Michael Reinders

Supporting a remote workforce, especially if you haven’t had the time to plan, assess, execute, and support it, can be daunting. Almost all organizations have had this thrust onto their IT departments’ plates for over a year now. Regardless of what your company’s long-term plans are for where your employees will work, it would behoove…

“Everyone needs some extra time.” I doubt you’ll meet many in IT that won’t agree with this statement. I certainly could use a few extra hours every week. Like, 3. That’s probably the sweet spot. Struggling to effectively prioritize and organize your time, manage meetings, find time to focus? Microsoft mentioned last July that “time…

Over the past year, Microsoft’s Outlook mobile development team has been assisting you and your users with providing a clear and separate perspective between your work and personal accounts in the Outlook mobile app. They’ve also helped users identify external messages for security purposes and to keep malicious threats out of your networks. There are…

You’re running late prepping for a meeting…your supervisor asked you to whip up a short PowerPoint slide deck for your part of the presentation…You forgot! Scrambling, you add a few boxes, ovals, and polygon shapes for some key data but you’re spending an inordinate amount of time trying to get all your graphic elements to…

Microsoft will be rolling out a simplified sharing control for files stored in SharePoint and OneDrive. This will allow users to more easily control the sharing of files for their collaborators.

One of Microsoft Excel’s Project Managers (PMs) on the Office Insider team recently published another ‘Feature deep dive‘. They announced a coming feature called Show Changes, which will allow authors more confidence when sharing and collaborating with others on Excel for the Web. ‘Show Changes’ will allow users sharing Excel files on OneDrive or SharePoint…

A new Public Preview of the Microsoft Whiteboard app for Android and the launch of Microsoft Whiteboard for Microsoft Teams is here! Whiteboard in Teams Channel and Chat Users are now able to create a whiteboard associated with their favorite Teams channel or private chat session. Members of the channel are free to contribute and…

Microsoft announced some new Insights features coming to Teams earlier this year and at their Ignite conference last week. They recently offered a little more detail and rollout plans for their personal wellbeing features.

Back in February of this year, Microsoft added an item to their Microsoft 365 Roadmap that may very well be of interest to you as a Microsoft 365 Administrator. That’s because starting April 1st, 2021, Microsoft will start pushing the Edge WebView2 Runtime (EWR) to Windows PCs running the Microsoft 365 apps for enterprise version…

As an IT Professional, can you survive without PowerShell? I can imagine there are several debates around this topic on Reddit right now. The short answer is yes, you probably can (barely). However, keeping PowerShell as your go-to tool on your IT Pro toolbelt will bring you varying productivity and efficiency boosts. Quite simply, the…