26Sep
12Sep
So you CAN use Office 365 click-to-run with volume licensing Project/Visio after all
Came across this little gem today: Use the Office Deployment Tool to install volume licensed editions of Visio 2016 and Project 2016. This has been an annoyance for years now. If you had installed the "Click-to-Run" versions of Office 365, then you would be blocked from installing the "traditional" flavors of Project...
23Jun
Migrating File Shares from SBS to Office 365 SharePoint Online
When it comes to file shares, you have a choice to make. Whether you are coming from Windows Small Business Server, or one of the other releases (Essentials, Standard, Datacenter, etc.), you must decide: Do you want to continue to use traditional file shares, or are you going to use SharePoint...
20Jun
Migrating Companyweb from SBS to Office 365 SharePoint Online
Microsoft Windows Small Business Server comes with a watered-down implementation of SharePoint called Companyweb (or WSS). Whether you are migrating from a full-blown SharePoint environment on-premises or the basic Windows Server-included Windows SharePoint Services, you are going to have to come to terms with one major migration hurdle: Microsoft provides no real migration tools or...
05May
How to teach yourself PowerShell using ISE
There is no reason to be afraid of PowerShell. I know a lot of IT generalists out there have avoided learning it, or, when they do run into a situation where it is required (since not everything is exposed to the GUI interfaces these days), they steal a snippet from...
28Apr