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What I was looking to determine was what would happen if I sent an email to a SharePoint group, as opposed to explicitly defining a set of users in a workflow variable.  Up until now, I’d never really known what would happen when sending email to a SharePoint group, so here’s what I found. As …

Intune is a pretty neat system for managing PC’s when you don’t have access to a full System Center and/or you don’t have any other management systems in place.  Frankly, I think it’s a great tool to use for small business, specially so when you use it to manage Microsoft Updates, Microsoft anti-virus and, possibly, …

Kelly and I were having a discussion the other day about Microsoft licensing for a customer and the question of CAL’s came up.  Kelly was a bit confused by the whole concept (and she’s NOT alone in that …) so I had to explain to her what it is all about.  She said, “There’s a …

This is an admittedly weird and probably not very prevalent problem that I stumbled on to today but it might help you if you are in a similar situation. We (itgroove) have recently moved from in-house Exchange and in-house Lync to Exchange on Office365 and a hosted Lync platform that links back to O365.  We …

Yup, itgroove hired another “geek girl” in the person of Stephanie Kahlam.  Steph has a pretty amazing background and she has already made a significant contribution to the team.  And, like Kelly, she is doing a yeoman job of forcing the cobwebs out of my brain with all of her excellent questions. In my post …

We recently had an issue at a customer where a whole pile of BackupExec disk-based archive media seemed to be “bad”.  By bad I mean cataloguing the media would fail part way through the process.  We needed to find a way to try and recover files so we started playing around and we found a …

Outlook 2013 Hanging on Open This one was a doozy, I had two identical laptops with Office 2013 on them that I was told would hang when opened on the Loading Profile screen. Sometimes they made it further than the loading process, but the Outlook client would never fully open until sometimes 5 hours later …

Weird SBS RWW problem with IE11 I had a client today that wanted access from home to his work PC and since he had SBS 2008 it should have been easy since Remote Web Workplace was already installed & configured. I went into the SBS console and gave him access to his PC and made …

Error Code: 30029-4 when trying to repair an Office 365 Office Install I ran into an issue where a users install of Microsoft Office Home and Business 2013 (365 version) was acting odd and crashing so I wanted to do a repair. I went into the usual Programs and Features and went to change to …