Hotmail to Outlook automatic upgrades take users by surprise
The migration of Hotmail users onto Microsoft’s new Outlook.com email client is now in full swing, but the software giant’s decision to automatically upgrade users seems to be taking many by surprise. The switchover has been heavily publicised in the press and through email alerts from Microsoft to existing…
GroupMe Adds Payment Splitting Option
GroupMe updated its iOS and Android apps Thursday to include a new group splitting feature called, appropriately, Split. The new bill-splitting service expands GroupMe beyond its niche as a simple group messaging app, and provides a way for the company to make money from a userbase of more than 4.6 So…
MetaVis Supports Office 365 for Business and SharePoint Online
Don’t Upgrade Your Mess; Migrate and Organize to Take Full Advantage of Office 365 and SharePoint Online Philadelphia, PAFebruary 27, 2013 MetaVis Technologies announced today that its SharePoint migration, administration, information management and governance software support Microsoft’s latest release of Office 365 for business, SharePoint Online and SharePoint 2013. All MetaVis Many companies are planning…
SharePoint 2013 Challenges and Questions for CIOs
The new 2013 version of SharePoint, Microsoft’s all-purpose enterprise collaboration server, packs many new and improved features, including a redesign of the user interface, the addition of SkyDrive Pro for enhanced storage and sync of documents, better task management, a revamped search engine and sharper e-discovery features. SharePoint, used primarily by…
Windows 8 core app updates on the way
After years of developing and evolving what became known as Windows Live, Microsoft turned a corner with the release of Windows 8, dropping the Windows Live and Zune brands in Windows 8 and moving to a set of unbranded and, frankly, unfinished "core apps". Zune became Xbox Music and Xbox The Windows…
The UC Architects: Spreading the News about Lync and Exchange
Exchanging ideas, news, and reviews about Microsoft Exchange and Outlook, and the wider fields of messaging, mobility, and unified communications.Exchange and Outlook Blog by B. K. Winstead Exchanging ideas, news, and reviews about Microsoft Exchange and Outlook, and the wider fields of messaging, mobility, and unified communications. It began…
Create a SharePoint List in Visual Studio 2012
The problem with creating SharePoint WebParts or pages in Visual Studio is that most of your code will depend on some other resource in your SharePoint site — typically, a List. If the List has to be deployed as part of installing your application, you have three choices: define your…
Storage Solutions For SharePoint
With more and more data being stored in SharePoint, you need to be able to ensure 24×7 availability while keeping up with growing storage requirements. That isn’t easy, though, with calls coming in from end users about SharePoint’s slow performance, as well as calls from your SQL Server DBAs and…
Convert MBOX File to PST and Import it into MS Outlook 2007
MBOX is a mailbox text file used for organizing and storing email messages. MBOX files are used by the email clients, such as Mozilla Thunderbird, and some more. As you might have noticed that the MS Outlook does not support this format, therefore to import the data of MBOX file…
Tackle overloaded Google Apps Gmail accounts with FreeSpace
Google Apps offers cash-strapped small businesses a lot of bang for the buck, but one app that can cause problems is Gmail. Specifically, each Google Apps account affords just 25GB of Gmail storage, meaning it’s not uncommon for users to bump into that ceilingespecially if they’re on the receiving end…