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Canadian 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 onOffice 365 – Datacentres coming to Canada!
Microsoft announced this morning (June 2, 2015) that Office 365, Azure and CRM would soon be available out of Canadian datacentres! This is a monumental announcement for all of the Canadian organizations that have wanted to move to O365 or other Microsoft Cloud services and have been blocked by real (or perceived) privacy issues and …
Read onRDP cannot verify the identity of the remote computer because there is a time or date difference.
Remote Desktop cannot verify the identity of the remote computer because there is a time or date difference between your computer and the remote computer. I ran into an issue where I couldn’t RDP to a server by its name and received the following error. Remote Desktop cannot verify the identity of the remote computer …
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 onOffice 365–Ch, Ch, Ch Changes!
Microsoft is on a roll, the mantra of “Agile” is in place and Satya’s troops are delivering changes, new products and a whole bunch more at an unprecedented pace. Some days it can be a bit overwhelming as the announcements just seem to steamroll along. But that is OK as you don’t have to wrap …
Read onBlogging from Word 2016 Preview Works Great!
I just posted a blog post from the new Office 2016 Public Preview (below). http://mmman.itgroove.net/2015/05/04/onenote-2016-preview-and-onetastic-onecalendar/ It and this post too were made using the new Word 2016 Preview. The interface for posting from Word hasn’t changed much from the Office 2013 experience, except for the obvious colour difference on the Ribbon (at least as of …
Read onOneNote 2016 Preview and Onetastic / OneCalendar
I just got a copy of the Office 2016 public preview today and started OneNote 2016. One of the things I noticed was how little has changed about the desktop version between 2013 and 2016 (too bad). The next thing I was curious about was whether or not the Onetastic add-on would work with the …
Read onOffice 2016 Public Preview Now Available
It’s finally been announced that the Office 2016 Public Preview is now available. I’ve seen a few early previews of this as an MVP and have quite liked what I saw (they’re sticking with the KISS principles and yet adding ever more power/functionality to the suite). I encourage you to go and take a look …
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