This one’s always a silly little configuration problem, but there’s a quick and easy fix: Install the Desktop Experience feature on your SharePoint server. This may require a restart, so plan accordingly. Without this feature installed, you’ll see something like the image below that says: "We’re having a problem opening this location in File…
If you install Office Web App for Lync and find that when users try to share a PowerPoint presentation and it is stuck on “Loading” then make sure that the latest WAC service pack (SP1) is installed. After lots of troubleshooting, this solved our problem. Steps on WAC Server 1. Launch powershell 2. Remove-OfficeWebAppsMachine 3.…
Another month and another meeting of the Office 365 International User Group in the books! Had another great meeting today. We started off talking about the new Microsoft Unified Technology Event (MUTE), which is replacing the Exchange, SharePoint, Lync and Project Conferences along with TechEd North America and Management Conference. We then shifted gears…
Today Microsoft announced "Microsoft’s unified technology event for enterprises," which brings together SharePoint, Exchange, Lync, Project, and Office 365. The event is in Chicago and runs the full work week of May 4th through 8th in 2015. SharePoint touches a variety of other Microsoft products and it makes sense to bring the people behind the products…
Today, Microsoft announced the week of May 4, 2015 in Chicago, IL they will be hosting the inaugural, unified Microsoft Commercial Technology Conference! This conference is basically replacing thee SharePoint, Lync and Project Conferences as well as TechEd North America. One reason listed is that all these products are evolving and having a heavy Cloud…
Microsoft just released a tool that can connect to your on-premises environment and estimate the cost of running it in Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). You can target an individual physical machine, a Hyper-V or vCenter/ESX host, or a System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) environment. The tool takes seconds to install and is…
The July meeting of the Office 365 International User Group has been scheduled for July 22nd. Use the below link to add the meeting and Lync information to your calendar. I, along with the others, will be giving a recap of the Microsoft World Partner Conference. We will also have Mimecast give a presentation on…
Unfortunately I was unable to join/facilitate the June Office 365 International User Group Meeting. But it did go on without a problem! Martina Groom and Jethro Seghers handled the meeting and did an outstanding job. Jethro, who now works for BitTitan, gave an overview of the new and improved features of the Migration tool MigrationWiz.…
For those of you that missed the webinar, you can click here to view the Azure vs. Amazon webinar recording. For those of you who attended and asked questions, here is part 1 of a 5 part series to answer those questions. Q: Do Azure allow migrating servers back and forth between private and public…
Tomorrow, July 1st, is the date when I will find out if I have been re-awarded as an Office 365 MVP. Waiting in the Denver Airport I composed the below little poem: ‘Twas the night before MVP Renewal, when all through the Cloud Not an MVP was sleep, waiting to unveil the shroud The…
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