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Register now for a Special PRE-Ignite Presentation of Office 365 Pulse with Jennifer Ann Mason and Thomas Duff
October 4, 2016 @ 9am PDT, 12:00pm EDT, 17:00 BST & 18:00 CEST

Register Here: https://www.itunity.com/session/office-365-pulse-special-preignite-presentation-3593

Office 365 Pulse - Special Pre-Ignite Presentation Ignite is typically Microsoft’s biggest event of the year, and this year will be no different! With so much going on, you definitely want to head into Ignite with a solid plan to ensure that you are

Register now for a Special POST-Ignite Presentation of Office 365 Pulse with Jennifer Ann Mason and Thomas Duff
September 21, 2016 @ 9am PDT, 12:00pm EDT, 17:00 BST & 18:00 CEST

Register Here: https://www.itunity.com/session/office-365-pulse-special-postignite-presentation-3594

Office 365 Pulse - Special Post-Ignite Presentation After getting hit with a firehose of information at Ignite, it’s time to return to the office and try to make sense of it all. Join co-hosts Jennifer Ann Mason and Tom Duff for this special Post

Yesterday Microsoft announced support for guest access for Office 365 Groups. Exchange MVP Tony Redmond has been working with the feature for over a month and wrote this comprehensive article about how it works, which features are (and are not yet) supported, and some great insight (and code snippets) for how IT pros can control it in their tenant. Microsoft's collaboration story in Office 365 Groups is expanding fast. If you use Office 365 Groups, this article is worth your time to read.

External Access for Office 365 Groups - Petri Microsoft has put a huge amount of emphasis on Office 365 Groups as the basis for team-based collaboration for its cloud service. Collaboration often requires input from external people and that hasn’t been possible until now. The announcement of external user support for Office 365 Groups is welcom...

Do you work with colleagues who don't quite get how SharePoint version history works? Matt's article offers a very clear explanation of the details that any SharePoint user will understand. Pass this on to a colleague.

The Absolute Basics of SharePoint Version History Matt offers a great detailed overview of how SharePoint version history works. If you or a colleague are confused about how this feature works, this article explains it.

Do you just want a clean spreadsheet, free of formatting by others so you can focus on the numbers? Excel makes it easy. Here's a great productivity tip for from Office guru, Thomas Duff .

Removing formatting from an Excel spreadsheet Have you ever received an Excel spreadsheet from someone, and it's loaded with comments, conditional formatting, and a lot of other things that you just don't need for your purposes? There's a menu

SharePoint engineer Daniel Laskewitz shares his article on how to use Microsoft Flow to create a workflow to connect SharePoint Online and perform actions in Wunderlist (give feedback). SharePoint users will love how Microsoft Flow makes simple actions easy.

Gather Feedback from a SharePoint List and Add It as a Wunderlist Task with Microsoft Flow Microsoft Flow, currently in preview, is an awesome tool to create simple workflows with great impact. In this how-to article, Daniel shows how to use Microsoft Flow and Wunderlist to create a

Remember when dBASE was at the top of the desktop database pyramid? Apparently there is still a significant amount of data in that format because Microsoft Access customers want to get to it.

Microsoft Is Bringing Back dBASE File Support in Access for Office 365 Customers Microsoft Access customers will either be pleased or amused that Microsoft is bringing back dBASE file support in Access for Office 365 customers.

A very insightful article by Exchange MVP Tony Redmond, shared from our sister site, Petri.

Moving Legacy Archives to Office 365 Is Painful - Petri Migration of legacy archives like Enterprise Vault are often left as the last part of the journey from on-premises servers to Office 365. A wide range of third-party migration tools are available, but many complex twists and turns await the unwary as they cope with journal reports, archive mailboxes...

If you find yourself searching the web for special characters to paste into a document, spreadsheet or presentation, this handy tip from Office productivity guru Tom Duff will help you find the symbol in Office. Plus, you'll see a shortcut key to memorize so it's even faster the next time.

How to insert symbols and special characters in Word When you're creating a Word document, you sometimes need to insert a symbol that doesn't show up on your keyboard. Maybe you're typing a finance article, and you need the symbol for the English Pound

Microsoft Rebrands Office 365 Network as the Microsoft Tech Community On September 2, 2016, Anna Chu, a community manager from the Office 365 Network at Microsoft, posted an announcement that the network is rebranding as the Microsoft Tech Community, and confirms that

When generating a new SharePoint Framework developer preview project using the SharePoint Yeoman generator, you can automatically add a new web part. There's a bug adding a second web part, but SharePoint MVP Waldek Mastykarz offers this workaround.

How to Add a Second Web Part to a SharePoint Framework Project When generating a new SharePoint Framework developer preview project using the SharePoint Yeoman generator, you can automatically add a new web part. There's a bug adding a second web part, but here's