Office 365, SharePoint, Azure, OnePlace Solutions & Life's Other Little Wonders
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 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 →
I wanted to shine the spotlight on this annual competition run by Microsoft as I've personally found it to be so inspiring, giving me confidence that upcoming generations of creative, problem-solving technical innovators have the mindset and ambition to solve the world's biggest issues. This year's competition had a focus of "AI for Good" and... Continue Reading →
I know I should be doing something a little more productive than this, but hey it's the holiday season and little LEGO MVP me needs to unwind too 🎄 Wishing you all a very happy, healthy and successful 2019. Pretty sure I'm not the only one who's gone down this rabbit hole...
Cameron Dwyer 