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Office 365 Groups (And Teams) contain members … not other groups! So why all the confusion?
In this video, I try to illustrate why there seems to be this misconception that Office 365 Groups (and as such, Teams and modern SharePoint Team Sites, based on Groups) can contain Security Groups (or any other types of groups). They can’t. So stop that train of thought… 🙂 Microsoft Teams DOES allow you to …
Read onTwo New HowTo Videos for better Navigation in SharePoint with Masthead
A picture is worth a 1000 words. A video is worth more, right? Explaining the value our product Masthead (Beautiful Navigation for SharePoint, Teams and really … Office 365) is easy but folks are busy. If you have worked with SharePoint in the past, you know that Microsoft’s navigation story to date has been poor …
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 onOur Support Platform is Complete – Power Admin for the Win!
What Over the years, we have used dozens of management products. They’ve all tried to shoehorn us into delivering IT “their way”. You know, Managed Services, MSP, blah blah blah. Well, Victoria has demonstrated repeatedly that they don’t want this type of service (and in this Cloud First world, nor do many others up to …
Read onEgad. Microsoft Security Bulletin MS14-022 – Critical for SharePoint
Hey folks We’ve come across a SharePoint security concern that, if you are not already aware of, requires your attention. To be clear – we’re not fans of fear mongering. SharePoint patches pop up frequently. We’ve identified this one as particularly critical. We are currently applying this patch internally to protect ourselves and to develop …
Read onThose Office 365 Recent Documents just ain’t what they used to be…
What A friend (let’s call him “Barney”) recently discovered something that might freak others out, much like it did to him, briefly. And I thought I should do a quick public service here as I have no doubt it will come to a surprise to others. He was on his Office 365 (well, rather, SharePoint …
Read onHow to remove protected view from Office 2013 when downloading documents from the web
Thanks to Louis in our office for digging this one up for me. I appreciate security, don’t get me wrong. But Office should also be easy to use. This little annoyance falls under the latter. If you run into the following error in Office 2013 it’s probably due to the new feature in 2013 called …
Read onWhat are your “Pain Points”? We’d like to help.
itgroove is a business technology solutions provider. We have lots of tools and technology available that can be used to solve any number of business issues. And we have the knowledge and experience to map the solutions out for you, as well as the skills to implement the needed hardware, software and procedures. You have …
Read onSimple but effective Social Media Policy
I found a simple, 8 word Social Media Policy today that fit like a glove. Don’t lie, don’t cheat, don’t steal, don’t reveal. If you need more than that, you can see the original reference here. If you are looking for something more “wordy”, our actual Social Media Policy is based on this document.
Read onSharePoint Service Account creation worksheet
When providing guidance to customers about SharePoint Service accounts (lots of posts out there already, so I’m keeping this short), we end up submitting a recommend service account list (they don’t always go for them, but we do our best at trying to do the right thing). Anyways, SharePoint Service accounts ideally will have several …
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