James Marshall

Category: Microsoft 365

  • How To Automatically flag negative emails in Office 365 using Microsoft Flow

    Find out how to automatically flag negatively worded emails in Office 365 using Microsoft Flow and Microsoft Cognitive Services.

  • How To Weed out long paths easily ahead of a OneDrive for Business migration

    You know exactly what’s happened as soon as you see it. That pesky error. One of your users has managed to create a directory structure so long courtesy of a sneaky mapped drive and now you’re unable to do anything with it; least of all get it synchronising with OneDrive for Business. If only there […]

  • What is Office 365 Customer Lockbox?

    Moving data to the cloud is, for many people, still a big deal. One of the most common concerns is over who has access to your data when it’s in the cloud. In this post, I’ll explain what Office 365 Customer Lockbox is, and how it can help address that concern.

  • Top 5 Office 365 Help Resources

    It’s fair to say that there is a lot of online content to do with Office 365. Whether it’s direct from Microsoft, from a Microsoft partner, blogger, or customer there are endless pages about all aspects of the service. It’s sometimes hard to nail down some of the most useful, up to date, or trustworthy. […]

  • Office 365 ProPlus Upgrade

    One of the biggest innovations Office 365 has to offer is the ability to deliver an always-up-to-date Office client experience to Windows and Mac desktops. In the past, we’ve always had versions of Office from version 1.0 in 1990, all the way up to 2016 (version 16.0) in 2015, and the responsibility for upgrading and […]

  • Skype for Business – Frequently Asked Questions

    In the spirit of sharing things I learn as I go about my daily business, I thought it would be a good idea to write up answers to some common questions I get about Skype for Business.

  • Changes to Office 365 Offer Names

    Office 365, as a suite of services, has a number of different “packages” or SKUs that it uses to bundle services together at different price bands so that customers have flexibility over how much they consume of their cloud services. Office 365 broke these into different tracks based on whether you were an enterprise, a […]

  • Deploying Office 365 Education? You don’t need single sign-on, and here’s why!

    TL;DR? Providing highly available single sign-on to cloud solutions can be a complex thing to do. The most successful deployments keep things simple, and work up. In most cases, there are better, quicker, and more cost effective ways to simplify access for students and teachers. There are a number of ways to provide access to […]

  • How To Configure Regional Settings For All Users In Live@edu

    When students and teachers first log in to their Live@edu accounts they are presented with a screen asking them to select their regional settings. They’ll only see this screen once; however, many administrators do not want to give their students (and teachers!) the choice to pick the wrong locale! In fact, if they pick the wrong language it might […]

  • How To Automatically Configure Microsoft Outlook For Live@edu

    Microsoft Live@edu offers every student and teacher Outlook Web Access as a method of accessing their email in a branded, web-based environment. This is great because it means users can gain access to their information from practically any web-enabled device with a browser. In a school environment it may be beneficial for students and teachers […]