I was asked on Friday if we can set up a meeting whereby at a certain point of the meeting, certain members of the meeting would be asked to leave, as the second half was confidential. The obvious answer is two meetings, but the preference of the meeting organiser was…
Leave a CommentRecently I was asked to assist a colleague with her email management and took her through my system and helped her with her own set-up. I subsequently decided to document my personal system as it may be of help to others.
11 CommentsI found myself looking at Microsoft Booking the other day. If you are not familiar with Microsoft Bookings, its an simple booking engine designed for small businesses. Customers can create a booking through a web page specifying the time and service required, receive a confirmation email and calendar invitation, and…
Leave a CommentI love the security tools that come with the M365 and O365 E5 plans but I’ve always felt there were too many separate, and largely unintegrated, tools. For this reason, I was very excited when Azure Sentinel came along as Microsoft’s cloud SIEM as it can consume and analyse data…
1 CommentOne of my favourite Microsoft tools, that I find myself using more and more, is Scheduler which is currently in preview. Previously known simply as Calendar.help, Scheduler is a personal digital assistant (Cortana) that can arrange meetings on your behalf that works with Office 365, Outlook.com, or Google calendar. To…
Leave a CommentTranscriptions on recorded Teams meeting is a fantastically useful feature but it needs to be turned on and configured. When this feature is used and a recording is played back, one can search for particular words used in the meeting. This is really useful when you want to find that…
Leave a CommentAt the recent Microsoft Ignite The Tour Johannesburg, I was introduced to MVP Nicolas Blank. During the conference we had several conversations regarding content creation with regards to blogging and his podcast; the fear of pressing publish; and imposter syndrome. During these conversations, we discussed the pace that IT is…
Leave a CommentMahala.ms allows people between the ages of 8 – 24 to sign up for Office 365 free of charge. From http://mahala.ms South Africa youth will be able to get Microsoft licenses for the Microsoft Office 365 suite and 5TB OneDrive cloud-based storage services. The package includes Word, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook…
1 CommentAn interesting issue arose today regarding attendance registers for meetings conducted on Microsoft Teams. One of the obvious advantages of Teams is that it is not necessary for everyone to be in the same building, however from a regulatory standpoint most meetings I attend need an attendance register as proof…
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