• European Collaboration Summit 2018

    European Collaboration Summit 2018

    Experiences from the European Collaboration Summit 2018, held in Mainz, Germany, May 28-30 2018.

  • Galapagos Photo Experiences

    Galapagos Photo Experiences

    We recently visited the Galapagos islands. This blog post is a collection of photos from the trip, where I proved to fail to get anywhere close to capturing the Big 15 of Galapagos species.

  • Office 365 Exposed, Episode 11

    Last week, I chatted with MVPs Paul Robichaux, Alan Byrne, and Vasil Michev in the palatial surroundings of the Continental Hotel in Budapest, and Paul taped the conversation as episode #11 in our “Office 365 Exposed” series. You can listen to the recording on Paul’s website or iTunes (sometimes it takes…

  • Tracking Change in Office 365 Book Content

    Tracking Change in Office 365 Book Content

    The Dead Fish Syndrome I am amused with the notion that technical information presented in a blog, book, article, or any other form can remain relatively current long past its publication date. This certainly was the case when I started writing books in the early 1990s, but cloud services have…

  • New Office 365 book from Microsoft Press

    Despite what people might think, I welcome the release of the new edition of “Microsoft Office 365 Administration Inside Out.” There is nothing like competition to drive an increase in standards, and even though I think the Office 365 for IT Pros eBook (also available from Amazon Kindle) is pretty…

  • Podcasts and Flights at Ignite 2017

    Podcasts and Flights at Ignite 2017

    Ignite Wind-down After a busy week in Orlando, I am in full wind-down mode and recovering from the Ignite 2017 conference. The event itself was excellent, but there were many complaints about how far attendees had to walk between the West and South halls of the Orange County Conference Center.…

  • Announcing Office 365 for IT Pros Fourth Edition

    Announcing Office 365 for IT Pros Fourth Edition

    The writing team is thrilled to announce that the fourth edition of the Office 365 for IT Pros eBook is now available. We have been working on this book for the last three months and it is great to see everything come together. You can’t simply announce a new edition…

  • Office 365 for IT Pros 4th Edition – Change Log

    Office 365 for IT Pros 4th Edition – Change Log

    Office 365 for IT Pros, 4th Edition, was published on 1 June 2017.  Copies of the book are available in EPUB/PDF format at practical365.com or Kindle at Amazon.com and local subsidiaries. This document describes the changes made to the book since its original release. The document is up-to-date as of the…

  • Why You Should Come to Office 365 Engage…

    Why You Should Come to Office 365 Engage…

    As some of you know, I am the conference chair for Office 365 Engage, a new conference that emphasizes the need to treat Office 365 as a whole rather than a loose collection of mildy-cloudified on-premises applications. The event takes place in Haarlem, a rather nice town in the Netherlands,…