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Office 2016–The New Office
Microsoft will be rolling out Office 2016 today and with it they will also be rolling out a change of focus. Yes, Office 2016 will build on past releases of Office just as new builds of Office have always done but, with Office 2016, the focus will move away from Office just being “Office” to …
Read onA (Non) Profitable Journey – Part 4
Things continue apace at Swan Lake. I’ve been fooling around with various things and I’m slowly rolling in the changes that I and they want to see in place. It’s a slow process as I have to grab time to do things where and how I can but things are rolling forward and that is …
Read onThe Cloud and Trust
We were having a discussion in the office yesterday that was triggered by a discovery we made about our Office365 backup solution (we use SkyKick). In a nutshell we discovered that the backup vendor has to make a few manipulations with provided credentials in order to back up site collections inside SharePoint Online. The provided …
Read onOffice 365 Support and Recovery Assistant Outlook 2016 / Win10
Office 365 Support and Recovery Assistant I was having issues creating a Office 365 Outlook profile on my newly created Windows 10 PC with the preview build of Office 2016. It would hang on the Autodiscover portion indefinitely. Since Outlook 2016 (well at least the preview) can only be configured via Autodiscover I thought I …
Read onEmailing internal Office 365 Groups from external sources
Emailing internal Office 365 Groups from external sources This is how to turn on the ability to email an internal Office 365 group from external sources. Log into your Office 365 portal and go to ADMIN –> Exchange Then go to groups under recipients Select your group and click edit Under delivery management select the …
Read onExchange almost gone KABOOM?
There is an old Bugs Bunny cartoon where Marvin the Martian is working with his illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator and it doesn’t work. “Where’s the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!”, says Marvin when nothing happens. For Marvin this wasn’t good, for you with what looks to be a dead Exchange …
Read onA (Non) Profitable Journey–Part 3
I migrated Swan Lake out of their Small Business 2011 environment into a new Server 2012 R2 environment built on top of Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V. Swan Lake had purchased the server licenses and CAL’s through Tech Soup and it only made sense to make use of that licensing as we move forward. I migrated …
Read onA (Non) Profitable Journey–Part 2 C
In my last couple of posts I described the fun I was having with trying to set up a coupe of open source firewalls to work in a fashion similar to what I normally do for my “paying” customers. The results were less than stellar, I’m afraid, and I ended up pulling the firewalls. But, …
Read onOffice 365 and Backup
You may or may not have noticed but there are a raft of Office 365 backup services popping up right, left and centre. This might seem odd but actually it is just the market reacting to a void in the overall services structure that Microsoft has crafted with Office 365. Let me explain … Microsoft …
Read onAADSync and 1202 Event Log Warnings
AADSync and 1202 Event Log Warnings Just a quick blog update on a AADSync article I found. I had issues with the local account on my AADSync server starting as a service. Adding the account to the “log on as a service” Policy setting via GPO would fix the service starting, but the Application Logs …
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