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Free move to the Canadian Data Centers by Oct. 31, 2016
Now’s your chance to have Microsoft move your O365 Exchange, Skype, CRM and SharePoint Online data at rest to the new Canadian Data Centers: itgroove has been watching this for a while now: September 2013; June 2015; June 2015; May 2016; May 2016. So we’ve decided to take the leap to better serve our clients and …
Read onRobert’s New Blog
A note from your friendly neighbourhood itgroove Blog admin: Our friend and former colleague Robert Dick has started up a new blog: http://thebeagle.beagledom.ca/ Stay current with his latest posts there.
Read onHide “Change the Look” in Site Actions Menu
For anyone who’s looking for a simple, CSS-only way to hide the menu option for “Change the Look” from the settings cog – this snippet will do the trick! SharePoint Online CSS: [code lang=”css”] a[aria-label="Change the look"] { display: none !important; } [/code] SharePoint 2013 CSS: [code lang=”css”] #suiteBarButtons li[description="Change the look of your site"] …
Read onOffice 365 and Backup
You may or may not have noticed but there are a raft of Office 365 backup services popping up right, left and centre. This might seem odd but actually it is just the market reacting to a void in the overall services structure that Microsoft has crafted with Office 365. Let me explain … Microsoft …
Read onWindows 10 for Business Adopters
We’ve been chatting internally at itgroove about Windows 10 (and playing with it, of course!) and we are taking a stance regarding corporate adoption that is probably pretty common. Before you jump on the bandwagon you need to put Windows 10 on a test box and test the daylights out of all of your custom …
Read onCanadian Datacentres!
Microsoft announced they’re officially planning datacentres in Canada! (and yes I know it’s “datacenters”) I started thinking about privacy and Canadian law a lot when I was the privacy officer at the Medical Council of Canada. As an individual I recognize the benefits of privacy. But, as someone that’s worked in small and medium sized business, I must …
Read onGoodbye Baby Girl
This blog was ultimately named for Samantha, our purebred Beagle , who has been my partner in crime for the last 15 1/2 years. Sam has featured in posts on my blog as well as posts I created for other entities including the European SharePoint Conference and the Office “Small Business Hacks” blog. She …
Read onArchiving Digital Objects
When someone asks me about archiving digital objects I’m never sure what sort of quality they want. Most of the time someone’s just talking about the lower-case “archive” and maybe a button in Microsoft Outlook or a WordPress plugin. In this case they just want to ‘hide the old stuff somewhere, so they don’t have …
Read onOffice 365 – OWA & Outlook Apps Revisited and Flaws Found
I wrote a post a few months back about the new(ish) Outlook app vs the older OWA app. At the time I stated that I was sticking with OWA on my Android. I’ve had a chance to revisit the apps recently and I did end up using the Outlook for Android app for a few …
Read onYou Had Me at OneNote…
I will be the first to admit that I am just a ‘teensy bit’ stubborn. Do I think this is a bad thing? Not really. Do I think it must annoy my significant other? I’m guessing so by the size of the vein in his forehead whenever he tries to get me doing something new …
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