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My Power BI Overview Slide Deck
Here’s my slide deck for the brief Power BI Overview I gave at Thursdays (May 19, 2016) Office 365 Meetup. Overview of Microsoft’s Power BI – Sean Wallbridge from itgroove Professional Services
Read onitgroove – Cloud Friendly, Office 365 Ready – Now in Canada, eh?
Well, we’ve been building up our team to this and knew it was coming. Today was the day. Microsoft Datacenters, in Canada. This was the final roadblock for many in order to start to the path towards fixed costs for Email, File Sharing, Teleconferencing and just about all your team needs. Office 365 and Azure …
Read onOneDrive for Business (OD4B) and Document Promotion Changes
Heads up that Microsoft is disabling (as a default) Property Promotion within the SharePoint Sites used for OneDrive for Business in Office 365/SharePoint Online. I can definitely see why they are doing this as a default with OD4B considering it is being used much more like a DropBox (and synching) than as a typical SharePoint …
Read onitgroove’s Cloud Position Statement
I asked Uncle Rob to clearly articulate our Cloud Position Statement. We felt it was important to clarify once again that while we are “Cloud Friendly and Office 365 Ready”, we don’t push the cloud (or warrant it for that matter – the SLA of Office 365 is direct with Microsoft). There is no argument …
Read onKilling them softly with OneNote…
OneNote rocks my world. And I rock my wife’s world. Well, er, more to the point, I’m trying to rock Wendy’s world. Wendy hates technology. But she’s coming along. I’ve already got her in OneNote planning our trip to Ontario and she even sends me the odd link to a page that she is working …
Read onOffice Apps for iPad updated today
Microsoft is staying “Agile” with Office (for iPad at least) and released some new functionality today for Word (for iPad), Excel (for iPad and PowerPoint (for Blackberry … Just making sure you are paying attention…). http://blogs.office.com/2014/07/31/office-ipad-now-presenter-view-pivot-table-interaction-export-pdf-top-requested-features/
Read onMicrosoft Social Blog Series with itgroove Contributions
Microsoft recently wrote up several articles, focusing on blogging from a small business standpoint and they interviewed us here at itgroove (Hi and Thanks Luanne, that was fun!) and included our feedback. You can see the results of those efforts below: Introductory Article Is blogging right for your small business? http://smallbusiness.support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2979685 Related Articles 10 do’s …
Read onFirst round of updates for Office Apps for iPad – Print Baby Print
While it might have seemed strange to not include printing support in the first wave of Office for iPad apps (Word, Excel and PowerPoint), I guess you had to stop and deliver a 1.0 at some point and frankly, the Office Apps for iPad didn’t disappoint. That said, there was feedback and as of today, …
Read onGot Office 365 Enterprise? Have you enabled Yammer Enterprise or are you on the outside looking in?
What So you have your Office 365 “E” plan and you are looking to integrate and leverage the full Yammer meal plan (Yammer Enterprise). Maybe like me, you had a Yammer account *before* Microsoft rolled it into the Enterprise plans for the value add win? Maybe like me, you were wondering, what is all the …
Read onGiddyup. SQL Server Backups straight to Azure baked into SQL 2014 but also available for the rest of us
Nifty SQL Server 2014 comes with the ability to backup to Azure, out of the box. Step-by-step instructions are one click away. And full details can be found here. Cool, but what about the rest of us? Niftier Fret not little one. Microsoft wants you in the cloud, as your digital landlord collecting rent. So, …
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