MVP reviews his first year with Microsoft Office 365
I’ve used on-premises Exchange Server for many years. Last year, however, I made the decision toswitch to Microsoft Office 365. Now that I’ve used the suite for a year, I thought it would behelpful to share my experiences with readers who may also be considering a move.Why the switch? Like…
Reexamining the Windows Live Messenger to Skype Transition
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Harmon.ie Offers BlackBerry 10 Access To SharePoint, Office 365
Harmon.ie is giving BlackBerry 10 users access to Office 365 and SharePoint both online and offline. BlackBerry10, harmon.ie The new Office Web Apps functionality was announced at the BlackBerry Experience Forum in New York and provides the kind of business connectivity that might help revive BlackBerry’s failing fortunes. Using a…
Storage Solutions For SharePoint
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For Startups, Messaging Takes Time, Patience
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How Does Someone Verify an Email Address on Windows Live?
Windows Live is a collection of communication services, including email and an instant messenger, that requires you to log in with a single username and password. When you create a Windows Live account, Microsoft will prompt you to verify the email address you provided. Microsoft does this to ensure that…
Sharepoint 2013: Head in the Clouds
As one of the top buzzwords in 2012, "the cloud" quickly changed from a mythical place in the sky where your data and information went to live, to the likely solution for businesses and organisations looking for the next best way to manage their SharePoint deployments and company data in Gartner…
Can I Email My Daily Calendar in Microsoft Outlook?
Coordinate schedules with friends and colleagues by sharing your Outlook calendar on email. Jupiterimages/Comstock/Getty Images Microsoft Outlook offers several ways to share calendar information, including a facility for emailing your daily calendar to contacts. During the share process you can decide how much detail to include in your…
Hotmail WLSRD. Email marketers, be afraid, be very afraid!!
Nothing stands still in the world of email marketing. The only constant is change, and some of the new stuff to rear its head is certainly going to be changing how things happen in future. That said, some of this "new" stuff isn’t really new at all and has actually…
The Rise & Fall Of Microsoft’s “Scroogled” Petition Against Gmail
Microsoft has decided it no longer needs to run attack ads on TV, in print and through social media to push its "Scroogled" message against Google’s Gmail service. "Everyday Americans" apparently have gotten the word. If so, that’s not being reflected in signatures to the Microsoft-backed petition against Gmail.At First,…
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