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Windows 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 onSharePoint Online Access Denied in MasterPage Gallery
We came across an issue today in an Office 365 tenancy where Site Collection Admins were getting “Access Denied” errors when they tried to work with assets in the MasterPage gallery. This was happening for any Site Collection administrator. Tracked the issue to this to a line in the “check permissions” that was explicitly denying …
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 onOffice 2016 and the mystery of the missing Document Information Panel
Doing a quick scour of the Interwebs, it seems nobody has really posed this question or answered it. A little surprising too… So let’s do this… What The Document Information Panel (DIP) is missing/unavailable/gonzo/absent/gone/AWOL in Office 2016. Yep, it ain’t there. Usually Microsoft “deprecates” this functionality and provides some time to get used to the …
Read onOneNote, Office and I’m loving ‘agile’
You know what, I think I love this agile stuff. It’s like Christmas every few days. I’d much rather get incremental improvements, that keep pace with the industry and get to know them one at a time than relearn a product every 4 years and try to figure out what has changed. Exciting times ahead …
Read onOffice 365 can’t deliver email to Exchange 2003 Servers
What The issue was that the clients Exchange 2003 Server (32bit, on Windows Server 2003) was no longer receiving emails from Office 365 (Exchange Online) accounts. It would take days to be aware of the issue as TLS connections would “hang/time out” but Exchange Online would continue to try and deliver the message until the …
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 onPumped for Windows 10? Are you running a business? itgroove has some recommendations for you
Are you running a business or are you in charge of IT decisions for your company? Our own Robert Dick, or as I refer to him “the old prospector” has some good advice before jumping into this awesome new Operating System. Test. Test. Test. Then Enjoy. It’s gonna be good. Check out Roberts video below. …
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 onOffice 365 Help Desk Cards
What Microsoft today introduced a new feature in Office 365 so that Admins can add a “Help Desk Card” to the Help (“?”) functionality in Office 365. Date Microsoft Introduced: July 2nd, 2015 So What To get to this setting, you will want to click on the Waffle (Task Switcher), Choose Admin, Company Profile …
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