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What’s New in Office 365 April 2016

Another month, another batch of updates to Office 365. At this month’s SharePoint User Group, I shared all that is new in Office 365 for the month of April, 2016.  This month we saw changes in PowerPoint, new stuff in Forms and Flow and OneDrive for Business … and all sorts of goodies. vSharePoint – …

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OneNote can now search closed Notebooks

Yep, been waiting for this one.  The OneNote team are being a little coy about this one, either because they are super modest or don’t want to make a big splash until they’ve worked out some bugs. Check it out. You can now search OneNote notebooks (at least today in iOS) even when they are …

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Office 365 – What’s New and Changed – January 2016

Special thanks to Alec (check him out over here – Alec’s Blog) for delivering this presentation today while I stay at home and nurse an epic man cold. Every Victoria Office 365 User Group, we recap/highlight what’s changed (’cause stuff is always changing) and this was my slide deck.   This is an embedded Microsoft …

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Windows 10 Edge now supports browser drag and drop

Well, look at that. I discovered (purely by accident, I was dragging and dropping *I thought* into IE11 but no, it was Edge!) that Windows 10 EDGE browser now supports drag and drop. I couldn’t find much out there in regards to an announcement (Sneaky, I guess while we the public test it ;). But …

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OneDrive 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 …

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Agile, Telemetry and Rails. Oh My

I gave a presentation yesterday (January 22nd, 2015) on what I thought was a clever topic.  “Agile, Telemetry and Rails. Oh My”.  What did I know?  I came up with that on the sundeck of the Royal Caribbean “Oasis of the Seas” with probably more 4th Whiskey in hand and it seemed like a good …

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SpaceMonger – Great tool for freeing up disk space

Today I discovered SpaceMonger.  After giving it a go, I was impressed enough that I felt I needed to share a few key things about it. What You’ve probably seen tools out there already that show you how much free disk space you have on your PC. Home grown scripts, batch files, and various other …

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First 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, …

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Holy 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 …

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