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O365 licensing seems to confuse a lot of people so I’m going to attempt to demystify it somewhat for all concerned.  Hopefully, my explanations will help dispel confusion! The first thing to understand is that O365 is a subscription service; you purchase a subscription that is valid for a certain period of time then you …

In Office 365 SharePoint Online we haven’t had a need to delete and recreate any root site collections yet.  Mainly because we have been working with clients from the moment they begin their journey to the cloud and are able to advise them to create a separate /SandboxSite Collections instead of testing in the root. …

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away I was an Oracle DBA.  And then I did a lot of work with SQL Server as I worked with a group that did a lot of Great Plains installs.  Then, sadly, I didn’t do much work with SQL and I got super rusty, to …

One BIG feature of Server 2012 R2 Essentials (either the full on Essentials install or the Essentials role) is the built-in ability to integrate your local Windows user accounts with your Office 365 accounts.  To be clear, this is not exactly the same as the full on “DirSync” abilities that Microsoft offers admins who want …

The four itgroove Microsoft MVPs are once again hitting the road to sharpen their skills at the Microsoft MVP Global Summit 2015 at Microsoft Campus in Bellevue, Washington. Sean Wallbridge, Colin Phillips, Robert Dick, and Kelly Marshall will all be out of the office (and the country) for four days from Monday, November 2nd to Thursday, November 5th, …

We’ve had a reminder this week of some oddities in BackupExec. Our standard backup configuration for customers that use BackupExec is to have BackupExec send its output to a NAS device (generally a QNAP) and then the datastore on the QNAP is dumped out to a USB disk for offsite storage on a regular basis.  …

You will undoubtedly be aware that Windows10 and Office 2016 are live and ready for you unless, of course,  you have been hiding away somewhere with zero access to the outside world.  We (itgroove) have pretty well completed the move internally and I have a customer that has made the leap for a number of …

The Problem Error messages in SharePoint can be scary, but sometimes they’re actually quite useful. Take this one below for example. At first glance, it would appear something is wrong with your databases, and/or you’ve run out of disk space. Error message: The content databases in this cluster are full. You cannot add more Web …

Azure AD Connect install over AADSync Just upgraded my install of AADSync to Azure AD Connect, no issues to speak of. Just some screen shots of the install in case anyone is curious. List of features