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Office 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 onI love my Nvidia GTX 980!
Nvidia GTX 980 I recently upgrade my graphics card to Nvidia’s flagship GTX 980 and I’m thoroughly impressed. I have always been a Nvidia fan boy, but recently I deviated for a few months with AMD’s Radeon 290x due to the performance to value everyone said it held over the GTX 780 at the time. While it worked …
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 onDoing the “right thing” in business
I was reminded again recently of the importance to small business (or any business, for that matter) of “doing the right thing” when it comes to your customers. My wife and I support a local preservative-free bakery in Victoria – Portofino Bakery – as they produce all sorts of breads and other baked goods that …
Read onFetching a User Using the SharePoint CSOM (via JavaScript)
I tend to need to do this sort of thing a lot recently, and it’s not as simple as looking for a pre-fetched value sitting in the DOM somewhere, so I figured I better blog it and then I’ll know where to find it. Here’s my code (below). All you have to do is call …
Read onWhere is my Deployed Printers option in GPME?
Where is my Deployed Printers option in GPME? I was having an issue removing old printers from a GPO. In the Group Policy Management Settings it listed a whole bunch of printers under the Windows Settings -> Deployed Printers section. Navigating to that area in the editor that option didn’t exist. Apparently that option only shows up if …
Read onPlease start vorpX Control before using vorpX shortcuts
Please start vorpX Control before using vorpX shortcuts “Please start vorpX Control before using vorpX shortcuts” I would get this error constantly whenever I tried to hook vorpX to applications via the shortcut creation mode. It was infinitely maddening as vorpX was always running at the time so the error was just plain wrong! The culprit …
Read on50% of itgroove staff are MVP’s! A paen to Sean and itgroove.
Our own Kelly Marshall was awarded OneNote MVP on October 1st. That brought the MVP count in the company to 5 which is precisely one-half (50%) of our staff count. It strikes me that is pretty unique. I know there are one or two consulting shops in the US that are staffed 100% with MVP’s …
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