Microsoft PST Capture Tool – what you need to know

There’s a lot of buzz today heralding the arrival of the PST Capture Tool from Microsoft which allows you to locate PST files on your network and import them to an on-premise Exchange Server, or … [Read more...]

Monitor storage usage in SharePoint Online

As more an more content gets loaded by customers into SharePoint Online it is important to monitor the ongoing storage usage for a variety of reasons: - site collection performance - reaching quotas … [Read more...]

Focus on Functionality: harmon.ie

To further help people realise that there are many great solutions to enhance their Office 365 experience I’m starting a new series of blog posts called Focus on Functionality. In this series … [Read more...]

Cloud for nothing and your disk for free

A few small conversations have resonated with me lately around public cloud offerings. The first conversation went like this… Person: I hate Go_gle Docs sometimes, the formatting is just … [Read more...]

Migrate Lync contacts between profiles and users

A couple of months back I wanted to move our Lync services from a hosted provider that we were not happy with, back to Lync Online under Office 365. While this was a relatively simple task the … [Read more...]

Going offline with SharePoint Online and an iPad

If you’ve been living under a rock these past few years you would be excused for not knowing that a tablet these days refers more to an iPad or Android slate as opposed to a Windows-powered notebook … [Read more...]

Make your own backups of Exchange Online mailboxes

Key among many of the benefits of Exchange Online as part of Office 365 is the backup & disaster recovery functionality that is part of the service. Most people are appeased when reading the … [Read more...]

Cloud enables people work from anywhere… but is it always good?

This latest post on BoxFreeIT comes from a recent personal experience that I felt I had to share. The piece is about staff being able to work anywhere any time and how sometimes that can work … [Read more...]

Is Office 365 offline for you? Now you’ll know!

Many times in the past two years since I started helping customers get into the cloud with Microsoft Office 365 (and BPOS before that) one of the challenges whenever there was any impact to the … [Read more...]

Going offline with SharePoint Online

During the battles for how much functionality vendors can deliver online (or in the Cloud) sometimes people forget how important it is to access content offline. Unfortunately Internet connectivity … [Read more...]