Google Mail and Google Apps make a viable alternative to Office 365. However, recently several companies have looked at migrating away from the Google offering due to business advantages such as Office 365 providing on-premise applications, when...

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...

When any new technology is brought into a business, training is an important factor. The amount of training will depend on the business size, whether its IT support is in-house or out-sourced and whether the organisation has an IT support tier. This...

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...

Office 365 has such a flexible, customisable front-end with so many different components, that creating the best, most simple front end for your users isn't always easy. In this short video, Tim Wallis, CEO of Content and Code, discusses the best...

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...

Sites, lists, folders, libraries and subsites are all components of your Office 365 repository, but what are they, and why are they important? Tim Wallis, CEO at Content & Code, explains the importance of each of these SharePoint components.

Confidentiality and security are essential when collaborating with colleagues and partners. In this video, we look at the components provided by SharePoint that help provide collaboration in a secure manner to address the business needs of...

The major marketing impetus for Office 365 is the benefit of collaboration but what does it mean? We understand the Exchange email communication and email collaboration and also how Lync promotes collaboration via IM and voice, but what...

One issue that many businesses worry about, is the security of their data in the Cloud.  In addition to the overall protection offered by the Office 365 datacentre, Office 365 also offers two extra levels of security from the administrative...

SharePoint is the backend server that many of the Office 365 services plug into. But what is the difference between SharePoint Online and SharePoint On-Premise and what does SharePoint Online offer a business? Tim Wallis, CEO at Content and Code,...