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In the post-doctoral academic world there is a saying, “Publish or perish”.  In the IT world the corollary is, “Adapt or perish”.  Both worlds are ruthlessly Darwinian in nature.  “What”, you may ask, “does this have to do with Office365 and other cloud services?”  Glad you asked!  Office365, Azure, Amazon and others have completely changed …

We (itgroove) have been working with a lot of clients that are moving parts of their infrastructure to Office365.  For some clients it really is a “no-brainer” and there is no discussion at all about 365 vs on premise servers.  For other clients it is a much more complex discussion.  So I thought it might …

Office365 is a pretty cool offering and we (itgroove) are working with a number of customers to help migrate them to 365.  There are all sorts of reasons for going to 365 but one of the cooler ones, from my point of view, is the ability for users to obtain multiple copies of Office for …

I threw this together for a customer, and figured I’d blog it, as it’s generally fairly useful to remember how to do this again in the future.  The steps below help to guide you through the process of adding the “Link to a Document” content type to a document library. 1) Go into the Site …

With a client of ours, I was investigating why several translations weren’t working properly. It turns out things weren’t translating properly because of several different reasons.  I’ve described them below, so hopefully you can look for these yourself in the future.  It appears that one of the bigger issues is often that the apostrophes are …

There are mounds, endless mounds, out there. Stacking the CDs will probably reach to the top of Mt. Everest. There is no shortage of software to help businesses but most aren’t worth the time to review. Many are for home-based business use. Or single consultant operations. Few meet actual business needs of staff working together. …

itgroove has been busy building out our new Server 2012/Hyper-V infrastructure in support of our move to all new and shiny Exchange 2013, SharePoint 2013, Lync 2013 and Office 2013 along with our move to Windows 8 on all the client machines.  We made the decision to move off VMware ESXi as our virtualization platform …

Let me start off by saying I am far from an expert on this topic, but I’m curious to hear ideas from other parents. A few years ago we realized how much time the kids spent on computer and video games. After giving it some thought, we decided to have them pick two days out …

I came across a very weird problem this past week that had me scratching my head for a bit.  I had just finished helping a non-profit customer migrate to a net-new Windows domain after they had suffered through a “broken” migration from SBS2003 to SBS2011.  As we all know, things change rather dramatically from Exchange …

  The Royals are hosting their annual Pink in the Rink event on Saturday, January 26th.  The players will be wearing pink jerseys in support of breast cancer. It’s a really fun event for a great cause. My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer in October and we were completely shocked, given that there isn’t …