I recently took part in an Office 365 YamJam – basically, a bunch of folks in Yammer asking and answering questions, sharing information, and learning new things… it was a bit like trying to drink from a fire hose, but it was awesome! One thing that we noticed really quickly was that we were getting … Continue reading Pro Tip: Quieting Outlook Email Notifications
Great discussion with Mark Russinovich about how Windows Azure heals itself when it's sick - this is the magic of Infrastructure as a service (IaaS): it all happens behind the scenes, and you usually don't even know that it's happened! (click on the image to be redirected to the WindowsAzure.com for the video)
Right on the heels of rebranding SkyDrive as the new and improved OneDrive, Microsoft has announced that Office Web Apps have been renamed as Office Online: This nicely rounds out Microsoft's free cloud offering with Outlook.com for email, OneDrive for storage, and the rest of the Office Apps available and usable in your browser of … Continue reading Office Online
I posted some time back about the new feature that came up in Office 365, that allowed you to purchase a domain directly from GoDaddy and completely configure it - all without having to leave the Office 365 portal. A few caveats are that it only seems to be available in Midsize in Enterprise plans … Continue reading Setting up GoDaddy domains in Office 365
Log in to your Exchange admin center, and go to mail flow - rules: Click on the plus icon to create a new rule, and choose Bypass spam filtering: Note: You can use this same rule to either whitelist or blacklist a domain depending on the options you choose later. As you can see, there … Continue reading How to blacklist a domain in Office 365
This has been driving me crazy - I'm running an IMAP migration for one of our clients, and the batches don't appear to have been running their regular incremental sync (by default supposed to run every 24 hours). After digging around in PowerShell cmdlets trying to see if I could find a way to determine … Continue reading IMAP Migrations: Last synced time is WRONG!!
The latest revision of Office 365 includes a great feature called Office on Demand - this is available for Office 365 Home Premium, Small Business, Midsize and Enterprise. In a nutshell, it allows you to use a full version of Office programs** on a public computer without having to install anything. As soon as you … Continue reading Office on Demand
No soup for you!! I recently ran into an issue trying to synchronize a SharePoint Online document library on a client's computer - if you clicked on the link to synchronize a library, the following error would be displayed: I've highlighted the clue as to what the problem is - this webpage requires a program … Continue reading SkyDrive Pro and Office 2010
One gotcha to be aware of when changing password polices in Office 365 is this - once you change the password policy so that passwords never expire, your users will be unable to change their passwords in the Self Service options. The error that they'll see doesn't really tell you much: The tricky thing about … Continue reading Users unable to change passwords
File this under a new feature I didn't know existed… you can now edit PDFs in Word 2013! The converted document might not look exactly the same (formatting might be off by a little bit, or a lot) depending on how much image elements are in the document, and it obviously works a great deal … Continue reading Edit PDF content in Word
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