We had a very good November meeting of the Office 365 International User Group on the 12th. We started off the meeting with a great presentation on moving files from on-premises file systems to Office 365 SharePoint online, by Callum McNeill (no relationship, but really appreciate he spells his last name with 2 "L"’s). Callum’s…
AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 13, 2013 — Catapult Systems, LLC (“Catapult”), a premier Microsoft-focused consulting company headquartered in Austin, TX, announced today that it has entered into an agreement to merge with CSI, acquiring 92.5% of Catapult Systems at an undisclosed amount, with Signal Hill acting as Catapult’s financial advisor for this transaction. The combined organization…
I recently ran into a puzzling issue with one of my MVC applications. I had a report link with querystring parameters that I was passing from the controller to the view. This link was being consumed by a client side procedure that was opening a new window and passing in the link to display the…
Microsoft made some key announcements yesterday about the Office Web Apps, http://blogs.office.com/b/office365tech/archive/2013/11/06/collaboration-just-got-easier-real-time-co-authoring-now-available-in-microsoft-office-web-apps.aspx The first being that real-time co-authoring is now available for Word, PowerPoint and Excel Web Apps. Now you will be able to see in real-time the changes the other users are making inside of a document, presentation or spreadsheet as they are being.…
Microsoft updated Azure PowerShell on Thursday, November 7, 2013 with version 0.7.1. If you have an older version you might want to upgrade using the link below. https://github.com/WindowsAzure/azure-sdk-tools/releases Regression fixes Get-AzureWinRMUri cannot return the correct port number (#2056) New-AzureVM fails when creating a VM with a domain join provisioning (#2055) ACL for endpoints broken (#2054)…
I’m not sure what happened but my SkyDrive folder stopped syncing with SkyDrive.com on my Windows 8.1 workstation. I also noticed a SkyDrive.old folder under my profile. In looking at both of those folders it appears the SkyDrive.old folder contains my files totaling 68 GB or so and the SkyDrive folder contains holders totaling 5.8…
On Monday, Microsoft released a new version of the Windows Azure Active Directory (WAAD) Directory Sync (DirSync) Tool that can now be installed on a domain controller, http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/18429.windows-azure-active-directory-sync-tool-version-release-history.aspx This has been something that has been asked for probably ever since the first version of the Office 365 DirSync tool was released. One of the main…
I have seen some confusion in the social media circles around support for Windows XP and Office suite support. First the easy one, Windows XP and Office 2003 will no longer be supported by Microsoft after April 8, 2014. How will this affect users on Windows XP who utilize Office 365? The short answer is…
I recently ran into an issue where a user had uploaded an Outlook Message file to a web application. The users were reporting an error that each time they tried to click on a link to the .MSG file, the web browser would display an error message that the file had been moved or…
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