I think Microsoft made a major mistake with the E2 and E3 plans in Office 365.   While they’re right-on with the E1 plan, but the E2 and E3 plans aren’t quite right – the punch is lost.  (more…)

While on paternity leave, I’ve been having some fun playing with SharePoint online.  I’m a big fan of Office 365 and the features it gives (and the price point). GrowthPoint Group is starting to use SharePoint Online internally for document management, project management, super-light CRM and more.

I started playing with workflows and have been getting an interesting error:

User cannot be found

Troubleshoot issues with Microsoft SharePoint Foundation.

Correlation ID: 519442d6-a684-9456-4d94da871808

This happens when I do a number of things:

• Click Workflow Settings in a document library
• Try to enable SharePoint 2007 Workflows in the Site Collection Features (more…)

Anyone who I’ve talked to about cloud services knows I’m a big fan of Office 365.  One of its biggest adoption stumbling blocks is the lack of true Blackberry integration.  We’ve been told “it’s coming” since the first beta (then “60 days after general release”), but have been stood up so far.

When I saw the announcement last week of an open beta for Blackberry Cloud Services for Office 365, I got a little excited.  Several of my clients are anxiously awaiting this so they can retire old Exchange 2003 servers. (more…)

On Tuesday Microsoft announced general availability of Office 365, their next-generation hosted services platform.  The platform can include a range of services, including Exchange Server (email and calendaring), Sharepoint (collaboration), and Lync (instant messaging, voice and video conferencing).  Larger plans include email archiving and even PC-to-phone through Lync. (more…)