Getting a lot of annoying spam in your email? Here's a quick guide on how to report spam in Microsoft 365. For customers using Office 365’s built-in junk mail filter, there is an outlook plugin you can install to report spam that gets past Microsoft’s filters and move...
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Simultaneous editing of docs with Office365
“Co-authoring” is available in Office365, which is the ability for multiple people to edit a file at the same time. The file must be stored on Sharepoint or Onedrive for this feature to be available (not an internal file server). To see it in action, along...
Implement Multi-factor authentication now
We’ve been recommending for quite a while that our clients implement multi-factor authentication (MFA) on their email and Office365 accounts – really, anything that can have MFA enabled should. You may have heard of two-factor authentication (2FA) before,...
OneDrive/Sharepoint is now ready for prime time
Several years ago, we hated OneDrive and had massive problems with efforts to implement it with our clients. We’re happy to say now that it works, and works well. Microsoft has made great strides in improving the product and it is now a valid replacement for...
Connecting and Presenting in Microsoft Teams
If you regularly use Skype for Business in your organization, you may now know that Microsoft has begun replacing Skype with Teams. Microsoft Teams is a new platform that acts as a hub within Office 365 and brings together chat, meetings, notes, and integrations...
Windows 10 Tip: Schedule items by dragging a task to your calendar
used with permission from Microsoft, by Athima Chansanchai If you need to allot time to take care of the items on your to-do list, wouldn’t it be great if you could drag and drop those tasks right into your calendar? Now, you can. The new Tasks experience in...
Office 365 and Outlook on the web dropping support for connected accounts
Microsoft will soon be disabling the ability to add new connected accounts to Office 365 and Outlook Online. This update will only affect Office365 Business accounts. This change will prevent you from being able to read or send mail from any email addresses that are...
Inserting a Table of Contents and References in Microsoft Word
If you’re using Styles in your Microsoft Word document, you can insert an automatic Table of Contents with just a few clicks. And if you’ve ever wondered how to insert updatable references like “see page 9 for more”, you’ll learn how to do that as well in this tip....
4 ways to help your remote employees collaborate better
used with permission from Microsoft US Small and Midsize Business Blog Remote employees have come a long way since the days when trying to work while away from the workplace was like a sentence in solitary confinement. Thanks to the Cloud, they no longer have to use...
See what SpireTech has been doing!
Within the last month SpireTech has hit several major milestones in providing superior solutions to our customers. We have earned our Microsoft Silver CSP status, and earned our SMB Cloud Competency. What does this mean for our customers? Read about each of these...