SharePoint

As announced at the Ignite 2017 Conference, a ‘self’ migration tool is currently in preview to help you migrate files from on-premises environments (SharePoint or file shares) to SharePoint Online. As usual, the migration is just the end state; you still need to assess, plan and prepare to ensure your environment is ready for the […]

Following the announcement during the last Ignite Conference, the legacy OneDrive for Business client is going to be retired. This means starting October for the monthly channel customer and up to April 2018 for the semi annual channel customers, the legacy OneDrive for Business client (so called groove.exe) will not be installed anymore with the

The following has been announced at the Ignite Conference for OneDrive: Coming on October 17th, Files On Demand. This feature was already announced as part of some Windows 10 Preview build. We now have an official date of delivery Silent Synch Auto Account Configuration, using Azure ADAL (Azure Active Directory Authentication Library), will support automatic

An update is currently on his way (deployment starting September 2017 to be completed by end of October) which will allow Office 365 administrators to setup a default permission when end-users are sharing SharePoint Online/OneDrive for Business content. There has been already an updated to define the default sharing link type (direct, internal, anonymous), this

As you know, sometime ago Microsoft has launched a new Office 365 to create forms simply called Forms. Now, Forms is taking over and is now replacing Excel Surveys on SharePoint Online, and more specifically on OneDrive for Business. Excel Surveys is now Forms for Excel and you will be redirected to the Forms page

An update is being deployed to add a shared status indication in OneDrive for Business. When the update will be deployed on your tenant, your end-users will see when a folder on their OneDrive for Business has been shared. The following icon will be shown in the navigation bar And when clicking on it, they

As you may know, SharePoint Online now has 2 end-user experience: Modern Classic Until then it was easy to from Modern to Classic experience but it was a little bit less easy to get back from Classic to Modern Now, it is becoming easier; an update is being deployed to provided a shortcut to get

Starting mi-August, the synchronization option available on SharePoint Online library will be updated to use the new OneDrive sync client. Currently the ‘Sync’ button is still pointing to the previous OneDrive for Business sync client. If your users are still using the old sync client at this time, the next time they will be upgraded

I noticed a new setting available at the tenant level in SharePoint Online called “DisallowInfectedFileDownload”; you can check thanks to the Get-SPOTenant PS command The setting name is quite self explanatory – the idea is to block downloading any infected file from SharePoint Online. For once I disagree with the default value set by Microsoft