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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 …
Read onitgroove – 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 …
Read onWhat’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 – …
Read onitgroove March 2016 Video Newsletter
I asked Karin, our newest addition to the team for “short and sweet” and I got exactly that. Enjoy the first of what I expect to be monthly Video Newsletters informing the masses of our office goings on. March 2016 Newsletter from itgroove on Vimeo.
Read onOffice 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 …
Read onWindows 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 …
Read onVideo in the enterprise goes ‘beyond the portal’
Mark Kashman from the Microsoft SharePoint Team asked for folks to spread/share the Office 365 Video love. And being that I’m a firm believer in “a picture is worth a 1000 words” and the fact Mark is rocking a killer mustache lately, I’m happy to oblige. This infographic highlights the many ways Office 365 Video …
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 onHow to Create “Quick Tip” like functionality on a SharePoint Dashboard
Here’s an old trick I’ve used hundreds of times for helping users out on my SharePoint Pages, Web Parts and Dashboards using the “Title Icon” functionality to create a “tool tip” or “Help/Overview” like effect. Thought I’d show it in video this time.
Read onSite Collections for the Win
I did a presentation for the Victoria SharePoint User Group recently and presented on the importance of Site Collections over webs (sub-sites). I also played with “Prezi” for this presentation instead of going the traditional PowerPoint route. Have a view if you want… If the embed above doesn’t work, use this link: http://prezi.com/z3ja1vebo1v4/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share
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