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A (Non)Profitable Journey — Part 1

I am embarking on a series of posts about how non-profits can benefit from Office 365, the Microsoft programs for non-profits and a bunch of other goodies on the side, all to better help non-profits squeeze every ounce of value they can from their limited financial resources.  And this won’t all just be “theory”, I’ll …

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Blocking Ransomware and the CryptoWall / Cryptolocker with Trend Micro

Blocking Ransomware and the CryptoWall Cryptolocker Trend Micro released a product patch on 2015-05-14 that’s adds Ransomware Protection via their Enhanced Behavior Monitoring features in Worry-Free Business Security 9 SP1. If you are running Trends patch B2532 it is a MUST to install to protect from the EVIL Crypto variants. Head to Trends download site …

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Uncle Rob’s Office 365 Migration Primer – Part 2

This is the second part of my discussion about methods of migrating from on-premise Exchange to Office 365. In the first part of the discussion I identified some key things you need to know about Exchange and Outlook and I described the simple migration methodology of using PST files to move data between your old, …

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MVP – Year #3

I was deeply fortunate to have been renewed for a third straight year as a Microsoft MVP in SharePoint Server. I would like to thank everyone who assisted me throughout the year, and kept me on the right path to stay on top of my contributions. I look forward to another year of doing my …

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SharePoint Web Part Style

Looking to add a bit of sass to your web parts? With this bit of jQuery and CSS, we’ll take control of the display of SharePoint web parts and their titles and icons. Here’s an example: In the script below, we’ll target the icon <img> that SharePoint allows you to set via the Web Part …

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New Blog Host Provider

My blog has recently moved to a new provider, Flywheel. There were some stability issues with my last provider and thus decided to jump ship. Hopefully all will work out well with this new group. In case you’re interested, here’s a link to my new blog provider. https://getflywheel.com/

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Remote Mobile Device Wipe in Office 365

Remote Mobile Device Wipe in Office 365 Today I had to remotely wipe the email and sync partnership from a users phone. This is an easy thing to do in the Office 365 admin center. Select the user then Edit the Exchange properties. From there go to mailbox features and go View details. From here …

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Uncle Rob’s Office 365 Migration Primer – Part 1

I had a meeting last week with a non-profit and during our discussions I heard many of the same things that I have heard in the past which indicate a total lack of understanding on the part of the end-user organization as to how their Outlook and Exchange actually work.  And it isn’t just end-users …

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The Little JavaScript Gifts from SharePoint

Ever needed to quickly figure out what web application you are in using JavaScript? Or get the site collection URL? SharePoint has a fantastic somewhat little know JavaScript object declared in the MasterPage. _spPageContextInfo This object contains a ton of useful contextual information that can be accessed simply by referencing it: <script type=”text/javascript”> var loginName …

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