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If you’ve read this blog over the past year or so you’ll know I have bitched like many others about the “demise” of our beloved SBS.  You’ll also know that I have been getting fairly excited about O365 and Server 2012/R2.  Well, now I can also say that I’m pretty pleased with what I see …

Some experts are so bad at being experts, that calling some people an “expert” is like calling my dog a genius because he can find food on the floor.  Good dog.  So, needless to say, these statements below are often made by people with something to gain by spreading these “expert opinions” (slimy sales people …

I went with my son on a field trip to the Parliament Buildings today. It was very cool – I’ve never been in all the years I’ve lived in Victoria. It was neat to see how interested the kids were and to hear the questions they were asking. Also, I couldn’t help but notice how …

The long awaited arrival of Service Pack 1 for SharePoint 2013 and Office 2013 is finally here.  What I’m really excited about is PowerMap is finally out of Beta as well, and now part of the Excel / PowerBI suite.  Also, not to be left out, Exchange also had it’s SP1 arrive today. http://blogs.technet.com/b/office_sustained_engineering/archive/2014/02/25/announcing-the-release-of-service-pack-1-for-office-2013-and-sharepoint-2013.aspx

If you want to be able to create a “running comment” in InfoPath (having on field concatenated to another, again and again), it’s actually pretty easy if you know a few tricks (which I’ll describe below).  To do this, you’ll need a few ingredients at your disposal.  For some reason tonight I feel like baking …

In SharePoint 2013 sometimes you just have to rely on old techniques to get things done.  Take activating the publishing features for example.  Often times I’ve had trouble activating these features using the GUI in 2013, and no mystical combination of turning on the site feature followed by the web feature seemed to make a …

We’ve just started the ball rolling to form the Victoria Office 365 Users Group!  If you are in the Victoria area and are interested in finding out what Office 365 is all about then this is the group for you! If you are interested, go here for the MeetUp page and join us.  Our first …

This is not going to be a highly technical post; i just want to highlight some observations I’ve made about O365 over the last little while.  If you are a newbie to O365 you might find some of this helpful.  If you are an old hand then you already are aware of what I’ll be …

Most companies that purchase a Server 2012 Essentials R2 server will receive the unit preloaded.  However, if you are loading the server yourself there are a few things you need to watch out for in order to make your life a tad easier! If the server has multiple NIC’s, use only one and disable rest …

Office365 is a great service!  We love it at itgroove and we’ve helped a number of customers move to the service.  I won’t downplay the work that can be involved as, after all, you are migrating some heavy duty tools:  Exchange, SharePoint, et al.  That said, the process is actually quite well defined and Microsoft …