I have been a long time Windows Media Center user and have been seeing how to take this forward and utilize it in new ways (for background see the blog posts below). Workaround for no television guide available in Windows Media Center after July 20th 2015 Knowing what your Windows Media Center is up to…
Where IT was… In the last twenty-plus years I have spent working in Information Technology, I have seen a lot of changes. My career started on large-scale Unix systems where we had to dedicate a team of multiple systems administrators to keeping a few Unix systems running. When it was all said and done, our…
Last time we talked about Personal Collaboration which is technology that assists us in working primarily by ourselves with occasional assistance from other people. This time we take a look at Team or Ad Hoc Collaboration which is a small group of people working on a similar goal for a limited period of time. An…
As a companion to the End User Bootcamp episode on Groups, this episode will show us how we look at groups from an administrator standpoint. The first thing that we have to do is to clarify that Office 365 Groups can actually be more than one thing. It could be four things: Security Group -…
A while ago I wrote a blog entry on why Groups are the foundation of Microsoft’s ad hoc collaboration strategy. You can read that entry here. We are seeing more and more that Microsoft is expanding their use of Groups as the underlying mechanism to deliver more features. Teams…built on Groups. Planner…built on Groups. Yammer,…
In Episode 2 of the Driving Technology Series we take a look at Personal Collaboration. What is Personal Collaboration? Well, its the things that we do at a personal level. For example working on a report for a project is personal collaboration, even when I need to get some feedback from another person. Microsoft has…
Perhaps the most important part of Office 365 is Exchange Online. One big advantage of Office 365 is that much of the administrative overhead is now handled by Microsoft. However, there are still a number of things that you do control. In this episode of the O365 Admin Bootcamp, we will look at the admin…
Team is one of the newest offerings in the Office 365 suite and it builds upon the O365 Groups. In this episode we will take a dive into the Teams functionality and interface and talk about some ways that it can be used in your organization. In the end, Teams is part of the Ad…
Office 365 provides us with Skype for Business which can be a great productivity multiplier when properly configured. In this episode, we will look at what options you have to control your installation of Skype for Business. We will look at how to setup your environment and configure what users can use in Skype. If…
In the second episode of the End User Track of the Office 365 Bootcamp we focus in on Skype for Business. Knowing if another person is working, on a phone call, or in a meeting is a big value add to any organization, but Skype for Business does much more. The ability to have a quick…
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