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July 29, 2026
Tips & Tricks: Teams Chats and Channels
Did you know you can customize how chats and channels appear in Microsoft Teams? Streamline your workspace by combining chats and channels into a single view, organizing conversations into custom sections, and adding important contacts to your Favorites for quick access. These simple customization options can help you stay organized, reduce clutter, and keep the […]
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July 29, 2026
Spoofed Emails – Thanks Quarantine!
As most of you know, we made the spam filter more sensitive several weeks ago. This has greatly reduced the amount of spam that makes it to your InBox. It’s also caught legitimate email messages and put them in quarantine for you to review. As you tell us which are actually ‘good’ the spam filter […]
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July 22, 2026
Tips & Tricks: Teams Apps
In this installment of Chris’s Tips & Tricks, discover how to make Teams work smarter for you. Chris shares how to add and pin apps for quick access, highlights the Meet app for managing meetings, and demonstrates how to find meeting notes, AI-generated summaries, mentions, and more. He also covers how to open files directly […]
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July 22, 2026
Yelp and Search Engines
Larry doesn’t recall making any changes, but noticed that Chrome started routing every address-bar search through Yahoo. Nothing seemed wrong at first—Google was still set as the default search engine, there weren’t any pop-ups, and he didn’t see any browser warnings. The only thing new was that Yelp had appeared as a search provider in […]
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July 15, 2026
Book Review: The Prophet
It’s been literally decades since I had read this book. It came up as I was considering what I might share at the wedding, so I took it out again and re-read it. We actually have a framed page from the book on the topic of marriage, given to us by Larry’s mom. There’s a […]
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July 08, 2026
Tips & Tricks: SharePoint & OneDrive
In this latest Tips & Tricks video, Chris Wendt shares practical ways to get more out of SharePoint and OneDrive. Learn how to find Teams meeting recordings in OneDrive, use Copilot to quickly search meeting content, leverage SharePoint search to find files faster, organize folders with custom colors, request large file uploads, and manage sharing […]
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July 08, 2026
Software and Change Management
I don’t know if it’s part of the New Year’s resolutions, but we have a LOT of clients asking about software changes. Some of them are customizations to our FIT System; new or updated Power BI reports; Power App projects; some are adding a new module to their existing software, like Inventory; others are looking […]
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July 01, 2026
Book Review: The Sacredness of Secular Work
I heard Mr. Raynor speak at the C12 Currents conference. I could tell that some of what he was sharing was making a few people uncomfortable, which means he probably had a few good things for us to consider about our regular work. A good portion of my life involves work. We’ve always considered our […]
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June 24, 2026
Automated Patch & Reboots
As part of our IT Managed Services, we provide automated patch management with other tools and updates to keep your computers safe. For many of these updates, they happen in the background and you never know, but we see them light up on our dashboards in green when they install! Some updates require a reboot. […]
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June 24, 2026
Tips & Tricks: Outlook Part 2
Looking to get more out of Outlook? In this latest Tips & Tricks video, Chris Wendt shares simple, practical shortcuts to make your meetings and daily workflow more efficient. Learn how to automatically record meetings so you never miss a detail, and explore the Groups app to better manage communication and collaboration across your team. […]
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