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Configuring Office 365 Contacts to email to a Yammer Group with a plus sign
Configuring Office 365 Contacts to email to a Yammer Group The request was to transition from a distribution group to a contact that would email a Yammer group. The first problem was creating the contact. Office 365 wouldn’t let me create a contact with a plus (+) sign in the external email address, a structure …
Read onPost Exchange mailbox database cleanup after migration to Office 365
Post Exchange mailbox database cleanup to Office 365 My initial issue was thus. I had done a cut migration from Exchange 2013 to Office 365. Everything was working fine and I had kept my existing server intact to be used in conjunction with DirSync for a Hybrid solution. The existing on premises server was still …
Read onOffice 365 – Skype for Business
Microsoft just keeps the release train rolling! Here they annonce that the next version of Lync will, in fact, become Skype for Business. We all “knew” that is was coming, well now it’s official. Stay tuned to my blog for more about this as it becomes available and as it rolls out. This is going to …
Read onOffice 365 – Clutter is here!
Office 365 is rolling out a new feature — Clutter — that is starting to show up in user tenancies as of today (November 11, 2014). It is a tool that is designed to help manage the mass of email flowing to your Inbox. While it does not replace proper email management practices (you DO …
Read onOffice 365 “First Release”
If you have been following the news about Microsoft over the last 8 – 12 months you will undoubtedly have come to the realization that they have changed! Microsoft has made a 180 degree turn and are now on the path of being “agile”; things are happening almost at lightspeed within all of their product groups with …
Read onOffice Apps now free on iOS!
iOS users have had the full Office experience available to them on iPad for sometime now but the caveat was you required an Office 365 account to use the apps. Microsoft has removed that restriction and made the Office apps “free” on iPad and also made the apps available on iPhone and iPod (iOS8)! This …
Read onO365 – Using the Office Web Apps (OWA)
One great feature of O365 is the ability to work with Office documents on a device that does NOT have Office installed or, perhaps, doesn’t even directly support Office. An example would be a SmartPhone (and I know about Office Mobile, but that’s a different animal …) or a tablet. There are many times when …
Read onDirSync – FIMSynchronizationService logon failure
DirSync FIMSynchronizationService logon failure I had recently installed and configured DirSync at a clients site and it was working fine, but I came back to make a change and found myself unable to launch the miisclient. It would complain that the service wasn’t running and indeed they weren’t. Both Windows Azure Active Directory Sync Service & …
Read onWhy pick O365 over other mail services?
We get asked, a lot, why an an oganization should pick Office 365 over other email services such as Gmail (as an example). After all, email is email, is it not?? This is one of those “loaded” questions, specially if you’re older and remember the email server “wars” back in the early 2000’s. But I …
Read onUploading PST data to a Office 365 Kiosk Account
Uploading PST data to a Office 365 Kiosk Account I was asked to move emails from an employee who had left and the position was being taken over by an existing staff member. First I tried to connect the old user account into Outlook in order to export the email to PST, but it wasn’t …
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