Category: Office 365

Office 365

The future of Cloud Computing

If you give the Cloud a chance, you will clearly see the advantages of moving your entire business to a hosted, virtual environment. Even though, cloud computing has recently exploded and is gaining momentum, just like everything else that is new to the market; there is a user adoption curve stretched over the lifespan of

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The Cloud Office of Today

Okay, confession time:  this blog is late.  I usually publish my blogs on Friday’s and an endless number of things have gotten in my way.  However, the biggest thing that has gotten in my way is simply this:  Writer’s Block!  Oh yeah, good old Writer’s Block!  But then, recent events have brought me to thinking

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Highlights of Convergence 2012

The anticipation of my first Convergence had been building up since January.  Convergence is a gathering of Microsoft Dynamics users, partners and ISV’s who come from around the world to crash a city for a few days to learn more about the Microsoft Dynamics family of products and network with fellow business product users.  As

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The Future of Business Intelligence

Let us explore the future of Business Intelligence.  Last week I spoke about Windows 8 and it’s impact on computing.  However, let’s further explore the problems, yes problems, with Business Intelligence. Until today, Business Intelligence has been primarily provided by Hyperion, Cognos and other solutions.  Many years back, Microsoft introduced Microsoft Analysis Services.  However these

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Configuring CRM 2011 Email Router with Office 365

We were just migrated from Exchange Online to Office 365. Among the many things that had to be reconfigured to work with Office 365 was the Microsoft CRM 2011 Email Router. There were two distinct tasks. First, give permissions to the account that the Email Router uses to the various mail boxes that use the

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Dynamics CRM 2011 and SharePoint Online – Installing the List Component for Document Management

After completing our transition to Office 365, I was very excited to start using the integration between Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 (in the NjevityToGo cloud) with the SharePoint Online piece of Office 365 (in the Microsoft Cloud). This is a fantastic feature of Dynamics CRM and SharePoint that allows you to manage documents for an

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Setting up an Android Phone with Microsoft Office 365

To setup your Android Phone with your existing Office 365 email account using Exchange ActiveSync, follow these steps: From the Applications menu, select Email. This application may be named Mail on some versions of Android. Type your full e-mail address, for example tony@contoso.com, and your password, and then select Next.  Select Exchange account. This option

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Trouble installing Lync for Office 365

The setup program for Microsoft Lync will hang on some machines. If you open Task Manager you will see LyncSetup.exe sitting at 25% CPU. This is a known issue. Try downloading from: For x32 bit Operating System: http://c2r.microsoft.com/oconline/en-us/7577.280/x86/en-US/LyncSetup.exe For x64 bit Operating System: http://c2r.microsoft.com/oconline/en-us/7577.280/x64/en-US/LyncSetup.exe

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Setting up an Apple iPhone with Microsoft Office 365

To setup your iPhone with your existing Office 365 email account using Exchange ActiveSync, follow these steps: If this is the first e-mail account on this iPhone, iPad, or iTouch, tap Mail. Otherwise, tap Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Add Account.  Tap Microsoft Exchange.  Tap in the E-mail box and enter your full e-mail

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The Financial Case for The Cloud

In this blog entry, I want to take on the financial case for moving your business to the Cloud. First, let’s discuss what the Cloud is and what it isn’t in the context of business applications. According to NIST (National Institute of Science and Technology) “Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network

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