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OneDrive for Business – Q2 2019 Edition

In a nutshell, OneDrive for Business is your organizational home drive (personal files storage for users within your business). But it’s also much more than that. There are lots of intros to OneDrive for Business out there but the product keeps evolving and improving and as such, when I was asked to put together an …

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Getting caught up – Here’s Some Office 365 What’s New(s)

Well, I’ve been away a little while. Life has been busy but I’m starting to get back on track. Let’s start today by simply sharing the last 3 Office 365 What’s New Presentations I have presented since November 2018 at the Victoria Office 365 User Group. Sharing is Caring as they say. November 2018 – …

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My presentation from the September 2017 Office 365 User Group

Delivered monthly at the Victoria Office 365 User Group, this is the September 2017 installment of “What’s New in Office 365”, delivered by yours truly. Learn more: https://www.meetup.com/preview/VicO365/events/242412428 Office 365 – What’s New – September 2017 from itgroove Professional Services Ltd.

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Long Company Names make Sean Sad in OneDrive for Business

I’m more than a little surprised there was nothing out there for the following issue already. So I took it upon myself to provide a solution (and a recommendation, which is “avoid this early in your tenancy and OD4B and SharePoint sync rollout”). What I didn’t like that when I connected OneDrive for Business to …

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Excel Online – Shapes break editing spreadsheets

What A customer recently moved several Excel Workbooks from Google Sheets to Office 365 (and Excel Online). These were complex sheets with lots of linking worksheets, formulas, etc. and on the surface seemed to be fine. However, one weekly operation was to take a copy of an existing worksheet and making it “this weeks” worksheet. …

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Disabling Syncing of SharePoint Libraries with OneDrive for Business

I was a little surprised to not find a simple overview of how one would disable Syncing (at the library or site level) of files between SharePoint and OneDrive for Business.  Particularly right now while there is a gap between what SharePoint can do and what the OneDrive for Business Next Generation client can do …

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New Office 365 Radio Ad – Canadian Office 365 Cloud

We’ve got a new ad playing on the Q. We at itgroove have been building to this moment since the beginning. All roads lead to SharePoint and it all just became easier, more powerful and now on Canadian Soil. It’s gonna be huuugge itgroove Microsoft Cloud – Trump from itgroove.

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Creating alerts on documents in the new OneDrive for Business

Well, that was harder than it should be.  And it’s probably because with all the changes Microsoft has in store for Dropbox, er, I mean OneDrive for Business, they don’t really want us creating alerts on documents in our OneDrive for Business (or should I say My Sites, er, Personal Sites, wait no, SkyDrive Pro …

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itgroove – Cloud Friendly, Office 365 Ready – Now in Canada, eh?

Well, we’ve been building up our team to this and knew it was coming. Today was the day.  Microsoft Datacenters, in Canada.  This was the final roadblock for many in order to start to the path towards fixed costs for Email, File Sharing, Teleconferencing and just about all your team needs.  Office 365 and Azure …

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