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Video in the enterprise goes ‘beyond the portal’
Mark Kashman from the Microsoft SharePoint Team asked for folks to spread/share the Office 365 Video love. And being that I’m a firm believer in “a picture is worth a 1000 words” and the fact Mark is rocking a killer mustache lately, I’m happy to oblige. This infographic highlights the many ways Office 365 Video …
Read onOffice 2016 and the mystery of the missing Document Information Panel
Doing a quick scour of the Interwebs, it seems nobody has really posed this question or answered it. A little surprising too… So let’s do this… What The Document Information Panel (DIP) is missing/unavailable/gonzo/absent/gone/AWOL in Office 2016. Yep, it ain’t there. Usually Microsoft “deprecates” this functionality and provides some time to get used to the …
Read onOneNote, Office and I’m loving ‘agile’
You know what, I think I love this agile stuff. It’s like Christmas every few days. I’d much rather get incremental improvements, that keep pace with the industry and get to know them one at a time than relearn a product every 4 years and try to figure out what has changed. Exciting times ahead …
Read onOffice 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 …
Read onHow to Create “Quick Tip” like functionality on a SharePoint Dashboard
Here’s an old trick I’ve used hundreds of times for helping users out on my SharePoint Pages, Web Parts and Dashboards using the “Title Icon” functionality to create a “tool tip” or “Help/Overview” like effect. Thought I’d show it in video this time.
Read onOffice 365 Help Desk Cards
What Microsoft today introduced a new feature in Office 365 so that Admins can add a “Help Desk Card” to the Help (“?”) functionality in Office 365. Date Microsoft Introduced: July 2nd, 2015 So What To get to this setting, you will want to click on the Waffle (Task Switcher), Choose Admin, Company Profile …
Read onNew Case Studies
The team has been hard at work putting some of our stories (Case Studies) to paper (pshaw… I mean digital/PDF). Check ’em out! Effective Advocacy with Agency-wide Access to Accurate Information See more at: itgroove.net/effective-advocacy-with-agency-wide-access-to-accurate-information Transforming Technology for Business Growth See more at: itgroove.net/transforming-technology-for-business-growth
Read onSite Collections for the Win
I did a presentation for the Victoria SharePoint User Group recently and presented on the importance of Site Collections over webs (sub-sites). I also played with “Prezi” for this presentation instead of going the traditional PowerPoint route. Have a view if you want… If the embed above doesn’t work, use this link: http://prezi.com/z3ja1vebo1v4/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share
Read onOneDrive for Business (OD4B) and Document Promotion Changes
Heads up that Microsoft is disabling (as a default) Property Promotion within the SharePoint Sites used for OneDrive for Business in Office 365/SharePoint Online. I can definitely see why they are doing this as a default with OD4B considering it is being used much more like a DropBox (and synching) than as a typical SharePoint …
Read onSorting by Last Name using Excel
Consider the following scenario. You have a list of names in a Word file (or other text based document). You need to sort them into a logical order. Your business requirement dictates that they be sorted by last name. Microsoft Excel to the rescue. 1. Select the list of names in Microsoft Word and copy …
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