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Special Characters!
I got a surprise last week when I discovered that you can upload MS Word files to Office 365 SharePoint online with special characters in the file name! (NOT that I’m recommending it đ ) That will make life easier for business users, especially those that work in languages other than English.
Read onOffice 365âService health and service trust
Microsoft has been accused of many things over the years but one thing they cannot be accused of is hiding the status of their online services behind walls of secrecy. In fact, if anything, they make it all very visible, warts and all. This is not at all like some of their competitors ⌠Most …
Read onOffice 365âMSFT Giveth and MSFT Taketh Away
OK, now that my âbiblicalâ title has caught your attention Iâll explain myself ⌠2014 has seen big changes in Office 365. Microsoft has been rolling out change after change after change. Delve, Clutter, Sway, Office Mix as well as many backend changes and upgrades have made Office 365 a whole bunch better at the …
Read onOffice 365 – Apples and Giraffes Comparisons
I was chatting with a long-term customer of ours the other day. They have been using a âcheapâ hosted email service (POP/IMAP) from their web site hoster for years. The cost of providing email services to their 150 or so users has been ridiculously low (like tens of dollars per month) but, as you might expect, …
Read onOffice 365 – Switch Plans Wizard
Office 365 gives you the ability to switch your plan, generally so that you can move up to a bigger, more comprehensive plan. If you have no need to change then you probably don’t need to read any further. However, there is a situation that has come up where you might need to switch plans …
Read onMoving âSearch Resultsâ to Site Collections
The parts that need to be moved Site Collection Result Sources (it’s like a content type) Search Result .aspx Pages (it’s like a template file) Site Settings > Search Settings > Configure Search Navigation How & where to move the parts It’s very easy to export and import the search settings. However the hard part …
Read onâor edit this listâ (Quick Edit Part 1)
In SharePoint 2013 thereâs a âQuick Editâ View Format. Most people will know this from SharePoint 2010 when it was called the âDatasheet Viewâ View Format. âQuick Editâ in the Ribbon There are some scenarios in SP2013 where the âQuick Editâ View Format can not function properly. There have been a number of posts on …
Read onDoes SharePoint Manage Records?
Digital records management seemed fictional for most organizations even as late as 2013. Joe Shepley of Doculabs threw out the challenge that no one was really doing it right, âThe problem is bigger than SharePoint – Now before I get accused of bashing SharePoint here, let me let you all in on a dirty little …
Read onO365 and DirSync – Two Factor authentication
My colleague Stephanie Kahlam has a great post on Dirsync on her blog https://stellark.itgroove.net. Â I won’t rehash it as Steph has done a great job. I do want to comment on the reference she makes to two-factor authentication using your smartphone. Â Microsoft bought PhoneFactor, the company that created the phone authentication technology some time ago. …
Read onIn the beginning…
Hello Blogosphere! My name’s Bruce Norman Smith, nice to meet you. Check out my: LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/brucenormansmith Personal Twitter: @Bruce_N_Smith itgroove Twitter: @itgroove_bruce I’m a professional member of:  AIIM  ARMA International (Vancouver Island Chapter, Vancouver Chapter)  Association of Canadian Archivists  Archives Association of British Columbia Check back weekly for some Information Management and Microsoft SharePoint and Office musings.
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