In this article, we will look at how to use the diary feature within Outlook, which is called Calendar.  Outlook Calendar's main function is as a time planning tool and is invaluable in helping to plan your time by, for example, sending you...

In this article we will be looking at different ways to manage Outlook Contacts. Using Contacts makes it much easier to find a certain person or group of people to email or telephone. With Contacts, there's no need to waste time looking for contact...

Sometimes it isn't possible to give a presentation in person. You may be tied into other things or perhaps you can't get to the venue in time to give the presentation, however if you just allow the audience to download the PowerPoint file instead of...

In many phone systems, an Attendant or Operator Console is an expensive addition. Lync 2010 conveniently includes a free software attendant console right out of the box. The screen grabs below are from a demonstration I once gave, and give a good...

Headers and footers are the components of a document that contain information or graphics at the top or bottom. Unfortunately, although incredibly useful, headers and footers have traditionally been one of the least used components in document...

Setting up your page correctly can be crucial to creating the document you require. There is nothing more annoying than when a mess comes out of the printer after you've spent hours working on a document. All this chaos and time can be avoided by...

The past two Microsoft OneNote features may have you wondering how OneNote 2010 is any different from Microsoft Word 2010. Well, one thing that separates OneNote 2010 from Word 2010 is the ability to write and draw simultaneously with no boundaries...

Pivot tables look great, take up less screen space, are easy to navigate and let you use and analyse data easily. For example, a worksheet listing customers, products and quarterly sales can produce a pivot table allowing you to show how much of...

Powerpoint 2010 incorporates all kinds of exciting features to make your presentations more professional, dynamic and interesting. Effective presentations can lead to more sales, a work promotion or stakeholder co-operation for that all-important...

The ability to integrate on-premise systems with their Office 365 counterparts (federation) is a major attraction to many corporations as it allows users to seemlessly communicate and collaborate as if the federated solutions were one complete...

It's happened to the best of us: you've vented your displeasure at being forced to work over the holidays by tapping out a quick email telling your demanding boss exactly where he can stick his flaming golf clubs. Reach for a calming swig of tea,...

Once Lync is installed, it's like having your own switchboard. In this article, we look at how you can use Lync to make both direct transfers (transferring a call to another party without talking to them first) and consultative transfers (where you...

Virtual machines are great for building labs and testing different scenarios. For example, if a business would like to test how its on-premises systems integrate with the Office 365 environment, a virtual machine test lab hosting on-premises...

With the Government's austerity measures beginning to affect the economy, it is more important than ever to try and avoid running up hefty bank charges, or spoiling your credit rating.  A simple spreadsheet showing where your money currently...

One major benefit of Office 365 is collaboration with suppliers and/or customers. In this video, we examine how can you set up a secure extranet collaboration environment in Office 365 between your supplier or a customer.

Office 365, provides a business with the ability to have its own website hosted within Office 365, but what are the benefits over a standard hosted website, how can Office 365 based websites benefit customer-supplier extranets and how quick is it to...

For a variety of reasons, such as compliance and legal issues, some businesses may opt to combine Office 365 SharePoint online with SharePoint on-premise - a hybrid environment. What are the challenges of a hybrid environment and how can you...

Once you've decided which data to migrate into Office 365, it's important to ensure that the migration is performed in such a way to mitigate any potential business risks. This video, shows how your business can benefit using a data migration...

Most organisations have terabytes of data held in databases, file and folder systems and email. Trying to migrate terabytes of data into Office 365 can be a headache. In this, Tim Wallis, CEO of Content and Code, provides advice on which data to...

The SharePoint mobile device experience is one of the marvels of working in the cloud, however some aspects of the mobile experience aren't always straight forward and can be a little challenging when mobile phones are involved. In this video, Tim...

Technological support for partially sighted users is a core component of much software today and Lync is no exception. In the US, companies that supply technology to the American Federal agencies need to conform to the accessibility standards under...

Accessing data in the Office 365 repository can be a bit bewildering for new users, because the repository is not structured in the same way as the standard file system on a computer. For example, how do you navigate between sites, subsites, team...