Weather forecast in Outlook 2013
Just a quick post to cover off a nice feature in Outlook 2013. Above the calendar you can view a weather forecast for up to five locations – your choice, and they can be selected from a drop-down list. Okay, …
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Tasks for teams in SharePoint 2013
Earlier in what is rapidly becoming ‘SharePoint September’ I discussed some of the new task management capabilities in SharePoint 2013. That awfully nice chap Alan Lepofsky then asked whether SharePoint 2013’s task management was focused on individual users rather …
Managing your tasks with SharePoint 2013
SharePoint sites can contain a lot of ‘stuff’ – document libraries, workflow, discussions, business intelligence and dashboards, composite applications… and tasks. People set up SharePoint sites to co-ordinate teams and to manage projects, so tasks can play an important part …
SharePoint 2013 – SkyDrive Pro and sharing
SharePoint 2013 introduces a new model for personal file sharing, namely SkyDrive Pro. Users of SharePoint 2010 will probably be familiar with the document management capabilities of their own MySite, and SkyDrive Pro is an evolution of this. However, there …
Microsoft SharePoint 2013
Please note that this post refers to a preview edition of SharePoint 2013 – features and functionality may change before the product ships.
Over the next few weeks I’ll be covering some of the new capabilities in Microsoft SharePoint 2013. …
Microsoft Surface
If you’re this side of the Atlantic and went to bed at a sensible hour last night, you’ll have missed the ‘live’ coverage of the announcement of Microsoft Surface. I say “live”, as live as a live blog with …
Keep calm and deploy unified communications
If you live in the UK, you may have noticed the trend for merchandise based on the old Keep Calm And Carry On propaganda poster produced by the British government in 1939. Indeed, on at my desk at home my …
Anywhere Working
A couple of weeks ago Microsoft launched the Anywhere Working initiative in conjunction with Business in the Community, Vodafone, Transport for London, Nokia, Regus and Nuffield Health. This group initiative is designed to demonstrate to businesses and individuals how much …
A tale of two clouds
Just a quick one, a blog post about another blog post – Binary Tree’s Henry Bestritsky explains why his company left the Google Enterprise Partner program and threw its full weight behind Exchange upgrades and migrations to Office 365. The …
Using Visio for process simulation and optimisation
My previous blog post about Visio focused on integration with SharePoint, but now I’m going to take a look at using Visio for simulating and optimising business processes. Just about everyone knows that Visio allows you to map out workflow …
Visio 2010 – Microsoft’s best-kept secret?
While I was having lunch with Eileen and Tim from GSX today (nice to see you both, and Tim, congratulations on the new job) the conversation turned to Visio 2010. There was no surprise about the popularity of the product, …
Outlook 2010 mail tips
It’s now been five weeks since I became an Outlook user. After nineteen years of using Notes I slipped into it pretty well… yes, there’s a few Notes features I miss, but there’s a big heap of Outlook features that …