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Gallery: 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 …
Read onBeing Me
A little while back my friend Tom Hudock asked me to be part of a video series his company (Re[influence] Marketing) was putting together. This is what he sent me… “The video series I’m starting is to share real, authentic people and their stories. I believe more and more viewers don’t want the polished figures, …
Read onYammer now included in Office 365 Kiosk Sku – Kind of a big deal
I think THIS is a big deal. Yammer is now included (effective today) in K (Kiosk) plans too. So for your “desk-less” workers, they now can have Yammer to feel connected, working out loud, across the company, on their mobile devices. If you haven’t tried “Working Out Loud” yet, what’s your hold up? Yammer Enterprise …
Read onProject Management – Ain’t it the truth
This picture captures the truth so eloquently. Have a great weekend everyone.
Read onSharePoint Editions Reference – Foundation, Standard and Enterprise
The following URL is a great reference for comparing the various SharePoint editions, between Foundation, Standard and Enterprise editions of SharePoint 2010. As well, you can break them down into the various slices” of the SharePoint Wheel – Sites, Communities, Content, Search, Insights and Composites. Check it out: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/en-us/buy/Pages/Editions-Comparison.aspx
Read oniPad Canadian App Store is open!!
Sweet, the wait is over. I can update my apps now. 34 were raring to go tonight! Noice
Read onWindows 7 Version Downgrade’s
This from the Office Louis. 🙂 Windows 7 doesn’t allow you to downgrade” from more advanced versions such as Ultimate to Home Basic etc. If you try to perform an in-place upgrade to downgrade to a lesser version of Windows 7 it warns you that you will need to reinstall to use that version. This …
Read onHow to create a reusable Site Logo Web Part
A customer asked tonight, how to take an existing Content Editor Web Part on a dashboard and repeat it elsewhere with minimal effort. It was a simple web part. A logo, linked to a website. While you might avoid the need by creating sites based on templates, the sub sites had already been created. So, …
Read onitgroove – Server Best Practice – If it ain’t an Application Terminal Server, turn off all the damned noise!
One of the things I often do, to avoid a whole bunch of noise (and extra ‘busy-ness’ on my servers) is turn off the automatic connection of printers, etc. in RDP. I mean, if I’m just managing the Server via an RDP connection, do I really need COM ports, printers, default printers and other crapola …
Read onDear Google Mail – Will someone in Support please respond?
Dear Google Support – Is anyone home? Ok, this blog post is my next step in trying to get Google Support to respond to my requests for assistance. I’m on *BUSINESS DAY* “8” (yes, “Eight”) with no response. And for all you Google lovers (excuse makers), this is for the Google Mail for …
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