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Changing the primary email address of an Office Group in 365

What Renaming an Office 365 Group is simple if all you want to change is its display name. However, if you want to free up the email address it used (in our case, Office 365 Groups are neat and all, but the mailbox functionality is extremely limited – you can’t move messages, archive them, categorize …

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Excel Online – Shapes break editing spreadsheets

What A customer recently moved several Excel Workbooks from Google Sheets to Office 365 (and Excel Online). These were complex sheets with lots of linking worksheets, formulas, etc. and on the surface seemed to be fine. However, one weekly operation was to take a copy of an existing worksheet and making it “this weeks” worksheet. …

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Calgary 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, …

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3 Reasons blogging may be good for your small business

While this article is a few years old and published previously under another Microsoft campaign that was eventually archived, it’s back and in a new website Microsoft has launched.  You can check it out here: 3 reasons blogging may be good for your small business

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Add 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 …

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Disabling Syncing of SharePoint Libraries with OneDrive for Business

I was a little surprised to not find a simple overview of how one would disable Syncing (at the library or site level) of files between SharePoint and OneDrive for Business.  Particularly right now while there is a gap between what SharePoint can do and what the OneDrive for Business Next Generation client can do …

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Blast from the Past – Article from January 2000

I was cleaning up some clutter in the house and it was time to get rid of some old paper.  I found an old article I wrote for a Magazine in Bermuda called “The Bottom Line”. This was shortly before the release of Windows 2000.  When it came out, it was a big deal and …

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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 …

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Gallery: Project Registry

Our latest Gallery release is a solution that we initially developed for our portal. I had been thinking that we needed something like this – and as it turns out, we’re not the only ones. After implementing this for a few client portals, we decided to make the Project Registry available on the Gallery. The …

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Gallery: Blog/Announcements Rollup

Well, would you look at that. The itgroove elves keep delivering Father Christmas more and more goodies. Another blog-related solution has hit the Gallery this week… the Blog/Announcements Rollup. This solution rolls up content from a search query. You can grab that content from multiple lists and site collections. The rollup has space to show …

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