Did you know there were two ways of getting Office 365 Pro Plus when you get the license in Office 365. With E3, A3 and the individual licenses you get the ability to use Office on your local desktop using a form of streaming and caching on your machine to so you can use Word, … Continue reading #Office365 Pro Plus: Click to Run vs Office on Demand
Since it was first announced that Yammer was being made available to Office 365 Education customer for no additional cost, I’ve seen a fair few people and individual waiting for it to be added so they can use the enterprise solution for collaboration for groups, classes and teaching and learning. Well we’ve had to wait … Continue reading Adding Yammer to your Office 365 education tenancy
There are currently two ways of implementing Student Advantage licenses to your Office 365 Education tenancy. Both of these are descripted below depend on the code you get from the Microsoft licensing site. Implementation 1 Log into your Office 365 Education Tenancy Select purchase services from the left navigation and navigate down until you … Continue reading How to Implement Student Advantage in Office 365 Education
If you are looking to change the theme of your SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Online site you can do this through CSOM. Having connected to your environment you can run the below script that will change the theme to the Colour Palette to you have create – see this blog post on creating colour palettes … Continue reading CSOM + PowerShell: Setting Theme on Site
Over the coming few weeks, I’m going to release some of the CSOM, SharePoint Online and PowerShell scripts that I use on a daily basis and use to deploy and configure our customers. Any questions please do add them to the comments section and I’ll do my best to answer them. I’ll also through in … Continue reading CSOM of the Day: Introduction
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
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
