I’m always felt very proud to be part of Combined Knowledge’s Evolution Conference but this year is different with a 12 day/city tour across the UK and Ireland. This year I’m speaking at 4 of the Cities which are Birmingham 12th June Nottingham 13th June Manchester 16th June Leeds 17th June During the tour there … Continue reading I’m Speaking at SharePoint Evolution Roadshow & Education Discount
In recent days Microsoft have released a Visual Studio solution which allows you to control SharePoint Online sandbox solutions. The solutions builds a DLL file which can be imported as a PowerShell module and then you can use it to Upload, Activate, Deactivate and Delete solutions from a SharePoint Online site collection. The provided documentation … Continue reading Deactivate Sandbox Solution with PowerShell in Office 365
As the IT industry is changing and moving to cloud based services and Office 365, there is a new type of learning for IT Pro and developers around cloud services and the first place you will see this is at the SharePoint Conference 2014. Over the last 20 years Microsoft have committed to releasing a … Continue reading Why this SharePoint Conference is the best yet! #spc14
Over the coming months and into the future I plan to release some Office 365 news that is mainly for the education sector. With over 110 millions users using Office 365 Education around the world, Microsoft are adding both features for the whole of Office 365 but also for the A plans. Yammer being added … Continue reading Office 365 Education News: Yammer, OneDrive and Student Advantage
I’m really pleased to have been accepted as a speaker at the upcoming Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas in March 2014. Speaking with Alan Crawford from Shireland Collegiate Academy, we will be presenting on two main parts, the migration of their current 2007 portal to Office 365 and also how the school are using … Continue reading I'm Speaking at SharePoint Conference 2014 #spc14
It has been a great pleasure since 2010 when the UK hosted its first SharePoint Saturday to be able to present at this community event. This year I was able to present in the new Cloud track and started the day of sessions of talking about the Office 365 Architecture. Thank you to the 40+ … Continue reading #SPSUK Slide deck: Understanding the Office 365 Architecture
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!)
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 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
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
