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JSON Column Formatting (Part 1)

I am a grumpy information worker. I work with customers for weeks, sometimes months, hammering out an information architecture for their Office 365 assets. We sweat details of navigation, metadata, and security. Queries are honed, web parts are implemented. User testing goes great. Naysayers start nodding their heads and smiling. Test groups give us notes and we knock off the rough edges. Plans are made, final deadlines are set and in a final attempt to button up the project someone goes and shows an executive and the fateful question is asked.

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Missing Critical Organization Data from Active Directory? Hyperfish Rises to the Challenge

Here’s the scenario: You’re about to roll out Office 365 and SharePoint Online to your global organization. You’ve been working for over a year on gaining support for the initiative, planning a cutover from your legacy intranet, and making sure that you are covering all of your bases. After all, that legacy intranet has been around for a long time and there are a ton of legacy applications to go along with it that you have to accommodate for.

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The SharePoint Online Decision (SharePoint in Office 365)

Making a decision about whether or not your organization can move to SharePoint Online may seem like a daunting task. There are many reasons for moving to the cloud –

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Top 5 Tips for Planning your SharePoint Migration

Ready for a SharePoint Migration?

One of our most common consulting jobs is helping clients plan migrations. Whether moving from a legacy SharePoint environment to Microsoft 365 or an outdated file share to SharePoint Online, we’ve found that the challenges and process are similar. Each business’s migration is different, but these 5 tips will help make it smooth!

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6 Reasons Why You Should Hire a Consultant

When businesses decide that it’s time to invest in a new technology, they often have to decide whether or not to invest in a consultant to go along with it. This is a hard decision to make (and don’t get me started on how to pick the right consultant.) PAIT Group is a consulting firm, and we decided to compose a list of the top reasons that you should hire a consultant for your next business transformation.

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What is Cloud Computing, and What's the Big Deal?

I know what a lot of you are thinking. Hey PAIT Group, this isn't a new topic. Why are you just now blogging this? Here's why. If you're like me, you have a lot of friends, coworkers, and family that are with it when it comes to technology. You probably also have a lot of friends that have no idea about any of that stuff. Any time I'm catching up with an old friend or meeting someone new, one of the first things that comes up is where you work, or what you do. When I tell them what I do here at PAIT Group, one of the first questions I hear is "What do you mean cloud computing?" Now instead of explaining it, I can just send them here.

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