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Why is MS forcing people from Paid outlook to the Free "New Outlook" program
What am I missing here. I can see that MS is deprecating mail and replacing with a program Called "New Outlook". So "New Outlook" will be MS free mail program going forward. However both Windows Mail and Paid Outlook Versions have a radio button that says "Try New Outlook". Is MS really pushing people away from their paid outlook app to the free one, or are there 2 different "New Outlooks" and if they are what will clients paying for outlook get for a discount now that they are no longer using the paid app?943Views1like2CommentsRe: Lack of Support for Autocad .dwg Drawings in Sharepoint due to missing file lock mechanisms
Thank you all for your quick response. I will definitely look into Zee drive. it also seems like it advertises overcoming some file size amount and naming limitations that have been a pain point for us when trying to move users to the cloud. I am also finding this CentreStack Software that does the same thing; https://www.centrestack.com/autocad-cloud-drive-file-locking/ This all being said my question becomes, are there other options out there as well to deal with this, and has anyone been able to compare some of these different platforms and weigh in on pros and cons? An interesting point here is that clients pay big bucks for both Autocad and MS products. MS makes a sync client that can't do what zee drive does, and Autocad also makes products to support cloud file locking that are astronomically priced. From the Website Zee drive seems like a small company and their product is a fraction of what Autodesk is charging AND outperforms One Drive Sync client. Both MS and Autodesk should buy one of these companies out and include these features rather than charging extra. What a customer Dis-service to have to involve a third party to get these products to play right together when you have been advertising since 2019 that they are "integrated". shame on Microsoft.10KViews0likes0CommentsLack of Support for Autocad .dwg Drawings in Sharepoint due to missing file lock mechanisms
I am going through a difficult transition trying to move a client serverless, and finding current cloud solutions offered by MS are insufficient for storing .DWG files. Prior to deciding to move data to Sharepoint we reviewed this article from 2019 which makes it seem as though Autocad in Sharepoint is not only supported but integrated. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2019/03/27/announcing-new-integrations-autodesk-autocad-microsoft-onedrive-sharepoint/ Based on this information we made the move and migrated their .dwg files to Sharepoint with the intent of leveraging the One drive sync client to give them the file explorer access they are used to when editing designs. The result however was lost work, and we later stumbled upon this very recent article from Autodesk themselves stating Sharepoint is not a supported storage location for Autocad drawings. https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Multiple-users-can-open-the-same-DWG-file-in-AutoCAD-over-SharePoint.html The issue here ends up being that in a standard SMB environment with files stored on a server share a user can open up an Autocad file for editing and when subsequent users open the file, they will get a message that another user is editing it, and the file will open in read only mode. With the mechanics of Sharepoint and the one drive sync client neither user is informed the file is open and they can both edit, resulting in multiple out of sync files or lost work for one of the 2 users. Sharepoint has a check out feature, that SHOULD mitigate this by forcing users to check out the files prior to editing it HOWEVER the checkout feature is not compatible with the One drive sync client and if any user is syncing a library with checkout enabled it will auto-lock ALL files within that directory. With these concerns taken into consideration Autocad DWG files and Sharepoint are neither integrated nor a workable solution for any real-world scenario other than a single user environment. I thought moving this data to the Autocad Drive platform would mitigate this, but that makes it worse. They offer another product called Autocad Cloud, but with those costs considered they may actually be eclipsing server replacement costs and make this move a less than lateral one. I am writing this as a warning for other vendors who stumble across the MS article above to prevent the huge headache I am going through now. Could Microsoft alter the article to be more clear that his is only supported for single user environments? Stating that there is no way to directly open DWG files in Sharepoint without risking lost/duplicate work in multiuser environments would have put the brakes on this plan. Has anyone run into this before and found a solution that works for Autocad users without greatly changing the work flow they are used to? I'm all ears. Thank you.Solved12KViews1like7CommentsOffice 365 - centrally managing calendars
I have several Clients that have the following Calendaring needs; - We need to create calendars in a central location (so that when users depart it doesn't remove widely used shared calendars - The users need to be able to access the calendars from the O365 WebUI, the Outlook application, and Their smartphones native Calendar. There are many calendaring options, but they all seem lacking. Public folder calendars, for example, do not seem to have the capability to be added to a cell phone in any way, but are centrally managed, The manager field in O365 does a good job of allowing people to see eachother's Calendars IF they are using the outlook app, but they don't show on the web apps. The best solution I have found to accomplish this is to create a licensed mailbox and create calendars in there and then share them out AND publish them as ICS....... but is there a better way?? I run into similar issue with contacts too, but am I crazy in thinking it's a pretty basic company need to centrally share an manage contacts and calendars and make them accessible through Office apps, on a phone and on the web? Any advice or best practice here is very appreciated. Thank you.2.2KViews0likes1Comment
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