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If you have a Crestron room manager or a Teams / Skype phone system for your boardrooms/conference rooms/huddle rooms, you will need to set a password for your room Resource in Office 365. The problem is, Office365 Exchange Resource accounts do not have password fields. Typically the solution you will Read more…
Microsoft Kaizala is an innovative chat tool designed for highly decentralized and/or frequently changing groups. What makes it different from Teams or Skype is the way users register. They only need a cell phone number and not a username and password. Kaizala is Indian (ok… specifically the Marahi) word for Read more…
MyAnalytics was an Office 365 E5 feature intended to help staff make better use of their time by applying Artificial Intelligence to the data the Microsoft collects on users. That feature was added to those with E3 contracts in the summer of 2019. By September 2019 many users were receiving Read more…
If you are trying to make changes to Office365 using PowerShell you are likely to need the list of services. As of November 15, 2019 the Office365 services list from an E3 and the PowerShell command to generate it is: PS C:\Windows\system32> (Get-MsolUser -UserPrincipalName “<upn – likely the email address>”).Licenses.ServiceStatus.serviceplan|select Read more…
If you want a realistic pencil / pen / highlighter drawing of a circle in PowerPoint you can do it with INSERT – SHAPE – CURVE, a few minor formatting changes and then ANIMATIONS – WHEEL
If you are having problems with OneDrive you may be able to correct them with a simple reset: RESET ONEDRIVE ON WINDOWS 10: %localappdata%\Microsoft\OneDrive\onedrive.exe /reset If that command does not make sense to you, just follow these instructions: Right click on the OneDrive icon in your Notification Area (blue cloud Read more…
Connected experiences in Microsoft Office products are mostly ‘little’ things that you may not notice immediately like: Insert > Online Pictures Insert > Get Add-Ins Insert > Online Video Feedback Templates from Microsofts online repository Weather line shown in Outlook Insert > Get Add-Ins OneDrive integration into Office SharePoint integration Read more…
If you are working on Office 365 products (like Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook) and find that some buttons relating to connected services are greyed out there is likely one of four problems: You are working on a older version of Office (circa 2015) that had a bug which is Read more…
This short video explains how you can easily and quickly remove every second row in an Excel worksheet using the Filter function.
Office 365 Pro Plus has three different channels or ‘rings’: Update channel Primary purpose How often updated with new features Default update channel for the following products Monthly Channel Provide users with the newest features of Office as soon as they’re available. Monthly Visio Online Plan 2 (previously named Visio Read more…
If you are working with Office 365 Pro Plus you may find a problem and want to roll back to a previous build. That can easily be done using the build in command line tool. Before you get started, look at the Office 365 Pro Plus list available from Microsoft Read more…
Historically, the ARCHIVE function in Outlook created a new .PST file that was separate from the mailboxes primary .PST or .OST. Many companies want to disable the ARCHIVE functions in Outlook because: .PST’s allow staff to copy large amounts of email to a single file they can remove from the Read more…
If you send email to a distribution group that is running off an Office365 Hosted Exchange account that is running in Hybrid mode with your on-premise Exchange server, the email may never be received. The email happily shows in SENT folder, has no errors or email bounces, and if you Read more…
If you have Office 365 email (a.k.a. hosted Exchange), you can now block recipients from forwarding your email and you can encrypt your email. In fact all Office365 to Office365 email is already encrypted, but email that leaves Microsoft’s Office365 is not… until now. Today you can easily encrypt your Read more…
If you use CloudFlare for DNS and you need to create a SRV record using the TLS protocol you will find that their interface does not support it. The GUI only shows _TCP and _UDP in the protocol drop down. Fortunately there is an easy way around this problem. You can Read more…
If you are setting your Office 365 email on a tablet, iphone, Android cell or any device that is not part of your corporate network you may see: “Need admin approval Email Email needs permission to access resources in your organization that only an admin can grant. Please ask an Read more…