Transitioning to Microsoft Office 2016

on December 26, 2016

Since Microsoft Office 2016 was released last year, Cistel has had a lot of clients asking for help deploying it either alone, as part of a Microsoft Office 365 migration, or as part of a Windows 10 deployment. Cistel has also had a lot of users asking for help making the transition to Office 2016 from previous versions. This

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Colin SmithTransitioning to Microsoft Office 2016

Top Ten Things to Consider to De-risk your Office 365 Migration

on December 1, 2016

Very few organizations that are deploying Office 365 are deploying a brand new communications and productivity solution. For the most part, they will be migrating an existing service or set of services to Office 365. Over the last few years, the team at Cistel has been involved in dozens of Office 365 migrations and we’ve

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Colin SmithTop Ten Things to Consider to De-risk your Office 365 Migration

Office 365 – Managing a Skype for Business Meeting

on November 1, 2016

In one of my previous posts, Office 365 – Beyond Email with Skype for Business I described some of the basic features of Skype for Business.  In this post and video I present an overview of how to run a simple Skype for Business meeting including: Sending the invitation Managing the Lobby Managing participants Screen Sharing

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Office 365 – Beyond Email with Skype for Business

on October 27, 2016

In one of my previous posts, Ten features of Office 365 you should know about, I described some of the valuable tools that you get as part of your Office 365 subscription.  Today I am going focus on just one of them – Skype for Business.  You can consider this Skype 101.  The video below

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Ten things to consider before evaluating Microsoft Intune

on October 13, 2016

Cloud services promise easy setup and no infrastructure to manage. Even your grandmother setup her own Gmail account and iTunes subscription. How hard can it be to setup an Intune Subscription? You could just go off and sign up for the free 30-day trial accept the defaults and try it out. What you miss out

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Colin SmithTen things to consider before evaluating Microsoft Intune