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 →
Notifying a Teams Channel on Azure DevOps Pipeline events
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 →
Unlocking AI: Automating Microsoft 365 with Copilot Agents
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 →
How to control/block/prevent usage of New Outlook for Windows
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 →
New Outlook for Windows is Generally Available (now a supported MS product)
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 →
Microsoft AI Tour Sydney
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 →
Developer Sessions at Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon Conference
I'll be giving two developer oriented sessions at the free Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon conference May 4-6 2022. Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon is a free, online, 60-hour event happening May 4-6, 2022. We will have content going the whole time with speakers from around the globe. This event is free for all wanting to attend.... Continue Reading →
4 tips for writing well structured & simple to navigate Microsoft Word documents
It struck me recently when collaborating on documents that we all go about creating documents differently and there's some great time saving features Word has to make navigating and restructuring your document fast and simple that you might be missing out on. Often when I start writing a document I try to break the document... Continue Reading →
How to Setup Teams & Microsoft 365 for Streamlined Knowledge Sharing Sessions (aka Lunch & Learn or Brown Bag)
Knowledge Sharing Sessions If you've found this article then you are probably familiar with the term Brown Bag sessions (or one of the other creative names used for these types of meetings). Typically these are small group, informal training and learning sessions where each session focuses on a particular topic with the aim to share... Continue Reading →
Here’s where the Office Add-in manifest files are cached locally for Desktop Office Apps
When a user acquires an Office Add-in from the store (for Windows Desktop version of Office), a copy of the add-in manifest file is cached locally. Often during troubleshooting it is helpful to be able to verify exactly which version of the manifest is being used, or even inspect the content of the manifest file.... Continue Reading →