The Tech Blog of Dan Usher

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  • What's new on MVA?

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    If you’ve been in the Microsoft technology community, hopefully you’ve stumbled across the Microsoft Virtual Academy. If not, head on over and start diving into some great free content from Microsoft and some of its partners to learn more about the technologies you operate, maintain and extend. As an aside for folks familiar with MVA…

  • Rights Management Services Migration Guide

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    If you’re working in the cloud, then you’ve probably had a client or two request that you enable Rights Management Services. This is a fairly common task and in a Microsoft Azure cloud scenario or Office 365 scenario fairly simple to enable. If however you’re working a hybrid configuration or with an organization that’s moving…

  • Acompli starting to morph?

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    Back on 1 December 2014, it was announced that Microsoft had acquired mobile email and calendaring app Acompli. https://www.acompli.com/fwd-microsoft-acquires-acompli/ To those of us in the tech industry, we noticed Microsoft was picking up an app maker that had been hard at work developing and email and calendaring client on Android and iOS that just “worked”.…

  • Welcome to Carousel…

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    Hey thanks DropBox… just what I was… hoping… for. If you’re a DropBox user and you have your mobile device setup to automatically push photos up to the “Camera Uploads” directory within your DropBox then you might notice the next time that you go there that you’re being flipped over to Carousel. I didn’t receive…

  • Running the Northern Virginia Mobile C# Developers Group with Ed Snider…

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    About a year ago, my friend Ed Snider and I started up the Northern Virginia Mobile C# Developer User Group. Mind you that this is not Ed Snider of the hockey world but a much cooler and tech friendly Ed Snider. Ed takes lead of the group most meetings as he’s the top notch developer…

  • Dell Venue 8 Pro Docking Solution

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    If you happen to have bought, received or won a Dell Venue 8 Pro then you’re probably familiar with some of the pain points when it comes to trying to use the micro USB port for anything other than charging. Our friends over at Plugable seem to have put together a solution in their Pro…

  • Azure Preview Services

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    If you’re using Azure in either a PaaS or IaaS capacity, you’ve probably come to realize that there’s quite a bit of opportunity to use the platform to meet requirements that you might have for your client engagements or internal organization needs. Keeping up to date on the platform can be difficult though – especially…

  • Office 365 Development Resource

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    Are you an Office 365 Developer? Do you feel like you’re not getting the information that you need? Have you stumbled across the Patterns and Practices site? Act now!!! https://github.com/OfficeDev – the home of the Office 365 Developer content that includes both Patterns and Practices information, MSDN information and training content. If you’re not familiar…

  • Microsoft Outlook for Mac for Office 365 Update

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    Extra! Extra! There’s an update available for the Microsoft Outlook for Mac for Office 365 update that might be of interest to individuals out there that are using the updated Outlook application on their Mac operating system device. All the details packaged up for you here – http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=45492 This update will take you to version…

  • DropBox and Office… Integration

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    So this just happened. http://blogs.office.com/2014/11/04/office-dropbox-work-together-phones-tablets-web/ https://blog.dropbox.com/2014/11/dropbox-microsoft-office-partnership/ http://news.microsoft.com/2014/11/04/microsoft-and-dropbox-announce-strategic-partnership-to-give-people-more-freedom-in-how-they-work-2/ So what’s this mean? Basically that you’ll be able to edit documents through Office Web Applications and Mobile Apps directly connected to DropBox. So if you’re already using DropBox for all of your document storage for your personal stuff, and you’re using OneDrive for Business for all of…