Category: office 365
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Integrating Contractors into your O365
Setting up IT for consultants is always a challenge and in the past often the only workable solution was to give them a domain account. Microsoft has done great work over the the past few years in supporting external users better and has now created a toolkit to address this challenge. https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/blog/2018/12/06/introducing-microsoft-365-freelance-toolkit-a-solution-to-launch-and-scale-your-freelance-workforce/
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Fixed: Cannot change change name on an Outlook.com email account
Outlook.com is an good email and calendar service that is provided free of charge by Microsoft. It is not part of the Office 365 suite but does use Exchange as the back-end. When I send an email using Outlook.com the recipient gets an email that says From: James Bayley <outlook-email-address@outlook.com> where “James Bayley” is my…
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Moving a micro-business to Office 365
I am presently freelancing again (call me on +447989381331) if you need an experienced Project Manager) and I am tidying up my own IT system. I strongly believe that Office 365 is the future of IT for all sizes of business. It is still very painful at the bleeding edge but core activities such as…
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Personal domains are dead, how to migrate to Outlook.com
For 20 years I have owned the domain bayley.me.uk and run my email off it for myself and my family. Contacts and Calendaring have always been separate applications. However now with smartphones we all want simple and integrated email, calendaring and contacts. The natural choice for me is Outlook.com, this starts from free but I…
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Fixed: OneNote notebook will not sync
I have about twenty OneNote notebooks that I use in desktop OneNote and 3 had stopped syncing (probably due to me manually killing the sync service – but that is a different story). To fix this Close the problem notebook The system will warn you that parts of the book that will not sync will…
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Microsoft breaks Outlook.com for users with two email addresses
Microsoft’s forced migration of users from the old Outlook.com infrastructure based on Hotmail to the new one based on Exchange hit me today. I can no longer send emails from my business address and Outlook 2016 desktop is broken. This is partly because because the new system is unreliable and partly because Microsoft is going…
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OneDrive on Android does not upload photos
I use OneDrive on my Android phone to automatically upload my phone photos to the cloud. This has stopped working recently. I suspect that a new Android feature on my Samsung Galaxy phone “App Optimization” may be to blame. This kills unused background processes after 3 days. I have turned off “App Optimisation” for OneDrive…
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What matters is WordPress and Office 365
Two years ago I placed a bet on what matters in IT and I said it was WordPress and Office 365. I think I won. WordPress powers 25% of the web and the new REST API coming out later this year will drive that upwards. There is a good article that discusses this here. Office…
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