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Uploading PST data to a Office 365 Kiosk Account

Uploading PST data to a Office 365 Kiosk Account I was asked to move emails from an employee who had left and the position was being taken over by an existing staff member. First I tried to connect the old user account into Outlook in order to export the email to PST, but it wasn’t …

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O365 – OneDrive for Business sync issues–beware!

This is going to be short and sweet. There are numerous issues with the sync client for OneDrive for Business but NOT with the sync client for OneDrive (the personal OneDrive that is not related to O365).  There has been a large amount of chatter within MVP circles about the problems and the general consensus …

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Another MVP in the itgroove stable! Congrats Kelly!!

Kelly Marshall, our intrepid OneNote evangelist, has been awarded Microsoft OneNote MVP!  My sincerest and warmest congratulations to Kelly on this achievement.  There aren’t a lot of OneNote MVP’s so Microsoft has made one hell of a choice in this girl as she is the OneNote Goddess.  Kelly will certainly spread the OneNote gospel and …

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CryptoWall Strikes Again! BEWARE!

I ran into the stupid CryptoWall Ransomware again it seems. If someone calls and says they are seeing 3 files: DECRYPT_INSTRUCTION.HTML, TXT and a shortcut files this is what to do INSTANTLY. Immediately find one of the DECRYPT_INSTRUCTION.TXT files and right click and go to properties. Then go to Details. FIND the Owner and unplug …

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Update your home router

OK, this is really  not what I normally natter on about in my posts, I usually focus on commercial and enterprise goodies like O365.  BUT, this is important! Most consumer grade routers (DLink, Netgear, Linksys, Belkin, et al) are built with relatively poorly secured firmware based on a Linux kernal.  The manufacturers do a pretty …

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O365 – SharePoint vs. OneDrive and what you really need to think about

There is a monster debate raging in MVP circles about OneDrive, OneDrive for Business (ODB) and “issues” that surround ODB.  The big thrust of the debate surrounds the sync technology in ODB and how it works.  A secondary debate rages about the fact that ODB offers 1TB of storage per user against the substantially smaller …

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Good People Are Hard To Find

Hello there! As summer is winding down, I have been reflecting on the past few months. Sean and I had our itgroove summer bbq party at the house in July, and right at the end of the evening, our son cut his hand very badly on a glass door. As much as it was an …

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O365 – The OneDrive’s – what’s the skinny?

Microsoft frequently confuses the world by reusing product names and/or tacking the same product name to multiple product offerings.  OneDrive is one of the stellar examples of this naming penchant as there are two OneDrive offerings – OneDrive and OneDrive for Business.  And while they are both places “in the Cloud” to put your precious …

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My Life in the Rift 9/9/2014

Oculus Rift DK2 I have had my DK2 for almost a week now and what a week it has been. I must say it is not as user friendly compared to the DK1 is some aspects. The DK2 is a lot more finicky. This might be because I came into the DK1 at the end …

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Backup Exec 2014’s new Data Lifecycle Management has a hidden gotcha

Backup Exec 2014’s new Data Lifecycle Management My upgrades to Backup Exec 2014 from 2010 have been fairly positive as far as Backup Software goes. It’s a little slicker a little faster blah blah blah. One thing I noticed was my storage was filling up and it didn’t seem like the new version was deleting …

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