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Teams breakout rooms are ideal for remote training

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Setting up breakout rooms in Microsoft Teams

UPDATE: GA of Teams breakout rooms announced Are you, like many organisations, looking at how you can replace your previously ‘in [...]

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Don’t let room naming conventions cause confusion

Having a naming convention for identifying meeting rooms in a large organisation can be a challenge – especially when there’s [...]

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How to get the final say with the Teams Mute Button

The mute story so far As a Teams meeting participant, the mute button has proved to be a pretty useful [...]

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Moving Your Journals to Microsoft Office 365

Set sail for Office 365 with the peace of mind that your precious email journals are being protected. Make Office [...]

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Do you still need journaling?

In the early days of corporate email communications, messaging was not viewed as a formal business record despite emails being [...]

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Getting the most out of Outlook Calendar and native Exchange Resources

There’s no doubt that the Outlook Calendar application makes a logical place for staff to book resources such as meeting [...]

Improving Compliance Training with an Learning Management System

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How to improve compliance training with a learning management system

With the GDPR and other industry-specific regulations in full force, it’s not a good idea to take it on faith [...]

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4 things you should know about backup & recovery in Microsoft 365

Prior to Microsoft 365, enterprises were fully responsible for providing their own business continuity and data protection. A multi-pronged, belt [...]

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Check your cloud storage vendor escape route

Are you being locked in by your cloud vendor? Whenever I get on a flight I always count the number [...]

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How technology helps with running effective meetings

Productive meetings have been a hot subject since that Elon Musk leaked email. But why did Elon chose to target meetings […]

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5 Things to Consider When Doing an Office 365 Migration Involving Email Archives

If migrating user mailboxes in a hybrid environment wasn’t challenging enough, migrating email archives to Office 365 can introduce all […]

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U-turn on inactive mailbox charges

Free retention of ex-employee's data At present, if you want to retain the mailbox contents of former employees' mailboxes there's [...]

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Break the meeting no-show habit

Having a meeting organiser fail to show when you’re using video conferencing is annoying, but when a physical meeting room, [...]

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Why BCC is important when you migrate your journals to Office 365

Why are BCC'd recipients so important? In relation to email, BCC stands for “blind carbon copy.” Just like CC, BCC [...]

Hybrid office 365 room and desk booking resources management

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Get the most out of Microsoft Exchange Resource Mailboxes

As you may know, you can use dedicated Microsoft Exchange (Office 365) mailboxes to represent resources such as rooms, desks [...]

migrating permissions Office 365 sticky bit

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Sticky Bit 3: Migrating Mailbox Permissions when moving to Office 365

There’s two things to bear in mind when it comes to migrating mailbox permissions to Office 365: Number 1 – […]

Dealing with large mailboxes when moving to Office 365

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Mailbox Size (& Archive) Size Is Important When You Migrate to Office 365

Apart from ensuring you meet the terms of your Office 365 licence plan, understanding your overall mailbox sizes - as [...]

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Introducing hot desking is not as simple as providing a desk booking system

Switching from fixed desks to flexible working spaces is challenging on many levels: Not only do you require an enterprise-level [...]

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Why you need to fix mis-matched UPNs and SMTP addresses before you migrate to Office 365

So what's the problem? When you log on to Office 365 you’re functioning in the ‘big wide world’, and Microsoft [...]

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4 Things to Look for in a Room Screen Solution

STOP PRESS: COVID-19 means that contactless operation for your room booking service across all functionality outlined in this article is [...]

office 365 email compliance journal archive

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Is Microsoft 365 a one-stop-shop for your email compliance?

Discover How (and why) Microsoft 365 Replaces The 'Traditional' Email Journaling Service. Have you ever wondered why Microsoft 365 doesn't [...]

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You Are Here! How to design a great floor plan.

If you're thinking of using interactive floor-plans to enable meeting room and hot-desk booking, there's lots to consider to ensure [...]

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Get Ready for the Archive Triple Jump

Although an archive might be something the IT department would prefer to put on a tape and forget about, most [...]

Fastest way to migrate email archives to Office 365

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How Fast Can you Migrate Email Archives to Office 365?

This is a very frequently asked question for anyone wanting to switch to Microsoft's cloud. The short answer is: If [...]

User aware & user friendly email archive migration

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The Importance of Being User Aware in Your Email Archive Migration

When going through an email archive migration, understanding the way your end-users work with their archives is worth getting to [...]

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Top 6 PST Elimination Challenges when Migrating

Warning: .psts are like vermin. Experts agree they are a pest and IT departments across the world are all too [...]

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Migration to (and from) Mimecast…..over a nice Cup of Tea and Biscuit

There’s a lot to think about when migrating email archives. We caught up with Migration Consultant Jim Fussell over a [...]

PST migration keep it anyway just to be safe

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“Let’s keep it anyway – just to be safe”

Even though Microsoft offers free tools to import your PST files into Microsoft 365, does anyone really relish the thought [...]

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Email Free Days

Mindful of the fact that sending an email to a colleague can sometimes be a poor substitute for a telephone [...]

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