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SharePoint Online / OneDrive – Removal of EEEU sharing permission

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EEEU, which stands for Everyone Except External Users, is a permission setting used in SharePoint Online and OneDrive to manage access to content. This setting allows all internal users in an organization to access certain content while excluding external users. While the use of this sharing option was discouraged by Microsoft (Grant Everyone claim to […]

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SharePoint Online – Improved versioning capabilities

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As you may already know, SharePoint Online (and OneDrive for Business too) offers a document versioning capability, which is enable by default, to help you keep track of document updates and – optionally – recovers from user errors or malware recovery. This versioning capability is included in your SharePoint storage consumption, while most of the

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OneDrive for Business – You can now browse files by meetings or peoples

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It is sometime difficult to find back documents shared/updated during meetings. While Microsoft has introduced meeting insights displayed on the right side of the meeting details or in Teams meeting details, it is still difficult to maintain the collaboration stream after a meeting has ended. Same when collaborating on a 1-to-1 meeting. Well, good news,

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SharePoint Online – You can now “colorize” folders

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A new personalization capability is coming on SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business: folder colorization. Yes, you have read correctly, you are being able to set colors (from a set of 16 different colors) on folders (new and existing) on SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business. Deployment of this feature is currently underway, with a

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OneDrive – OneDrive client is now showing excluded file types from sync

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As you know, you can define a list of file extensions to be excluded from synchronization with the OneDrive client using either Intune or Group Policies. Well, good news as now end-users can now see this list from the OneDrive client under the Advanced settings NOTE this does apply to the exclusion list defined from

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SharePoint Online – You can now review recent admin actions

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As SharePoint Online administrator, it is difficult to track changes done on SharePoint sites by administrators, especially when you have multiple administrators. Well, good news, you can now track changes made for up to the last 30 days. To do so, connect to your SharePoint Online portal (https://<your tenant>-admin.sharepoint.com) and access the Sites\Active sites blade,

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Teams – You can now block the download of Teams meeting recording from SharePoint or OneDrive (preview)

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As you know, Teams meeting recordings are saved either in the corresponding SharePoint site or organizer’s OneDrive. These recordings are made available few minutes after the meeting recording ended and now also have an expiration time (default 120 days). Well, you can now block the download of these recordings. Users will have access to the

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OneDrive – OneDrive client will be blocked on VM running unsupported FSLogix

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  Starting January 2023 – expected to be completed by February 2023, OneDrive sync client will be blocked on virtual machine running FSLogix older than 2009 Hot Fix 1.   If after this hard block has been deployed, you are running OneDrive on a virtual machine with an unsupported FSLogix, an error message will be

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Office – You can now share your Word document in review mode

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If you are using SharePoint Online and/or OneDrive, you already know you can share your Office documents in read or edit mode. Well, good news you can now also share your Word document in review  mode. Sharing in review mode allows Word document sharing with limited edit capability while enabling change tracking automatically. This new

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SharePoint Online – You can now create sites, documents or lists from the App Bar

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You may already know that about a year ago Microsoft has introduced a new navigation capability in SharePoint Online called App Bar (see https://t.co/ASdyIqMB2E). Well, if your SharePoint Online administrator has enabled and configured the App Bar then you can now create documents, sites or lists straight from there. When opening the App Bar you

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