SharePoint

SharePoint Online – Speed up the authentication process

When a user is accessing a SharePoint Online, he is first redirected to Azure AD for authentication. If the company is using ADFS to manage authentication, Azure AD then redirected to the ADFS server for authentication. This can lead to slow authentication process for end-user (external users when sharing content with them). With SharePoint Online […]

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SharePoint Online – Support for # and % characters is going to be rolled out

We all know (or should know) the restrictions with SharePoint and SharePoint Online when it comes to supported characters in folders or files name. Microsoft is releasing the pressure by rolling out an update which will allow the use of # and % characters in file and folder names – not yet for document library.

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SharePoint Online – Conditional access “limited access” now in preview

The preview of limited access for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business is now available. This functionality will help you to limit data leaked from SPO or OneDrive for Business by restricting access to the service from unmanaged device using browser access only – meaning users accessing SPO and/or OneDrive for Business using a BYOD

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SharePoint Online – Postpone the public website deletion

If you are an early customer of Office 365, you probably are using the public website. As you are (or should be) aware, public website are no longer offered with Office 365 and existing public sites are going to be deleted. That said you can postpone this deletion until March 31, 2018 – giving you

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SharePoint Online – Copy files from a site to another

After rolling out the Copy/Move button on OneDrive for Business,the feature is now getting available also on SharePoint Online sites (if using the Modern UI). You can select multiple files or folders from a SPO site and copy/move the content to another SPO sites  

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SharePoint Online – Download multiple files at once is finally here

Following the announcement of an incoming update for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business to allow multiple files download at once, I’m happy to announce this is finally here. As usual,First Release tenants are getting it first Nothing to do on your side – except may be some end users communication. Then you just need

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SharePoint 2016 – Site collection disappears during content database upgrade

While upgrading my SharePoint environment from 2013 to 2016, I ran into an interesting issue with content database upgrade. I have deployed a fresh new SharePoint 2016 running on Windows Server 2016 and then perform the classic detach/attach upgrade process to migrate the content from the SharePoint 2013 environment. One of this content DB is

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Office 365 – OneDrive for Business administration console is coming

This has been a gap in Office 365 and SharePoint Online for quite some time: there was very few way and options to manage OneDrive for Business. Good news, this gap is going to be filled, maybe not yet with everything you may be looking for but at least an administration console for OneDrive for

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Office 365 Groups / SharePoint Online – You can define if an Office 365 and a classic SharePoint site is created

As you know, sometime ago Microsoft has introduced Office 365 Groups as new collaborative services. You can now define on SharePoint Online Administration portal if an Office 365 or a classic SharePoint site can be created.   This administrative option is available from the SPO administration portal, below the Settings section under the Site Creation

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