Alex Pearce, Author at Blog: Alex Pearce (Microsoft MVP)

October 17, 2013

Student Advantage: Get Office 365 Pro Plus for Students own PC (at no additional cost!)

In the last day or two, Microsoft have announced Student Advantage but what does this mean? In brief, students will be able to install Office 365 Pro Plus on their own PC/Laptop at Home for no additional cost to the user or the school. If the school are purchasing/subscripted Office for their student through either … Continue reading Student Advantage: Get Office 365 Pro Plus for Students own PC (at no additional cost!)

July 11, 2013

10 things you should know about Office 365 before signing up

1: It’s 4 products not 3 Many people look at Office 365 and think its 3 products; Exchange Online, Lync Online and SharePoint Online and approach it as 3 products. Its better to look at it as 4 with the 4th being the identity process also known as Windows Azure Active Directory. It is important … Continue reading 10 things you should know about Office 365 before signing up

July 10, 2013

Microsoft SharePoint MVP for 2013

July 1st is always one of those days I don’t look forward to as I sit by the computer waiting to hear from Microsoft if I have been award MVP for that year. But come 4pm (UK time) the email comes to say that I have been award SharePoint MVP 2013. To be awarded once … Continue reading Microsoft SharePoint MVP for 2013

June 14, 2013

Google Drive vs Office Web Apps: Presentations

In this final post of this series we take a quick look at the differences between Google Drive and Office Web Apps, we are looking at Presentations. The presentation is taken from Andrew Woodward’s @andrewwoody session from the SharePoint Evolution conference in 2010 which has 1 slide that is heavily customised with animations. We will … Continue reading Google Drive vs Office Web Apps: Presentations

June 12, 2013

Google Drive vs Office Web Apps: Spreadsheets

In the first post of this 3 part series we looked at how documents were handled in Google Drive and Office Web Apps. In this post we are looking at spreadsheets. For this test I have created an Excel spreadsheet of the English Premier League with formulas and conditional formatting to help evaluate a page … Continue reading Google Drive vs Office Web Apps: Spreadsheets

June 10, 2013

Google Drive vs Office Web Apps: Documents

In this 3 part series of blog posts we are going to compare how a Document, Spreadsheet and Presentation are viewed in both Google Drive and the Office Web Apps. The tests were completed on the same machine and browser using Google Chrome. The Office Web Apps were evaluated in SkyDrive Pro in Office 365. … Continue reading Google Drive vs Office Web Apps: Documents

June 5, 2013

Office 365 Education Starter Manual: 2013 Edition

A while back when Office 365 Education was released I wrote a starter manual for the manage of your tenancy, some tips and tricks and best practices for you to implement the product into your school, college or university. As Microsoft have now released the new Office 365 with the Office 2013 stack I through … Continue reading Office 365 Education Starter Manual: 2013 Edition

May 31, 2013

Upgrading your Office 365 tenancy to Wave 15: Part 6–Profile Picture

During the upgrade of one our tenancies we have noticed that the profile pictures we uploaded in 2010 look slightly pixelated. Looking into how the profile pictures work (SharePoint 2010: Where do my User Profile Photos Go?) we see that in 2010 created 3 images of your prolife picture. These are 32 x 32 96 … Continue reading Upgrading your Office 365 tenancy to Wave 15: Part 6–Profile Picture

May 16, 2013

Warwickshire County Council move their schools to the cloud with Office 365 and BFC Networks

Warwickshire County Council are moving their schools to the cloud with Office 365. Who is it for? The new WeLearn365 service for Warwickshire Schools has recently been launched, providing the county’s schools with a new Education service built on Office 365 Education. Download the full case study from the Microsoft Case Study website. UK Council Offers … Continue reading Warwickshire County Council move their schools to the cloud with Office 365 and BFC Networks

May 10, 2013

Upgrading your Office 365 tenancy to Wave 15: Part 5 – Upgrading MyProfile

Office 365 tenancies are currently being upgraded once it is completed you Exchange, Lync and Admin Portal are in the new 2013 style however your SharePoint environment stays in 2010 mode. The following walk through will go through the process of upgrading the MyProfile Site Collection from 2010 to 2013 allowing you users use the … Continue reading Upgrading your Office 365 tenancy to Wave 15: Part 5 – Upgrading MyProfile