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Conduct an Organization Health Checkup

After nearly three months of reacting to crises, it’s time to evaluate organizational wellness.

June 13, 2020 will mark three months of remote working for us here at Kiefer Consulting. Like millions of our Northern California neighbors, we’ve found these past 12 weeks challenging, isolating and stressful. They also proven that the people who comprise our organization are adaptable, flexible and innovative. While it has been a time of uncertainty, we’ve been fortunate to have found numerous opportunities to enhance existing client relationships while also building new ones.  

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Go for Gold. Working with a Microsoft Gold Partner.

A Microsoft Gold Partner like Kiefer makes a big difference 

Living with uncertainty is something we’re all having to get used to. Whether it’s jobs and the economy or our health and safety, there’s just a lot right now that we don’t know. But there are still things you can count on, things you do know. One of those things is the team at Kiefer Consulting is your best choice for all your Microsoft 365, SharePoint and Teams needs.  

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Important Message from Kiefer CEO, Greg Kiefer

To our customers, friends and business partners,

Over the past few weeks, and more specifically the last several days, it’s become very clear that the world is facing an extraordinary challenge. Like you, we are deeply concerned and are committed to doing what is necessary to keep our communities healthy.

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Use your Microsoft Software Assurance Vouchers

Many of our clients use Microsoft Software Assurance Training Vouchers (SATVs) to help in deploying, managing, supporting, and driving the adoption of Microsoft software. Kiefer clients with Microsoft Enterprise Agreements can use the SATVs by contacting us and scheduling sessions with Kiefer subject matter experts (SMEs).

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Vision 2020 and the focus on the future: Our thoughts on CDT’s strategic plan.

Next year, Kiefer Consulting will be celebrating 30 years of successful project delivery.  Over the last 29 years, we have had to stop from time to time and think about the company’s direction and strategy.  2017 was one of those years.  We took inventory of our portfolio and our partnerships, and we identified the “in-demand” solutions that would be critical to our 2018 and 2019 business plan.  It appears that we are not the only ones taking a hard look at our business.  The State of California is also working on a strategic vision.

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Cool new stuff in Office 365: The @ mention in Outlook 2016

Our Director of Operations, @Ben Cox, discovered this “easter egg” in Outlook 2016 and thought it was pretty cool. So, we thought we’d share! Have you ever sent an email or meeting invite to a group of people with specific instructions to one of the recipients in the body of the message or meeting invite? You think to yourself… “Will they see that they are mentioned in the message? Will they see there is something that pertains to them specifically?”

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Cool new stuff in Office 365: The Activity Button

Office 365 continues to be updated with new features! We wanted to start a blog series to share features that were either “new” or “newly discovered” by members of the Kiefer team. Hopefully, this blog is helpful in assisting you in gaining a better understanding of the capabilities of Office 365.

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Using SharePoint to improve business processes and workflows

For years, experts in the SharePoint world have long touted the platform’s virtues that are related to how quickly information workers (users) can find their content start working on their content faster by using a number of SharePoint tools including Search and Document Library views. While the Out-of-the-Box tools are great to utilize for streamlining the findability process, they are not in any way connected with the quality of the final content of the documents.

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