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The UK’s Health and Social Care sector is using learning management systems (LMSs) to educate and train their own staff as well as the thousands of partners and individuals they […]

Microsoft’s drive shipping service is multi-step process via which large amounts of PST files can be uploaded into Microsoft cloud. This is how it works…could it work for your migration?

Discover how to address the challenges that working in a highly security environment poses when delivering a Learning Management System (LMS) for a hybrid workforce.

What are hybrid meetings? As we emerge from the pandemic, the way we work is likely to have changed forever.  The term 'hybrid working', reflects a now commonplace scenario where [...]

Does the workspace booking system you're planning involve selecting an available desk from a list or an interactive floor plan?  If so, physically applying the corresponding numbers to your desks [...]

Scanning a QR code from your mobile device has become a familiar way to get contactless and convenient access to restaurant menus, registering your visit to a venue using the [...]

Microsoft recently announced Viva – an employee experience platform (XP) that pulls together the threads of a number of existing applications including Teams, SharePoint, Yammer, AI, Workplace Analytics, etc. to [...]

Are you planning a hybrid workspace booking system that's also COVID-19 proof? As we face an uncertain future for our office space, here’s 5 top tips when it comes to [...]

How you can make returning to the office work for everyone The signs are encouraging, and although social distancing rules have relaxed, June 21st is still the date most firms [...]

FACT: If you migrate legacy shortcuts into Exchange Online, it’s highly likely they’ll ‘still work’ if your archive remains on-premises. So do you need to get rid of it?

Many workspace booking systems enable selection from an interactive floor plan or map. Here’s how to design the optimal floor plan graphic to go with your system.

Essential has worked on some of the largest Public Folder migration projects in the world.  Here's a few tips from our gurus: A few years back you didn’t have an [...]

The ‘need for speed’ has always been essential in today’s highly competitive world, and the pandemic has called for even greater pace and agility on the part of businesses as [...]

Are you, like many organisations, looking at how you can replace your previously ‘in person’ training with an on-line service? The technology we have available in platforms such as Zoom [...]

Having a naming convention for identifying meeting rooms in a large organisation can be a challenge – especially when there’s 100’s of different rooms, floors, room sizes, room types, different [...]

The mute story so far As a Teams meeting participant, the mute button has proved to be a pretty useful feature during lockdown to mask out the various screaming baby/dog [...]

There’s no doubt that Microsoft Outlook Calendar makes a logical place for staff to book resources such as meeting rooms. Apart from being convenient for end users, behind the scenes, [...]

With the GDPR and other industry-specific regulations in full force, it’s not a good idea to take it on faith that your employees are up to date on their compliance [...]

Are you being locked in by your cloud vendor? Whenever I get on a flight I always count the number of rows to the nearest exit, so I can grope [...]

Productive meetings have been a hot subject since that Elon Musk leaked email. But why did Elon chose to target meetings in order to increase company output? Did you know that [...]

If migrating user mailboxes in a hybrid environment wasn't challenging enough, migrating email archives to Office 365 can introduce all sorts of complexity you hadn't bargained for.    Here's 5 [...]

Free retention of ex-employee's data At present, if you want to retain the mailbox contents of former employees' mailboxes there's a facility called 'Inactive Mailboxes' that you can use.  The [...]

Having a meeting organiser fail to show when you’re using video conferencing is annoying, but when a physical meeting room, effort on the part of delegates, not to mention a [...]

Why are BCC'd recipients so important? In relation to email, BCC stands for “blind carbon copy.” Just like CC, BCC is a way of sending copies of an email to [...]

As you may know, you can use dedicated Microsoft Exchange (Office 365) mailboxes to represent resources such as rooms, desks and equipment, and start booking them using standard Outlook calendar. [...]

There’s two things to bear in mind when it comes to migrating mailbox permissions to Office 365: Number 1 - You won’t get an ‘easy ride’ The process of switching [...]

Apart from ensuring you meet the terms of your Microsoft 365 licence plan, understanding your overall mailbox sizes - as well as the size of any archives you want to [...]

Switching from fixed desks to flexible working spaces is challenging on many levels: Not only do you require an enterprise-level desk booking solution, that's scalable and flexible enough to reflect [...]

So what's the problem? When you log on to Office 365 you’re functioning in the ‘big wide world’, and Microsoft wants to know who you are. This means that logon [...]

STOP PRESS: COVID-19 means that contactless operation for your room booking service across all functionality outlined in this article is now VITAL. It's an all-too-common problem: You try to book a [...]

Discover How (and why) Microsoft 365 Replaces The 'Traditional' Email Journaling Service. Have you ever wondered why Microsoft 365 doesn't provide a 'native' email journaling service (like your old on-premises [...]

If you're thinking of using interactive floor-plans to enable meeting room and hot-desk booking, there's lots to consider to ensure the best 'end user experience'. Here are some top tips [...]

Although an archive might be something the IT department would prefer to put on a tape and forget about, most email archives need to be ‘kept alive and kicking’ over [...]

This is a very frequently asked question for anyone wanting to switch to Microsoft's cloud. The short answer is:  If you’ve chosen the right software for your migration project, your [...]

When going through an email archive migration, understanding the way your end-users work with their archives is worth getting to grips with, otherwise you could be heading for a bumpy [...]

Warning: .psts are like vermin. Experts agree they are a pest and IT departments across the world are all too familiar with the support nightmares they create. They also carry [...]

There’s a lot to think about when migrating email archives.  We caught up with Migration Consultant Jim Fussell over a cup of tea and a biscuit to pick his brains [...]

Even though Microsoft offers free tools to import your PST files into Microsoft 365, does anyone really relish the thought of migrating ALL of their PST files into Exchange? Probably [...]

Mindful of the fact that sending an email to a colleague can sometimes be a poor substitute for a telephone conversation or a face-to-face meeting, RCT Homes has introduced the [...]