to “relay” it off your email server.  We all knew how to do this with our own on-premise Exchange but there seems to be some confusion about using Office 365 …

If you’ve read this blog over the past year or so you’ll know I have bitched like many others about the “demise” of our beloved SBS.  You’ll also know that I have been getting fairly excited about O365 and Server 2012/R2.  Well, now I can also say that I’m pretty pleased with what I see …

We’ve just started the ball rolling to form the Victoria Office 365 Users Group!  If you are in the Victoria area and are interested in finding out what Office 365 is all about then this is the group for you! If you are interested, go here for the MeetUp page and join us.  Our first …

This is not going to be a highly technical post; i just want to highlight some observations I’ve made about O365 over the last little while.  If you are a newbie to O365 you might find some of this helpful.  If you are an old hand then you already are aware of what I’ll be …

Office365 is a great service!  We love it at itgroove and we’ve helped a number of customers move to the service.  I won’t downplay the work that can be involved as, after all, you are migrating some heavy duty tools:  Exchange, SharePoint, et al.  That said, the process is actually quite well defined and Microsoft …

One very cool benefit of many Office365 subscription levels is the “CAL’” rights that are conferred via the O365 subscription towards on premise services.  What I mean by this is that O365, for example, confers SharePoint and Exchange CAL’s that can be used for both connection to the O365 services and your own on-premise services!  …

There is a lot of talk nowadays about “IT bloat”, usually by the guys that are in the forefront of delivering Cloud services.  And they have a point, IT can bloat like mad if you don’t keep things under control.  Services like Office 365 can be a godsend for many organizations because they offer a …

Many years ago, Scott McNealy, former CEO of Sun Microsystems and a “human quote machine” made the comment, “You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.”  The comment was made in reference to questions about security and privacy on the Web.  While Scott’s comment may have been a bit over the top, there is a …

There are a lot of people out there gnashing their teeth over the whole question of Microsoft’s push for subscription licensing, specifically Office licensing via Office 365.  Indeed, there is a yawning chasm opening up between those of us who see advantage in the subscription model and those who cling to the old licensing models.  …

I have talked about the market changes that face all of us that are involved in supplying IT services in previous posts.  The Cloud (all of it , but particularly the Microsoft Cloud offerings like Office 365) is changing the market landscape in ways no one would have imagined just a few years ago.  And …