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  • Claim your OneDrive Storage – Act Now

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    Friends, Countrymen, lend me your ears! Or in this case your eyes. A few months back, Microsoft announced that they were changing the storage capacity for OneDrive consumer users. No longer would it be unlimited storage but rather capped at certain amounts for Office 365 users. For those individuals that were using OneDrive for free,…

  • ShareGate and Snowzilla…

    ShareGate and Snowzilla…

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    For anyone curious, yes, Northern Virginia got a decent amount of snow (it’s still snowing outside) as a part of what the Capital Weather Gang from the Washington Post refers to as “Snowzilla.” So on my seventh time going and digging snow out, I noticed my Columbia insulated hat was still sopping wet, so what…

  • Microsoft Ignite 2016

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    Just in case you missed the announcement over on the Microsoft Company News Site or on the Microsoft Twitter MS Ignite account, Microsoft Ignite will be taking place in Atlanta, GA in September 2016. Pre-Registration seems to have opened up to lock in a lower rate (woot!), available over at https://microsoft.eventcore.com/Ignite2016. I’m pretty excited about…

  • Whoa… Office 2016 is coming…

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    So just when you got used to Office 2013, boom, Office 2016 is hitting the streets as of 22 September 2015. This was announced yonder on the Microsoft Office blog – pretty darn cool. https://blogs.office.com/2015/09/10/admins-get-ready-for-office-2016-rollout-begins-september-22/ Be sure to check out the Microsoft Cloud Roadshow taking place in November… https://microsoftcloudroadshow.com/cities

  • Reclaiming some space… bye bye Windows 8.1

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    So Microsoft released Windows 10 to the world back on 29 July. Many of us went ahead and pressed that upgrade button. And then we all wondered where 20 GB went. The upgrade process to Windows 10 actually allows you to revert back to a previous version of Windows – you probably noticed you had…

  • SharePoint Saturday NYC 2015

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    Another year, another July trip to New York City for SharePoint Saturday NYC. It’s like clockwork the way these folks run these events – great crew of organizers. I’m really looking forward to engaging with attendees and hearing their ideas during the session I’m presenting. It’s been two years since I’ve had the pleasure of…

  • Office DevCamps

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    The other day while recording Episode 15 of Brewery.fm with Scott Hoag, I remembered something that was tweeted about during //Build and that I’d received an email about earlier in the day as well – Office DevCamp. So we included it in the show and hoped that folks would consider checking it out – it’s a…

  • SPS DC Chevy Chase – Summer 2015

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    So for the past few years, myself and a few friends have been running the SharePoint Saturday Events DC events. As a part of these events we strive to improve upon each event to try to cater to the needs of the community and to help provide a setting for folks to come to an…

  • Good morning Ignite!

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    So one of my podcasts that I catch every morning is the Marketplace Tech podcast – interesting little bits of information that are shared that sometimes are random and sometimes are highly pertinent. This morning they had part one of a miniseries of conversations with Satya Nadella discussing the Ignite conference and the role of…

  • Brewery.fm – E13 – Bananas and Battleships

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    This week Scott Hoag and I covered a ton of the announcements from the first day of the Microsoft Build conference as well as getting up to speed with other recent announcements when it comes to Azure, Office 365 and even the Apple Watch. Several different topics have come up in the community recently comparing…