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My colleague Stephanie Kahlam has a great post on Dirsync on her blog https://stellark.itgroove.net.  I won’t rehash it as Steph has done a great job. I do want to comment on the reference she makes to two-factor authentication using your smartphone.  Microsoft bought PhoneFactor, the company that created the phone authentication technology some time ago. …

Microsoft has been messing about as of late with name changes and service changes.  SkyDrive became OneDrive and with that name change also came a number of updates to the service.  But, as usual, there is still some confusion about what is what.  I know that the whole OneDrive thing can confuse people so what …

Okay, I am the first to admit it – I am not a lover of most technology. I like simple things. Full disclosure: if I had to choose another era to live in it would be the 1950’s, I miss the days of one remote control for the TV, I hate the sound my cellphone …

Good news Timmy, I jumped on the phone with a very nice and helpful support desk administrator at Microsoft and we managed to resolve this issue together.  If you: Navigate to Site Settings > People and Groups > … Members, then Click on Settings > Make Default Group The error gets resolved. I don’t have …

I made an earlier post about Sonicwall wireless issues here, this is a bit of a follow up to that post (or follow on). All Sonicwall firewalls come with a number of predefined security Zones that get applied to individual network interfaces on the box.  Some of the standard zones are Trusted, Public and Wireless.  …

Office 365 SharePoint Online already has good adoption, but all of the features are still new to many people.  Here’s my question that the great and powerful internet can’t quite answer yet: If a Site Members Group has the Contribute permission level (& not the Edit permission level), does this trigger the “Members cannot share …

This is a post that I decided to write after listening to a few customers that obviously got the wrong end of the stick in terms of information about Office365.  It seems there is some confusion out there so let me try to “clear the fog” … Office365 is comprised of Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, …

I had a customer ask me about this the other day and I thought it might be useful to have a quick discussion about the differences between these two desktop access technologies. While we are all rushing to embrace the Cloud (Hello O365!) there is still a lot of need by a lot of organizations …

Climbing The Wall in the Oculus Rift Game of Thrones Oculus Rift After my journey to the Sky Cells in various Game of Thrones Oculus mods I had the inclining to climb The Wall. So I did. Accomplished via the incredible WesterosCraft Minecraft mod.

We were doing an on-premises install of SharePoint 2013 this week, and realized there wasn’t an easy to find, friendly versions of the following antivirus exclusion information. It’s best to set the scan exclusion on these folders before letting business users into Production. If you have an issue where your users are getting the dreaded …