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Family-friendly condos near DisneyWorld
A lot of my friends and colleagues will already know that I’m a big fan of Disney and Pixar (in fact, much of what we’ve modeled our app/brand incubation service at Regroove ‘Studios‘ location is heavily influenced by Pixar and my research into their culture). I really admire how they execute their brand, their approach, …
Read onA simple fix for when Microsoft Teams (Windows 10 Client) goes wonky
WHAT My Microsoft Teams client on Windows 10 looked like this last night. I rebooted, applied updates, cleared browser cache, crashed the app. Nothing I did would fix it. I went to bed thinking maybe something was down and it would be fine in the morning. Nope. Woke up today and no change. I then …
Read onRIP Outlook – Hello Outlook on the Web … as an App
I’ve been on a bit of a quest lately to help rip Outlook (the software … you know, 2016, etc.) out of users hands. It is what they know and think they need … but they don’t, and it is inferior. Outlook on the Web is where all the action is happening, no OST, less …
Read onRebourne
Hey friends. I was searching for the right word to describe where I’m at these days as I reflect on the summer. I’m writing this at a Brown’s Social House in Nanaimo (softball tourney this weekend). And it came to me. “Re-Bourne” … And if there is to be a movie, Matt Damon needs to …
Read onAnd then there was one (handset)
And then there was one… Microsoft Teams Voice for the Win! We love our Microsoft Teams based phone system. We have just ONE handset left and that is simply to ensure we have a phone someone could pick up in a hurry to make a 911 call. Outside of that, everyone is enjoying a combination …
Read onOffice 365 Groups (And Teams) contain members … not other groups! So why all the confusion?
In this video, I try to illustrate why there seems to be this misconception that Office 365 Groups (and as such, Teams and modern SharePoint Team Sites, based on Groups) can contain Security Groups (or any other types of groups). They can’t. So stop that train of thought… 🙂 Microsoft Teams DOES allow you to …
Read onA quickie on Microsoft Search – Good Stuff!
I had a play today with Microsoft Search. In this video, I provide a very quick demonstration of adding the “Microsoft Search in Bing” extension for Chrome (and can be added to Edge with Chromium) and demonstrate its use for finding stuff in our SharePoint Intranet. I then add some new content (a new Bookmark) …
Read onCheque Deposits – Teams and Vistaprint KISS
This is my deck for a presentation I delivered in May 2019 showing how we use a smart phone (Camera), Microsoft Teams and custom made Vistaprint Post-It Notes to ensure a smooth and seamless client invoice, to payment, to bank account, to marked as paid process – end to end regardless of whom might be …
Read onThe itgroove Change Register – Microsoft Teams, SharePoint and Masthead together
The following slide deck was presented at the Victoria, BC Office 365 User Group in May 2019 to demonstrate how itgroove utilizes Microsoft Teams, Flow, SharePoint and our SaaS product Masthead (www.masthead365.com) to manage and communication change within our office.
Read onOneDrive for Business – Q2 2019 Edition
In a nutshell, OneDrive for Business is your organizational home drive (personal files storage for users within your business). But it’s also much more than that. There are lots of intros to OneDrive for Business out there but the product keeps evolving and improving and as such, when I was asked to put together an …
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