Windows Essentials 2012 (formerly Windows Live Essentials), ceased to be available for download January of 2017. Microsoft decided to end support for this product suite. If you have been a long time user of this product (like I have been since around 2005), you may have some questions. Questions like what will I use now for organizing my photos and creating movies? Questions about Windows…
Outlook.com email has had significant upgrades this fall. The new in-box look is cleaner and brighter. This post will focus on four Outlook.com organizing tips that are big time savers. They are: Easily delete, find or move all email from a specific sender Ability to select everything from a particular folder and delete it quickly Using the sweep feature, manage email from a particular sender…
This article will show you how to install the new OneDrive Sync client on your PC. This is the the sync client introduced at the September, 2016 Microsoft Ignite Conference. The last sync client was called the next gen sync client. It looks like they are naming this the ‘new’ OneDrive sync client. To show you, I have a 7″ video – a little longer…
Huge OneDrive news was announced at last month’s Microsoft Ignite conference. Especially noteworthy is that there’s a preview of this new OneDrive sync client available now that will sync both your OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Team Sites. It also includes selective sync for folders and files. I’ve inserted the 12″ video at the end if you want to watch, but this article will summarize…
Using System Restore has been a life-saver in the past. I’ve noticed though, that Windows 10 doesn’t seem to create a restore point very often (more below on this). When I’ve wanted to use it a couple of times, there was only one restore point. This post will show you how to set and schedule Windows restore points onWindows 10. First, pull up your System…
Microsoft released it’s big update on August 2nd – called the Anniversary Update to Windows 10. Everyone who now has Windows 10 will get this big update. How do you know if you’ve gotten it yet? You would probably know because the update acts like a major update – the upgrade process (for my laptop and desktop), took about the same time as upgrading to…
This week I’m sharing a OneDrive for Business SlideShare presentation from John White, MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional), on the history of OneDrive for Business and where we are today with it. He is a CTO and has a Master’s in Engineering. This OneDrive SlideShare was published in June, 2016. I found this while looking through LinkedIn and thought it was one of the best…
When you’re using the Groove sync client, it’s easy to get sync error notifications. Sometimes they are an easy fix and sometimes you can spend a lot of time trying to first locate and then correct issues. A quick way to fix OneDrive For Business/SharePoint sync issues is to stop syncing the affected folder, renaming it (you’ll see why), and then sync it fresh. It…