Entries by Elliot Munro

Ozbizweb Group win the MAPA award for Excellence in Small and Mid-Market Cloud Solutions!

We did it! At last week’s 2015 Microsoft Australia Partner Conference, Ozbizweb Group took out the MAPA award for Excellence in Small and Mid-Market Cloud Solutions. See the video below for the announcement. This year we based our submission on a SharePoint Online/Office 365 solution for AUS Recruit, a Gold Coast based athlete recruitment company. […]

I thought I knew Office 365

Or How I failed my way to an MCSA In order to stay up to date with our Microsoft Partner competencies and maintain our Gold Partner status, we have to complete the relevant Microsoft Exams. This year, we wanted to secure the Gold Small and Mid-Market Cloud Solutions competency since we’d satisfied the Office 365 […]

Ozbizweb Group are finalists again!

The finalists for the 2015 MAPA awards were announced this week, and we’ve received a nomination for Excellence in Small and Mid-market Cloud Solutions! The project we based this years’ entry on was an Office 365 and SharePoint Online customisation for AUS Recruit. AUS Recruit are an athlete promotion agency that secures scholarships in the […]

What is Azure RemoteApp and why should I care?

If a custom application is holding you back from completely transitioning to the cloud, then RemoteApp might be the answer. What can RemoteApp do for me? RemoteApp can serve individual applications from the cloud via the Remote Desktop Protocol. This means that users can access custom and legacy line of business applications from anywhere and almost any device – without the need […]

Are the Australian Azure Datacentres available now?

Not entirely, but soon! The official word at the Microsoft Australian Partner Conference was that the Australian Azure Datacentres would be online before Christmas. The unofficial word was early October. I also heard someone say the sixth of October, but that could have been a lie. Today I caught a glimpse of them in the wild […]

My Surface Pro 3 Arrived

I ordered a Surface Pro 3 from the Microsoft Store after trying one at the Microsoft Australia Partner Conference. It arrived last week and I put together a little video because it’s more interesting than a photo. The setup was very simple and if you’ve used Windows 8/8.1 before with a Microsoft Account, all your settings move […]

You’re connected to too many services (Fix)

If you work across a number of SharePoint, OneDrive or OneDrive For Business accounts, then you’ll probably run into this message from time to time: This message might appear when you try to add a SharePoint Site, OneDrive location or even connect your Office Applications with Facebook or LinkedIn. Unfortunately it looks like this is a limitation […]

The Results are in!

The Microsoft Australia Partner Conference of 2014 finished last week, and we were up for a MAPA award in the Small Business Partner of the Year Category. Watch a little video of the big moment here: Unfortunately we didn’t win, though congratulations to X Central for their winning customer solution (which was also nominated at the […]