Office 365, SharePoint, Azure, OnePlace Solutions & Life's Other Little Wonders
Over the years, I’ve come to rely heavily on Microsoft To Do as my daily task manager. It’s simple, it syncs across devices, and it integrates nicely with the rest of Microsoft 365. But like many tools we use every day, it has its limits—and I recently ran headfirst into one. I had accumulated thousands... Continue Reading →
14 October 2025 is a big day when it comes to the Microsoft Office Add-ins world. It marks not only the official retirement of Windows 10, but also the end of support on by Microsoft on various other Office related products including Office 2016, Office 2019, Exchange Server 2016, Exchange Server 2019. Here's many of... Continue Reading →
Azure DevOps has some built-in mechanisms to notify people on build and pipeline events. These are quite restrictive however and don't give you control over the format of the message, method of delivery (just email) or the filtering that you might want as to when to trigger the notification. For me I'm really interested in... Continue Reading →
I presented a session this week at the Digital Workplace Conference in New Zealand that landed really well according to the feedback I've received following the session. Most of the feedback revolved around the common thread that people are being bombarded with high level messaging around AI, Copilots and the benefits it could bring, the... Continue Reading →
Now that New Outlook for Windows has gone into Generally Availability (1 Aug 2024) Microsoft have provided new and updated material to assist in many areas of planning and migrating users, here's a roundup of the some really useful links to official Microsoft guides and documentation. Migration Kit- Migration Guide- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)- Sample... Continue Reading →
Now that New Outlook for Windows has gone into General Availability many organisations will be looking at how they will evaluate and control the deployment/migration of users from Classic Outlook to New Outlook. Some new resources have been made available to help here: Plan your migration to new Outlook for Windows Microsoft has provided several... Continue Reading →
Microsoft reached the General Availability (GA) milestone for New Outlook for Windows on 1 August 2024. Moving a product from Preview to General Availability means a few things in the eyes of Microsoft: Microsoft does not recommend Preview products for production use, but once it goes GA that is Microsoft saying it is now ready... Continue Reading →
The purpose of this article is to clarify the changes being made to Outlook for users on Windows and what we can expect to see as these changes progress. Firstly let's do a quick lap around the different Microsoft Mail clients on Windows. Mail & Calendar App This is the free Mail & Calendar App... Continue Reading →
It has been an amazing and rewarding week for me as Microsoft MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals) and RDs (Regional Directors) travelled from all corners of the world to gather at the Microsoft Redmond Campus for an intense week of knowledge sharing, direct engagement with product teams and Microsoft leadership, providing feedback, sharing vision and discussing... Continue Reading →
With Microsoft 365 Copilot becoming generally available in recent months and this being the first major Microsoft conference in Australia for several years the attendance was high (I believe the last big Microsoft conference in Sydney was pre-COVID with the Ignite Tour in 2019). Rumour has it the tickets were capped at 5,000 and it... Continue Reading →
Cameron Dwyer 