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UPDATE: Oct 11 2024 – Microsoft has moved the Microsoft 365 email quarantine to the new Microsoft 365 defender portal. Click HERE for the links and the details. ____________________________ If you are using Office365 email, you will periodically need to check the messages that Microsoft has flagged as ‘likely bad’ Read more
Sway is a fantastic starter program to build basic websites. It looks like a competitors web based version of PowerPoint. Sway is good enough to release to the public, but it is so basic that a friend of mine describes it as a version 0.9 even though it has been available for more than Read more
If you are trying to install a Solution into Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online Office 365 and see INSTALLATION FAILED or Error ID: ErrorOnAuthorizationCheck, there is a simple solution. This may be two problems and not one both of which you can work around easily. 1 – CRM – INSTALLATION FAILED error Read more
If you have ever deleted a SharePoint site from Office 365 or other SharePoint Online provider, you know that sometimes the sit around for a while. If you are trying to reuse the name of a site you recently deleted, this can be a problem. Fortunately the solution is to Read more
Microsoft has been tightening up security since… forever and the latest round affecting SharePoint Online can be befuddling. If you are trying to upload a .WSP solution to the Solutions Gallery you might see “Sorry, you don’t have access to this page” even if you are the administrator. If you click Read more
If you are using SharePoint hosted on Microsoft’s Office365 platform you might think that you cannot change the background wallpaper, but you can. Change the Wallpaper on SharePoint: Click the COG (top right corner of the screen) Click SITE SETTINGS Click CHANGE THE LOOK (under LOOK AND FEEL) Click the Read more
If you are finding that the ‘grammar check’ in Office products (Word, Outlook…) are pointing out more than you would like, you can adjust it. The latest version of Office 2016 offers two Grammar settings: GRAMMER Typical grammar checking GRAMMER AND MORE Typical grammar + things like “Wordiness” and “Vague Read more
If your Office 2016 ProPlus was installed using the Office Deployment Toolkit (ODT) then you may be not know what branch of Office you are using. Fortunately there are two easy ways to determine which Branch of Office 365 ProPlus your PC is using:
If you have Office365 Office 2016, by default you are running a product that is 4 months old. This is called the Deferred Channel. For a variety of good reasons you may want to change to the Current Channel: Testing Needing a new feature Needing to eliminate a bug that Read more
Office 2016 from Office365 will stay in the “Channel” it was installed with even if you change from Deferred to Current or Current to Deferred in Office365. There are three ways to force Office365 Office 2016 to change channels and I suggest using the third one. Uninstall and Reinstall Office Read more
If you want to disable Backstage View when saving in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, … you can set it with a Group Policy Object (GPO), a script or manually HOW TO DISABLE OFFICE BACKSTAGE MANUALLY: To disable the Backstage View manually, just click: FILE > OPTIONS > SAVE > and check “Don’t show Read more
If you have Office 2016 and you want to block your staff from easily saving content in the cloud, you can disable the SHARE button using the following Group Policy Object (GPO): User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> “Office Product Name” -> Disable Items in User Interface -> Custom -> Read more
UPDATE JANUARY 2020: SOLVED: Setup Office365ProPlus To Using Windows 10 Delivery Optimization ____________ There are three ways to patch Office 2016 from Office365 : What you can’t do is control Office365 updates through WSUS. Wait a minute, you say you saw a WSUS category named OFFICE365 CLIENT and the research says Read more
UPDATED: July 13 2017 If you are trying to install Office Pro Plus from Office 365 and you see “Your admin has turned off Office installs”, your Office365 administrator has likely turned off the ability for anyone to download Office. This can occur even if you do have a license Read more
If you have a program that appears in the Task Bar but not on any of your screens you likely have one of two problems. Fortunately both are easy to fix. PROGRAM IS RESTORED TO A POSITION ON A SCREEN YOU CANNOT SEE I have seen this occur in two Read more
If you are interested in Office365, we at Up & Running would love to talk to you directly. However, you can also: get a free 30 day Office 365 trial account for 25 people HERE. Note that whatever you setup in the trial can EASILY be moved into ‘production’ so Read more