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

Leave a Comment / Office 365, SharePoint / By / May 17, 2022 / , ,

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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Office 365 – A new global idle timeout settings is available (preview)

Leave a Comment / Beta / Preview, Exchange, Office 365, SharePoint / By / March 25, 2022 / , , , , , , , , , ,

As you may already know, administrators were able to set an idle timeout setting for SharePoint Online (see https://blog.hametbenoit.info/2017/11/10/sharepoint-online-configure-idle-session-timeout/) and Exchange Online (see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/exchange/set-organizationconfig?view=exchange-ps#:~:text=Exchange%20Server%202019-,%2DActivityBasedAuthenticationTimeoutEnabled,-The%20ActivityBasedAuthenticationTimeoutEnabled%20parameter&WT.mc_id=M365-MVP-7836) for quite some time when users use the web browser to access the services. This 2 options are independent with each other and configured by either the SharePoint or Exchange administrators …

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SharePoint Online – You can now reports on data access (sharing links and sensitivity labels) (preview)

Leave a Comment / Beta / Preview, Office 365, SharePoint / By / March 3, 2022 / , , , , ,

This feature is currently in deployment – available for targeted tenant or rolling out starting mid-March up to mid-April for standard release. These reports are going to help security and compliance officers to identify if there is any gap, issue or misconfiguration on how files are shared or on applying sensitivity labels. To access these …

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Intune – New setting available to manage Known Folders redirection

Leave a Comment / Endpoint Configuration Manager, Microsoft Intune, SharePoint / By / January 17, 2022 / , , , , , , ,

As you may already know, you can manage your OneDrive clients with Intune using an Administrative Templates profile type for the device configuration. Well, the setting allowing to manage and automatically move the Known Folders redirection to OneDrive has been updated. The ‘original’ setting is now called “Silently move Windows known folders to OneDrive (1.0)” …

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OneDrive for Business – The OneDrive Syn health report now provides more details on issues

Leave a Comment / Office 365, SharePoint / By / January 17, 2022 / , , ,

As you may already know, since May 2021 you have a health report available from OneDrive Sync on the Apps administration portal (see https://t.co/kZ9YCpaThW). Well, while this new health report is providing quite useful information to monitor your OneDrive clients health – especially the Known Folders redirection, the report has been updated to now include …

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Teams / SharePoint Online – You can now manage Teams channel from the SharePoint Online administration portal

Leave a Comment / Microsoft Teams, Office 365, SharePoint / By / December 14, 2021 / , , , , , , , ,

As you already know, when you create a Teams it automatically create a SharePoint Online site which then will be used to stored the Teams and channels files. Until now, it was only possible to see the Teams site in the SharePoint Online administration portal and you were not able to see and manage the …

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SharePoint Online – You can now rename your tenant (preview)

Leave a Comment / Beta / Preview, Office 365, SharePoint / By / December 13, 2021 / ,

As you know once you have created your Office 365/Azure AD tenant – mydomain.onmicrosoft.com – you can not rename it. While this is usually not a real problem because it is mostly not visible to end-users, except for SharePoint Online as this is the only workloads you can not use your custom domain, there is …

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SharePoint Online – You can now block creation of subsite

Leave a Comment / Office 365, SharePoint / By / November 5, 2021 / , , , ,

As you know, a SharePoint site owner has the permission to create subsite by default (or additional users after you have edited out of the box permissions or created a new one). Well, SharePoint Online administrators now have the ability to completely block sub site creation from the SharePoint Online administration portal. To do it, …

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SharePoint Online – The ‘View in Windows Explorer’ is back

Leave a Comment / Office 365, SharePoint / By / November 1, 2021 / , , , ,

For those who have been working with SharePoint (both on-premises and online) you already know there used to be a ‘View in Explorer’ option to allow you open a document library using Windows Explorer. This option has been unfortunately long gone. Good news, you can now have it back. It is still highly recommended to …

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SharePoint Online – New navigation switcher

Leave a Comment / Office 365, SharePoint / By / November 1, 2021 / , ,

If you use SharePoint Online, you already know the navigation bar (also known as Quick Launch) is displayed on the left side (as shown below). Well, SharePoint Online now offers the ability to set an horizontal navigation with 2 options: Mega Menu Cascading Menu   The horizontal navigation bar will be displayed on top of …

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