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Did you know that you can go beyond the 250 attendee limit by using a Microsoft Teams Live Event with up to 10,000 attendees? This blog explains how to replace Zoom meetings and instead use Microsoft Teams for all of your internal meetings.
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Banks are struggling to be able to support the CARES Act’s ability to help small businesses through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). As a small way to help out, we have used Microsoft Forms Pro (part of Office 365) to create an electronic PPP application. The form contains everything you are likely to need to know as a lender to support your small business customers with these loans at this critical time.
COVID-19 has made technology more vital than ever to businesses across the world. Learn how to foster collaboration among team members working remotely.
For some businesses and their customers, the transition to digital is quite a hardship. Maybe even downright impossible due to the nature of the work they provide. Learn how businesses are handling the digital transition and some examples of how it could work for yours!
Join us for 21 online sessions in 2020 to learn about digital workplace communications and collaboration using Office 365, Dynamics 365, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams and more!
Some systems are still experiencing issues with HTML markup functionality on calculated columns. Here are a few different solutions for various environments.
What's your business strategy for dealing with coronavirus COVID-19 and the economic impact? C5 Insight is taking steps to protect our clients and communities, and to lead the way with creating more resilient digital workplaces.
Still managing projects using an Excel document? Learn how SharePoint task lists provide a better way to manage projects and empower your team.
Attention SharePoint Power Users, did you think Microsoft removed your ability to bulk edit? Read these step-by-step instructions to learn how to use the right views for bulk editing.
Before you enable the update in production, we highly recommend testing the changes first in a test environment. If you are not sure if you have a test environment, as an online customer you get one. Go to the Power Platform Admin Center, if needed, create your sandbox environment and then copy your production environment to your new sandbox environment.
Learn about one of the most overlooked but helpful features of Microsoft Teams: Org-Wide Teams. Learn more about its functions, like Inclement Weather Notices, that may appeal to you and your organization.
As of 7/1/2019, Microsoft announced the availability of Microsoft Forms Pro—the “pro-fessional” version—but what does that mean? What’s the difference between Microsoft Forms and Forms Pro? Let's discuss the differences screen by screen so you can make the most informed decision.
Do you ever leave work feeling like you didn't accomplish anything? Well, maybe you didn't! Microsoft has decided to make MyAnalytics available to almost all Office 365 subscriptions so you can start being more efficient at work, today.
Here around the halls of C5 Insight, we talk a lot about working together better—but what does that mean? We strive to provide strategies to connect, communicate, and collaborate both efficiently and effectively with those who will listen. Let’s talk about one of the platforms we recommend to foster both collaboration and communication in the digital workplace...
If you live in the Microsoft world, like I do, you likely know about Visual Studio Code – a lightweight, but very powerful IDE developed by Microsoft to leverage current code technology. Learn a quick, but not so obvious, tip on how to adjust the code formatting.
If this blog title captured your attention, then you are very likely aware of the problem. It seems like just yesterday I could go into a document library, right click on a file, and Copy shortcut. Those days have past and now we get a whole list of confusing options to choose from. Is it possible to just get a regular link? I’ll show you three ways how...
Sooner or later it will happen to you. You will setup a new SharePoint list and want to customize the form. Your first instinct might be to bust out InfoPath. Don’t do it! PowerApps is the new orange. Learn how to add the "Save" and "Cancel" buttons back to the bottom of SharePoint forms with PowerApps.
The debate between Yammer and Microsoft Teams is an age old question for Office 365 users; when do you use one over the other? The question is imminent if you haven't asked it already. I understand, they are both social tools. Let’s take a deeper look and try to answer the question from a non-technical perspective...
I’ve noticed a lot of questions related to filtering email attachments lately in the Microsoft Flow Community. For example, a user gets an email and only wants to save the PDF/DOCX/XLSX (excluding images) somewhere. Whether you save them to OneDrive for Business, a SharePoint site, or even a local file share, this video will show you how to accomplish that task. Follow along as I walk you through the process, step-by-step...
Have you created a document or file recently that you want to share with limited access to others? Sharepoint "View-Only" permissions have caused some confusion when it comes to file sharing. Find out why the "View-Only" permission doesn't do what you think and how to properly secure your documents by preventing them from being downloaded.
I think we all have been there – we are working on a beloved Microsoft Flow, doing any number of updates or other actions, when it happens...You use a value that is a multiple-value array like a choice column in SharePoint and Flow automatically wraps your action in a ForEach control. What just happened?
C5 Insight today announced the acquisition of SharePoint Revolution.
Spam is always invading our inboxes and sometimes the validity of emails is harder to decipher than not. Blackhats are constantly working to dupe everyone with extremely real looking emails. To avoid potentially harmful situations, adding warnings to an email's subject line or body content helps prevent unintentional malware infection. Let’s create some warnings before someone really screws up!
One of my clients running SharePoint 2013 on-premises contacted me with a strange issue. They had some SharePoint 2013 platform workflows that were getting suspended and wasn’t sure why. We got past that initial issue, but what I wanted to talk about today is what we did with all the active workflows that were suspended. Learn how I use PowerShell to make all those workflows resume instead of resorting to canceling them...
With any LUCK, I’m sure your users are actively using SharePoint search to discover and find content. Sooner or later they will struggle to find whatever it is they are looking for. Search is after all only as good as what you put into it. Utilizing crawl rules can quickly create relevant results, thus, increasing the likeliness that users keep using search.
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Whether you are upgrading to SharePoint Online, 2010, 2013 or the latest 2016, this checklist contains everything you need to know for a successful transition.