Microsoft announced a series of future and immediate updates for Yammer, with inclusion of Yammer in Office 365 Groups and Yammer signals in the Office Graph as future updates, while the ability to include external people in a Yammer network is available now. I’m pleased to announce a […]
Microsoft gave a sneak peak at the timeframe and focus areas for SharePoint Server 2016. Timeframe is general release in 2Q2016, with a beta in 4Q2015. The areas of focus are: – improved user experiences, with mobile device and on-the-go access front and center, along with tools such […]
Last week Microsoft announced details of Office 2016 for the Windows desktop. The details included new features for Outlook: – We’ve replaced the RPC-based sync with a new Internet-friendly MAPI-HTTP protocol that supports Exchange/Outlook connectivity. – We’ve eliminated the use of foreground network calls to ensure that Outlook […]
Benjamin from Sharegate offers an infographic and blog post on why “migrating” to OneDrive for Business is the wrong way to think about it. I thought this way a pretty good way of describing the problem with doing so: … OneDrive for Business is a way for them […]
Merck has almost finished an 11 month transition to Office 365 from various older Microsoft products and messaging and collaboration tools from other vendors (e.g., IBM, WebEx). The deployment of the new foundation is expected to be completed by mid-April. Here’s the paragraphs in the announcement about the […]
Thoughts on taking a strategic approach to Office 365, and two models to support this. Presentation at the SharePoint User Group meeting in Christchurch.
Tonight at the Christchurch SharePoint User Group I will be presenting the first session of the evening. My talk will be on developing a strategic approach to Office 365. Developing a Strategic Approach to Office 365 Office 365 offers a tremendous set of capabilities in a quick to […]
Debbie Ireland and members of her team at ShareThePoint are touring the country with a SharePoint roadshow in March. The team will be running two hour seminars in 15 cities. Here’s the schedule: Introductions (5 minutes) Brief introduction and overview of session What does moving to the cloud […]
At the Windows 10 event today, Microsoft announced Surface Hub. It is intended to be used for collaborative meetings, brainstorming, and other group activities. It integrates with OneNote (for whiteboarding), Skype for Business (previously Lync) (for remote conferencing), and supports ink and touch as input methods. Price not […]
Step Two Designs is hosting its annual Intranets conference in Sydney in mid-to-late May. As published on the Step Two website late last year, I will be attending and speaking at the conference. I had the privilege of attending the inaugural conference in 2011, the second one in […]
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