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Let’s face it, time is our scarcest resource. None of us wants to waste it, particularly not on mundane tasks that pop up both in our professional and personal lives. So how can we minimise the time we waste and spend more time doing the things we enjoy? Technology is the answer. We live in … Read more10 Productivity and Life Hacking Tips for 2018
As a first timer at a Microsoft conference, I was very excited about the 4 day event held in Sydney at ICC. Being a Microsoft event, I was expecting big things and true to expectations, Microsoft delivered in a big way. Beginning with a keynote speech from Dr. Brian Cox which was both interesting and … Read moreMicrosoft Summit 2017 #MSFTSummit
This week I was lucky enough to head on tour with rhipe for their Cloud Roadshow as a partner spotlight in Sydney and Brisbane. At each event, I spoke for 5 minutes on my experience working with rhipe as a CSP partner and highlighted the benefits over other distributors in the channel. I also talked … Read morerhipe Cloud Roadshow
First things first, what is Calendar.help? Calendar.help does one thing really well: schedule your meetings. With the speed of artificial intelligence and the personal touch of a human assistant, Calendar.help takes care of business. To be a little more precise, Calendar.help is an automated way for Office 365 users to schedule meetings. It eliminates the … Read moreCalendar.help is freaking.amazing
If you ask most people how they manage document templates such as company letterheads, proposals, quotes or any other business document the typical answer is usually along the lines of ‘find an old one, copy and paste into a new one’. Over time, this can lead to an unwanted evolutionary effect on the document template, which … Read moreConsistent document templates with SharePoint
With the Office 365 syndication program end date (30/6/17) fast approaching finally here, most of our syndicated Office 365 tenants in Telstra Apps Marketplace have transitioned to CSP. This is great news for CSP partners as it enables us to move customers to other providers such as Rhipe without migration tools and enjoy the benefits of CSP … Read moreHow To: Migrate Telstra Office 365 Clients to CSP
Earlier this year I set myself some running goals which included running at 20 unique Australian Parkrun locations, reaching a total of 50 Parkruns and running a sub 19 PB. Not longer after setting these goals, I realised I could use Power BI to visually track my progress and get acquainted with one of Office 365’s … Read moreTracking Parkrun goals with Power BI
Here in the land down under, Office 365 was initially only available to partners via syndication through a large telco called Telstra. Tenancies under syndicated licensing are limited in several ways, for example they cannot use PSTN Conferencing with Skype for Business. Telstra have announced that syndicated tenants will be moved to across to CSP, … Read moreChecking for Telstra syndication using PowerShell
At Axiom IT, we manage close to a hundred Office 365 tenants. Occasionally, we need to run a set of Powershell commands against each tenant, for example, when conducting a licensing audit. As you can imagine, doing this individually on each tenant would be a very time consuming exercise. Luckily, PowerShell provides us with a way … Read morePowershell for Office 365 Delegated Admins
Every couple of years Microsoft release a new version of Office, the desktop suite comprising of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. Powerful business productivity tools that we’ve all come to rely on. To most people, the changes appear cosmetic and from a productivity perspective, not all that helpful. But every new version includes a handful of … Read moreOutlook 2016’s killer feature