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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!)

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 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

May 7, 2013

Upgrading your Office 365 tenancy to Wave 15: Part 4 – SharePoint Online

Late last week Microsoft released some information on the SharePoint Online Upgrade from 2010 to 2013. This includes information on What to expect during upgrade, Site Collection Upgrades (including how to do it manually, testing and upgrade in bulk, testing and also information about Known Issues and Design Changes. Ensure you take a look at … Continue reading Upgrading your Office 365 tenancy to Wave 15: Part 4 – SharePoint Online

April 19, 2013

Upgrading your Office 365 tenancy to Wave 15: Part 3 – Postponing

Don’t want your #Office365 to be upgraded to the new 2013 wave yet? Then you only have 1 chance to postpone it and that is during the first 3 weeks of your 4 week notice of upgrades. At the bottom of the email you get about your 4 week notice, you will get P.S. saying … Continue reading Upgrading your Office 365 tenancy to Wave 15: Part 3 – Postponing

April 15, 2013

Edit all users UserPrincipalName through PowerShell for DirSync & Office 365

While catching up with a good friend yesterday we were talking about implementing DirSync and ADFS for their Office 365 for education deployment. If we want to be able to log into Office 365 with our domain name such as @bfcnetworks.com we need to have this set in our users Active Directory UserPrincipalName attribute. Over … Continue reading Edit all users UserPrincipalName through PowerShell for DirSync & Office 365