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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 onFinding Stuff at itgroove – A brief tour of our Intranet built on SharePoint Online, powered by Masthead – May 2019
I get asked all the time to “give an example of an Intranet so we can decide if SharePoint is a fit”. Today I decided to just bang one out (so sure, it is a little rough around the edges … but Skip the Dishes was en route with lunch ;). Enjoy and have a …
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 onAdding an item to Masthead – Walkthrough
I was working on some materials for my next user group presentation (which I’ll share here soon enough). It occurred to me that not many people have seen our new (in preview) Progressive Web App for Masthead – we call it “Beautiful Navigation for Office 365” – SharePoint, Teams and beyond. So I figured I’d …
Read onMasthead – Navigation as a Service – for SharePoint, Teams and More…
Over the next few days and weeks, I’m going to be sharing all sorts of information on Masthead, a service/product that has come from the amazing efforts of our team at itgroove. To start though, I want to lay the groundwork of what Masthead was/is initially – Global Navigation in SharePoint – which was filling …
Read onGetting 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 – …
Read onApril 2018 Office 365 What’s New Slide Deck
This is the slide deck for my April 2018 “What’s new in Office 365” presentation at the Victoria Office 365 User Group. Looking forward to seeing everyone today. Office 365 what’s new april 2018 from itgroove Professional Services Ltd.
Read onCalgary Zoo – Office 365 and Yammer – Working Out Loud
Lions, Tigers and Bears … Oh My One of the projects I had the pleasure to be involved with was working with the team at the Calgary Zoo on a project delivered through Softchoice. This Case Study outlines what took place over the short project. My own memories include flying to Calgary, hanging with Penguins, …
Read onAdd Document, Access Denied and the Content Organizer
WHAT Troubleshooting a SharePoint site for a customer today. Users with even up to Full Control on a library (nevermind simple contribute access) couldn’t upload documents to a document library. The system page would give an “Access Denied” response when choosing “Add Document”. While Publishing was on and was my first suspicion, the user had …
Read onGallery: Swag Store
This week we have added the Swag Store to our Gallery. itgroove created this solution for a business that had multiple people in different departments purchasing company “swag” (shirts, pens and other branded goodies). Their process was admittedly clunky; employees would place orders either in person or through email, leaving the manager of these goods …
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