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Inbox Zero in the Office 365 Ecosystem

I took part in a neat event the other day at a local Meetup called “Lighten the Load: Tech Tools for Not for Profits“, run by the local NetSquared NonProfit group. It was a fun evening with great food (and Bourbon!) and a bunch of folks each took turns sharing their favourite technology tip, in …

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Getting caught up – Here’s Some Office 365 What’s New(s)

Well, I’ve been away a little while. Life has been busy but I’m starting to get back on track. Let’s start today by simply sharing the last 3 Office 365 What’s New Presentations I have presented since November 2018 at the Victoria Office 365 User Group. Sharing is Caring as they say. November 2018 – …

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Our Presentation for the Office 365 User Group – October 2017

Delivered monthly at the Victoria Office 365 User Group, this is the October 2017 installment of “What’s New in Office 365”, in this case a special “What we learned at Microsoft Ignite 2017”. Learn more: https://www.meetup.com/preview/VicO365/events/242412428 Office 365 – What’s New – October 2017 – Ignite Edition from itgroove Professional Services Ltd.

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My presentation from the September 2017 Office 365 User Group

Delivered monthly at the Victoria Office 365 User Group, this is the September 2017 installment of “What’s New in Office 365”, delivered by yours truly. Learn more: https://www.meetup.com/preview/VicO365/events/242412428 Office 365 – What’s New – September 2017 from itgroove Professional Services Ltd.

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How to delete Skype for Business Contacts from Outlook

This shouldn’t be this hard, but for some reason it is.  If you end up with rogue contacts in your Outlook “Skype for Business Contacts”, here’s a quick video demonstrating how to find and clean them up. The notice if you try and do this directly in Outlook is “You cannot make changes to contents …

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New Office 365 Radio Ad – Canadian Office 365 Cloud

We’ve got a new ad playing on the Q. We at itgroove have been building to this moment since the beginning. All roads lead to SharePoint and it all just became easier, more powerful and now on Canadian Soil. It’s gonna be huuugge itgroove Microsoft Cloud – Trump from itgroove.

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itgroove – 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 …

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More on Inbox Zero

Karin has been knocking out some awesome videos lately.  Today she kicked off our “Office 365 Bytes” with a summary of what I’ve been ranting about for some time – the quest for Inbox Zero (or an empty Inbox at the end of the day). If you follow my blog at all, you’ll see I …

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Inbox Un-Insanity – Follow Up and editing previous emails

What I thought I’d share a “Pro Tip” today. Perhaps it doesn’t work for everyone but here’s the “Why” for me. I’m an “Inbox Zero” kind of guy and strive to get there every day. I do most days, so pat on the back to me 😉 However, I don’t like the “weight” of tasks. …

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Office 365 can’t deliver email to Exchange 2003 Servers

What The issue was that the clients Exchange 2003 Server (32bit, on Windows Server 2003) was no longer receiving emails from Office 365 (Exchange Online) accounts.  It would take days to be aware of the issue as TLS connections would “hang/time out” but Exchange Online would continue to try and deliver the message until the …

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