SharePoint

SharePoint Online – Connect existing SharePoint sites as Office 365 Groups

An update on SharePoint Online is currently being deployed to allow you to connect existing SharePoint Online sites as Office 365 Groups. This will allow your end-users to have their SharePoint Online available in their Outlook. When you connect to your SharePoint Online site, open the Gear menu and choose Connect to new Office 365 […]

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SharePoint Online–Update in external sharing

To keep SharePoint external files (or folders) sharing secure while improving the end-user experience, an update is being deployed (roll out completion scheduled for end of June) to change the ‘one-time password’ functionality for external users which are also hosted on another Office 365 tenant. With this update, they will no longer need a one-time

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SharePoint Online – New version of the SharePoint Migration Tool available

After releasing a first version of his own SharePoint migration tool, Microsoft has updated it and has released the v2 of the SharePoint Migration Tool (available at https://aka.ms/SPMT This new version includes support for more SharePoint lists like: GenericList DocumentLibrary Survey Links Announcements Contacts Events Tasks DiscussionBoard PictureLibrary XMLForm GanttTasks Posts Comments Categories MySiteDocumentLibrary IssueTracking

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SharePoint Online – The Newsfeed is going away

​As you know, SharePoint Online came with an initial enterprise social feature called Newsfeed. This is (used to be) the default social feature on SharePoint Online but you were able to switch to Yammer. In June 2018, the Newsfeed will be set to read only for existing tenant and will be removed for new tenant.

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OneDrive for Business – Shared by me view

A new view is being deployed on OneDrive for Business to help you identify all content you have shared. This new view is simply called Shared by me (as you would imagine ) To access this view, logon to your OneDrive for Business space using a web browser and reach the Shared view On top

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SharePoint Online – New SharePoint Online administration portal

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

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OneDrive 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

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OneDrive 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

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Office 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

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SharePoint 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

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