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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 …
Read onOffice Web Apps 2013 and Project Server Licensing
Thanks to Robert in our office who took care of answering the following questions for me (thanks Rob), and now I’m sharing them with you… Here’s the questions (and answers) I asked Rob: Office Web Apps 2013 In 2010, if you had volume licensing, for each user you bought a volume license for, you could …
Read onLync 2013 Client for Mobile – Cart before horse
Heads up in case you come across this… What So you’ve just installed the new Lync 2013 Mobile client (iOS, Android and possibly Windows 8) and you get the following error (You can’t sign in with this version of Lync. Please install Lync 2010). Ya, I was excited too, to see it in the Canadian …
Read onFix 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 …
Read onTwo Thumbs
Kick Ass. Whose got two thumbs and is now (immensely) enjoying the benefits of Windows Server 2012, SQL Server 2012, SharePoint 2013, Exchange 2013, Lync 2013, Nintex 2013, Office 2013 and Windows 8. That’s right. This guy!
Read onI’m liking the SharePoint 2013 Blog Site Enhancements
As I continue our journey of moving our SharePoint platform and content over to SharePoint 2013, I wanted to take a moment and pass along some of the improvements I’ve noticed in SharePoint 2013 blogs (as you may know, I’m a big fan of Blogs or Shhh, we don’t call them blogs, we call them …
Read onHow to embed a Word document in a SharePoint 2013 page using Office Web Apps
I had a dream need today… What We are in the process of migrating all of our SharePoint 2010 content to 2013 over the holidays (yep, I’m a sucker for punishment and I need something to do or I’ll go mad)… During this process, I have built out a Site Map for planning where we …
Read onI so need the cloud … or do I?
Everyone nowadays talks about “the Cloud” as being the next big thing that ALL companies should be looking at as a part of their IT infrastructure planning. The problem is that the term “Cloud”, has become so ambiguous and attached to so many things that it is hard for most companies to get a handle …
Read onJoin me for an Office 365 Lunch and Learn this Friday
Office 365 Lunch and Learn We’re announcing that we are working with Microsoft to help bring Office 365 to businesses wanting their Office software delivered from the cloud. And we’re giving people a chance to hear firsthand how this may affect their business and what they should consider before deciding. I will be presenting what …
Read onOffice Web Apps vs SharePoint Server Topology
In our continued progress towards migrating our itgroove SharePoint environment from 2010 to 2013, I had asked Keith to determine the best practices and placement for the (sexy) new Office Web Apps in 2013 with the key question “can we get away with loading OWA on a SharePoint server in an office as small as …
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