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Microsoft has rolled out an awesome new user experience for document libraries in SharePoint Online, and we want you to be ready! You can make the most of these new Document Libraries and learn what they have to offer. On the other hand, if you’ve invested a lot into customizing your SharePoint site, you may want …

My Life in VR It’s been a while since I did one of these so I thought I would do a quick recap. It’s no longer my life In the Rift because I have the Rift and the Vive! I was lucky enough to snag both earlier on through massive F5ing during preorder times. I’m …

A while ago Microsoft announced the end of life for the InfoPath product in the Office suite. Since that time, Office 2016 has been released, and there’s still a large demand for the InfoPath product by a number of my colleagues and clients alike. Microsoft has not produced a new version of InfoPath for the …

I’ve recently come across a few scenarios where people have mentioned that they’re unable to load SharePoint sites in Internet Explorer 11 after having upgraded to Office 2016. It appears to happen regardless of Windows version (7, 8.x, 10), and is only an issue in IE (it doesn’t appear to occur in Firefox, Chrome, etc.). …

With today’s announcement that the Microsoft datacentres are finally here on Canadian soil and open for use by the general Canadian public, many businesses and organizations are still confused about how switching their data storage to the cloud will benefit them. To help dispel some of the confusion, itgroove has created the following infographic to …

I ran into the Cerber variant of Ransomware lately and it is nasty. This one is relatively new having surfaced in March 2016, but thankfully I have only seen it once in the wild…so far. This one is particularly nasty for the following reasons: Runs offline and doesn’t need to be online to fetch encryption …

I was creating a new user today in Office 365 and I bought a license during the creation and then went to log on to test it. Instead of the normal failed to logon/user doesn’t exist page I used to get I was now greeted by a page that was actually helpful that said exactly …

My colleague Alec and I ran into an issue today where SharePoint was having difficulty rendering modal dialogs at the correct size. The dialogs were too small for the content they contained, and therefore some undesired scroll bars appeared. Nobody wants that! Thanks to Chad Schroeder’s post for a nifty little fix: Add that to …

Recently on a project we needed a way to display PDFs inline on a page within a “document viewer” we were building. Basically there is a table of contents driven by a library going down the left hand side and when the user chooses a document we wanted to render it in a panel on …

On April 14, security firm Trend Micro released an urgent call to action, asking users to uninstall QuickTime for Windows as soon as possible. Apple has discontinued support for QuickTime for Windows, along with security updates. Due to recent vulnerabilities which have been found, this means that anyone currently running the latest QuickTime for Windows …