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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 onA quickie on Microsoft Search – Good Stuff!
I had a play today with Microsoft Search. In this video, I provide a very quick demonstration of adding the “Microsoft Search in Bing” extension for Chrome (and can be added to Edge with Chromium) and demonstrate its use for finding stuff in our SharePoint Intranet. I then add some new content (a new Bookmark) …
Read onCheque Deposits – Teams and Vistaprint KISS
This is my deck for a presentation I delivered in May 2019 showing how we use a smart phone (Camera), Microsoft Teams and custom made Vistaprint Post-It Notes to ensure a smooth and seamless client invoice, to payment, to bank account, to marked as paid process – end to end regardless of whom might be …
Read onThe itgroove Change Register – Microsoft Teams, SharePoint and Masthead together
The following slide deck was presented at the Victoria, BC Office 365 User Group in May 2019 to demonstrate how itgroove utilizes Microsoft Teams, Flow, SharePoint and our SaaS product Masthead (www.masthead365.com) to manage and communication change within our office.
Read onOneDrive 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 …
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 onInbox Zero in the Office 365 Ecosystem
I took part in a neat event the other day at a local Meetup called “Lighten the Load: Tech Tools for Not for Profits“, run by the local NetSquared NonProfit group. It was a fun evening with great food (and Bourbon!) and a bunch of folks each took turns sharing their favourite technology tip, in …
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 …
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