Aug 31, 2017 | Microsoft, Office tips, Outlook, web_services
Here’s a tip for business Office 365 users that I wish I’d known about sooner. Early this year, Microsoft significantly improved the experience of sharing Outlook calendars. The secret is to share your calendar in webmail instead of doing it from the Outlook desktop...
Aug 28, 2017 | Adobe, Android, Apple, Box, Dropbox, Google, Google Drive, Microsoft, mobile, Office 365, OneDrive, phone, web_services
One of the technology challenges in 2017 is simply remembering what can be done with your phone or computer. It’s easy to add apps to your phone or install programs on your computer; it’s harder to remember them a few weeks later when you have something new to do....
Aug 13, 2017 | Azure, business, Microsoft, Office 365, Skype, Windows 10 S, Windows10
Every month at Microsoft, a team of highly paid professionals writes words on slips of paper. They always include “Microsoft,” “Windows,” “Office,” “365,” “Pro,” “Home,” “Business,” “Enterprise,” “Azure,” “Surface,” and “Online.” They put the slips of paper into a hat...
Aug 6, 2017 | Android, Apple, Microsoft, Office, Outlook, Windows10
Now that you’re finally getting the “Creators Update” for Windows 10 – you know, the one that was “released” in April – you might have seen the above window appear in the lower right corner. “You need to fix your Microsoft Account for apps on your other devices to be...
Aug 4, 2017 | mail, Microsoft, Office, Office 365, Outlook, updates
This is a frustrating story of a poorly-defined bug with no solution. Feel free to look away if this doesn’t apply to you. Starting a month ago, Outlook began prompting a few of my clients for passwords. It has been prompting them a lot. At its worst, Outlook password...
Jul 29, 2017 | mail, Microsoft, security, spam
Let’s track down a bad guy. Looking through the clues will help you catch the next criminal that tries to trick you with a malicious email message. I received many reports last week of phony messages that appeared to be from Microsoft, Paypal, and others. There are...
