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Office Mobile for Office 365 is now available in the Canadian App Store
Hooray, it’s here and I don’t have to do that goofy US, er, hack… Office Mobile for Office 365 (and you can use it on premise as well, you just need an Office 365 Account to activate it and sign in) is now available in the Canadian App Store. Go get it on your iOS …
Read onLots of Cool SharePoint News This Week
Just a quick update as I’ve been quiet lately. But there are a few cool things going on that at least needed to be shared, so here goes (brief, but you get what you get The SharePoint Conference has been announced for 2014 and it’s in Vegas again. This time at the Venetian. I’ll be …
Read onActiveSync even easier to setup in 2013 Refresh of Office 365 but a heads up
What Good news. ActiveSync doesn’t require you to know your “pod” (server) anymore when connecting ActiveSync to Exchange that has been upgraded in the Office 2013 refresh (wallbridge.com just got upgraded in the last 3 days). The bad news is you may need to reset your ActiveSync settings as you may have an old Server …
Read onWhat’s in a name? Giving your SharePoint web applications and platform a voice
Note, this isn’t a technical discussion. I’m not going to go deep into discussions about web applications vs. managed paths, SSL, etc. when scaling up or out. I simply wanted to share how we named our SharePoint web applications and subsequently became the same advice we give our clients. So here we go. First off, …
Read onYear 5 – Renewed as SharePoint MVP
Got my email re: 5th year as a Microsoft MVP for SharePoint Server today. Always strange to get it on April Fools but real all the same. Thanks to all for your support. “Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2013 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders …
Read onLiving 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 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 …
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