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SharePoint Design when consider BYOD – QR Code
One of the hot topics in the IT industry for 2012 was the subject of Bring Your Own Device and how these can be managed on a secure network, data leakage and the general day to day operation when user...
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Its was a pleasure to be able to present at the UK SharePoint Saturday in December 2012 and have people come and listen to this subject. I decided to talk about the differences as I know there are many...
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The new wave of Office 365 for education technologies coming 27th February
In the last week Steve Ballmer (CEO of Microsoft) has announced the release date for new tenancys of Office 365 running the new wave of Office technologies. The announcement which included the release...
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Office 365 SharePoint Online Admin PowerShell Cmdlet – With Samples
Office 365 and SharePoint Online is an ever growing and evolving cloud service from Microsoft and in the migration to wave 15 of the Office product, Microsoft have released a set of PowerShell...
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Upgrading your Office 365 tenancy to Wave 15: Part 1
It is now getting to the point where Microsoft are upgrading current Office 365 tenancies from the 2010 wave of technologies to 2013 giving you the new and best experience of the Office products. But...
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Upgrading your Office 365 tenancy to Wave 15: Part 2 – Addressing Issues
You may have received an email entitle ‘SERVICE ALERT: Take action on these Office 365 administrative tasks’. This is not a standard email and should be logged as a call within your service or help...
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Edit all users UserPrincipalName through PowerShell for DirSync & Office 365
While catching up with a good friend yesterday we were talking about implementing DirSync and ADFS for their Office 365 for education deployment. If we want to be able to log into Office 365 with our...
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Upgrading your Office 365 tenancy to Wave 15: Part 3 – Postponing
Don’t want your #Office365 to be upgraded to the new 2013 wave yet? Then you only have 1 chance to postpone it and that is during the first 3 weeks of your 4 week notice of upgrades. At the bottom of...
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Upgrading your Office 365 tenancy to Wave 15: Part 4 – SharePoint Online
Late last week Microsoft released some information on the SharePoint Online Upgrade from 2010 to 2013. This includes information on What to expect during upgrade, Site Collection Upgrades (including...
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Upgrading your Office 365 tenancy to Wave 15: Part 5 – Upgrading MyProfile
Office 365 tenancies are currently being upgraded once it is completed you Exchange, Lync and Admin Portal are in the new 2013 style however your SharePoint environment stays in 2010 mode. The...
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Upgrading your Office 365 tenancy to Wave 15: Part 6–Profile Picture
During the upgrade of one our tenancies we have noticed that the profile pictures we uploaded in 2010 look slightly pixelated. Looking into how the profile pictures work (SharePoint 2010: Where do my...
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Office 365 Education Starter Manual: 2013 Edition
A while back when Office 365 Education was released I wrote a starter manual for the manage of your tenancy, some tips and tricks and best practices for you to implement the product into your school,...
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Google Drive vs Office Web Apps: Documents
In this 3 part series of blog posts we are going to compare how a Document, Spreadsheet and Presentation are viewed in both Google Drive and the Office Web Apps. The tests were completed on the same...
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Google Drive vs Office Web Apps: Spreadsheets
In the first post of this 3 part series we looked at how documents were handled in Google Drive and Office Web Apps. In this post we are looking at spreadsheets. For this test I have created an Excel...
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Google Drive vs Office Web Apps: Presentations
In this final post of this series we take a quick look at the differences between Google Drive and Office Web Apps, we are looking at Presentations. The presentation is taken from Andrew Woodward’s...
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Microsoft SharePoint MVP for 2013
July 1st is always one of those days I don’t look forward to as I sit by the computer waiting to hear from Microsoft if I have been award MVP for that year. But come 4pm (UK time) the email comes to...
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10 things you should know about Office 365 before signing up
1: It’s 4 products not 3 Many people look at Office 365 and think its 3 products; Exchange Online, Lync Online and SharePoint Online and approach it as 3 products. Its better to look at it as 4 with...
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Student Advantage: Get Office 365 Pro Plus for Students own PC (at no...
In the last day or two, Microsoft have announced Student Advantage but what does this mean? In brief, students will be able to install Office 365 Pro Plus on their own PC/Laptop at Home for no...
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I’m Speaking at SharePoint Conference 2014 #spc14
I’m really pleased to have been accepted as a speaker at the upcoming Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas in March 2014. Speaking with Alan Crawford from Shireland Collegiate Academy, we will...
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Office 365 Education News: Yammer, OneDrive and Student Advantage
Over the coming months and into the future I plan to release some Office 365 news that is mainly for the education sector. With over 110 millions users using Office 365 Education around the world,...
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