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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 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…
You may have noticed that Skype starts automatically and runs the icon runs in your system tray/notification area. This is just annoying advertising if you are not using it. As you can see in the screen shot, Microsoft’s official instructions on how to disable Skype are outdated as the AUTOMATICALLY Read more…
Most users, especially those will laptops, will want Outlook to operate in Cached mode but you likely don’t want Outlook caching on boardroom / focus room / huddle room / client room computers. Cache mode copies a large amount of data from the Exchange server to an .OST file on Read more…
If need to have different settings for your users depending upon which computers they are on this is the article for you. Trying to set and HKCU entry based on the machine can be easily done but the process is not obvious. Our customers wants users to have the default Read more…
If you are using Office 365 Hosted Exchange in your company, you will likely want to control what add-ins your users have access to. Typically, an administrator will want to add an ADD-IN into SERVICES & ADD-INS (causing the add-in to install nearly instantly in OWA and Outlook) but also Read more…
The short version is that you cannot do this today. If you are using Microsoft Teams and you have users with many windows open, desktop sharing can become very confusing. Users should generally share a desktop and not an application because: After reading THIS article I thought I had the Read more…
If you want to retain control over what your staff can install you will need to disable the GET ADD-INS button in Outlook. Unfortunately there is no ready made GPO toggle GET ADD-INS off. To give you a false sense of security, there is a setting in the Office 365 Read more…
In a corporate setting, having a FOCUSED INBOX will frequently be used as an excuse by staff for not responding. IT will receive a never ending stream of complaints and requests to tweak the algorithm which they can’t and would not want to do. As such most companies will want Read more…
In this video we very quickly run through 25 PowerPoint Tips and Tricks in just 20 minutes: There are many more we could have shown including fabulous new IDEAS but we decided to show the day to day hidden gems: FORMAT PAINTER > Double Click TO HOLD CONTROL + Read more…
We have received a number of questions about the differences in Micosoft Office 2019 bundles so we decided to produce a grid showing all of the critical differences. To answer a few questions directly: We offer a FREE Office 365 Business Premium Trial for up to 25 user for one Read more…
In this video we explain how to set Office 365 Pro Plus (Office 2016, Office 2019) to run on a kiosk by using Office Shared Activation. We also also show how to verify it. Shared Office Activation lets you to deploy Office 365 ProPlus to computers that are accessed by Read more…
When starting an Office 365 Pro Plus (Office 2016, Office 2019) product like Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook you may be prompted to log in. At that point you may see: Sorry, another account from your organization is already signed in on this computer There are two ways to Read more…
If you are trying to deploy 64bit Office 365 Pro Plus or Office 2019 using a command line from the Office Deployment Toolkit (ODT) you may see no error message but it just doesn’t install: C:\Windows\system32>\\cal-s2\office365$\setup.exe /configure semiannual-targeted-64Bit.xml C:\Windows\system32> or if you are using a deployment tool with PDQ Deploy, Read more…