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Office 365 lets you add and change subscriptions at will (well, pretty much).  This is all fine and dandy but you can start to make a real hash of things if you are not careful.  As an example, consider the following: This is a customer of ours and their subscription listing is not atypical, many …

I’m going to go out on a limb, here, and try to cut through some of the “fog” that surrounds email migrations to Office 365.  While there are all sorts of scenarios based on individual situations, there are really only two ways that migrations happen from on-prem Exchange to O365; 1) use Microsoft tools with …

Microsoft has launched a new “tips” site for Office 365 small business users – Small biz hacks.  The site is here and I encourage you to have a look. Two of my colleagues – Sean Wallbridge and Alec McCauley – already have “hacks” featured on the site.  There are hacks coming soon from me and …

Big enterprises and other large organizations are lucky when it comes to SharePoint (as part of an on premise install) because they generally have the development teams and the financial resources to really make the product get up and “dance”. It can be costly to really exercise on premise SharePoint to the maximum, just like …

It seems like the new buzzword or catchphrase is “Identity Management”.  Vendors everywhere are falling all over themselves to get on the bandwagon to provide tools that manage identities across many platforms.  That’s all well and good but for the average O365 user and/or the average small business owner, the concept may be pretty vague …

A Digital ID (digital signature) is much like an SSL certificate used on secured websites (think HTTPS) as it allows your Outlook to “stamp” your email with a digital ID that establishes the authenticity of the email.  Just as the SSL cert on a website establishes the fact that the website is, in fact, what …

This is just a quickie post about a neat little feature that Microsoft has slipped into Office 365 in the last few weeks. If you spend anytime at all logged in to Office 365 you’ll certainly know that the “Waffle” is the button that brings up the AppSwitcher which makes it a doodle to switch …

(Author’s Note:  I provided this content to the European SharePoint Conference Week of Learning and it is posted here.  Their main blog page is located here.  My thanks to all at ESPC for graciously allowing me to repost the content and I encourage you to have a dig around their site as there is a …

(Author’s Note:  I provided this content to the European SharePoint Conference Week of Learning and it is posted here.  Their main blog page is located here.  My thanks to all at ESPC for graciously allowing me to repost the content and I encourage you to have a dig around their site as there is a …

Microsoft has done a “really good thing” with their “Free for Nonprofits” program that provides Office 365 subscriptions (across all of the subscription plan models) for free or for a significant discount to qualifying non-profits.  I really want to focus on the “for free” wording as it is very significant. Many vendors provide discount pricing …