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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,...
How SharePoint Online Helped
As we network with our colleagues, partners and friends, we realize that we all have the same needs within our organizations when it comes to communication, information sharing and process improvement. Some of these needs are: Central document repository Single source for information Email reduction Paper reduction Workflow automation These...
Lync Voice Leading in Enterprise Shipments
Author: Michael Joseph, Director of Client Technology Solutions, TecFac * This blog was originally posted on the Microsoft Lync Team Blog located here. Some people were skeptical at our Unified Communications Launch in 2007, when Bill Gates said that the magic of software would move business communications far beyond phone...
Useful PowerShell commands for Office 365 Exchange Online
Almost every change you make in the graphical Office 365 administrative website runs a PowerShell command on the back end servers at Microsoft’s datacenters. The Exchange management console since Exchange 2007 is no different. Much more than what is available via graphical user interfaces can be done in PowerShell. Some...