After working on a file for a few months I found this message: Office365 Sorry, We Couldn’t Open FILE NAME Word Excel PowerPoint The error did not appear when trying to open the file using the Word WebApp, but did appear when trying to open the file using the full […]
If you are new to licensing Microsoft products you are no doubt overwhelmed by the similarity of names Microsoft uses for its cloud products. In someway all of these relate to what the industry calls VDI or Virtual Desktop Infrastructure and we have creates a free 30 minute “Zero to […]
This is the “How Can I See the User/Member/Email addresses in a Dynamic Distribution Group” segment from our larger explanation of what Dynamic Distribution Lists are in Office 365 Hosted Exchange, How to Create and Manage an Office 365 Dynamic Distribution List, and How To Display The Users in Dynamic […]
If you have ever worked on Dynamic Distribution Lists (aka Dynamic Distribution Groups) in a hosted Exchange environment like Office 365, you will know that there is no method of listing the users emails in that distribution group, inside the Exchange web console. In the video below we explain: What […]
If you had an Office product (like Visio or Project) installed with a license key and a different Office product licensed by an email address (like most corporate deployments of Office365), your Office may error out with: “we ran into a problem while trying to install the product key 0x80070005 […]
If you are an admin of the Office 365 tenant, you can easily add more licenses for Office, Visio, Project, BI, CRM or anything else and then assign them to your users. surf to admin.microsoft.com (which I always get to via portal.office.com so I don’t want to remember all of […]
If you work with Exchange you know that there is no way to search for email alias using the console. That can be very frustrating when you need to assign an alias to someone and Exchange Online tells you it is already in use. (We have the instructions for How […]
If you have Office365 ProPlus (aka Office 2016/2019) you will know that it updates constantly. Originally patches were released weekly but from 2018 one they are released monthly. To be clear, Office365 Pro Plus patches are released on the second Tuesday of each month (aka Patch Tuesday), just like Windows […]
We explain how to find and install the latest Office365 GPO Templates into your Active Directory. We also explain: Office365 templates are suffixed with “16” which is very confusing to many. Microsoft decided to end their GPO file naming with Office 2016, so Office 2016, Office 2019 and Office 365 […]
MyAnalytics was an Office 365 E5 feature intended to help staff make better use of their time by applying Artificial Intelligence to the data the Microsoft collects on users. That feature was added to those with E3 contracts in the summer of 2019. By September 2019 many users were receiving […]
If you are trying to make changes to Office365 using PowerShell you are likely to need the list of services. As of November 15, 2019 the Office365 services list from an E3 and the PowerShell command to generate it is: PS C:\Windows\system32> (Get-MsolUser -UserPrincipalName “<upn – likely the email address>”).Licenses.ServiceStatus.serviceplan|select […]
If you send email to a distribution group that is running off an Office365 Hosted Exchange account that is running in Hybrid mode with your on-premise Exchange server, the email may never be received. The email happily shows in SENT folder, has no errors or email bounces, and if you […]
If you are setting your Office 365 email on a tablet, iphone, Android cell or any device that is not part of your corporate network you may see: “Need admin approval Email Email needs permission to access resources in your organization that only an admin can grant. Please ask an […]
If you are using Office 365 Microsoft Bookings and want to setp payments processing to PayPal Stripe, this video will show you how. Microsoft Bookings will take payments are available in Canada, the United States and Mexico today but will be global in the coming months. Set up The Office […]
If BOOKINGS is not available to you in your Office365 E3 or E5 account, this video will show you how to enable it. Microsoft has changed its licensing model and removed Bookings as a default service. It is now a zero dollar add-on so MS Bookings is free but you […]
PROBLEM: For several years we have uninstalled Office using a command like: \\cal-s2\office365$\Office365ProPlus\setup.exe /uninstall ProPlus /config \\cal-s2\office365$\uninstall-Office365ProPlus.xml but it now errors out with: Office Deployment Tool SETUP [mode] [path] SETUP /download [path to configuration file] SETUP /configure [path to configuration file] SETUP /packager [path to configuration file] [output path] SETUP /customize […]