Be Very Careful When Choosing Office 365 Trial Plans
If you decide to try one of the Office 365 trial plans, do not use your real company name. If you decide to change plans afterwards, Microsoft cannot delete your domain name and re-issue it in the...
View ArticleHow to Log a Call for SharePoint
If you would like your helpdesk to assist you quicker? Meet them half way. When experiencing issues with SharePoint, have the following information ready to the techies can get going quickly : Is the...
View ArticleHow Coca Cola used SharePoint – A Case Study
72000 employees in 431 facilities around the globe; 55 000 vehicles, and 2.4 million coolers, vending machines and beverage dispensers – can you imagine managing the content that would be generated?...
View Article“View” Permission Level Gotchas in SharePoint 2010 and Office 365
Have you noticed the “view only” permission level in SharePoint? The difference between read access and view only, is that view only permissions doesn’t allow users to download documents. However,...
View ArticleWhy Office 365 is Great for Small Businesses
Lets Collaborate has been using Office 365 for a year now – and we’re loving it! Having a small geographically dispersed, virtual team means we have to have an online environment where we can...
View ArticleUpgrading from SharePoint 2010 to 2013 on Office 365
If you’re on Office 365, you will be upgraded sooner or later. Microsoft say they have completed 85% of their Office 365 clients. Ours wasn’t a great success unfortunately; we are having a lot of...
View ArticleManaging Multiple Logins
The Microsoft partner network is full of companies that use Office 365 to manage their lives. Many of these companies partner with each other to expand their service offering. This also means you...
View ArticleOffice 365 My Sites Changed
Heads up that the look and feel of your My Sites in SharePoint 2013 have changed a bit – the picture, search block and edit your profile links have all moved. Filed under: Office 365, SharePoint 2013
View ArticleOffice 365 – Library Menu’s Changed
The menu options on SharePoint 2013 libraries have just been changed. Filed under: Office 365, SharePoint 2013
View ArticleSubfolder Hell on SharePoint?
Many users end up duplicating their fileshare structures on SharePoint, this is not ideal and it is better to use metadata where possible. Once the concept of metadata has been embraced, users...
View ArticleTypes of Dashboards in SharePoint
Beginners to SharePoint get easily confused by all the new terminology and the large feature set of SharePoint. Dashboards are one of those areas that cause miscommunication. There are 4 types of...
View ArticleOffice 365 Personalisation Changes
New changes have been brought in to customise your experience. Click the settings cog next your picture and Office 365 Settings. Check out all the options to personalise your experience. Update your...
View ArticleOffice 365 Customer Success Centre
Remember the “I Use SharePoint” website Microsoft used to have for SharePoint 2010? Such a pity they took that down, BUT, they have done a similar thing for Office 365! Go check out the Office 365...
View ArticleGetting Started With Office 365
Depending on what options of Office 365 / SharePoint Online / Exchange Online you have chosen, you will see different things, but you get a dashboard. Now depending on when you got Office 365 and...
View ArticleChange to Permissions in Office 365
(Posted to new blog first) Microsoft has rolled out a change to permissions. You can now decentralise adding users to sites. While this is all well and fine, doesn’t this defeat the object of having a...
View ArticleChanges to Office 365 Item Level Navigation
Yet another bizarre change from Microsoft! The menu option on items has just changed in Office 365. Instead of making it easier, they have made it harder! Why not just have one level off an item like...
View Article11 Ways to NOT Migrate to Office 365
Every now and again we get to hear fantastical SharePoint tales and bear witness to some really odd behaviour. Here’s our latest top 11 ways to ensure your attempt at moving to Office 365 / SharePoint...
View ArticleOffice 365 Adoption Stats from Microsoft
The #SPBiz conference has just kicked off and here are the Office 365 stats as released by Microsoft during the keynote by Mark Kashman. Filed under: Office 365
View ArticleThe Cons of Cloud
There is so much hype about the pros of going cloud for software, it has tons of benefits, I must agree. But, as a business owner who uses the cloud extensively; some things sit continually in the...
View ArticleMigrating to Office 365? Learn About the Apps Menu and Following Sites
If you’ve you been working on SharePoint 2007 or SharePoint 2010 and are moving to Office 365, you can expect a totally different user experience. Let’s look at the apps menu. On the top of each Office...
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