{"id":325,"date":"2021-08-07T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-mm-show.com\/?p=325"},"modified":"2021-08-30T10:30:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T17:30:56","slug":"sharing-information-with-office-365-youre-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-mm-show.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/07\/sharing-information-with-office-365-youre-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharing Information with Office 365; You&#8217;re Spam!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s Saturday, 23 days after The News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s another lazy Saturday. I <em>should <\/em>have been able to sleep in, but at 8 AM I was awakened, not by my alarm clock, but by all my iDevices notifying me I had an appointment. To &#8220;Buy Shoes&#8221;.  Sigh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sharing Information with Office 365<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>On Friday evening JT and I got together to work out a shared calendar so she could easily see all my appointments. We also wanted to find a way to do collaborative document editing &#8211; we&#8217;re not exactly sure what documents we&#8217;ll be collaboratively editing but this does come in useful in our professional lives. So I might as well try to find something before I begin treatment and while I still have lots of energy. Secure file sharing is another item on my mind. We&#8217;ve been using Dropbox for file sharing but we also want one that works with real-time collaborative editing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We started off trying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/p\/microsoft-365-family\/cfq7ttc0k5dm?activetab=pivot:overviewtab\">Microsoft 365 Family<\/a>, which you would think would would be perfect for this sort of thing. I wasn&#8217;t thrilled that it uses Outlook.com instead of Exchange for email and calendars, but I&#8217;d give it a try. Everything was looking up&#8230;until we noticed that the &#8220;shared&#8221; calendar wasn&#8217;t updating on JT&#8217;s iPhone, though it was on my iPad. After some digging it appears that Microsoft broke this late last year as part of an &#8220;upgrade&#8221; to Microsoft 365 Family.  Apparently Microsoft doesn&#8217;t think families need to share their shared calendars, at least with mobile users. Go figure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not wanting to spend all night trying to find a workaround, I switched to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/business\">Microsoft 365 Business Basic<\/a>. I use this for my own company. It&#8217;s a little more pricey but it&#8217;s solid and worked like a charm. While testing it JT added an 8 AM appointment to &#8220;Buy Shoes&#8221;. To verify that JT could see appointments I added, I created an 8:30 AM appointment to &#8220;Return Shoes&#8221;. (JT said she&#8217;d like to at least take the shoes home first. I don&#8217;t see the point?) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have no idea if JT actually bought (and returned) the shoes. I figured that if I&#8217;m returning them anyway I&#8217;d just skip the buying part. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">You&#8217;re Spam!<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>While we were at it we managed to figure out why JT hadn&#8217;t been getting many of the emails I&#8217;d sent over the last week: Google had marked them all as spam. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now its true that like any good Hawaiian transplant I&#8217;ve been evangelizing Spam, and <a href=\"https:\/\/eatingrichly.com\/spam-musubi-recipe\/\">Spam musubi<\/a> in particular. JT and some of my friends even guiltily admitted they like it. The way they said it you&#8217;d think it was infinitely worse than telling someone they had cancer. But really Google, that&#8217;s no reason to stick all emails from me in the spam folder! (Google and I have a not-quite-hate relationship. Their headquarters is about a mile up the road and in a building I used to work in &#8211; back in my Silicon Graphics days &#8211; so they&#8217;re quite literally close to home and I do have a number of friends who work for The Evil Empire. But I&#8217;m not fond of the way they use their users as beta testers. Not to mention the haphazard approach to security and privacy.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Saturday, 23 days after The News. It&#8217;s another lazy Saturday. I should have been able to sleep in, but at 8 AM I was awakened, not by my alarm clock, but by all my iDevices notifying me I had an appointment. To &#8220;Buy Shoes&#8221;. Sigh. Sharing Information with Office 365 On Friday evening JT&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/the-mm-show.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/07\/sharing-information-with-office-365-youre-spam\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sharing Information with Office 365; You&#8217;re Spam!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diagnostics-staging","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-mm-show.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-mm-show.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-mm-show.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-mm-show.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-mm-show.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/the-mm-show.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331,"href":"https:\/\/the-mm-show.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions\/331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-mm-show.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-mm-show.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-mm-show.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}