It is difficult to understand what Microsoft if offering these days. It was hard enough when there was just Office 365 with the E1 E3 and E5 packages but today Microsoft is offering 3 different bundles (Office, Windows & Microsoft) each with their own E1 E3 and E5 sub-bundles. What Read more…
If you are a Microsoft Partner and you are reselling services like Office 365 (cloud partner) it is quite hard to find a list of ALL clients you have. It has bothered me for years that in portal.office365.com > PARTNER > CLIENTS I do not see all of my customers. Read more…
If you are using Office365 email, you will periodically need to check the messages that Microsoft has flagged as ‘likely bad’ and moved into a special Quarantine folder. The Quarantine is on the Microsoft Office365 mail servers and NOT visible from Outlook or even webmail. To see the Office365 quarantine 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: In the Registry look at: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\office\16.0\common\officeupdate Read more…
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…
UPDATE JANUARY 2020: SOLVED: Setup Office365ProPlus To Using Windows 10 Delivery Optimization ____________ There are three ways to patch Office 2016 from Office365 : Automatically from Microsoft through their “Content Delivery Network” (default) Using a distribution point that you update periodically Using System Center that pulls its updates from the 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 ever not received an email that you know was sent but did not bounce back to the sender, it might be that the backend server has marked it for deletion and put in the Quarentine. Microsoft, and all good companies, have email filtering that saves you from Read more…
If you are attaching files from your Office365 Onedrive Sharepoint cloud storage using Outlook 2016 you will find that it provides a lovely drop down showing you your recently edited files. If you select files from that list and they are stored on OneDrive / SharePoint what it will actually Read more…
If you are sick of seeing the “cars and connect” page for Microsoft logins, good news! You can now customize and brand the log in page if you have a corporate Office365 or Azure account. To be clear, if you have a corporate Office365 account then you have a corporate Read more…
In a word, no. I have spent several days trying to find a clear answer the to this question in white papers, blogs and even MS Partner Support. I think Microsoft will offer this service in the not so distant future because it just makes sense to. Using the Office 365 Feedback link Read more…
If you have ever wanted to report your spam directly to Microsoft so that they can block future emails using their FOPE (Forefront Online Protection Services), Forefront For Exchange or just the basic Junk mail filter in Outlook, this is the post for you. Reporting spam to Microsoft is useful Read more…
We offer completely free 30 day trials (truly no strings attached) for these services to anyone who asks: For the $4 Exchange email or the $2 per month Web Mail only, please contact us directly to send you an invitation. For the $6 Exchange email and Lync (instant messaging, video Read more…
Up & Running sells and supports Office 365 products. If you want prices for Office 365 STAND ALONE APPS (i.e. I just want Exchange… not Exchange with Sharepoint): surf to www.office365.com click GET OFFICE365 click ADDITIONAL SERVICES The screen shots below will be helpful in explaining some of the new Read more…