Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

Dad. Husband. Drummer. Learner of Things.

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And then there was one (handset)

And then there was one… Microsoft Teams Voice for the Win! We love our Microsoft Teams based phone system.  We have just ONE handset left and that is simply to ensure we have a phone someone could pick up in a hurry to make a 911 call.  Outside of that, everyone is enjoying a combination …

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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

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Agile, Telemetry and Rails. Oh My

I gave a presentation yesterday (January 22nd, 2015) on what I thought was a clever topic.  “Agile, Telemetry and Rails. Oh My”.  What did I know?  I came up with that on the sundeck of the Royal Caribbean “Oasis of the Seas” with probably more 4th Whiskey in hand and it seemed like a good …

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Killing 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 …

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Office 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/

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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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OneNote makes me smile. Today it’s more iOS love and respect

Man I love me some OneNote.  And every time I notice the client in iOS gets updated, I just have to have a look.  This week, Microsoft introduced version 2.2 and pretty much only pointed out that it was “beautifully redesigned for iOS 7”.  I need to agree, as some of the attributes of the …

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Nifty tool for showing iPhone and iPad screens on the PC

Stumbled across this nifty tool, ReflectorApp today while looking for a solution to provide better support for my family. You see, I convinced everyone in my family to get iPhones so that I wouldn’t have to help them.  This backfired a little as it seems even the iPhone can be complicated for newbs and now …

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