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Browsers Microsoft 365 Microsoft Teams SharePoint UI and UX

Keyboard Shortcuts in SharePoint & Teams

Keyboard shortcuts are built into Microsoft Teams and, to an extent to SharePoint Online. This is a useful list of them.

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Best Practice Cloud Compliance Microsoft 365

To Backup or Not to Backup? That really is the question.

The question of whether you need backup when everything is in the cloud continues to prompt debate. The debate continues here. Some light has been shed…

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Best Practice Branding Content management Intranet SharePoint

Give your intranet some personality

Intranets should be engaging as well as functional; it’s often useful for them to have a personality and a name that resonates. Picking a name needs some thought. This blog should help with that.

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Best Practice Collaboration Identity Microsoft 365 Microsoft Teams Remote Meetings

Message of Doom (aka multi-tenant meeting troubles) in Teams

When creating a Teams meeting from Outlook you will, at some point, experience the “When the meeting starts, we’ll let people know you’re waiting” message of doom. Learn to avoid it here.

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Cloud Intranet Microsoft 365 Microsoft Office Microsoft Teams OneDrive SharePoint

Does SharePoint have a desktop app?

There is no desktop application for SharePoint. However there is a lot of SharePoint loveliness you can do on the desktop, including making a SharePoint site in a browser appear to be a desktop app.

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AI Business Cloud Cognitive Services Remote Meetings Technology Thoughts and Musings

Future Thinking – Digitalisation

Short thoughts on what Digitialisation means at a personal and business level

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Browsers Business Cloud Compliance Content management Microsoft Microsoft 365 OneDrive Regionalisation SharePoint UI and UX

Not so Friendly; getting to grips with regional settings in Microsoft 365

If you want your dates to be regionally approproiate, don’t expect the Regional settings in Microsoft 365 to help that much. Some things aren’t as friendly as they appear…

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Microsoft 365 Mobile apps Tesla

Tesla Calendar sync: Outlook -> Google Calendar -> Tesla

Calendar integration on Tesla cars is a great idea, unless you use Outlook on Android. Here is a workaround

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AI Cognitive Services Innovation Microsoft Microsoft 365 Microsoft Office

Transcribe: More talking, better words

Microsoft has just announced a new Transcription feature in Word. I tested it and found it was good

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Best Practice Collaboration Content management Intranet Microsoft 365

OneDrive for Business – Why and How

As the Microsoft 365 (M365) suite gets inexorably broader and more capable there are increasing amounts of overlap between some elements, such as file storage and collaboration. This article discusses where and how to use OneDrive for Business in the mix.

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AI Browsers Cognitive Services Computers and Internet Innovation UI and UX

More Human Digital Humans

Even better text to voice has quietly appeared. Try it, you might be able to give your eyes a rest.

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Best Practice Browsers Microsoft Teams Thoughts and Musings

You can’t be in two places at once, except…

Teams is great for focus. Teams is bad for multitasking. Get the best of both worlds with this not-too-techie tip