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Office 365: The Only Software that Grows with Your Company
American business is consumed by the idea of the startup – a company that is founded with just the work of one or two talented individuals that toil for months on their own and eventually strike it big and get outside investment and more employees. Startups can’t build their infrastructure...
Keeping Distributed Teams Aligned
Keeping our team connected, unified, and aligned is a major concern of mine. Half of our team lives out of state from our home office. The other half telecommutes two to three days a week. Additionally, we’re working on dozens of projects for multiple clients whose teams are also dispersed...
Change Is Going To Cost You
We just finished an assessment for a client and advised them in how to get where they wanted to be as a business and how to fix the long-time problems they had been experiencing with employees and processes. After the report was presented they realized change was coming. Things might...
Skype for Business is here, sort of…
Microsoft’s “Release” of Skype for Business On April 14th Microsoft released the Skype for Business client for Office 365 users. The new user interface is a great improvement over Lync 2013 and it adds many great features to improve ease of use. Here is a video explaining all the changes....
Office 365 Customer? Not Ready for the Skype for Business Update?
The new Skype for Business client is almost here! On April 14th, Microsoft will begin pushing out Skype for Business as part of the regular monthly Automatic updates to Office 365 ProPlus. Although Skype for Business has received mostly positive reviews, IT pros and businesses were left with a little...
Skype for Business Announcement
Today’s post was written by Zig Serafin, corporate vice president for the Skype for Business team. “Enabling people to connect with one another is central to Microsoft’s mission to reinvent productivity and help people make the most of every moment. For us, connecting people means delivering experiences capable of...
Skype for Business Preview Review
Skype for Business Preview is Here and We Love it. Microsoft released a preview version of Office 2016 and Skype for Business today. We have been messing with it all morning and are very impressed with the changes. With it being a Preview version and the Skype for Business server...
A Day in the Life of a Microsoft Evangelist
In my previous blog I talked about the Windows 10 press conference and all the great developments Microsoft has for the future. The announcement was generally well received by the tech press and is bringing a lot of excitement to the Microsoft brand. For me, personally, I cannot wait for...