A new SharePoint Online administration portal is being deployed; as usual available first for First Release tenants. A link (Try the new SharePoint admin center preview – pointing to https://<your tenant>-admin.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/online/AdminHome.aspx) to the new SharePoint Online administration portal will be shown (when available) from the current SPO administration portal If you want to give a try to the new portal, just hit this link. This portal will then gives you…
Read MoreOneDrive for Business – Self service OdB recovery
It has been announced some time ago, and now this is starting to be rolled out. If you need to recover your OneDrive for Business space from a previous state, you will have the ability to do it your self by executing the following steps. NOTE this does not replace the recycle bin for deleted items; this will recover the entire OneDrive. Recover your OneDrive for Business Access your OneDrive…
Read MoreOneDrive for Business – ODfB client now synching RMS protected SharePoint libraries
The latest version of the OneDrive for Business client (17.3.7294.0108) now allows you to synchronize SharePoint Online RMS protected libraries. To take advantage of this new functionality, just ensure you are running at least the referenced version (17.3.7294.0108) of OneDrive for Business client. If not, just get it from https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=844652 (only if you do not run WIndows 10 or Office 2016/Office 365 Pro Plus). You may also need the RMS…
Read MoreOffice 365 – ATP is available for SharePoint and Teams too
Office 365 ATP (Advanced Threats Protection) is an advanced protection solution provided by Office 365, already available for Exchange Online and for few months on Office Click To Run (see to learn more about ATP https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Office-365-Advanced-Threat-Protection-e100fe7c-f2a1-4b7d-9e08-622330b83653?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US) The solution is used to deeply analyzed URL’s and attachments before letting end-users accessing it. Now, Office 365 ATP is also available (through Office 365 E5 [enterprise and education] or additional Office 365 subscriptions…
Read MoreSharePoint Online – Configure Idle session timeout
A new SharePoint Online settings is being rolled out to let you configure the idle session timeout. The idle session timeout setting will let you configure how long the system is waiting before notifying and then logging out an inactive user. This setting applies only on web browser session and should not impact OneDrive for Business client. To configure it – including enabling the setting which is disabled by default…
Read MoreSharePoint Online – SharePoint Migration Tool
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 migration and future use, including network performance or identity management or the permissions to be…
Read MoreOffice 365 – Legacy OneDrive for Business client is being retired
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 Office 365 Pro Plus click to run. Then, and if not in use and not…
Read MoreSharePoint Online – OneDrive Announcements from Ignite
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 and silent OneDrive provisioning, ensuring new users are automatically set for OneDrive (in some way…
Read MoreSharePoint Online – Setting default permissions when sharing
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 one is to set the default permission to either View or Edit. To define the…
Read MoreSharePoint Online – Excel Surveys is being replaced by Forms for Excel
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 to create your survey after naming your form. Then you can view the results…
Read MoreOffice 365 – Shared status indicator in OneDrive for Business
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 will get more details with who the folder is shared, with the associated permission Off…
Read MoreSharePoint Online – Easily getting back to Modern Experience
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 back to the Modern experience;the same way we have the switch from Modern to Classic…
Read MoreSharePoint Online – The ‘Sync’ button will now use the new OneDrive sync client
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 to the latest sync client. In addition of this change the administration option in SharePoint…
Read MoreSharePoint Online – A new tenant setting to block downloading infected file
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 to $false; which means the download button is available even if the file has been…
Read MoreOneDrive – Files on Demand is getting back
You may don’t know what means ‘files on demand’ with the OneDrive/OneDrive for Business client. This is the functionality which used to be available with the OneDrive client back in the Windows 8.x years. This feature allows you to not synchronize a folder/file in your client but was still displayed in the Windows Explorer. This feature (for some reasons) has since being retired which generates lot of requests/complaints. So good…
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