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Yay, Clutter is here…

Ok, never thought I’d say that.  Clutter (perhaps there was a better word for it, I personally always had a “Noise” folder with rules assigned in my Outlook for stuff that didn’t matter and occassionally got housecleaned –  but not to say “Noise” was any better) is here, for Office 365/Exchange Online, Outlook Web Access …

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Office 365 – The Basics, Canadian Edition, eh?

I presented the following today at the first (of many monthly) Office 365 User Group meeting in Victoria.  It seemed natural that after talking about Office 365 and Office Online, it made sense to share the slide deck embedded via PowerPoint Online.

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Victoria Office 365 User Group – Coming Soon!

We’re pretty excited here in the office as we are gearing up to announce and support a local Office 365 User Group.  Watch this space: http://www.meetup.com/Victoria-O365-User-Group and sign up.  The more the merrier!

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Office 365 Observations from a grizzled veteran of the SMB Space

As a big SharePoint fan and recently self-diagnosed Bob Ross of SharePoint, I’ve been watching and actively participating in Microsoft’s swift transition of key software and services into the Cloud. While BPOS was great, the name didn’t exactly mean much to customers. But with the words “Cloud” and “Office 365”, interest is increasing rapidly and …

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itgroove – Check out our Case Studies

If you haven’t noticed our new website (we did a soft launch some 2 weeks ago or so), pop on by and have a look: www.itgroove.net On it, we have a number of Case Studies you can check out. They include (So far): BC Ferries: How we helped BC Ferries eliminate enough paper that would …

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Outlook Web Access (OWA) for iOS

Microsoft is sure churning out the apps for iPad/iPhone and other mobile devices. This time it is OWA (Outlook Web Access) for iPhone/iPad The Good I don’t love using the iPhone/iPad mail client to connect to Exchange/ActiveSync. It gets the job done, but it isn’t “great” Slick/Tidy/Clean. It’s all “Metro, er, Windows 8 UI, er, …

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Living the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) dream at itgroove

I love that we are living the dream of BYOD (Bring your own device) and felt the need to illustrate it. We provide a solid/secured centralized platform and our folks connect with their tool of choice. You could look at this as say Office 365 does the same thing for those that don’t want to …

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Fix for The WebReady Document Viewing service has been disabled by the administrator for your organization

I got Exchange wired up with Office Web Apps tonight for previewing supported documents right inside Webmail but had to fight a strange issue. Your mileage may vary but thought I’d share the fix that worked for me… Reference Article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj150495.aspx Before The WebReady Document Viewing service has been disabled by the administrator for your …

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How to set the Exchange 2013 Mail Header/Banner for SMTP

What For mail to be delivered reliably with any mail system, it should come from a mail source that is deemed trustworthy. There are many factors including SenderID/SPF, open SMTP ports, Reverse DNS (PTR) records, etc. But as well, the banner of the mail server should really match the host they are expecting to connect …

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What are your “Pain Points”? We’d like to help.

itgroove is a business technology solutions provider. We have lots of tools and technology available that can be used to solve any number of business issues. And we have the knowledge and experience to map the solutions out for you, as well as the skills to implement the needed hardware, software and procedures. You have …

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