The Tech Blog of Dan Usher

Tag: Office 365

  • Come to the dark side…

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    It’s been a fairly light week after all the news pouring out from the Consumer Electronics Show, but a few highlights of interest. It would seem that Andrew Connell has finally come back to the dark side with the procurement of a MacBook Pro. Funny enough that he’s got a similar logo on his MBP…

  • Patch Tuesday – January 2014

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    A few quick bits of information for today that might be of interest to those of you working with the Microsoft Stack. Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for January 2014 Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Word and Office Web Apps Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2916605) If you dig into the KB2916605, it’s labelled as important, not critical…

  • SPSEvents – Virginia Beach 2014

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    Well, it’s 2014 and you all know what that means… SPSEvents presents SharePoint Saturday Virginia Beach at the Tidewater Community College ATC. This was the sixth year for the event and the community was great! It’s been interesting to have attended several of the SPSVB events over the years and see them continue to refine,…

  • Office 365 Security

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    So recently in the download center for Microsoft the Office 365 Security document popped up as being published on 3/7/2013… not quite certain if there were any changes since Microsoft still doesn’t maintain standardization around documents, the download center and change logs, the document was published back in June 2011. If you’ve not read this…

  • Office 365 and Lync for Mac

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    Recently I started doing a little usability testing of SharePoint Online within Office 365 with my MacBook Pro running Mac OSX Lion (10.7.3) and figured, “While I’m here, why not pop open the Lync client to be able to keep in touch with colleagues working on solutions?” So I double tapped the command button to…

  • Microsoft Office 365–A Closed Cloud

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    A few months ago on 19 October 2010, there was a news media event announcing Microsoft Office 365, the revolutionary service from Microsoft that would provide small business and enterprises to move to a services hosted infrastructure in what is loosely termed, “The Cloud.” In fact it was so fast moving, the DNS registration hadn’t…