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Do you ever see strange attachments to your emails named winmail.dat? This is a relic from the days when Microsoft monopolized the desktop operating system and decided to create it’s own format for the transmission of email (completely ignoring already well established conventions). The called this oddity Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format (or TNEF for short).

Some email readers (like OSx’s Mail or Mozilla’s Thunderbird) and email transfer agents (the server software that passes your email along until it reaches your mailbox) don’t support TNEF and sometimes strange things happen which cause emails to display with winmail.dat attachments. Continue reading “TNEF and winmail.dat – what’s that?”

January 31, 2018February 11, 2018

Reset the OneDrive app on Mac OS X

Support / 365 Products /

From time to time we have customers telling us that their OneDrive app on their Mac is not syncing correctly with their cloud based storage. In other words, the files on their Mac that they save to their local OneDrive folder are not syncing to their actual OneDrive or their other devices. Continue reading “Reset the OneDrive app on Mac OS X”

October 4, 2017January 31, 2018

Microsoft Project licenses

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Microsoft Project is an amazing tool for collaborative management of both large and small projects with one or many team members, multiple deliverables, progress tracking, budgeting, scheduling and more. However, with all the features available, figuring our which 365 Project licenses you require for your project can be a little daunting. In this article we try to demystify the licensing of Microsoft Project. Continue reading “Microsoft Project licenses”