Microsoft’s biggest event of the year has just kicked off, Microsoft Ignite 2019 on Monday 4th November in Orlando, Florida. The Keynotes were during the early hours of the morning in Australia. However, WebVine was up and eager to watch. Satya Nadella’s Vision Keynote was epic, focusing on Tech intensity and all the layers of[…]

I have seen many SharePoint environments in large companies, and I have rarely seen one that is done well. Often, using a share drive would offer similar benefits, aside from version control and the ability to send links instead of attachments (not that people did!). If you are using SharePoint, then document libraries can offer[…]

Welcome to the team! Just keep your distance. It is extremely inconvenient when a new hire resigns soon after you have cleared the many hurdles of securing budget, advertising, interviewing and hiring them. Sadly, statistics show one-third of the new staff checking out a replacement job in less than six months, and even 25% of[…]

In October 2020, Microsoft announced that Teams had reached 115 million daily users. This growth reflects the continued demand for technology to support remote work, helping teams and organisations stay productive. While many Australian companies are staging a return to the office, there is no doubt a cultural shift has taken place and collaboration hub[…]

10 May 2019, Sydney, Australia. Digital Transformation thought leader Marcus Dervin has taken out the gong for best IT Author at this year’s Consensus IT Writers Awards, highlighting the ongoing impact and relevance of Digital Transformation on organisations regardless of size or industry. The awards, which celebrate diverse aspects of the Australian IT press in[…]

If there’s one word that really brings the energy down in a project meeting, it’s governance. The exciting part of planning your new SharePoint intranet – or any new project – is working out what it can do, how it will benefit business users, what will it look like. Administering and maintaining the platform once[…]

Recently we had a request form one of our clients to have a conditional approval workflow activated on different value of a field in the document library on SharePoint 2010. To be specific, they want different types of project documents to be approved by different approvers or groups. Although this seems a simple one, SharePoint[…]

Many times we have been asked the pros and cons of two major Master page designs: Full Width and Fixed Width. Here we will share our findings and knowledge of these two approaches. Full Width SharePoint Mast page design Pros: Show more content by fully leveraging page real estate of high resolution screens. SharePoint OOTB[…]

Perhaps you have rolled out Microsoft technologies, or other technologies in your organisation and haven’t had the outcome you wished for.  For example, SharePoint is used as an intranet and a file share, but not as a collaborative workplace that was first imagined.  Dynamics CRM, or another CRM product is necessary but is full of[…]