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If you are at all interested in what makes me tick
I guess my last few posts have been more personal in nature. Hang in there, we’ll return to our usual SharePoint programming shortly… This post is about sharing with you a family tradition my mother started with the arrival of the first grandchild (Malcolm). Since then, there have been several (8 actually, including Wyatt’s today). …
Read onSkyDrive Pro now available for Windows 8 and iOS
Man, Microsoft has been adding new stuff lately like a summbitch. Today they announced the availability (as usual, there seems to be a 4 day or so Canadian time delay in the Apple App Store… must be all the beer) of SkyDrive Pro Apps for Windows 8 and the Apple Stuff. This is not to …
Read onVictoria SharePoint User Group–July Edition Announced
Giddyup, the July Victoria SharePoint User Group date and location have been confirmed. Learn more here: http://www.meetup.com/vSharePoint/events/126913482/
Read onWhat I learned about buying our new cars
Believe it or not, this post doesn’t even contain the word SharePoint. Oh shit. Now it does… Moving on… We recently bought two new cars. Well, mostly new. Both were Demo’s (cars used typically by staff at the car lot, typically with 3000 to 8000km on it – more about that below). I won’t comment …
Read onCool. But we can’t really talk about it
We at itgroove have a client that we can’t name – too cool for school as it were… However, we can tell you a little about them and one way they utilize SharePoint and Nintex in a very cool way. What This company is a Reinsurance Company that specializes in Weather/Catastrophe insurance. They make …
Read onOffice Mobile for Office 365 is now available in the Canadian App Store
Hooray, it’s here and I don’t have to do that goofy US, er, hack… Office Mobile for Office 365 (and you can use it on premise as well, you just need an Office 365 Account to activate it and sign in) is now available in the Canadian App Store. Go get it on your iOS …
Read onLots of Cool SharePoint News This Week
Just a quick update as I’ve been quiet lately. But there are a few cool things going on that at least needed to be shared, so here goes (brief, but you get what you get The SharePoint Conference has been announced for 2014 and it’s in Vegas again. This time at the Venetian. I’ll be …
Read onActiveSync even easier to setup in 2013 Refresh of Office 365 but a heads up
What Good news. ActiveSync doesn’t require you to know your “pod” (server) anymore when connecting ActiveSync to Exchange that has been upgraded in the Office 2013 refresh (wallbridge.com just got upgraded in the last 3 days). The bad news is you may need to reset your ActiveSync settings as you may have an old Server …
Read onIn my absence
It’s been a while since I last wrote – I hope business has been steady and is looking up as we approach summer. April has been a mixed month with conflicting economic reports, the Boston bombing (so sad, but amazing resilience), corralling my family through airports and Disneyworld, and of course, the run up to the …
Read onWhat’s in a name? Giving your SharePoint web applications and platform a voice
Note, this isn’t a technical discussion. I’m not going to go deep into discussions about web applications vs. managed paths, SSL, etc. when scaling up or out. I simply wanted to share how we named our SharePoint web applications and subsequently became the same advice we give our clients. So here we go. First off, …
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