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itgroove welcomes our fifth Microsoft MVP!
Victoria, BC – The Team at itgroove is thrilled to announce that Kelly Marshall has been awarded Microsoft OneNote MVP! Kelly is now a member of a very select group as she is one of ten OneNote MVP’s in the world. Kelly joins itgroove’s other Microsoft MVP’s – Sean Walbridge, Colin Philips and Keith Tuomi, …
Read onKilling 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 …
Read onOffice 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/
Read onMy Yammer Presentation from the Victoria Office 365 Users Group
While the session was mostly casual and collaborative (much like Yammer), the following slide deck might still be interesting for those of you having trouble sleeping at night.
Read onHelp me Mr. Yuck. IE11 mutates my Office 365 Admin Portal
What Recently I had to switch to using Firefox (you know, the browser that is tied up in an anti-Gay Marriage scandal and is now trying to look like Chrome as part of its witness protection program) and/or Chrome (you know, the company that created Glassholes…) to manage my Office 365 components (login.microsoftonline.com and/or portal.microsoftonline.com). This …
Read onA simple, but effective method of replacing key office email correspondence with a SharePoint blog
The following post has been updated to reflect SharePoint 2013. Internally, we are using SharePoint blogs very effectively, to replace common sharing of information (in our case, typically about technology like ‘how I fixed this or that’. Using Microsoft Word as our blogging tool (and if you don’t have Microsoft Word (2007 through 2013), you …
Read onOneNote for IOS gets an update
Nifty. OneNote got a similar “iOS7 Style” update a few weeks ago and today it rolled out to the iPhone, at least for us peeps up here in Canada, eh? A Quick Summary iOS7 Looks reduced app size by 20% Section Tabs are now configurable Office Lens – Scanner in your pocket Quick Notes with …
Read onFirst round of updates for Office Apps for iPad – Print Baby Print
While it might have seemed strange to not include printing support in the first wave of Office for iPad apps (Word, Excel and PowerPoint), I guess you had to stop and deliver a 1.0 at some point and frankly, the Office Apps for iPad didn’t disappoint. That said, there was feedback and as of today, …
Read onHoly Shite. Microsoft comes to the table for end user business storage–OneDrive for Business 25GB to 1TB
We all knew this was coming. The storage wars are here and I’m not talking tupperware folks. Announced today, OneDrive for Business (you know, the SharePoint kind of OneDrive), has increased from 25GB to 1TB (yes! 1 Terrabyte) per user. Here’s some additional reading: Official Blog Post: http://blogs.office.com/2014/04/28/thinking-outside-the-box Mary Jo Foley’s commentary: http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-onedrive-for-business-now-offers-1-terabyte-of-cloud-storage-per-user-7000028839/#ftag=RSS0966a21 So …
Read onOffice 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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