Why this SharePoint Conference is the best yet! #spc14
As the IT industry is changing and moving to cloud based services and Office 365, there is a new type of learning for IT Pro and developers around cloud services and the first place you will see this...
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Deactivate Sandbox Solution with PowerShell in Office 365
In recent days Microsoft have released a Visual Studio solution which allows you to control SharePoint Online sandbox solutions. The solutions builds a DLL file which can be imported as a PowerShell...
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I’m Speaking at SharePoint Evolution Roadshow & Education Discount
I’m always felt very proud to be part of Combined Knowledge’s Evolution Conference but this year is different with a 12 day/city tour across the UK and Ireland. This year I’m speaking at 4 of the...
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CSOM of the Day: Introduction
Over the coming few weeks, I’m going to release some of the CSOM, SharePoint Online and PowerShell scripts that I use on a daily basis and use to deploy and configure our customers. Any questions...
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CSOM + PowerShell: Setting Theme on Site
If you are looking to change the theme of your SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Online site you can do this through CSOM. Having connected to your environment you can run the below script that will...
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How to Implement Student Advantage in Office 365 Education
There are currently two ways of implementing Student Advantage licenses to your Office 365 Education tenancy. Both of these are descripted below depend on the code you get from the Microsoft licensing...
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Adding Yammer to your Office 365 education tenancy
Since it was first announced that Yammer was being made available to Office 365 Education customer for no additional cost, I’ve seen a fair few people and individual waiting for it to be added so they...
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#Office365 Pro Plus: Click to Run vs Office on Demand
Did you know there were two ways of getting Office 365 Pro Plus when you get the license in Office 365. With E3, A3 and the individual licenses you get the ability to use Office on your local desktop...
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Awarded Microsoft Office 365 MVP
Over the past 6 years I have been privileged to be awarded Microsoft SharePoint MVP but over the last 2 years since the release of Office 365 Education I have seen my time and community work shift from...
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Prevent Users from Creating Groups in Office 365
As Microsoft are starting to role out Groups to all Office 365 tenants we might have the need to disable the function of creating them. Groups are a great feature but you may not be ready for them,...
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How to get Office 365 ProPlus Benefit for teacher & FAQ
In an post last night on the Microsoft in Education Blog, Anthony Salcito announced that Office 365 Pro Plus is now available to teachers as well as students. Some time ago Student Advantage was...
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Get Microsoft Office for Free: Students and Teachers
So the title is correct – you can now get Microsoft Office for free if you are Student and Teacher. Its known as friction free but how does it work and where do you go to get it? The solution is part...
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Understanding More of the Free Office 365 Benefits to Students
There are different scenarios around how the new Office 365 free offering of Office 365 Pro Plus and it is important to know this if you are a council/district, college or IT Manager for your school....
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#SUGUK Manchester: Next Gen Portals: 7/4/2015
It was great for me to share with you on the “Next Generation Portals” coming out of Microsoft at the moment. Here some links regarding some of the portals and features we talked about. Office 365...
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Future of Microsoft Technologies in Schools: The IT Mans Challenges
It has been a strange few years for me as I’ve looked to bring in a new company which evolves itself around an ever changing platform called Office 365. Having spent years working with SharePoint and...
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Slides from SharePoint Evolution Conference
I always enjoy presenting and having done three presentation at the recent SharePoint Evolution Conference, it has left be buzzing and look forward to speak to more people soon. Managing Security and...
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Sway now in Office 365
At the recent Microsoft Ignite, it was announced that Sway was coming to Office 365 and that it would be here for First Release Office 365 tenants in the next month. Well we were pleased to see it...
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OneNote Class Notebook Implementation Guide
In the past 9 months we have seen a new add-in added to all Office 365 Education tenants which has encouraged people start using OneNote as a tool in the classroom allow a teacher and their students to...
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OneDrive is not the location for Business Data
Over the past few months I’ve noticed more Office 365 solutions and Add-Ins that use OneDrive as the location to store data. This has always concerned me as I see OneDrive for Business a very different...
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Live Session: Are Team Sites Dead? #Collab365
This week sees the online conference called Collab365 http://www.collab365.events/ which is run over 24 hours with sessions from great names from around the SharePoint and Office 365 community....
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