Sending Emails from SharePoint Solutions Using Microsoft Flow

It’s not at all unusual to want to send an email from some page in SharePoint where there isn’t a native capability available. While there are lots of external services which can send email for us – like SendGrid – we usually want to keep the email “in house” in an enterprise environment. (In fact,…

Office 365 Groups: Let People Outside the Organization Email the Group

As a consultant, on a daily basis I’m working in multiple Office 365 tenants. In some of those tenants I have an account (license) with my own Sympraxis email, and in many others, I have an email address within the client organization’s domain. Believe me, it all gets pretty confusing – if it weren’t for…

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Cold Calling Doesn’t Work, Nor Does “Cold Emailing”

Here’s a new one in my email inbox this morning: “As per my discussion with you receptionist, I have enclosed…” Yeah, my receptionist, which I don’t have. That was in an email from a company some would consider “legitimate” in the SharePoint space. They have a set of products for SharePoint that may work well…

"An Outlook Address Book entry cannot be used as an e-mail address in a contact."

Um, yeah. It’s almost impossible to figure out what this means. I was trying to move an email address in an existing contact in Outlook 2010 from the E-mail slot to the E-mail 2 slot  and this gem popped up when I tried to paste it. Turning to Bing, nothing of any use.Google, much the…