The Tech Blog of Dan Usher

Category: Office 365

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Office 365 Customers to receive Unlimited OneDrive Storage

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    So this was rather unexpected… or perhaps I just hadn’t read the writing on the wall as Microsoft takes a cue from competitors to up their cloud storage offering. Starting with Home, Personal and Education Office 365 accounts, Microsoft will be offering unlimited storage for OneDrive for Office 365 customers. It would seem that this…

  • SharePoint Online Service Descriptions – Hidden Gem

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    TL; dr – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dn788955

  • Office 365 Service Descriptions

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    TL; dr – http://www.office365sd.com

  • SPS Events – Baltimore 2014

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    It’s surprising how quickly time passes when you plunge yourself into the world of technology. Nevertheless, SPS Events Baltimore was a great success – especially considering the competition of the Preakness Stakes up yonder in Baltimore proper. This year we were at the Anne Arundel Community College Campus just north of Annapolis, MD. As Rob…

  • Seeing through the sensationalism…

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    I do have to say that it cracks me up seeing authors try to spin different information from a non-technical perspective to explain things to consumers rather than just stating, “Hey, it’s a service that already exists, they’re just allowing you to buy it separately.” In this case it’s an article on CMSWire on the…

  • SharePoint Online versus On-Premise (v15)

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    If you’re looking for a comparison of the SharePoint Online offering that’s a part of Office 365 broken down by product SKU with what is provided for with SharePoint 2013 Enterprise for your on-premise implementations, you can! Microsoft released this in the form of an Excel Web App as a link off of the SharePoint…

  • Office 365 Cmdlets

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    Much of the documentation out there for Microsoft Office 365 (books, blog articles, etc.) still seem to reference “Microsoft Online Services Module for Windows PowerShell”. If you try to go to this page to pull down such cmdlets, you’re going to be a little let down. They’ve been pushed into the Azure AD Cmdlets to…