Reflecting on MIRA 2026 Resiliency Finalist Honor
Honored as a MIRA 2026 Resiliency Award finalist, I reflect on my journey—from losing the ability to walk at six, to defying medical advice to reclaim my health.
Matt Blogs IT
A blog about IT, technology, and life by Matt Griffin. Systems Architect passionate about technology, volunteering, and adaptive sports.
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COVID is getting better, right?
I've been asked this question directly by more than one person, simply because I have friends who didn't understand why I am still staying extremely socially distant. Why would they know? They are...
Microsoft Teams The Hub for Modern Collaboration
We are getting deep and will wrap up the Modern Collaboration blog series by tying all of the products we have discussed together using Microsoft Teams as our hub! Before we do that, I'd recommend...
Restore Previous Versions and Deleted Files from OneDrive for Business and SharePoint
We are getting deep into the Modern Collaboration blog series. If you haven't read the previous articles, I'd strongly recommend starting from the...
Modern Collaboration: Sharing Files in OneDrive for Business and SharePoint
I hope you are enjoying the Modern Collaboration blog series. If you haven't read the previous articles in the series, I highly recommend you do. We started this series by broadly talking about [what...
Modern Collaboration: Accessing and Saving Files in OneDrive for Business and SharePoint
The time has come in my Modern Collaboration blog series to start diving deep into the how-to. We started this series by broadly talking about [what Modern Collaboration is and how it impacts...
Modern Collaboration with Microsoft OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams!
I've recently worked a lot with the Microsoft Cloud, specifically around productivity and Modern Collaboration. I decided to start a series of posts, and this is the second post in the series of at...
What is Modern Collaboration, and how does it impact business?
Modern Collaboration, Collaboration Transformation, Technology Revolution, Technology Transformation; I'm sure you have heard one or more of these terms before. They are very common to talk about in...
Pre-load awesome background images for Microsoft Teams Virtual Background using PowerShell
Microsoft Teams officially rolled out Virtual Backgrounds back in March, around the time COVID-19 went crazy in the United States. With COVID-19 came a slew of people working from home, me...
Building a Smart Home focused on physical accessibility Part 2 - The Resources!
Just over a week ago, I blogged about the [Smart Home I've just started to build](https://mattblogsit.com/oob/building-a-smart-home-focused-on-physical-accessibility). The post seems to have been...
How to check Exchange Online Distribution List activity over 30, 60, 90+ days?
All growing and/or large organizations will experience this. We have all of these Distribution Lists, but does anyone even use them or know why they were created 5, 10, 15 years ago? I recently ran...
Building a Smart Home focused on physical accessibility
About a year and a half ago, I decided to jump headfirst into Smart Home Technology. I had used some smart home tech previously, but never tried to tie it together harmoniously. I had used the Nest...
Creating and Managing a Backlog using Microsoft 365 Apps
In the last few months, I've spent a lot of time organizing and planning. Most of this time was spent on my personal life organization around the house, but contrary to my most recent blog posts,...
Organizing life, while trapped at home during COVID-19
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about "[Getting things done while working from home using Microsoft To...
What are Adaptive Sports, and why they matter?
My entire blog has historically been about my background in technology and my technology career. To be honest, I started this blog reasonably early in my professional career, and I was living,...
Getting things done while working from home using Microsoft To Do!
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, heck before the World Health Organization declared a pandemic. I started working 100% from home; this was primarily due to my being a high-risk individual...
Why should you have a mobile-first workforce?
In the last several months, many organizations have shut down, at a minimum, significantly slowed down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic placed a strain on many industries, even the sectors...
Tracking and Automating Business Processes
As businesses grow, it becomes challenging to keep up with business processes. To keep up with a constant flow of tasks associated with these processes, you need to track them, especially when...
Centralizing Your Chat Clients - Including Multiple Microsoft Teams Accounts!
[]({{ site.baseurl }}/assets/img/10/msteams.png) I ran into a scenario where I wanted to use Microsoft Teams more. I am one of those odd people...
Using PowerShell with RESTful API's - BirdDogHR API Module
In the last few months at work, we have been concentrating on integrating different cloud-hosted systems with our on-premise systems. Integration usually means using some ETL Tool to interact with an...