Category : Help Desk

18 11, 2022

InfoPath Replacement Option: Change of Seasons, Change of Forms

2023-05-09T09:36:16-07:00November 18th, 2022|

Change of Seasons, Change of Forms – It’s Time to Leave InfoPath Forms Behind!   The time to move off InfoPath was yesterday! The technology is twenty years old. It was developed before cloud services such as Amazon Web Services and Azure. InfoPath is even older than the iPhone!    Most importantly, Microsoft stopped supporting [...]

16 03, 2022

Office 365 and SharePoint Applications for Business

2022-09-10T14:23:14-07:00March 16th, 2022|

When looking to use Office 365, SharePoint, and Microsoft Teams for business process automation, the question comes up: Should you build your own solution or license an existing application? This is a perennial question in software purchasing.   Crow Canyon Software makes this decision easy by offering both options:  1 - BUY EXISTING SOFTWARE: Crow [...]

6 02, 2020

Creating a Survey in Office 365 Using Microsoft Forms

2024-07-22T04:43:53-07:00February 6th, 2020|

Microsoft Forms is not a replacement for InfoPath forms nor can it serve as a ticket or request management form. However, it does have uses for creating surveys, quizzes, and questionnaires. In this article, we will look into creating a survey and using that to gather feedback from users. You create the survey in Microsoft [...]

21 06, 2018

Five Areas That Power Up Your Support Desk

2024-07-23T05:24:21-07:00June 21st, 2018|

Let's face it, the only time that Support teams receive e-mails or calls is when something is wrong. After all, no one calls up an IT Help Desk just to say "Hello!" and give a jolly greeting. It's also a given that the person initiating the communication is probably not in the best of [...]

28 02, 2018

Case Study: User Access Request System for Medical Institute

2021-07-07T15:40:18-07:00February 28th, 2018|

In Medieval times, armored guards stood outside a city’s gate to keep an eye on who was coming and going. Access to the city needed to be tightly controlled. Fast forward a thousand years and access is managed not by armored guards but by IT security systems. The world is markedly different, but the [...]

8 01, 2018

Customer Support for Manufacturer of Industrial Computers CASE STUDY

2021-07-08T07:40:33-07:00January 8th, 2018|

Recently, a manufacturer of "industrial computers" approached us with a need for a system that provides support and service of the computers it builds and send out to its customers. The company’s specialized industrial computers are a breed of their own in terms of maintenance, customized equipment, repair, operation, and upgrades. These computers differ [...]

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