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Preview of smart diagrams for Visio
Although first announced back in October, i’d like to bring awareness to the following awesomeness coming from the Visio team. They are still looking for people to try out the new smart diagrams feature and provide valuable feedback: Introducing early preview of smart diagrams from Visio for Windows We are pleased to announce an early…
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Troubleshooting MS Office Install issues (MSI & Click-to-Run)
Here’s a shortlist of some useful troubleshooting techniques, divided into two sections according to the two main types of MS Office Installations: MSI: “Traditional” Windows installer Click-to-Run: Office 365 installed MS Office MS Office MSI Install Troubleshooting “Verbose logging” is a setting that exposes more information during the installation process. It will capture “warning” as well…
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Archetonomy Mega Drop Down Review
Having usable and accurate navigation is essential to the success of your SharePoint site. SharePoint’s default navigation can be used to create concise main navigation menus, and can even support taxonomy via Managed Navigation. Visually & functionally, however, you’re limited to a simple 4-level deep flyout/dropdown menu for the main navigation. In the side Quick Launch menus,…
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Use Microsoft Flow to grab image of the day for SharePoint
The default Search Center in SharePoint is quite minimalist- just an empty page layout with a search box. This post will show you how to use the workflow logic of Microsoft Flow to grab a reference to the Bing image of the day, copy it’s URL to a SharePoint list, and then use clientside scripting…
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What is Office 365? Two simple & current Infographics
You just know you’re in a complex business when even having a good oversight of the major tangents of what you do, is hard to come come by. In Office 365, we have a lot of new services being added on to plumbing/infrastructure backbone of the already massive SharePoint framework. Conversely, recent changes to SharePoint itself…
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How to output the Office 365 Roadmap as a spreadsheet
If you want to stay on top of what’s coming soon for Office 365, the Office blog will be the source for major announcements, but you’ll also want to keep an eye on the Office 365 roadmap – which also covers Office Online and Outlook.com. If the Office blog is going to cover a feature,…
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Join the #CodeGeneration Movement
Building on Microsoft’s recent announcement to invest $75 million in community programs to increase access to computer science education for all youth worldwide, Microsoft Canada is launching the #codegeneration movement – to inspire Canadian youth (13 -18 year olds) to learn more about coding. #codegeneration will run from now until Computer Science Education Week (December…
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Power BI goes prime time
by James Phillips, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Business Intelligence Products Group Today is an exciting milestone, as we release the new Power BI service and Power BI Desktop. When I first unveiled our GA date earlier this month, I emphasized the importance of the innovation we’re delivering, and how it leads to discovery and insight…
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Microsoft Ignite Conference 2015 Roundup
Here is my presentation from last weeks Victoria Office 365 User Group in Victoria, BC. “Microsoft’s Ignite Conference in Chicago last month was a huge event- 23,000+ attendees -and a lot of genuinely interesting technology news came out of it . I’ll share with you here my take on the big items of the event,…