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  • August 28, 2025

    Book Review: Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

    Chris recommends this book to everyone he talks with! Mr. Mollick is a professor of management at Wharton, specializing in entrepreneurship and innovation. He’s been following and researching the emergence of AI for a while now, having been featured in various publications. In addition to a fascination with how AI is impacting businesses, especially start-ups, […]

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  • August 20, 2025

    Ever Heard of an I-9 Audit?

    In our Client Peer Group meetings, we often have some lively discussions! Since our clients are Construction companies, most of which use Microsoft products, many of which host S100C in our Azure cloud and often use several of our Syscon add-on tools, they have some similar needs and frustrations. This invitation-only peer group forum is […]

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  • August 20, 2025

    Book Review: The Six Conversations

    Dr. Holleman is an associate teaching professor at Penn State, a speaker, and an author. In her introduction, she mentions her research on happiness and well-being, not only for herself, but to see others thrive. She starts with her story as a young girl, always asking questions and talking, often to the extent of frustrating […]

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  • August 12, 2025

    Paycalc Change—Non-Standard Accounts

    There are times when a Pay Calc Expense account needs to have a number that is not within the range of the name of the field. For instance, in the 5-3-1 screen, the Job Expense usually has an account in that range. There are times when this field might need a liability account or an […]

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  • August 12, 2025

    Rocks, Pebbles, Sand

    I recently saw a recording of a women’s college sports coach talking to her athlete students. She was addressing the common believe that if we just get past ‘X’ then it will be easier; this semester, this test, this class, this year, etc. Her point to the students was that it doesn’t get easier. You […]

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  • August 11, 2025

    Teams: Settings and Security Defaults

    While attending the Microsoft Community Conference, there were a number of sessions about Teams, various setting options, and a wide variety of security offerings. As I took notes, I also reached out to our tech team with these questions. Here’s a summary of what they do and why! Getting Started In Teams, we can chat […]

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  • August 11, 2025

    Changes Coming to OneDrive

    Through late January 2025, you had access to the OneDrive data for anyone who had an M365 license even though that user was deleted or deactivated. The license could have been reissued to someone new, but the OneDrive data from the original user was still there—for a very long time! The change is to the […]

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  • August 11, 2025

    Copilot for Teams: Enhancing Collaboration with Plugins

    In January 2024, Copilot for Teams became available. Microsoft Copilot for Teams is designed to streamline teamwork and boost productivity by integrating AI capabilities directly into your Teams experience. One of the standout features of Copilot for Teams includes Copilot agents, which allows users to enhance their workflow with various plugins tailored to their specific […]

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  • August 11, 2025

    Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat

    On January 15th, Microsoft announced ‘Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat’ as a new product. This might sound strange to many of you for a variety of reasons, but we won’t go into the back-ground because none of it matters now! Basically, forget about the past! This new product is basically taking the free version of Copilot […]

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  • August 06, 2025

    S100C Copy-Paste Grids

    As soon as we saw a few of these calls come in and did some testing ourselves, we actually turned around a short video blog update. Since not everyone has the time to listen to those, thought we’d recap in this newsletter. For quite a few clients, over the years, they have workflows that pull […]

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