Safety in the Cloud: Keeping Office 365 Secure
Reposted from Yahoo SOURCE It’s 2014 and it seems like you can finally get online almost everywhere you want to. Between cellular networks, wi-fi at your friendly local coffee shop and even premium access available on most flights, it’s almost harder to find a place you can’t get online. As...
The Choice of Satya Nadella Reinforces Microsoft’s Focus on Cloud Computing
If you didn’t already hear the news, Satya Nadella has been chosen as the next CIO of Microsoft. He is only the third leader in the company’s 38-year history. As a 22 year veteran of the company, he has been focused on Microsoft’s cloud computing offerings for the past seven...
SharePoint Online Backup Solutions
Many will agree that SharePoint is a very feasible solution for organizations. It allows them to accomplish their goals through increased collaboration, easy access to information, business workflow, and more. What is even better is that organizations can experience all of it without investing in the infrastructure required to host...
Troubleshooting with Office 365 Guided Walkthroughs
There are many avenues for obtaining support and troubleshooting information for Office 365. Beyond the traditional support calls or emails to Microsoft, there are various forums and troubleshooting tools on the Internet. For Office 365, one of the best places to begin are the guided walkthroughs where you answer...
How to troubleshoot the Exchange offline address book with Office 365
I was recently working on an issue for a client who is currently in Exchange hybrid mode with Office 365. They were updating phone numbers for user accounts in their on-premises Active Directory and noticing that the Outlook offline address book (OAB) was not reflecting these changes even after waiting the...
We Live and Breathe Office 365
Microsoft recently hosted a web cast where they demonstrated how Office 365 is changing the workplace. The web cast began with the host sitting in a coffee bar on a Lync video call with Luke Williams, Author of Disrupt: Think the Unthinkable to Spark Transformation in Your Business. At the...
Search innovations for site and portal design in SharePoint Online
I found this article by Mark Kashman very useful in highlighting the new search features available for SharePoint Online. Check it out! In February 2013, SharePoint Online in Office 365 introduced full enterprise search technology. Today we’re announcing the latest search-based innovation rolling out to SharePoint Online over the next...
Embracing the Cloud
As budgets for 2014 finalize, it’s easier to duplicate spending from the prior year than to project the year ahead and the changes and advances in the market. The most cost-effective effort may not be to do what was done the year before. In David Linthicum’s article, which appeared in...
Collaborative Editing in Office 365 Web Apps
One of the biggest reasons that so many small businesses use Google Apps as their productivity suite is because of the robust options for collaborative document authoring. Many coworkers can have the same document or spreadsheet open and simultaneously make changes to it allowing for efficient teamwork. Back in June,...