Did you know you can easily and cheaply encrypt emails directly from Office 365, did you also know I’ve just written an Outlook plugin that give users an encrypt email button that with a very small amount of admin configuration will allow users to easily select which emails they want to send as encrypted and […]
We often go to initial client meetings with little if any information about the clients setup, any information we can find out before hand can greatly help us to tailor our advice to their scenario. One of our go to recommendations is to upgrade to Office 365, however before we do this it’s useful to […]
I get a lot of questions from clients asking if they should look at using SharePoint Online or stick with Windows File Shares. Now it goes without saying that SharePoint is a completely different beast to file shares, it’s really capable of so much more than just serving files. However, in this comparison we will […]
You may have noticed that recently it’s not been possible to use the ‘Save All Attachments..’ option in outlook to save multiple attachments to a network location. When you try to do so simply nothing happens. This is a bug with Office 2016 versions after November 2017, there is currently no fix for this, Microsoft […]
If you are currently seeing this issue when configuring a new profile in Outlook 2016 when using Office 365, don’t panic, there might be an easy solution. This morning I came in to see that ALL of my Office 365 clients were unable to configure new profiles in outlook. This appears to be happening only […]
Teams is one of the Microsoft applications that isn’t easily deploy-able using InTune, it’s not one of the default supported applications and there is no MSI for it. So how do we install teams using only the .exe and a method supported by InTune? PowerShell! We can deploy a PowerShell script to install teams through […]
I’ve recently been rolling out Office 2016 (365) for a new client with hundreds of workstations that wouldn’t accept either having all the upgrades done at the same time or having them all run at logon for various reasons, instead they wanted each user to call up when ready and we would kick the installation off. Of […]
SharePoint Online: A replacement for file shares. Part 1 – Small Business IT Solutions Series This is the first part in an ongoing series of articles titled ‘Small Business IT Solutions’. This series is aimed at IT Support Business, MSPs and IT Consultants to talk to them about new or different solutions they can be […]
NB: This article is up to date as of the 6th of September 2017, SharePoint Online standards do change so it’s worth reviewing them all first. After performing a few dozen SharePoint Online migrations all from existing windows servers (Fileshares / Network Drives) and with lots of failures along the way I now feel I have […]
Working on behalf of an MSP, Extended IT have completed a complete Office 365 migration for one of their clients. The client had an existing Citrix based terminal server setup, with standard mapped drives, hosted Exchange was also provided by the same company. The client knew they need a change when it came to renewing […]