The Tech Blog of Dan Usher

Category: Office 365

  • How do I remove my domain name from Office 365?

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    So you have a proof of concept Office 365 instance and you realize that you want to take things to Production, but you also realize that you want to keep your POC tenant up and oeprational. Caveat, you went through and applied your Domain Name to your tenant thorugh another registrar.  How do you get…

  • Office 365 Group Management and Auto-Expiration Public Preview

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    If you’ve been working with Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies, you probably remember a utility that was made available as a part of SharePoint Server 2003 to automatically delete old site collections that hadn’t been worked with in a while. This was an incredibly helpful utility for system administrators that were watching their SharePoint systems…

  • Microsoft Teams and Internet Explorer

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    Recently I loaded up the Microsoft Teams app on my Windows 10 laptop and dealt with a minor issue where I was able to get to https://teams.microsoft.com quite easily when using Chrome or Firefox, but when trying to use Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 or Edge browser I was greeted with an endless loop of page…

  • Office 365 Groups and Outlook 2016 for Mac

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    Recently announced, hot off the press, Office 365 Groups are coming to Outlook 2016 for Mac!  More about this and what the scope of this release is yonder on the Outlook for Mac Insights blog on 2 March 2017 titled “Support for Groups in Outlook for Mac.” Caveat, this is by way of the Insider…

  • Wondering why to shift to Office 365…

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    So you’re a consultant that’s getting familiar with Office 365, having come from something like SharePoint or Exchange or perhaps Skype for Business on-premises and you think to yourself, “This platform probably has some limitations…. I can tune my back end storage to be performant… and my users are generally happy though we keep running…

  • Office 365 URLs and IP Addresses

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    Are you “the IT person” for your organization? Do you find your users complaining from time to time that the user experience for Office 365 doesn’t work the way that they anticipate that it should? Do they talk about timeouts or error messages popping up stating a component can be loaded? Have you checked your…

  • Setting up an Office 365 E3 Tenant…

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    If you’re like me and you find yourself needing to spin up an Office 365 E3 tenant on a regular basis for demonstration purposes, head on over to Office.com and eventually after poking around you’ll eventually come to the a page that describes all of the plans. From there, select the Enterprise plans and you’ll…

  • SharePoint Users Group of DC

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    This past week I had the pleasure of presenting at the SharePoint Users Group of DC. They’re a terrific group that meets in the McLean / Tyson’s Corner area of Northern Virginia. The focus of the group meeting was to discuss the benefits and gotchas of utilizing Office 365, primarily around SharePoint Online capabilities but…

  • 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…