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OneNote makes me smile. Today it’s more iOS love and respect
Man I love me some OneNote. And every time I notice the client in iOS gets updated, I just have to have a look. This week, Microsoft introduced version 2.2 and pretty much only pointed out that it was “beautifully redesigned for iOS 7”. I need to agree, as some of the attributes of the …
Read onSharePoint MVP for a sixth time!
I’m surprised, blushing and happy to be awarded with the Microsoft MVP for SharePoint server for a sixth time. Thanks to everyone who has supported me and to the excellent team at itgroove who makes me look good. My MVP Profile: Link And the Leafs had a rare win today, not a bad day at …
Read onWord, PowerPoint and Excel available for the iPad. And in Canada on day one for once as well!
So the not so secret is out. Office for iPad is here (or rather, the three primary applications, Word, Excel and PowerPoint). The choice of running with these three are obvious not only because they represent the most common email attachments but also because Apple has competing apps already too (Pages, Numbers and Keynote). There …
Read on7 Reasons I love Windows 8.1 and my Surface Pro 2
I love my Surface Pro 2 and Windows 8.1 Windows XP End of Service/Life is upon us (April 8th specifically) and it got me thinking about what I love most about my current platform (Surface Pro 2 and Windows 8.1). Windows XP was good, Windows 7 was great, Windows 8 is something I love. Touch …
Read on(it)Groovy Microsoft Promotions
Hey folks, Microsoft has a couple of cool promotions going right now related to virtualization and cloud services. Check them out! Crack the Cloud! Check out the Crack the Cloud promotion. Link Windows Azure Trial Check out the Windows Azure Trial. Link Virtualization Squared Free Hyper-V/Virtualization Training. Link
Read onLocal Fastball Sponsorship
We (Wendy, itgroove and myself) are pleased to support our local Fastball league (Central Saanich Extreme Fastball) that our daughter has been a part of (And made some special friends and had some good times) over the last 4 years. There will be a new sign up in the Spring and we are a sponsor …
Read onService Pack 1 for the 2013 stuff released – SharePoint, Office, Exchange, Project
Service Pack 1 for Office 2013, SharePoint 2013, Project and Exchange have been released. As always, take your time to test/evaluate before deploying. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it yet (or first…). You can count on us @itgroove to be aggressive and ahead of the pack, testing it early on, so check in with …
Read onVictoria Office 365 User Group – Coming Soon!
We’re pretty excited here in the office as we are gearing up to announce and support a local Office 365 User Group. Watch this space: http://www.meetup.com/Victoria-O365-User-Group and sign up. The more the merrier!
Read onNifty tool for showing iPhone and iPad screens on the PC
Stumbled across this nifty tool, ReflectorApp today while looking for a solution to provide better support for my family. You see, I convinced everyone in my family to get iPhones so that I wouldn’t have to help them. This backfired a little as it seems even the iPhone can be complicated for newbs and now …
Read onTwo common search questions
A customer had two questions this morning regarding Search in SharePoint (and the following hasn’t really changed in 2013). As I already had the answers for her, figured I’d share them with others as well. How do I see how long a full search crawl takes? 1. In your Search Service Application (Central Admin, Manage Service …
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